Guest Designer for LIM!

I was really flattered when Chrissie, from Less is More, invited me to be a Guest Designer for this week's challenge, which is to create a card Using More than One Stamp Set. I have been entering cards for the challenges right from the start and have only missed a few weeks since Chrissie & Mandi started the challenge blog in February 2011. I have to say it has become a bit of an obsession with me at 8 o'clock on a Saturday morning, when I can often be found making cards when I really should be doing something else :0)
Anyway here are the three cards I have made - Using More than One Stamp Set

My first card uses the Field Flowers stamp set for the stems and the sentiment and the flowers are from Petite Petals, punched with the co-ordinating punch. I used Old Olive for the stems and Melon Mambo for the sentiment and flowers.
To add a bit of interest I added some paper piercing using a template from the Festive Paper Piercing Pack.

My second card uses the Gorgeous Grunge set and the cute little lion and sentiment from Zoo Babies.
The Gorgeous Grunge 'splatter' was stamped in Pumpkin Pie and Crumb Cake and the lion was inked using markers in the same colours. This was punched with a Circle Punch and matted onto a Scallop Circle then fixed to the card with dimensionals. The panel was matted onto Crumb Cake cardstock and then onto a plain white card blank.

My final card uses Gorgeous Grunge (again!) and the image and sentiment from the Hostess set, Simply Sketched. I started by stamping the Gorgeous Grunge 'splat' in Old Olive on a piece of Whisper White cardstock then the bird stamp was coloured using Old Olive and Chocolate Chip markers and stamped on top of the 'splat' before colouring the bird using a Blender Pen. This was matted onto a piece of Old Olive cardstock which had been stamped with Gorgeous Grunge and the sentiment, punched with the Oval Punch, was matted onto a Modern Label.

Thanks once again to Chrissie for the invite and I'll be back soon

Margaret x

Simples Sunday - Monkeying Around!

A very quick post from me today with a card for Simples Sunday and this week's LIM sketch challenge.
This is simply two circles cut with the Circles Framelits Collection with two monkeys from Zoo Babies punched with a circle punch. I drew a line between the monkeys with a marker pen and stamped the stars, from the SAB set Banner Blast. This was then fixed to the card using dimensionals with a sentiment from Four You and some Basic Rhinestones which I coloured with permanent markers - Simples!

Have a great Sunday and pop back soon

Margaret x

Simples Sunday

I suddenly realised last night that I hadn't made a card for this week's Simples Sunday so, using the LIM challenge to make a baby card, I set to and made this very quick one.
I used Zoo Babies again but this time using the cute little giraffe stamped in Blushing Bride. The border is the negative part of one of the Tasteful Trims from the Bigz Die, again in Blushing Bride, with a few small pearls added and the sentiment is also from Zoo Babies. The panel was matted onto a piece of Blushing Bride cardstock and then onto a white card blank.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Margaret x

LIM Baby Card

I have come to the conclusion that, making a card for the LIM challenge on a Saturday morning, is becoming a bit of an obsession! I really did not have the time this morning to make cards but did that stop me? Well, as you can see, the answer is NO!!!
The challenge this week is to make a Baby card and here is my effort. I used Soft Sky ink and DSP along with the Labels Collection Framelits, a sentiment from Sweet Essentials and an elephant, fussy cut, from Zoo Babies and that's about it really. The only other thing which does not show up too well in the photo is that I cut another elephants ear from a scrap piece of card and positioned it with a dimensional and added three score lines to the bottom of the card.

That's all for today as I now need to rush :0)

Margaret x