October 2018 - Winner and ShowCASes #382 & #383

Hey LIMettes!

It's time for our monthly bumper Winner / ShowCASe post so why not grab a brew as we walk you through our choices for last month's challenges. 

As always, it's so difficult to select our favourites as your creations are fantastic and inspire us week on week.  Please keep them coming as we love to see them in our gallery and we hope you agree with our ShowCASe choices below, so let's get started!

Here are our ShowCASe favourites, in order of entry

#10 Jo-Jo




#16 Elaine




#24 Lynne

and onto the ShowCASes for our second challenge of the month




#30 Rosali




#52 Jane Willis




#68 Sue

Congratulations to our ShowCASe finalists, please help yourself to a ShowCASe badge from the page at the top of the blog with our thanks. We hope you'll display it proudly on your individual blogs.

Thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenges.
Our generous sponsor was

and our lucky winner is...

Daisy-Mae (Viv)

Please take a Prize Winner badge from the page at the top of the blog! We hope you'll display it with pride on your blog with our congratulations and thanks. We'd also like to offer you the opportunity to Guest Design for one of our future challenges so please contact us by email for details of how to claim your prize at LIM2011@gmx.com

We'll be showCASing all of our featured cards on our Facebook page so why not hop on over and give us a 'thumbs up'! Here's the link you need to take you there and as always there's still time to enter our current challenge, which ends at 10pm GMT/BST on Friday 23 November 2018...

Challenge #384 - Metallics

Hey LIMettes! 

Well, it seems like the last challenge was a hit for you because you sure kept us busy with all your entries. We're hoping that this new colour challenge will fire your creativity in the same way.

However, please remember to keep your entries 

CLEAN,

SIMPLE 

and with LOTS OF UNPATTERNED, UNTEXTURED, CLEAR SPACE.

so what is our colour challenge?

It's our first November challenge and we're delighted to welcome back Happy Little Stampers as our sponsor for this month's challenges.

https://shop.happylittlestampers.com/

We are also joined by our fabulous September winner, Angie Cimbalo from Cimba Creative Fun, who has created a gorgeous card for us as our guest designer. Please take the time to pop over to her blog to leave her a little LIM love.

To be eligible for ShowCASe and Prize Winner choices please carefully follow all of our Clean & Simple Challenge Guidelines plus Glossary of Terms, which you'll find via our 'How To Play' tab at the top of the page. Your designs should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non-patterned space.

Now let's see what fantastic inspiration the design team have created for you and do check out their personal blogs if you have the time as there could be a couple of bonus cards there!

Guest Designer: 

Angie Cimbalo - Cimba Creative Fun

Susan

Taking a Break

Trina

Anita
Using Sponsor stamps

Izzy
Using Sponsor stamp

Nonni

Sarah
Using a sponsor sentiment

Sharon
Using Sponsor Dies

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun and our generous sponsor for this month is

 

Our Facebook Page, for regular updates, can be found HERE as well as our Instagram page, HERE and if you post your cards to Instagram then please tag us in your post using @lessismorechallenge so that we can hop along and 'like' your creations.  

Our monthly ShowCASes and Winner announcements will be featured in ONE bumper post here on the blog at the start of each month so keep visiting us to see if you're one of our lucky entries! 

Enjoy the challenge and have fun!

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Challenge #383 - Dimension

Hey LIMettes! 

It's time for another recipe challenge and this one is going to be fun because it is always good to see dimension on a CAS design. So we're looking forward to seeing how CAS you can all be with some height or depth on your cards.

 

To be eligible for ShowCASe and Prize Winner choices please carefully follow all of our Clean & Simple Challenge Guidelines plus Glossary of Terms, which you'll find via our 'How To Play' tab at the top of the page.

Your designs should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non-patterned space.

This week we have a fabulous guest designer, Clare Garland from String Bows, who won our August Challenge. So let's see what fantastic inspiration the Claire and the design team have created for you and do check out their personal blogs if you have the time as there could be a couple of bonus cards there!

Guest Designer: 

Claire Garland - August Winner

 

 

Trina

Anita
(using sponsor sentiment)

Izzy
(using sponsor's products)

 

Nonni

 

Sharon
(using sponsor products)

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun and our generous sponsor for this month is

http://www.uniko.co.uk/shop/

Our Facebook Page, for regular updates, can be found HERE as well as our Instagram page, HERE and if you post your cards to Instagram then please tag us in your post using @lessismorechallenge so that we can hop along and 'like' your creations.  

Our monthly ShowCASes and Winner announcements will be featured in ONE bumper post here on the blog at the start of each month so keep visiting us to see if you're one of our lucky entries! 

Enjoy the challenge and have fun!

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September 2018 - Winners and ShowCASes #379, #380 & #381

Hey LIMettes!

It's time for our monthly bumper winners / showCASe post so why not grab a brew as we walk you through our choices for last month's challenges, there were three in September due to the way the Saturdays fell.  So we have three sets of showCASes and two winners!

You certainly never make it easy for us to select our favourites and your beautiful creations spur us on and inspire week on week.  Please keep them coming as we love to see them in our gallery and we hope you agree with our ShowCASe choices below so let's get started!

in order of entry here's our ShowCASe favourites 

#9 Lynne

#32 Elaine

#76 Karen

and onto the ShowCASes for our second challenge of the month

#8 Claire




#24 Laura J

#28 Maura

and finally our ShowCASes for our third challenge of the month

#9 Sue




#23 Lynne




#40 Liz

Congratulations to our ShowCASe finalists, please help yourselves to a ShowCASe badge from the page at the top of the blog with our thanks. We hope you'll display it proudly on your individual blogs.


Thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenges.  We have TWO winners this month.

Our generous sponsor for the first two challenges was CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

 and our lucky winner is

Angie Cimbalo

And for the CASE card challenge, Rebecca is offering a choice of £15 to spend via her Stampin' Up page or a surprise item, and the lucky winner is

Katrina Bufton

Please take a Prize Winner badge from the page at the top of the blog! We hope you'll display it with pride on your blogs with our congratulations and thanks. We'd also like to offer you both the opportunity to Guest Design for one of our future challenges so please contact us by email for details of how to claim your prize at LIM2011@gmx.com.  Katrina, you can claim your prize by emailing Rebecca directly at rebeccajanehoy@me.com.

We'll be showCASing all of our featured cards on our Facebook page so why not hop on over and give us a 'thumbs up'! Here's the link you need to take you there and as always there's still time to enter our current challenge, which ends at 10pm BST on Friday, 26 October 2018...

Challenge #382 - Tags

Hey LIMettes! 

Are you ready for a new challenge? It's the turn of our THEME challenge for the next two weeks and we'd love to see you crafting with some TAGS and we're looking forward to seeing what you create with them.

These can either be standalone tags, or ones that you attach to a card

 

As it's the first challenge of October we are delighted to welcome back the fantastic Uniko as our sponsor for the month. Can you believe we are nearly half way through October already?

 

http://www.uniko.co.uk/shop/

To be eligible for ShowCASe and Prize Winner choices please carefully follow all of our Clean & Simple Challenge Guidelines plus Glossary of Terms, which you'll find via our 'How To Play' tab at the top of the page. Your designs should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non-patterned space.

 

Now let's see what fantastic inspiration the design team have created for you and do check out their personal blogs if you have the time as there could be a couple of bonus cards there!

Sharon

Susan 

Taking a break

Trina

Anita

Izzy

Nonni

Taking a break

 

Sarah

Taking a break

 

We are still a little short on our regular design team members as a few them are taking a break, but we'll make sure that everyone that enters will get at least one comment from us. Anyway, we hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun 

 

Our Facebook Page, for regular updates, can be found HERE as well as our Instagram page, HERE and if you post your cards to Instagram then please tag us in your post using @lessismorechallenge so that we can hop along and 'like' your creations.  

Our monthly ShowCASes and Winner announcements will be featured in ONE bumper post here on the blog at the start of each month so keep visiting us to see if you're one of our lucky entries! 

Enjoy the challenge and have fun!

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