Challenge #369 - Bring Something Back

Hey LIMettes! 

We're back with our latest challenge which is Theme Week and we'd like you to 'Bring Something Back'! You might decide to use a technique that you haven't used in a long time or a stamp / die set that's not seen the light of day in a while, alternatively dig deep in your stash for something that you can add that's 'gone out of fashion' - we've all got some of those items lurking eh!

Just so long as you keep your cards Clean and Simple with lots of blank 'white' space it's good for us.

Here's the Cue Card, which we'd love you to display in your blog post

We're joined today by 2 of our previous challenge winners, who are guest designing for the challenge; Cara of Crafting Bunnies (random winner in January) and Sue of Sentimentally Sue (our February winner). Do pop along and visit their blogs during the challenge, we're sure you'll find masses of inspiration.

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 our Guest Designers 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!

Cara of Crafting Bunnies

Bringing back Clarity Stamp bunnies and foliage unused for a good couple of years

Sue of Sentimentally Sue
Bringing back the first stamp set Sue purchased

Sharon
Using sponsor stamps and bringing back Flowersoft, velvet ric-rac and patterned paper

Susan

Trina
Using sponsor stamp and bringing back balloon punch and colour spritzer

Anita
Using three sponsor stamp sets and bringing back shrink plastic

Izzy
Bringing back eyelets

Nonni
Bringing back a several years old magazine freebie stamp & Stamping UP background pattern stamp

Sarah
using HLS Balloon stamp from Simply Said & bringing back handmade 'mulberry' paper

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

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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March 2018 - Winners & ShowCASes #366 & #367

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. 

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 

Tristan

Sue B

Carol

and onto the ShowCASes for our second challenge of the month

Cornelia

Angie

Nancy

Congratulations to our ShowCASe finalists and 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 STAMPlorations 



and our lucky winner is

Jo Jo

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 BST on Friday, 13th April 2018

and here's Aileen's card which we are CASEing

Challenge #368 - CASE Card

Hey LIMettes! 

Happy Easter weekend - let's hope the sky is full of spring time sunshine wherever you are!

We're back with our latest challenge which is a Lucky Dip one, due to the 5 Saturdays in March. It's also our pleasure to welcome back Happy Little Stampers as sponsor for this challenge and  taking us through April too! Joining us as Guest Designer for today we have Kylie, owner and designer for Happy Little Stampers; a super talented crafter and beautiful lady too.

Let's get down to the challenge details and here's the cue card to get you started. We decided to ask Aileen of Colour and Sparkle, our lucky winner from the January challenges, if she'd like to provide a CASE card for today's challenge and thankfully she said yes! 

Here's Aileen's card

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 Kylie 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!

Kylie 

Sarah
Using Sponsor stamps

Sharon
Using Sponsor Stamps

Susan
Taking a Break

Trina

Anita

Izzy

Nonni

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun and  don't forget our generous sponsor for this month is Happy Little Stampers and their prize gift certificate can be spent on stamps and/or dies from the online 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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Challenge #367 - OLC Stencils

Hey LIMettes! 

We're back with our latest challenge which happens to be the ONE LAYER challenge but we're sure you'll manage this one and have loads of fun in the process. So hunt out those stunning stencils from your stash and start creating directly on your card base with no additional layers whatsoever!

Here's the cue card for this challenge followed by a little reminder of our ONE layer card requirements / guidelines

Less is More - One Layer Card (OLC): 

One piece of card folded in half with no additional layers and minimal embellishments, where the image is stamped or printed directly onto the cardstock. Inlaid dies can be used as a technique for one layer cards, where the die-cut image or sentiment is placed back into the front of the card base and a small piece of tape can hold your inlaid die in place from behind, yet the card remains completely flat. 

No additional panels/layers (no stickers, no die cuts, no washi tape etc) 

can be added to the front of the card base

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun. We're delighted to have Shery of STAMPlorations (our generous sponsor for this month) join us again with another fantastic card showcasing her beautiful products.

Now let's see what Shery 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!

Shery

Nonni
Using sponsor stencil

                                                                                                           
Sarah
Using sponsor stencil

Sharon
Using Sponsor Sentiment

Susan


Trina
Using sponsor stencil

Anita

Izzy
Using sponsor stencil

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.

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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An InLinkz Link-up

February 2018 - Winners and ShowCASes #364 & #365

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. It's definitely a long post as there's lots of yummy prizes to hand out too so enjoy ....

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 

#8 Michelle


#14 Tristan


#43 Pam

and onto the ShowCASes for our second challenge of the month

#8 Claire

#29 Sunday Stamper


#63 Cathy

Congratulations to our ShowCASe finalists and 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 months challenges.
As part of our 7th Birthday celebrations we had two generous sponsors...


and




The winner of the Uniko prize is

Sue of Sentimentally Sue



and the winner of the Seven Hills Crafts prize is

Sue of Sue's Card Craft

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.  

In addition to our regular monthly prizes we also had a randomly selected mystery prize and our ex-design team member, SarahG of Funky Fossil kindly offered a stencil prize too. To be eligible for these prizes players had to enter both challenges in the month and we we're thrilled to find 41 talented and loyal LIMettes who achieved just that.

Our random prize goes to:

Valerie of Le Scrap de Vava

SarahG couldn't pick just one winner and has kindly offered 2 of her fabulous stencils to both:

Bobby of Bits & Pieces Designs

ClaireA of Life on the Scrap Heap

Please can all of our prize winners contact us by email at LIM2011@gmx.com for details of how to claim your prize 

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 on Friday, 16th March 2018