Week 20 - Theme

Another super week from the LIMettes, you certainly knew how to Frame it... choosing our ShowCASe this week is certainly going to be a real labour of love!

This week our theme for your cards is
MONOGRAM

monogram: Definition 

monogram ( ) n. A design composed of one or more letters, typically the initials of a name, used as an identifying mark.

So in effect, your monogram should represent the word it's standing for and not be a part of it.

You can use any means you fancy for creating your monogram... die cut letters, stamps, computer printouts, masking techniques... wherever your creativity leads you, we'd love to see it. 

 Mandi

My initials are MM and when I was asked to make a wedding card for a couple 'Mark & Michelle' this popped into my mind! I printed the letters on the computer in 'Flair Roman', the size is 200 I chose to have the second M in outline and glittered the inside. The little bow tie is a diamond punch cut in half and turned outwards! Pearls then added as shown.
For my second card I again started by printing the large M on the computer. The font is size 200 and 'Vivaldi' font.[The 'M' is the monogram for our surname Moore] The Mandi & Steve is also printed on the computer and positioned using the text box method. That font is 'Monotype Corsiva' Stuck a swiss dots embossed panel on the left, then stamped the hearts form Stampin Up [I (Heart) Hearts Available to buy from me here. The 2 hearts have a matching punch for ease of cutting out! Lastly the 'side by side' is from a CTMH set.

Chrissie

For this monogram card I used a sheet of printed gingham DP (I believe it's Cuddly Buddly, but was in my drawer of printed papers) and onto it printed  the letter D (for Daisy, my granddaughter), using the font Alfredo Hollow in size 250 (to make this size I merely typed it into the box beside the font name) .

I cut this out and mounted it onto a square Nestie cut-out and added more gingham DP  and a base white layer, then popped the lot onto dimensional pads.

The only ornamentation is a few Cuttlebug die-cut daisies from the Hippie Chick Alphabet plates.

This card is for my son and daughter-in-law's approaching 3rd wedding anniversary. I used their monograms on their wedding invitations which you can see here.

I'm extremely fond of using monograms on my wedding stationery... if you take a look on my blog you may see just how fond I am of it!

This stamp is from Indigo Blu, embossed in silver, with a peg sentiment from Inkadinkado and die cut monogram letters from Cuttlebug's Typewriter alphabet.

For these fiddly things, I always stick Double Sided Tape onto  the back of the card before running the dies through the Bug.

We almost made 300 entries last week... but this is quite a tricky one... I wonder how many you'll manage this time!

Week 19 - One Layer

Greetings LIMettes one and all!

We had some wonderful entries last week, but, there seem to have been a few cards submitted which were not quite as Clean and Simple as we hoped for. Some were many layered and some had not left much in the way of White Space so we'd just like to re-iterate our request that you follow our guidelines.

We're sure that we're preaching to the converted as it were and that our true LIMetttes follow the rules implicitly, but it maybe that some people see the theme on a blog like Feline Challenges and just add a card because it fits the general theme.

This week it should be simpler as we have a definite CAS challenge... 

it's ONE LAYER WEEK again.

Our challenge is entitled 

IN THE FRAME

We would like to see a frame of some sort or something in a frame... we'd like you to be as inventive as you like.

You could doodle, draw, emboss, ink, paint, colour, print, stamp, emboss resist,  mask or any other method you can come up with to get a frame of sorts into your design.

Arielle, of the Wax Fruit Company, this month's sponsor of our challenge, has loads of fabulous images (with frames) on her website, so do visit her if you're looking for inspiration! There's a link on our sidebar!

As usual a few entries from last week would have fitted this week's bill perfectly, we think some of you must be psychic. 

So remember only one layer and minimal embellishments!

Chrissie

Having messed up a few attempts at this technique, here is my final card. 

I began by cutting out a square from a post-it with my Nesties and placing it centrally on the card. (The pink piece on the picture below)

I then surrounded it with 4 other post-its and removed the original square leaving me with a square of card the exact size of the Nestie exposed.

I then began by sponging inks in Sahara Sand, Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake into the space.

This was then overprinted with some French Foliage stamps, in a variety of the brown hued inks.

When I had finished, I removed the yellow post-its and placed the pink one back over the stamping, to help position the Nestie once more to emboss the edge of the frame.

A simple sentiment from Personal Impressions was added and that as they say is that!

I had however, messed up three or four cards on the way with inky fingers amongst other things.

I did salvage what I could and made this faux OLC.

Finally, another little card using several frame stamps and some Embosslits butterflies.

Now it's me Mandi

 My first card is using the fabulous Stampendous stamp Flower Fields [bought here]
First of all I printed the sentiment on the computer, using a text box. Instead of removing the text box, I left the sentiment in it. I measured the box and cut a piece of paper the same size, then held it over the text box and then stamped my flowers over the top. I coloured very loosely with water colour pencils, I think the design lends itself well to this kind of colouring.

A little note about the flower stamp. It comes as a 'cling' type, which I really don't like Im a wooden gal at heart! 

I have lots of old wooden stamps I never use, so finding one the right size, I put it in the microwave for 20 seconds and the original stamp peeled straight off [be careful as the wood is quite hot for a while] I then cleaned with sticky stuff remover, I peeled off the transfer from the new flower cling and stuck to one side of the wood. The cling with the rubber stamp I then stuck to the other side of the wood using a strong tacky glue!

My second card base is a pearlised 'lime green' I used my Stampin Up flourish from the
Style Beautiful set.
I measured the width of the centre panel I wanted to draw. Found the centre of the card [top to bottom] and lightly drew pencil lines so I could line up the flourish perfectly. I stamped one, then used my Stamp-a-majig to line up the other] I drew the lines with a SU fine liner pen and finally added the Anniversary sentiment, from Basic Phrases set, then the 2 bright pink gems.
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Week 18 - Colour

What can we say?

What a week!

Over 300 submissions and what fabulous cards too!

You Limettes have really done us proud, thank you so much!

This month we are delighted to be sponsored by Arielle from the Wax Fruit Company who is offering a $20 value voucher from her store, please do check out her superb designs.

We're now back to a colour challenge and for this week we have decided to have

MONOCHROME

Encarta definition mon·o·chrome [ mónnə krm ] adjective  Definition: 1. in shades of one color: using or displaying only shades of one color or black and white.

You may choose any colour you wish, but please keep all the shades you use within your chosen spectrum.

It's me first this week Mandi
Before I tell you about my cards I owe you all an apology.
I didn't manage to comment on any of the entries from Friday.
I've had a bad head all week and it came to a bit of a wipe out situation today.
I'm so sorry to have let you down.

Right, for my cards I used Stampin' Up card and ink as they match perfectly!
The stamp is 'Growing Green' I stamped the fern/petal branch three times.
The card base is Pink Pirouette, the ink Rose Red. I coloured the petals with my watercolour pencils.
The blue is on white base card using Pacific Point ink and card.
I stamped using 2 sentiments from Sincere Salutations and cut the shape with the Label Punch

For the little bit behind I cut another label with the punch, cut it in half, trimmed the little bump in the centre and stuck it to the sentiment panel, slightly overlapping. [I didn't invent this btw, I've seen it widely done with other punched shapes]
You can buy any of the Stampin' Up from me here. There is A FAB SPECIAL OFFER running for June/July, so do take a look.

Now it's over to my lovely Chrissie, whom I have to thank very much for holding the fort yesterday!

Chrissie

Having seen all the Craft Stamper freebie stamp chandeliers on the submissions last week, I thought that I would use it to make a card echoing the background of my personal blog,  do take a look if you haven't popped by Simply One of A Kind.

On my blog, I chose a  basic background from the Background Fairy and added the animated chandelier from Blogamation.

I think that the two go together very well.

To make the card. I masked off a section and sponged it with Sahara Sand ink, stamping some partially masked, music  manuscript images in Sahara Sand then adding adding some script (French Foliage) and flourishes (Joie) in Whisper White, some of which I embossed with clear EP.

I then did a little more sponging with Crumb Cake ink  before stamping the chandelier in Brown Stazon. (I had to use this ink to be able to stamp over the embossing.) I also extended the chain on the chandelier with a marker pen, otherwise it would have looked as though it was floating in mid-air.

Finally the sentiment, again with reference to the name of my blog, was stamped underneath. This is the second card I made, as I was not happy with my choice of position for the sentiment on the first one, despite using my stamp positioner.

We'd love to see all your fabulous work... I wonder if we can beat last week's 325 entries?

Week 17 Recipe - Pick a Square

Hello and welcome to "Less is More" for our 17th week!

Another frustrating week for us with Mr Blogger playing up and not letting some of you comment. Some of you lost your followers, do hope everything gets sorted out and stays that way!

What a bumper week we had with all those wonderful butterflies. At one point we thought we were going to hit 400 entries!

It was lovely to see our LIMettes happy and smiling, albeit a few mentions of 'what do we have in store this week!'

Well here it is

PICK A SQUARE 

        For our challenge this week we have a multiple choice.... well sort of ... you can choose which of the 5 SQUARES from our plan you wish to use to place the image of your card, leaving the rest as PURE WHITE SPACE!

The image may overflow the area slightly if necessary  and the sentiment, should you choose to use one, may extend outside the area also, but it should be obvious exactly which area of the card you have chosen to fill.

" We will allow a rectangle, but, following the strict guidelines as the squares "

Chrissie

Did you miss me last week?

I was enjoying a cruise starting in Venice and so had a break from blogging for a while, so I apologise for not popping by your blogs.

We had a wonderful holiday but now it's back to visiting all our super LIMettes once more.

This card was made using the 'Thumping technique'. 

I inked the stamp with Baja Breeze inkpad and then using a Docrafts grey marker, tapped it randomly in various directions (thumping it) over the blue ink. I did give a quick huff of breath to the stamp before making the impression, to ensure that the first ink hadn't dried too much. I rather like the mottled effect it gives. Sadly I don't have  any SU Markers as I would rather have liked to use Sahara Sand for the contrast, but didn't have an equivalent colour in my stash. A little Glamour Dust was added to the blossoms.

 I used the same process for the sentiment, which I carefully positioned using my Lego and acetate. Both stamps are from the SU Just Believe set.

As you can see my chosen square for both cards is the bottom left corner.

This card is again using SU stamps and  has simply been stamped, masked (the sails) and sponged using Bashful Blue and Baja Breeze inks.

OK, so now it;s my turn Mandi

This stamp from Stampin Up 'So Many Thanks'
[you can purchase from me here]
I put a paper strip mask over the THANKS and stamped the rest in black dye based ink. Then taking my Stampin Up markers a i coloured the letters of the THANKS in different colours!At this point you need to 'huff' over the inks to moisten them again. this is why dye based are best, Stazon types will have dried.
The best thing with Su is that they colour match card, pens, ink pads, ribbon perfectly. Therefore; taking the corresponding card colours I cut mats at 0.5cm increments to mat the Thanks on [4.5cm] Last one is 7.5cm Card base is 15cm square [6" in old money!] I matted the Thanks square using 3d foam

For my second card I used the fabulous Blossom Petals Punch from Stampin Up [available from me here] I matches a stamp set perfectly, bur I decided just to punch card and keep it very plain.

I mounted the largest petals, shaping them and adding  a little 3d foam under the bulbous bit. Continued for all three layers. Then added my super blingy spacer gem in the centre Available here Im going to add something similar to my wedding port folio. Im itching to make this is other colours!

We want to thank you all for visiting our personal blogs, we do love to see you there and much appreciate your comments.

Before we go we would like to tell you about a fabulous cause our

 lovely LIMette Jen is doing for charity 

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Happy crafting and have a great week

Week 16 - Theme

Hello LIMettes and welcome to another week.

Thank you for all your fabulous support for 'Embossing week' you all worked so hard.

Look out for the showCASe, to be published in the next couple of days.
Chosing them is  a very difficult job, but we both tend to agree instantly, which is quite spooky!

So onto this week's challenge. It's theme week and we have chosen

Butterfly/Butterflies

How easy peasy is that! We are so good you you! [But what are they building up to we hear you cry!]

So as usual, as long as your design is CLEAN & SIMPLE, the worlds your oyster...or butterfly!

You can do one or a whole flutter, it's entirely up to you.

We look forward to seeing your entries.

 **There is a little difference this week in the form of a 'spot prize'

it will be awarded to one LIMette, whose card has that' je ne sais quoi'

Good Luck! **

It's me first this week Mandi

For my card this week I stamped the wonderful Woodware Bubble Butterfly [I got mine here]and embossed in gold. I then used a mixture of 'Silkies' and 'Glitzies' to randomly fill in the bubbles. Not forgetting a few various sized gems too! I hadn't used Silkies before and have to say I quite like the effect specially in the black card stock. At first I wasn't adding enough        and they were drying a bit streaky, so I decided to add Glamour Dust
 to them before they completely dried. For a different effect I did find that 'flooding' with the colour gives a more pleasing effect, so will remember in future! For a glossy look I also added Diamond Glaze to some of the spots.




I also tried it on white card stock, for a different look.

** Click the images for a larger picture,to see more detail **

Now it's me Chrissie

The background panel was cut with a Nestie and embossed and inked with sponge daubers using Mellow Moss and Bashful Blue. The plants are from an Inkylicious clear set of stamps and the butterflies from an old stamp I've had for years.

I stamped the latter in black Archival Ink which I then embossed with Holographic embossing powder.Next I coloured the gaps with a green Sakura pen which I then sprinkled with some Glamour Dust.

The sentiment is mounted very crookedly on the wooden block and the only way to get it stamped straight is to use some form of stamp positioner... I used my Lego bricks and a piece of acetate, (see week 1) but you could purchase a Stampamajig through Mandi.

TIP  You can remove stamps from their wooden blocks by popping them in the microwave for a few seconds, which softens the adhesive and allows the stamps to be re-stuck if required, I did this with some stamps which had already been mounted but which weren't trimmed closely enough for my liking.

We do hope you wil have fun again this week, we can;t wait to see your beautiful butterflies.

** The time for your entries has been extended by 2 hours to 10pm Fridays

Hope this will help those of you who work and struggle to meet the earlier deadline **

Happy crafting and have a good week.

Week 15 - One Layer Card

It was wonderful to see so many new people joining in our challenge last week, with some truly amazing WoW cards. It makes choosing our ShowCASed cards so much more difficult when the standards are so high. We also thought that instead of simply adding them to our Slideshow and our ShowCASe page we should give them the accolade they deserve and so from now onwards we will be adding a short post to show you the ShowCASed cards each week.

A huge thank you too to all those LIMettes who visited our personal blogs to leave a comment... we leave hundreds each week and it's wonderful to receive comments on our work in return.
With the problems with Blogger this past week we apologise as it appeared that we hadn't visited you... we did come but obviously couldn't necessarily leave a comment. 

And now onto this week's challenge... you know it's going to be a 

One Layer Card,

 but what you don't know is that it's going to be...

EMBOSSING

You may use heat or dry embossing.


Chrissie

For this card I began by stamping this new little Artemio frame stamp with  Sahara Sand ink and then embossing with Detail Clear Embossing powder. Then I stamped the trees with Early Espresso and again embossing, but the image came out with the frame bisecting the trees as you can see in the lower image in the picture below. SO then I realised that if I stamped the trees first, then they would have complete coverage and the frame stamped in the lighter ink, magically disappeared from on top of the trees and just appeared behind and around them, after I had done the embossing. Interesting huh!

I did have a fancy for using the buff coloured card, but after my test run decided to use white, where the image had more impact. The bird below, came with the tree and frame stamps but I decided to go with a smaller version from Inkylicious. The sentiment is from Hero Arts, positioned using my Lego (see week 1).

Now on to me, Mandi
Firstly, I must apologise for apparently not getting round to you all this week. 
Blogger breaking down was so not good!

For my card I have, as you can see, stamped flowers. I want to share a little tip with you.
I wanted the Stampendous 'Ruffled Flower' in black as the detail shows up much better using a dye based ink pad, or in this case 'Stazon' I stamped 3 times, going off the edge of the card, then stamped the other flowers randomly in pink [Melon Mambo] and orange [Peach Parfait]
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The sentiment I stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with gold. 
To emboss the little dots in the middle of the ruffled flower I used my Quickie Glue Pen. Whilst the glue is still wet, sprinkle with embossing powder and then heat just as you normally would. This is particularly great when using a digital image. You are able to pick out little elements, such as dots, swirls or flower centres.


Many people have expressed difficulties when embossing using black embossing powder. Here are a few tips as there are various ways of avoiding the dreaded black dots.

• The first thing to consider is the type of cardstock you use... certain ones love to grab those tiny suckers and hang onto them. The smoother the cardstock, the easier to heat emboss is the general rule.
• Using a little talc on a cotton wool ball and rubbing it over the area to be embossed acts a little like an anti-static bag.
• A piece of used Tumble dryer sheet is another way which people swear by.
• If card is too absorbent, then too much of the Versamark or other ink is absorbed by the card and is not so attractive to the embossing powder.
• If you use too much heat or leave the heat on the embossing for too long, then a very grainy finish occurs instead a a smooth glossy image.(This is also dependent upon the type of powder used.)

** A little note about embossing. Chrissie has given a lot of tips to you all re keeping your card stock mark and dust free. I'd also like to mention that an alternative way to emboss with black is to stamp with a pigment black ink, then clear emboss. It keeps the detail well and tends to have a 'cleaner' finish. **

The last few days have been very odd with the inaccessibility of Blogger... then with people's posts disappearing, sometimes to reappear minus their comments. All very bizarre, but hopefully this week things will be back to normal. 

DO join us... how inventive can you be?

Week 14 - Colour Challenge - White on White

Well here we are again, it's Saturday and that means a new challenge. Before we tell you what it is we want to say huge thanks for all your continued support and encouragement week after week. The multiple entries prove the LIMette dedication and loyalty.

So it's week 14 and the first challenge of the month which means 'Colour'

This week we want to see 

WHITE ON WHITE

You will have come across this before, but we want to stress we do mean WHITE on WHITE, no

coloured images or additions, with the exception of outlines!

These are one of the most difficult to photograph, but photos still look better than scanning, as they become so 'bleached' and seem to have no life,

We are sponsored this month by 

Paper Garden Projects

The owner, Cathy is generously offering 3 digi sets from her fabulous range for this month's winner.

Here is Mandi first this week

My card is A5 [A4 folded in half] I added the embossed panel at the bottom and added the 'Wedding' die cut letters. They are from a Sizzix set called Cherish. I think they work well with the style of the rolled roses. 

They alphabet is rather 1920's and the alphabet is too!

They roses are my FAV at the moment, they are so effective.

The way I prepare mine is to cut the die swirl shape and then curl a bit with my scoring tool to slightly shape the end to assist in the commencement of the rolling. I then roll it around my Piercing tool as it makes for a more even roll with no creases. Once fully rolled the flower sits on the little centre. I glue it together with a blob of PVA.

The centres have a 'branch' of a pearl stem I cut one in four and added 3 to the first flower, then one to the  smaller rose. A brilliant glue to do this is Tombow.

The leaves are Crealies

Chrissie

For this card I used an image from Paper Garden Projects, our sponsor for this month's challenges.
 This image is from the Spring Trees set and is of dogwood.

As you can see EVERYTHING is White on White!

To add interest, there's lots of embossing and I have actually painted with Pearly Paints and white watercolour as well as  adding Crystal Glamour dust to the petals.

The dies used are Marianne's Creatables and a Cuttlebug die with Cuttlebug embossing folders.

I used my Swiss Dots embossing folder extended to fit a wider area of cardstock.

• Insert the card close to the left edge of the folder centralising the design at the top and bottom of the card

• Run the folder through the machine with the appropriate sandwich for your make of die cutter 
• DO NOT WIND THROUGH COMPLETELY only wind as far as the second edge of the folder, then WIND BACK.
• Take the card out of the folder and re-position it at the other side of the folder matching the already embossed dots with those in the folder, where they overlap.

• Run through the machine once more only going as far as the the middle of the folder then WIND BACK

The reason for not running the folder through the machine completely is to avoid  an embossed line on the card from the edge of the folder, hence the reason for rolling through up to the edge and then back again.

Now it's your turn... remember we want WHITE ON WHITE... no extraneous colours, we know you can come up with the goods!

To all those of you who visited our personal blogs to leave comments, thank you SO much, it means a great deal to us.

Week 13 Lucky Dip Thank you or Congratulations Plus Guest Designer

Last week you could almost hear the gasp of relief which swept around the world like a Mexican Wave, from all the LIMettes when they realised there was no acetate or one layer cards required for last week's challenge.

We have another goody for you this week too. As we wanted to thank you for all the support we have received from the inception of our blog and to congratulate you on the fabulous entries you submit each week, the theme for our Lucky Dip this week is 

THANK YOU or CONGRATULATIONS

This week we are joined by our first LIMited Edition, Guest Designer, who is a keen contributor and produces the most beautiful creations, so a big welcome to 

Kerry (Pickle)

Do visit Kerry's blog and see her fabulous creations.

Chrissie

For my 'Thank you' card I decided to go back to a DL (Double length) card. I stamped my curiously named Penny Black, 'Carefree Smiles' stamp,  onto green paper using Versamark, sprinkled it with Stamp and Bond and heated it gently to melt. I then added gilding flakes in Variegated Green, pressed them down, tapped off the excess and then burnished the rest with a textured sponge which I bought recently at the NEC. It was called a scoochie or something like that, I can't remember exactly.

I then over-printed the image with my Stampin' Up French Script background stamp in Gold ink.

The sentiment is an unmounted stamp and sadly I can't remember the make of it, but it's one of my favourites which I heat embossed in gold.

 I often use it masked to just say 'thanks'.

TIP... I cover part of the stamp with sticky tape whilst I ink it and then pull off the tape before stamping.

My Congratulations card is a simple Heat embossed Stampin' Up image, gently coloured with a Copic marker and highlighted with part of a Martha Stewart  punched silver border, which made me think of the bubbles from the champagne.Congratulations on your fabulous submissions...please keep them coming!

Mandi

For my thank you card I used Stampin' Up speciality papers 'Sweet & Sour' for the stripes and flower, plus some basic black cardstock. The flowers are a new die from the fabulous mini catalogue 'Fun Flowers' All available to purchase through me here.

To make the flower I used one large die-cut and  2 small ones cut from paper and 1 small from black card stock. I stuck the 2 small onto the large one and took my scissors' edge and curled the petals slightly. Then taking the small black flower I cut down from the 'scalloped' edges to the bottom of the petal shape, making 3 strips on each. I curled these and bent toward the centre, then stuck into the top small flower layer. I have added a 10mm black gem to the centre, which is hard to see on the photo, sorry.

Onto my congratulations card I firstly printed 'Congratulations' onto the card stock, Al Fantasy Type Font Available here Then I stamped  the Papermania glasses stamp and cut with a Nestie. I added the blue hydrangea flowers and pearls. I punched tiny flower heads and stuck to the bottom of the glasses, Lastly I added liquid pearl dots to the tiny flower centres and glass stems.  I did the same pearl dots for the bubbles but sprinkled with them with Glamour Dust glitter.

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A little note on placement: I The glasses panel is off centre, then I made sure the flowers were mounted so that there is about the same distance from the edge as the nestie with the glasses, giving balance.

A huge thank you to all of you from both of us, for making our blog the super success it has become, we truly appreciate your support and we'd love you to visit our personal blogs ...we love comments too!.

Congratulations everyone!

Week 12 - Recipe 'Off Centre'

Hello everyone and a Happy Easter to you all!

Yes, you are quite safe to look on here again, acetate week is officially over!

We were in raptures at some of the comments, although we did think that the suggestion that we should be burned at the stake a tad harsh...  but very amusing!

We think all in all you enjoyed yourselves in the end, some of you entering with multiple submissions... makes us think we may bring it back again later in the year....GASP!

OK so before we tell you about this week's challenge we told you last week about your name 'LIMettes' so we thought we needed a name too. Karen suggested 'Lady LIMs'

Mandi thought this suited Chrissie, but wasn't sure for herself. So LIM Diva Mandi evolved!

Our challenge this week should allow you to come out from your hiding places as it's an easy recipe

                           OFF CENTRE

We are looking for cards with little or no symmetry but perfect balance, which doesn't necessarily mean gems in all four corners, or any corners for that matter.

Mandi Diva LIM

Firstly, I printed the sentiment on the computer, judging the positions just 'off centre' by eye.
Fonts are Papyrus and Liorah
 Then to make the glitter 'stripes' I used a ruler and wedge glue pen, I simply took a ruler and drew a line, again judging the  length and distance apart. This was really random, as you can tell. The butterflies are Stampin Up Cut and emboss 'Beautiful Wings' You can buy here 
I cut/embossed 3 lots, Rich Razzlebury, Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight.
They were attached with PVA and I added gems in black for the bodies, to tie in with the sentiment.



This was my first card, the 'off centre' started with the 3 hexagonal shapes, I then added the daisies and stamped 'Thank you' last of all.
Flower, Daisies from Stampin Up
You can buy here

Chrissie, Lady LIM

To make this EMBOSS RESIST card... 

• I first stamped the music manuscript in Versamark onto white card and heat embossed it using Fine Detail Clear Embossing Powder. 
• Then I stamped the heart using SU Whisper White ink and heat embossed that, again using the clear EP.
• Next came the sponging using a variety of red inks, Barn Door and Fired Brick Distress inks and Adirondack in Cranberry.
• Rubbing over the embossing with a baby wipe removes any excess ink and makes the image ' pop' a little more.
• The sentiment was computer generated using the method described in Week 3, using Champignon font for the script and Andalus for the type (I do have a stamp with this sentiment, but it was much too large for the proportions of this card, hence the computer generated one.)

The image was die cut and mounted using square Nesties

We do hope you are all happier with the challenge this week and can't wait to see what you create... so don't forget... 

'Less is More' 

Happy crafting