Week 185 Theme

For your theme this week we have chosen

ANIMAL

Anything in the animal kingdom will do, it doesn't have to be a one layer this time but we still want to see that Clean and Simple style. 

Jen

Jen has had lots of changes going on in her life recently, the latest being a new job which she starts this week. This has taken lots of her time, leaving little for crafting and still less for commenting on LIM participants, so she will be taking a hiatus until things have become a little less frenetic. We are sure that you will all join us in wishing her well in her new role.

Sarah

From Paper Smooches Chubby Chums set, this card is 'finger-crossed' for next week

when our daughter and friends find out their GCSE results! Hedging my bets a little but

 I imagine I'll need a few celebratory cards for them.

Anne

Memory Box sunburst meets Impression Obsession dog.  The rustic twine looks suitably hairy for a canine card!

Chrissie

I found this digi image from Jane's Doodles, ready coloured in my drawer. SOmething I must have coloured quite some time ago and not used, so I thought it was about time I used it. The sentiment is from Walter and Winnie.

I made the rainbow from Spellbinder circles, coloured with Mirage pens. I believe the clouds are from Die-Namics.

Each week, we try to post additional examples of cards for the LIM challenges on our personal blogs. Many of you visit our blogs to leave a comment, for which we thank you most warmly. If you haven't yet managed to pop around to our blogs we would be delighted if you could, the names above our cards will link you directly to them. 

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Showcase Week 183

What fabulous designs appeared for our colour challenge this month.

Here are our showcase choices this time!

Margaret

Margaret has made the colours look so fresh and vibrant!

Jane

Jane had  a similar take on the challenge this time... what a gorgeous butterfly.

(I am assured by Bev at Uniko that the sentiment Jane used will be revised on the next production batch!) Can you spot the error?

Pauline

Pauline's card is so superbly Clean and Simple.. she has used the colours brilliantly!

What inspirational work. If you have not already paid these blogs a visit, it would be great if you could drop by to leave a friendly word of congratulation!

Please take our badge for your blogs ladies... and thank you so much!

Swing by tomorrow for our new challenge! We'll see you then!

One Layer time again!

Week 184

It's time for another One Layer Challenge and this time the focus is

FOLIAGE

foliage

   [fō′lē ij]

noun

1. Foliage is defined as plant or tree leaves.

Any kind of leafy image will suffice, but please remember that all important white space and keep any embellishments minimal.

If anyone is uncertain of our interpretation/expectations of a One Layer Card, please see the Guidelines on our sidebar.

Chrissie

For this card, I began with a black base card and used a Sweet Poppy Stamps stencil and Gold Embossing Paste. I sprinkled a little Glamour Dust over it whist it was still wet.

To make the sentiment, I die-cut the word 'Thanks' from a piece of card with a Cuttlebug die, using the waste as my stencil. The fact that the 'a' was open made the spreading of the paste easier as I didn't have to include a tiny piece for the space in the centre of the letter.

This was also sprinkled with Glamour Dust.

I was quite pleased with how this sentiment turned out!

Jen

For this weeks card I have also done a little Christmas card using the cute Christmas Icons from LOTV a long with one of the newest sentiments. 

It's simply stamped in truffle memento onto crumb cake card stock and then coloured with promarkers.  I have finished off with a little liquid pearls for the holly berries.

Sarah

I've used a standalone die from Clearly Besotted as a mask for some distress inking

which I've stamped over with a Uniko Studio set - Nature's Treasures. 

The sentiment is Clearly Besotted - Sweet Little Sentiments 

which I've curved around the image and

to finish off a wrap-around of some gold organza ribbon.

Anne

I will never forget the first year I made my own cards at Christmas time and had to all the surplus postage thanks to all the embellishments and extras I had put on!  With that in mind, this is a one layer card that will just need a standard stamp.  Stamp is MFT, one of the arty brushstrokes that are so popular at present, with some Stickles added and a Stampin' Up sentiment

We really hope that you will pop by the blogs of the Designers as you will find some more examples to inspire you!

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Showcase Week 182

What a fabulous array of cards we had for our Anything Goes Challenge and we have some wonderful choices for 

Chrissie's birthday week showcase!

So without further ado here they are!
Deepti

This creation is simply stunning! Dee has such talent!

Ankie

The clean cut lines of Ankie's card are simply beautiful!

Marianne

What terrific use of Inktense pencils to colour this little guy!

Hermine

This is such an amazing creation with terrific inky effects!

Here is our showcase badge for you!

Congratulations and thank you!

We hope you'll display it on your blogs with pride!

Don't forget to come back for our new challenge tomorrow morning!

Week 183 Colour Challenge

For our
Colour Challenge 
this month we have chosen to use one of the Colour Seeds inspiration pictures.

It reminds us of a mojito!

Today is Sarah's birthday!
CHEERS SARAH!

It's not necessary to include every colour from the picture but we would like you to include a representative number of the colours, to give the feel of the palette.

Anne


Scraps of textured card stock cut with a Simon Says Stamp die, a couple of All Occasion birds added...  totally in love with this die!
Chrissie

For this card I assembled a few pieces of card and inks and ended up using a two step set from Stampin' Up (Hostess set, now retired). I used my Duplo corner as a stamp positioner in order to align the stamps. It works really well with a piece of clear packaging cut into a square.

I should be back from Spain later today and so hope to try to visit a few more people this week, sorry that I didn't get around to everyone this last week.

Jen



Sorry for my absence over last couple of weeks... A holiday to egypt then a weekend in holland for a friends birthday have taken me away from normality again!
My card this week uses doodlebug washi tape to give the striped back ground.  It's finished off with a die from Whimsy Stamps.
Sorry about the photos, I moved my studio earlier in the week and after having the fireplace fitted there is soot everywhere so can't use my normal photo area!

Sarah

I felt that my 'Adapt a Finger print' cards

from a few weeks ago were a bit boring and I hadn't even considered

adding pen drawings to the inky prints ...

... so I decided to get myself all inked up AGAIN! 

Combining these great summery colours.

The sentiment is computer generated using 'Another Night out' 

and 'AR Bonnie' fonts.

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Singing in the rain ShowCASe

The submissions for our Song themed challenge were select but super and here is our ShowCASe to applaud this week's star crafters.

Laurie

This is subtlety personified!

A superb study in monochrome shades.

Gorgeous card.

Margaret

The dimension that Margaret has achieved on this creation is wonderful! The umbrella really pops!

Another Laurie!

The colour choice and the super design really make this card something special!

Please take our Showcase badge for your blogs!

We are so fortunate to have such accomplished crafters inspiring us each week!
Thank you all!

Do come back tomorrow for an other fun challenge!

Week 182 Anything Goes

Week 182

Today is Chrissie's Birthday and her present to you is to have 

Anything Goes!

The Recipe is just to have fun! 

Remember to leave some white space and keep it Clean and Simple!

Sarah

Whoops! Paper pieced again this week!

The image, sentiment and pink paper are Pink Petticoat, 

the blue paper is from Doodlebug 

The white panel and a strip of pink paper have been die-cut using

MFT Die-namics chevron dies then mounted on 3d foam pads and

to finish I've added gems, enamel dot and glamour dust for added sparkle.

Anne

My piccie of my birthday card for Lady Limette is lost somewhere in my camera memory, in the meantime here's a birthday card made with the negative space left after cutting a boat on my Portrait, for another card.  Pink Petticoat sentiment.

Chrissie

For my card this week I  chose to use this Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. I inked one side with Distress ink, before running it through the machine, I was really pleased with the effect. The matching border folder was left un-inked for contrast.

The single house was cut from a row of die-cut houses from Memory Box.

Once again the sentiment was computer generated, using Jennifer Lynne and Problem Secretary Normal fonts. The mount is from a Die-Namics pierced stax die.

I shall be on my way to Spain today ...and on my birthday too, with our daughter and grandchildren. What a fun time to be had.

Jen

Back next week.....

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Fingerprint ShowCASe

We would like to congratulate everyone who joined in with our Fingerprint Challenge, thank you for the positive feedback we received, we're glad that at least you had fun, and we do apologise for leaving you with inky fingers!

The imaginative entries were a delight to behold.

Here are the cards we chose for our ShowCASe this week.

Birgit

This watercolour flower looks amazing...who would have thought that it was made with fingerprints!

Alison

This could have been the illustration from the book itself! Amazing!

Gay

We just had to choose Gay again this week, her coneflowers are simply wonderful!

Here is our ShowCASe badge for you.... with our admiration!

It will be Chrissie's birthday tomorrow... but she's not letting on how many candles she'll need!

Week 181 Theme

For our theme this week, we're going with Sarah's suggestion of using a song title to trigger your imaginations!

This week's song is 

Singin' in the rain!

You can take any aspect from the title as the starting point for your creation.  Rain, weather, music, dancing... let your imagination take flight.

Just remember to keep it Clean and Simple, with plenty of white space!

Jen

On holiday!!

Sarah

I've used a cute little digi-image from Squigglefly.

He's been paper-pieced using papers from Pink Petticoat, 

coloured with Promarkers, glossy accents and a Winkette of Stella.

The sentiment is Uniko Studio - Flower Power and

to finish I've used Doodlebug sequins and pearls from my stash.

Anne

I've used quite a detailed image for my card, but by keeping the colours restricted to grey and yellow I hope it has kept a CAS look.  No longer available, this was drawn by the very talented Phindy O'Neill.  Computer generated sentiment, more singing in the rain on my blog
PS Thank you to all who entered last week's fingerprint challenge. there were some amazing ideas and I loved looking at them!

Chrissie

This is a sweet stamp from Lili of the Valley which I purchased recently and I just love this dear little bear... I think he could do with a pair of wellies. It's coloured with Mirage pens and mounted on Dienamics pierced Stax die-cuts. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted.

There is another offering on my personal blog!

It seems that lots of you had great fun with the finger print challenge last week, we do apologise however, for leaving you all with inky fingers!

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