ShowCASe Week #269

We had a fabulous show we had in the gallery for our 

Polka Dot challenge 

and as ever, choosing was really difficult... in fact this week we have sneaked in an extra one!

So without any further ado here they are in order of submission!

SHOWCASE

Helen

These cupcakes look good enough to eat...perfectly CAS with a hint of paper piecing for the polka dots! YUM!

Bev

Look at this cheery little number! So bright and clean with that happy daisy and its polka dot centre, backed by even more bright dots.

Julie B

More bright yellow here, framed by a round polka dot window and lots of white space!

Karen

Beautifully crisp, simply designed and perfectly stamped.

Lovely!

Thank you so much ladies, please take the ShowCAse badge from the page at the top with our thanks.

There's still a smidgen of time left to enter this week's 'White space but not white' challenge, but a new challenge will  begin tomorrow morning at 8am BST!

See you then!

Colour Challenge #270

A new month brings back another of our loyal and fabulous Sponsors.

We are delighted to welcome back 

UNIKO STUDIO

Thank you Bev!

Fabulous stamps so do check them out!

(Chrissie used the fab Uniko Gerbera this week!)

We have another Guest Designer with us this week and we are delighted to welcome Liz to join us. She is a frequent contributor to our challenges and often visits other participants, so we hope that you will give her a warm welcome!

Our challenge this week is

White space but not  WHITE 

White Space

 An area of the card which has no image, layer or embellishment.

This can be any colour dependent upon the colour of the card blank.

Including or leaving white space is the one most difficult thing for many crafters new to Clean and Simple card making. So be brave and stop adding things to your creations before it's all used up. We will be looking specifically for areas of white space on your submissions, but this time of course we don't want it actually to be white!

(Maybe we should have called it USE  A COLOURED CARD BASE!)

On looking at the thumbnails of some of the cards which are being submitted for this challenge, it seems that some participants don't quite understand the meaning of 'White Space' ! In this case it's not merely a coloured background, but an area of blank base card with no design or patterned paper. Sometimes a large piece of paper or card can be used to change the colour of the front of the card as a couple of our DT have done, but a large proportion of it should be unadorned!
We hope this clarifies things a little!
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We hope you will enjoy our examples and visit our blogs to find out how they were made and see our additional cards.

GUEST DESIGNER: Liz Cavill  

Crafty Sunflower

Anne

Chrissie

Sarah G

Sarah P

Sharon



Susan

Anita 

We hope you enjoy this one, if you are unsure of our rules do check out the Guidelines at the top, as entries not adhering to them may sadly be deleted.

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ShowCASe #268

Hello there LIMettes it's time for us to announce our fabulous

ShowCASe entries following the challenge 

What's outside your window

... and WOW! did you throw us sideways on this one or WHAT!

An absolutely perfect, awesome and incredible gallery and an 

extremely difficult job for us to come up with just 3! 

So here goes in order of entry we have...

 Baileyrosie (Marie)

Such a fun take on the challenge, with a literal window framing those 

adorable animals.  The limited colour palette helps keep the CAS effect.

Buffy

 Stark and striking branches with a wonderful wintry sky behind.  

Perfectly CAS and so efective.

Tara

What a clever idea, we loved the creative use of dies intended for other 

objects to make the scene as well as the finger inking. Plenty of (black!) space.

Congratulations from the Less is More Team ladies and please

grab yourselves a ShowCASe badge from the page at the top of the blog.

We hope you'll wear it with pride on your personal blogs.

Thanks to everyone who played along and continually supports

our challenges; we are so appreciative and love seeing your 

creations each week and your fun takes on our themes.

We hope you agree with our ShowCASe for this week and will

pop along and congratulate these talented ladies.

There's still time to enter our current challenge which is all 

polka dot crazy this week - you have until 10pm BST tonight;

before we announce our new challenge tomorrow morning at 8am.

Challenge #269

We have a recipe for you this week that we think you will love!

POLKA DOTS

We don't need to see a whole card full of them, remember to keep it simple, but we'd like a little evidence of them somewhere!

Here is the inspiration from our fab DT to get your creative juices flowing!

Remember there will be details of these cards plus maybe one or two others on the individual blogs of the team, so do check them out!

Again this week we are joined by a Guest Designer from amongst those who expressed an interest in joining our DT at the last call, so do give a warm welcome to 

Kay Wallace  

ArtJournaling

Anita

Anne

Chrissie

Sarah G

Sarah P

Sharon

Susan

We hope you'll all have fun with this one and remember that white space!

We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Easter

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Sentiment ShowCASe Challenge 267

We had another week of fabulous entries making the ShowCASe choices another difficult one, but here are three beauties, we're sure you'll agree!

Thank you all for your stunning and superbly Clean and Simple entries!

Claire

 - White space doesn't have to be white as is perfectly demonstrated here by Claire.  The bold, crisp sentiment is so dramatic and the red accent is perfectly placed.

Rema 

We were all completely wowed by Rema's design.  The pure simplicity really packs a punch and that coral shade just works with the black sentiment and uninterrupted white space.

Anita 

Anita has demonstrated some flawless stamping here.  A textured card base with a bold sentiment accented with flowers and leaves in beautiful colours - all superbly executed.

Ladies, please take the ShowCASe banner from the page at the top, which we hope you will pop onto your blogs with pride!

A little time remains to join in with this week's 'What's outside your window?' challenge, but you miss the deadline for that, a fresh challenge will begin tomorrow morning at 8 am GMT s join us then!

Challenge 268

Good morning LIMettes!

Have we got a fab challenge for you today!

Your recipe for this week is to show us

What's outside your window

(you can use your imagination & dreams!)

We are joined this week by another of our friends who expressed an interest in joining our DT at the last call, so we'd like to introduce our Guest Designer for this week 

 Louise

 A Devon Kitchen Table

Do pay her a visit to leave a friendly word!

Susan

Anita

Anne

Chrissie

Sarah G

Sarah P

Sharon

We're sure you'll agree that there is inspiration a-plenty here and we can't wait to come and visit you to see your creations!

The Design team would be glad to receive return visits from you, where you will find details of their cards plus there is often more inspiration to be seen on their personal blogs!

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ShowCASe # 266

Another week and another fabulous 

ShowCASe 

this time from our fabulous 

Citrus 

submissions

This proved a popular choice of colour and our showcase reflects the wonderful work submitted for this challenge!

Without further ado here are the choices!

Maaike

Love the creative use of the citrus colours.  The little fox is beautifully coloured and the background shading highlights him perfectly.

Tara

This is a perfect one layer card.  The birds are nicely coloured and are the main focal point for this CAS card!

Rema

Another perfect CAS card.  This beautifully designed card provides lots of interest, while still remaining fresh, clean and simple!

Three very different styles but all beautifully CAS and all full of zingy citrus shades!

Thank you so much ladies, do please take your badges from the page at the top which we hope you will pop onto your blogs with our congratulations!

There's just a little time left to join in with our Sentiment challenge and a new theme will begin tomorrow at 8am GMT!

SO be there!

Week 267 One Layer Sentiment

Hello Limettes it's time for our latest challenge and would you believe we 

are back round to that popular ONE LAYER challenge week!

We'd like you to make your Sentiment the main focus of your card

for this one and please remember that yummy white space and 

most important - no additional layers, which is tricky!

So before we show you the DT creations for this week we have a Guest Designer for you, Irina of Scrapbooking Blog who popped her name in the hat as a potential Design Team member a few weeks ago. Sadly we couldn't ask everyone; we were completely overwhelmed by the numbers of willing and talented entrants so we've invited Irina along to guest design for us this week. 

... and here's what the rest of us have created plus if 

you pop across to our personal blogs you might find a couple

more goodies to inspire you along with details of the products

and techniques used on our cards.

Sharon

Susan

Anita

Anne

Chrissie

Sarah G

Sarah P

We hope you like what you see and feel inspired to delve into your stash

and create some sentiment-focused creations for our gallery.

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ShowCASe #265

Morning friends it's time for the latest ShowCASe line-up

at Less is More following our wire challenge!

You LIMettes are AWESOME - have we told you that?

Simply too many stunning designs for us to choose just 3!

You all certainly bent those wires to perfection or took the challenge

completely off the wall; knocking us sideways with your talents!

So here we go in order of entry 

 Maria Rodriguez

 Such a clever use of wire coupled with the cute robot images makes for a fresh, fun and funky card. Gorgeously CAS with all the surrounding white space.

Esther

 The vibrant and striking background has been beautifully blended to provide the perfect backdrop setting for the hand drawn birds and wires. It has fabulously clean crisp edges to the colour block too.

Julie B

Such a fantastic, clever and unique card. The curved zip with the CAS zipper 

charm embellishment and (very realistic) knit embossing folder are so very trendy.

Congratulations Ladies and please collect a ShowCASe badge from the tab at the top of the blog. We hope you'll display it proudly on your personal blogs with our thanks.

We're sure you'll agree these are a fantastic set of textured beauties and you'll stop by and congratulate them too. 

There's still time to enter our 'Citrus' colour challenge which ends at 10pm GMT this evening and we'll be announcing our next challenge tomorrow at 8am GMT so hope you'll join us then!

Colour Week - Citrus

The weeks roll around so quickly and here we are in our first week with our full complement of New Designers.

We are delighted to welcome Sarah, Sharon and Susan to our team and we're sure you'll be delighted with their contributions!

Without further ado let's get on with this week's challenge!

First Saturday in the month means it's a new Sponsor  

Happy Little Stampers

The first Saturday also means that it's a 

COLOUR

challenge and we have chosen

CITRUS

This doesn't mean that you have to include the fruit... just the colour/s!

As always we would like to see lots of white space and minimal layers and embellishments!

We have not included details of how these cards were produced this time, but do please head over to the individual blogs of the DT for more information and further examples.

Sarah P

Sharon

Susan

Anita

Anne

Chrissie

Sarah G

We hope you enjoy these lovely Springtime colours and can't wait to see your fabulous creations!

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