Week #276 One Layer Card

Well hello again LIMettes!

Here we go with another challenge for you and guess what...

it's time for the 

ONE LAYER CARD

challenge!

If you are unsure of our rules for clean and simple please check out the 'Brief Rules' 

section at the top right of the page plus the 'Guidelines' page at the top.

so the theme for this week is 

At Sea

Here's what the DT have been up to and there could be a couple of 

bonus extras on our own blogs if you'd like to pay us a visit!

Anita

Anne

Chrissie

Sarah G

 Sarah P

Sharon

 Susan

We do have a few LIMettes who spend lots of time visiting fellow participants' blogs and leaving friendly comments. This is wonderful and something we have encouraged from the outset of the challenge over 5 years ago! A big thank you to those people and we would like to encourage you all to visit a least a few others... it means a lot! Thanks!

We hope you enjoy this one, have some fun and remember 

CLEAN AND SIMPLE!

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Showcase #274

Morning LIMettes it's time for another ShowCASe and not that we ever doubt

your talents but you certainly showed the extent of your creativity with your

CAS-tastic use of design papers and here's a trio of delightful examples 

that we've selected to showCASe this week!

So first up and in order of entry:

Rachel

 This is pure CAS.  Rachel chose a lovely plaid patterned paper to fill the die-cut 

negative space and the subtle faux stitched edging adds the perfect finish to the 

wonderful white space.  Just stunning!

Pauline

We loved the beautiful combination of neutral papers and the terrific offset layout. 

 A really classy creation, not to mention Pauline's perfect fussy cutting! 

Amazingly understated.

Kimberly

We were blown away by Kimberly's peek-a-boo style design.  There's so much movement 

from the swoosh of hot pink floral paper which draws your eye to the butterflies and

 then to the sentiment.  A very clever and sensational design.

Congratulations ladies and we hope you'll collect a ShowCASe badge, 

with our thanks, from the page at the top to display proudly on your blogs!

There's still time to play along in our current challenge - Pastel Colours

which ends at 10pm BST this evening and we hope you'll join us for our

new challenge tomorrow morning at 8am BST.

Week #275 - Colour Challenge

Hello there LIMettes are we ready for a brand new challenge

and a brand new month which means a new sponsor too 

... but first up and most importantly we are dedicating this week's challenge

to our wonderful, fun, and talented Design Team member Anita!

It's her birthday today so the rest of the design team would like to wish her a

very happy and fun-filled day and we hope you'll pop along and wish her well too

... and onto our sponsor for May it's

and here's the link to the online shop if you'd like to check out

the goodies on offer: Happy Little Stampers SHOP

Ok so the first week in the month means it's a

Colour Challenge

and we'd like to see 

Pastel shades in a clean and simple style.

Here's what the design team have come up with and if you

head over to our own blogs you may find a few extra examples too.

Susan

Anita

Anne



Chrissie

 Sarah G

Sarah P

Sharon

As always have some fun, keep it CAS and do try to visit some of your

fellow participants to leave some friendly encouragement.

Have a good weekend and if any of you are visiting the

Happy Stampers Festival at Port Sunlight today please head to the Uniko stand 

as Sarah P should be helping Bev for the day and would love to meet and say Hi!

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ShowCASe #273

Hello there LIMettes ... it's ShowCASe time!

We certainly gave you all a real stinker with the 

Saints, Dragons and Heros but as ever you folks rocked!

We had a ball checking out your creations and here's our fantastic choices!

In order of entry ...

Wendy

 This colorful and bright CAS card just grabs your attention.  

Though a simple case design, this cute dragon just pops off the card!

Doni 

 This fun green and purple dragon is colored just perfectly.  

The background sponging just adds the perfect touch to this CAS card!  

So fun!

Sue Lesley

Such a fun and perfect CAS card.  The dragons are just perfectly 

colored and the sentiment is just the icing on the cake! 

Congratulations ladies on being our ShowCASe this week and please take 

a ShowCASe badge from the page at the top with our thanks. We hope

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

There's still time to enter our current 'lucky dip' challenge which

is to use Design Paper in a Clean and Simple way. You have until 

10pm GMT today before our new challenge is announced at 8am GMT

tomorrow morning. We hope you'll join us then!

April Winner!

Hello there LIMettes! 

Hey it's the first Wednesday of the month and time to announce our Prize Winner!

Our generous sponsor for the month of April was 

Uniko

and our lucky LIMette who'll be in line for some goodies is

Karen Ashbrook

Krafty Kaz Kreates

Congratulations Karen, you really are a star LIMette, constantly

participating in our challenges week by week and always leaving a 

friendly word in your comments to fellow participants along the way!

Well done and 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 thanks for your continued support.

Please contact us by email for details of how to claim your prize.

LIM2011@gmx.com

We're sure you'll agree Karen is a worthy winner and please

pop along to her blog and leave her some love and congrats!

Lucky Dip Week 274

April this year has five Saturdays and so we are lucky to be joined by another 

LIMette Guest Designer.

We know that this person will be a most popular selection, as she visits practically everyone who contributes to our challenges and leaves a friendly word by way of comment.

Our Lucky Dip Challenge

 is to use

Designer paper in a CAS style.

and our Guest Designer is none other than 

 Esther

This is your chance to use up those snippets of left over paper that have been lurking in drawers and on shelves. Remember that we still need to see lots of white space.... 

the designer paper CANNOT count as white space!

There's no substitute for bare card!

Sharon

Susan

Anita

Anne

Chrissie

Sarah G

Sarah P

We hope you'll have fun with this one.

So add your link below and we'll come to visit you!

There will be more to see on the individual Designers' blogs so do pop over to see them and get details of these makes, plus a little additional inspiration!

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ShowCASe Week 272

Welcome to another super ShowCASe Limettes!

Week 272

We had some wonderful cards submitted, however

it seems that our Take Three Stamps Challenge caused a few differences of opinion... some people assumed a sentiment stamp didn't count and some just didn't quite manage to count to three!

It was such fun however and here are this week's fabulous choices.

 Birgit/Biggan  

Birgit beautifully stamped one image 3 times in different generations of ink which together with the limited colour palette and white space combined to create a wonderfully CAS card. 

One image stamp, one splodge stamp, one sentiment stamp!

1, 2, 3!

 Helen 

The glorious cascade of flowers arcing around half of the card is perfectly balanced with the white space around the sentiment. Helen's card is also just one layer.

One sentiment stamp, 2 flower stamps!

1, 2, 3!

 Wishcraft 

 The clever use of the inlaid/embossed dies around the image keep this card to a minimal 2 layers. Lisa has really shown what an incredible impact a small stamp can make on a CAS card.

One flower head stamp, one flower stem, one sentiment!

1, 2, 3!

Please take the ShowCASe badge from the page at the top ladies and we hope you'll all join us for a new challenge tomorrow. There's still just a little time to get your thinking caps on for our Saints, Dragons or Heroes challenge... it's quite a tricky one this time to test your mettle!

Week # 273 Saints and Dragons or Heroes.

For some fun this week our recipe is to include 

Saints, Dragons or Heroes.

St. George's Day takes place on April 23rd every year, recognising the patron saint of England, apparently made famous for slaying a dragon and saving a distressed maiden.

There are not usually many celebrations in honour of this day, so this will be our little salute!

You don't have to portray elements of this story, but whatever your imagination conjures up with this theme. 

We would however like an explanation if your link is tenuous!

Just have fun!

Sarah P

Sharon

Susan

Anita

Anne

Chrissie

Sarah G

We hope this gives you some ideas... remember that  there are free downloadable digi images available on the internet should you need to find an image for this challenge.There are often colouring pages for kids which are free to download for personal use.

We would also like to add our congratulations to our wonderful Queen on the occasion of her milestone 90th birthday! She is a hero to many!

Happy Birthday your Majesty!

Just a brief reminder as we have had a few entries recently which were not conforming to the CAS genre

White space, Few Layers, Minimal embellishments! 

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ShowCASe #271

Morning Limettes! It's that all important time to announce our

ShowCASe choices following the geometric pattern spectacular

last week and once again you knocked us side-ways!

So here goes in order of entry and we just couldn't stop 

at Three this week so there's a bonus fourth ShowCASe!

Maaike

the soft and dreamy inking through Maaike's home made 

stencil complements the sentiment perfectly

Sharon

Sharon found the perfect digital image for the geometric theme.  

The classic rubik cube in bright primary colours is such a fun design!

Rachel

the bold sentiment and brightly coloured hexagons on Rachel's 

card combine to create a really crisp and CAS design.

 Rema 

such a cool and CAS design from Rema, the trio of coloured triangles 

and perfect placement give this one layer card a really graphic look.

Congratulations on being out ShowCASe this week ladies and please

take a ShowCASe badge from the page at the top of our blog with our thanks.

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

We hope you'll agree with our choices; they really are outstanding examples 

of one layer, clean and simple geometrics and if you have time please

pop along to their blogs and leave some love - I'm sure they'll appreciate it.

Thank you to everyone who entered and for your continued support 

of Less is More. If you haven't already entered our 3-stamp challenge

there's still a little time left before closing at 10pm GMT today.

We'll be back tomorrow at 8am with details of our latest challenge so 

hope you'll join us then.

Challenge #272

Hello there LIMettes it's time to reveal our latest challenge and it's a

THEME one ... we'd like you to use 3 STAMPS

This could be 3 individual stamps or the same 3 stamps used multiple times.

Here's the DT creations which should give you some clues and inspiration

too we hope. More details about how these are created plus a couple of extra 

 ones are on our individual blogs. We'd love you to visit if you have time.

Sarah G

Sarah P

Sharon

Susan

Anita

Anne

Chrissie

We can't wait to see what you come up with this week to WOW us 

and we hope you have lots of fun in the process.

Please remember to keep your designs Clean and Simple ... our guidelines

are at the top of the page and if you get the chance please pop and 

visit some of your fellow participants as we all love a friendly word!

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