ShowCASe #310 Colour

Hi there LIMettes it's time for our weekly ShowCASe post.

It was absolutely wonderful to see so many of you participating in our ombré challenge and you all totally rocked that one! It's never an easy job to select our favourites but we do love seeing 
all your stunning takes on the challenge in our gallery each week.

So here goes with our choices, in order of entry for 
Week #310 - Colour: Ombré

Cornelia

This gorgeous winter scene from Cornelia uses different colours of ink to make a stunning night sky in glowing purples and blues. The white silhouettes and expanse of white background keep it beautifully CAS and very striking. Great job, Cornelia!


Liz

Liz has taken a creative and highly effective approach by using shades of coloured card to create a dramatic ombre sky behind her hot air balloon. This simple scene packs loads of impact and is a great example of how well-thought out details can make all the difference in a CAS card. Well done Liz!


Hannelie

Hannelie's card had us all wowed. The neutral colour palette and delicate, elegant detailing look incredible - stylish, sophisticated and oh-so-pretty. Made using a 'leftover' frame, this card goes to show that us crafters never need to waste anything, and looking at uses for our stash can deliver stunning results!


 

Congratulations ladies 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.

We're sure you'll agree these are a wonderful trio and worthy of
our ShowCASe badge this week. 
Do pop along and congratulate them on their win.

We'll also be showCASing their 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.

As always there's still time to enter our current challenge 
#311 - One Layer: Favourite Drink

which ends at 10pm GMT this evening before we announce

the new one at 8am GMT tomorrow morning.

ShowCASe #309 - Lucky Dip

Hi there LIMettes it's time for our weekly ShowCASe post.

We were blown away by the number of you that joined us for our dimension challenge and your cards were fantastic! It's never an easy job to select our favourites but we do love seeing 
all your stunning takes on the challenge in our gallery each week.

So here goes with our choices, in order of entry for 
Week #309 - Dimension

Elaine

We loved this super clever layout. The dimension achieved from the different sizes of squares at various levels is super effective. And the sunny colours are great too.


Cathy

So much dimension here from the popped up butterfly, the embossed sentiment and the crisp lines of the embossed border.  So classy and perfectly CAS.

Toni

We loved Toni's attention to detail here.  The image contained within the sentiment is a genius idea and the knitted embossed background ties in brilliantly within the theme of the card.

Congratulations ladies 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.

We're sure you'll agree these are a wonderful trio and worthy of
our ShowCASe badge this week. 
Do pop along and congratulate them on their win.

We'll also be showCASing their 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.

As always there's still time to enter our current challenge 
#310 - Colour: Ombré

which ends at 10pm GMT this evening before we announce

the new one at 8am GMT tomorrow morning.

Less is More #310 - Colour

Good morning LIMettes and a huge thank you for joining us in our last challenge of 2016 
and here's hoping you'll continue to enjoy our challenges throughout 2017.


So a NEW Year, a NEW month and we are delighted to welcome back
one of our super talented and super generous regular sponsors 

Happy Little Stampers

What's more ... Kylie (owner of Happy Little Stampers) is joining us as

our Guest Designer for today and I'm sure she'd love a visit from you.

As well as designing her own range of stamps she is a queen of inky

tips and techniques, especially Brushos and shares many tutorials on YouTube.

Being the first week of the month it's our Colour challenge 

We'd like you to use an OMBRE technique with your chosen colour

"Ombre means shading or shadow.

The is applied primarily to describe the gradual blending of one colour hue

 to another; usually moving tints and shades from light to dark"

Here's what Kylie and our Design team have created for you 

to inspire and please head over to their individual blogs 

where you may find a few extras.

Kylie

Jen

Sarah G

Sarah P

Sharon

Susan

Anita

Esther

As always please keep your designs Clean and Simple with lots of 'white / blank space' and do check our Challenge Guidelines at the top right of the blog along with our page 'How to Play'.

We hope you feel inspired to play along and have some fun.

Don't forget to check our our Facebook Page slideshows, throughout the week HERE especially on Wednesday, when we showcase our random selection of early entries to the challenge and Fridays, when we'll be revealing our favourites from the previous week's challenge.

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ShowCASe #307 & #308 and December Winner!

Hi there LIMettes it's time for our weekly ShowCASe post and we are
also including details of our monthly winner here too.

It's never an easy job to select our favourites but we do love seeing 
all your stunning takes on the challenge in our gallery each week.

So here goes with our choices, in order of entry for our
Two week challenge #307 and #308 - Children


#4 Daisy-Mae (Viv)


We just love this sweet card.  The use of two colors, black and pink, really make this image pop.  The colouring is beautiful and the card is perfectly CAS!


#14 - Rosina


The card is put together just beautifully. The image is coloured to perfection and the offset framing makes the image pop.  And the twine and label just tie it all together.  


#18 - Emily


This card is just so fun!  Beautifully put together on kraft cardstock with a few embellishments that maintain the masculine nature of the card.  Just perfect!

Congratulations ladies 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.

We're sure you'll agree these are a wonderful trio and worthy of
our ShowCASe badge this week. 
Do pop along and congratulate them on their win.


It's also time for us to announce our lucky winner

for the month of December!

Our generous sponsor for the month was

Uniko

Thank you to everyone who has taken part throughout December and we've 

thoroughly enjoyed seeing your beautiful cards in our gallery. 

It's always a tough decision to select just one winner 

but here goes with our choice for December:

Birgit!

Birgit is a regular contributor at Less is More and usually one of our first entries!
We are constantly blown away by her amazing talent for creating stunning CAS
designs with class and a unique artistic flair.

 Congratulations, Birgit, and thanks so much for all your support.

We'd also like to offer you the opportunity to be our Guest Designer
for one of our future challenges so please contact us by email 
for details of how to claim your prize.

LIM2011@gmx.com

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'll also be showCASing all our winners 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.

As always there's still time to enter our current challenge 
#309 - Use Dimension
which ends at 10pm GMT this evening before we announce

the new one at 8am GMT tomorrow morning.

Challenge #309 - Dimension

Good morning LIMettes and welcome back for our
last challenge of 2016 and we'd like to wish you all
a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thanks for all your support in 2016 and we hope you'll play
along with us throughout 2017 too!

It's back round to our Recipe week and we'd like to see 
you add DIMENSION to your cards for this challenge.

We're also thrilled and excited to be joined by 

our November winner, Sandie of London Days,

who kindly agreed to be our Guest Designer for this week.

Please do visit her for some stunning CAS-tastic inspiration and

here's what she's designed for you today

... and here's what our fabulous Design team have created and there's 

usually a few bonus cards on their personal blogs - they'd love a visit!

Esther

Jen

Sarah G

Sarah P 

Sharon

Susan 

Anita

As always please keep your designs Clean and Simple with lots of 'white / blank space' and do check our Challenge Guidelines at the top right of the blog along with our page 'How to Play'.

We hope you feel inspired to play along and have some fun.

Don't forget to check our Facebook Page slideshows, throughout the week HERE especially on Wednesday, when we showcase our random selection of early entries to the challenge and Fridays, when we'll be revealing our favourites from the previous week's challenge.

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ShowCASe #306 One Layer

Hi there LIMettes it's time for our weekly ShowCASe post.

Crikey, your take on our one layer outlines challenge really had us scratching our heads to whittle down the showcase entries this week. It's never an easy job to select our favourites but we do love seeing 
all your stunning takes on the challenge in our gallery each week.

So here goes with our choices, in order of entry for 
Week #306 - One Layer : Outlines 

Deborah


Deborah's combination of a visually pleasing mask shape for the sentiment and cheery variegated colours on the stamped outlines creates a beautifully crisp and cleanly elegant card.


Alison C


The contrast of the frame of dark, stark tree outlines with the delicate and misty colours around the sentiment in Alison's card create a gorgeously dramatic and impactful card. 

 

Linby

Linby has created real balance on her card with the perfectly placed sentiment to complement the fabulously arty technique she used on her outline image.

 

Congratulations ladies 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.

We're sure you'll agree these are a wonderful trio and worthy of
our ShowCASe badge this week. 
Do pop along and congratulate them on their win.

We'll also be showCASing their 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.

As always there's still lots of time to enter our current challenge 
#307 - Theme: Children 

which ends at 10pm GMT next Friday 30th December before we announce

the new one at 8am GMT on Saturday 31st December.

Challenge #307 & #308 - Children

Good morning LIMettes! 

Are you prepared for this festive season that's swooping

upon us at a pretty fast pace? We certainly daren't even blink 

for fear it might pass us by!

So today we're announcing our

CHRISTMAS Challenge which will run for 2 WEEKS

and if you're all out of Christmas ideas ... never fear because
we've got a theme that can work for lots of occasions.

The theme is CHILDREN so anything featuring children or 
with children in mind will work perfectly for this one 
so long as it's Clean and Simple

Here's what our wonderful design team have to inspire you and as

is often the case there could be a few extras on their personal blogs.

Anita

Esther

Jen

Sarah G

Sarah P

Sharon

Susan 

You have until 10pm GMT on Friday, 30th December to enter

this challenge and we'll be sneaking one more challenge in for the 

year on New Years Eve at 8am so hope you'll join us then!

As always please keep your designs Clean and Simple with lots of 'white / blank space' and do check our Challenge Guidelines at the top right of the blog 

along with our page 'How to Play'.

We hope you feel inspired to play along and have some fun.

Don't forget to check our our Facebook Page slideshows, throughout the week HERE especially on Wednesday, when we showcase our random selection of early entries to the challenge and Fridays, when we'll be revealing our favourites from the previous week's challenge.


We'd like to wish you all a fabulous Christmas and a very
Happy New Year from all the Less is More team and thank
you for your continued support in our challenges.

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ShowCASe #305 Colour

Hi there LIMettes it's time for our weekly ShowCASe post.

It's never an easy job to select our favourites but we do love seeing 
all your stunning takes on the challenge in our gallery each week.

So here goes with our choices, in order of entry for 
Week #305 - Colour: Primary Colours


Maaike

Maaike's blue and white design is so crisp and elegant.  The ombre blue creates a lovely winter sky for the stag silhouette on this serene festive card.



Jo-Jo

Jo Jo used the primary colours to great effect on her CAS design.  The use of coloured glitter paper perfectly paper pieced combined with the embossed and die cut textures is fabulous.



Claire

Claire's design is super CAS and the clever use of bright primary colours packs a real punch to create a fun and happy card.
 

Congratulations ladies 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.

We're sure you'll agree these are a wonderful trio and worthy of
our ShowCASe badge this week. 
Do pop along and congratulate them on their win.

We'll also be showCASing their 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.

As always there's still time to enter our current challenge 
#306 - Outlines

which ends at 10pm GMT this evening before we announce

the new one at 8am GMT tomorrow morning.