We are celebrating 4 Years of "Less is More"

What a day to celebrate!
Less is More is 4 Years old

Who would have thought that when Mandi and I began a challenge blog for Clean and Simple cards that it would have had such an impact on Blogland.

It was a success from the outset (for which we thank you most sincerely) and seems to have influenced the ethos of several other CAS challenges which have sprung up since then.

Now lots of challenges request that participants comment on their fellow crafters, something that we felt strongly about... everyone loves a friendly comment don't they!

Today we have people from all over the world joining in with our challenges and the standard of entries is simply superb!

We are lucky enough to be joined this week by representatives from lots of the fabulous companies which sponsor us, and there are lots of goodies up for grabs from them this week!

So a huge THANK YOU to them and lots of good reasons for you to join in!

As it is the first Challenge of the month it's a 

Colour Challenge 

and this time they are

PINK AND GREY

Here are some examples from our sponsors
Uniko Studios
Uniko is offering the giveaway of a set of their new release stamps

Bev

Uniko Studio is 3 years old this month! The gorgeous Beverley is a regular sponsor of LIM and also one of our  super guest designers this week 

WOW Embossing Powders
WOW also our Sponsors for February!

WOW is offering a carry case of 6 Embossing Powders

Marion Emberson

Devine stamp stamped on grey baz with versamark

Pink perfection on white baz

Pink sorbet on the little hearts

And it's all relative stamp

Clearly Besotted

Clearly Besotted is offering a £10 voucher

Michelle Short

I'm sure you'll have come across Michelle but if not check out her AMAZING blog and video tutorials plus details of what products she's  used on her GDT card.

Make the Day Special

2 sets of Paper Smooches stamps are up from grabs from Tara

Tara

I used Wplus9's Whole Lotta Happy stamp for the balloon with 3 shades of pink pigment inks from Mama Elephant (blush, piggy bank and lollypop).  The birthday script die is cut from grey card and the wishes is from Whole Lotta Happy too.  Strings were hand drawn with a distress marker (pumice stone).
Jen

Mandi

Well hello everyone... or those of you that even remember me :)
Where have those 4 years gone? LIM has gone from strength to strength, it's barely recognisable nowadays to how it was in 'the old days' Amazing achievement from Chrissie and her team.
My business is going fantastically, I love every moment. My only regret is that I'm not 10 (or 20) years younger!
If you;d liketo follow what I'm up to click here Finishing Touches
Thank you Chrissie for inviting me
Love to all  xx

Sarah

This uses a beautiful birthday set called: Balloon Bash along with some sentiments from the new sets too. More will be revealed this week! A little sneaky crafty trick here to create my grey stripes  (may not be new to you talented folk) but I used the back of one of the Uniko Studio background builders stamps  to create them and I like how it's turned out.
Anne
I seem to have made a lot of new home cards lately, can't think why it's on my mind!  This uses Stampin' Up holiday home white embossed on pink.  The background is cut with a Simon Says die and I've added some washi tape and a White Stuff clothing button, coloured grey with my Copic pens.
Chrissie

This utilised a home made stencil inked with Distress Inks, stamped with SU Gorgeous Grunge splats and embossed with silver EP. The base layer of the Memory Box butterfly was inked with distress inks, stamped with floral images and also heat embossed with silver. The leaves are from Memory Box. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted, I think it echoes the line of the butterfly beautifully! The front panel is cut with a stitched rectangle, elongated slightly to fit British measurements, from Simon Says Stamp.
The prizewinners of the goodies generously donated by our lovely sponsors for our birthday celebration giveaway, will be chosen at random at the end of the week once the the Inlinkz has closed; winners will be announced the following week. As always we would encourage you to visit the blogs of our DT this week, particularly those of our Guests as well as some of your fellow participants. ***

An InLinkz Link-up