30 June 2017

Showcase #333 - Personalise It

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


It was wonderful to see the incredible ways that you personalised your cards and a big thank you goes out to you all for keeping those cards  lovely and CAS! 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 

 


ElizStuart
Less is More Challenge #333 - Personalize It
This fun card made us all smile!  The  cheeky cowboy raccoon and use of the lasso for the sentiment are so well thought out and the recipient's name is a prominent feature of the design.  A truly personalised card!


Julie

Julie has used just part of a busy background stamp to create a beautiful focal point on her CAS card.  Fab water colouring and a personalised sentiment combine to create an elegant design


Jane

Jane's design is super CAS and her way of personalising it with the letters in the flower centres is so clever.  The subtle use of colour, composition and white space keeps the design light and airy - just what we like to see at Less is More!
 
 
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 which ends at 10pm GMT/BST this evening before we announce the new one at 8am GMT/BST tomorrow morning.


24 June 2017

Challenge #334 - Sketch 20

Hey there LIMettes, we're back with another challenge and this week it's sketch-time for you. We hope you have some fun with this one and feel free to flip / rotate it so as long as we can see the sketch elements in a CLEAN and SIMPLE form we'll be a happy bunch!





We'd like to thank STAMPlorations for being our perfect and generous sponsor for this month and to be in with a chance of winning the sponsor prize for June, please play along with us this week.


Here goes with our sketch followed by inspiration from our fabulous Design Team. Lots of ideas here to get you started and do check out their personal blogs if you have the time as there could be a couple of bonus cards there!





Sarah P

Sharon

Susan


Trina

Anita

Esther


Izzy
using sponsor stencil

Nonni
using sponsor sentiment die


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

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun.

Don't forget to check out 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 ShowCASe favourites from the previous week's challenge.

There's also an Instagram page for our challenge; you can find it HERE and if you post your cards to instagram then please tag us in your post using @lessismorechallenge so that we can hop along and 'like' your creations.


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23 June 2017

Showcase #332 - Sweet Things

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
 

Viv
Drinks, CAS, LIM
Viv did some fantastic work with all these bits of digital images and she added the perfect shadows to make this One Layer Card look dimensional. It is a terrific CAS card.

Pauline
Hard to find a sweeter image than these two mice ! The soft pink stripes make it even sweeter. Another fantastic piece of work with digital images that makes a one layer card look dimensional.

Cornelia

We all loved these delicious rainbow Popsicles! They are so luminous and they really pop against the kraft card. It was a brilliant idea to highlight them even more with white patterns.
 

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 which ends at 10pm GMT/BST this evening before we announce the new one at 8am GMT/BST tomorrow morning.


17 June 2017

Challenge #333 - Personalise It

Good morning LIMettes and welcome to another Clean and Simple challenge at Less is More. We hope you enjoy this one and can't wait to see how you take the theme. First of all, let's take a look at our Cue Card ...



There's lots of ways to 'personalise' your card be it with a name, event or even a photo but we're sure you'll have some brilliant and inspired ideas for us this week. To set the ball rolling our Design Team have been busy and we are delighted to be joined by our May winner, and Guest Designer for this challenge ...

It's Lucie G and if you haven't come across Lucie's blog and instagram page then do check them out as she has some awesome CAS designs just waiting for you to swoon over. If you have a little time this week do visit her and leave some love.

So let's see what Lucie and the team have been up to this week



Sarah G


Sarah P

Sharon

Susan

Trina


Anita

Esther

Izzy


There's still time to be in with a chance of winning a superb prize from this month's sponsor, 


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

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun.

Don't forget to check out 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 ShowCASe favourites from the previous week's challenge.

There's also an Instagram page for our challenge; you can find it HERE and if you post your cards to instagram then please tag us in your post using @lessismorechallenge so that we can hop along and 'like' your creations.


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16 June 2017

ShowCASe #311 - Neapolitan

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


We has some really super entries into our last challenge and we want to thank you all for taking the time to make cards to support us. 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 


 







This fun card brought a smile to our faces with its humorous sentiment and cute medicine bottles. We love Bobby's brave use of empty space and minimal design elements to make the bottles a strong focal point on a truly CAS card
 
 
A traditional interpretation of our challenge colours but with a twist - they're beautifully coloured into one Neapolitan cornet! The delicate splatters in the background perfectly set off the ice cream and give a feeling of lightness and freshness. 
 
 



Darnell used our challenge colours for a bold, warm look that we love. The clean lines of the Cattails and the inlaid die cutting combined with the vertical dry embossed sentiment keep the card unified and CAS while packing it full of visual interest.

 
 

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 which ends at 10pm GMT/BST this evening before we announce the new one at 8am GMT/BST tomorrow morning.
 

 

10 June 2017

Challenge #332 - ONE layer Sweet Things

Hey there LIMettes, we're back with another challenge for you and it's that one you all LOVE and HATE in equal measures ... it's the ONE layer card week! Here's our cue card which should be self-explanatory and hopefully delving into your stash for sweetie things will ease the tension of ONE layer!





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

Here's what the design team have to inspire you and do check out their personal blogs if you have the time as there could be a couple of bonus cards there!




TAKING A BREAK THIS WEEK









We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun.

Don't forget to check out 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 ShowCASe favourites from the previous week's challenge.

What's more we (Sharon) has set up an Instagram page for our challenge, and it's steadily growing with over 150 followers in just a few weeks. You can find it HERE and if you post your cards to instagram then please tag us in your post using @lessismorechallenge so that we can hop along and 'like' your creations.

09 June 2017

Showcase #330 - Shimmer

Well, that shimmer challenge certainly seemed to be one of your favourites LIMettes! You gave us such a difficult job this week selecting only 3 cards to showcase, but we had to narrow it down. Thank you all for sharing your stunning takes on the challenge in our gallery each week.

So here goes with our choices, in order of entry for 

 
Love these whimsical flowers.  Super creative design with bright colors and 
the perfect amount of shimmer!

 
Such a beautiful bouquet of flowers.  Aileen's coloring is amazing that the flowers just come to 
life on the card.  She added the perfect amount of shimmer to the flowers and
 a wonderfully sparkly simple sentiment.

This card will make anyone smile.  The design is simple and fun.  Terrific color 
and perfect dimension!

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 which ends at 10pm BST this evening before we announce the new one at 8am BST tomorrow morning.