New Challenge at Less Is More!

Hi friends!

We have a new, fun challenge for you at Less Is More. We ask you to bring something back -to use something that you've not used on your cards in ages / something that is out of fashion or dig out

older stash items that you haven't played with anymore.

Happy Little Stampers continues as our April sponsor, play along for a change to win!

There's plenty of DT inspiration in our challenge blog HERE. Our guest designer this time is the wonderful Cara who made such a cute card for us with some older, adorable bunny stamps... Don't miss it! Also Sue is joining us as guest designer with the first stamp she ever bought! How cool is that! Thank you Cara and Sue for joining us in this challenge. 

I've made a super simple card using a magazine freebie stamp from years back + a moroccan pattern background stamp from Stamping Up, also several years old. I've added color to the stamped square image with distress inks (the image is heat embossed so it resisted ink), used Wink of Stella on the butterfly and also splattered some white paint on top. The sentiment is by STAMPlorations and not old or neglected! :) I've popped the stamped square up with fun foam for dimension and added a couple of sequins for additional sparkle. 

I was inspired by:

Color Throwdown

AAA Cards: Favorite Technique

Splattering... This is my second entry, I splatter a lot these days! :) Please click the photo larger to see the subtle white paint splatters. 

Stamping Sensations: One for the Girls

This is a very feminine card, isn't it! 

Paperbabestamps: Sketch

Thanks for popping by and I hope to see you playing along!

Mainly Teal Spring Card

Hi friends!

Here's a card I made for a couple of challenges:

Less Is More: Mainly Teal

Seven Hills Crafts: March Challenge, Tic Tac Toe

(patterned paper, pastel shades, die cutting)

The Flower Challenge Anything Goes

The Paper Players: Cut It

I wanted to use a couple of shades of teal, not just one, and was happy to find some patterned paper that tied up my colors pretty nicely. I was surprised how lovely teal looks with white! I think I've never made a card in these colors. I've heat embossed, sponged and then die cut Altenew Hennah Elements flower stamps and combined them with Stamping Up die cut leaves. The heat embossed sentiment is from Verve Stamps. 

I accidentally used the sketch from the previous Less Is More Challenge which I think I entered twice... Only the sentiment is slightly in a different place. I think the sketch got stuck in my head! But what can you say... It's a good layout! :)

Thanks for popping by! 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi guys!

We have a new challenge for you at Inkspirational and this time it's a super fun one for me because I've got to choose the topic, yay! I chose

"Use 5 or more stamps"

When you look at my card you might be all "What?!? Where are all the five stamps?!?" I wanted to create a subtle background stamping with several background stamps -well 3 this time to be exact- and used a very light blue ink for this. This kind of stamping gives a wonderful airy look and adds a lot of interest to the eye when you try to catch the light, faded patterns and images from the background. 

My Hero Arts butterfly is colored in with Copics and I added some white gel pen too. I love this stamp-die set, so beautiful. Sentiment is by Chocolate Baroque. I hope you like my card and I hope to see you playing along at Inkspirational! 

Close up: The background consists of stamping with 3 background stamps: a grid stamp (Kaiserkraft) , a "tile" stamp (Stamping Up) and a dotty, mixed media-sort of background stamp (Prima)

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at Inkspirational, a word prompt

"Glamour"

When I thought about the word glamour the first thing that came to my mind was women... We are so very glamorous, aren't we?!? Well... Maybe not all the time... But that was my inspiration anyway! When I went through my stamps I found exactly ONE stamp with a woman image and that's what I used. The stamp is a magazine freebie, sometimes received with Craft Stamper. After noticing I don't have any women-stamps I started to think it's actually very weird: I mostly send cards to women, wouldn't beautiful/elegant woman images be perfect for them?!? So, the hunt is on. I've already bought one stamp from a Finnish online shop... So now I have 2 stamps with women. Yay. :)

Anyway, my card:

Coloring with Copics

BG stamping with DI:s with bg stamps by Prima and Stamping Up

Sentiment by STAMPlorations

I can't decide if this card is a hit or a miss but I do love the colors. I've become very brave lately and have used sequins every now and then... Here's an example of this bravery. ;) 

Thanks for popping by, I hope you liked my card and I hope to see you at Inkspirational!