Less is More was nearly nothing!!

Whoo-hoo - I've managed a challenge card this week and or course it is Less is More.

I didn't dare miss again - I'll get shouted at - I do wish life would be a little kinder with time.

This one nearly ended up in the bin. I stamped my image onto the card, masked it then used the Tim Holtz script stamp over the image. I then did a mask in reverse - ie. tore a hole in the paper so that I could ink through it  -  and oh boy did that take some getting right!!! At this point I used a combination of distress inks to ink over the masked butterfly and the script. I stamped another butterfly,  slightly darker in Adirondak aubergine ink, cut it out and attached it to the one beneath.

Apart from struggling to get my negative the right shape and in the right place thing were going swimmingly up to this point - then disaster struck in the shape of cat paw marks across my card!! This will teach me to put the ink away before answering the phone.

Fortunately said cat had managed to miss the image and inking, otherwise he might just have been given a flying lesson from the second floor balcony!!! I managed to rescue the image by cutting it out and attaching it to a piece of blue and fastening it to another card - pheww - but not what I really wanted but who know if time will be a little kinder to me perhaps I will have time to ..................try again!!

House Mouse & Friends for the love of the Game

Our new challenge for this week is Football orientated.

Our super sweet DT Member STACY Morgan, of TWINSHAPPY is a BIG FAN of FOOTBALL, so she wants to see us creating projects with the USA GREEN BAY PACKERS Football TEAM in mind. Yeap, that's right!  That's her Twin Boy's Favorite Football Team. So, A FOOTBALL FRENZY theme it is!!!!  
Doesn't have to be Green Bay Packers orientated, or even American football (nothing wrong with a good old game of SOCCER I say!!) I seriously considered using MAN U as my inspiration but feared I might just get lynched!!
Check out the DT's  cards there is plenty of inspiration there 

Esme and Nancy are both our GD's again this week and we are looking for GD's for future months so pop along to the blog if you'd like to have a go!!!

Here is my take on Stacy's theme. I have lost a packet of House Mouse stamped images - naughty little blighters have gone walkabout - so I didn't have the image I wanted and had to improvise.

I decided we would have our mouses celebrating a win - thought that might keep Stacy happy!! I used some 'grass' paper as backing  and used the image called 'Olive a Party' and coloured it in Copics, I stamped some mousie footprints along some yellow ribbon and placed that one some green, twirled it around and fastened it to the card with glossy accents. I made a yellow flower with the EK Succes punch, cut the tips with some of those fancy scissors then scrunched it up hoping it looked somewhat like a rosette. I stamped the little mouse called 'Jumping for Joy' and cut him out with a round nestie and computer orientated the sentiment, which for some strange reason looks totally the wrong colour. 

We have the lovely DI from Di's digi downoads sponsoring us this week with
3 free digi's for the lucky winner!!

lovely hAnglars only

I've taken a little time out today and made a card just for fun!!

Strangely enough I've gone pretty and pink, not like me.

I followed the recipe challenge at lovely hAnglars only - 2 papers, at least 3 flowers, lace and a charm. My lovely little little hAnglar girl is coloured in Copics and the papers are called Blueberry Hill (I think - quite old!!)

I've stamped the edge of the image with a Stempelglede stamp and inked it with Victorian Velvet distress ink.  Crealies dies were used for the flowers and leaves, the ribbon is seam binding and the lace and charm are both from my stash. I've used a Lili of the Valley sentiment cut with Spellbinders scalloped and plain heart dies.

Well, play break over - back to doing something I should be doing.

Hope you're all having a great weekend and thanks for stopping by

A little lost soul and a card

LOOK!!!!

A little birdie fell out of his nest onto my balcony and I had to keep him safe until his mummy came and collected him. Not that my cat would have known what to do with him, he even runs away from flies, all he's ever caught are worms and they don't run very fast do they!!

Right here is a card that has been waiting to be posted until I got my camera back 

from my son.

This is one of the new Lili of the Valley  boys images which is perfect for Father's Day  (coming up very soon) together with their circular Father's day sentiment. The image is cloloured in Copics and cut out with a Spellbinders label die.

The papers are 'Me and my Big Ideas' and the stars are cut with an MFT die and the swirls with a Magnolia one.

Has anyone else been having commenting problems ??

I'm struggling reaching blogs - the little thing at the top of the page goes round.....

.....and round........and round........for ages and ages, then often tells me it can't connect to the site!!! I would like to know if it's just me and I should be doing something!!

Simon Says.....................lets Sparkle & Shine

This week the theme is

SPARKLE AND SHINE !!!

We, the DT have been having fun using products from Tattered Angels and loads of glimmer mist this week .

I started by running a Spellbinders Impressabilities circles die through my cuttlebug. I left it lightly attached to the cardstock and sprayed it with Denim Blue Tattered Angels Glimmer mist. The base card is sprayed with the Silver Glimmer mist. The photograph at the top shows just how beautiful the shimmer is IRL.

I used Tilda with Hawaiin Flower  as my image and coloured her with the usual Copics. The butterflies are all cut with Martha Stewart butterfly punches, inked with Distress inks, stamped with Perfect Medium then 'sprinkled' with Multi Fine glitter

I've also used the Magnolia Doohickey swirl and leaf die and Prima Athena flowers.

All the rest are bits from my stash including the lace which an old lady who used to live close by gave me years ago and I still have miles of it left , well perhaps not quite miles.

I keep forgetting to enter cards into challenges but I have a couple for this one

A spoonful of Sugar is Anything goes

Little Clare's challenge is Sparkle

Crafts and Me - Anything goes

Creative Inspirations - Lace and pearls

As usual Heidi will be giving one lucky entrant a $50 voucher to her FANTASTIC Simon Says Stamp Superstore !! See the NEWEST stuff on the All New Just In Page For fabulous tutorials, inspiration and candy you should keep an eye on the Simon Says Stamp Blog too !!! :-)

Hope you're all having a great week and thanks for stopping by