Less is More Challenge Week 162 One Layer Card: Spring Flowers

Todays' Challenge for Week 162 on the Less is More Blog is to create a One Layer Card with the theme Spring Flowers.  This is what I made using Hero Arts inks and Memory Box stamps--April Showers B1912/CS1912B and Forget Me Not Sprig C1041.

Cornflower Blue and Green Hills inks

Butter Bar flowers

Raspberry Jam flowers

Bubble Gum flowers

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Tick Tock

The theme for this week's Monday Challenge for Simon Says Stamp is:  Tick Tock.  I created this tag using a variety of clock papers, a "time time time" stamp, and lots of embellishments.

Another winner at PaperCrafter's Corner!

Here's what's posted on the PaperCrafter's Corner Blog:

Anne T.

Papercrafting Challenge: Magazine Mondays – Week Forty-One Submission by Anne T.

Papercrafting Challenge: Magazine Mondays -Week 41 Submission by Anne T.

Anne created a wonderful collage!

She was inspired by the light and dark colors and shades in the inspiration piece and focused her efforts on placing black and white and shaded images onto her canvas.

There were some happy “coincidences” in her piece…

…be sure to stop by Anne’s blog and check out what these “coincidences” were and what else she made!

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Tag It!

This week's Wednesday Challenge for Simon Says Stamp is to create a tag.  Here's mine:

Materials Used

• No. 8 Manila Shipping Tag
• Distress Inks--Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Gathered Twigs
• water mister; heat tool--to create background with the Distress Inks
• gold thread, gold organza ribbon, brown satin ribbon, narrow brown striped ribbon
• Tim Holtz metal pieces--gears, brads, jump rings, LISTEN charm, pin, attacher on chain, corner
• other metal pieces--brads, clock hand
• gold beads; gold glitter dots; pale yellow tiny pearl
• images from Altered Pages/corset ads

Here's a close-up of the focal images:

I think it's funny that the ad for glove fitting corsets is from the Thomson Company.  I wonder if some of my English ancestors spelled our last name this way!

Magazine Monday Week 42 @ PaperCrafter's Corner

Here's the inspiration piece for this week's Magazine Monday Challenge Week 42:

And here is the notecard I created:

Materials Used:

• Memory Box White notecard
• cardstock in black, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet
• Memory Box Wild Feathers Die No. 98754
• Staedtler Pigment Liner Black pen 0.5
• microscope slide of pigeon feather
• Memory Box Typewriter Lowercase Alphabet Die No. 98366
• handwritten words that describe the parts of feathers from BIRD, EGG, FEATHER, NEST by Maryjo Koch
• and quote from Maryjo Koch:  "Not all birds fly, or sing or build nests.  Yet all share one feature:  feathers.  No bird lacks them or can survive without them."

12 tags of 2014--March

Tim Holtz is once again challenging us to make tags for 2014.  Here are his inspiration tags using a smudging technique.  The brighter tag is the first stamping and the lighter one is a second stamping without reinking the stamp.

I stayed with the birds/nest theme and created a tag of my own:

Materials Used

• Distress Inks:  Wild Honey, Gathered Twigs, Ripe Persimmon, Crushed Olive, Black Soot
• Hero Arts Black Ink
• Stamps:  silhouette birds on branch--Inkadinkado; bird's nest--A STamp in the Hand; birds postcard--Magenta; Wavy Music--Stampendous; clear alphabet stamps
• Tim Holtz 3 tin stencil; sun charm; ceramic bird button; tiny metal bird charm; science microscope slide of different bird feathers
• ribbons in lime green, olive green, and yellow/orange
• 2 small yellow flower/sun brads
• Distress Markers
• water spritzer
• #8 manila tag

Here's a closer image:

Less is More Week 161--Colour: Yellow & Green

Less is More Week 161--Colour

For our colour challenge this month we have chose real Spring colours

YELLOW & GREEN

I went a little crazy again and made lots of cards using Squeezed Lemonade and Mowed Lawn Distress inks.  I inked up the stamps and spritzed them with water before stamping on white notecards.  I mostly made one layer cards.  Here they are:

I added details in the corners of this card using a Memory Box stencil. The stamp is S5362 Dogwood from Hero Arts.  There's a little gold shimmer on the flowers from Delicata Gold ink that I didn't completely clean off the stamp before inking it up with the Distress inks.

I used two stencils for more interest, grid work and dots.

Again more grid work stenciling.  The stamp is from Memory Box, E1865 Whisper Print Wildflower.

I used a decorative punch on the edge of this card.

I added a yellow cardstock banner to the left front panel of this gatefold card.    Each of the flowers was stamped on white cardstock and mounted on Dill cardstock before adhering to the panels.

another gatefold card

I stamped the Dogwood on white cardstock, trimmed and adhered it to Dill cardstock, and then  mounted it on the front of a white notecard with the stamped sentiment.