Wishing you Happiness

Good evening all!
And it is actually a lovely evening too! I have had a lovely afternoon with my Mum and Dad, digging up all the potatoes from the garden and picking plums from next door's tree (Maria said we could!). We also picked our 1 large runner bean and had that for tea with the potatoes and plums....mmmm yum! :)

Anyway, I have made this card for the Less Is More One Layer - Use Ink (in a different way) challenge this week. I made the same card a few weeks ago and it was featured in CM&P mag as I won the stamps from their Friday challenge on Facebook. I decided to make it again, as I sold the original at the market on Saturday! 

The stamps are Hippie Girl from Kaisercraft and the big butterflly is from cArt-us.com. I simply inked the stamp with various Versacolour inks and stamped it. It was a little tricky to make sure the right bits got the right colours but it worked in the end! A little tip-after I had ink the whole stamp, I breathed 'huh' onto the ink which revitalised it so it would stamp.

Hope you like! I don't often make the same card twice but I really like how this one came out! :)
Have a nice evening!

Lizy x

#5 LIM

Good morning all!
After a tidy up in the garden this morning, before it rains again, here is another entry into LIM-Pick A Square Challenge.
I found this to be one of the hardest cards to design......using the top left square. But I remembered this recently bought stamp from cArt-us and I thought it would be perfect.

I stamped it in Rich Cocoa Memento and the sentiment is from the Kanban set I've been using.......Autumn Silhouettes. Inside I'm going to print 'Have a great time!'

Back with the final one tomorrow......got the idea in my head...... ;)
Lizy x

Some more Less is More!

Hey everyone!
I had a lovely day yesterday at my friend Gemma's little girl Amelia's Baptism. It was a lovely service and the 'do after' was fab......wonderful venue at Prestwich bowling, cricket and tennis club!

Anyway, I havea couple of cards to make for orders, but while stuff is drying on them I managed to have a little play with some of my stamps and my new chalks.

This first one is from the Kanban Autumn Silhouettes again but this time I used both the 'positive' and 'negative' stamps of the tree. I started with the positive and stamped the tree with Versamark. I then coloured it with my new chalks, using a cotton bud for the small areas. Then I stamped using the negative stamp and before colouring I placed a small circle to mask off for the sun. I then cloured with chalks and then removed the circle and coloured the sun. Not sure if it really shows on here.....but itdoes look really effective in the 'flesh'!

This second one is from cArt-us and I again stamped inVersamark, and coloured with the chalks. The sentiments are both from the Kanban set, stamped in Rich Cocoa Memento.

Hope you like today's offerings for the Less is More - Pick a Square challenge. It's the first time I've tried masking...bit gutted it doesn't show on the photo!
Lizy x

More flutterings!

Good evening all!
Well I got all upset again today because my laptop went funny on me again to the point that I decided to give in and just buy a new one! So there was me, thinking I'd got a bargain, but by the time I'd had to but this key code and that internet protection, it had bumoed the price up by £100! Anyway, imagine how excited I was to open it up and get started, only to discover that I'd been given the wrong one! So now I have to traipse into town again tomorrow to change it! So back to my 'baby' I go. And here I am, on 'baby', at work posting the couple of cards I made today......

I used my new cArt-us butterfly stamps and stamped them with some Versacolour ink pads, then cut them out. For the first I added it to the aperture card and added a stamped swirl ovelapping the aperture. I finished with a little pink glitter and the sentiment, which was in mind after emailing Jan a couple of times today. So this one's for you Jan......I hope things are ok :)

For the second card I attached the butterflies with a little silicone glue under each wing to stop them from being flattened onto the card. The sentiment is LOTV and I finished with a few gems to carry the sentiment to the boldest butterfly. In my head, that was to signify the highest and boldest butterfly is the fulfilled dream!

These have (obviously) been made to enter into LIM - butterflies challenge

Hope you like!

Lizy x