So Glad You Were Born

It's Color Week at Just Us Girls. We are hosted by Ina and as we begin a new month of challenges, we welcome Colleen Begley as our Guest Designer for the month of April. Colleen is such a wonderful and talented crafter. Do treat yourself to a stroll through her blog where you are sure to be inspired.  

For my card, I found a panel that I had foiled quite some time ago with the Pinkfresh Geo Blocks hot foil plate. Our challenge colors prompted me to open the never before used coordinating stencils and create a card with the foiled panel. I applied a light and darker shade of each of the colors with Distress Oxide Inks working through each layer of the stencil set. I so love how it turned out. I foiled and die cut "happy birthday" also from Pinkfresh, and added a stamped and heat embossed sentiment strip from SSS to go with it. The foiled panel and sentiments are popped up with foam.

Please head over to the Just Us Girls Challenge Blog and check out the wonderful creations by Colleen and the rest of the Design Team. Get crafty with your stencils and join us in the gallery!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies/Stencils/ Hot Foil Plates	Simon Says Stamp Simple Sentiments 02 Pinkfresh Studio Fancy Script Words Hot Foil Plates & Dies Pinkfresh Studio Geo Blocks Hot Foil Plate & Stencils
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Hammermill Premium Color Copy Cover
Ink	Distress Oxide Inks - Shaded Lilac, Wilted Violet, Dried Marigold, Carved Pumpkin, Scattered Straw & Mustard Seed VersaFine Clair Nocturne
Embellishments
Other	WOW Clear Embossing Powder WOW Dual Speed Heat Tool Spellbinders Glimmer Silver Hot Foil Roll Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool Waffle Flower Grip Mat My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press 3M foam tape Black adhesive-backed fun foam

I'm also playing at:

Seize The Birthday- Anything Goes #280 - No Topping

NBUS #61

Pinkfresh Geo Blocks Stencils

Addicted To Stamps & More #465 - Diecut &/or Stencil

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday

Thanks A Bunch

AAA Cards #193

I really wanted to play this challenge and do the twist, and I'm happy that I was able to swoop in a the end and join the festivities. I masked the top and used a three layer stencil from Pretty Pink Posh. I masked again to create the blue stripe with DO ink, then added a cheeky monkey from the MFT stamp and die set of the same name. The sentiment is also from that set. Monkey is colored with Copics and popped up with Dimensionals.

I'm also playing at:

Inspire.Create.Challenges. 

The Sisterhood Of Crafters

Addicted To Stamps And More - Any Occasion

Sending All My Love

I am excited to have some extra time today to play a few challenges. I made this card for the CAS Mix Up June Challenge - Embossed Vellum. I must say that I made many purchases since the quarantine began on March 13, so I decided I had better ink some of them up and justify my expenditures! 

I love this Pinkfresh Studio set - Forever In Our Hearts - that was created to honor the son of Lea Lawson, Marketing Director of Pinkfresh. Baby Lawson died in the NICU. Losing a baby, a child or a pregnancy is excruciating painful, and a kind of loss that is often misunderstood and difficult for other people to acknowledge. I know from experiencing several losses myself, that this is a pain like no other. People don't know what to say, and they often say the stupidest things that only create more sadness and often anger. This set is perfectly beautiful and I am so grateful to Pinkfresh for creating it. In honor of baby Layton, my Mara, Ben and Grace, all of the beautiful little souls who left the world far too early, and those who love them... this one is for you.

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #512 - Clean And Simple

Addicted To Stamps And More #394 - Clean And Simple

Fusion - Butterfly

Moving Along With The Times - Things With Wings

Never Before Used Schtuff #15

Forever In Our Hearts stamps and die

Thanks

Time for a new Challenge at Less Is More! And it's our 9th birthday!!!!! Woo Hoo! Less Is More is definitely responsible for my love of the Clean & Simple genre of card making. I was so afraid of it wasy back then, and one layer cards just terrified me. Fast forward 9 years, and now those things are my prefecrence. I am so glad you were born, LIM. Thanks Chrissie and Mandi for bringing this wonderful challenge into the cardmaking world!

We have a very fun theme for this challenge: Less (tiny and few).

So we are challenging you to think about how small you can go with your images and sentiments, and how few you can use too!

Our awesome sponsor for February is Uniko. Uniko just happens to be celebrating their 8th birthday this month! So lots to celebrate! Go visit the Uniko Store and check out the fabulous new release! 

Bev Brown, lovely owner of Uniko, is our Guest Designer for our dual birthday challenge.

For my card, I used an image from Uniko's Paradise Hummingbird, colored it with SU markers, and stamped it on a 110# Neenah Solar White cardstock. I colored the image with WOS to give it some sparkle, added a sentiment from the same set and embossed the wonky circle from MFT to frame it out.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations and for a chance to win. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple.

To be eligible for showCASe and PRIZE WINNER choices you will need to carefully follow the guidance on our GLOSSARY OF TERMS and our HOW TO PLAY pages. Your design should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non patterned / non textured space. All challenge details are on the Less Is More blog. Good Luck!

I'm also playing at:

Perfectly CAS - One Layer

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Addicted To Stamps and More #374 - CAS

Sparkle This Christmas

Time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS!
Challenge #166 - One Layer 
Barb is our Hostess With The Mostest! 

To make my card, I chose one of the snowflakes from Gina K Designs Mini Wreath Builder Template Stencil and used the very luscious Bo Bunny Rose Gold Glitter Paste to emboss it. I added a sentiment from Happy Little Stampers Let It Snow stamp set.

Please head on over to the ATCAS Challenge Blog, take a look at the wonderful inspiration pieces the Design Team has created for your inspiration, and make something to share in the gallery. Challenge winner will be offered a Guest Designer spot for a future challenge. Happy crafting!

Please remember that this is a CAS challenge. Here is a definition to remind you:

I am also playing at:

CAS Christmas August Challenge - Glitter

Addicted To Stamps And More #354 - CAS

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #54 - Anything Goes

Cupcake Inspiration #476 - Featuring Glitter

STAMPlorations Summer CAS Card Challenge - Anything CAS Goes

One Layer and Stencils

It's time for a new challenge at Less Is More. This time the theme is a one lsyer card using stencils. Just remember that there must be lots of clean white space on your card.

Our wonderful sponsor for the month of August is Funky Fossil Designs. The shop's owner, Sarah Gray, is a wonderful artist and former Desigh Team Member of Less Is More! Check out Sarah's Folksy shop for a wonderful selection of stencils, cards and gifts. Your creative juices are sure to flow. Play with us for a chance to win some fabulous stencils from Sara's store.

For my first card, I masked a rectangle using a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs Marvelous Masks Rectangles. I placed the Simon Says Stamp Circular Lace stencil in the aperture, and sprayed with three shades of pink Color Shine Spray from Heidi Swapp. I then stamped the sentiment from Concord and 9th's Being Classy stamp set in VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

Challenge Entries:

CAS Stencil August 2019 - Sprays

Addicted To Stamps And More #354 - CAS

STAMPlorations Summer CAS Card Challenge - Anything CAS Goes.

For my second card, I stenciled these wonderful crabs with Carta Bella's Crab Crawl stencil using three shades of Distress Oxide ink. I could have sworn I had a sentiment somewhere that said "Im sorry I was crabby". I spent an inordinate amount of time digging through my out of control stash for that stamp to no avail. I thought this sentiment from Ranger Dylusions Quote Bubble set was perfect.

Challenge Entries:

AAA #146 - Made in minutes + optional twist of summer. (Blue crabs are a staple summer food for seafood lovers here in New Jersey!)

Addicted To Stamps And More #354 - CAS

Daring Cardmakers - Splish, splash, splosh

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations and have chance to win. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple.

To be eligible for showCASe and PRIZE WINNER choices you will need to carefully follow the guidance on our GLOSSARY OF TERMS and our HOW TO PLAY pages. Your design should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non patterned / non textured space. All challenge details are on the Less Is More blog. Good Luck!

Put On A Tutu

It's time for a new challenge at Less Is More. We are challenged to make a card or cards with the theme of CAS EMBOSSING - Heat embossing or dry embossing but if using folders it must be less than 1/3 of the card embossed.

Our sponsor is CAS-UAL Fridays Stamps.

For my card, I used CAS-UAL Fridays Tutu set, which I adore. stamped the image with VersaMark, heat embossed it in black, and colored it with various shades of pink. I needed a card of encouragement for a friend, and this was the perfect image and sentiment for her. I die cut my panel with Lawn Fawn Scalloped Rectangle Lawn Cuts, and mounted it on a white card base.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog, See what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations and have chance to win. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple.

To be eligible for showCASe and PRIZE WINNER choices you will need to carefully follow the guidance on our GLOSSARY OF TERMS and our HOW TO PLAY pages. Your design should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non patterned / non textured space. All challenge details are on the Less Is More blog.

I'm also playing at:

Addicted To Stamps And More - Make Your Mark.

The Flower Challenge #32 - Embossed Heat Or Dry.

Little Red Wagon #498 Flower Frenzy