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Less Is More #466 starts today. We are challenged to create a CAS card with a a masculine theme.

To create my card, I inked a portion of the main image from Birch Press Design's No One Like You stamp set with VersaMark ink and I embossed it with WOW Primary Lagoon embossing powder. I stamped one of the sentiments from the set with VersaFine Onyx Black ink, embossed it with WOW clear embossing powder. die cut it with a Lil' Inker stitched circle die, and popped it up among the fishies. Just to give it a little more interest, I die cut the stamped panel with Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangle Dies and popped it up on the card base.

 

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. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple which we define as designs that include large areas of CLEAR AND CLEAN space with NO PATTERN, NO INK and NO TEXTURE See challenge guidelines on the Less Is More Blog.

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With Gratitude

Time Out Challenge #133 is up and running. This time it's a Theme challenge with a twist: use at least 2  EMBELLISHMENTS, with a twist of one layer. Our challenge is sponsored by Birch PressDesign. A winner will be selected from those entries that include the one layer twist. The prize is a $20.00 gift voucher to the Birch Press Design store. Awesome!

Jeanne Jachna, one of the amazing designers for the Birch Press Design blog, is joining us for this challenge. Check out her stunning cards on her personal blog:  A Kept Life

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Andrea. Andrea plays with us often at Time Out,  and we are thrilled to have her as Guest Designer for this challenge.

For my card, I started with a Kraft card base. I used Sponsor Die Stitched Maple Circle Frame to cut the circle/leaf from a panel water colored with Distress Oxide Inks. I cut the leaf from Old Olive cardstock and inlaid it in the negative cut of the circle. I found this gorgeous piece of lace in my ribbon stash, and wrapped it around another piece of Kraft. I popped up the leaf/circle with foam tape on top of the lace, added some sequins and pearls, and heat embossed the sentiment in gold.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenges Blog to see what Jeanne, Andrea and the Design Team have created for your inspiration. Play with us to share your creation, and to have a chance to win a prize from Birch Press Design. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

I'm also playing at:

ATSAM #336 - Anything Goes

Inkspirational #184 - Pop It Up

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Happy Little Stampers April Anything Goes With Dies Challenge

Daring Cardmakers - Bingo (Column 1: Sequins, Stamping, Clean & Simple)