Less Is More - Shades of Grey Challenge

For some reason a wedding/anniversary type card immediately popped into my brain when I saw this challenge at Less Is More.

I used 3 different shades of grey for the scallop border and decided that silver was a good addition too; it not only edges the scallops, but is also on the cake polka dots, ribbon and mat edge as well as the circles behind the image.

I think you can see the shimmer a bit better in this shot.

Thanks for taking a peek at my creation!

Clean & Simple

I occasionally participate in some CAS challenges on various blogs.  I made this card for a couple of them, Less Is More: Paper Piercing and CASual Fridays: Hi Ho Silver.

 I've had this stamp for ages but have hardly used it.  Isn't she pretty though?  I stamped her on a separate piece of cardstock and then took some silver Distress Stain and ran it around the edge.  I added a little somethin'-somethin' to her hair by poking little holes following her wavy locks.

Now I just need to find somebody who's getting hitched to send it to...

Showered With Love

When I made my Greetings from Seattle card a few days ago I rediscovered a stamp set that I had forgotten about.  The umbrella die came with a stamp set featuring some rain-ish images and quotes (very Seattle-esque, yes?).  With Valentines Day on the horizon, and attempting to get away from lavendars, pinks and reds, I made a little love card.  This would also be great for a baby or wedding shower so I'll either send it on its way to one of my favorite valentines or keep it in my stash.  ;)

My sewing machine is in a different room and it's kind of a hassle to haul it out.  One of my favorite little tricks is to use one of those sewing tracing wheel thingies to make stitch-like edges around cards.  For this one I added a few lines under the clouds as well to look like rain (use your imagination!)  :)

I haven't decided if this card is a little TOO clean and simple or if I like it as is.  Feel free to weigh in with your thoughts.

My next card is very Valentines-ish with those very colors that I avoided in the card above.  ;)  I made this to combine two challenges:  CASual Fridays - Make Your Mark and Stampotique - Love.  I wanted to do something different with the marker challenge so that was a little tricky for me but I'm a happy camper with my experiment - I think it worked.

Now chances are this has already been done but for me it was totally experimental.  I took a square background stamp and colored the top half with Copic R29 and the bottom half with Copic V17 (I had a thing for purple and red combos when I was little).  Next I randomly dripped some Ranger Blending Solution over it and quickly stamped on cardstock.  I freehand drew the hearts and punched out squares.  Pretty cool watercolor effect, doncha' think? 



 Off to make dinner.  The natives are getting restless...