Woohooo! Christmas is nearly here….

….let the craft fairs begin!!  We’re furiously making cards for our first Christmas Craft fair (while furiously making wedding invitations too), hence the lack of a blog presence at the moment, but prepare yourselves….Christmas is here, wooohooo!
So to start with I’ve made a set of 5 cards using one of my favourite colour combos, Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler (stop it, Jenny!!!!)

I’ve used Stampin’ Up’s  Contempo Christmas for the bauble and greeting and the swirl is from Wedding Sweet.  I hope the pictures speak for themselves so I won’t bore you with details :-), just to say that these are 10cmx10cm and cute!!
Here’s a close up of the 3 different designs:

I’m entering this in the Papertake Weekly Challenge this week….rather aptly named ‘First Christmas’.
So…that’s Christmas madness started….back soon with more :-)
BFN
Linda
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Quick and Easy Wedding Invitations

Well…you may know that I love my wedding invitations!  And Stampin’ Up makes it easy to create so stunning designs even for the tentative crafter!

I’ve made this simply by stamping hearts from the I {Heart} Hearts stamp set in Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush on to Whisper White card, and then adding a sentiment from the Wedding Sweet stamping set.
This doesn’t just have to be for weddings though.  I made this in the same colours but with a sentiment from Vintage Vogue this time:
I know…the picture is a bit wonky….but you get the idea.  It doesn’t have to be difficult to be effective!!
Of course, you can get fancy and add a bit of ribbon, or the odd bit of bling, but I’ve made these for the OLC on Less is More!  Can’t believe I’ve left it soo late!  Hopefully I’ll just get my entry in, just before the new challenge tomorrow .
BFN
Linda
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LIM: Some thing with Legs OLC

I love these one layer challenges!  And they really are a challenge!  It takes me ages to figure something out for them but today I settled on using Wedding Wheels stamp set from Stampin’ Up!

Here’s the process I went through and the reason I’m covered in ink!  I started using post-it notes to mask off a square….my masking didn’t work!  I’d left gaps (all be them very slight) in between the post-its so that kinda ruined the effect.
So this is my second attempt.  I made a template using my nesties.  I cut a circle from the front of a 15cm card blank.  I then sandwiched another card in that template and secured it to my desktop with post-its.  This gave me my window to work in.  After stamping the image (using my SAMJ* to position it), I inked the window using Marina Mist, Pacific Blue and Night of Navy, getting darker towards the edges.  (Here’s a quick tip: because I’ve not used Whisper White, by using my SAMJ I could get a clear image by stamping over it several times on some not so smooth card!!!)
So then I removed the template and doodled a line for the tightrope ground (but you have to admit, it does look a bit like a circus act…LOL!).  The ‘Congratulations’ is from the Wedding Sweet stamp set.
So what do you reckon?  I think I’ll try this again with a bit more ground but it definitely sticks to the Less is More look . 


And I’m not the only thing that got inky while making this card.  Annie was left to her own devices…hope it comes off before her show at the school carnival at 2pm!!


I’m also entering this in the following challenges:
Cupcake Craft Challenge { Single Layer }
Papertake Weekly {Anything Goes}
Toptip Tuesday {Wedding or Anniversary}
BFN
Linda
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*Stamp-a-ma-jig, available from Stampin’ Up through me

Latest LIM challenge…

Well it’s an interesting colour challenge on the Less is More challenge this week. 

WHITE ON WHITE

One might say it’s a non-colour challenge!  So…what to rely on…?  Easy!  A chance to use my new embossing folder ‘Vintage Wallpaper’.  And white on white just screams Weddings, of course.  And I lurve weddings!!  So after spending the day playing with wedding invitations, wedding acceptance and wedding congratulation cards at my Open House (I’ll be sharing those over the next couple of days, but thanks girls!  I’ve had a great day), one more won’t hurt!  And here it is:

Quite simply, I’ve trimmed a square of embossed Whisper White with Whisper White ribbon and layered this on to a card blank, leaving the bottom third for my sentiment, from Wedding Sweet from Stampin’ Up!

I’ve added a bit of bling because it is for a wedding, afterall.

Hope you like it .

Thanks for looking and for all your comments over the week.  I love hearing what you think.

BFN
Linda
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Tsk! Can't believe I forgot to link this!!! First time I'd managed to create on the first day of the challenge in a long time and I forget to link it!! Tsk!