Dreamy white, navy blue......

Stamped.and heat embossed in white, Swooshed on some deep blues from various stamp pads, a touch of Faux Bleaching and layered up et voila .

I was going to add a sentiment but decided I liked the simple touch (again!) and just adhered my layers off centre for a bit of drama. The only other addition is a touch of clear glossy accents to the flower petals and leaf for a bit of shine....which hasn't really shown up but it is there....!

Entered into the Less is More Faux Bleaching challenge

Daisy, daisy......

Have you noticed how tiny daisies in the grass are often tinged at the edge of the petals with shades of lilac / purple? I love daisies and have some beauties in the garden at the moment (& a vase or three in the house)! They are one of my favourite flowers for their simplicity and ballet tutu's of petals

I have tried to photograph this card to show the different elements, as it was difficult to see the acetate daisy.......

The happy birthday banner is simply happy birthday stamped a few times in purple on vellum, the front daisy is stamped and heat embossed in white and the back of the vellum is coloured with the same purple, the second daisy (middle one ) is stamped in purple straight onto the vellum and the top daisy is stamped in the same purple directly onto acetate and all were fussy cut (easy Peary with this daisy stamp ). 

The overall effect is different shades of the same papermania purple ink pad

I have used clear pads and a bit of collall all purpose glue as the acetate in particular is difficult to adhere without showing.  Then placed the flowers so that they are slightly off the edge of the card.

Purple is this weeks Less is More challenge

Sun, sea, sand....

And beach huts! After wracking my brain for this at sea challenge.......

I went to my Pink Petticoat digis (which sadly are no longer available) After a lot of cutting and pasting and positioning I came up with a row of sweet beach huts in pastel colours. I decided to add to their focus with a couple of simple embossed lines.

The stamped (young!? Haha) lady is from acid drops and whatnots and I could just picture her strolling back to the huts in the distance...I stamped her in a tan colour and kept her colouring minimal, just a light tan for her body with watercolour pencils and a bit of blue for the bow and hat as I didn't want to detract from the beach huts. The sentiment

This card is for Simply less is more one layer card challenge

Two of a kind..........

First of all apologies if my photos arent too good as I seem to have problem with my device and pictures are strange colours.....!

I love clean and simple lines so by using plain white card, some designer papers (I think these are Echo park but Im not sure - I found this small book of lovely design papers in TK Max!!) and simply using two flower stamps from the same set stamp I white heat embossing them on a pink floral paper and adhered loosely over vellum which has a piece of the same designer paper underneatha couple of simple embossed for a bit of interest and dimension  and finished with a smile sentiment then added a few clear sparkly sequins to add some sparkle and shine to the sentiment.....

entered into Simply Less is More lucky-dip-week-274

Addl

look forward to using more of these papers arent they lovely, perhaps someone recognises them?

One layer......

Not the easiest to do ...strange but true, I always struggle a little to not add a bit more!  And I'm sure I'm not alone.......

And the new challenge from LiM is to include a stem and they are also looking for new Design Team members -exciting, I would love to apply but unfotunately with all the lovely ladies who will apply I dont honestly think I would get through, but mainly I can't always do every week so the commitment needed would be unsustainable.....aaah well. Good  luck to all those who do apply x

I love flower stamps, cards, fresh flowers etc, so was able to easily include a stem or three of flowers and buds by mixing up a few stamps..

Some masking was used for each stamp added and my new platinum embossing powder which is more of a pale and beautifully subtle gold rather than silver.

I fully intended to colour the images in soft peachy colours and subtle shades of green, but once embossed and the  sentiment added I decided to leave well alone and just added a few gold sequins in different sizes in order to show off the embossing in all its glory - Less is sometimes More haha....a little difficult to photograph and show the beautiful platinum colour.......A Simple but hopefully effective card.........I hope you'll agree.

This weeks challenge entry for  Less is More and AAA cards

Hello....

I'm back after a good few weeks, a little late but in time for the Less is More challenge of  white on white..... for their 5th birthday celebration, it's also

my daughter in laws 40th today and our Sapphire Wedding Anniversary....45yrs!  a lot of celebrating!

 I simply die cut and embossed a tag added some white heat embossed fussy cut flowers, buds and leaves in vellum and added a vellum hello...enjoy.

Just a little note.....

To say hello again, it's been a busy couple of months and now I've looked to my favourite card challenge for inspiration. And its a colour challenge of green and blue over at LiM......so here's what I came up with....

I wanted a watercolour effect for this stunning flower, but, I have tried and tried and Im not very good with water colouring, so, I decided to stamp the image with some greenyblue watercolour which I mixed myself (I can manage that heehee!) I then Loosely painted with a small brush over all the image then I used a deep blue ink pad to stamp the image again over the top...I covered part of the image and overstamped in the blue again some leafy outlines to give a hint of foliage. A computer generated sentiment added a bit of dimension.  

Hope you like the effect.....