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Challenge Guidelines

Challenge Guidelines

*Ensure your entry is Clean & Simple

*Please link directly to your entry not just to your blog

*Make a link back to this challenge blog in your post

*Please don't link to postings prior to the date of the challenge

*A maximum of 5 challenges may be combined including ours.

*You may enter any challenge several times as long as each submission is with a different creation.

*We encourage you all to visit each other's blogs and leave a comment, it means a lot!

*May we ask for those with 'Word Verification' to turn it off please, as this makes commenting easier and also prevents comments not being left if WV goes unnoticed
Entries failing to follow the challenge guidelines may be deleted.

Glossary of Terms
Clean & Simple
A design of card with clean lines, minimal elements, areas of white space and few or no embellishments.

White Space

An area of the card which has no image, layer or embellishment.

This can be any colour dependent upon the colour of the card blank.

OLC One Layer CardOne piece of card folded in half with no additional layers and minimal embellishments, where the image is stamped or printed directly onto the cardstock.

Monday, 20 May 2013

April Winner

Somewhat late in the day we are announcing our April prize winner.

This has been generously donated by Stephanie from Clearly Besotted stamps

Lots of you have been delighted with her stamps and we have seen them in evidence on lots of your blogs.

So we won't keep you in suspense any longer....

It's

Jan

Love to Craft

Congratulations Jan, (we're sure this will be a very popular choice!)

DO get in touch Jan and we'll arrange for you to receive your prize!

Saturday, 18 May 2013

Week 120 Theme

This week is theme week at Less Is More and we hope you enjoy the choice. We know you will come up with some fabulous creations. We want to see cards with

Cats and/or Dogs

We want to see cards with your favourite pet or both. We know you will all use your imagination. Here are our cards for this week.

Jen

I'm really sorry if I've missed visiting you last week I had a nightmare of a week at work so have only managed one card this week.

After a very busy week at work I managed to put together this little card with a very cute image from Lili Of The Valley. This is one of my favourites. It's simply coloured in with FlexMarkers and mounted on to bright pink card. The ribbon from Stampin Up finishes it off. I even managed not to do any stiching on it!!!

Chrissie
First of all, I was delighted to see that you wouldn't let me get away with a card that was not exactly one layer last week... you've obviously all been well schooled!
Many apologies, but I did want to showcase another of our sponsor's images... I was summoned to look after a little man who had conjunctivitis and couldn't go to Nursery and so being at my daughter's (with my hands full) I didn't have the opportunity to make another!
OK... grovel over!

For this card, I used an image from Rubber Stampede (£1) from the NEC a while back, and made a hugs and kisses panel using some Kaisercraft grunge letters. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches...well mainly! I used the word 'smooches' to make the word 'pooch' by masking the beginning and end of it and then adding the P with a pigment liner pen.

Another simple card using just a few die-cuts and a stamp. The cat and the window are from Memory Box (I think), the sentiment is from Paper Smooches. I cut a cloud shape to use as a mask when sponging the sky, which was layered behind the window. We used to have a cat who would sit for hours like this one!

There are a few more cat and dog cards on my personal blog, I'd love you to pop by to look at them.

We can't wait to see what you come up with!

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