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Sunday, 29 May 2011

Less is more week 17

 This week Chrissie and Mandi want us to use a receipe, squares with LOTS of white space, something I usually struggle with as I feel a need to fill the space with.... something!  I made this for my husband to give to my lovely Father-in-Law George. My husband is a classic 'less is more' man and usually thinks my cards are too 'fussy' and card making a total waste of good houseworking time but he actually signed this one ready to send LOL.
 I would also like to enter: Play Date Cafe #83 Color splash is black & white with a splash of GREEN,
Pals paper arts 95-cas-elements-of-style-brads
Cards for men #11-no-paper no patterned paper.

That Is 5 challenges in all Chrissie and Mandi, I counted them this week :-)





 
Shadows...
As I had the nesties out anyway I had another go!  I think I prefer this one.  I also took the cards outside as the light in my craft room is SO dim that even Picassa cannot work the magic on these cards, they came out originally with plenty of YELLOW space !! The one below is a reminder that outside means shadows :-)



I used Anita's card blanks, Papermania cardstock, and  nesties, clear and fine gold heat embossing powder, the camera is SU the dragon fly Inkadinkado (stamped again, cut out and fixed using 2mm squares for a bit of dimension, pink pro-marker and pearls from my stash. Papermania embossing folder for the Happy Birthday, first time I have used it, very pleased with it as the sentiments in the set are not connected like on other folders I have. The camera card uses a Cuttlebug 7x5 polka dot embossing folder and Docrafts brads.

As well as a 2nd card for Less is More I would like to enter the dragon fly card for:Allsorts #105-things-with-wings   , I love promarkers #67 pearls, 
Totally papercrafts # 68- ink and girlie
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20 comments:

  1. Kathyk29 May 2011 at 17:33

    SMASHING cards and good luck with your challenges

    Kathyk

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  2. Mandi29 May 2011 at 18:30

    Both are great, I think I prefer the second,it is spot on for our challenge
    Thanks so much
    Diva LIM mandi
    Less is More

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  3. Beryl K29 May 2011 at 21:37

    Beautiful cards, the second one is definitely my favourite
    Beryl x

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  4. Rita29 May 2011 at 22:23

    Lovely cards. Hugs Rita xx

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  5. Fleur29 May 2011 at 22:51

    Beautiful cards. I love the dragonfly.
    Thanks for joining our challenge at ALLSORTS this week, Good Luck
    Hugz Fleur xXx

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  6. Tine29 May 2011 at 23:48

    Hi Donna. Fab 'white space' cards. The pearls make a great dragonfly body & perfect for our challenge this week. I wouldn't complain about shadows when taking your photo outside, LOL, - it is grey, miserable & raining a lot here! Thanks for joining us at I ♥ Promarkers & I hope you can join us next time too.
    Tine :)

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  7. Seafield Jo30 May 2011 at 00:59

    fabulous cards. JO x

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  8. Fiona30 May 2011 at 01:14

    Lovely take on the colour splash Donna :) Great idea to make a masculine card with those colours! Thanks for playing along at the Play Date Cafe :)

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  9. Pauline30 May 2011 at 15:57

    Two wonderful cards, lovely colours on both of them.

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  10. Melanie C30 May 2011 at 18:20

    Two adorable cards! Thank you for playing along with Pals Paper Arts.

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  11. WeirdCat30 May 2011 at 21:39

    Two lovely cards, thank you for joining us at I♥Promarkers this week
    Ruth x

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  12. Chrissie31 May 2011 at 18:01

    These are super... I do prefer the second one, what a lovely image.
    You don't actually need to use squares for your images, merely position your image/images in one of the 5 squares indicated.
    Thanks so much for joining us again.
    Chrissie
    Lady LIM
    "Less is More"

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  13. Jinny Newlin31 May 2011 at 22:53

    Such fun cards! LOVE that camera image and the way the firefly almost appears to glow in the sunlight! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at The Play Date Cafe!

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  14. Susan31 May 2011 at 23:47

    Fabulous cards! LOVE the second one!

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  15. Dolly Daydreams1 June 2011 at 00:24

    Fabulous both of them they are exquisite.

    Marie

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  16. Savannah O'Gwynn1 June 2011 at 05:07

    BEAUTIFUL cards!! LOVE the hint of green on the first:) Thanks so much for playing along with us over at the PDCC and joining in the FUN!

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  17. Michele Gross1 June 2011 at 19:16

    Love the texture and the cool vintage image! Thanks for playing at The Play Date Cafe!

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  18. Vicky Hayes3 June 2011 at 01:04

    Both lovely cards! I think I prefer the second without the textured card front although I love the camera image!

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  19. Anonymous5 June 2011 at 13:02

    Hello -- I just read your comment on the Craftwork Cards blog, and saw that you are English, living outside Toulouse. So am I! Whereabouts are you? I wonder if we live close to each other?
    Greetings to you from me -- Sally
    stampsally@yahoo.fr

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  20. Tussemaja6 June 2011 at 16:27

    Great cards. Love "less is more". Thanks for joining us at Cards for Men - Tussemaja.

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