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At Less is More this week #42 it's time for another theme which is 

Silhouettes

 n. A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a basically featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black.

I tried this with a black card base but although it had plenty of 'white space' which was of course actually 'black space' it just didn't look right..... sorry Chrissie & Mandi !! I will be back with another one soon.....

I used: SU image, Craft creations DP, Sakura starlite pen (absolutly LOVING this new toy), black cardstock from stash, nestie and a Gina K sentiment from a set to match nestie fancy labels.

I would also like to enter:Party time tuesdays PTT#43 Snow us what you got (Snowflake DP)

Sundays with Chissy #23-christmas - non traditional Colours (Blue & Black)

 

3 French Hens

I made this card with the Penny Black Saturday blog in mind but was 22 mins too late to upload it..but I will enter Pennyblack at Allsorts November -All creatures great and small  (my camera battery was flat!) This lovely stamp is actually a birthday stamp and has 4 hens and a birthday cake but a bit of masking and cutting out and embossing and extra present instead of the birthday cake and Volia! a christmas card is born LOL.  I am very into chicken stamps at the moment as I am still in the honeymoon period with my three 'girls'  actually one is a White Sussex and I was getting pretty fed up that she had stopped laying since moving them to the poly tunnel for the winter....until I went to put some tools away and discovered 8 white eggs laid in the corner behind the tool rack! 
I would like to enter:Sweet stop sketches #sss134-November  I reveresed the sketch
Really Reasonable ribbon.#36 cas christmas ribbon RRR36  using the fab gold mesh ribbon
Ribbon carousel # 29 sketch  which I turned over
Christmas crafting #5twelve days of christmas
Crimbo-crackers Callenge #2 Make it sparkle!
Creatalicious challenges - for Christmas and make sure it sparkles.I just LOVE sparkle, I have been making christmas cards and using glitter all year!
I used: Image: new Penny Black 'Cluck Cluck Cluck' stamp, Promarkers,Nesties & Marianne star dies, SU punches, beautiful gold mesh ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, card and dp from stash, gold embossing powder on the presents.

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