Less is More Friends

Here is my card for the Less is More Challenge "Friends"

Made from Chocolate Baroque Pretty Poppies set and coloured with Distress Markers.
Short and sweet, got to dash!
Bye
Sandra

Snow!

Just a few pictures of the snow we have had near Abergavenny!
Keep warm
Sandra

Quintiles - Winter Wonderland

The Alpha Tag challenge has finished over on Chocolate Baroque, so we are onto a new challenge for 2013 - Quintiles. These are pieces of artwork measuring 5" square.
The challenge for January is Winter Wonderland.


We make two Quintiles to send off and then receive two back!

My first tile was made by using Distress Stains and water for the background. I stamped the trees (Christmas Flourish) and deer (Damask Reindeer) with "glue" and then  covered with silver leaf.
Added some silver embossing powder and chunky glitter around the edge.

For this tile I made the sky with Aqua Markers - great deal at local craft shop 6 for £3.99, bought 2 packs!
I then added trees from Treescape Clear stamp set. Added some Stickles for a bit of sparkle.

Look forward to receiving my swap,
Sandra

Less is More 101

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and I wish you all a Happy New Year.

 Just time to enter one challenge before getting ready to go back to work tomorrow!

 

The beginning of a new year and the beginning of a new month means one thing at "Less is More" and that is a colour challenge and for this time we have chosen 

BLACK and WHITE 

with a touch or a splash, a hint or suggestion, a dab or a  patch of 

a colour of your choice!

The idea being that the black and white are predominant and the added colour is subtle.

 

For this card I have used the Hat image from Chocolate Baroque's Steampunkery and the Sentiment from Steampunk Travel. I stamped with Versafine and colored in with Distress Markers.

Thanks for looking,

Sandra

Alphatags Y and Z

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and enjoyed a rest.

Here are my last set of tags in the Chocolate Baroque Alphatag Challenge.

 This is Y for Yellow

I used stamps from Bold Blooms set and embossed with WOW Easter Sparkle Embossing Glitter and then blended various shades of yellow DI.


Z for Zeppelin (Prototype!)

 For this tag I used DI to blend a background and used stamps from from Teeny Weeny Meadow for trees and Steampunk Travel for the Airship and sentiment.

I have really enjoyed the Alphatag challenge, it's a shame it has come to an end, but next year we are doing another challenge - Quintiles! These are 5" squares and we will have a theme for each month. Can't wait!

Sorry about the quality of photos - my beloved laptop gave up just before Christmas and I have had to replace it. Windows 8.......................not sure yet, can't find anything!


See you soon and Happy New Year
Sandra

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£150 worth of goodies!
Find out more here

Sandra

Christmas Card Swap

Hi

Over at Chocolate Baroque I am taking part in the Christmas Card swap.

We are each given a name to make a card for and have to send it off - so I can't say who this is for as I don't want to spoil the surprise!

This card was made with the reindeer from the Damask Reindeer set and the trees are from the Treescapes set, part of the new clear stamps.
Black ink is Archival and all others DI. Reindeer coloured with Cosmic Shimmer Mist Ancient Copper and a couple of gems added.

Can't wait for mine!

Sandra