Less is More - Mint Chocolate!

Well I'm finally back after quite a few days feeling dreadful! I've even managed a short time in the craft room as I had an idea for the Less is More challenge floating around in my head all the time I was feeling poorly! I have to say though that the finished cards are not quite as they were in my head! I made the green background by inking my acrylic block, spritzing lightly with water then stamping on the card. There were quite a few failed attempts too. My original idea was to make a square background using a smaller block 4 times and overlapping them - didn't work! Watercolour paper was a fail as well. Eventually I got two that I thought would work with the leaves.

 I used Lucky Limeade (retired) for the background and the leaves were stamped with a Memento Brilliance pad. The leaves are from the retired Fabulous Florets stamp set which I bought when it was on the retired list and until now had never been used. So as well as LIM I'm also taking this one over to join in Darnell's NBUS challenge.

Same colours here on the second one but the stamp is from the Kinda Eclectic set. I do love those leaves! It looks as though the panel is not centred vertically, I can assure you it is - it's just my rubbish photography!

Card in a box!

I'm sure you've all seen these very popular cards in a box - they are all over blogland at the moment, so who am I not to join in! I'm actually going to show you the third one I made for one of Roy's colleagues. Apparently she was really impressed with her Christmas card which was black and silver(and according to Roy had red in it as well. I've no idea which one she got as I just gave him an assorted boxful. The only way it might have had red in it would have been Rudolph's nose). So he thought I should do the same for her birthday' even though I'd said she was getting a box card. I like to do the one's he gives at work all very similar, ie same stamp set, that way I know they won't get the same the following year! I had already started on the box cards - made two and prepped two to make at card club this week - but none met his criteria so I set to and made, what will be the last one, but first to be given.

I uses Secret Garden and Fabulous Florets for the flowers. The leaves are from Fabulous Florets and the Sizzlits Little Leaves die. It doesn't really show in the photo but the darker leaves were stamped in black then gone over with a Wink of Stella. The lighter leaves are actually silver shimmer card. The next photo shows the shimmer a bit better.