Less is More

 

 

Over at  Less is More

this week's challenge is a song theme

"I do like to be beside the seaside!"

 

 

My camera and I are not getting along this morning...the card base is

WHITE!

 

 

Any how....I stamped this yesterday morning in a rush

 because I still had to chop up a kitchen full of vegies before leaving for the family picnic.

 

In my haste I did not mask off the lighthouse...I just stamped it over the bright sunset sponging

so, the bright colors shone through the white spaces on the lighthouse. 

No time for a do over, so I just used a white prismacolor pencil over

those spaces and now it is softer than the background.

 

If I told you I did this on purpose...because the white of the lighthouse was reflecting the sunset....would you buy it?   LOL

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

 

Here's what I did on the inside:

the supplies I used are:

Memento LUXE ink- Dandelion

Memento LUXE ink- Morocco

Memento Ink- Tuxedo Black

Inkadinkado clear stamps- Coastal

lawn fawn clear stamps - life is good

 

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

'till next time,

Doni

 



Less is More

 

 

I'd like to share a card I made today

using the sketch on the Less is More blog.

 

this is the sketch:

 

 

Here's my card:

 

Sometimes the simple sketches are the most challenging...

I must have looked at every stamp I own and I kept coming back to the cute little guy.

 

I stamped him with Memento tuxedo black ink and colored  him

with Copic Markers...green of  course!

 

Here's the inside:

 

I didn't get the balloon stamp inked very well....

but, all is good because I really like the texture of the paper showing through the balloon.

 

Here's a picture of the stamps I used:

 

Hope you enjoyed my post .

 

Have a great Saturday!

 

'till next time,

Doni

Back to school pencil box

 

 

 

Hello again...this is my second post today!

 

I got in the back to school groove and decided to add a pencil box

to go with the card I made earlier.

Once again I used the Tiddly Inks stamp-Teacher's Helper.

I love being able to make my image any size I want.

 

The tag is a die from Reverse Confetti

and the "for you" is a stamp from the My Favorite Things

stamp set called Tag You're it!

 

I made the box from directions  from Anna Wight.

I had printed these a long time ago (before I discovered Pinterest).

Sorry I can't give you a link to the directions.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

'till next time,

Doni



 



Back To School

 

Tiddly Inks is having a Design Team call.

 

Since school will be starting soon, I thought I'd make my granddaughter

a card to wish her well as she starts her first year in High School.

 

 

I used a 005 Zig Millennium pen to hand letter the little tag.

 

Used Glossy accents on her bright red glasses...it's hard to tell in the picture.

 

I wanted to use the black & white striped paper as a mat , however the

stripes didn't lay right without being mitered.

Mitering is joining the two edges at 45 degree angles to form a 90 degree corner.

 

I cut strips of the black &  white stripe paper adhering( use removeable adhesive) them to

the panel edges ..overlapping them at the corners.

 

 

Lift up the corner of the picture , and with an exacto knife make a diagonal cut ...see the picture above. I put a thin scrap of red paper to show you where to cut.

Throw away what parts you don't need ....you have made a perfect mitered corner!

I hope you try it. It really is easy.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

'till next time,

Doni

 

The cutting edge

 

 

This is my second post for today, so if you're looking f

or watermelons, check out the previous post!

 

This is the inspiration photo for Challenge #6

 

I loved the orange and turquoise together .

I looked and I didn't have any fun summer food dies,

but I did come across this  Stampin' Up windmill die.

 

Here's my card:

 

I so am going to have to get a new camera.

Believe me this background is bright white no yellow  anywhere!

 

Have a great day!

 

till next time,

Doni



Watermelon!

 

 

Did you know that yesterday was National Watermelon Day?

 

I made this card to play in two DTGD (Dare To Get Dirty) challenges over on Splitcoaststampers.

 

The paper weaving reminds me of a fence around a watermelon patch.

This was easy to make. Just emboss kraft cardstock with a wood grain embossing folder, then cut into strips and weave together.  You remember from elementary school...under, over, under,over!

 

Making the little watermelon slice was easy too.

cut a green circle. make rind marks around the edge with black chalk.

Then cut a white circle a little bit smaller and then a red circle a little bit smaller than the white one.

Chalk around the edge of the red circle.

Adhere these three layers together. Then cut in half.

Wa-la.. you've got two watermelon slices ...just add seeds with the brush end of a black marker.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

till next time,

Doni



Less is More

 

 

Today I'm playing along with the Less is More challenge

It's a color challenge:

 

 

My mojo steered me toward a very simple graphic card

you know, sometimes less is more. :)

 



 

now, I'm off to splitcoaststampers where their week long DARE TO GET DIRTY

challenge has started. 

They have given us 7  ...yes I said 7 ..challenges for today.

Wish me luck!

 

Doni

paper smooches

 

 

Good morning!

This week's Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge is a Designer Draft challenge. 

I looked through my paper smooches stamps and was pretty much coming up empty.

Some days the ideas are flowing and some days they aren't!

 

Later I was looking through pinterest ( something I do way too much of!)

and saw this pin:

black and red wool felt applique

 

This bird reminded me of the free digi stamp offered by paper smooches.

 

 And so here's what I came up with:

 

 

and the great thing about digi stamps is that I was able to import this cute bird into Paint Shop Pro and make a smaller mirror image  that I then used on the inside:

 

Here's the supplies I used:

 

 Thanks for stopping by today.

 

till next time,

Doni