A Christmas Bauble

Hellooo ... back again!! Sorry for the neglected blogging and commenting, things are kind of busy around here but that's probably the case for most of us at the moment.

I wanted to play along with the second challenge at Addicted to CAS which is 'Bauble' this time round and I've left it until now to join in so I could play with my new Avery Elle stamp set 'Merry and Bright' which are the latest American stamp company available to buy here in the UK at Make the Day Special.

I love all those fonts together, it just had to be stamped in red... don't ask me why, it just said red to me Lol. To add some interest to the base card I used the dotted and solid line in the set with versamark to make a tone on tone candy stripe effect.
Can you see that sparkle?? trust me, it's better in real life. I added Hero Arts fine glitter to the un-coloured 'Merry' with a Quickie glue pen, a big intake of breath and steady hand!!! ..... I did remember to exhale before the glitter came out but it still got everywhere!!! Lol :0)

Well we are off this weekend to bring our girlie back home for Christmas, it'll be lovely and strange to have her back in the nest again and I'm hoping she'll be trying out some of her new found cooking skills for us too *wink*  James is looking forward to the influx of washing as well as having his big (little) sis home :0)
It'll be a fab Christmas when I finally get organised.... I'm hopeless! it's not like I didn't see it coming *shakes head and rolls eyes*

Jenny x

Stamps: Merry and Bright - Avery Elle
Ink: Cherry Cobbler - Stampin Up

Christmas Greenery

In the history of Less is More this has to be the second time I have put a card in the gallery so early on a Saturday morning!! It just so happens that the card I made for my blog post at Make the Day Special fits the RED & GREEN colour theme this week..... yay :0)

I've put this photo first because it shows the glittery berries amongst the greenery.... glitter is a bit camera shy as you can see from the whole card shot....

I've used two Paper Smooches sets for this card... the leaves and berries are from 'Reflections' and the sentiment is from 'All Yule Need'. To make the berries shimmer I used versamark and then Stamp n Bond embossing powder to make the glitter dust stick!!
I will also tell you that the air turned blue for a minute or two whilst I tried to tie that bow on my Bow Easy.... I thought seam binding was supposed to be a dream make bows from!! ...I've decided that finger nails are an advantage, still, got there in the end :0)

I see that Dynamic Duos has this festive colour palette this week too so I'll pop my card in the gallery there too :0)

While I'm here I wanted to let you know that Avery Elle stamps are the latest American brand stamps available from Make the Day Special here in the UK, you can find them here. There are also re-stocks of Lawn Fawn on their way and the December release Paper Smooches will be in next week too.
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Thanks for looking :0)
Jenny x