Less is More #5

Hello everyone
It's Pastel colours this week at Less is More challenge blog (I really look forward to seeing what the new challenge is each Saturday morning).
Most weeks Chrissie and Mandi give us mini tutorials and tips too and this week was using nestabilities dies to create a 'faux' nestie, its a great tip and one I've used on this weeks card, see the blog for more details :)

I've used a Woodware stamp set for the flowers on a rectangle of card which I've then used the faux nestie technique on. Although a bit wiggly I've lengthened the stem of the first flower onto base mat which is embossed with swiss dot folder then mounted onto yellow paper and then the card base.

Thank you to all the ladies who have left comments and have arrived here from the Challenge blog. I too enjoy visiting other participants and gaining inspiration from their cards...which leads me onto my next card (not for this weeks challenge) which came about from seeing this card last week. My nephews birthday is this week and, undecided what to use on his card, after seeing Diane's card I had a light bulb moment and made this.

With a name like Tim, I knew it would work well so thank you Diane for your inspiration.
Thanks for looking .

Beach Art

I've had a cosy productive morning in the craft room as the weather is bitter outside.

This page is for the CCW scrap map Saturday sketch challenge (that's a tongue twister if ever I said one!).
I love the challenge of using a sketch as it sometimes helps me decide on the photos or stash to use and even the colour palette sometimes!

I've used photos of my Daughter making a beach ball out of pebbles and seaweed on the beach whilst on our summer hols a couple of years ago.

The stash is part of a scrapagogo kit from last year.

The clouds are Jillibean soup canvas flowers cut in half (I can't take credit for this idea) and I made a sun from a button and hessian threads.

I have seen lots of LO's with buttons grouped in rows so I thought I would try it under my photos.

Thank you to everyone that leaves me comments, I love reading them and do my best to visit everyones blogs too. Thanks for looking x

Happy Birthday Little Brother

Just a quick post to show you the Birthday card I made for my little brother....he actually stopped being my little bruv in his teens although being a leap year baby he'll only be nine next year!
I have used a digi stamp from Bee Crafty digi downloads and coloured it using promarkers, this is my first venture into digi stamps and have found some good stamps to try out....watch this space.
Thanks for looking and hope you like it too. x