1 April 2012

Less is More 61 Lucky Dip

Good morning all my blogging friends, I've been having a play today and have made a card for this week's Less is More Challenge.  Do pop over there and have a look at both Chrissie and Mandi's inspirational cards totally gorgeous....  So this is their challenge this week:-

Being the fifth week of the month we have our "Lucky Dip"
We have chosen a
Picture Inspiration
for you from the fabulous

Design Seeds
It is a wonderful source of colour combinations.
This is just such a gorgeous inspiration picture I love those guys at Design Seeds (well worth a visit).  So on to my card, and here it is:-

 The sentiment reads: Thank you for being my friend
And this is what I did to create my card: I inked up an embossing folder (cArt-Us) with various colours of Versa Colour inks and then ran it through my Cuttlebug.  It was quite pale so I went over the surface area again with the same ink pads to give a bit more colour.  I then used some Stamping Up Champagne Mist which I dipped my finger into the lid and then gentle spread a little of this gorgeous glimmer paint over the surface of the embossed area (sorry you can't see that in these photos...)  I then stamped my greeting (Hero Arts) on to a scrap of paper that I had cut off of a scalloped card and raised this onto 3D pads for dimension.  I finished off the card with some pearls and a flower.  Hope that you like it!

Catch up with some of my LIMette buddies soon!

Until next time...

Happy Crafting


Tina
XXX

19 comments:

  1. This is a pretty one Tina, good to see you again.
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  2. A fabulous card Tina - the Rose embossing is a perfect background for the gorgeous flower.
    Sylvia xx

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  3. Hola Tina, what beautiful card, very delicate, ilove it!, well done Tina.
    An spring hug from Palma

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  4. Lovely pastel colours Tina, a very pretty card. xx

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  5. Awesome - love that embossing folder, makes me want to have it now...
    Monica xxx

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  6. This looks fabulous Tina and I can just imagine how sparkly and gorgeous it looks! Vicky x

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  7. Very nice and soft coloured card!
    Ellen

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  8. Lovely pastels sweetie. Great embossing. Looking forward to seeing you at Ally Pally.

    Hugs
    Cathy
    xxxxx

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  9. Hi Tina, what a fabulous card. Love the embossing, just great!

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  10. Such a pretty card Tina & I love that embossing folder too, darn it yet another thing I NEED now lol :) Viv xx

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  11. I love seeing the result of this technique and you've created a beautifully subtle bkgd here, fabulous deep embossing :0)
    Jenny x

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  12. Lovely embossing and what soft fresh colours
    Anne
    x

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  13. Stunning embossing and your inking is so effective.

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  14. Beautiful card. The embossing is really effective

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  15. This is just gorgeous, thanks for the inspiration of how to use an embossing folder for more than just background. I have had my eye on that folder but resisted so far!
    Linbyx

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  16. Love the subtlety, good to see you Tian
    Thank you very much
    mandi
    "Less is More"

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  17. Such lovely soft colours! Very pretty :)

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  18. Beautiful card Tina. Just perfect for the colour challenge.I love that embossing folder. I see a loan coming on. ha ha.

    Shirley

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  19. Smashing take on the challenge

    Kathyk

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Hi thank you so much for visiting my blog and for leaving me a comment - I appreciated them all so very, very much.

Hugs

Tina