LIM'in #41

This week's challenge over at Less Is More is to create a one layer card using "Leaves" as the theme of the card.  One layer cards can be so challenging because I keep wanting to add layers of paper!  However, once I complete a one layer card, I always love how it looks because it's just so simple and clean looking.  I love challenges like these because they push me to do something different.  For this card, I just scored a border around the edge of my cardstock and then heat embossed a leaf with some gold embossing powder.  After that was done, I just thought it would make a great Thanksgiving card for someone so I added the sentiment using a rich cocoa ink.

LIM'in #40

I'm back with some challenge cards! I have had zero time lately to participate in the online challenges, but today I managed to find 2 hours to make some cards for a few challenges.  The first card is for Less is More and Cas-ual Fridays.  The Less is More challenge was to use the colors red & orange and the Cas-ual Fridays challenge was over the edge, so something had to hang over the edge of the card.  This was a quick, clean, simple card to make.  Looking forward to doing more challenges on these blogs in the future!

LIM'in (#26)

I figured I would give the Less is More blog challenge another try. This week's challenge was "Feeling Fruity" where you had to use fruit on your card or fruit colors.  As soon as I read the challenge I knew I had to use my apple or pear sets that I got from PTI a few months ago.  I have been wanting to use them on something but haven't yet so this was the perfect opportunity!  Since this is a clean & simple site, you have to keep the embellishments & layers to a minimum and keep a lot of white space.  I like this type of card making, it makes everything seem crisp and clean.  This card didn't take me too much time to make.  I used the rock & roll technique with the apple stamp to give it a little more depth and I couldn't resist using some sparkly fluff on the leaf.  Oh, how I love sparkly fluff.  After that I just stamped the coordinating sentiment and voila!

LIM'in

Here is my take on this week's Less Is More (LIM) challenge.  The challenge was to make a one layer card, which is completely foreign to me!  I was excited to use my Garden Variety stamp set from PTI since I haven't been able to use it yet.  I Copic colored a few of the details on the frame and layered a few of the stamps for the center of the frame.