Minimalist Monday

Welcome to another edition of Minimalist Monday here on the blog honing the less is more design philosophy. 

My final design was inspired by playing along to a few challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #FMS764

Festive Friday Challenge #FFO218 World Cardmaking Day inspo list

Metallic Thread, Rhinestones, patterned paper and decorated  envelope. 

TGIF challenge #TGIF595 to use the Artisan Sketched Garden DSP.

Addicted to CAS to use Circles in your design. 

Color Dare challenge palette #CDC721

Getting inky with the Artisan Sketched Garden DSP, Friendly Foliage stamp set, Cuttlebug Floral Circle embossing folder from my stash, Hydrangea Hue and Peaceful Pine shimmer brushes, rhinestones and unbranded silver twine. 

Love the final designs clean and elegant effect with the Artisan Sketched Garden DSP  - perfect thinking of you card. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Minimalistic Monday

Welcome to another edition of Minimalistic Monday here on the blog - trying to home the less is more philosophy behind clean & simple designs.

My final card design was inspired by playing along to several challenges to get the MOJO flowing:

Clean & Simple Cards for Beginners #saturdaychallenge34 Vases - opted to use the Artisan Sletched Garden DSP for the fun vases. 

Almost Clean & Simple Cards #saturdaychallenge10 Mostly Vellum - added some vellum spigs to behind my vase. 

Krafty Chicks has a CAS challenge this week so perfect for Minimalistic Monday design.

CAS on Friday challenge  Make a Round card #CASF341

CAS colours & sketches colour challenge Misty Moonlight, Pecan Pie & Berry Blast.

Addicted to CAS code word Anniversary - using a Happy Anniversary sentiment from Scenic Coast stamp set.

I’m getting inky with Artisan Sketched Garden DSP, Vellum, Sunset Coast stamp set and from my stash nesting circle dies and sprig punch, metallic gems, Misty Moonlight & Berry Blast blends and Pecan Pie ink with a blending brush.   

It has been a long time since I have tried a round card design - I fussy cut out the floral vase and coloured with Misty Moonlight & Berry Blast blends. I blended some Pecan Pie around the edge and behind the vase for some vintage vibes. Added some sprigs of vellum and a few gold metallic gems. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Snowflakes on Saturday.

Happy Saturday! Today I am sharing a clean and simple (for me) card inspired by a few challenges!  

Addicted to CAS Metallic Challenge - I’ve used metallic silver twine.

Color Dare challenge #681 inspired my palette of blues in Misty Moonlight and Cloud Cover.

Tic Tac Toe challenge #ttyc286 left hand row of Texture created with using layers in my focal image, White colour and Plaid in my Forever Plaid embossing folder. 

I’m getting inky with Delicate Pines stamp set and Elegant Pine snowflakes dies, Forever Plaid embossing folder, Misty Moonlight and Cloud Cover inks and some silver metallic twine and rhinestones for the snowy vibe bling! 

Came together as a very pretty “warmest winter wishes” card

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret

Love, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

WOW Wednesday 🤩

Welcome to another edition of Wow Wednesday - a card design meant to WOW. 

My final card design was also inspired by several challenges I chose to play along with today.

Addicted to CAS for their code word Sweater. #CAS293. Inspired me to pull out my retired Cable Knit embossing folder to lend sweater vibes to my design.

The adorable sketch over at Sunday Stamps blog spot #SSC371 for my 3 Tree layout inspiration.

Festive Friday for their Global Champange Day list of insp. #FF0195. I was inspired by the following prompts: white, metallic thread, sequins, gold foil embossing powder, heat embossing and to do my best to keep my design clean and simple. 

INKspirational word prompt of Seasonal for my Winter tree vibes because with Canadian Thanksgiving behind us the snow will be hot on its Fall tail and Christmas close behind! 

I chose to play with the Pine Tree Trimmings stamp set as I need to prep another card for my upcoming team social next Sunday - I won this stamp set for free from my lovely up-line in exchange for creating at least 5 samples to share with the team for inspiration..

The resulting combo of inspirations resulted in a gorgeous sparkly WOW if I do say myself. Still has lots of clean and simple white space criteria but the sweater embossing gives lots of texture and the gold heat embossing lots of pretty pops of Gold 🤩 My sentiment is from the Greetings from You ephemera with some metallic twine in behind and some gold sequins. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Slimline Sunday

Happy Slimline Sunday!

Today’s card is inspired by the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #CASCS568.

The colour palette of Crushed Curry, Smokey Slate and Basic Black from over at Colour INKspiration #CI195 

And the Addicted to CAS challenge Code word Geometric. 

With the inspirations above in mind I chose to play with the Bee My Valentine stamp set, Builder Bee Punch and the Meant to Bee dies from the Last Chance list.

Love how it came together - it’s such a cute set to play with. Perfect for a Love You sentiment. 

Happy Stampin

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life