Pinkfresh Studio Folk Art Birds\

Just popping in with a card for a few challenges that caught my eye two of which I’ve never played along with before, so here goes.

I used a fantastic set by Pinkfresh Studios consisting of a glimmer plate, stencil, and die-cut called Folk Art Birds. It really is a beautiful set and so easy to use. The only tricky part is choosing what colours to use. I started by using my Spellbinders glimmer machine to foil the image which looked lovely as it was but I decided on doing a bit of ink blending using the stencils and my tiny weeny Pinkfresh Studio blending brushes to get into all the nooks and crannies with a variety of Distress Oxides. I then used the die-cut plate to cut out all of the pieces and used what was left as a template to re-insert them after I had adhered a million tiny pieces of double-sided foam to the back to give dimension. I find it helps to keep the paper in the dies while adding foam as I’m a messy crafter and tend to lose at least one major piece.

The hardest part is trying to align all of the pieces so using the outline of the dies really helps especially for someone like me who suffers from bloggers blindness and has been known to make a couple of wonky cards.

I’m linking up to the following challenges.

A Cut Above

PinkFresh Studio

The Flower Challenge

Wishing you all a fabulous week filled with good health and plenty of creative fun.

Take care

Marie

Welcome back to another challenge at Less is More. For the next fortnight, we’re not limiting your imagination to any particular theme but we are asking that you keep your cards clean and simple.

Well if you’re anything like me being given free reign with a theme tends to end up with plenty of cards on my desk and not being able to decide which one I like best so I will be sharing two with you today.

Not the best of photo’s but the weather this week in Greece is rubbish rain and misery just in time for Greece’s Easter celebrations !! I used the Tim Holtz die set Robots it’s one of my favourites as you can mix and match the pieces to make your own creation. I partially coloured the base with Distress Ink in Pumice stone added a sentiment sticker from Idea-ology some googly eyes and all done.

Another rubbish photo taken indoors in bad lighting, it was difficult to catch the gold hot foil on this one. I used the Pinkfresh Studios Folk Art birds glimmer plate and stencils which were coloured with Distress Oxides then die cut and popped up with foam and positioned behind the heart aperture. Another sentiment sticker and all done.

We do hope you will join us at Less is More once again my team mates have outdone themselves so lots of lovely inspiration in our gallery.

I’m linking my robot card to Happy Little Stampers for their Anything Goes with Dies Challenge.

It’s Easter here this weekend In Greece my most favourite holiday celebration and usually signals my first swim of the year in The Med. Not this year it’s all rain, rain and more rain plus Mr P has ” man flu ” so we will be staying put and feeling sorry for ourselves and I will be catering to his every whim(not).

Take care

Marie