Autumnal Trees

Over at Less is more, the theme is autumn.  I love the autumnal colours, and as the weather changes, my mind turns more to indoor pursuits like crafting.

I've two cards to share - both using an old SU stamp set, three trees.  I bought mine on ebay from the US - I was looking for a nice stamp of tree trunks - and loved the sentiment that came with this set.  Funnily enough elder daughter spent a year in New Hampshire as part of her university course, and had just returned home when I bought it from someone who was living about 10 miles away from her!

In both, I've stuck to a simple design just using the trees and the sentiment from that set.  The trees are cut on a bit of the same card stuck down with a matt to match the ink - possibly the use of the ribbon makes it slightly outside the scope of less is more! But sometimes, as my youngest daughter would agree, you just need a ribbon and a bow to add that final touch!

I did the same sort of thing in green and blues (because I liked the colours and the sentiment) - one of my friends has a birthday next week, and I'm giving her a stash of cards, some of which could be used for a variety of occasions. 

Photographing my cards reminded me, I've still photos from our holiday and our trip to Cornwall to take youngest daughter to Uni still on my camera - whoops, must do something with them!

LIM - Week 87 - Marriage

I've not made cards for ages... but wanted to make a wedding card for one of my colleagues who's getting married soon.  This fitted in with the Less is More challenge Marriage - I'd also been impressed with  Chrissie's white on white in previous challenges, so I thought I'd give it a go:

Although its white on white, the central nestie cutout is coloured slightly using my SU colour sprizter, a liberal application of misted water and some gold radiant rain, so that the white heart and tags show up better.  The tags were printed on the computer (the ink is a sort of gold colour like some of the spritzed background), and are the couples name and the date.

Been a busy summer with no time for crafting - as of Sept eldest daughter gained an MA and is now working as a trainee teacher, and a daughter who is an art student (this is her first week of classes)... so its been busy.