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Sunday 3 July 2011

LIM22 - Shades of Blue

Hello!


This is my entry for Less is More Week 22 challenge - Shades of Blue.  I chose to use a recent layout from the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, which I had wanted to enter, but ran out of time. Lucky for me, I hadn't even started stamping it, so I could choose to use blue!

My original idea was to use the Night of Navy cardstock as the card base, but then I wondered if navy blue counts as "White Space"?  I decided it wouldn't really look like white space with such a deep colour. So back to white card stock. I hope I have left enough feeling of white space on this card to meet the LIM requirements, I really worked hard to do so, and to keep it simple and "open" feeling.

What I used:
Stamps: PTI Botanical Silhouettes
Paper: (all SU) Whisper White, Night of Navy, Washington Apple
Ink: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue
Other: Silver embossing, rhinestones

I hope you like it. What do you think?

On another note, yesterday I received a blogger award from Sylvie (Gibmiss). Thank-you, Sylvie! It was a lovely surprise!

The 'rules' for accepting the award are to mention the blogger who gave you the award and link it back to their blog and pay it forward to 5 bloggers. So I have chosen the following 5 people:
Manda
Cassandra
Susan
Gay
Jenny

And now I'm off to see if I can squeeze in one or two more cards before the end of the day (depending on how much longer the kids can amuse themselves and I can fend off that vacuuming that desperately needs doing).

Michelle
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18 comments:

  1. Ruth M3 July 2011 at 19:38

    Absolutely lovely - crisp and enough white space to feel open! I think the white card base was a good choice. I used a Night of Navy card and after seeing so many white card bases in the challenge I wish I'd have gone that route!

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  2. Netty3 July 2011 at 20:26

    Terrific card for the LIM challenge, x

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  3. Ang C3 July 2011 at 23:30

    A beautiful card

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  4. Dana3 July 2011 at 23:58

    A very lovely card for the LIM challenge as well as great layout.

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  5. Suzilou4 July 2011 at 01:16

    Really like your stamp and lovely layout :)

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  6. Diane4 July 2011 at 08:11

    Really lovely card! xx

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  7. Jan 4 July 2011 at 16:42

    Fab card xx Jan

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  8. Mandi4 July 2011 at 18:18

    Love this, super flowers!
    Great design
    Thank you very much
    Diva LIM
    "Less is More"

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  9. Debs M5 July 2011 at 02:10

    this lovely, i love the lo too x

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  10. Jenny5 July 2011 at 02:32

    Love the dark blue poppies, they look fab. What a surprise I just spotted my name on the blog award list...thankyou very much Michelle, I will pass it on at some point (I'm a bit naughty, still have two others to pass on yet)
    Jenny x

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  11. Zoechaos5 July 2011 at 04:46

    Very pretty XOXO Zoe

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  12. Hazel5 July 2011 at 06:07

    It's a beautiful card, love the image. Hazel x

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  13. Theresa5 July 2011 at 10:21

    This is just beautiful and the sketch you used really showcases your images.

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  14. Wishcraft5 July 2011 at 20:04

    This is gorgeous! A lovely fresh, clean card :o) Lisa x

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  15. Susan6 July 2011 at 00:32

    Folly, your card is superb!! I love that stamp...(need to get mine out and get it inky! LOL!) Thanks so much for the award...you're so sweet!!
    My Card

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  16. Cynthia Schelzig6 July 2011 at 04:52

    Love the dark blue flowers...very nice card!

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  17. Lynne6 July 2011 at 04:54

    Gorgeous card.
    Lynne xxx

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  18. Angela Weimer9 July 2011 at 07:17

    Such a beautiful card. Thanks for sharing and have a great day. Angela

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Thanks for your comments! You make my day! Michelle.