Simply Less is More Week 4 - 3 Squares

I didn't make a card last night, I did a little colouring on a complex card I'm making ready for a March birthday, but I didn't finish an actual card and I found myself tapping my fingers on the work desk wishing it was Saturday morning as I'm really relishing my Saturday crafting sessions at the minute.  Saturdays bring my favourite two challenges of the week - Kraftin Kimmie whose stamps I adore and I'll be back with my KK card tomorrow, and the new CAS challenges at Simply Less is More which keeps me coming back for more each week and I'm loving it!

So, as soon as my shopping chores were done this morning, it was straight into the craft room, laptop in hand to check out this weeks challenge.  It's a recipe this week - but a very simply one, naturally ;-)  Just 3 squares, no more information, do with them what you will, but remember to KISS!

I had a look in my stamp sets to see what I had, and a had a play with 3 different sized patterned square stamps, as I was really drawn to the card that Mandi made this week, as it was different to my normal linear and symmetrical style.  However, although I liked the actual stamping, try as I might, other than directly copying Mandi's layout, which I didn't want to do, I couldn't arrange my squares in a way that wasn't offensive to my need for symmetry!  Me and asymmetry just don't get on!

So I scrapped it and went back to my more familiar and comfortable linear style......

The stamps are really old clear cling stamps and I think they were from Lakeland when they used to do a separate craft catalogue that is long since gone.  I matted my white squares onto the pearlised black card and drew a white line around to create a border leaving a gap for a sentiment, stamped and then overwritten with the same pen I drew the border as my white ink pad wasn't opaque enough for my liking.  I didn't quite get the sentiment central but decided I could live with it despite the lack of symmetry ;-)  I added a white pearl to each end of the border line and a black pearl to the centre of each stamped image.

You can join in the challenge here - http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-4-recipe-three-squares.html and do have a go - it's such a lot of fun!  I'm looking forward to next week already :-)

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