Saturday 15 October 2011

LIM Cocktails

Good morning LIMettes - time for our favourite weekly challenge again - and I'm loving the cocktail theme this week!   It's an appropriate theme as Less is More applies to the art of cocktail making as well as card making - all the great cocktails are the simple ones.

The ladies shared a little game to find out what your cocktail personality is - this is mine:

You Are Made Of Silliness, Pizzazz, and Giddiness


3 parts Silliness
2 parts Pizzazz
1 part Giddiness

And a Splash of Happiness

Finish off with an olive
Blogthings: Our Quizzes Weren't Written By Bored 12 Year Olds


For my card, I have used my brand new stamps from Stamping Bella - her new range of  "Uptown Girls" which are just perfect images for me to make cards for all my girlfriends as we do love a cocktail!  Stamping Bella is a Canadian Company if you've not come across them before with a fabulous range of stamps (not just images for colouring) but I get mine in the UK from Quixotic Paperie and these stamps landed here just this week and I got mine yesterday so the timing of today's challenge is perfect!   

This one is called "Madison has a Margarita" but I decided she'd be having a cosmo so changed the colour of the cocktail appropriately.  She is coloured mostly with copics - I have a new range of colours as there was a really good offer on so I had a little splurge!  I did do a little shading on top with pencils and sansoder.  I added a pink spotted matt which is from a Bo Bunny scrap from my snippets drawer and I used the same to matt the sentiment which comes with the stamp (I know Chrissie already used the same sentiment, but this is destined to be a retirement card for a friend next week so it had to have this sentiment on it!)  The little pink flat back gems were a little freebie with my stamps - Elaine the owner always includes a little something as a thank you which I think is a lovely touch.

Right, time to see what cocktails everyone else has come up with.

Catch you later


24 comments:

  1. This is great! xx Jan

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  2. Fabulous card Tara, another LIMette who's obviously on our wavelength, getting this stamp just at the right moment!
    It's a fabulous card and the sentiment is, of course, perfect!
    Wonderful colouring too!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  3. What a fab image and great colouring. Really nice card :)

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  4. Great stamp and so nicely coloured - sentiment is just right!

    You can view my card here

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  5. Brilliant card Tara!
    Margaret x

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  6. Hola Tara, i think do you need to make a quick trip to Palma, 30oC today:D:D:D.
    Your stamp is fantastic!!!, and the colouring perfect, i love it!
    A hug from Palma

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  7. beautiful coloring and a lovely card

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  8. This is fabulous Tara. Love the image, beautifully coloured as always. The spotty paper really sets it off and the sentiment is perfect.
    If you go to Palma can I come too, I`m freezing today lol.
    Lynne xxx

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  9. great image and sentiment!

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  10. Smashing card - love your colouring

    Kathyk

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  11. Great card and sentiment, colouring is brillant

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  12. Stamping Bella do some of the best images don't they! Terrific
    Thank you
    Mandi LIM

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  13. This is great Tara - I love your colouring and the dotty mat and that sentiment is brilliant! Vx

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  14. Great card and colouring and love the sentiment x

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  15. Great image and a perfect sentiment xx

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  16. Great card Tara, love the image. Carol x

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  17. Brilliant card, love the image and the sentiment
    Beryl x

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  18. Fabulous image a brill colouring, past 5 o'clock now so pass me the G&T.

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  19. Lovely card super image, well done. You can view my card here Maureen........x

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  20. Gorgeous colouring on this pretty image, love the layout and fun sentiment,
    Sandy

    You can view my card here

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  21. Fabulous card, that image is gorgeous and I'm not surprised you just had to get it inky immediately ! Fabby colouring and I do so love that sentiment.
    hugs
    wynneth
    x

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  22. OMGoodness! What a fabulous image!! Cute, cute card!

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