Less in threes

It's Saturday so time for a new challenge at Less is More and it's the now "not so" dreaded One Layer week.  I did use to dread this challenge every month but now normally don't give it a second thought - not today though - I've really struggled.  I don't think it's the One Layer that's causing the issue - it's the breadth of opportunity - I always seem to struggle with challenges where you can use almost anything in your stash - I  never know where to start!

So - the result from me today is 4 very random cards - 3 of which I'm not particularly pleased with, and one which I think turned out pretty well.

For my first card I decided to use one of my new  PTI sets - I really like the seed packet.  For this one, my 3 was colours - pistachio, rose bud and peanut brittle momento inks.  It seemed like a good idea but it didn't really work out.

So I tried another PTI set - the harvest berries I've coveted for so long but have only inked up for the first time today.  I decided to use the same rose bud and pistachio inks (the new pistachio is my fave of the new colours) and my 3 this time is 3 multiples of the tripple berry stamps.  I finished with the jumbo birthday sentiment - also from PTI stamped in the rose bud.  I think this time the placement is off!

For this tiny 3 x 3 inch card I really wanted to use my super cute ants from Lawn Fawn - I bought this mini set for these 3 ants - which for anyone who knows me will seem very strange.  I HATE ANTS.  But for some reason, these ones really called out to me so I bought the set.  The problem this time was I wasn't really sure what to do with them - I went for a bit of a pun sentiment which I wrote by hand but it feels a bit meh...

So, I decided to go back to my comfort zone of a nice simple image which I can colour.  I dug out a There She Goes set this time - called Bomb Diggity.   I stamped the girl running with the bomb in the bottom right corner and coloured her with pencils so the colour wouldn't bleed through.  I added another couple of bombs from the set (my 3 element on this card) and added one of the sentiments in between.  I also used just 3 main colours - black, red and brown (you just have to ignore the skin colours and the tiny bits of yellow).

At last, one I think is successful - phew - I could have been sitting here all day and it's really time to do some laundry!

Laters ;-)