Saturday 19 February 2011

Less is More Week 3 - Spring

I woke up this morning to snow........

....and as my BH is away for the day, this meant one thing to me - a whole day in to play in the craft room!  Woo hoo!!!

I had a look at the new challenges that had been posted in my google-reader and spotted that the new one from Simply Less is More was now live, and as I had such fun making my CAS card for it the other night, I thought I'd play along again.  Especially as this week its a theme - Spring.  Given the snow outside this morning, thinking of spring seemed like a very good idea to me!


I decided to use a flower again, one of my all time favourite stamps that I use time and time again - its just perfect for classy cards for a variety of occasions from birthdays, to get well to sympathy. 

For me, the spring theme led me to "yellow" as spring to me is when the daffodils and crocuses pop their heads out of the icy ground.  Rather than colouring the whole image, to keep it CAS, I decided to highlight a central area, in a circle to hint at the sun which also comes in Spring occasionally, and colour that portion only.  I used just yellow and grey copics to colour the highlighted spot, then double mounted onto two shades of yellow.  Finished with a Elzybels sentiment which I thought was very appropriate to the challenge and I would like to send to sunshine to myself today as well to melt the snow...

You can check out the other entrants here -  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-3-theme-challenge.html

Thanks for stopping by.

Craftilicious
x

23 comments:

  1. I love what you have done highlighting the center is very effective

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  2. Such a brilliant technique, really makes the yellow flwoer pop Just FAB
    Thansk for joingin us again, hope you continue to do so every week
    mandi
    "Less is More"

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  3. I love this spotlighting technique, it adds great impact to a specific section of the card!
    Thanks for joining us, we'll look forward to seeing you next week!
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  4. What a fab card it really does send sunshine and a brill idea to copy, thank you

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  5. What a clever idea and card is lovely
    Margaret x

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  6. a really beautiful spring card :) x

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  7. I love how you've spotlighted just the one flower...very creative!

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  8. Love the spot light technique, such a lovely stamp!

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  9. I think the spotlight technique really works on a Spring card - you're right - it's like sunshine hitting the flowers!! This is a beautiful image. Lovely card.

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  10. This is so effective and it certainly does say sunshine!

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  11. I love the spotlighting too....perfect with this image.

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  12. What a great idea to just colour part of the image

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  13. This is beautiful! I love that panel.

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  14. This is a lovely card, and your use of colour is really effective.

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  15. Terrific card. I love the highlighting and the sunshine colours you`ve used.
    Lynne xxx

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  16. Fab card, Love your sentiment and the colours you have used. Very spring like. ikkis

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  17. Love the card, I think they call that Spot lighting technique?? Tons of snow coming down here in Michigan too, about 6" so and not stopping!!

    Hugs
    Brenda

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  18. What a lovely card, such a log of thought has gone into it. Love the yellow flower.

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  19. Hi me again. Pop over to my blog, I have something for you.
    Lynne xxx

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  20. This is just perfect for the challenge. Love it. x

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  21. The offset stamp and the high lighting of the single flower make for one fabulous card!!

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  22. I like this technique will have to give it a go TFS

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  23. Lovely card. Coloring part of the image is very effective. Sue.x

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