Less is More Take 4!

See, told you I was a WoW convert now ;-)   As I got a new cricut cartridge on Tuesday, I couldn't resist having a little play last night.  As I was just testing it I just used white card and I was really pleased with the shape I cut so I thought it would be rude not to turn it into a 4th card for this weeks LIM challenge, - 4 is definitely a record for me despite my LIM obsession!

The cartridge is called Damask Decor and its one of the new ones Cricut have just released.  I wasn't going to buy any more but I just HAD to have this one, there are so many beautiful intricate shapes you can cut.  This one has 3 layers a the bottom.  All were cut at 2½ inches and layered up and then covered in glossy accents to get a thick covering of glimmer dust on as I wanted an encrusted super-sparkly look.  A bit of script covered vellum from a DCWV stack and s few score lines were all I felt the card needed.  Tried a few sentiments but I felt it spoilt the clean look so I left it without - right choice???

I'm going to try some more designs from this cartridge for my friends wedding invites - I think it will be perfect.

Thanks for stopping by.

Craftilicious x

LIM - Congratulations again

I've been having a play with some new stuff tonight.  There was a little papercraft fair in Sheffield on Sunday and I managed to catch the last hour of it.  I got some essentials (like more cardstock) but a few interesting bits too.  One of which was one of the new marianne d "rolled rose" dies.  I managed the rolling really easily, but the ones I'd seen done all had pearl centers so I assumed they were "bradded" together and I couldn't do it.  I noticed however that one of my blogging mates Lynne had done a card with the same roses today so I asked her for some tips and she obliged with this fabby tutorial - thanks Lynne :-)

So I managed to get my roses to stick together and I decided not to add centres.  The papers are some old handmade papers I had in my stash so IRL the roses are really mottled.  I cute the leaves from the same die set in black, and used a blue metalic rub on to bring the out the veins.  I decided to make it into a final entry for this weeks LIM challenge and found this black congratulations ribbon in my stash and thought that would set off the roses OK.  I think it would have been better on a plain white rather than the pearl cream card though, but hindsight is a lovely thing lol!  Roll on Saturday for the new challenge.....

Night, night, Craftilicious x