Hello there my friends. Hope you'll excuse any brevity today but it's a busy weekend with loads of house guests and I apologise for the lack of photo staging on some of these photographs but I made the cards in April before I started staging photos and the cards were sent out to the recipients ages ago. Anyway, Less is More is on our theme week and here is our cue card Our fabulous Guest Designer is the talented Lucie from LucieG Cards who was our May winner. Please pop over to see her gorgeous card and leave her some of your wonderful comments. Also, the design team have some fabulous inspiration on the challenge blog HERE and no doubt they will also have a few surprises on their personal blogs too. Right to my cards. Even though it is almost Father's day in the UK, all my cards are for females! 1) Best Sister These flowers look so feminine in pinks - I love them. Here I've used the outer part of a die cut rectangle to make a frame for the stamping. The flowers were masked to add a little bit of inky blending around the flowers. This one is for: Addicted to Stamps Challenge #150 - Flowers City Crafter Challenge #366 - Frame it Fashionable Stamping #124 - make it feminine Through the Purple Haze #127 - Pink STAMPS: AlteNew Garden Treasure stamp set DIE: MFT Inside out stitch rectangles INKS: Versacolor 33 pink, Distress inks in spun sugar, worn lipstick, tumbled glass, shabby shutters and peeled paint, Memento Ink in tuxedo black OTHER: White linen card, 3D foam pads, 2, 3 and 4) Extra Special This is a group of cards that I sent out to people as a 'just because I miss you'. Again, simple stamping and a die cut rectangle is all that was needed but I think they look rather elegant. This orange one is for Creative Knockouts Challenge #198 - Anything Goes Inspiration Destination #130 - Anything Goes This purple one is for Creative Moments #120 - Anything Goes (with option of flag day - which I didn't do) Crafty Addicts #37 - Anything goes with the option of using die cuts These ones are for: Addicted to Stamps and More #246 - Anything Goes Stampotique Designers Challenge SDC275 - Flowers STAMPS: AlteNew Extra Special stamp set DIE: MFT Inside out stitch rectangles INKS: Distress inks in spun sugar, worn lipstick, tumbled glass, shabby shutters, peeled paint, squeezed lemonade, mustard seed, shaded violet and wilted violet. Memento Ink in tuxedo black OTHER: White linen card, 3D foam pads, star dust Stickles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's it from me for this week. Thank you so much for popping by. Hope you will get the chance to join us this week. See you again soon! Hugs, Sharon xx