Saturday 16 July 2011

LIM: Circles!

I can’t believe it’s taken all day to decide on my design for the Less is More challenge this week!!  And this isn’t how it started out! But I think it
works.Smile

Caterpillar Card

This actually started life as a New home card, my plan being to arrange the circles along the bottom of the card with a house image at the end.  However, the more I played with it the more it started to look like a…..caterpillar!  So it morphed and became the card above…well, after the third attempt!! Not gonna bore you with the detail (I screwed up the sentiment first time then made it upside down on the second attempt but don’t tell anyone!!!).

So, this is just a load of circles punched out of the spotty Brights DSP arranged and inked to make them stand out.  I used the facial features from the Make a Monster stamp set from Stampin’ up but had to draw the nose in feehand (apparently monsters  don’t have noses!!).  I then made a grassy fringe out of some stripey DSP paper and nestled the caterpillar into the grass.  Finally I added a sentiment – it was a toss up between “Get Well soon” or “Happy Birthday” but as my eldest pointed out….you get Caterpillar birthday cakes so why not a Caterpillar card.
Hope you like it Smile.

I’m also entering this card in the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday {Going Round in Circles}

 

BFN
Linda
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26 comments:

  1. I had the idea of a caterpillar at one point Linda
    Yours has turned out terrific!
    Thank you
    Diva LIM
    "Less is More"

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  2. great idea, love the papers! x

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  3. Clever you ! What a great idea and very effective love it.

    Marie

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  4. beautiful !! great colours

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  5. It's funny how ideas transmogrify in the course of making cards isn't it!
    It ended up just great!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    Lady LIM
    "Less is More"

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  6. Great idea. Love the colours.
    Sharon x

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  7. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
    Lynne xxx

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  8. Awsome Linda! Love it! :)
    Lizy x

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  9. How cute is this?! Love the caterpillar's little face! Vx

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  10. Super card and such a fun idea too

    Kathyk

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  11. An absolutely brilliant idea - love it!! Thank you for joining in with us on Cute Card Thursday. Lol Lynn ♥

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  12. This is great I love it :-)

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  13. Brilliant card for this challenge. Well done.
    Maureen.......x
    You can view mine here

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  14. Reminds me of that book you read as a kid - was it called the hungry caterpillar? Brilliant card.

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  15. Cute card, I love the idea of a caterpillar made this way.
    Lynn x

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  16. Such a fun card , brought a smile to my face
    Nicky

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  17. Absolutely fantastic, this card drew me straight away to make a comment. Love it.

    Kath x

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  18. Fabulous card and a brilliant idea
    Beryl x

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  19. this is so fun! It really made me smile! Hugs Juls

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