LIM Week 59 - Theme: "Masking" and (possibly?) OLW 83: "Inspiration"

Good Morning!

Welcome to Week 59 of Less Is More where this week the technique challenge is "masking."  This challenge has given me fits, but as of last night I'm happy to say there is no more masking melodrama at the Playhouse!  Phew!  This was really getting me down.  For me, masking is it's own form of terror, but making a one-layer card, to boot, is especially diabolic!  Finally, after several attempts, I found an image that made me happy to mask:

(Hmm, I see some wee booger is eating my pansies.)

I'm thinking that I could get by with entering the above card in the One Layer Wednesday Inspiration Challenge, too.  This week is an odd week (#83) hosted by Jennifer and Jennifer has given us a very broad range of inspirations:  "So, the challenge this week is to make a one-layer birthday card inspired by one, some, or all of the following:  Letters, a rainbow, a car, a blue square, a fan, a sweet message, a silly message.  Use your imagination and have some fun!"  I think my card could fit under "letters" or "a sweet message" (I mean, isn't it sweet not to count how many birthdays?) or "a silly message." 

And just because, below is one of my earlier attempts at masking.  I love this DSP from SU with the candies.  I fiddled around quite some time until I was happy with how I layered the image.  "Glad that's done," I said to myself, clapping gleely. 

(Gleely?  I call this TWO: Typing While Old.  Some new words that come out of the ends of my fingers I notice and like; others I dislike and correct or remove.  Sometimes they slip by me and are only enjoyed by readers.  If that happens, feel free to talk about me behind my back.  Just don't come around to my front and do it, thank you.)

About an hour later, while cleaning up the dinner dishes the Less Is More "OLC Rule" popped into my wee brain.  The OLC Rule is "One piece of card folded in half with no additional layers and minimal embellishments, where the image is stamped or printed directly onto the cardstock."  Oops.  But it's cute, nevertheless, and worthy of a blog mention and pic, doncha think?

Edit:  Thanks to Chrissie at LIM, I found out that I have misunderstood how LIM works in one large way.  On the sidebar of their blog there is a list of the monthly rotation schedule.  The glossary at the top of the first page is just general information.  This is the "when what" that you want to know about:

Challenge Monthly Rota

Week 1 Colour

Week 2 One Layer

Week 3 Theme

Week 4 Sketch or Recipe

Week 5 Lucky Dip

So, the below card is perfectly fine for this week's challenge.  Now I just have to go find out what the heck a "Lucky Dip" is ...

 

If you haven't played in either of these challenges before, you should click over and check them out.  They are really fun and always challenging.  Less Is More.  One Layer Wednesday Odd.  One Layer Wednesday Even.

Today I'd like you to join me in welcoming Lisa Brinker of "Paper Creations" as a follower; it is very much appreciated!

Please enjoy ~ and thank you for stopping by! Special thanks to you if you took the time to leave me a comment!

Who's Counting?
Paper:  PTI
Stamps: Sentiment: PTI Birthday Bash;
  Image: Stamps by Judith E-173-HK (Heather)
Ink:  SU Brilliant Blue; Marvy markers

Sweet Shop
Paper:  PTI; SU
Stamps:  SU Sweets for the Sweet
Ink:  Marvy markers, SU Always Artichoke