Crafty JC Challenge- Simplicity!

When I saw the theme for this month's challenge at Crafty JC, I was so happy! It was something pretty close to my heart...Simplicity.
Jaya and I both are ardent fans of Susan Rahila ... and both of us have had our styles influence a lot from her...With Susan providing an inspiration on day one I was keen to take part....and out of the blue Jaya called me and asked if I would provide an inspiration for the Challenge...I knew I couldn't say no.
I set aside all my other commitments and jumped to create not one, but two cards....Well, when the brain works, its works!!!

This image is by Jane Beljo. I'd won it a long time back and till today..I've never used it... But as I said, when the brain works....I wanted to make it snazzy as well as CAS...so picked all the glitter elements that I own...Glitter strips, Glitter balls and pixie dust glitter in gold...All Pie Lane products. The flower is popped up on dimensionals.
The sentiment is a Rub-on..a Rak saved up for 3 yrs!!The image was colored with Bic markers in pale lavender and red.
To keep the pixie dust glitter from smearing everywhere...I spray it with a fixative. and then no more glitter dust in odd places!! (The fixative is the Arfina Artist's Fixative for setting Charcoal, pencil sketches)

I wanted to show that CAS doesn't have to be one layered....It can be multi-layered and yet retain that CAS element.
I've matted the main panel on Black CS and popped it on the card with foam tape. For this, I wanted the glitter to be subtle, so use a red line of pixie dust glitter...random sprinkling of glitter balls, and a frame around the main image..with a Sakura 0.25 mm pen.. Sentiment is from Flower Fusion#1 from PTI.

 

So there you have it...my two inspirations for you for Crafty JC's Simplicity challenge. I hope you will give it a try....Thank you Jaya for asking, I'm truly honored!! Big big hugs!! (Babes, Aim for the 20th Nov please)

And for a sweet sweet beginning on this auspicious day, I would love to direct you to the newly created
Pie Lane Blog...and the new Design Team that will be working for them. And yours truly...i.e. me...is one of the DT members...The blog is in its initial stages...We'll get it running in a few days...but today was the best day to announce it....Wishing all of you a very Happy Dusshera and happy beginnings to all...

Something new

If you're reading to my blog in a reader, I would ask you to stop by my blog and see the changes I've made. Actually its not me, its the new design tab on the blogger..Freaking Fantastic if you ask me. I was even able to expand the width of my blogger without delving into the HTML mumbo-jumbo. Love this new feature!!

Also for the first time, I made a blog badge showing my love for Simplicity blog. Susan has inspired me so much, that I changed my whole shopping cart on Frugalities. Instead of ordering tons of tools, I ordered more colors of ink. There is so much that I learned from her..I don't need tons of stuff just because it is available there..but can I make something with what I have? I'm sure I'll continue to learn and grow..

So here's the badge, the quote is by Leonardo Da Vinci. If you want to post it to your side bar, I'm putting the code below it too...

To put this on your side bar, simple open the Design tab, or go to Edit layout.
Click on add a gadget, add HTML/Javascript.
Copy and paste the code into the box.
click save.
Adjust where on your layout where you would like the badge to be.

Here's the code : .

<a href="http://simplicitybylateblossom.blogspot.com/" title="simplicity by expressions2210, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4690343154_63154a7df5_m.jpg" width="125" height="125" alt="simplicity" /></a>

This is my way of saying Thanks to you Susan!
 Big hugs to you across the seven seas!!