Party invitation - using a cocktail of stamps!

Am I the only one who was completely stumped by this week's Less is More challenge? The theme is  'cocktail' and Chrissie and Mandi are inviting us to think laterally and use our imaginations... Hmm, I think I'd have needed more sleep for that! I did think of fruit cocktail but since I sold my retired Tart and Tangy set last week I'm running a bit short on fruit! I have had a delivery of scrumptious new stamps though, so I decided to make a cocktail glass out of some of the spare rubber! Come and see the result:

It was quite hard to get a decent photo with all this white space but I hope you can see the general idea! I snipped a simple glass shape out of the rubber, inked it up with Baja Breeze ink, added a bit of River Rock marker for the cocktail inside and stamped it off on scrap paper before stamping onto my card front. Let's have a closer look:

The cocktail stirrer was drawn using the thin end of my River Rock marker and a ruler and I added a glacé cherry cut out with the large hole punch on my cropadile and highlighted with my white gel pen. I stamped the word 'party' and added an exclamation mark and some streamers. these were all from different sets so it turns out I've used a cocktail of stamps as well!

Supplies needed for this card:

Stamps: Party This Way, Perfect Punches, Jolly Jingles wheel (exclamation mark), (cocktail glass cut out of spare rubber)

Ink: Baja Breeze, Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, River Rock

Card stock: Whisper White

Other: Stamp-a-majig, cropadile hole punch, white gel pen, River Rock marker

You can buy any of these supplies from me and I can have them delivered to your address in the UK. Just send me an email or give me a call on 01280 820593. 

I hope you're having a lovely weekend. I'm being tormented by the fair which has come to Buckingham today! My oldest son, who had loftily told the others he wasn't going as it was "a total waste of money", crumbled under peer pressure and has just set off with a group of friends. He was followed by my daughter with a separate group of friends and I'm sure they'll be studiously ignoring each other for the next couple of hours! My youngest son got to spend some time there this afternoon with his friends while their mums and I had a more much civilised time in a café!

I'm curious to see what you've all come up with for today's LiM challenge so I'll be popping over to see you soon.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,