A special tribute to co-founder and design team member Angi Barrs!

Hello there! Today we have to bid adieu to co-founder and design team member Angi Barrs, who is stepping down due to her overwhelming schedule. Angi has been instrumental in helping set up LESSology. Though we will miss her here, we know that she needs this time to re-focus her energies on her own well-being.


Here's a look at some of Angi's fun projects...



Please leave a little love for Angi.

LESSology Challenge #14: Creative inspiration of Angi Barrs, Julie Tucker-Wolek and Lynnda Hosni

Check out what design team members Angi Barrs, Julie Tucker-Wolek and Lynnda Hosni created for LESSology Challenge #14: Birds of a feather.

Hi everyone, it's Angi, here sharing my project for our new challenge, Birds of a Feather Flock Together.

I recycled some canvas and made a gift card holder. The outside is decorated with a stamped birdie, patterned paper, a doily, a button, a stick pin, and some Twinery Baker's Twine.

I'll place a gift card and handwritten note on the inside. It's best to hold the inside contents in place with a small wooden clothespin or place it all into an envelope. It's super quick & fun for gift giving. I can't wait to see what you all make for the challenge.

Hi everyone!

I am WAY excited about this challenge! As soon as I saw that we could incorporate a birdcage... I was ALL over that!  I have had a birdcage that I got from an antique store awhile ago - and today I am gonna share what I did with it!!

This is what it looked like when I brought it home from the antique store!

And here is what I made from the above --

I bought a 4x6 inch canvas and painted and hung it from the inside!

I decided to keep the little birdie on here, but added some Prima flowers to her!

I made some paper flowers for the inside bottom of the cage!

Can't wait to see what everyone creates!!!

~~Julie~~

Hello... its Lynnda here...

The moment I saw this...Spontaneously, in my head... I knew I'm going to create this mini for my INSTAX photos...My brother gave me this Fuji INSTAX camera during my summer holiday in Singapore...I only managed to take not more than 10 photos... {HAH, I'm running low with the film!}

I always have these corrugated boxes kept for "just in case" I might need them... {{True enough}}..

For the cover of the Album I used these corrugated pieces...

And for the pages inside ~  I used these packaging...{Yup, I hoard these gorgeous packaging..never know when I might need them!}

So there you go... I have included at least one or more upcycled item on my mini as part of the criteria

Here is the main cover...

...Can you spot the birdcage... and that little birdie...

All pp used in this mini album is from my Lilybee stash...
Most of the embellishments used {my stashes} ...are fussy cuttings from PP and also from stamping....

I can't wait to see how the LESSology Challenge #14 - Birds of a feather inspires YOU! ..

Whoa! Another winning load from the design team! Hope you are inspired to give LESSology Challenge #14: Birds of a feather a go, we would love to see your entries! :)

LESSology Challenge #12: Creative projects of Julie Tucker-Wolek, Mandy Dodd and Angi Barrs!

How are your projects for LESSology Challenge #12: Photo Block Challenge coming along? Need a little creative inspiration? Here are the creative projects of Julie Tucker-Wolek, Mandy Dodd and Angi Barrs! 

I decided to take a different approach to our "photo blocks" challenge :) I had bought a plastic photo cube from the Target dollar spot awhile ago and decided to alter it for this challenge! :) 

Here is the photo cube I started with :):):)

I took the two pieces from the cube and make it into a little shadowbox :) And here is what I made :)

Can't wait to see what you all create for this fun challenge! ~~Julie :)

Hi, its Mandy here (waving)

I called on my dh again and asked him to cut up a couple of bits of wood... I did say I wanted blocks to put photos on.......and I got flat long ones (rolling eyes) so it's easy to see how we all interpret things completely different!  Perhaps I needn't have said about applying photos - as he must have imagined long flat photos! LOL!

Needless to say - after painting them up, sanding the edges - I'm more thrilled than thrilled with my long flat blocks!  (Maybe he knew more about this than I give credit (happy face)!!)

I used two lovely photos of my dd's last weekend frolicking on the beach

Side view of the depth of the blocks

 Decorated bottom with nets, starfish and shells

Top view



I cant wait to see what you interpetation of this 'block' challenge!

(very big smile)

Hi everyone Angi  here with my fun new project this month. I was stumped by this challenge at first, but did a little thinking outside the box.

I made a Hello Kitty Photo block for a friend who is expecting. My friend's brother had some recycled wood lying around and made this wooden block for me. I decorated the front and back with Hello Kitty's "photo" instead of using one of the baby.

I also made a coordinating card to go along with the gift set.

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this fun challenge!

Aren't these just fun ideas? We would love to see your take on LESSology Challenge #12 Photo Block Challenge! Please read our challenge rules to ensure eligibility for our prizes. :)

LESSology Challenge #11: Creative inspiration from Angi Barrs, Mandy Dodd and Julie Tucker-Wolek!

Ready for a second round of inspiration for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy from the design team? 

Happy Wednesday ya'll!  Angi here with a fun project that incorporates wood and canvas. I made a birdie and mini card set for the Flights of Fantasy Challenge.

I got the little wooden birdie from Michael's. I thought about painting it white, but changed my mind because I like the natural wood color. I used a glue dot to add a piece of recycled canvas and a mulberry paper flower to dress it up a bit.



I also made a coordinating mini card with more of the recycled canvas!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this challenge!

Hi its Mandy here with a fun flight of fantasy!!

This takes me back to my childhood making a kite with my Dad.

He was wonderful at making 'stuff' and showing us kids how things worked.

Constructing it pretty much came back from memory ...

One piece of fabric.  I had a piece of yellow fabric

laying around, so I misted it orange!

Two pieces of wood, one longer than the other (depending how big the kite is to be. Mine is 22x16ins) and tie the middle where it criss-crosses with string  The taped area on the wood is where I'll tie the string that we hold onto to fly the kite.

Forgot to take a photo of the fine sting that runs from each point of the wood (rolling eyes) but you can make out its shadow where I've folded over the edges and glue down.

 Stamped all over with some hearts with white paint



Embellished with some white and yellow vintage doilies and buttons with some lemon seambinding and added the tail.

AND IT WORKS!!!

Kite flying is so much fun with the family...

And I'm really looking forward to your ideas too!

Hi everyone!!! :)

For my flights of fantasy challenge, I decided to take a different approach with mine! This being the month of love ;) I went a little romantic on mine!!  I had some older banner pieces and I made a banner full of butterflies! :) 

Can't wait to see what you all create for this fun challenge! :)

Another round of jaw-dropping goodness...Are you blown away by the ideas by our awesome design team? We would love to see your entries for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy!