Monday and the start of another chilly week

Morning folks,

I hear that many places have had more snow over the weekend and I do feel so sorry for the residents in the north eastern states of the U.S. as they've had HUGE amounts of snowfall coming close on the heels of the recent storms and floods and must still be reeling from the effects of those. Stay safe everyone.

I'd also like to welcome another new follower, Lorraine, thanks for stopping by - hope you will be back from time to time too

If you saw my post yesterday you will know that I started a project but kept picking up materials with extended "drying times" and simply ran out of time yesterday ......... here's how it ended up, but I nearly had a very different ending! see further down my post for the alternate card look

Materials used:

• 15cm square 300 gsm, scallop edged white card and matching sized envelope
• 14cm square black card
• 13½cm square white card.
• Stamposaurus radiant stencil and basics modelling paste applied through the stencil using a plastic spatula and set aside to dry
• Hobbycutz 3mm wooden laser cut heart
• Flitter glue brushed liberally over the heart and Sparkle 'n Sprinkle red tomato tinsel glitter sprinkled - set aside to dry
• Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry and Festive Berries "smooshed" on to a craft sheet and spritzed and then sprinkled with Perfect Pearls powder in an opalescent pearl colour.  The whole white panel was then used to "mop up" the D.I./mica from the craft sheet and then set aside to dry

At this point it looked like this ....

Looking good but a bit too bland, huh? At this point I laid it out in card format and thought noooooooooo - it so nearly ended up in the round recycling receptacle but, no, I don't like to admit defeat and carried on - a case of more is more!



This is nearly how it ended up!



Further materials used:

• Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry, Festive Berries, Aged Mahogany and Black Soot, applied using a cosmetic sponge
• Imagine That sentiment stamped on to white card using Versafine onyx black ink and then the panel coloured with aged mahogany ink which was left on the sponge.
• 3D foam pads used to attach the sentiment panel
• Aleene's tacky glue applied to the reverse of the glittered heart

The card was set aside to dry before photographing! Rubbish light so I hope that you can still appreciate the sheen from the mica powders and the twinkle of the tinsel glitter

The above card is going to be entered for the following challenges:

1. Pan Pastels blog where the challenge is "LOVE and ROMANCE" and also
2. Pink Gem Challenge blog where their challenge is "HEARTS/VALENTINE"

Have a great Monday and an even better week - it's half term in some places and nearly half term in others so you COULD be having a very busy or quiet week!