A Tuesday post from the Purple Princess???? Whatever next!

Morning

Hope you all had a terrific weekend .... we did AND the weather was kind to us ... re-SULT!

And now ... an ATC for your perusal as I managed to squeak in a little crafting yesterday ...

My ATC

And a closer view of the crackle

And a closer view of my shrink plastic image

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippet of black card
• Snippet left over from a recent masterboard using acrylic paints/Stampers Anonymous images
• Shrink plastic on to which I stamped the Stampotique image using Ranger Archival jet black ink and coloured using Sharpie markers before heat shrinking
• Crackle Accents applied to masterboard panel and set aside to dry
• Once dry I rubbed Ranger Archival jet black ink in to the cracks and wiped the excess off using a baby wipe - which gave an altogether grungier feel to the otherwise pretty perky masterboard!
• Having adhered the crackle panel to my black matting layer I doodled a border around the outside using a white gelly roll pen
• Attached my shrink plastic image using Cosmic Shimmer glue before adding the Fiskars sentiment using Ranger Archival jet black ink

 

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. That's Crafty - August 19th challenge - GET CRACKING
2. Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge - challenge No. 224 - SUMMER CAMP - who remembers Wednesday Addams at summer camp dressed like a goth!!!
3. Crafting from the heart - challenge No. 125 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Welove2create - challenge No. 18 - ANYTHING (Mixed Media) GOES .. paint/stamping/shrink plastic/ crackle glaze/ doodling - reckon that qualifies!

Since it was a Bank Holiday yesterday AND (somewhat uncharacteristically) a nice day, the husband and I decided to go out for a drive in the sunshine and take some air and a little exercise

The River Severn, at Shepperdine

Looking south - you can see both Severn crossings here
the upper one is the original and thus the lower one is the newer Second Severn Crossing

What a beautiful day it was - too nice to stay in

And I woke up this morning to see this ... did it get lost at the balloon fiesta!?!?!