Well the weekend is nearly upon us!

Morning,

Had a lovely morning yesterday, catching up with a friend, over coffee - so nice. It's been a while as we've both taken vacations since our last meet - plenty to catch up on! We had to have a second drink!

I seem to be enjoying making ATC's right now and this is another for the themed swap I do with a buddy on the Isle of Skye - I'm so far ahead with that this is the Christmas theme of "ROBINS"!

My ATC

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippet of red card and white card + a further white snippet for the sentiment
• Papermania (from their Honey and hugs Festive Fun set) image and "Seasons" sentiment stamped on to the larger white snippet and "greetings" sentiment on to a smaller snippet of white card using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Marvy le Plume alcohol markers used to colour the image (including the background) and also the smaller sentiment snippet
• Snowflake (from the same set) stamped randomly using Memento Bahama blue ink
• I cut out the separate sentiment and ran it through my Xyron sticker maker to apply adhesive
• Stardust stickles to highlight
• White Tsukineko gelly roll gel pen to doodle border on red matting layer

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

1. CASology - challenge No. 255 - FLY - I'm HOPING this is CAS enough to enter though I'm sure someone on the DT will let me know if it's not
2. Through The Craft Room Door - June 27th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. The Holly and the ivy - challenge No. 9 - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
4. Crafting by Design - June 28th challenge - CHRISTMAS
5. Inky Chicks - challenge No. 85 - CHRISTMAS

And on to another ATC, I just don't seem to be able to stop myself AND I got new stash - always a source of inspiration . . . . have to say I am LOVING this new stamp set - Inspiring edges

My ATC

Materials used

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in black and white
• Distress Ink in fossilised amber .. applied using a Tim Holtz mini blending tool and then again through a TCW stencil
• Creative Expressions "Inspiring Edges" images (4 - sentiment, arrows, splat and dotty border) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• White Tsukineko gelly roll gel pen used to fill in the dots in the "splat" and to draw a border around the white layer
• A quick spritz of Crafters Companion spray and shine, to seal the water based distress ink

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

1. Tuesday Throwdown - challenge No. 349 - Creative borders
2. Crafting from the heart - challenge No. 165 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 1726 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Stampotique - challenge No. 276 - STENCIL IT

And, don't you love it when you order new stash and use most of it almost as soon as it arrives, rather than tucking it in a drawer?

My card

 

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Closer view of the image panel

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of card (one white and one black) cut to 14.2cm x 10cm
• One piece of white card cut to 13.7cm x 9½cm
• Snippets of white and  black card
• Using a Tim Holtz mini blending tool I blended Distress Inks in picked raspberry and carved pumpkin on the white strip of card
• Ditzies Designs numbers image stamped using Memento grey flannel ink
• Creative Expressions images stamped using Adirondack inks: watermelon, sunset orange and purple twilight
• A quick application of Craters Companion spray and shine to seal and protect the waterbased inks
• Happy Little Stampers birthday sentiment stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink

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

1. Try It On Tuesday - 20th June challenge - LETTERS or NUMBERS or BOTH
2. Creative Inspirations - challenge No. 278 - DOTS and/or STRIPES
3. Crafty Galz Corner - challenge No. 129 - ANYTHING GOES