A Sunday morning post? How unusual?

Morning all,

Yes, it has become a little unusual for me to post on a Sunday of late but ... I've had a pretty creative week and thought I'd slip an extra post in rather than have four or more cards in a post tomorrow!

My card

  

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

Materials used:

• White A2/C6, 250gsm card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of yellow card, cut to mat
• Snippets of card in white and navy, for my image panel
• Image stamped using black ink, including on to a piece of scrap paper which I then cut out and used as a mask before stamping the present and bow
• Pencils used to colour, blending with gamsol and a paper stump
• Sentiment stamped using black ink
• Wink of Stella clear glitter gel pen and stardust stickles used to bling up my make!

Stampendous CLD09 "Seated Elf", Memento tuxedo black ink
Derwent coloursoft pencils, Wink of Stella clear glitter gel pen

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

1. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 383 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
2. Colour Crazy - challenge No. 17 - ANYTHING (hand coloured) GOES
3. Chrimbo Crackers - challenge No. 157 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
4. ABC Christmas Challenge - April challenge - "H" is for HATS or "I" is for ICE - I went with HATS

For my second post today I have a softer feminine make ......

My card

  

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

Materials used:

• White A2/C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of navy card, cut to mat
• Snippets of card in white and navy, for my image panel
• Lavender polka dot organza ribbon
• Butterfly image stamped using blue ink, also on to scrap paper which I then cut out and placed over my image
• Using the lavender ink and a Tim Holtz stencil I sponged over my image panel.
• With the mask still in place I stamped the script image using the same lavender ink, giving a subtle (IMHO) background
• Sentiment stamped using black ink
• Stardust stickles and Mod Podge dimensional gloss used to embellish focal image

THJ009 "Simple Sayings", Tim Holtz THMM103 stamp/stencil, Prima Marketing 545055 script
Memento tuxedo black and lulu lavender + Versafine majestic blue inks

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

1. QKR Stampede - challenge No. 293 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Crafting With Friends - challenge No. 66 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 145 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Seize The Birthday - April 26th challenge - ANYTHING (Birthday) GOES
5. Pixies Crafty Workshop - challenge No. 325 - USE SNIPPETS

And I was lucky enough to be featured in the Top 3 Saturday Shoutout over at Shopping our Stash, with the card below, entered for challenge No 350 "Yo Dude" - thanks so much peeps