Welcome to Friday and the start of the weekend

Morning readers,

Here's hoping you've had a good week. I know I have .... taken a couple of days to visit with friends in Blackpool. We had a lovely time as we always do, thank you so much for your hospitality M&B. The weather could have been better (certainly for travelling) but the company could not! Got to play with the wildlife too ...

 

Lily the Manchester Terrier and Charlie the Bichon Frise

Back to the ToC (that's Table of Craftiness) now though .... and I have an Artist Trading Coin to share with you. I so love their sweet little format. At just 2½" in diameter they are such a great way to use up some of those pesky little snippets we all accumulate. This particular ATCoin utilised three snippets approximately 2¾" square - yee haa! Three down ........ but still a truckload to go!

My Artist Trading Coin - I'm calling this one "SPA DAY" - for obvious reasons!

And a closer view of the colouring and stencilling

Materials used:

• Snippets of card in white and deep purple
• On the white snippet I stamped my Inkadinkado image and sentiment (from set #97728) using Memento tuxedo black ink. I stamped a second time on to full coverage post it paper which I cut out and used as a mask
• With the mask in place, and using a stencil brush, I applied Memento rosebud ink over the panel, then added a Memory Box stencil (#88517 squares) before brushing the same ink through it. 
• Changing the stencil brush and ink (to Memento London fog) I brushed ink through the small circles from Tim Holtz mini stencil set #20
• I coloured my images using copic markers
• Plain and faux stiched circle dies used to cut my 2½" circle and 2¼" circles
• White gelly roll gel pen used to doodle the dots on the deep purple layer

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

1. MooMania - September 5th challenge - CIRCLES (2nd entry)
2. Penny's PaperCrafty - challenge No. 397 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Crafty Creations - challenge No. 374 - ANYTHING GOES
4. The Corrosive Challenge - challenge No. 9 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Dragonfly Dreams - September challenge - ANYTHING GOES

And now for another Christmas card .....

My card

 

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

Materials used:

• Cream A2/C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of cream card (300gsm) cut to fit
• One piece of DCWV pearlised green card, cut to mat
• Snippets of the cream and green + black for my image panel and matting layers
• Gold glitter washi tape
• Crafty Individuals image (CI-141) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink, elsewhere I used the same ink but used Inkadinkado (#122552) for the sentiment
• Colour added using copic markers
• Embellishments added: Wink of Stella clear glitter gel brush pen, Anita's dimensional gloss and stardust stickles

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

1. The Holly and The Ivy - challenge No. 36 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
2. WaterCooler Wednesday -  challenge No. 187 - ALL ABOUT OCCASIONS
3. Creative Moments - challenge No. 152 - ANYTHING GOES (+ optional twist of tag)
4. Addicted to Stamps - challenge No. 166 - CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY
5. Happy Little Stampers - September Christmas challenge - ANYTHING GOES (+ option of tree)

   

And I'm still pondering that graduation card for a (female) teen ...... thinking pink/purple.