Monday and another week has snuck up on us!

Morning readers,

Hope you all enjoyed a fantabulous weekend .... not sure about you all but I am NOT liking the darker evenings, I feel more inclined to stay in and craft than go out and be sociable - what a grumpy old woman I'm turning in to!?!??!?! That said, we both enjoyed a lovely evening with friends we hadn't seen in a while, this was Saturday, nice meal too.

Still ..... the another result of staying in and crafting is that I have stuff to share with you, like this Artist Trading Coin deploying alcohol markers (makes a change from my polychromos pencils!) and an image that doesn't see ink nearly enough from the fab Acid Drops and What Nots range ....

My Artist Trading Card

Hopefully, you can see the stencil detail a little better in this pic

Materials used:

• Snippets of card in pink and white
• On the white snippet I stamped the Acid Drops & WhatNots image ("Gin and Tonic Diet") using Memento tuxedo black ink
• I used alcohol markers (Copic, ProMarker AND Marvy le plume) to colour both image and background and also to edge the pink matting layer
• Then, using a stencil brush I applied Ranger Archival paradise teal ink through a Dutchdoobadoo stencil (470.715.120 "Triangles") just to add a little more "texture" and interest
• Once assembled I used a white, Sakura gelly roll gel pen, to doodle the border

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

1. Happy Craft Challenge - October challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Jo's Scrap Shack - challenge No. 255 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Pixie's Crafty Workshop - challenge No. 337 - USE SNIPPETS
4. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 90 - ANYTHING GOES
5. The Corrosive Challenge - challenge No. 10 - ANYTHING GOES

And now, a Christmas card using a new stamp set that I was lucky enough to win recently ..... SUCH an adorable image, check him out!

My card

And a larger pic, to show the colouring

  

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 blue card, cut to mat
• Snippets of card in both white and blue - for my image panel
• Sparkle 'n Sprinkle image and sentiment (from "Grumpy Goose") stamped using Memento tuxedo black
• Recollections sentiment (for the insert) stamped using Versafine onyx black ink
• Derwent coloursoft/Prismacolour pencils used to colour
• Stardust stickles

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

1. Allsorts - challenge No. 489 - CHRISTMAS
2. Crafters Castle - challenge No. 10 - ANYTHING GOES + optional twist of CHRISTMAS
3. Colour Crazy - challenge No. 41 - ANYTHING (hand coloured) GOES
4. QKR Stampede - challenge No. 317 - ANYTHING GOES

I was lucky enough to be selected as a TOP 3 over at the Colour Crazy Craft Challenge blog for their recent challenge #38, thanks so much peeps, much appreciated.