Saturday - Woo Hoo!

Morning readers,

It's the weekend once more and I hope you all have something nice to look forward to. I know one of my pals should be welcoming a new grandchild but I also know a pal visiting a relative in hospital and another seeing a loved one moving away from independent living - sad times, wishing all three the best of luck.

In the meantime, I've hit the ToC (Table of Craftiness) already this morning and here are my two makes .... OK, so the anniversary card was actually made yesterday - I didn't get up QUITE that early!

My card

And a closer view of 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 pearl red (from a DCWV jewel stack), cut to mat
• Crafters Companion tree image (SNOW-ST-CH), and my two sentiments (from MFT CS-82 "Hand lettered Holidays" and Hero Arts CL343) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour image
• Anita's dimensional gloss (applied to the baubles and lights) and Diamond stickles applied to the star

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 392 - SHINE A LIGHT
2. Allsorts - challenge No. 513 - USE YELLOW SOMEWHERE
3. Chrimbo Crackers - challenge No. 181 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
4. Happy Little Stampers - March Christmas challenge - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES + optional (unused) twist of TAGS

 

And an anniversary card, they roll around every year! Can you guess who it's for?

My card

And a closer view of the colour and sparkle

 

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

Materials used:

• White C5, 300gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of red card, cut to mat
• Snippets of card in white, grey and red, for my image panel
• Studio Light image (SL365) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour image, adding just a "hint" of colour to the brickwork
• Anita's dimensional gloss on the word panels within the image and diamond stickles on the hearts
• Red/white polka dot satin ribbon attached using double sided tape
• TCP sentiment (S-5845-CL) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Inside I added the Crafty Impressions sentiment (PICST073 ... it reads "to the one I love") stamped using Versafine Clair tulip red ink

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

1. Aud Sentiments - challenge No. 223 - ANYTHING EXCEPT HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 2nd entry
2. Moving Along With The Times - challenge No. 94 - FOR A MAN
3. Southern Girls - March 21st challenge - SOMEONE SPECIAL
4. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 423 - ANYTHING GOES

The reason for two cards to share today? Well, woke up at the crack (2nd morning running - wonder what's been going past at 06:00 both mornings!!) AND it was positively MURKY out there - nothing for it but to stay in and craft