Monday, here comes another week!

Morning readers,

Hope you had a great weekend, get up to much? For me, it was dinner with friends and some light crafting. Due to some stormy weather I didn't make it for my usual morning walk so I have some catching up to do ...... wish me luck with that!

I've been commissioned to make 12 cards (birthday/anniversary and Christmas) and this is one of the Christmas cards! A chance to use some patterned paper too

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
• One Piece of white and one of green patterned paper cut to fit
• One piece of green card cut to mat
• Snippets of white and green card, for my image panel
• Recollections tree border stamped using Versafine onyx black ink
• Recollections sentiment stamped using Ranger Archival vermilion ink
• Stardust stickles

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

1. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 460 - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
2. CardzTV - challenge No. 100 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Winter Wonderland - October 4th challenge - MERRY AND BRIGHT
4. Happy Little Stampers - October Christmas challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) TWINKLE
5. Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - October challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) twist STARS

And here's one of the cards made as an anniversary card, for my commission ..

My card

And a closer view which, I hope, shows the sparkle detail

 

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 DCWV (Olde World stack) cut to mat
• Snippet of white card - for my decoupage heart
• Studio112 frame stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink (on the card front, elsewhere I stamped using Versafine onyx black ink)
• Red glitter gel penm pinkish white copic marker and Wink of Stella clear gel glitter brush pen used to add colour to my frame
• Finnabair heart image stamped using Memento rosebud ink, again adding sparkle using the wink of stella brush pen
• Hero Arts sentiment stamped using Versafine onyx black ink
• I fussy cut out the heart (edging again with the rosebud ink, to avoid a harsh white edge) before mounting on dimensional foam squares and attaching to m card front

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

1. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 116 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Corrosive Challenge - challenge No. 10 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Brown Sugar - challenge No. 294 - ANYTHING GOES
4. QKR Stampede - challenge No. 368 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 452 - ANYTHING GOES

I also discovered I was a "favourite" over at Happy Little Stampers, with my entry for their September CAS challenge - thank you so much Kylie and the Design Team, much appreciated