Monday, here comes another week but there (almost) goes January!

Morning readers,

Hope you had a great weekend and managed to stay warm, avoiding frost, ice and fog of last week - tricky wasn't it? Oh and don't get me started on the drizzly rain of yesterday ... there I was, enjoying my morning constitutional and, before I knew it, I was sopping wet!! It was the kind of rain that gets you wet before you realise it. I finally realised it at about the furthest point from home so there was nothing for it but to suck it up and keep walking! When I got home, I peeled off the layers of wet clothing and chucked them all in the wash!

I've a make to share with you today ..... this time specifically made (unusually for me) to fit both a sketch and colour challenge ..

My card

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of navy card, cut to mat
• Using low tack tape I masked off the shape, using the sketch as a "pattern" before taping my Dylusions stencil (DYS34261) over the top and applying inks through the stencil using a makeup brush - Memento rosebud, bamboo leaves and Paris dusk
• After removing the stencil I stamped the Ranger Letter-It sentiment using Versafine Clair twilight ink
• Once everything was totally dry I took my clear glitter gel brush pen (Wink of Stella) and traced over the inked sections, to give it a subtle sparkle which, sadly, does NOT show up in my photo - sorry!

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

1. CAS(E) This Sketch - challenge No. 356 - SKETCH - see below
2. Colour Throwdown - challenge No. 577 - COLOUR CHALLENGE - see below
3. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 491 - WEEK 4 - ALL OCCASIONS (except Christmas!)
4. Seize The Birthday - challenge No. 181 - BIRTHDAY + USE STENCILS
5. Brown Sugar - challenge No. 297 - ANYTHING GOES

  

And another card, made to fit several challenges, check it out

My card

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of neon pink card, cut to mat
• Snippets of card in white and pink - for image panel, sentiment panel/matting and embossed panel
• Generic stitched circle dies to cut my image circle
• Darice floral embossing folder into which I placed one of my snippets of pink card before running through my Big Shot
• Craft Stamper free butterfly image stamped on to my white snippet which I then die cut in to a stitched circle
• CAS-ual Friday sentiment (from WTF!) stamped using a Versafine Clair nocturne ink pad
• Memento rosebud ink used to stamp my "hand stamped by" on the reverse of my card
• Using double sided tape I "glitzed up a strip" but, sadly, I could NOT persuade my foil to stick evenly to the pesky tape, my quickie glue pen had dried up through lack of use so is now nestling in the bin! I used my hot foil pen without any more success before I came up with the idea that glitz could just as easily be glitter as foil ...... so, stardust stickles to the rescue! I also used them to add yet more twinkle to the butterfly

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

1. Freshly Made Sketches - challenge No. 419 - SKETCH - see below
2. Allsorts - challenge No. 556 - TAKE FLIGHT
3. Inskpirational - challenge No. 205 - GLITZ A STRIP
4. Just Us Girls - challenge No. 520 - PHOTO INSPIRATION - see below
5. Sweet Stampin' - January 25th challenge - USE YOUR SCRAPS

 

I also discovered that I was a winner over at the Your Next Stamp challenge blog and would like to thank them for picking my entry as the winner of their $15 gift voucher, it's always so nice to find someone likes your work, isn't it? See below for my prizewinning entry