Saturday - and leap year Saturday at that!

Morning readers,

With storm Jorge due to hit much of the UK this weekend, it's the third consecutive weekend of stormy weather and, as I imagine you are too, I'm soooo over it!! Bring on the sunshine!

I've a make to share with you today ....

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 textured deep red card, cut to mat
• One piece of scrap card with a die cut circle aperture, which I used as a mask
• With my mask in place and using an Aldi stencil brush I applied Memento grey flannel ink before placing my Tim Holtz mini stencil (from set #24) and applying the same ink through the stencil
• After removing the mask I stamped my TCP sentiment (from S.5845-CL) using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Honey Bee heart full of hearts image (from HBST-218) stamped using Versafine Clair tulip red ink
• Stardust stickles to bling up those mini hearts

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 414 - BIG AND SMALL
2. Your Next Stamp - challenge No. 133 - INSIDE AND OUT
3. QKR Stampede - challenge No. 387 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 496 - ALL OCCASION WEEK
5. Water Cooler Wednesday - challenge No. 260 - ALL ABOUT THE OCCASIONS

 

And now for an Artist Trading Card .....

My Artist Trading Card

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in gold, textured hot pink and white
• On the white snippet I overlaid my Tim Holtz Mini Stencil (from set #20) before applying Memento grey flannel ink using an Aldi stencil brush
• Coneflower image (from LCS100 - "Brushed flowers") stamped using Versafine Clair purple delight ink
• PRS sentiment (from "New Day") stamped using Versafine Clair twilight ink
• Stardust stickles used to bling up my ATC

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

1. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 180 - ANYTHING GOES
2. CardzTV - challenge No. 109 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Pixie's Crafty Workshop - challenge No. 372 - USE SNIPPETS
4. Polkadoodles - challenge No. 9 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Southern Girls - February 20th challenge - ANYTHING GOES

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