Monday and welcome to another week

Morning readers,

How was your socially isolated weekend? If I'm honest, I saw more of my neighbours yesterday than I have in ages! No, I didn't go visiting ... I went out for my usual walk and bumped in to nine of my neighbours! Had a chat with each one of them (appropriately distanced) in the sunshine, it was really nice - guess I'm missing the social side of my "normal" life more than I had realised. Still, at least we're all safe and well and, right now, that's way more important than being able to go to the pub or coffee shop. Take care readers, take care.

I've a mail art make to share with you today .... If I'm making cards then I usually match the envelope to the card so .. to send out a letter WITHOUT decorating the envelope seems kind of weird, so -

My C5 envelope

And a closer view of the detail

Materials used:

• White C5 envelope
• Full cover post it, cut to 7½ x 5 cm, to use as a mask to cover my address
• With my mask in place I stencilled my TCW stencil (357S) using Memento rosebud ink and my Memory Box stencil (88517) using Memento grey flannel ink
• I used a variety of stamps from the Imagination Crafts set below (12991) and Memento inks in rosebud, tangelo and grey flannel
• Using a circle die cut as a template I drew the circles using a Faber Castell pitt pen and doodled some detail
• Once finished I was able to remove the mask a reveal the address again, to conform with Royal Mail regulations

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

1. Love To Craft Challenge Blog - April challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 184 - ANYTHING GOES
3. The Three Muses - April 22nd challenge - MAIL ART

And, whilst I had my stencils and stencil brushes out .... don't know of any purple and yellow frogs in real life but ..... you just never know!

My Artist Trading Card

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of leftover card in white and also Costco double sided 300gsm card
• Stampendous frog image and sentiment (from SSC1269 "Yoga frogs") stamped using Memento tuxedo black and Versafine Clair morning mist inks
• Stencils: TCW 357S, That's Crafty dinky stencil TC043 and Memory Box grid (88517)
• Inks: Memento grey flannel and dandelion
• Aldi stencil brushes
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils

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

1. Crazy4Challenges - challenge No. 532 - ADD A FROG
2. CraftyCatz - challenge No. 503 - ANYTHING GOES + twist of ADD A SENTIMENT
3. Colour Crazy - challenge No. 16 - ANYTHING (hand coloured) GOES
4. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 469 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for a rather bright card ... following both a sketch and a theme!

My card

Initially, my card looked like this but I noticed the "HAPPY" was at a jaunty angle
Whilst it looked "OKAY" I wasn't happy

 

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

Materials used:

• White 6" square, 250gsm card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of PaperMill Intense red card, cut to mat
• Snippets of card in the white and intense red - for my sentiment "fix" on the card front!
• Stamps used: Hero Arts AC026, Inkylicious "Splodge and Splat 2011", Ranger Letter-It "Birthday"
• Inks used: Memento dandelion, tangelo, lady bug, rosebud and Versafine Clair morning mist

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

1. CASe this Sketch - challenge No. 369 - SKETCH ... see below
2. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 418 - SCRIBBLES, Drips and Splats! - 2nd entry
3. The Corrosive Challenge - challenge No. 4 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Aud Sentiments - challenge No. 249 -  10th Birthday so ADD A BIRTHDAY SENTIMENT
5. Southern Girls - April 16th challenge - ANYTHING GOES