Saturday and it's the weekend! Have a good one

Morning readers,

I'm told it was a wet and wild night last night and still blowy this morning .... the weather didn't waken me at all!! It must have been because I'd had a few restless nights in a row - I slept like a log!

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 DCWV textured hot pink card, cut to fit and the leftover snippet used to mat the sentiment/image panel
• Snippet of white card, the width of my card front
• I ran the card front panel through my big shot inside my "swiss dots" embossing folder
• Placing my snippet strip of white card in my MISTI and adding the magnets I stamped my Honey Bee heart (from HBST218) using Ranger Archival vibrant fuchsia ink ..... I had to stamp it several times before I achieved a vibrant result I was happy with .... repeated this process elsewhere on the card and envelope
• TCP sentiment (from S.5845.CL) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• My image panel (once matted on to the hot pink textured card strip) was attached to my dotty card front using dimensional foam tape .... seen below in the photo and which I've had for about 30 years!!! - STILL STICKY
• Stardust stickles to bling up my heart

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 420 - GOING DOTTY .... and, as is so blooming often the case ... I made it photographed it, posted it, entered it and THEN realised it was ONE LAYER WEEK - guess I'll be heading over to delete my entry in a moment!
2. CraftyCatz - challenge No. 507 - SPOTS or STRIPES
3. Alphabet Challenge - May 22nd challenge - "D" is for DRY EMBOSSING
4. QKR Stampede - challenge No. 399 - ANYTHING GOES
5. CardzTV - challenge No. 115 - ANYTHING GOES

And an Artist Trading Card ......

My Artist Trading Card

And a closer view - you may just be able to make out the
three faux crystal gemstones

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of leftover card in linen textured burgundy, white and black
• Penny Black image (from "Allegro") stamped using Distress Oxide antique linen ink .... I used my MISTI to enable me to make three impressions to get the clearest image
• Once my image was dry I assembled my ATC and then added three tiny faux crystal gemstones, to flower centres

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

1. Through The Purple Haze - challenge No. 167 - ANYTHING GOES + optional twist of BLACK AND WHITE
2. Scrapping4Fun - challenge No. 167 - ANIMALS/FLOWERS
3. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 186 - ANYTHING GOES

And another ATC ...... using the same image and ink but .....

My Artist Trading Card - this is the best colour representation but...
the close up below shows the details better

 Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of leftover card in cream and kraft
• On the Kraft snippet I stamped the Penny Black "Allegro" image using Distress Oxide in antique linen ... if you're sensing a bit of a pattern I ONLY have D.O.'s in Antique linen and Candied apple!
• Sprinkling with clear embossing powder and shaking off the excess before heat setting
• Using a Tim Holtz mini blending tool and a foam pad I applied Distress Ink in tea dye working in from the outer edge, leaving a kind of "halo" around the image. I changed to aged mahogany and added a little "warmth" to my background inking.
• Placing my Memory Box stencil (88517) I added more ink from my blending tool (without re-inking) through the stencil, still leaving the area immediately around my imge free
• A quick application of Crafters Companion Spray and Shine, to protect the water based inks

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

1. Moving Along With The Times - challenge No. 118 - FLOWERS
2. Southern Girls - May 14th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Simply Create Too - challenge No. 160 - FLOWERS

OK, so ... it was back to the drawing board on the Simply Less Is More challenge - I've lost count of the number of times I have MISSED the bit about it being ONE LAYER! Seconds out, round two!

My ONE LAYER card!

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 250gs, card and matching sized envelope
• One piece of white card, cut to fit - as my insert
• That Special Touch stencil (Distressed dots) through which I applied Memento rosebud ink using an Aldi Stencil brush
• Clearly Inspired allium image (from LCS100 Brushed flowers) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• HLS sentiment (from doodled flowers) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 420 - GOING DOTTY and ONE LAYER