Wednesday ... not long till the weekend, if we can just hang in there!

Morning readers, 

Welcome to July! Wonder what will unfold this month, honestly, if you'd told me in February that it would be mid July before my next hair appointment I would hardly have believed you, and yet ....

One of my favourite things to do is to layer up stamps  though it has to be said I generally use Memento dewdrops in dandelion, tangelo and rosebud so today's make is a bit of a departure though it DOES still use tangelo! And here it is ....

My Artist Trading COIN

Materials used:

• Snippets of leftover card in pearlised blue and white
• Nesting dies used to cut my 2½" and 2¼" circles
• Stamps Used: Studiolight SL340 and SL362, Paper Artsy HPXT03
• Inks Used: Memento Bahama blue and tangelo, Ranger Archival cobalt blue, Versafine Clair morning mist and nocturne
• White Signo Uniball gel pen, used to doodle the dotty border on my blue matting layer

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

1. Pixie's Crafty Workshop - challenge No. 381 - USE SNIPPETS
2. Crafty Cardmakers - challenge No. 260 - CREATE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND
3. Ike's World - challenge No. 133 - "R" is for ROUND or DOTS
4. Through The Craft Room Door - June 30th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Arty Divas - challenge No. 25 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for a sympathy card, no crafter LIKES to make them but, frankly, we all use them - I like to make them when I don't actually NEED them and had recently used up a few and, along with selling a couple, found myself needing to build up supplies again. Hopefully, my current stock levels should tide me over for a while.

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 black card, cut to mat with a narrow margin
• PRS feather stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist and splat stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne inks (both from their "DIY" stamp set)
• TCP sentiment (from S.5845-CL) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink

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

1. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 2026 - CAS (Clean And Simple)
2. Dream Valley Challenges - challenge No. 228 - ALL OCCASIONS
3. Tuesday Throwdown - challenge No. 460 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Crafty Sentiments - June 30th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Lemon Shortbread - challenge No. 123 - ANYTHING GOES

I was picked as a TOP5 over at Try It On Tuesday for their masculine challenge - thanks so much peeps, isn't it fab when you realise people like your makes? See my entry below

And, on a roll this week, I was picked as a winner over at the Holly and Ivy Challenge for their challenge No. 74 - see my entry below

 

Regular readers will know that I go out for a daily walk as part of a fitness and weight loss programme. I've often shared photos whilst out for my walk but not for a short while now - time for a quick update though. Since starting my daily walks and changing my eating habits I'm proud to have lost a little over 16kgs - woo hoo! I've also discovered some lovely walks and gotten in to a routine of meeting people doing the same as me .. and even having socially distanced chats as we've progressed from "Morning" through "nice day" to "where you headed this morning" and beyond! It's lovely. I've still a way to go on the weight loss front so I imagine we're about to hit the realm of "so, where do you think you might take your next holiday" soon! And, truthfully, I wonder what the answer might be .... Anyhoo, I've a little slice of history to share with you this morning ... I saw this yesterday, plainly not been in use for a while though.