Friday and the weekend is imminent

Morning readers, 

I've a make to share with you today ....... I was recently asked, by my biggest card buying customer, to make a masculine card .... now - she's seen my standard "go to" images like my Tim Holtz "man with umbrella" and pretty much all of my car and motorbike options so .... it was time to rummage through my not insignificant amount of stash for something she might NOT have seen. I'm sure I have never inked this image so reckoned this might fit the bill + ALWAYS good to give elderly stash an outing. It was the first stamp acquisition I purchased after I started to photograph it, waaaaaaay back in JUNE 2009!

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 mat
• Snippets of card in white, black and Paper Mania designer paper from their "liquorice sherbet" pad
• Paper Artsy image (from Letters - Plate 5, in my collection since 2009 but NBUS!!!) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Uniko sentiment (from Anniversaire decoratif) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist and nocturne inks

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 17 - USE NBUS (see below)
2. The Male Room - challenge No. 141 - 7TH BIRTHDAY
3. Water Cooler Wednesday - challenge No. 286 - ALL ABOUT OCCASIONS
4. The Three Muses - August 26th challenge - LAYERS

 

And now for one of those cards we crafters never WANT to make but I bet we've all had to ...... the dreaded sympathy card - I have several which say "Thinking of you" but was recently asked for a card which didn't use that particular phrase .... so, I thought I should make more, just in case

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 pearl grey card cut to mat with a narrow border
• Scrap of card from which I'd die cut a rectangular aperture, to use as a mask
• With my mask in place I applied Distress Ink in bundled sage and iced spruce, using a makeup brush
• With my mask still in place I added my Memory Box stencil (88517) before applying additional iced spruce ink
• Impression Obsession leaf image (D13816) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• TCP sentiment (from S.5845.CL) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Finally, a quick spray of Crafters Companion "Spray and Shine" to seal the water based inks

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

1. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 140 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 478 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Through The Craft Room Door - August 25th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
4. Crafty Sentiments - August 25th challenge - ANYTHING GOES

I discovered that my monochrome card was a winner over at Cardz4Galz this week - thanks peeps, you're too kind

 

And, on one of the nice days of late ... I nipped down to one of my fave places whilst out walking, and took this snap