Saturday and some challenge makes to share ...

Morning readers, 

Welcome to August, hope it's better than March - July! Looked out this morning and, to the front of the house it's grey and looks like rain ... to the back of the house? Blue skies - WTFrack! I'm going out the back way today!

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

My card

And a closer view of the inked circles around my flowers

 

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
• Craft Stamper free image (from pre 2015) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Hand made circle stencil placed over each of the flowers and, using a makeup brush, Memento ink applied evenly using Dandelion, tangelo and rosebud inks
• Creative Expressions sentiment (from "Urban beats") stamped using Versafine Clair charming pink ink
• Stardust stickles applied to the flower centres

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 425 - SUMMER FLOWERS
2. CASE This Sketch - challenge No. 383 - SKETCH - see below
3. CAS on Friday - challenge No. 185 - SUMMER (I went with summery colours and flowers)
4. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 476 - ANYTHING GOES

 

And an experiment using the basic idea of retiform ....... just without all the little  images within my inked shapes - instead opting for just one silhouette image - hope you like it.

My card

And a closer view of the retiform inking

 

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 lime card, cut to mat
• Snippets of leftover card in the white and textured lime
• Using a makeup brush I applied Memento pear tart to the white snippet
• Using a snippet of leftover card I laid down a grid and applied Memento bamboo leaves
• Sunshine Designs wheat ear (CPSD078D) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Imagine That sentiment (from Mix and Match) stamped on to a white snippet using Versafine Clair morning mist and shady lane inks ... I cut the sentiment panel in to a banner shape before matting on to a lime snippet and attaching to my card using dimensional foam tape
• Stardust stickles to highlight the wheat ear

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

1. Little Red Wagon - challenge No. 560 - GIVE US YOUR BACKGROUND
2. Watercooler Wednesday - challenge No. 282 - ANYTHING GOES
3. CardzTV - challenge No. 120 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Polkadoodles - challenge No. 31 - ANYTHING GOES