Saturday - how's your weekend shaping up?

Morning readers, 

I've a make to share with you today ....... following a recent request for some masculine birthday cards I realised I've allowed my stock to run down so thought I should run up a couple - this image hadn't been used in a while and the sentiment has plainly never been used before as I had to cut it loose from my sheet of rubber sentiments!

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
• A piece of white card and a piece of designer paper (from Paper Mania's "liquorice sherbet" pad) cut to fit and a piece of black card cut to mat
• Snippets of leftover card in white and black
• On a snippet of white card I stamped my train (from Stampers Anonymous THJ004 "Getting There") using Versafine Clair nocturne and morning mist inks
• After cutting my snippet to size and using a makeup brush, I applied Memento Bahama blue around the outside of my image before matting on to a snippet of black card
• Chapel Road sentiment (from "vertical sentiments" .. NBUS) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 17 - USE NBUS (see below)
2. Just Add Ink - challenge No. 520 - JUST ADD GUYS
3. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 522 - ALL OCCASIONS
4. Creative Knockouts - challenge No. 365 - ANYTHING GOES

 

And now for another card ...

My chalkboard 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
• Card cut to size in black, white and Kraft
• Using a Brilliance pearlescent white (the only white ink I own!) dewdrop and a mini blender I applied ink to the black panel in "chalkboard" style before inking the Crafty Individuals sentiment using the same ink .... elsewhere I stamped the sentiment using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Inkadinkado sentiment stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink, to the insert and envelope
• Inkadinkado snowflake stamped using Versafine onyx black ink before applying Judikins sticky stuff over the image, heat setting and then burnishing silver foil with my fingers - I love the grungey foiling look which I felt went well with the chalkboard technique!

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 427 - CHALKBOARD TECHNIQUE
2. Polkadoodles - challenge No. 35 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 191 - ANYTHING GOES
4. My Time To Craft - challenge No. 439 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Cute Card Thursday - challenge No. 649 - INKY

And an update on baby birds I've been seeing on my walks .... there are two adults and six babies - good to see they all appear to have made it. They're getting so big now, I managed to snag a photo with a number of them in - it's plain to see that the babies are almost as big as the adults though not fully fledged quite yet, one of the parents is in the foreground