Monday and another week begins - can you believe it's February?

Morning readers, 

How was your weekend? Quiet, I expect, like everyone elses! We had a snow warning in effect on Saturday but got nothing .... Sunday, we had snow from early afternoon. It wasn't heavy so it was never going to amount to much but ...... guess the forecasters missed the mark by just a smidge! I'm not sorry, I LOVE to look at snow but moving around in it? Not so much! Gave me an excuse to spend time at the ToC (Table of Craftiness), resulting in three makes on today's blog post ... OK so the first one was made a few days ago (being a commission) ... hope you enjoy looking at them.

I've a make to share with you today ....... it's a commission card and the birthday is now past so it's safe to share here ....

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 Paper Mill post box red card, cut to mat
• KanBan card image stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink (including once on to full coverage post-it which I fussy cut to use as a mask) and "18" from the same set ("Retro cars 18-21") stamped using Versafine Clair tulip red ink
• Dovecraft sentiment (DCSTP106) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• With my mask in place over the car I used makeup brushes to apply Memento London fog ink through the Memory Box (88517) and That's Crafty (tc029) stencils.
• StudioLight  image(from SL363) stamped using Memento London fog ink
• Paper Artsy splatter (from HPXT01) stamped using Memento Paris dusk ink
• After removing the mask I used Faber Castell polychromos pencils to colour my image
• Wink of Stella clear glitter gel brush pen used to trace over the large font of the sentiment - to add bling

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

1. Paper Minutes - challenge No. 676 - FLY AND/OR DRIVE
2. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 2105 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Seize The Birthday - challenge No. 206 - ANYTHING (Birthday) GOES + (optional) VELLUM
4. Colour Crazy - challenge No. 4 - ANYTHING (hand coloured) GOES
5. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 200 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for an Artist Trading Card, such a great way to use up those pesky snippet leftovers! I've seen a few makes recently which have used either the exact same flowers or similar and ... since I had them too, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable excuse to get them inky! I have lots (and LOTS) of stamps and, in fairness, some of them  don't see ink anywhere near enough so any excuse to get them inky works - in my book!

My Artist Trading Card

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of leftover card in chocolate brown and white
• Carabelle image (from SA60118) stamped using Versafine Clair charming pink ink
• Dylusions flower stamped twice on to another snippet of white card, coloured using Faber Castell polychromos pencils and then fussy cut out, once the entire flower and the second just the central section .. which I then attached to the entire flower using Stix2 dimensional foam squares
• Using a makeup brush and a Tim Holtz mini stencil (from set #14) I applied Memento dandelion ink (there was some residual ink on my makeup brush but, actually, I LIKE the way it altered the colour a little.
• Stamplorations sentiment (from Noteworthy) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Once the background was finished I adhered my 3D flower in place

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

1. Pattie's Creations - challenge No. 178 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Fusion Card Challenge- Jan 21st challenge - FLOWERS (see graphic below) I went just with the flower inspiration
3. Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday challenge - Simon Says ANYTHING GOES
4. The House That Stamps Built - challenge No. 2721 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Gem of a Challenge - challenge No. 3 - ANYTHING GOES

And, strangely enough, as mentioned earlier, I have a THIRD make to share today having been unusually productive over the weekend! This one has lots of white space, back in my comfort zone!

My card

 

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

Materials used:

• White, 250gs, 6" x 6" card and matching envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of crushed strawberry textured card (from Textura Select cardstock stack), cut to mat
• Images from Carabelle SA60118 stamped using Versafine Clair charming pink and Purple delight
• TCP sentiment (from S.5845.CL) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink .... a little more subtle than black and makes a nice change!

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

1. Addicted to CAS challenge - challenge No. 190 - PATTERN
2. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 544 - ANY OCCASION
3. Water Cooler Wednesday - challenge No. 306 - ALL ABOUT OCCASIONS
4. Avenue 613 - challenge No. 1 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Dare2BArtzy - January challenge - ANYTHING GOES