Monday and we're off and running with another week .....

Morning readers, 

Hope you managed to enjoy your weekend despite not being able to do a whole lot! With the vaccination programme under way thought, I feel like I can see a chink of light at the end of the lockdown 3.0 tunnel! I haven't yet had my initial dose of vaccine but I suspect it can't be much longer before I get "the call"! Can't wait, not that I'll be dashing out and booking vacations or visiting people, come too far to be that irresponsible. Good luck to all of you reading this, with your vaccination too.

I've a make to share with you today ....... and WOWser, I got to use a couple of long neglected wood mounted stamps (image/sentiment and KATHY stamp), some Designer Paper AND some NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff)! Quite the result!

My card

 

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

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, 6" x 6" card and matching sized envelope
• One piece each of white card and CraftHouse "cupcakes" stack, cut to fit along with Black card, to mat
• Snippets of leftover card in white, black and lilac, for my image panel
• Penny Black image (2607K "Friends") and Inkadinkado sentiment (from 99512 "sending wishes" - my NBUS) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour my image
• Elsewhere on my card I used greeting from PSX (F-318) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne and morning mist along with the "Kathy" stamp by name brand

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 23 - USE NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) - in this case the "Birthday Wishes" sentiment stamp - turns out I've only ever inked the Thank You!
2. Love To Craft Challenge Blog - Feb challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Creative Knockouts - challenge No. 387 - FLORA and/or FAUNA
4. Penny Black - February challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) PAPER PIECING
5. Pixie's Crafty Workshop - challenge No. 395 - USE SNIPPETS

And now .... and no surprises here .... a Christmas card!, in perhaps .. not an immediately obvious festive colour but ... I LIKE it and I hope you do too.

My card, the hot pink panel is heavyweight card from stencil packaging

 

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

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, 6" x 6" card and matching envelope
• One piece of hot pink card and one piece of white card, cut to 5½" square
• One piece of 300gsm white card (from paper Mill) cut to just shy of 4" square (couldn't find the appropriate key board shortcut!) and black card cut to mat
• Snippet of paper cut to 2¼" diameter - to use as a mask
• Inkadinkado snowman stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink - I've had this set so long I have no idea what the set is called or its number, sorry.
• Placing my circle mask over my snowman I placed my Memory Box sunray stencil (88505) over the top before applying Memento rosebud ink using a makeup brush
• Clearly Besotted sentiment (Simply Said Christmas) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Imagination Crafts mica paint palette and water brush used to apply a little shimmer for "snow" and the "poinsettia"

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

1. HLS - Feb Stencil Challenge - ANYTHING GOES but must include a stencil
2. Uniko - challenge No. 63 - USE A STENCIL
3. Winter Wonderland - Feb 5th challenge - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
4. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 528 - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
5. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 151 - ANYTHING GOES

This morning, I discovered that I was an Honorary Mention over at the Pammie's Inky Pinkies blog, for their challenge No. 2105 - thanks so much to the Design Team