Monday and another week begins ..

Morning readers, 

Here's hoping you all had a lovely weekend ... get up to much? After the glorious weather of last week, frankly, it was a bit disappointing at the weekend - dull, grey and intermittently WET! I know I wanted to try my new wellibobs but ..... Fingers crossed for an improvement this week. We did, however, get to visit friends, which was lovely .... just a short walk away from home, a few bevies and another short walk home - even managing to avoid the rain too!

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

My C6 card

The front/back/inside of my C6 card and the front/back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6/A2 card and matching envelope
• Card in white and pearl gold, cut to fit and mat
• Woodware stylised flower and sentiment (both from JGS559) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne and charming pink inks
• Memory Box grid stencil 88517 used to stencil Memento gray flannel lightly around the outer edges and corners using a makeup brush
• Luminarte twinkling H2O's in passion, jasmine and mustard green used to watercolour my stylised blossom

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

1. HLS - June WATERCOLOUR challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 210 - ANYTHING GOES
3. CAS on Friday - challenge No. 207 - FLOWERS
4. CardzTV - challenge No. 103 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Polkadoodles - challenge No. 25 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for a little scrapbooking, I ENJOY the process I just don't think to do it very often so am out of the habit, but ..... we were recently in Stratford on Avon, celebrating an 80th birthday with friends and it felt important to mark the occasion with a layout.

My scrap layout

Hopefully, this shows the gemstones and die cut outlined "Cheers" better

Materials used:

• Costco double sided 300gsm paper (more like card actually but ...)
• Gold pearlised and Black card, for matting and die cutting
• Photos printed off with borders around them
• Computer generated journaling
• MFT numeric dies and the word "Cheers" cut from the pearlised gold card snippets
• Faber Castell "S" thickness pitt pen, to outline the die cut "Cheers"
• Self adhesive crystal gemstones, to seriously bling up the "8" and "0"

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

1. HLS - June DIES challenge - ANYTHING GOES with dies
2. Love To Craft Challenge Blog - June challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Love To Scrap Challenge - challenge No. 146 - NO RULZ