Last Monday in August!

Morning readers, 

Well, where DID August go? Was it a good month for you? Hope you are all enjoying your Bank Holiday weekend ..... by the time I post again, it will be September! Best get a wiggle on with the Christmas cards and tags and think about gifts I plan to buy and who I plan to buy for! Too early? Not sure, seems to take longer to think of ideas for people as you get older ... what DO you get for the people who've got everything? 

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

My Artist Trading Card - 3½" x 2½"

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of leftover card in white, textured mid blue and dark blue
• Using a makeup brush I applied Memento Bahama blue lightly over the entire panel of white
• I stamped my main Woodware image (from FRS834 - "Marks" - NBUS) using Memento gray flannel ink and the dotty edge image (from the same NBUS set) using Memento Paris dusk
• Woodware sentiment (from JGCL560) stamped using Versafine Clair twilight ink
• Woodware floral image (from the FRS834 set but not NBUS) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 29 - USE NBUS
2. Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. The House That Stamps Built - challenge No. 2521 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Gem of a Challenge - challenge No. 18 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 164 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for another card ....... A ONE LAYER CARD - these used to fill me with dread and sometimes .... they still do!

My 6" square ONE LAYER CARD and, below:
The front/back/inside of my card and front/back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White, 300gsm, 6" square card and matching envelope
• One piece of white card, cut to fit, as my insert
• Lost Coast "spotty" border image stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Woodware sentiment (from JGCL560) stamped using Versafine Clair paradise ink
• A combination of neon and glitter pens used to colour (from Wink of Stella, Kaisercraft and WH Smith)

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 450 - SPOTS (a ONE LAYER CARD)
2. HLS - August CAS challenge - OFF THE EDGE
3. AAA Cards - challenge No. 197 - ONE INCH STRIP .... I HOPE this counts, the strip is only 1" wide but it's wavy
4. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 574 - ALL OCCASIONS
5. Allsorts - challenge No. 639 - CAS (Clean And Simple)

I discovered that I was an "Honorable Mention" over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies this week, for their challenge No.2134, thanks so much peeps, it's really appreciated.