Monday and another week is just getting started!

Morning readers, 

How was your weekend? Get up to much? I HOPE no-one's plans got scuppered by the cooler temperatures or rain.

I've a make to share with you today ....... it was Quick, Clean and Simple - just the way I like it. And my inspiration? A chance electronic conversation with my pal Sarn of Stamping for Pleasure about the Creative Expressions stamp set we both own ... and suddenly, the card below just sort of evolved!

My 3½" x 4⅞" card

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, 3½" x 4⅞" card and matching envelope
• Card in white and yellow, for my card front, insert and matting
• Creative Expressions images (from CEC-784 "Arty background" dating from 2017) stamped using Versafine Clair cheerful (yellow) and warm breeze inks
• Tim Holtz sentiment (from THMM109 - dating from 2022) stamped using the Versafine Clair warm breeze ink

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

1. HLS - August BIRTHDAY challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Creative Knockouts - challenge No. 466 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Through The Purple Haze - challenge No. 195 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 3rd (and final) entry
4. 613 Avenue Create - August challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Corrosive Challenge - challenge No. 8 ANYTHING GOES

And now for a Christmas card - you can never have too many stashed away, ready for November/December when it's time to start writing them. I don't send anywhere near as many as I used to (for one reason or another) but I still need a fair few.

My 3½" x 4⅞" card

And a closer view of the embossing

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, 3½" x 4⅞" card and matching envelope
• Card in white, tan and red, for my card front, insert and matting
• Creative Expressions image (from CEC-803 "snowflake kisses") stamped using Versamark embossing ink, sprinkled with PSX red embossing tinsel and heat set. Elsewhere on my card I stamped this image using Versafine Clair tulip red ink
• Stamplorations sentiment (from "Holiday Artsy") stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink

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

1. Perfectly CAS - challenge No. 30 - EMBOSS + MUST use 1/3 or less
2. HLS - August CHRISTMAS challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (opt) FLOWERS
3. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 625 - Clean And Simple
4. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 237 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Peace on Earth - challenge No. 22 - ANYTHING GOES

Still walking daily (though I did give it a miss during the worst of the heatwave), at the weekend I took a route I've not taken in a while .... as the field is gradually becoming a housing estate. I thought I would check out the progress on Saturday, imagine my surprise to find two deer, doing the exact same thing!!

Not sure if you can see them but .. 
there are two deer in this pic fairly central

This is how the entire area used to look, till it shrank!
I'm sure the deer prefer the original