Friday and the weekend is rapidly approaching!

Morning readers, 

Hope you've all had a good week, mine's been a week of two halves, Monday and Thursday were very sociable - Tuesday and Wednesday pretty quiet ... particularly since hubby was out all day Tuesday and Wednesday! Still, some weeks are like that and it's always lovely to see friends, isn't it? Met friends for dinner yesterday, lovely evening and a delicious meal too - today I'm leaving my husband in charge of some deliveries whilst a friend and I visit a local herb farm!

I've a make to share with you today ....... an Artist Trading Card, measuring just 3½" x 2½"

My "Beach" themed ATC

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white and navy
• Stamping Up image (from around 2004 so I have no idea of the set details) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Crayola pencils (A set of 50 + special edition skintones - 2023 NBUS) used to colour
• Stampers Anonymous sentiment (from THMM113 - 2023 - NBUS) stamped on to a narrow snippet of white card, using Versafine Clair warm breeze ink and then edged using a black sharpie before mounting with gorilla dimensional tape

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 51 - USE NBUS
2. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 547 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Scrapping4Fun - challenge No. 224 - MEN/BOYS
4. Moving Along With The Times - June challenge - MAN/BOY
5. Love to Craft - challenge No. 74 - ANYTHING GOES

No holiday snaps today, just a scrapbook layout .... yes, of my recent vacation! It's a double page layout. I've taped the two sheets together and then inserted the local guidebook between the two pages.

With my pull out map and photos

With the map folded, so you can see the other side

And my second, co-ordinating page

Materials used:

• Two sheets of identical designer paper, taped together
• Computer generated prints of my photos, with journalling beneath
• Journalling printed off, to give context to our trip
• Tourist guide book and map - very useful in case we wish to visit again!
• Double sided tape, to attach my photos

Now, as I'm back to my normal routine but ... I DO have a couple of pix to share, of a recent walk in the glorious sunshine, both pix just made me smile

Loved this cheeky bird, resting on the wall of the local pond

Poppies just growing on the grass verge