TGIF - the weekend is THIS close!

Morning readers, 

I've a couple of makes to share with you today ....... Artist Trading Cards (3½" x 2½") and using a rather fab stamp set which I bought in a retail shop but which turned out to be a knock off set - SOOO disappointed by that experience that I have NEVER returned to said store. I found myself with just one swappable ATC in my collection recently so needed a number of them fairly quickly - batch making seemed to be the way to go, since I swap with several people. Armed with my trusty guillotine, I cut some handmade papers and white card to ATC size and slightly smaller, before picking out a couple of images (these and a set from Aall & Create but more of that in another post) and stamped, coloured and stencilled - way to fill a couple of hours AND produce half a dozen ATC's which I'm calling a result! I'll share the batch of "same but different" ATC's over a couple of posts.

My finished ATC

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white and a handmade card in blue with pink roses on
  
• Unknown brand of image and sentiment stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Sharpie pens used to colour
• With my image panel attached to my Wendy Vecchi "make art" stay-tion and, using a makeup brush and Memento Bahama blue, I inked around my image before overlaying my Stamposaurus stencil and adding a further layer of the Bahama blue ink

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

1. HLS - June STENCIL challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 548 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Paper Funday - challenge No. 54 - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) NO SQUARES ALLOWED
4. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 2322 - ANYTHING GOES
5. A Place to Start - June challenge - ANYTHING GOES

And, in the interest of building up my stock ..... here's another "same but different" ATC using the same image /sentiment /colouring medium /batch of handmade paper but swapping out my Stamposaurus stencil for That's Crafty's TC064 and Ranger Archival 

The pink/purple colour combo!

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

1. Stencil Fun - June challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) LAYERED STENCILS
2. Creative Inspirations - June challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - June challenge - ANYTHING GOES
4. Dream Valley Challenges - challenge No. 295 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Use Your Stuff - challenge No. 485 - ANYTHING GOES

Whilst walking in the recent glorious weather (gotta make the most of it whilst we have it!) ...

Off the beaten track!