Monday, welcome to another week ....

Morning readers,

Hope you all had a good weekend and that perhaps, like me, you were loving the slightly cooler weather at the weekend too.

I've a make to share with you today ... an Artist Trading Card, measuring just 3½" x 2½" - a chance to get inky and to layer some stamps - Yee Haa!

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white and black
• Using a makeup brush and Memento tuxedo black ink, I applied a loght cover of ink to the entire white card panel
• Kaisercraft Grid and script images stamped using Memento gray flannel ink
• Aall & Create image (from set #372) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Stampers Anonymous sentiment (from CM155) stamped using Versafine Clair warm breeze ink
• Creative Expressions stencil (CEMSECLIPSE) used, with a glue stick, to apply the adhesive through the stencil, burnishing the adhesive with my fingers before applying dark blue holographic foil and again, firmly burnishing with my fingers before allowing to dry - just to add a little texture and interest

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

1. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 727 - STAMP ACT
2. Love to Craft - challenge No. 81 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Creative Inspiration - challenge No. 17 - ANYTHING GOES
4. A Perfect Time to Craft - August challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Crafts Galore Encore - August challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Well, the lovely Riddick has returned home from his vacation with us, such a good boy but .... you absolutely cannot leave food unattended!!! Or tissues - what IS that all about?!! We had some lovely weather and, as you can see, he enjoyed some outdoor time! It was nice to be able to leave both the kitchen and patio doors open for him to come and go as he pleased, a service he was able to make full use of - caught him going out of one and back in through the other more than once - bless!.