Monday and the beginning of a fresh new week ..

Morning readers,

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend and that your body clocks have now fully adjusted to the recent clock change! Our body clocks had to contend with the clocks going back AND our return to UK time - we've had a couple of nights where we've been like Rip van Winkle and a couple of nights where sleep has evaded us but, think we're pretty much back on track now!

I've a make to share with you today ... deploying three new images and one new stencil - Woo Hoo! I went in to a U.S. craft store and was uninspired by the papercrafting selection ..... until my eyes lit on the set used below! No brainer, it simply HAD to come home with me!

My C6 card

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and envelope
• Card in white and aubergine, for my card front, insert and matting
• My two background zig zag "stitching" and my bird image (both from Stampers Anon THMM182 - Nov 2024 and NBUS) stamped using Veresafine onyx black ink
• Using low tack tape I masked off the corner before adding Memento grape jelly ink to the lower R/H corner and fading the ink
• Overlaying the circles section of the stencil that came with THMM182 (also NBUS) I added a further layer of the grape jelly ink
• Having removed the tape and the stencil I then started to add sparkle with my Tsukineko gelly roll clear glitter gel pen but ..... it ran out so good old stardust stickles got deployed instead!

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 68 - USE NBUS
2. Stencil Fun - Nov challenge - USE A STENCIL
3. Simply Clean And Simple - Nov challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) CHRISTMAS
4. Crafting Happiness - challenge No. 201 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Crafty Calendar - Nov challenge - ANYTHING GOES

I promise you, I'm about done with sharing my holiday snaps, recently returned from Florida and there are some lovely places which don't involve theme parks .... we headed to the small township of Eustis, home to MFT Stamps and, yes, I did a little retail therapy there!

And a visit to a craft brewery like I'd never seen before ... with a British couple we know who just happened to book a last minute flight and be there whilst we were! So nice to meet up with you both.