Monday - ooops!, here comes another week!

Morning readers,

Hope you all enjoyed a good weekend and that the slightly "IFFY" weather didn't spoil anything for you. It was blowy but sunny yesterday and my washing dried in no time!!! My  hair though! - I looked like I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards all day ..... even with a liberal application of spray!

Last week I was in Sussex and visiting friends, had a great time with Jacky on Tuesday - reckon we could chat for England! I spent Wednesday with Sarn, we tried shopping but our stash haul was WOEFUL! I bought a pack of crafting foil and that was IT!!! After a reviving coffee (and 50% of a delicious almond croissant) it was back to Sarn's, to craft using her stash .... I'm sure many of you can relate to what I'm about to say. I was like a kid in a sweet shop and had EVERY intention of making a note of the product used but - frankly, I was too busy crafting!

Here's an ATC I made, I can tell you the names of the two focal images because I own them too but the rest might be a little light on details, for which I apologise, my excuse? I was having too much fun - sorry!

My Artist Trading Card

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippet of 300gsm Hobbycraft smooth card (Sarn's)
• Distress Inks in broken china and barn door applied in a swipe (top to bottom in one colour and bottom to top in the other)
• StudioLight SL341 and Chapel Road "Vertical Greeting" stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink .... as you can see, I cropped the top and bottom of my focal image - see the entire image below
• Since the Distress Inks reactivate with water I used a waterbrush and added a little Distress Ink "watercolour style" to the focal image, to add a little interest
• Using a border (from Stampin' Up "timeless textures") image and Stampin' Up ink tip top taupe I stamped around the outer edge of the ATC before edging the ATC with the nocturne ink

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

1. Catch The Bug - September challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Gem of a challenge - challenge No. 17 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Inkspirational - challenge No. 195 - CROP
4. CardzTV - challenge No. 97 - ANYTHING GOES - 2nd entry
5. QKR Stampede - challenge No. 362 - ANYTHING GOES

And I had a glue stick foiling panel to make in to a card too ...... how very ODD that it happened to be in my favourite colour!!

My card

And a closer view of the gluestick foilin

 

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White A2/C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of deep purple card, cut to mat
• Snippets of card in deep purple, lighter purple and white
• Feather die (a magazine freebie) used to cut my feather on 300gsm white card
• Glue stick, circles stencil (grunge dots by Phill Martin) and gold metallic foil used to apply my foiled design to my image panel which I then matted on to the deep purple snippet and trimmed
• Clear dimensional foam squares, used to adhere the top and bottom of my feather to the card front
• Happy Little Stampers sentiment (from Butterfly Birthday) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Elsewhere on my card and envelope I stamped the Clarity Stamp feather image using Versafine Clair morning mist ink

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 403 - METALLICS - 2nd entry
2. International Art & Soul - challenge No. 66 - LAYER IT UP - I count six layers (if you include the gluestick foiling)
3. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 113 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Dare2BArtsy - September challenge - YOUR FAVOURITE COLOUR .... in case you didn't know, it's PURPLE!
5. Southern Girls - September 6th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
6. Happy Little Stampers - September challenge - ANYTHING GOES WITH DIES