Monday again - look out, here comes another week!

Morning readers,

Hope you had a a great weekend - any Christmas meals/parties? None for me though I'm not complaining as we had one Christmas meal last weekend and I enjoyed a lovely Christmas lunch with friends during the week - my waistline's glad of the break!

I've a make to share with you today .... I was looking at the "Joy" word stamp and thought of how much my husband loves flying and that's how this ATC evolved!!!

My Artist Trading Card - "The joy of flight"

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white and navy
• Katzelkraft image (KTZ212) stamped on to white snippet using Versafine Clair nocturne ink, coloured using alcohol markers and then fussy cut out
• Penny Black 3017-F ("Joy Joy") stamped using Memento London fog ink

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

1. Colour Crazy - challenge No. 49 - ANYTHING (hand coloured) GOES
2. CardzTV - challenge No. 104 - ANYTHING GOES
3. QKR Stampede - challenge No. 376 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Brown Sugar - challenge No. 296 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Not Just Cards - December challenge - ANYTHING GOES

And now for, yes - you guessed it, a Christmas card using an image that is both new to me and not really a Christmas image, yes, he's really just wearing PJ's!. I hope you will agree though, he does make an exceedingly good Santa!

My card

And a closer view of my image

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of red card, cut to mat
• Snippets of card in white and red
• Aall & Create image (from set No. 254) and Sparkle 'n Sprinkle sentiment (from "Grumpy Goose" set No. 823) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Elsewhere on the card I used a Paper Artsy sentiment (from JOFY17) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Pro Markers used to colour my image (red, poppy, pastel pink, cool greys 1,3 & 5)
• Stardust stickles

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

1. Passion For Pro Markers - challenge No. 523 - MEGA CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE - ANYTHING GOES
2. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 460 - ANYTHING GOES
3. CAS on Friday - challenge No. 170 - CHRISTMAS
4. Creative Friday - challenge No. 245 - CHRISTMAS IS COMING SOON
5. Sweet Stampin' - December 7th challenge - CHRISTMAS