Saturday - how was your Christmas?

Morning readers,

Hope you all had a splendid Christmas - you have a few days to recover before the New Year festivities kick in! GOOD LUCK and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all. STEP AWAY from those mince pies and chocolates (you can thank me later)!!!

I've a make to share with you today .... an Artist Trading Card using another image that doesn't get inked often enough ........

My ATC

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in DCWV textured red and white
• On the white card I stamped the Crafty Individuals hare (CI-372), MFT stars image (from SY01 "Sweet Holiday Penguins") and Stamplorations sentiment (Noteworthy) using Versafine Claire nocturne ink
• Using a makeup brush I applied Distress Ink in Victorian velvet tot he white space surrounding the hair and then, with Tim Holtz mini stencil (from set #24) I went over it again, adding more of the Victorian velvet ink.
• Crayola coloured pencils used to colour the hair
• Kaisercraft glitter gel pens
• Stardust stickles to bling up the stars , sentiment and hare

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

1. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 461 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Cute Card Thursday - challenge No. 614 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Southern Girls - December 15th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
4. Happy Little Stampers - December ATC challenge - BLING
5. QKR Stampede - challenge No. 378 - ANYTHING GOES

And, since it's Christmas and I have new Christmas stash, what else would I be doing but making Christmas cards? I made a batch of three of these ...... yes, for 2020!! I'm on a roll now and shan't have too many to make when November rolls around!

My card

And a closer view of my image panel

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

Materials used:

• White DL, 300gsm,aperture card and matching sized envelope
• One piece of white card cut to fit, as an insert
• Snippet of white card (3¼" square) for my image panel
• Inkadinkado Santa image (99547) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Craft Emotions sentiment (from 130501/1813) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Image coloured using Pro Marker alcohol markers and Crayola coloured pencils
• Stardust stickles

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

1. CRAFT Challenge - challenge No. 539 - CHRISTMAS, THE LAST STRETCH
2. CCEE Stampers - challenge No. 1950 - SANTA THROUGH THE WINDOW
3. Aud Sentiments - challenge No. 242 - CHRISTMAS/WINTER
4. Water Cooler Wednesday - challenge No. 252 - ANYTHING GOES

I discovered just yesterday that I was a TOP5 pick over at QKR Stampede, for my entry for challenge No. 377 Thank you so much to you and your Design Team. My entry is the pic below, I couldn't upload their badge to add here though, sadly