Saturday and the weekend is in full swing

Morning readers

I've a make to share with you today .... since it's far too wet and wild to want to venture forth! Stay safe in Storm Dennis readers.

My card

And a closer view of the image panel

 

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 navy card, cut to mat
• Snippet of card from which I cut out a strip - to use as a mask for my card
• With my mask held in place with washi tape I used Aldi stencil brushes to apply Memento grey flannel and Ranger Archival cobalt blue inks, for the sky, adding my Clearly Besotted cityscape stencil before adding a skyline with Memento tuxedo black ink
• After removing the mask I stamped the MFT sentiment (from CS-274 "Anything but basic birthday") using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Rubber Stamps of America plane image stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink, stamping a second time without re-inking

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

1. Cute Card Thursday - challenge No. 621 - CAS (Clean And Simple)
2. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 413 - MORE ... but still CAS
3. Seize The Birthday - challenge No. 183 - SHOW US YOUR WHITE SPACE
4. Perfectly CAS - challenge No. 6 - SHAPES - hope the skyline count as SHAPES

 

And now for an Artist Trading Card - made for a swap theme of KEYS ......

My Artist Trading Coin

Materials used:

• Snippets of card in white and red
• Nesting circle dies to cut the 2½" red circle and 2¼" white circle
• On the white snippet I stamped the round image (from Paper Artsy ESA05) using Memento London fog ink and the "washi tape" image (from the same set) using Memento Paris dusk ink
• CardzTV sentiment (from "Just Saying") stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Honey Bee small hearts stamped using Versafine Clair tulip red ink
• On the red snippet I stamped the sketchy circle (from Paper Artsy ESA01) using the London fog ink
• Once assembled I used a hot glue gun to adhere the small key embellishment in to place

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

1. Polkadoodles - challenge No. 7 - ANYTHING GOES
2. CardzTV - challenge No. 108 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Creative Friday - challenge No. 249 - HEARTS/VALENTINE - I went with the heart element rather than strictly valentines
4. Through The Purple Haze - challenge No. 164 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 179 - ANYTHING GOES