Saturday and another weekend with no plans!

Morning readers, 

Good job we're not supposed to be leaving home right now, it's tricky trying to keep up with the weather forecasts! Do I wear a hat and gloves or snorkel and flippers .. should I take a shovel?

I've a make to share with you today .......

My Artist Trading Card

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of leftover card in navy and white
• Using a makeup brush and my new and NBUS Clearly Besotted "Fading Triangles" stencil I applied Memento tangelo and Bahama blue inks to the white snippet
• Kaisercraft "Remember this Moment" image (CS934) sentiment stamped using Versafine Clair twilight ink
• Inkylicious "Delicate Vines" image stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink around the outer edge of my image panel

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 22 - USE NBUS (Never Before used Schtuff)
2. Crafty Sentiments - January 12th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - challenge No. 176 - "A" is for ATC
4. Love to Craft Challenge Blog - challenge No. 54 - ANYTHING GOES
5. CardzTV - challenge No. 132 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for a card .... a welcome return by a CAS challenge .... check it out, it gave me the chance to use some of my recently rediscovered stash!

My card

And a closer look at the image panel and stencilling

 

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 turquoise card, cut to mat
• Masking tape, to mask off my image panel
• Kaisercraft Mini grid image stamped using Ranger archival vibrant fuchsia ink
• Kaisercraft Distress image stamped using Ranger archival paradise teal ink
• Kaisercraft Bubble wrap image stamped using Ranger archival monarch orange ink
• HLS sentiment (from "Butterfly Birthday") stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Funky Fossil stencil (textures) and a makeup brush ... to apply Ranger Permanent Distress Ink in hickory smoke and Ranger Archival vibrant fuchsia inks

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

1. Perfectly CAS - challenge No. 11 - STENCILS
2. HLS - January challenge - STENCILS
3. Uniko - challenge No. 63 - USE A STENCIL
4. A Bit More Time To Craft - January 15th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 199 - ANYTHING GOES