Another Friday's here!

Morning readers, 

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

My foiled card, loving the image once foiled

Hopefully, you can see the delightfully grungy uneven foiling - so cool!

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

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, 6" x 6" card and matching envelope
• Card in white, black and Paper Mill post box red - cut to fit and mat
• Aall & Create image (from set #371) stamped using Versafine Clair tulip red and immediately sprinkled with Judikins "sticky stuff and heat set. As SOON as the EP had melted I applied my red foil sheet over the top and burnished firmly using my fingers - I just love the unevenness of the foiling done this way. I omitted the foiling from the other stamped images on the reverse/inside and on the envelope
• Clearly Besotted sentiment (from "mini calligraphy") stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink - I didn't want the harshness of black

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

1. Sparkles Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 122 - CAS (Clean And Simple)
2. Scraps of Life - March Rudolph Day challenge - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
3. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 534 - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES + (optional) CHRISTMAS SONG OR CAROL
4. Holly and Ivy - challenge No. 90 - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
5. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 552 - ALL OCCASIONS

And now for an Artist Trading Card .... I've had this sentiment in my collection for ages but can't actually recall whether it's been used before .. thought it was about time I made sure!

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of leftover card in black and white
• Using a snippet of leftover card as my straight edge and an Aldi stencil brush I applied Hero Arts neons, yellow and pink, retiform style until I was happy with the coverage - strangely enough, neither colour looked particularly "neon" when I was done!
• Craft Emotions grasses (from 1030501/1143) stamped three times using Versafine Clair nocturne ink but without re-inking between impressions
• Paper Artsy sentiment (from HPXT03) stamped using Versafine Clair charming pink ink
• White Tsukineko gelly roll gel pen used to doodle the corner detail on my black matting layer

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

1. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 2112 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Crafting Happiness - challenge No. 89 - OUTDOORS or ANYTHING GOES
3. Creative Moments - challenge No. 211 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Through The Craft Room Door - Mar 23rd challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Through The Purple Haze - challenge No. 178 - ANYTHING GOES + (optional and unused) SKETCH

Fairly close to us, and behind a railway station's "Park and Ride" lot there is a small conservation area, a couple of times each year, goats arrive! They stay a couple of months, get the overgrowth under control and then move on!! Guess we caught them on their day off as they seem to be enjoying a rest day!