Saturday - how's your weekend looking?

Morning readers, 

Yesterday I posed the question as to whether any of my regular readers had plans for the weekend and said I had a "few things in the pipeline". Well, last evening hubs and I found ourselves out to dinner, with a friend we've been "bubbled with" during lockdown - she said she had some excellent deal vouchers for a local hostelry ... sadly, on checking, they'd expired! Plan B) was our "go to" Indian restaurant but it was another lovely evening, so nice to be able to just START to socialise again. Of course, a few beers and wines were shared so .... apologies for my late post - we slept in a bit this morning!

I've a make to share with you today ....... using a fave technique of mine (right now) background partial stencilling, love the effect and feel it makes the card more interesting whilst still remaining CAS (Clean And Simple)

My C6 card

The front/back/inside of my C6 card and the front/back of the envelope

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6/A2 card and matching envelope
• Card in white and navy, cut to fit and mat 
• Carabelle "bike" image )from SA60173 circa 2015) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne and morning mist inks
• TCP sentiment (S.5845.CL circa 2010) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Dutchdoobadoo stencil (470.715.609 circa 2018) laid over my image and, using a makeup brush and Memento inks in Bahama blue and Paris dusk, I applied ink around the image/sentiment to give texture and interest - trying to avoid stencilling over the image

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 444 - FAVE TECHNIQUE
2. Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Cardz4Guyz - challenge No. 271 - MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND
4. Retro Rubber - challenge No. 159 - ANYTHING GOES .. using stash more than one year old
5. Seize the Birthday - challenge No. 215 - WHEELS

And now for another make using the FABULOUS "drunken chickens" I got for my birthday! I now have just one image from the set left to use! Woo Hoo! Don't you love it when you have some stash that you can use pretty much all of it .... right away? These are such fun images, how could I NOT want to use them at the earliest opportunity?.

My C6 card

And a closer view of the image section

The front/back/inside of my C6 card and the front/back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6/A2 card and matching envelope
• Card in white and deep purple, cut to fit and mat
• Paper Artsy chicken images (from ZA58) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Clearly Besotted sentiment (from "mini calligraphy") stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Stamposaurus stencil (random small blocks) - Adirondack purple twilight ink applied with a makeup brush
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour images
• Kuretake Wink of Stella clear glitter gel brush pen, to add a little sparkle

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

1. NBUS - May challenge - USE NBUS
2. HLS - May Stencil challenge - ANYTHING GOES (with stencils)
3. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 2121 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Dream Valley Challenge - challenge No. 248 - USE YOUR FAVE COLOUR - anyone who knows me knows my fave colour is PURPLE which I've used on my yellow chicken and for my background stencilling
5. Water Cooler Wednesday - challenge No. 316 - ALL ABOUT OCCASIONS