Friday again - time to plan the weekend! Long post - photo heavy!

Morning readers, 

I've a make to share with you today ....... nothing like being organised, is there? This card sort of morphed in to a blimmin' Valentines card ... correct me if I'm wrong but Valentines Day isn't until FEBRUARY!!! All I have to do now is to put it somewhere safe till then, but not somewhere SO SAFE that I can never find it again!

My C6 card and, below:
The front/back/inside of my card and the front/back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6/A2 card and matching envelope
• White card, cut to fit as my image panel and insert
• Carabelle heart image (from SA60156) stamped using Versafine Clair tulip red ink
• MFT sentiment (from CS-175 "uncorked") stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Elsewhere on my card I added a sentiment from Clearly Besotted's "brushed sentiments" set, using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Twinkling H2O ruby red used to watercolour my hearts

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

1. Craft Rocket - challenge No. 84 - CAS (Clean And Simple)
2. HLS - Aug Watercolour challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Addicted to Stamps - challenge No. 411 - MAKE YOUR MARK
4. WaterCooler Wednesday - challenge No. 322 - ALL ABOUT OCCASIONS
5. Colour Crazy - challenge No. 31 - ANYTHING (hand coloured) GOES

I've a second make to share with you today ....... this time an Artist Trading Card

My ATC, measuring just 3½"x2½"

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of leftover card in deep purple and white
• Kaisercraft grid image (in my collection since sometime in 2013) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Overlaying my Memory Box grid stencil (88517 - March 2015) and using makeup brushes I applied Distress Oxide in black soot through the stencil, over the entire white snippet, changing brush and applying Adirondack purple twilight ink to just the outer edges
• Lost coast Designs image and sentiment (from "Murder of Crows" - in my collection since 2013) and a Chinese background image, all stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Tsukineko white gelly roll gel pen used to highlight the text and doodle my border

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

1. Retro Rubber -  Challenge No. 164 - ANYTHING GOES
2. HLS - August Stencil challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Ike's World - challenge No. 147 - ANIMALS
4. Lemon Shortbread - challenge No. 152 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Through The Craft Room Door - August 10th challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Discovered I got a "Shout out" over at the River of Creativity blog - thanks so much to the team, really appreciate it. It's always so nice to find out that people like your work, isn't it?

 

Had a few days in Rye earlier this week, I so love it there, it's very quaint. If you've the time (and the inclination) then pull up a chair, grab a coffee and enjoy my visit with me ... there will be some more pix in my next post, tomorrow

Landgate, Rye

Canterbury Cathedral, under scaffolding so we declined to pay £28 to get a closer view!

Whitstable Harbour

One super smart gull, waiting on his lunch!

The pier at Herne Bay

The Ashford Designer Outlet! - for a little retail therapy!

Mermaid Street, those cobbles are BRUTAL

Landgate, from the other side!

The Church at the centre of Rye

Another view of Mermaid Street, you can see the Mermaid Inn (built in the
twelfth century and partially rebuilt in 1460) 

Apparently, the Doctor had business in Rye too!

You can tell we were all LOVING our break