Look out! We're starting another week

Morning readers, 

Hope you enjoyed a great weekend - any Christmas related festivities? None here but then, we DID have two Festive "DO's" recently and they were on consecutive nights! A couple of friends stopped by to say hello, they stayed for a drink (or two) and a good old catch up, it was lovely.

And ... the weather?! Did you get snow Sunday  morning, like we did, or later in the day? Or, perhaps you were lucky and didn't get any at all. We woke up to this ..

My first make today came about rather by accident. I was looking for some super smooth white card which I KNEW I had ordered from Paper Mill, I found the box easily but what I HAD forgotten was the beautiful raspberry coloured card that I had ordered at the same time ... in the spirit of striking whilst the iron was hot ..... this "kind of girly" pink card emerged, I hope you like it as much as I do.

My C6 card

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6/A2 card and matching envelope
• Card in cream and raspberry, for my card front, insert and matting
• Paper Artsy background wording (from set ELB30 - December 2021) stamped using 2nd gen. impression of Memento gray flannel ink
• Foliage image (from the same Paper Artsy set ELB30) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Using a makeup brush and Memento rosebud ink, I added a little colour around the foliage/background sentiment
• Overlaying the Faber Castell stencil (from 770602 - November 2022 - NBUS) I added a further layer of the rosebud ink
• Clearly Besotted sentiment (from "brushed sentiments - May 2021) stamped using Versafine Clair charming pink ink

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

1. HLS - Dec STENCIL challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Stencil Fun - December challenge - ANYTHING (with a stencil) GOES + (optional) ANY HOLIDAY
3. Creations in Pink - challenge No. 52 - ANYTHING GOES provided it's MAINLY PINK 
4. NBUS - challenge No. 45 -  USE NBUS
5. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 195 - ANYTHING GOES

And now, it's that time of year - what time of year is that? Time to discover you need some tags time of year!!!

Two tags, front

Two tags, reverse

Materials used:

• 300 gsm white card snippets
• Dies: Go Kreate nesting tags and unbranded nesting circles
• Crop-a-dile - for punching the hole in the circle "tag"
• Clearly Besotted image and sentiments (from "Best Christmas" - 2022) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist and tulip red inks
• Alcohol markers (mostly pro markers) and glitter gel markers, to colour my image
• Anita's dimensional gloss for Rudy's red nose!
• Using a makeup brush and Memento ladybug ink, I applied a little colour to the outer edges of my tags

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

1. HLS - Dec DIE challenges - ANYTHING GOES
2. Christmas Kickstart - challenge No. 69 - IF IT'S CHRISTMAS-Y, LINK IT UP
3. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 641 - CHRISTMAS
4. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 624 - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) QUICK AND EASY .. which these were!
5. Colour Crazy - challenge No. 49 - ANYTHING (hand coloured) GOES

I was a top pick in the November Birthday challenge over at Happy Little Stampers - thanks so much peeps and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all on the Design Team, really appreciate you running the monthly challenges