Saturday - it's the weekend!

Morning readers, 

I've a make to share with you today .......  back on track with CAS (Clean And Simple) .. broke out some old stash and my inktense pencils for this one!

My 3½" x 4⅞" card

In reality the image is a little more vibrant so I've had another go at showing that ....

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, 3½" x 4⅞" card and matching envelope
• Card in white and lime green, for my card front, insert and matting
• Snippets of card in white and lime green, for my sentiment panel
• Magenta image (wood mounted and in excess of ten years old - 23249-J) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Uniko sentiment (from Art Decoratif Anniversaire - from 2020) stamped using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Derwent Inktense pencils and B&M metallic water colour paints used, with a waterbrush, to colour my image ... on the reverse and envelope I also used B&M glitter gel pens

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

1. Seize the Birthday - challenge No. 257 - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) CARD FOR A CHILD
2. HLS - March WATER COLOUR challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. HLS - March BIRTHDAY challenge - ANYTHING GOES
4. Art Impressions - challenge No. 347 - INSIDE OUT (match your card inside and out)
5. Retro Rubber - challenge No. 202 - ANYTHING GOES but MUST use stamps older than one year

And now for an Artist Trading Card - I got to use some new stash (first new stash in what FEELS like quite some time - though my husband would probably swear that it wasn't that long!

My Artist Trading Card, measuring 3½" x 2½"

This shows the "mouldable foam" stamping better

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippet of water colour paper which had been "smooshed" with Distress Oxides in festive berries, kitsch flamingo and antique linen
• Kaisercraft "grid" and "script" images stamped using Memento gray flannel
• Using my heat gun I warmed my Crafters Companion mouldable foam block (NBUS) before pressing in to a place mat to create my new and temporary grid stamp ..... which I then inked using Memento gray flannel ink
• StudioLight images (from SL341) stamped using Memento Paris dusk and Versafine Clair nocturne inks

My new stash - a pack of four mouldable foam
"stamps" which I used with a place mat!

For my background "smooshing"!

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 48 - USE NBUS
2. Ellibelles Crafty Wednesday - March challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Creative Knockouts - challenge No. 490 - ADD A SENTIMENT
4. Through The Purple Haze - challenge No. 202 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Ally's Angels - challenge No. 68 - ANYTHING GOES