Monday, a new week - how's the Christmas preparation coming along?

Morning readers, 

When do YOU put up your decorations? I've gotten in to the habit of doing ours just before the first weekend in December, why is that? Well, I usually have a Christmas meal with a pal and a cousin and my cousin usually stays overnight so ... up they go, to get us in the festive mood! It was Saturday and the three Amigo's had a Christmas meal at a local hostelry ... more later!

I've a make to share with you today ....... this was made with the theme of: NEW Year/Start/Stash .. I went with new stash, since I happened to have some!

My finished ATC, measuring just 3½ x 2½"

This is a less accurate colour representation BUT -
it really does show the Tsukineko shimmer spritz

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white and black
• Penny Black "Joy Joy" (3017-F) stamped several times using Memento gray flannel ink
• Using an acrylic block I "smooshed" a combination of Distress Oxide in crackling campfire (NBUS) and kitsch flamingo over my stamped panel before drying with a heat gun
• MFT sentiment (from CS.794 - "everything wonderful" - Nov 2023 - NBUS) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Tsukineko "shimmer spritz" sprayed lightly over the finished ATC

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

1. NBUS - challenge No. 57 - USE NBUS
2. A Perfect Time To Craft - December challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Leanne's World - challenge No. 67 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 267 - ANYTHING GOES

And now, since it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! - here are some pix of a couple of festive get togethers .....

The Three Amigo's

And a day out at the Christmas market, with the Surrogates