Wednesday and it's downhill to the weekend!

Morning readers, 

I've a make to share with you today .......

My ATC

My background inking, sorry it looks a bit "squished"!

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white and grey
• Using a makeup brush, I applied a layer of Distress Oxide rustic wilderness ink to the white panel
• I overlaid first my Creative Expressions stencil (CEMSECLIPSE) and then my Dutchdoobadoo letters stencil (470.715.603) before applying a further layer of the rustic wilderness ink
• MFT sentiment (from CS.794) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Tim Holtz corner image (from THMM123) stamped twice using Ranger Archival library green ink

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

1. A Place to Start - February challenge - MONOCHROMATIC
2. Stencil Fun - February challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) LOVE / HEARTS
3. Polkadoodles - challenge No. 6 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 223 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Love to Craft - challenge No. 78 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for a birthday card, seem to have been on a strictly ATC crafting bender lately so thought it was time to make a card!

My C6 card

And a closer view of the colouring

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and matching envelope
• Card in white and texture deep yellow (DCWV), for my card front, insert and matting
• Aall & Create image (from set#980 - Jan 2024 - NBUS), Visible Image sentiment (from VIS-HAP-01) and Stampingallday personalised stamp (Feb 2024 - NBUS) all stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Derwent Inktense blocks used to watercolour my image panel, along with Faber Castell polychromos pencils, for additional shading
• Crystal stickles, to add some sparkle

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

1. NBUS - Challenge No. 59 - USE NBUS
2. Colouring with Pencils - Feb 10th - ANYTHING GOES ... hope that adding polychromos shading counts as "colouring with pencils"
3. Gem of a Challenge - challenge No. 3 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Simply CAS - February challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) PINK
5. Try It On Tuesday - February 6th challenge - HEARTS and/or FLOWERS