Monday and it's a whole new week in front of us!

Morning readers, 

Hope you enjoyed your weekend - we did! We were dog sitting the lovely Riddick, he's a good boy, but honestly? SUCH a sad face even when his tail is wagging fit to fall off!

I've a couple of makes to share with you today ....... the first one is another Artist Trading Card, I've had a bit of a run on them so needed to make a few.

My ATC, measuring just 3½" x 2½"

And a closer view of the random and sketchy foiling!

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white and textured mid blue (DCWV)
• Using a makeup brush and Versafine Clair paradise ink, I applied a light layer of colour to the white snippet
• Inkylicious vines image (Delicate Vines - from 2013) stamped using Versafine Clair paradise ink
• Heffy Doodle sentiment ("Sending Smiles" - late 2023 - NBUS) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Unbranded floral die used to cut my image from a snippet of textured black card (DCWV)
• Quickie glue pen used to randomly dab and sketch marks on the die and image panel
• Once the quickie glue was dry, I overlaid bronze foil and burnished firmly with my fingers

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

1. Creative Crafters - challenge No. 73 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Beautiful Blossoms - challenge No. 14 - ANYTHING FLORAL GOES + (optional) MOOD BOARD
3. Ally's Angels - challenge No. 79 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - February challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 271 - ANYTHING GOES

Optional Beautiful Blossoms

And now for another card .... so, there I was, killing time by trawling YouTube when I came across a video (by Zoey Scarpelli) which attracted my inner inky soul! I figured I could play about a bit and adapt it to fit my style - reckon it works (IMHO) and it IS a fun technique - if you're curious, the video is further down. I REALLY enjoyed making this - to be honest, my mojo's been a bit absent lately so it was great to immerse myself in this project.

My C6 card

On the right is my card front, as you can see from the print
on the left, I cleaned off my stencil on a piece of white card,
looks like I have the makings of a grungey ATC at some point too!
YAY!, we crafters waste NOTHING, if we can help it!

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and matching envelope
• Card in white and black
• Snippets of card in white and black, for my sentiment plane
• Inks used: Distress Inks in ground espresso, frayed burlap, pumice stone, spiced marigold, picked raspberry and blueprint sketch
• Stencils used: Tim Holtz THS002, THMS007 and THMS053 and a 6"x6" Circles stencil from Stamposaurus
• Precious Remembrance shop sentiment (from the New Day set) and Pink and Main flower (from PMO554) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne and morning mist inks
• Using a floral die set and textured black card snippet I cut three flowers but ended up only using two of them
• Given that all these inks are water based, once they were dry I gave them a quick spritz with Crafters Companion Spray and Shine, to seal

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

1. Stencil Fun - February challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) LOVE/HEARTS
2. Creative Knockouts - challenge No. 515 - DIES/PUNCHES/STENCILS - two out of three ain't bad!
3. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 565 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Friendship Challenge - challenge No. 96 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 224 - ANYTHING GOES

And the video inspiration? A lucky spot whilst watching a Pink and Main video .. I spied this Zoey Scarpelli distress ink video which looks SOOOOO up my street

I was chosen as a TOP3 over at Colouring with pencils - thank you so much