Welcome to another week

Morning readers,

I have a make to share with you, it was actually made a couple of weeks ago and mailed to a friend but I'm pretty sure she should have received it by now so it won't spoil the surprise - least I hope you've had it, Cherry?? Either way, I now feel I can blog this project, so here it is

My card

And a closer view of the sparkle

And the inside and envelope

Materials used:

• 15cm square white, 300gsm, scallop edged card blank and matching sized envelope
• 13½cm square of white card
• Black card and yellow card cut to form narrow borders around the image panel
• Snippets of card in white, black and yellow
• NitWits image stamped on snippet of white card using Memento tuxedo black ink and fussy cut out
• Alcohol markers to colour
• Stampotique bar code image stamped using Memento tangelo ink
• NitWits star image randomly stamped using Distress Ink in mustard seed 
• Once the panel had been stamped I then attached the nitwits bear so that he was swinging off the bottom and then mounted on black and then yellow card and randomly added dots of white using a Pitt big stampers pen and embellished with Stardust stickles on both the bear and the stars

I'll be entering it for the following challenges:-

1. Stampin' Royalty - challenge No. 302 - STARS
2. Creative Inspirations - challenge No. 334 - SPARKLE
3. Addicted to Stamps and More - challenge No. 169 - CAS
4. Come and Get It - challenge 94 - LOTS OF SPARKLE
5. Just Us Girls - challenge No. 318 - WORD WEEK - see below

And on to another project, this time it's an anniversary card ..

My card

A closer view to show the sparkle

And the insert and envelope

Materials used:

• White A2/C7 card blank and matching sized envelope
• Paper cut A2 scallop edged panel in "fossil" for the card front and insert
• White card and black card cut to fit
• Hero Arts frame (from Notebook Essentials) stamped using Hero Arts neon pink ink
• Hero Arts heart (from the above set) stamped using Distress Ink in barn door
• Fiskars sentiments (from the All Year Round Sentiments set) stamped using Ranger Archival jet black ink
• Distress Glaze swiped over the distress inks to de-activate them
• Stardust stickles to highlight the frame, heart and sentiment underline

I'll be entering this for the following challenges:-

1. ABC - 1st November challenge - U is for UNLIMITED (i.e. anything goes!)
2. Crafting Musketeers - challenge No. 31 - ANYTHING BUT SQUARE (even my frame isn't quite square!
3. SweetStamps - November challenge - ANYTHING GOES
4. Avenue 613 - challenge No. 149 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - challenge No. 21 - ANYTHING GOES

Have a good week peeps!