Woo Hoo! The weekend starts here!

Morning all,

Hope you all have something nice to look forward to this weekend.

I've been at the ToC as I had some new stash itching to get inked!

My card

  

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White A2/C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• One piece of white card, one of yellow and one of DCWV textured blue spotty card
• Snippets of card in white and yellow, for my image panel
• Narrow white satin ribbon, dyed using the yellow ink
• MFT image and sentiment stamped using the black ink
• Prismacolour pencils used to colour
• Mod Podge dimensional

MFT BB-55 "Birthday Chicks", Inks: Memento tuxedo black and dandelion
Prismacolour Scholar pencils, white satin rubbon

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

1. Addicted to Stamps and More - challenge No. 289 - CAS (Clean And Simple)
2. Back to Basics and Beyond - challenge No. 1 - MATTING AND LAYERING
3. Crafty Gals Corner - challenge No. 164 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 377 - ANYTHING GOES

And, since I was recently asked to make some sympathy card, I have another of my batch to share with you today ...

My card

  

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White A2/C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of grey card, cut to mat
• Using a foam applicator and the grey ink I sponged ink through each of the stencils
• Foliage image and sentiment stamped using the black ink
• To offset the starkness of the image I traced over the foliage using the Wink of stella clear gel glitter brush pen

Stencils: Tim Holtz THS006 & 022 + TCW 486S
Stamps: Hero Arts CL342 and TPC Studio "Autumn Harvest"
Inks: Versarine onyx black and Ranger Archival watering can

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

1. Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. The House That Stamps Built - challenge No. 2518 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Crafty Creations - challenge No. 365 - ANYTHING GOES

And, for my last card of the post ..... a Christmas card - well it IS less than eight months away!!!

My card

And a closer view of my colouring and the dimensional gloss

  

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White A2/C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of DCWV (from their Rock star stack) cut to mat
• Image stamped using Memento black ink and sentiment stamped using Versafine black ink
• Pencils used to colour, blended using gamsol and a paper stump (or 3!)
• Stardust stickles and dimensional gloss used to embellish

Prismacolour scholar pencils, Memento tuxedo black and Versafine onyx black inks
Recollections "Merry Merry" and MFT BB-40 "Polar Bear Pals" stamps
Mod Podge dimensional gloss and stardust stickles

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

1. Fab 'n Funky - challenge No. 391 - CHRISTMAS
2. Scraps of Life - April's Rudolph Day challenge - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
3. Crafting by Designs - April 25th challenge - GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS
4. Merry Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 17 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES + optional twist of BANNERS (which I didn't use)
5. WaterCooler Wednesday - challenge No. 167 - ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS

I discovered I was picked as a DT fave over at Crafting with Friends, thanks so much peeps, this was the card they liked.