Welcome to the weekend! It starts today!

Morning readers

Hope your week has gone well and that you have something good to look forward to this weekend. 

We had an impromptu dinner out earlier this week ... we only went out to post a letter and, guess what? WE BROUGHT THE LETTER HOME AGAIN TOO!!!! Doh! Then we had a trip to the garage with a small issue with hubby's car ... ended up lunching at the excellent hostelry about 200 yards away (so much nicer than sitting in a car showroom for the duration) - any excuse - well, we don't have a fridge or freezer right now (don't ask!)! It's been a pretty sociable week too, met a friend for a drink and ended up going back to her flat for further chat, she moved in not too long ago and last time I visited her at home .... she just had a dining table and bed in situ so it was lovely to see how nice it is now she's got it as she wants it - love the black/grey/white and pop of red colour scheme in the lounge/diner mate, really elegant.

Still loving Artist Trading Coins and I have another to share with you today. I've swapped with a pal a couple of times - we like many of the same things so it's great, I get to make an ATCoin I like and I can be"reasonably" sure she'll like it - let's hope so anyway. I'm also pretty confident that I will like the ATCoin she mails to me too. She has received hers so I'm happy to share it here.

My Artist Trading Coin

And a closer view of the shine 

Materials used:

• Snippets of card in red (300gsm) and white (200gsm)
• Tim Holtz image (THMB30 "cocktails") stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour image and background
• Plain and scallop edged circle dies used to cut one circle (of matted white and red card) to 2½" and a slightly smaller scallop edged circle from my image panel
• Anita's dimensional gloss applied over "glass" areas and set aside to dry
• Stardust stickles to bling up the umbrella!
• Paper Artsy splatter (HPXT01) stamped using Memento London fog ink
• Sparkle 'n Sprinkle sentiment (stamp set #417 .. I think it's retired) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Posca white paint pen used to doodle around the outer edge of the ATCoin

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

1. Addicted to Stamps - challenge No. 308 - HOLIDAY .. don't cocktails make you think of holidays?
2. WaterCooler Wednesday - challenge No. 186 - FEMININE ANYTHING GOES .... that's one girlie cocktail too!
3. Moo-Mania - September 5th challenge - CIRCLES (an ATCoin of 2 circular layers + the cherry!)
4. Crafty Creations - challenge No. 373 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Penny's Paper Crafty - challenge No. 396 - ANYTHING GOES

  

And here's the front and back - with it's little ATCoin wallet too ..

 

And the matching mail art ... using the same colours and images from the little wallet

Matching mail art

And I'll be entering the mail art for the September 2nd challenge over at Take A Word

And here, readers, is the fabulous happy mail I received, from my swap partner, as part of the above exchange - isn't it FABULOUS?!