Welcome to the first half of the weekend!

Morning readers,

Woo Hoo, Saturday again - got something nice planned for the weekend? Hope so. We'll be meeting up with friends which will be lovely ... of course, a lottery win would be nice too!

I've been at the ToC most mornings this week so I've a couple of projects to share with you today, the first being an Artist Trading Coin, still loving their cute 2½" format

My Artist Trading Coin

And the side view, to show the dimensional element

Materials used:

• Snippets of card in grey and white
• Circle dies in 2½" and 2¼" 
• On the white snippet I applied a coating of Distress Ink in picked raspberry and then another layer of ink, applied through the butterfly stencil
• I stamped the butterfly image on to my coloured panel and also on to a snippet of white card (coloured DTP method using Memento rosebud ink) using Versafine onyx black ink, before fussy cutting out the image
• I applied adhesive to the butterfly body only and attached to the image panel
• Once dry I used a paper stump to add "curl" to the butterfly wings before adding a touch of clear adhesive to the bottom wing and attaching it to my image panel - to add strength to the small amount of adhesive holding the butterfly body in place!
• Once completely dry I attached my image panel to the grey ATCoin base 
• I used a white Sakura gelly roll gel pen to doodle a border and stardust stickles to embellish the butterfly

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

1. Back to Basics - challenge No. 14 - STENCILS or MASKS
2. Creative Craft Cottage - challenge No. 112 - PRETTY IN PINK
3. Fussy and Fancy Friday - challenge No. 223 - THINGS WITH WINGS
4. Creative Fingers - challenge No. 153 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Jo's Scrap Shack - challenge No. 256 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for one of those cards all card makers hate to make, the sympathy card. I've been asked to make a couple for a friend who's recently had to send several. Since I used the "harvest" style image for one ... I thought I might have a go at Darnell's "TWOFER" challenge ........

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 black card, cut to mat
• Using low tack tape I masked off a strip on the smaller piece of white card before applying Distress Inks in weathered wood and faded jeans using a mini blender and foam pad
• With the mask still in place I applied faded jeans through a stencil (Tim Holtz mini, from set #5) and then, using weathered wood I applied through the TCW stencil (TCW456s), to give a little more "texture"
• Removing the tape I stamped the Inkadinkado image (60-30496 "meadow") using Versafine onyx black ink and the Hero Arts sentiment (CL342) using Memento tuxedo black ink
• I replaced the tape before applying a quick application of Krylon matte sealant, to protect the water based inks in transit

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

1. Addicted to Stamps - challenge No. 314 - CAS (Clean And Simple)
2. Crafty Creations - challenge No. 376 - ANYTHING GOES
3. 4CraftyChicks - challenge No. 425 - FINISH THE INSIDE
4. CardzTV - challenge No. 70 - ANYTHING GOES

So, with Darnell's "TWOFER" in mind, here's my second card, using the same image but in a different way and for a different occasion - below that (and as per Darnell's instructions) is a photo of them both, side by side. The second card has been left blank purposely, as it's for a commission but I think you can see this is not really a sympathy card.

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 patterned pink card (DCWV "Rock Star" stack), cut to mat
• Using low tack tape I masked off a panel and applied Distress Ink in picked raspberry using a mini blender and foam pad
• Inkadinkado (60-30496 "meadow") image stamped using Ranger Archival shadow grey ink
• Wink of Stella clear glitter gel brush pen used to accentuate the wheat ears

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

1. As You Like It - October 11th challenge - CAS or FUSSY AND FANCY ... I'm a CAS girl, I love the challenge of making a Clean And Simple card look good and it doesn't hurt that I can always use basic postage rate too!
2. Little Miss Muffet - challenge No. 200 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Crafting With An Attitude - challenge No. 44 - ANYTHING GOES
4. CAS-ual Fridays - challenge No. 210 - PINKS/GREYS

And here they are both together

I'll be entering the above two cards for the 10th Twofer challenge here.