It's Saturday .....

Hi there readers,

Been a busy week, as they all are in the run up to Christmas. I've been wrapping presents, putting up decorations, trying to juggle my diary to see everyone, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but I do at least have a meal with my cousin and a pal booked for January; definitely something to look forward to in the post Christmas "lull". Had a nice lunch with friends yesterday ... main course a little disappointing but the dessert was TO DIE FOR!, friends we don't catch up with anywhere near as often as we should but .. busy lives and all that. It almost seemed like it might not happen though, as we woke up to white roads and snow coming down but ... thankfully, it stopped a little after 9am and the sun came out!

You know me though, I can almost always find time to craft! Been stuck in a bit of a Christmas or Birthday card rut (I blame new stash and, well ... Christmas, for that) so thought I'd try for an anniversary card ready for the start of 2018!

My card

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 300gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card and one of red, die cut to fit using MFT stitched rectangle dies
• Paper Artsy heart image (ETS04) and The Cats Pyjamas sentiment (from S-5845CL) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour
• Stardust stickles to accentuate

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

1. Addicted to Stamps and More - challenge No. 271 - ANYTHING GOES (MUST feature stamping)
2. Crafting by Design - December challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Crafty Galz Corner - challenge No. 152 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Southern Girls - November 30th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Cute Card Thursday - challenge No. 507 - ANYTHING GOES

And here's another make .... OK, so .. this one IS a Christmas card!

My card

And a closer view of my image

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 300gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card, cut to fit and one of red, cut to mat
• Art Impressions image and sentiment (from SC0799) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour my image
• Stardust stickles used to bling up the  image
• For the insert I stamped the Hero Arts sentiment (from CL343) using Memento tuxedo black ink

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 358 - CANDLES (or something which depicts light/s) .... my thanks to Maaike for pointing out something I'd totally missed. It's supposed to be ONE LAYER CARD WEEK so my entry doesn't qualify. I plainly just skimmed rather than read the challenge - my apologies to my fellow LIM-ettes!
2. Aloha Friday - challenge No. 109 - ANYTHING GOES + OPTIONAL TWIST OF CHRISTMAS
3. Alphabet Challenge - December 8th challenge - "T" is for TREE
4. Colour Crazy Challenge - challenge No. 49 - ANYTHING GOES - MUST be hand coloured
5. Jingle Belles - December 7th holiday wrap up - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

After having my LIM faux pas pointed out to me, I thought I'd best head back to my ToC and have another go ....

My second attempt for the LIM challenge! DOH!

And the image panel

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 300gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• One piece of white card (for the insert) cut to fit
• Inkadinkado (Holiday Silhouettes) and Hero Arts sentiment (from CL343) stamped using Versafine onyx black ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to add colour and stardust stickles to bling it up a smidge!

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 358 - CANDLES OR SOMETHING DEPICTING LIGHT AND DON'T FORGET IT'S ONE LAYER TOO
2. Crafting with friends - challenge No. 56 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Creative Friday - challenge No. 194 - CHRISTMAS in UNUSUAL COLOURS - black, that unusual enough?