Saturday! Woo Hoo!

Morning readers,

It's been a funny old week but we've made it to the weekend. There were a couple of days when I couldn't reach my Table of Craftiness (thanks to a pesky water leak) but remedial works were effected and I'm now back in my happy place!

I have an Artist Trading Coin to share with you this morning, I happen to know it's reached its destination so I'm happy to share it now .....

My Artist Trading Coin and wallet

Materials used:

• Snippets of card in white and orange + striped paper snippet 6" x 3¼" - for wallet
• Nesting circle die cuts for the 2½" and 2¼" circles
• Small circle punch for the thumb hole on the wallet
• All images from Paper Artsy .... ESA01, ESA05 and HTPX01
• All inks by Memento: London fog, rosebud, dandelion and tangelo

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

1. HappyCraft Challenge - October challenge - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES
2. Crafting With An Attitude - challenge No. 44 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Time Out - challenge No. 120 - COLOURFUL
4. CardzTV - challenge No. 69 - ANYTHING GOES

And now for a card .... of the Christmas variety

My card

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card cut to fit
• One piece of kraft card, cut to mat
• Kraft tag - the bottom of which I trimmed using a punch by EK Success
• Satin ribbon in plain white and red polka dot
• Snippet of white card die cut in to snowflake border using die acquired from The Works
• Recollections snowman image stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Derwent coloursoft and Prismacolour scholar pencils used to colour image
• My Sentiments Exactly sentiment (M118 Holiday sentiments) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Stardust stickles to bling up the snowflakes and tag

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 382 - TAGS
2. Allsorts - challenge No. 489 - CHRISTMAS
3. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - challenge No. 407 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
4. My Time To Craft - challenge No. 380 - USE KRAFT
5. Crafters Castle - challenge No. 10 - ANYTHING GOES + optional twist CHRISTMAS/ WINTER

I also found out that one of my cards was selected as a TOP 3 over at My Time To Craft - for their food and drink challenge - thanks peeps, I'm delighted you liked it. I've added a thumbnail of my entry below