Saturday! Welcome to another weekend challenge post

Hey there readers,

How's your weekend starting off? Well, I hope.

My regular readers will know we have an "adopted family" commonly known as "the surrogates", well, they came to dinner yesterday evening as one of them has a birthday only a few days apart from hubby so we celebrated together ..... OK - so, it was for hubs birthday and it seemed churlish to make him cook! It was takeout! Bet you ALMOST thought I was going to say I'd cooked - WRONG! We decided on an Indian takeout from the nearest facility .... it was great ... we ordered four main courses, two side dishes and rice - it was plenty. We got to try: Prawn Dhansak, Lamb Sag, Chicken Badhonia and Chicken Tikka Chilli Masala .... which we all agreed was a very tasty selection

Anyhoo, on to the crafting .... I learnt yesterday that I needed to send a pal a sympathy/thinking of you card following the loss of her mum last week .... not much in the collection and I like to keep one or two in hand so I turned my hand to this one -

My card

And a closer view of the twinkle

And the insert and envelope

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 250gsm, card blank and matching sized envelope
• Two white card panels cut to 9½ x 13½cm
• Two black card panels cut with 1.6mm borders
• Inkadinkado floral sentiment stamped using Versafine onyx black
• Wink of Stella clear glitter brush pen and Copic Atyou Spica glitter pen in silver (the DARKEST silver you will ever come across - more like silver that needs a good clean!) used to add twinkle and interest to this otherwise monochrome card

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

1. Through The Craft Room Door - Feb 9th-15th challenge - ANYTHING GOES
2. Lemon Shortbread - challenge No. 8 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Crafting from the heart - challenge No. 98 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Cards und More - challenge No. 151 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Craft Your Passion - challenge No. 298 - ANYTHING GOES

And then this one ...

My One Layer Card

And the insert and envelope

Materials used:-

• White C6/A2, 250gsm, card blank and matching sized envelope
• One piece of white card, cut to 9½ x 13½cm
• Chocolate Baroque stem from the Wisteria Lane set, stamped using Versafine onyx black ink
• Hero Arts sentiment and Paper Artsy splatter stamped using Memento grey flannel ink, the splatter stamped twice without re-inking

I'll be entering this for the following challenges:

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 263 - One Layer Card and FEATURE A STEM
2. Alphabet challenge - Challenge "Y" - YOU CHOOSE
3. Simply Papercraft for all occasions - challenge No. 23 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Simon Says Stamp - February 10th challenge - ONE LAYER CARD

One of my challenge entries was picked as a TOP 3 over at Twofers and, below right, was my make for their metal challenge - thanks to the Design Team for picking my entry

 

Enjoy your weekend!