Saturday .. chatter

Hi there

Hope your Saturday is coming along well. I've had a very sociable week this week with several meetings with friends, a day out playing tourist (and a cream tea) - very nice. Next week may feel like a bit of an anti climax though! Still, mustn't grumble, I'm pretty SURE I can find something to do!

I'm STILL making ATC's like I don't know how to do anything else!

My ATC

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in both navy and white
• Viva Las Vegas image (from plate #921) stamped on to the white snippet using Memento tuxedo black ink
• Image coloured using Faber Castell polychromos pencils
• Background coloured using Marvy le plume alcohol marker B711
• Kaisercraft (from the edges set) border stamped using Ranger Archival violet ink
• Paper Artsy sentiments (from eclectic plate #3) stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink
• White Tsukineko gelly roll gel pen used to doodle a border on to the navy layer

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

1. The House that stamps built - challenge No. 2817 - ANYTHING GOES
2. Colour Crazy - challenge No. 26 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Brown Sugar - challenge No. 257 - ANYTHING GOES

Actually managed a CARD today, I seem to be stuck making ATC's this week so it made a nice change ..

My card

 

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

Materials used:

• White C6/A2, 250gsm, card and matching envelope
• Two pieces of card (one white, one navy) cut to 14.2cm x 10cm
• One piece of white card cut to 13.7cm x 9.5cm
• Low tack tape used to mask off a triangle ... this shape was chosen to reflect the wedge shapes (albeit the wedges are blue but ... I plead artistic license!) within the Union flag of the UK along with it's colours of red, white and blue .. see below
• Distress Ink in candied apple applied using a Tim Holtz mini blending tool
• Creative Expressions splatter (Inspired Edges set) and Paper Artsy (JOFY14 set) stamped using Memento Paris dusk ink
• Paper Artsy (JOFY14 set) stamped using Versafine satin red ink
• A quick spritz with Crafters Companion spray and shine to protect the water based distress ink

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

1. Simply Less Is More - challenge No. 335 - COUNTRY FLAG COLOURS
2. That's Crafty - June 23rd challenge - KEEP IT SIMPLE
3. Through The Purple Haze - challenge No. 128 - SPOTS and/or STRIPES
4. Craftbubble 2½ (membership required) - 3rd Quarterly challenge - USE WARM COLOURS
5. Kraftin' Kimmie - July 01st challenge - RED, WHITE and BLUE