Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates!

I have a card for you today, using a floral image called Poppy Bloom by Hobby Art. I love this image and should use it more often! 

My thanks to Jules for the info on the stamp name & maker - which I had forgotten at the original time of posting this blog page. 😘

THE DETAILS:

• First, I trimmed a larger white snippet to fit the card front, then stamped the floral image on to it.
• The flowers were watercoloured. Once the image was dry, I added some Signo glittery pen lines (not showing up in the photo of course!)
• The Visible Image sentiment (from their very useful Birthday Wishes set) was stamped below the main image.
• Next I cut into a fresh A4 sheet of SU Rich Razzleberry to make a mount for the central panel.
• Glued it all together and added it to the card front. 

Over in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND, I have published RESULTS from my previous challenge, so please hop over to admire the top picks and discover which 2 lucky playmates won the prize bundles.

Sarn's Snippets!

Hi Playmates

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND where Miss Di is in charge for the next fortnight - so skip over there to find out what lovely prize she is offering, and get all the details on how to enter. We're back to normal - no theme this time - just make anything you like with your snippets.

I have not one, but TWO pieces of homework to share with you today! The first is a little 3" x 3" card and the other piece, further down the post, is an ATC. They both use cute and quirky little birds from my recently acquired Aall & Create stamp set: #464 "Strange Birds".

Aall & Create bird stamped onto a gelli print snippet then cut out
and glued on to the flower stem.

Green snippet used for the flower stems.

Next up is the ATC:

ATC measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

The ATC was created with blue and orange snippets, trimmed to the usual ATC size. I simply brushed Black Soot DI through a stencil to create a leafy branch. The bird was stamped onto a gelli print snippet, then I added a bit of detailing with black and white pens. I cut the bird out with scissors and glued him onto the stencilled branch!

I added the sentiment from the same stamp set, then brushed the edges of the blue piece of card with Black Soot DI before mounting it onto the orange snippet.

MATERIALS:

• Funky Fossil stencil 'Meadow Flowers' for the leafy branches.
• Aall & Create 'Strange Birds' #464 stamp set
• Blue and orange snippets by Stampin' Up! & beak coloured with a blue pen.
  
• Bird stamped onto a gelli print snippet

See HERE for another card I made with the same set!

Snippets Playground Celebrations!

Hi Playmates!

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight. 

It's another special challenge to celebrate the 12th year of Miss Di holding the Playground keys. In honour of this event, Di and I have decided to add another theme to the challenge. So - please submit your homework on the theme of "CELEBRATION". You are free to interpret this as you wish - any celebration will count (new baby; birthdays; special anniversary or any other celebratory event) as long as it is obvious what the celebration is on your project.

To comply with the challenge theme, I've chosen a special birthday celebration.

A diamond fold springy card.

Envelope already made. 
Remaining snippets of burgundy paper,
plus other pieces of card.

Hadn't made one of these cards for AGES and it was fun to revisit this springy card shape which, happily, folds flat for posting.

Over to YOU now . . . check out your pile of snippets, make something with them on the CELEBRATION theme, then come and play. There are 2 bumper prizes  full of festive goodies available, so you won't want to miss out. Plus, you can put on your party frock and come to the Treehouse where there will be champagne and lots of party food available on the evening of 8th Jan (the actual hand-over date all those years ago!).

You can make this shaped card from any size rectangle as long as you mark the quarter and half points, then score and cut as per the diagram below.