Bird ATC

Here's a little Artist Trading Card (ATC) with a sweet sentiment that I'm hoping qualifies for the "Getting Sentimental" theme of this week's ALLSORTS CHALLENGE( #796). All you have to do is add a sentiment to your project (or choose the Anything Goes option).

ATC measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

MATERIALS:

• Washi tape by Funky Fossil (out of stock, but probably discontinued)
• Bird stamp from JOFY Lovebirds set by PaperArtsy, coloured with Tombow marker pens.
• Sentiment created from a couple of different Uniko stamp sets

Sunday Snippets - Love is in the air!

Hi Playmates!

I have a wedding card to submit as my homework this week. I stuffed a few bottles of bubbly and some wedding cake into my satchel too (see me up in the Treehouse to share some of the plunder later!).

I used the Eclipse Technique, plus some gold heat embossing to make the card panel with an AALL & Create heart stamp and a word die from The Works.

5.75" square base card

A close-up shot to show up the heat embossing
which is difficult to photograph

White snippet for the Eclipse layers

Details:

• White card snippet to die cut the word "love" x 3 to layer up.
• "Love" die by The Works (retired).
• Main card panel stamped with Versamark ink, then heat embossed with WOW gold embossing powder. The embossed heart image was subsequently die cut with the "love" die.
• Heart image by AALL & Create from stamp set #896 "Forget Me Not". NB: I have cut down the size of the hearts in this stamp set to suit me better.
• "On Your Wedding Day" - stamp make unknown
• White panel mounted onto a piece of SU Rich Razzleberry card - both were die cut with Heffy Doodle Stitched Square dies.

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. So why not take a look at your pile of snippets (I KNOW you have some), make something with them, then come and play!

Sunday Snippets - Bird ATC

Hi Playmates!

My homework for this week is an Artist Trading Card (ATC) measuring 3½" x 2½". 

Materials:

• Grey snippet cut to 3½" x 2½"
• White snippet cut to 3¼" x 2¼" & smooshed through some Distress Oxide inks.
• BIRD word stamp from PaperArtsy Hot Picks set HP1005EZ
• Bird & branch die from The Works. Can't remember the details of the flower stem die beneath, but both were originally white snippets, smooshed through spritzed Black Soot Distress Ink.

I have published RESULTS from the previous challenge, so please hop over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire the top picks and discover which lucky playmate won the prize. Plenty of ice cold jugs of squash available up in the Playground once you've finished playing. 

Sarn's Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates

Wow it's been a hot one in the UK this week! Not much crafting has been done at my place I can tell you!

However, I still have something to share with you, and this time it's a masculine birthday card for a friend of mine . . . made with my favourite leafy dies. 

There's a stash of blueberry muffins under a glass domed cake stand up in the treehouse for elevenses - feel free to help yourself. I bagsy the comfy seat nearest the fan - and because I'm Prefect, I'm gonna pull rank! I'm thinking about asking Miss Di if there's enough money left over from raffle ticket sales to install air con in the treehouse!

Card base: 4.75" square

Leafy snippet

DETAILS:

• White snippet of card inked by tapping various Distress Inks onto a non-stick craft sheet, spritzing the ink with water and dabbing the white snippet through the result. Added a bit of grungy stamping on top once the ink was dry, using an old Kaisercraft stamp, plus a few splatters.
• Tim Holtz "Leaf Fragments" dies used to cut leaves from the inky snippet.
• AALL & Create Washi tape #13 added along the bottom of the card because it matched the leaf colours so well!
• The sentiment is from a JOFY PaperArtsy stamp set.
• I stamped the tip of an AALL & Create grunge stamp at the very top of the card to join up the leaves and painted on a few dots for faux splatters.

There's a new challenge to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND hosted by Miss Di for the next fortnight.

Thanks for looking at my blog today, and for any comment you may choose to leaf(!). 

HAPPY CRAFTING.