Another Modern Floristry Card

Hi Playmates!

Here's another card made with the Sizzix Modern Floristry set of dies. I used white snippets for the main panel as well as all the die cutting. The flowers were coloured by using brushes with various Distress Inks (with the die cut put back into the hole left from cutting it to hold it in place). The main panel was then mounted onto a piece of SU Lucky Limeade card and adhered to the card front.

I was inspired to make this card having watched this Pete Hughes You Tube video.

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

HAPPY CRAFTING!

A card for Allsorts' 800th Challenge

It's Saturday and time for a special challenge over at ALLSORTS where they are celebrating their 800th Challenge.

There is no theme at all . . . it is purely ANYTHING GOES. There are extra prizes up for grabs and you can enter up to 3 times to increase your chances!

I'm delighted to be a Guest Designer with Allsorts this week (thanks girls) and look forward to seeing all your makes.

Details:

• Heffy Doodle Stitched Square dies used on white snippets to create centre panel and a frame around it. Unfortunately Heffy Doodle recently went out of business.
• Centre panel stamped and stencilled using Stampin' Up!'s Gorgeous Grape ink with ink splat stamps from Stampin' Up!'s Gorgeous Grunge set as well as Funky Fossil's Make Art stencil.
• Aall & Create "Nature's Beauty" sentiment added from the Forget Me Not #896 set.
• Visible Image Butterfly probably from the Live Life Now set. 

So why not make a card and come join in the Allsorts celebrations?

Sarn's Sunday Snippets

Hi Playmates!

Di has published RESULTS from the previous challenge, so please hop over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire her top picks and discover who won the prize. There's still another week left to play in the current challenge if you haven't already done so.

Here's my homework:

This week, my satchel is bulging with Bonne Maman Lemon Madeleines. They are SCRUMPTIOUS and go so well with a cuppa! 

Materials:

• Snippets of Sahara Sand and Basic Grey card for matting and layering.
• White snippet for stamping the main panel.
• Fun sentiment from Aall & Create's "Strange Birds" stamp set #464.
• Chicken from a retired Artemio stamp set.
• Grounding stamp from a (possibly retired) Asia Marquet stamp set made by IndigoBlu.
• Stamping was done using Stampin' Up!'s Sahara Sand and Basic Grey dye inks.

Wishing you a happy crafting week ahead. The nights are really drawing in now. Time to get cosy in the craft room! 

Sympathy Card

Hi there! Thanks for dropping by my blog today.

I have a sympathy card to share with you. The focal panel was created entirely from snippets.

C6 sized card opening on right hand side.

Die cut foliage snippets - stacked & glued together.

MATERIALS:

• C6 card blank in landscape orientation, opening on the right hand side.
• Heffy Doodle Skinny Metric Rectangle Frame dies used to cut a white snippet to surround the patterned paper. (Heffy Doodle are no longer in business.)
• Purple patterned paper die cut with same Heffy Doodle die for perfect match.
• Sizzix "Hidden Leaves" dies used to cut foliage from white snippets (see photo). The leaves were glued together in a stack to create a sturdy topper for dimension.
• Sympathy sentiment was stamped with SU Rich Razzleberry dye ink and is part of a Clearly Besotted "Small Sentiments" stamp set. 

I'm entering this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #799 where the theme is Get Well or With Sympathy (or you can use the anything goes option).

At the time of posting this, there is still a week left to play in the current SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND CHALLENGE. So if you use some snippets on your card, please feel free to come and play on the swings with us.

Artist Trading Coins & a Holder

Hi Playmates!

This trio of AT Coins and their holder were made entirely from snippets. This post is a bit picture heavy so you might want to grab a cuppa.

I originally cut a sheet of 12" x 12" double sided paper to make an ATC holder, then wondered what to do with the remaining snippet! Had a brainwave . . . and used it to make a smaller holder suitable for Coins instead of Cards!

The trio of AT Coins that filled the holder - die cutting
white snippets and patterned paper. Embellishing with more
die cuts, stamping and stencilling.

The AT Coin holder made by scoring and folding a snippet
of 12 x 12 paper and using an envelope notch punch
for the little groove.

This Coin uses the negative from die cutting a daisy out
of the circle of patterned paper, then adding a
punched out centre.
(The daisy was used for something else!)

White circle snippet, stencilled with The Greetery's brick
die. Foliage die cut from Sizzix Hidden Leaves set.
Words from Aall & Create's The Good set. 
Circular frame die cut from the patterned paper.

Die cut circle of patterned paper, plus a white frame.
Visible Image words stamped in embossing ink, sprinkled
with white EP and heat set. Sprig from Sizzix Hidden Leaves set.

A tiny card I made from a white snippet and inserted
into one of the holder's pockets - using up another snippet
of the double sided patterned paper.
I also punched out stars from a different snippet of the same paper.
Not sure who made the sentiment stamp.

The front of the holder - using up a purple square and
the blue graph heart which were originally
someone else's snippets! LOL!

I had heaps of fun making this little holder and its contents and then posted it off to surprise a friend who I normally trade Artist Trading CARDS with, not Artist Trading COINS! Well they do say variety is the spice of life don't they?!

If you have some snippets to use up (and let's face it, who doesn't?) . . . why not make something and join in with the current SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND CHALLENGE. You're sure of a friendly welcome and are free to come and play on the swings.

Sunday Snippets - Pretty in Pink!

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. So take a look at your pile of snippets (I KNOW you have some), make something with them, then come and play!

In my satchel this week, I have cake, chocolate and bubbly to celebrate someone special's birthday. You'll find me, Di and Dudley, plus the usual suspects, getting up to mischief in the treehouse  - come and join in the fun!

Here's my homework: I had lots of fun creating this floral card from my pile of white snippets.

Materials:

• Everything apart from the card base was originally a white snippet.
• Distress Oxide Inks in Walnut Stain and Kitsch Flamingo were used to colour all the white die cut snippets as well as the panels they are attached to.
• Sizzix Modern Floristry die set by Tim Holtz used for all the flowers and foliage.
• Simply Said sentiment stamp by Uniko, cut out with scissors and stuck on either with foam pads or tiny snippets glued to it to build it up (I can't remember which!).
• Script background stamp (possibly by IndigoBlu) - stamped to the right of the panel after it was lightly brushed with Walnut Stain DOX ink.

Enjoy the week ahead. Wishing you plenty of time to craft.

Autumnal ATC

Here's an autumnal ATC I made last night so I could join in with Week 797 of the ALLSORTS CHALLENGE where they want to see you using Autumn Colours (or you can choose the Anything Goes option).

Artist Trading Card measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

Card Info:

• Magazine snippet glued to piece of packaging measuring 2 3/8" x 3 3/8".
• Using my finger I applied orange and blue acrylic paint to the magazine paper, mixing those colours in places to create green.
• Once the paints were dry, I stamped over the top with various stamps by PaperArtsy; Kaisercraft and IndigoBlu using black Ranger Archival ink.
• I rubbed some white gesso over the top so that the leaves would stand out from the background.
• A white snippet of card was used to die cut the stem using the "Hidden Leaves" set by Sizzix. It was smeared with paints left over on my non-stick craft sheet from creating the background. 
• Black splatters were stamped on the die cut stem using a stamp from SU's "Gorgeous Grunge" set (discontinued) and black archival ink. 
• Shadows were created by using a black Stabilo All pencil and a waterbrush..
• Finally I stamped the  word "Flourish" onto a white snippet, cut it out with scissors and glued it on. The word is from Aall & Create's stamp set #628 "Spread a Little Happiness".
• Then everything was glued onto a white snippet of 300gsm card measuring 2.5" x 3.5" for the correct ATC size.

Sunday Snippets - Eclipse Technique

Hi Playmates!

My satchel is practically bursting at the seams with homework, but there's still plenty of room for a few bottles of hooch, bars of chocolate and packets of crisps ready for After School Club.

I was busy admiring Lesley and Val's cards made using the Eclipse Technique, so, after refreshing my memory by watching Chrissie Stokes's video - I had a go myself. Thanks for the inspiration girls!

5.75 x 5.75" square card

White snippets die cut for the layers.

Details:

• Julie Hickey "birthday" die to create the Eclipse technique (see THIS YT VIDEO) - die cut from the image panel once, and from white snippets x3.
• AALL & Create flower stem from stamp set #985 Flower Smudge, stamped in SU Misty Moonlight ink.
• Heffy Doodle stitched square dies (retired) to die cut the panel and mount.

I went on to make a wedding card (here) after I tried out the technique on the birthday card above, but the wedding card got blogged first! 

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.

Have a lovely week. 

HAPPY CRAFTING.

Snippets Fun

Hi Playmates

I have been using up things that have been lying around for a while. Most especially, some magazine papers that had been lurking. Come and see what I've been up to:

First I made these:

Zigzag cards were created by scoring and folding long strips of
white card left over from making other card blanks!

Then I had this lot left over:

So I made these - with some additional patterned papers from the same magazine in blue and pink. The green snippet is left over from some DSP by Tim Holtz.

Six of the smaller card blanks in the above photo were created from my pile of white snippets. 

And now my desk looks much clearer! Yippee!

If you have some paper snippets to use up, why not grab a load of papers and see how many cards you can make in a session? Then choose one to enter as your SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND HOMEWORK. We have lots of skipping going on this week, or you can come up to the treehouse and get into mischief! Miss Di is hosting the current challenge.

What's in Sarn's Satchel this week?

Hi Playmates!

After all the cake and bubbly over the last fortnight, I've put the big skipping rope into my satchel, so we can all get together and have fun taking turns to turn the rope and jump in and out of it while singing rhymes to work off some of those calories!

For my homework I have created a leafy thank you card, using up some snippets that were originally white, but were subsequently inked up, with a little stamping added here and there, plus some splattering with Winsor & Newton gold drawing ink.

4.75" square card

Attempting to show you the gold splatters!

My die cut leaves for a number of cards
(originally white snippets of card).

And while I was at it - I made another leafy card with a couple more of the snippety leaves.

Washi tape at the side; leafy snippets and words from a PaperArtsy set.

There's a new challenge to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND hosted by Miss Di for the next fortnight. If you find yourself at a loose end, why not make something with your snippets then come over to play? There will be the usual shenanigans going on in the treehouse and behind the bike shed, plus . . . there's the aforementioned skipping to be done!