Sarn's Sunday Snippets

Hi Playmates!

It's been a fun week of partying in the Playground so far, with Brenda starting another Conga around the Playground last night! There's plenty of grog and party snacks in my satchel - all of which I'm willing to share! Carrie brought along her famous Chocolate Chip cookies. Miss Di's 'Snippets Special' cocktail seems to be going down a treat, as are Eve's lethal homemade cocktails. Talking of things that went down a treat, our Crafty Nomad, Gail, smuggled in a Terrific Tequila Trifle. DeeJay Dudley has kept us bopping to the music into the wee hours - I fear our homework will suffer as a result! 

Card measures 5" x 7"

Details:

• First, I grabbed an A4 sheet of white card (300 gsm) and trimmed it to 10" x 7", scoring and folding it in half  to create a 5" x 7" card.
• I confess that I had to cut into a brand new A4 sheet of SU Island Indigo card for the centre strip and the mounts.
• I stamped the Penny Black fern onto white snippets and fussy cut each one by hand, then trimmed them down very slightly to measure 2.25" x 1", then mounted them on to 3 more white snippets measuring a quarter of inch larger all round. These were then attached to the Island Indigo mounts with foam pads and then adhered to the card front with the aid of a T-square ruler for alignment.
• Finally, I stamped the wonderfully large Uniko 'Birthday' stamp (long retired) at the bottom in Island Indigo ink.

I'm delighted to get a masculine birthday card made and will be adding it as my second entry into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE 817 under the optional theme of 'Shades of Blue'. 

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. There's still nearly a week left to play in Di's current challenge if you haven't already done so.

Allsorts - Shades of Blue - Challenge 817

Over at the Allsorts Challenge (#817) - Liz has set a 'Shades of Blue' theme (or you can enter under the 'Anything Goes' option). 

I like to rise to the challenge of the theme, so I have a card to share that is in shades of blue - which just happens to be my favourite colour - so it's a great theme for me to play along with.

I used a sparkly silver Signo pen to add interest around the petals - but it doesn't show up very well in the main picture, so I angled it to try and catch the light better in the photo below.

Attempting to show you the glittery shine of 
the Signo pen!

Details:

• Light blue snippet of SU Designer Paper, dry embossed and stuck to the left hand side of the card.
• Penny Black "Whispers" (3377K) stamped in SU Night of Navy ink. Coloured using a waterbrush and SU Pool Party and Night of Navy inks.
• Signo silver glitter gel pen used to highlight the flowers (see second photo).
• Heffy Doodle Stitched Rectangle die used to cut the focal image from a white snippet. The image was stuck to the card front with foam pads for a little dimension.

Happy Crafting!

A Masculine Birthday Card

Hi there!

Today I'm sharing a masculine card with you. I find it more difficult to create masculine card designs and I know I'm not alone in this. Maybe it's due to the abundance of floral and girly items in my craft room!

A6 sized card

Anyway, this is a CAS card made with just two stamps and four ink pads. I cut the panel with a Heffy Doodle Stitched Rectangle die and mounted it to the card front with foam pads.

ATC Around the World Challenge

The theme of the current ATC Around the World Challenge is COFFEE or TEA, so off I dashed to make an ATC with my coffee stamps.

Details:

• Latte coffee cup image from the Tim Holtz "Fresh Brewed" (THMB025) stamp set by Stampers Anonymous. I used a water brush to paint the image using the same brown dye ink it was stamped in. Also used Distress Ink in Kitsch Flamingo for the centre logo.
• Coffee border stamp is so old I don't know who made it, but it was probably retired long ago.
• All white and brown card used for this ATC is from my snippets pile!

Anyone fancy a cuppa up in the treehouse?

Hi Playmates

My homework is a card for all you coffee lovers out there. It came about because I wanted to play with some pre-loved stamps I bought at a local destash event. 

Card measures 4.75" square

Details:

• All the brown layers in the centre of the card are snippets. 
• Funky Fossil "Caffeine Buzz" stencil used for the background.
• Coffee mug from the Tim Holtz "Fresh Brewed" (THMB025) stamp set by Stampers Anonymous. The mug was stamped onto the medium brown panel, then stamped again onto a lighter brown snippet which was cut out and attached with foam pads.

Playground Round-up:

I'm afraid all the croissants have been scoffed, but there's still plenty of treats being brought up to the treehouse in my satchel. Apparently an air fryer might be in the offing . . . but that will be Miss Di's territory. Too steep a learning curve for my little brain! 

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 nearly a week left to play in the current challenge if you haven't already done so.

Remember that Challenge #500 starts next Sunday at midnight with a mandatory "Celebration" theme to comply with. There WILL be cocktails!

Love

Hello Crafty Friends!

I made this card for the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE (#816) which has a theme of ROMANCE and/or MUSIC (or there's the anything goes option). There are some wonderful AALL & Create stamps and stencils to be won . . . what more incentive do you need to join in?

Card measures 4.75" x 4.75"

Details:

• Tim Holtz Mixed Media die used to cut the holes in the card front.
• A piece of brown packing paper was adhered to the inside of the card front.
• LOVE sentiment die (from The Works, I think) stacked 3 times using snippets of white card and patterned paper, then glued to the card front. The patterned paper is actually dark purple, but doesn't really come out well in the photo.

Sunday Snippets - Gift wrapping

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. This is your opportunity to use up some snippets, then come over to the Playground to 'show and tell' via Mr Linky.

I use brown paper to wrap ALL my gifts, but I do like to decorate them, and this is what I did for a couple of recent birthday presents. A fun way to use up a few more white snippets don't you think?

Birthday gifts.

Snippets used to decorate gift wrapping.

Playground round-up:

The new challenge, starting today, is no. 499, which means that in a fortnight's time, Di will be hosting the 500TH CHALLENGE and, of course, we will be celebrating! There will be a mandatory CELEBRATION theme - so you'll need to get your thinking caps on to comply - hence this little 'heads-up'. Think along the lines of: new baby; big birthday; anniversary; engagement; wedding etc.

The treehouse microwave is still proving to be a worthwhile investment and we've been enjoying some lovely warming stews and soups, not to mention lashings of hot chocolate. My satchel has been bulging with chocolate croissants ready to heat up for everyone.