Sunday Snippets - 28th September

Hi Playmates!

I don't do ‘cute' very much these days - but I simply couldn't resist this £1 charity shop find . . . a little LOTV bear stamp (with a sentiment that I opted to leave off this square card). 

Card measures 5" square

Details:

• LOTV bear stamp.
• Floral punch-out added to the top right corner.
• Watercolour pencils and a waterbrush were used to colour the main image. 
• All paper items on the card front are from SNIPPETS!

Miss Di is in charge of the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight - so skip over there to find out what lovely prize she is offering, as well as all the details on how to enter. 

Sparkly Friends!

Hi there!

I used a preloved Woodware stamp (Daisy Panel JGS334) that I bought for a great price at a local destash event a little while ago.

I coloured the image with glittery Posca Pens which had been scribbled onto a non-stick sheet and picked up with a water brush. The sentiment is from a Visible Image set called “A Friend Like You”.

DL sized card.

Close up of the card front - attempting to show you the sparkle!

Sunday Snippets - 21st September

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 which lucky playmate won the prize. There's still nearly a week left to play in the current challenge if you haven't already done so.

For my snippets homework I have a floral card to share. 

Landscape A6 card

Details:

• Aall & Create flower border stamp designed by Tracy Evans. (I cut this large border stamp down in size to suit my needs better.)
• Woodware Sentiment from a fishing set they made years ago. 
• Kuretake "Starry Colors" gold watercolour paints used on the hexagons. 
• Kitsch Flamingo & Picked Raspberry Distress Inks to colour the flower.
• The flower was stamped for a second time onto a snippet of white card, coloured and cut out. It was then added to the card front with foam pads and a dot of glue at the top of the stem. 

Chicken Wings anyone?

I hardly ever make sets of ATCs, but wanted to play with my Artemio chickens - a stamp set that I've had for a long time and yet they rarely see ink! The Artemio stamps were called something like Pico - but are long retired  

So, to remedy that, here's a trio of chicken ATCs - which I hope make you smile.

I'm making this my third entry into the Tag-Along & ATCs September challenge where the optional theme is THINGS WITH WINGS (or anything goes).

Details: 

• All three ATCs were created from snippets of white card, left over from making my own card blanks. Each one has been edged with a gold Sakura Pen-Touch calligraphy pen.
• TOP LEFT ATC: Artemio chickens; Funky Fossil Protea flower stencil (tops of the stencil petals used to create "grass"); Uniko Nature's Treasures stencil for the leaves; "buddies" word from Aall & Create's "Strange Birds" set #464. 
• TOP RIGHT ATC: Artemio chicken; top & bottom stamping from a cut-down stamp by Aall & Create. Sentiment from Aall & Create's "Strange Birds" set #464. 
• BOTTOM ATC: Artemio Chicken (stamped twice and decoupaged); Visible Image "Ink Swirls" stencil for the background, brushed with blue and green Distress Inks. The sentiment is old and I cannot remember where it came from - but was possibly a magazine freebie along with  some feather stamps!

Sunday Snippets - 14th September

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND. This is a great opportunity for you to use up some of your snippets, then come over to the Playground for a 'show and tell'.

Miss Di is feeling better, but still has some healing to do. She's been safely ensconced in a comfy chair in the Staff Room with Dudley dancing attendance! 

For my homework this week I made a card showing how one of the prize stamps can be used - as I have the same stamp in my own collection:

Card measures 5" square

Details:

• Crafty Roo "Embrace the simple things" sentiment stamp (no longer available unless you win the challenge prize!).
• AALL & Create #67 "Broken Circles" stencil.
• SU splatter stamp from the retired "Gorgeous Grunge" set.
• Florileges Design "newsprint" stamp (dabbed on here and there!).
• Snippets: the daisy and its centre. The daisy die is by Marianne Designs. The flower centre is waste fall out from cutting with other dies!

Leafy card for Allsorts

Hi Crafty Friends!

I have a stamped and die cut card using one of my gelli prints to share with you today. I'm entering it into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #832 where the lovely Val has chosen the theme of Trees, Leaves and Plants (or you can enter an "anything goes' project). I went with LEAVES!

Card measures 5" square

Details:

• Simon Says Stamp die:"Circle of Leaves" used to cut the leafy circle from a gel plate print
• Heffy Doodle "Stitched Circle" die used to make the outer frame.
• Lots of Studio Light and Florileges Design stamps used from different sets to create the background.

Tag-Along & ATC September Challenge

Here’s an ATC with a lovely silhouette butterfly by Visible Image, flying away from delicate flowers. I’m entering this into the current TAG-ALONG & ATCs September Challenge which has the optional theme of THINGS WITH WINGS (or anything goes).

ATC measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

Details:

• SU Night of Navy ink used to stamp with.
• SU Night of Navy card used to mount the main image, which was in turn mounted to the white ATC base with foam pads for some dimension.
• Visible Image butterfly (from theVI Mini’s #1 set)
• Studio Light Flower from the "Dried Flowers" duo (SL-ES-STAMP828).
• All the pieces of card used for this ATC were snippets. 

Sunday Snippets - handbags at dawn!

Hi Playmates!

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 the current challenge if you haven't already done so.

I used just two snippets on the card below, but I hope you agree they make a great focal point.

Card measures 5" square

Details:

• Handbag stamp - bought from eBay yonks ago and looks to be handmade and therefore unbranded.; Image coloured with Distress Ink.
• Snippet of yellow card, die cut with a Heffy Doodle Stitched Square die.
• A Sweet Huni "glossies" self-adhesive gem for flower centre.
• Uniko sentiment.

White snippets, stamped, coloured
and cut out with scissors.

As you can see from the above photo, I stamped a few handbags onto a larger white snippet and then watercoloured each one before cutting it out. Here's another card that I used one of the yellow bags on:

Card measures 5" square

Details:

• Background stamps from various sets by Kaisercraft; Studio Light and Bee Crafty - stamped in Misty Moonlight SU ink.
• Unbranded handbag stamp coloured with Distress Ink.
• Light blue self-adhesive gem used on flower centre.
• Snippet of SU Misty Moonlight card die cut with a Spellbinders circle die.

Floral One Layer Birthday Card

Today I'm sharing a One Layer Card (OLC) with you. I love the Clean And Simple (CAS) look of it. 

Card measures 4.5" square

Details:

1. Stamped the "Creative Chaos" Visible Image flower direct to the card front, together with a PaperArtsy birthday sentiment.
2. Flower is coloured with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink in various dilutions using a water brush.

I'm taking this card over to the ALLSORTS' CURRENT CHALLENGE #831 where the optional theme is BIRTHDAYS.