Blue Birthday Flowers

Hi there!

Today I'm sharing a one layer birthday card with you.

A6 sized card.

Details:

• Lovely large background stamp by Crafty Individuals (ref CI-514), stamped in SU Pool Party ink.
• Flowers from Aall & Create's Flower Smudge set No. 985, stamped in SU Island Indigo ink. Please note that I have cut the flower stamp into pieces to better suit my needs - it does not look like this when you buy it!
• Flowers grounded with a small grungy stamp designed by Asia Marquet for IndigoBlu. 
• Sentiment by Stampin' Up!

Sunday Snippets - 19th October 2025

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 homework, I made a tag which I'd like to enter into the October Tag-Along & ATCs Challenge, where the theme is ANYTHING AUTUMN (or anything goes).

I used one of the smaller scalloped tags from the prize I was lucky enough to win from the Tag-Along & ATCs challenge last month, and am entering under the 'anything goes' option as I'm not sure the scene is all that autumnal!

Details:

• Super Size Nestables Scalloped Tags Die Set by Creative Crafts used to make the tag.
• The tag was cut from a snippet of acrylic paper & the ribbon is also a snippet (probably a clothes tag in a previous life!).
• Inks: Faded Jeans & Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks for the sky; Walnut Stain Distress Oxide for the hill and bunny shadows. VFC Pinecone for the rabbits & foliage.
• Sakura 08 Gelly Roll white pen for highlights.
• Lavinia stamps used: Mini Leaf 5; Vine; Wild Hares (Large)
• Other tools: Crop-A-Dile to set the eyelet; torn paper to create hill mask; plastic circle for the moon; "make-up" brushes to add background inking.

I’m off to look for my pumpkin pie recipe as I need a few pies ready for reheating in the Treehouse microwave for when we’re all ravenous after school! Reckon a slice will go down well with a mug of hot chocolate don’t you?! Remember to sign up for Miss Di's Pumpkin Carving Class too! 

Sunday Snippets - 12th October 2025

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 for a 'show and tell' via Mr Linky.

For my homework this week I decided to make a monochromatic card with a VERY OLD stamp by Rubber Romance. I’m afraid the name of the stamp is lost in the mists of time, but I'm calling her "Chocolate Girl"!

5.5" x 4.5” Landscape side opening card

Everything was stamped and coloured with SU Misty Moonlight ink.

I tapped the ink pad onto an acrylic block and picked up the colour with a waterbrush to colour the image, which was then mounted on a snippet of SU Misty Moonlight card. The sentiment is made up from two different stamp sets - one of which is by Stamping All Day.

There's not mushroom on an ATC!

I love to join in with the TAG ALONG & ATCs challenge, and to that end, I've made an ATC that complies with their current theme of ANYTHING AUTUMN (or you can choose the 'anything goes' option).

2.5" x 3.5"

Details:

• All mushrooms and foliage by Lavinia Stamps. (Mini Meadow Mushroom  and Meadow Mushroom.) Small foliage stamp appears to be retired.
• Autumn word by Crafty Roo (no longer in business).
• Snippet of white card to stamp on.
• Cardboard packaging to mount the white card on.

Foxy!

The current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #833 has a theme of WOODLAND CRITTERS (or anything goes) so I made this ATC.

I'm also entering this ATC into the TAG-ALONG & ATCs October challenge. The current theme is ANYTHING AUTUMN, but I'm entering this under the anything goes option. I was the lucky winner of the September Tag-Along & ATCs challenge, so watch this space for a couple of tags using my lovely prize!

2.5" x 3.5" ATC

Details:

• Penny Black sentiment (probably long-retired!)
• Aall & Create fox from the 'Up Up & Away' stamp (set #467), coloured with Distress Inks and a waterbrush.
• Torn piece of paper used as a mask to create hill with green ink, then various distress inks were dotted on.
• White & gold snippets of card cut to size to make standard ATC.

Sunday Snippets - 5th October

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.

For my homework I've created a floral card using lots of snippets. In fact, EVERYTHING stuck to the card front is a snippet! It's been a wild and woolly week of weather here in the UK, but remember the sun always shines in the Snippets Playground, so come on over to play!

Card measures 5" square

The snippets after die cutting!

Details:

• "Modern Floristry" die set designed by Tim Holtz for Sizzix - cut from various gelli prints to make up the flower, stamen and leaves.
• Flower & leaves glued to snippet of patterned paper, and mounted onto a gelli print snippet before being added to the card front.
• Sentiment by Stampin' Up! inked with Marina Mist.

Stencilled OLC

Today I'm sharing a One Layer Card (OLC) which has simply been stencilled and stamped.

Card measures 5" square

Details:

• Inks: VFC Pine Cone (for the sentiment) and Wild Honey DI (for the stencilling).
• Funky Fossil "Meadow Flower Silhouettes" foliage stencil used over the top of the background.
• Visible Image "Collision" stencil (in the background)
• Crafty Roo sentiment (no longer available).