Sunday Snippets in Red and Green

Hi Playmates!

Miss Di is in charge of the new SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND challenge for the next fortnight - and I must say the Playground is looking VERY festive. Everything has been decorated and there’s a huge Christmas tree in the Assembly Hall. 

Rehearsals for the Nativity Play are going well with all you little (ahem!) angels running amok. It’s going to be the usual mayhem with myself, Di and Dudley running around like headless chickens, but it is a lot of fun!

For my homework this week, I made a festive card with plenty of red and green on it so that I could enter the current WE LOVE STAMPING CHALLENGE using their theme.

The cream card measures 5" square

Materials:

• Background stamping = Numerous grunge stamps by Kaiserkraft, Studio Light, plus splatters fromSU’s  Gorgeous Grunge set, stamped onto a white snippet.
• Focal point stamping =The postmark stamp is from the Hobby Art Christmas Post CS068D set. I stamped it on the panel and again onto another snippet so that I could cut it out and stick it on with foam pads. I inked the postmark and panel edges with whatever orange Distress Oxide ink was left on the brush. 
• Die Cutting: Winter foliage from gel print snippets (Hidden Leaves dies by Sizzix Code 664581).
• The bird die (unbranded set from TEMU) was cut from the last remaining red snippets of card I could find.

Green gelli plate snippets & the last couple 
of red snippets I managed to squeeze the birds out of!

I also made an ATC while I had the above snippets out on my desk. Managed to cut x 2.5" x 3.5” piece out of the dark green gel print to mount the bird panel on. I stencilled the white snippet (not shown in the pic) first, adding some dark brown splatters, then stamped the sentiment before glueing the foliage and bird in place. 

ATC

I would like to enter the ATC into the DECEMBER TAG ALONG & ATC CHALLENGE where the theme is RED & GREEN (but there’s also an anything goes option).

Materials:

• Heffy Doodle “Numicon” stencil used on the white panel with light green ink.
• SU splatter stamp from “Gorgeous Grunge” used with dark brown ink.
• Crafty Roo “Happy Christmas” sentiment stamped in VFC Spruce ink.
• Dark green gel print snippet shown in the photo trimmed to 2.5” x 3.5” - used for the main panel mount.
• Green foliage die from the Hidden Leaves set by Sizzix (Code 664581) - cut from a gel print snippet.
• Red bird (unbranded die set bought from Temu) cut from red snippets of card.

Remember there are EXTRA PRIZES to be won in the December challenges at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND, so why not come over to play? 

Christmas Snippets!

Hi Lovely Reader!

Thanks for dropping by at this busy time of year.

As previously mentioned, I have started making next year's Christmas cards, so I stamped up a few white card snippets and coloured them in. Then I cut them out and set about making some festive cards. 

Stamped up snippets.

Coloured and cut out images.

Cards made with a few of the snippets.
I still have the remaining images to use up.

I was going to enter one of the red and green gonk cards into the We Love Stamping December Challenge . . . until I realised that I had no idea of the gonk stamp details (a requirement for copyright purposes). I thought the set might have been by Lisa Horton for Creative Expressions, but it's several years old and I cannot locate it anywhere, so that's that plan scuppered!

Sunday Snippets - “Love" Collage Card

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 was in the mood to create some collage, so I grabbed my junk journal shoebox and found little snippets of paper which I arranged and then glued to the card front.

MATERIALS:

• Everything on the card front is a snippet from my junk journal shoebox. I used snippets of patterned paper; book pages; a leaflet; packaging and a Visible Image flower that had been stamped onto a snippet of copy paper, so I coloured it in and added it as the focal point. 
• The “love” word is a snippet from the Warm Breeze Craft O’Clock paper pack.

Psst: There are extra prizes to be won in the December challenges at the Snippets Playground - so there are even more reasons to use up your snippets than usual! 

A Steampunk Journal

Hi there!

Something a little different from me today - and it's a very PHOTO HEAVY POST - so you might want to make yourself comfortable!

A Steampunk journal made of elements from a Stamperia paper/sticker/pop-out die cuts pack called Voyages Fantastique. 

I went halves on the pack with a friend, and we each made a 5” x 7” journal from it. In addition to our journals, we have also made three Steampunk Zines. 

You can see more of the pocket and tag details if you  enlarge the photo’s.

Here's the front cover:

Front cover

And here's a little flick through the inside:

Pages 1 & 2

Pages 3 & 4

Pages 5 & 6

Pages 7 & 8 - with a flap to be lifted to reveal what’s beneath!

Pages 7 & 8 showing the flap lifted so you can see
the secrets beneath

Pages 9 & 10

Pages 11 & 12 showing the additional pocket and envelope
which tucks behind the collaged band as in the photo below:

Pages 11 & 12

Pages 13 & 14

Rear cover

If you would like to see the Steampunk Zine I made using further elements from the Voyages Fantastique pack, please visit the page at the top of this blog.

Thanks for looking.