February Rudolph Day - Christmas Gonk

Hi there!

It's "Rudolph Day” for us crafters, so I'm sharing one of the festive cards I made earlier this year, ready for the coming December! 

 A6 sized card

Materials:

• Torn paper masks for snow drifts.
• Gonk by unknown make
• PaperArtsy snowflake stencil
• Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink, plus SU Night of Navy ink for the sentiment.
• Creative Expressions snow stencil
• Posca Pens scribbled onto a non-stick sheet and picked up with a waterbrush to colour the gonk.
• White snippet used to stamp the gonk on. It was then coloured, cut out and glued to the card front. 

You've got mail!

Hi there!

I made another little ATC so I could make a final entry into the current TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE for February - which ends in 5 days time, so get your skates on if you want to play along!

ATC

As the ATC hasn't got any numbers on it, I'll be entering under the Anything Goes option. Great prize on offer. 

Details:

• White snippet of card trimmed to 2.5" x 3.5" with a corner rounder punch used on opposite corners.
• Stencilled the background with AALL & CREATE's Florastella stencil. 
• Tore a gelli print snippet and glued it to the ATC front in opposite corners, then added an unknown script stamp (possibly by IndigoBlu) over the top.
• Die-cut the bundle of envelopes from white card and carefully coloured in the envelopes at the back of the bundle, along with the ribbon. The unbranded envelope die was a gift so I don't have the details, although it was possibly from Amazon or Temu. 

Sunday Snippets - Sarntangled Card

Hi there 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. There’s a lot of skiving going on as entry numbers are low at the moment!

5” square card

I trimmed a white snippet of card to 3” x 3” and tangled on it, then mounted it on to a black snippet of card that was trimmed to 3.25” x 3.25”. It needed something else on the card front, so I stamped my loopy Sarntangle stamp at opposite corners, which worked a treat!

Please feel free to play with your own snippets then come over to the Snippets Playground for Sunday Morning Breakfast Club. 

Magic Hare ATC

Hi there!

I have a little ATC to share with you today - created with Lavinia stamps and a dotty circle stencil.

ATC

ATC Details:

• Lavinia stamps: Slender Mushrooms (Mini); Wild Hares (Large); Stars 2 (Mini); retired foliage stamp; the word "Magic" was masked off and stamped from a much larger Lavinia sentiment.
• Background stencil: magazine cover gift from ages ago.
• Snippets of white card for the stamped panel, and navy card for the ATC base.

Playing along with the TAG ALONG & ATCs FEBRUARY CHALLENGE where the optional theme is NUMBERS, but I'm entering under 'anything goes' as my ATC is sans numbers! There is a brilliant prize available to one lucky winner, so why not play along?

Sunday Snippets - Hogs & Kisses

Hi Playmates!

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

Here's my homework - a playful card for a good friend of mine who won't take offence at the sentiment on this birthday card. She also happens to love pigs! I just love the expression on the pig's face - and the sentiment makes me chuckle!

5" square card

Snippets left over after making
the above card. You can see my
embossed strip was only just
long enough for the card!

DETAILS: 

• All stamps are from the "So Weird" stamp set by Whimsy Stamps (CWSD473)
• Ancient Swiss Dots embossing folder used for the side strip.
• Heffy Doodle Stitched Squares die used to cut the pig image out.
• SNIPPETS = ALL the pieces of card on the card front.
• Self-adhesive foam pads used behind the panel for dimension.

I would like to enter this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE 843 where our Val (Aquarius) has chosen the optional theme of EMBOSSING (wet or dry). As you can see, I went for dry embossing.

New Home Card

I needed a new home card to add to my 'ready made' box, so I set about making one!

I created my own background, which complies with the current theme over at the Allsorts Challenge. So I am nipping over to ALLSORTS to enter their current Challenge 842. 

Custom made card measuring 4.5" x 6 3/4"

Details:

• Lavinia Stamps: Freya's House; Slender Mushrooms Mini; Vine; Woodland Hares; Fairy Forager.
• Other stamps: Hobby Art line of grass stamp from Bee Kind set; Woodware New Home sentiment.
• Dotty circle stencil - magazine cover gift from yonks ago.
• Custom made card blank.

Snippets Sunday - Ooh La La!

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 this week, I made a background and then added a snippet collage over the top. This means I can also join in with the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #842 where the optional theme is to CREATE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND (or anything goes).

Finished A6 sized card with a side opening.

The stamped & stencilled background.

Snippets pulled out ready to use.

Details:

• BACKGROUND created with Visible Image Daisy stencil. With the stencil still held in place, I stamped a little background stamp from Studio Light's Grunge Collection stamp set SL451 among the petals.
• SNIPPETS for this card had previously been stamped on to a scrap of white printer paper (left over from making card inserts) using Hobby Arts' "Vintage" set. The female figure is from SU's "Beautiful You" set and was cut out from scrap of white card. I often stamp things on to white snippets, cut out and keep for later!

Feather ATC

Here's a little ATC that I'll be entering into the February TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is to ADD A NUMBER (or anything goes). 

In this case, I added several numbers with background stencilling and stamping!

ATC

Details:

• Stencilled background numbers created with whatever ink was left on my brushes, brushed through the Heffy Doodle "Numicon" stencil.
• Small line of numbers from an unknown stamp set.
• Large, grungy "6" stamp by Studio Light' Artists Atelier Grunge Set 32: "Feather".
• Feather stamp = magazine cover gift. (Stamped direct onto the ATC and again onto a white snippet, cut out and glued over the top.)
• Stamped & stencilled panel then glued onto a white snippet, cut to correct ATC size of 3.5" x 2.5".

Blue Bird Birthday!

Hi there - thanks for dropping by!

I made this card using the ink smooshing ink technique, along with a few snippets. 

I would like to enter this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #842 where they want to see you CREATE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND (or you can enter under the ANYTHING GOES option).

5" square card size

Details: 

• Unbranded bird die from Temu.
• Foliage die by Sizzix (Hidden Leaves, code 664581)
• Sentiment by Uniko (Simply Said Blocks)
• Smooshed background made using spritzed SU Misty Moonlight ink and a small piece of acetate to pick it up and smoosh on card front. 

Allsorts - Challenge #842

Hi there!

I've made a sympathy card from snippets that were glued over the top of a stamped and stencilled background. 

I would like to enter this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #842 where creating your own background is the optional theme, or there's always Anything Goes.

A6 sized card - tent fold

The stamped and stencilled background
before I added the snippets.

The snippets I pulled out to play with.

There's some gorgeously grungy AALL & CREATE stamps to be won at Allsorts, so why not hop over and join in? And if you use up some of your snippets, you can come and play at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND.

Details:

• Background created with Studio Light BJ04 stencil by Jolanda de Ronde and a splatter stamp from the Gorgeous Grunge set by SU, using SU Sahara Sand and Chocolate Chip inks.
• Snippets: the leafy strip is from That's Crafty Nature's Gatherings 1 stamp set; sentiment is by Uniko and the black heart is from a Crafts Too "Miss P Loves Boundless Journal Locking Tag set.

Sunday Snippets - LOVE is in the air!

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.

While I had the dotty stencil and the heart stamp out on my desk from other recent projects, I made a CAS anniversary card with just one black and one white snippet of card.   

C6 sized card

Details:

• The Crafters Workshop dotty stencil, brushed with Picked Raspberry DI.
• Heart stamp from the Visible Image "Accessorize" stamp set, coloured with Picked Raspberry DI.
• Partly stamped sentiment from My Favourite Things stamp set CS-794 "Everything Wonderful".

Why not take a look at your snippets pile, pull out a few bits and pieces and see what you can make with them? Then come over to play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND - there's a lovely prize on offer for UK & European entrants - or you can just play for fun. 

I would also like to enter this card into the Allsorts Challenge #842 where Donna wants us to CREATE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND. I have stencilled the background of the focal element on the card above, which I hope counts, but if not, it can be entered under the Anything Goes option. There are some FABULOUS Aall & Create stamps available as prizes at Allsorts.