Let's Celebrate Allsorts' 16th Birthday!

Woot Woot!

Today is Allsorts' 16th Birthday. Quite the achievement. 

Many congratulations to Brenda and her DT. 

Talking of the DT - I'm honoured to join them as a Guest Designer this fortnight - and therefore made a suitable birthday card . . . 

6" x 6" card

MATERIALS:

• STAMPS: Altenew's Layered Cupcake set for the cupcake and sentiment. It is quite fiddly to get the stamp layering done accurately, so, after a few abortive attempts I stamped the outline and coloured the rest in with distress inks and a water brush!
• STENCIL: Funky Fossil's Brushed Roses - used at opposing corners with Picked Raspberry DI.
• GLITTERY CARD (kindly gifted to me by lovely blog friend): Used for the numbers and the main image mount.
• DIES: Heffy Doodle Stitched Square dies used to cut both the main image and the mount. Sizzix Thinlits Stylised Alphabet set (665488) used for the numbers. 

In order to celebrate this amazing achievement, there are lots of prizes and the theme is ANYTHING GOES. Come and join in the fun HERE. 

Aall & Create are offering prizes to UK/European winners and for USA entrants Lawn Fawn and Gina K have offered a $25 voucher each and the Colorado Craft Company is offering 3 stamps - so there's something for everyone.

13th Blogoversary Snippets Playground Challenge

Hi Playmates!

New Year . . . new challenge.

I'm hosting the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. So why not take a look at your pile of snippets, make something with them, then enter the 'show and tell' via Mr Linky.

It's the Playground's 13th Blogoversary on 8th January 2025, and to celebrate, there is a special prize available for one lucky winner.

Shaped 60th birthday card

These are the 2 x A4 masterboards I made and used.

Masterboard Details:

• I took two A4 sheets of 300gsm white card and used my brayer to run purple ink all over to get the first layer down.
• The next layer was created by brushing ink around a leafy Funky Fossil mask in both blue and purple ink. 
• I used part of the same Funky Fossil leafy stencil/mask set, but with the open stencil this time. I added green paint through the stencil - but I didn't like the effect, so I put the stencil back in place and painted over the green with white acrylic paint. 
• The final layer was added using various stamps and VFC Twilight ink.

To create the card base:

I took a sheet of 300gsm white card measuring 11.5" x 5.75", scored the long edge at 5.75", then folded the front cover in half and folded it back on itself. I cut the masterboards into relevant panels and mounted them onto SU Island Indigo card measuring a quarter of an inch more all around the panel .

I decorated the panels by die cutting various snippets shown in the photo below. I now have snippets of the masterboards left over for future use - so watch this space! 

Dies used: Bird & Branch by The Works; Present by Gummiapan; Happy Birthday by Poppy Stamps and the numbers are by Julie Hickey.

The snippets used to decorate the card.

I hope to see you at THE SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND - where the sun always shines.

Snippets Playground Celebrations!

Hi Playmates!

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight. 

It's another special challenge to celebrate the 12th year of Miss Di holding the Playground keys. In honour of this event, Di and I have decided to add another theme to the challenge. So - please submit your homework on the theme of "CELEBRATION". You are free to interpret this as you wish - any celebration will count (new baby; birthdays; special anniversary or any other celebratory event) as long as it is obvious what the celebration is on your project.

To comply with the challenge theme, I've chosen a special birthday celebration.

A diamond fold springy card.

Envelope already made. 
Remaining snippets of burgundy paper,
plus other pieces of card.

Hadn't made one of these cards for AGES and it was fun to revisit this springy card shape which, happily, folds flat for posting.

Over to YOU now . . . check out your pile of snippets, make something with them on the CELEBRATION theme, then come and play. There are 2 bumper prizes  full of festive goodies available, so you won't want to miss out. Plus, you can put on your party frock and come to the Treehouse where there will be champagne and lots of party food available on the evening of 8th Jan (the actual hand-over date all those years ago!).

You can make this shaped card from any size rectangle as long as you mark the quarter and half points, then score and cut as per the diagram below.

Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight.

Here's my homework:

A shaped card made for someone special. I cut and stamped all the panels to make a grungy background, then added a large silhouette flower stamp by Bee Crafty. I die-cut the circles, leaves and sentiment from SNIPPETS and added them to the card via a little hinge made from die-cut circles. This shaped card stands up easily but folds flat for posting.

Details on how to make this card shape are in my TUTORIAL page at the top of this blog HERE.

I'm running amok in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight - so grab your satchel and skip on over to find out what lovely prize is on offer, as well as all the details on how to enter. 

NEW BLOG FOR THE SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND!

WOOT WOOT!

You may already have seen Di's blog post about the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND having a NEW HOME - a blog space all of its own. But if not - GO TAKE A LOOK HERE. She has a lovely prize on offer to launch the new blog.

I'll be causing mayhem up in the new and improved Playground Treehouse, just as soon as possible!

I've made card full of snippets. I got the Balcony Card idea from Lesley's Stampin' Ground HERE and thought it would make a lovely card for a 90th birthday.

I had lots of white snippets to die cut from, so I decided that was the only other "colour" I was adding to the Wisteria Wonder DSP and Pool Party matting.

Only the 6" x 6" card base was cut from a whole sheet of A4 white card - everything else is a snippet! 

A card full of snippets!

The measurements:

White card base: 6" x 6" (scored in half).
Decorate with designer paper BEFORE gluing the balconies on!

White inside (middle) piece: 5" x 2.5" (scored @ 0.5"; 2.5" and 4.5").
Flatten the card base and attach this piece to the bottom of the card base by gluing the little side tabs (or do what I did and move this middle piece UP A BIT for extra height).

White bottom piece: 7" x 1.5" (scored @ 0.5"; 3.5" and 6.5"). 
Flatten the card base and attach this strip to the bottom of the card by gluing the little side tabs. 

• The left and right hand sides of the two balcony pieces were decorated with strips of Pool Party card and Wisteria Wonder SU designer paper BEFORE gluing to the card base. 

• I lined up each balcony with the centre scoreline of the card base. 

• Add all the die-cut and punched flowers AFTER you've constructed the card with its balconies!

Golden Wedding Anniversary

Hi there!

Today's card is for my neighbours' 50th Wedding Anniversary. As it was a special occasion, I made them a special card. I used a lovely floral embossing folder on some gold mirror card, and die cut the numbers from the same card so it all matched.

This view shows the shape & dimension

Another view - more from the front.

21st Birthday Card

Hello fellow crafters

I have a 6" square card to share with you today, commissioned by a friend of mine. 

I stamped the two separate Uniko birthday sentiments in Versafine Claire Twilight ink then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

At the top of the card, I drew a curved line in pencil first, then went over it with a black pen to create the banner string.

Next, I die-cut the numbers and punched out the banner pieces from a couple of pink gelli print snippets. Self-adhesive black gems were added at each end of the banner, plus little pearl ones in the flower centres.