Sunday Snippets - New Home

Hi Playmates!

Miss Di has kicked off a new challenge for you to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND so off you go to do your homework! LOL! 

Here's my homework - a colourful new home card, made with some larger snippets. 

A6 sized card

MATERIALS:

• Stampendous SSC218 stamp set for the houses
• Woodware sentiment
• Retired SU little leafy stamp (at top of card)
• Heffy Doodle stitched rectangle dies to cut the panels
• SNIPPETS - white card for the image panel and blue paper for the panel mount

Sunday Snippets - Christmas Gift!

Hi there 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 another card using my own set of Polkadoodle “Perfect Parcels” dies - which are available as part of the prize in the current Snippets Playground Challenge.

A6 sized card

Snippets

Materials:

• Snippets of journal pages for the main panel and mount.
• Polkadoodles’ “Perfect Parcels” die set for the gift boxes (can be won in the current challenge), cut from an acrylic painted snippet of originally white card.
• Ancient SU Sentiment, heat embossed with clear EP. 
• Funky Fossil’s Geometric Flowers stencil, brushed with SU Island Indigo ink on the card base.

Autumn Leaf ATC

I made an Autumn ATC, which means I can enter the current TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is ALL THINGS AUTUMN.

WE LOVE STAMPING also has a "SHADES OF AUTUMN" theme for the current challenge, so I'm joining in over there too! 

MATERIALS:

• Sizzix Hidden Leaves leaf sprig
• Crafty Roo "Autumn" word
• Carabelle stamped background on orange snippet
• White snippet for mounting main panel.
• Packaging cut to ATC size of 2.5" x 3.5"

Sunday Snippets - Gifts

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight, so please come and play. There's hot chocolate available in the treehouse!

For my homework this week I made a Christmas card which uses two of the Polkadoodle gift dies available as part of the prize (I bought a duplicate set just for you!). BOTH Snippets Playground Challenges in October will be offering festive prizes, so you should get your goodies in time for the coming season! 

A6 sized card

Materials:

• Snowflakes by Crafty Roo and Visible Image
• Sentiment by Uniko
• Polkadoodles’ “Perfect Parcels” die set for the gift boxes (can be won in the current challenge). I die cut the gift boxes from a white snippet that I had brayered with acrylic paints and splattered with diluted white acrylic paint.

Autumn Trees Tag

Hi there!

Lots of challenges are having autumn themes, so I made an autumnal tag to play along with them.

Tag

Details:

• Aall & Create Taggletastic die for tag shape, and Roadway Vistas for the trees, die-cut from white SNIPPETS and a WHOLE piece of SU Lucky Limeade card.
• Distress inks and brushes used for all colouring: Peeled Paint; Shabby Shutters;Wild Honey; Ripe Persimmon and Vintage Photo. 
• Hobby Art grass stamp from the Bee Kind set.
• Inkylicious circle stencil for the sun.
• Crop-a-dile used to set eyelet for string at top of tag.

I would like to enter the tag into the following challenges:

ALLSORTS #859 - Anything Autumn (ends 9th October)

TAG ALONG & ATCs October Challenge - All Things Autumn (ends 28th October)

WE LOVE STAMPING October Challenge - Shades of Autumn (ends 28th October)

It's Autumn Already!

Hi Playmates!

For my Snippets Playground homework, I made an autumn leaf card which means I can join in with Challenge 859 at ALLSORTS where Chris has chosen the theme of ANYTHING AUTUMN!

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.

5" x 5" card

Attempting to show the shine of the Glossy Accents!

Materials:

• Leaf image "Autumn Border" by Crafty Roo.
• Image panel die cut with Heffy Doodle stitched squares die.
• Snippet of blue paper from a Studio Light paper pad.
• Derwent Inktense pencils and waterbrush used to colour the image.
• Glossy Accents added to the leaf.

Autumn Leaves

Hi there!

Today I'm sharing a leafy, autumnal card which I'm taking along to the WE LOVE STAMPING CHALLENGE where the theme is TREES AND LEAVES.

5" x 7" card

Card elements - base card with masking tape for the stencilling removed;
leafy image stamped & coloured, plus extra leaves to be added
with foam pads. 

Details:

• 5" x 7" base card, masked off with tape and stencilled by brushing ink through a Skeleton Leaves stencil of unknown make.
• Crafty Roo Autumn Wonder stamps for main leafy image & sentiment.
• Distress inks: Scattered Straw; Ripe Persimmon; Spiced Marmalade smooshed onto a white tile, spritzed with water and picked up with a water brush to colour the leaves and to add splatters to main panel. Same inks used for the stencilling to co-ordinate. 
• Main panel cut with Heffy Doodle stitched rectangles.

Sunday Snippets - Butterfly Birthday Card

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 pink birthday card for Miss Di's recent birthday. 

Landscape A6 sized card.

Details:

• Memory Box Lunette butterfly dies cut from snippets of card and gel prints.
• Torn gelli print snippet.
• Ancient and long-retired wooden SU sentiment - still a favourite after all this time.

Vintage ATC

Hi there!

This ATC is mainly made from snippets which I’ve made into a collage.

I’m taking this along to the TAG-ALONG & ATCS September Challenge where the theme is CIRCLES. Hoping the two clock faces will count towards the theme, or the pattern made by the four petaled flowers - but if not, it will certainly fit in the ANYTHING GOES option!

Details:

• Background = snippet of paper from a Zine that I stencilled, but ended up binning. Kept the bits of it that I liked . . . and glued one of them onto this ATC base!
• Clock faces were carefully cut out from a photocopied page of Stamperia Voyages Fantastique images.
• 'BPR . . . LYON’ ticket was stamped, coloured and cut out using the PaperArtsy Eclectic AB37  “Poppy Edition” stamp set.
• Four petaled flower die by Stampin Up, cut from packaging.
• Torn piece of paper snippet with figures on.
• ‘Vintage’ stamped word by Aall & Create.

Sunday Snippets - hare tag

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 Di's current challenge if you haven't already done so.

For my homework, I have a monochromatic tag to share with you.

Details:

• Taggletastic die #30 by Aall & Create (cut from black and white snippets)
• Funky Fossil hare stamp from the Tall Grass set (easy to cut out!)
• Unbranded die used to cut the circle behind the hare

I'm entering this tag  into the TAG ALONG & ATCS CHALLENGE where the theme is CIRCLES (or anything goes).

Find Joy in Simple Things

Hi there!

I made an Artist Trading Coin for the current TAG-ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE. 

This month's theme is CIRCLES, and of course the coin is circular. You might even say that the ‘O’ in the word JOY is a circle too! LOL! 

There is a lovely prize on offer and the challenge ends on 28th September.

Artist Trading Coin

Details

• Snippets to die cut the ATC base and the top piece of Warm Breeze paper by Craft O’Clock.
• Stitched circle die from The Works.
• Uniko “Natures Treasures II” stencil for the leaves (which were brushed with SU Lucky Limeade ink).
• Ancient Hero Arts stamp for the sentiment.

Sunday Snippets: Foliage Zig Zag Card

Hi Playmates!

Miss Di has published the RESULTS from her 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 scored and folded another of my long strips of white card to create a zigzag shape.

Details:

• White snippet strip used to make the zigzag card, plus various small snippets of SU Soft Sea Foam and So Saffron card for die cutting, stamping and dry embossing.
• SU "Petals" embossing folder used on the Soft Sea Foam snippet at the back of the card.
• Simply Graphic "Fleurs en Bouton" dies for the flowers
• One of the Sizzix "Hidden Leaves" dies for the middle bit of foliage.
• One of Jamie Rodgers "Lace Sentiments" stamps for the sentiment.

I'm also joining in with the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #856 where they want to see either dry or heat embossing on your project, or there's always the Anything Goes option.

Butterfly Tag

Hi there!

It's already the halfway point over at the TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE and the Design Team have further inspiration to enjoy on their mid-month post today.

Below, I've used the same die set that can be won at the Tag Along Challenge this month. I absolutely love this big tag die set and have used it quite a bit since winning it. The challenge theme this month is FASHION, but I'm entering under the Anything Goes option as I've exhausted my fashion stamp supplies for my other 3 entries!

Details:

• Aall & Create “Taggletastic” die set #30 - which can be won at the TAG ALONG challenge this month.
• Stencilled background made with orange and blue Distress Inks using "Make Art" and "Geometric Floral" stencils by Funky Fossil.
• Stamped over the stencilling with the "Texte Mouchete" newspaper print stamp by Florileges Design.
• Three Visible Image butterflies stamped, cut out. Glue was added to just the body part of each butterfly so that the wings could be lifted up.

Sunday Snippets - Fabulous Francoise

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 this week, I've been playing with the Fabulous Francoise stamp and stencil set from the cover gifts of Creative Stamping magazine Issue 162. 

Using one of the ideas inside the magazine for the inking and stamping, I then added a little die cut bird snippet for my own spin on it. In fact everything added to the card front is a snippet!

Die cut snippet

Details:

• Snippets of white card for the main panel and the die cut bird, as well as SU Misty Moonlight for the matting and layering.
• Fabulous Francoise stamps and stencils - magazine cover gift. 
• I used Distress Oxides in Iced Spruce; Salvaged Patina, and Faded Jeans, for the background inking. VFC Twilight ink was used for the stamping. The dots stencil was brushed with Black Soot Distress Ink.

Fashion Model Tag

Hi there!

Here's a mixed media tag I made for the TAG ALONG & ATCS AUGUST CHALLENGE where the theme is FASHION (or anything goes). The fab prize this month is the same Aall & Create tag set I used below.

Details:

• Aall & Create "Tagglestastic" die set #30. 
• Large background letters added by sponging Midnight Blue Elements ink over the whole tag using the Visible Image A to Z stencil.
• I stamped Florileges Design "Texte Mouchete" newspaper stamp onto some scrap paper then tore it into pieces and glued it on over the stencilling.
• Then I mixed Aubergine acrylic paint with some white modelling paste and scraped it through a dotty stencil (make unknown). It was a bit too overwhelming and dark, so once the modelling paste was dry, I rubbed white gesso over the top to knock it back. 
• I stamped the model's head from Jane Davenport's "Paper Doll Wig" set CEJDCS007 by Creative Expressions onto a snippet of 300gsm card, coloured the image with Willow, Amethyst & Nightshade Derwent Inktense pencils, then cut her out and glued her on. 
• Finally, I stamped the Be Bold words, from Rubber Dance "Mix It Up #3"  stamp set, cut them out and glued them on. Kept me quiet for a couple of hours!

Summer Coneflower

Hi there!

I simply LOVE this Aall & Create “Roadway Vistas” die set and have been playing around with mixed media on the main panel.

First of all, I glued on some old paper snippets, then dry brushed over them with white gesso. Next I brushed on various Distress Inks, followed by scraping modelling paste through a dotty stencil. I added more ink once the modelling paste was dry. Flicked some watered down orange and buff titanium acrylic paint splatters on.

Then it was a question of deciding how to embellish the lumpy, bumpy surface! So I found some printed PaperArtsy tissue paper and wetted round the edge of some text, pulled it out of the sheet and glued to the panel. I stamped, coloured and cut out the PaperArtsy coneflower so I could glue it on. Finally I added a little shading and grounded the flower. Added the whole thing to a 5” x 7” Kraft card.

5x7 sized Kraft card

Details:

• Aall & Create “Roadway Vistas” die set
• PaperArtsy tissue paper
• PaperArtsy “Coneflowers Edition” stamp set EAB49 
• Distress Inks; Inktense pencils; modelling paste through dotty stencil; Sakura Brush pen to ground flower with; shading done with a Stabilo All pencil and a water brush.
• Snippet strips of paper used as a first layer on the substrate - although you can barely see them unless you look up close at the panel IRL!!!

Taking this card over to the WE LOVE STAMPING July Challenge where the theme is SUMMERTIME. As coneflowers are summer flowers, it fits the bill.

Snippets Playground - Dudley's Birthday

Hi Playmates!

I'm here to host another new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. If you want to join in, all you have to do is use up some of your snippets on a project, then come and play. Miss Di is getting better, but still uncomfortable.

For my homework this week: I made Playground favourite, Dudley, a birthday card. He’s 8 on Wednesday.

5" x 5"

Details:

• Spellbinders Labels One set of dies
• Sentiment was a magazine freebie
• Old wooden Stampabilities stamp "Happy Snoopy" stamp F1075 (stamped onto a white snippet which I die cut, then stamped again on a smaller snippet so that I could cut Snoopy out with scissors and add him to the card front with foam pads)
• Snippets = everything that was glued to the card front!

Sunday Snippets - Daisy Tag

Hi there Playmates!

For my homework this week, I used a few snippets up in order to make a little tag. 

The tag shape was kindly sent to me by a lovely blog friend (you know who you are) and I'm pretty sure it was cut from snippets too! But even if it wasn't, everything I glued to the tag certainly was!

Materials:

• Tag: unbranded tag die (likely to be Temu)
• Grey snippet: die cut using a Heffy Doodle Stitched Squares die
• Brown daisy: die cut using a Marianne Designs die
• White flower: from Sizzex Tattered Florals set (mini version)
• Julie Hickey Glossies for the grey gem in the flower centre
• Background stamp: ancient, but I think it's by Kaisercraft.

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 would also like to enter this tag into the current TAG-ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE under the anything goes option. It’s not a colourful tag, but I DO like neutrals together. 

Sunday Snippets - Sending Hugs

Hi Playmates!

As Miss Di is incapacitated at the moment, I'm hosting another challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. Come and play!

For my homework this week, I made a paper hug for Di, to cheer her up and help aid her recovery. Apparently she has been colouring her arm with purple, green and yellow pens and it's still swollen and painful.

A6 sized card - coloured the white part of the top flower
with purple Inktense pencil

Floral Tag

Hi there!

I made a double die-cut tag to enter into the current TAG-ALONG & ATCs Challenge where they want you to share your favourite colour for your tag, bookmark or AT coin/card. Now, in truth, I love all colours, but blue is my absolute favourite, especially turquoise and teal, but I also love purple. So, this tag is my second favourite colour, along with a touch of bright pink. 

Die-cut tag

Close up to show flower dimension

Materials:

• Stitched Label Rectangle dies (D180117) by Gummiapan, held together with a eyelet which was set with my Crop-A-Dile tool.
• Daisy dies by Marianne Designs (cut from snippets of an ugly journal page).
• Julie Hickey Glossies dome in flower centre.
• Strip of text from PaperArtsy JOFY Set 102.