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.

Fabulous Francoise ATC

Hi there!

I made another ATC using one of the Fabulous Francoise stamps which are part of the free gift on Issue 162 of Creative Stamping magazine. 

This means I can squeeze in my fourth and final entry into this month’s TAG ALONG & ATCS JULY CHALLENGE which closes at midday tomorrow! The theme is Favourite Colours - and my favourite is blue, often with orange for a colour combo.

ATC

Details:

• White snippet cut to measure 2.5” x 3.5” and stamped with part of a large stamp from the Fabulous Francoise magazine gift.
• Image stamped in VFC Twilight, coloured with Inktense pencils and a water brush. 

Daisy Trio

Having seen a couple of blog posts by Pauline (Passion for Papercraft) using cover gifts from Issue 162 of the Creative Stamping magazine, I was sorely tempted to get the magazine myself. After a fruitless search in my local town, my lovely hubby tracked down a copy online and promptly bought it for me (yes, he's a KEEPER!). So, I am now the proud owner of the magazine and am delighted with both the double stencil and the A4 sheet of stamps. 

Val from the Aquarius Blog was also tempted by the magazine cover gifts and she has made THIS lovely card using them.

The ATC below is the first thing I made with the magazine cover stamps. Full disclosure - I decided to cut away the oval frame from this particular stamp in the set to make it more useful to me! 

ATC

Details:

1. Navy blue ATC measuring 2.5" x 3.5".
2. White snippet of card measuring 2.25" x 3.25” smooshed with some leftover Buff Titanium acrylic paint. Orange splatters of diluted acrylic paint were added once the smooshed bit was dry.
3. All stamping was done with VFC Twilight ink using cover gift freebies from Issue 162 of the Creative Stamping magazine (link is in the first paragraph of this post). I used a white gel pen on the petals and a yellow Inktense pencil for the daisy centres. 

I would like to enter this ATC into the TAG-ALONG & ATCs July challenge - blue is my favourite colour in all its shades. I also like blue and orange as a colour combination. 

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!

The Imagine Tree

Hi there dear Reader!

Today, I have a one layer card to share with you, featuring only stamping and stencilling on the card front. 

The stencilling means I can join in with Donna’s theme at the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #853 where you can win more stencils to play with if you’re lucky. 

5” x 4” card

Materials:

• Numbers at left hand edge by Visible Image, from the You’re A Classic stamp set
• Tree by Stampin; Up - from Hopeful Thoughts stamp set
• Imagine word by PaperArtsy from the Coneflowers Edition Eclectica stamp set EAB49
• Grass stamp by Hobby Art from the Bee Kind set
• Dotty circles stencil from a magazine cover gift, stencilled with Distress Inks in Wild Honey, Peacock Feathers and Shabby Shutters.

Sunday Snippets - The gelli print edition!

Hi Playmates!

For my homework this week, I have an A6 sized card to share. 

Everything on the card front is a snippet! I've used up gelli print snippets and a small piece of white card. The bird die is by The Works (very old) and the sentiment is a magazine cover gift from ages ago.

Left over snippets from making the card

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.

Next Saturday, Brenda and her talented Design Team are celebrating Allsorts' 17th Birthday with lots of prizes from Highlight Crafts; Lavinia Stamps and Art Impressions, so make sue you come along and join in the fun! BEFORE then . . . there is a birthday discount code which can be used at AALL & CREATE up until 31st May - see details HERE.

I have been busy checking out other sunny playgrounds . . . and even found a new playmate for Dudley - complete with a Honka Duck toy to share! I sent these hol snaps to Di while I was away - to keep her amused!

Allsorts - Anything but Square

I'm delighted to be back as Guest Designer for the next fortnight over at the ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #848 where Christine has set the theme as ANYTHING BUT SQUARE (or anything goes) - so think shaped cards if you wish to enter using the theme. There are Aall & Create goodies to be won by 2 lucky entrants - but please remember to include names/makes of products used for your project.

I had some ink left over from when I smooshed the background for THIS CARD and decided to mop it up with a small snippet of white card for later use. This meant I could make a teeny tiny card with the results.  

Card measures 3" x 2.25" when closed.

Details:

• Zigzag card blank made from a white strip of card left over from making my own card blanks. It measured 8" x 2.25 and was scored and folded at 3", 6" and 7" to make the zigzag shape.
• Leane Creatief Daisy die - cut from a small snippet of SU Misty Moonlight card, and the sentiment was mounted onto another small snippet of the same card.
• Sentiment (from a magazine cover gift) was stamped onto a white snippet of card. 
• White Julie Hickey Glossy Accent for daisy centre. 

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?

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.

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".

Coffee Love!

Hi there!

I made a little ATC which I would like to enter into the January TAG ALONG & ATC CHALLENGE where the theme is Love and Romance. 

Well, I LOVE decent coffee! If that’s too “out there” as an interpretation of the theme, there’s always the ANYTHING GOES option!

ATC 2.5" x 3.5"

My snippets!

Details:

• Background stamps used on ATC base: Tall Grass set by Funky Fossil; Studio Light Grunge Collection SL451; splatters from the Gorgeous Grunge set by Stampin’ Up! 
• Background Stencil: Ink Swirls by Visible Image.
• Focal point:Coffee Cup stamp = magazine cover gift, stuck to ATC with foam pads. Brown ink and waterbrush used to ground image.
• Words by Clearly Besotted (retired set)
• Heart from the Accessorize set by Visible Image (stamped, cut out and stuck on with foam pads).

A little birdie told me . . .

Hi Playmates!

Di and I have been busy spring cleaning the treehouse and tidying up after you hooligans. There were a lot of empty glass bottles for some reason and the recycling bin is pretty full!

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

Here's my homework - yes, it's another bird card (and there are more to come because I die cut lots of birds from snippets)!!!

Card measures 4.75" square

The die cut snippets I selected the 2 birds from.

Details:

• Unbranded bird dies from Temu used to cut some blue & grey snippets.
• A stamp from the “Be Different” IndigoBlu set by Asia Marquet was used  to ground the birds - stamped in VFC Sand Dune ink.
• Sentiment from a magazine cover gift long ago - part of a pair. Inside the card it says: "It's your birthday!"

So why not take a look at your own snippets and see what you can make . . . then come and play . . .  we're a friendly bunch. 

Sunday Snippets - What's in Sarn's Satchel this week?

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:

Landscape C6 card (opening on the right hand side)

Card and matching envelope.

MATERIALS:

• Snippet of pink patterned paper (which was part of a magazine gift) glued to a white card snippet for sturdiness, then die cut with Heffy Doodle Stitched Rectangle dies. I used a further snippet of the same paper to decorate the envelope.
• Heffy Doodle "Friend" sentiment die, cut from a white snippet.
• Ancient Marianne flourish die cut from a white snippet.
• Three little flowers punched out of a white snippet with a discontinued SU flower punch.
• Julie Hickey Glossies for flower centres, plus a few more added just because!

In my satchel, along with my homework, I've got a tub of Bournville drinking chocolate for making hot chocolate up in the treehouse, plus some chocolate Digestive biscuits in both milk and dark chocolate varieties! Take your pick - personally I love the dark chocolate biccies! Oh, and don't tell Miss Di, but I've been smuggling in some hooch and stashing it around the treehouse ready for the Christmas Party! Wink, wink! 

Snippets Fun

Hi Playmates

I have been using up things that have been lying around for a while. Most especially, some magazine papers that had been lurking. Come and see what I've been up to:

First I made these:

Zigzag cards were created by scoring and folding long strips of
white card left over from making other card blanks!

Then I had this lot left over:

So I made these - with some additional patterned papers from the same magazine in blue and pink. The green snippet is left over from some DSP by Tim Holtz.

Six of the smaller card blanks in the above photo were created from my pile of white snippets. 

And now my desk looks much clearer! Yippee!

If you have some paper snippets to use up, why not grab a load of papers and see how many cards you can make in a session? Then choose one to enter as your SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND HOMEWORK. We have lots of skipping going on this week, or you can come up to the treehouse and get into mischief! Miss Di is hosting the current challenge.

Snippets Playground Challenge: 3rd - 16th September

Hi Playmates

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND where Miss Di is in charge for the next fortnight - shiny whistle at the ready in her attempt to keep us all under control!!!

My homework is a very positive ATC:

ATC measuring 2½" x 3 ½" made entirely from snippets.

The white snippet was stamped, coloured and mounted onto a piece of packaging.

The fox is part of Aall & Create’s 'Up Up & Away' stamp (set #467) and I watercoloured him using Distress Oxide inks. I think the sentiment was part of a magazine cover gift. I distressed the white edges with a Tim Holtz tool.

That's all from me today folks! Keep on using up those pretty snippets of yours, then come and play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND.

Sunday Snippets - Miss Di's Blogoversary

Hi Playmates

Come and have a cup of tea with me! I have a little gift bag full of good wishes and some tea to share, plus I'll break out the biscuits if you've been VERY good!

EDITED TO ADD A VIDEO LINK HERE on how to score and fold this little bag. 

In the video, she uses 6" x 6" paper, but I made a larger version using an 8" x 8" piece of paper and scored as follows:

• when the the triangle was abutted to the LEFT EDGE of the scoreboard, I scored at ⅞" 
• when the the triangle was abutted to the TOP of the scoreboard, I scored at 3¾ and 7⅝"
• the blue piece for the little tag measures 3¼" x 2¾", the white piece measures 3" x 2½"

The gift bag together with the contents
ready to be inserted into the pockets.

The filled gift bag.

Just 2 of the snippets added
to the gift bag.

SNIPPETS USED:

White and turquoise snippets used to create the mounted circles for each side of the gift bag.

White and turquoise snippets used on the square tag.

The bottom of a shop-bought birthday card used to die-cut the foliage - one sprig for each side of the gift bag.

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND, where Di and I are celebrating the Snippets Playground's 11th Blogoversary! Yes, Di has been running the Playground for 11 years and I take my hat off to her as I've only been co-hosting for less than a year! It's a lot of fun being Di's partner in crime . . . or is she mine? It's hard to tell! LOL! Either way, as it's a special occasion, we are, once again, offering another FAB prize. Run along and find out the details HERE but put those scissors down first. NEVER run with scissors in your hand (or mouth!).

Sunday Snippets (Results)

Hi there playmates!

It's results week at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND so after you've finished your visit here, please feel free to skip over there to find out who won the prize and who Di picked to showcase. You’ll also find out more details about Di’s theme for her next Playground Challenge starting on Christmas Day  

For my homework, I die-cut some branches from packaging (see second picture), as well as some leaves from a gelli print snippet, plus some tiny birds from a black snippet of card.

I added some Washi tape across the bottom (and on the inside too).

An A6-sized card.

Showing the branches I die-cut from packaging.

Only a week to go until Santa gets here! Hoping he has overlooked my Playground misdemeanours and has put me on the "good" list! Fingers crossed!

I will be doing further blog posts before the 25th, but just in case this turns out to be your last visit to my blog prior to Christmas Day, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for visiting and wish you much love, laughter and happiness this Christmas and into the New Year. xxx

Snippets Playground Challenge 422

Hi there Playmates!

Today, I'm honoured to be Miss Di's Guest Designer over at the Snippets Playground where you'll find me messing about in the Treehouse as usual.  

Had to temporarily close the Playground Treehouse due to Storm Eunice! However, it's now been deemed safe to use again, so just climb the rope ladder (or catapult yourself through the Treehouse window from the seesaw like Linby does)! Everyone is welcome, so come and relax in the comfy chairs, have a natter and share a coffee. It's decaffeinated as I can't be responsible for you lot running around like loons and causing too much havoc! There's bound to be a few biscuits or a slice of cake knocking about too! You can always bribe Playground Pup Dudley with titbits, to keep him quiet! 

3.5" x 5" card made completely from snippets.

To make this card:

I took a longer snippet of white card measuring 3.5" x 10", which I scored and folded at the 5" mark to finish up with a 3.5" x 5" card base.

I brushed brown ink through the Funky Fossil 'Caffeine Buzz' stencil then stamped the coffee cup (magazine cover gift) direct to the card front and used a little stamp from IndigoBlu's 'Be Different' set to ground the cup.

I stamped the coffee cup twice more onto white snippets and fussy cut them out. They were layered and stuck to the card front with foam pads. The mag cover gift included a die for the lid, so I die-cut one and stuck it on with foam pads. Finally, I glued a little heart to the cup front and called it done!

I will be round to visit you if you entered via a blog. Sorry, but I am unable to leave you a comment if you enter through any other form of social media.

If you've made a card using snippets (scraps) then why not pop along to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND - where the sun always shines. It's a friendly challenge and the rules aren't difficult to follow. This challenge will end at 11am on Saturday, 5th March and there are TWO chances to win a lovely Tattered Lace die.