Sunday Snippets - Masculine Card

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 created a masculine card for a friend of mine who has a good sense of humour.

A6 sized card

Details:

• Stamped circles by Aall & Create
• Bird & sentiment from the "So Weird" stamp set by Whimsy Stamps
• Black snippets of card for matting and layering
• Cardboard packaging behind main panel
• White snippet for focal bird panel
• Tip Top Taupe ink by SU, plus VFC Onyx Black.

Sunday Snippets - A Biker's Birthday

Hi there Playmates!

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter - I hope you enjoy your Bank Holiday weekend. There are plenty of chocolate eggs to be found in the Playground Easter Egg Hunt. 

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.

My homework used up some patterned paper snippets and along with some cream paper. All stamping was done with VFC Pinecone ink. I stamped the Tim Holtz clock on the patterned paper using first and second generation stamping. The bike was stamped onto a cream snippet, then cut out with scissors. 

Materials:

• Visible Image 'Ride The Wind' stamp set (for the bike and sentiment).
• Clock stamp from Stampers Anonymous Visual Artistry range, 'Life's Possibilities' (CSS 25870)
• Snippets of brown patterned paper and cream card.
• VFC Pinecone ink.

Edited to add that Faith invited me to enter this card into THE MALE ROOM CHALLENGE where there is a TRANSPORT theme . . . so I'm heading over there with this card too!

A Masculine Birthday Card

Hi there!

Today I'm sharing a masculine card with you. I find it more difficult to create masculine card designs and I know I'm not alone in this. Maybe it's due to the abundance of floral and girly items in my craft room!

A6 sized card

Anyway, this is a CAS card made with just two stamps and four ink pads. I cut the panel with a Heffy Doodle Stitched Rectangle die and mounted it to the card front with foam pads.

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.

What's in Sarn's Satchel this Sunday?

Hi Playmates

In my satchel this week I've a bunch of daffodils to brighten up the treehouse, and this card to make you smile, (not to mention the packet of chocolate biscuits and an extra bag of marshmallows for your mugs of hot chocolate!).

I simply stencilled a background and used snippets of white and navy blue card for the sentiment. The sentiment is a mix of stamp sets. I know the "smiles" word is by Printworks (long gone), and I think the words in the first line are from a Uniko set, but I could be mistaken!

Di has published RESULTS from the previous challenge, so please hop over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire her top picks and discover who won the prize.