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 - Bloom

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. Hope to see you on the swings or in the treehouse!

For my homework I used a snippet of white card, originally measuring 8.5” x 2.5”, which I folded in half to make a 4.25” x 2.5” card.

Small card measuring: 4.25" x 2.5"

I stamped the flowers first, then added the Washi tape and sentiment. The flowers were coloured with SU Tip Top Taupe ink and a waterbrush. I stamped the "bloom” word last.

Allsorts Challenge #858

Hi there!

I’m delighted to be back over at ALLSORTS as Guest Designer for the next fortnight, where Gail has chosen the theme of SYMPATHY/THINKING OF YOU/GET WELL. Plenty of choice there, but if the theme isn’t for you, there’s always the “anything goes” option.

I went with the theme and made the following card:

A6 sized card

There’s a lovely prize available - full details on the challenge post HERE. Please pop over and see what lovely cards the DT have made.

Details:

• PaperArtsy "Poppy Edition" EAB37 stamp set for all the stamping.
• SU Tip Top Taupe ink & a waterbrush used to colour the seedheads.
• VFC Nocturne ink used for the words.
• AALL & Create Washi Tape #7 used at the bottom of the card.

Sunday Snippets - The Seedheads Edition

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. If you want to join in the fun, all you have to do is use up some of your snippets on a project, then come and play.

For my homework this week I made a card with white snippets and a new stamp set that I just couldn’t resist.

6" x 4" card

Details:

• All stamps are from the PaperArtsy Eclectica AB37 stamp set by Alison Bomber - "Poppy Edition".
• White snippets were used for the main panel and for the extra seedheads that I carefully stamped, cut out and added to the card with foam pads and a tiny amount of glue.
• Inks: SU Tip Top Taupe and VFC Pinecone. 
• Seedheads painted with whatever Distress Inks were left over on the white tile I was using for a different project!

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.

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.

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.

Sunday Snippets - Coneflower ATC Postcard

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight, so please come over and play with Miss Di, Dudley and me. There’s bound to be a game of tag on, or you can visit the treehouse and have a nice mug of hot chocolate (or something stronger). If the weather forecast is correct, we may even get the paddling pool out!

For my homework this week I used a snippet of black card and a snippet of white card to make this coneflower ATC.

ATC

Details:

• Black and white snippets of card.
• PaperArtsy Eclectica stamp set EAB48 "Coneflower Edition" for the coneflower, words and postage stamp/frank.
• StudioLight stamp set 451 for the little grungy background stamp.

I'm also taking this ATC over to the TAG ALONG & ATCs' MAY CHALLENGE where the theme is ADD SOME PINK (or anything goes). 

Delighted to be “picked” at the Tag-Along Challenge:

Sunday Snippets - Rabbit is back!

Hi Playmates!

I had lots of fun creating this snippets card which showcases one of the items available in the prize package for Challenge #531 over at The Snippets Playground for the next fortnight.  

A6 sized card

The leftover snippets

Materials:

• Heffy Doodle Stitched Rectangle dies
• Unbranded brick wall, small flower dies from Temu
• Rabbit die available from Amazon
• White snippets (rabbit, flowers and panel), plus cardboard packaging for brick wall and matting
• Homemade cloud stencil for the sky. PaperArtsy PS107 Stencil for the flowers on the ground
• Distress Inks for background
• Coloured pencils for rabbit and flowers

Come and join in the fun over at the Snippets Playground  - all you have to do is make something with your snippets, enter using Mr Linky and leave a comment saying if you're playing for the prize or not. 

Coneflower ATC

I recently visited my local craft shop (The Malthouse at Herstmonceux - bricks & mortar shop only, no mail order) and discovered a beautiful PaperArtsy stamp set called "Coneflowers Edition" . . . which just had to come home with me as a little present to myself!

The inky ATC snippet was ready and waiting to be used on my desk (along with a few others), so I opened up the newly acquired stamps and created an ATC.

ATC

The April theme at the Tag-Along & ATCs Challenge is Blossoms, Butterflies and Birds, (or AG) so I'm joining in using the theme. 

 Details:

• Snippet of an art journal page that had been used to mop up ink left over on stencils, cut to 2.5" x 3.5"
• Coneflower and words from the PaperArtsy Eclectica EAB49 "Coneflowers Edition" stamp set
• Distress Inks used for all colouring

Sunday Snippets - Gelli Happy Birthday!

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 ONLY snippets were added to the card front - can you see my halo?

A6 sized card

Details:

• Snippets = gel print for main panel and black card for the punched-out star and matting
• Heat embossed sentiments by PaperArtsy
• Foam pads used to adhere matted main panel to card front

Friendship Card

Today I have a CAS one layer card to share with you - using just three stamps and a little watercolouring.

I would like to enter this card into the March STAMPING SENSATIONS CHALLENGE where the optional theme is SPRING (or anything goes). I thought the buds looked like Pussy Willow so I'm entering under the theme. There's a lovely prize on offer and you have until noon on 1st April to enter.

A6 sized card

DETAILS:

• PaperArtsy JOFY 102 set for the bud image
• Bird stamp by SU (from the long retired Everything Eleanor set)
• Friend definition stamp by Crafty Roo (no longer trading)
• Inks: SU Sahara Sand and VF Onyx Black

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. 

Doodling with torn paper snippets . . .

Hi there!

Something VERY quirky from me today!

I saw something on Pinterest which showed tiny bits of brown paper with doodling around their shape. This piqued my interest, so - I thought I’d have a go myself! I would link to the Pinterest post, but I can’t find it anywhere now, despite searching!

Here’s the final results, made into cards:

The process I used was to find a few brown paper snippets (never a problem, I have loads of brown paper snippets). Then I tore them into small pieces and stamped them randomly with the Funky Fossil “Shoot for the stars” text stamp. Once they were glued to a piece of A4 printer paper, I simply doodled around them and cut them out ready to add to cards.

Bits of stamped brown paper ready to doodle! I glued paper onto two A4 sheets,
but I’m sure you get the idea from this one.

These were the doodles that made the Final Cut - but then, I
didn’t like what I made with the “mouse” or the “toucan”, so they
got binned!

4.5" x 4.5” sized card with a stamped & stencilled background,
plus a clock that I cut out and stuck behind the doodle.

"Small Triangles” stencil by Rubber Dance; sentiment from 
Grunge Collection SL GR STAMP43 by StudioLight.
Grounding stamp by IndigoBlu. 
Custom card size 4 1/8th x 5"

PaperArtsy “mini” stamp in orange; grounding stamp
by IndigoBlu. Sentiment from the “So Weird” set by Whimsy Stamps.
Custom card size: 5” x 5.5"

It was a bit of fun, and I got a few cards out of the exercise, so I was happy!

Sunday Snippets - Altenew Rose Cards

Hi Playmates!

Wishing you a very Happy New Year. I hope 2026 is good to you.

For my homework, I CASED a card that the wonderfully talented Viv made back in March last year. I just love this Altenew stamp set and ended up making 2 more cards with it while I had it sat sitting on the desk!

Card measures 5” square

Details:

• Stamps: Altenew Beautiful Day stamp set for ALL stamping on the above card.
• Inks: SU Calypso Coral; Lucky Limeade; Certainly Celery, Basic Grey & Smokey Slate. As well as Mustard Seed & Wild Honey Distress Inks.
• Snippets: all the coloured foliage and flower are stamped onto white snippets of card.

Here are the other two cards I made with the same stamp set:

5” square card
+ Paper Artsy JOFY sentiment and Funky Fossil Geometric Floral stencil

A6 sized card
+ Retired SU birthday sentiment

Sunday Snippets - another Christmas Candle!

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. Remember to look at the Noticeboard at the bottom of the Playground blog post.

For my homework this week, I made another hand-drawn candle card!

As mentioned last week . . . . I was inspired to draw the candle after seeing Tina Cox’s designs at Clarity Stamp.

5.5” x 3.5” card

White snippet that I scribbled some red Tombow pen on in order to
die cut some berry shapes (I used the larger 3 berries!) 

White snippet that I scraped my VFC Spruce
ink pad on so that I could stamp and cut
out the holly leaves in a dark green.

I stamped the holly leaves first, then drew the candle.
(You can still see my pencil marks on the flame!)

Details:

• Magnolia holly leaves stamped 3 times onto a white snippet for the main panel, and again onto a further white snippet that I had scraped a VFC Spruce green ink pad across. I then cut out the leaves and adhered them to the panel with foam pads. 
• Hand-drawn candle, coloured with a mixture of Tombow pens and Distress Inks.
• Berry dies - probably Sizzix(?) which came as part of a foliage set.
• The Merry Christmas sentiment comes from a PaperArtsy JOFY set of stamps.
• Main image mounted onto a red snippet of card.
• The originally A6 sized card was cut down to give an even border around the main panel.

Floral One Layer Birthday Card

Today I'm sharing a One Layer Card (OLC) with you. I love the Clean And Simple (CAS) look of it. 

Card measures 4.5" square

Details:

1. Stamped the "Creative Chaos" Visible Image flower direct to the card front, together with a PaperArtsy birthday sentiment.
2. Flower is coloured with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink in various dilutions using a water brush.

I'm taking this card over to the ALLSORTS' CURRENT CHALLENGE #831 where the optional theme is BIRTHDAYS. 

Two-part swing tag

I wanted to add a tag to the current TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is TRAVEL (or Anything Goes). 

I was going through my papers looking for something else, when I happened across some papers with hot air balloons printed on them. "AHA! That will comply with the challenge theme," I thought! So I grabbed a sheet and made a two-part swing tag ready to adorn a birthday present at some point! 

The finished swing tag.

The pieces I used for the tag.

Details:

• Hot air balloon tag, cut from a sheet of paper "extras" from the Craft O'Clock "Warm Breeze" paper pad.
• Snippet of white card cut to same dimensions as hot air balloon tag and stamped with a PaperArtsy birthday message.
• Both tags were then tied together with a snippet of raffia.

Snippets Playground - Challenge 507

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 (scraps/leftovers), then come over and join us for a 'show and tell' via Mr Linky.

Plenty of coffee, tea and hot chocolate available during Sunday Morning Breakfast Club. Up in the Treehouse, Di and I are putting the microwave to good use heating up croissants and pain au chocolates for you. (Psst - you know where to find me if you want something stronger later in the day!!!!)

My homework this week:

A6 sized card

Details:

• A6 card blank, with snippets of black and green card.
• Stamped using one of the stamps on the Paper Artsy Hot pick 1005 set HERE
• Tim Holtz tool used to distress the edges of the green card. 

Happy crafting everyone.  

Sunday Snippets - Tag You're It!

Hi Playmates!

In my satchel this week, I have some cheese and biscuits to go with the mulled wine that's helping to keep us warm and happy up in the treehouse!

For my homework, I made various Christmas tags from snippets of card and paper, and I'm sharing a couple of my favourites with you today. 

Both tags were made entirely from snippets of white card and torn bits of patterned paper - with a little stencilling, stamping and die-cut snowflakes to decorate.

Christmas Tags

Paper Snippets

So, why not take a look at your snippets pile, pull a few bits out and see what you can make? Then come over to play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND. At the end of Challenge #495 there will be FOUR lucky prize winners drawn at random and the results will be posted on 29th December.