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. 

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 - “Love" Collage Card

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, then come over to the Playground for a 'show and tell' via Mr Linky.

For my homework this week I was in the mood to create some collage, so I grabbed my junk journal shoebox and found little snippets of paper which I arranged and then glued to the card front.

MATERIALS:

• Everything on the card front is a snippet from my junk journal shoebox. I used snippets of patterned paper; book pages; a leaflet; packaging and a Visible Image flower that had been stamped onto a snippet of copy paper, so I coloured it in and added it as the focal point. 
• The “love” word is a snippet from the Warm Breeze Craft O’Clock paper pack.

Psst: There are extra prizes to be won in the December challenges at the Snippets Playground - so there are even more reasons to use up your snippets than usual! 

There's not mushroom on an ATC!

I love to join in with the TAG ALONG & ATCs challenge, and to that end, I've made an ATC that complies with their current theme of ANYTHING AUTUMN (or you can choose the 'anything goes' option).

2.5" x 3.5"

Details:

• All mushrooms and foliage by Lavinia Stamps. (Mini Meadow Mushroom  and Meadow Mushroom.) Small foliage stamp appears to be retired.
• Autumn word by Crafty Roo (no longer in business).
• Snippet of white card to stamp on.
• Cardboard packaging to mount the white card on.

Sunday Snippets - 31st Aug

Hi Playmates!

There's a new challenge to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND hosted by Miss Di for the next fortnight. Di is feeling better than last week, but still has some healing to do. 

I was asked to make 6 gift boxes for a friend to use at Christmas. Below is one of the decorated boxes (details on how to make it are HERE - just scroll down to Chocolate Bar Box).

I decorated 2 of the boxes using the same 12" x 12" piece of designer paper, then used the left over snippets of that paper to make the birthday card shown below (with a matching envelope). 

5" square card & envelope with matching snippets used
from the scraps of paper left over from making the box.

The buff coloured card mount and sentiment were die cut
from cereal packaging.

Card Details: 

• Snippets of DSP (unknown brand).
• Poppy Stamps die: "Happy Birthday Poe Script" (cut from snippets of the Bran Flakes packaging).
• Snippets of packaging for the mount.

Something a little different . . .

Hi there!

Today I have a couple of things to share with you.

First, I made an art journal page having watched THIS VIDEO:

Double page spread in my Dylusions A4 sized art journal.

Then I used the same method to make a card, by shortening the length of the figure so it would fit!

5 x 7 card

Card Details:

• Various acrylic paints were randomly applied to the 300gsm white card in different layers and some were wiped off through stencils.
• Once the paints were dry, I stamped all sorts of grungy stamps over the pages using VFC Nocturne ink.
• While the ink was drying, I drew a figure on a piece of cardboard packaging and cut it out. Once the ink was dry, the mask was placed on the painted & stamped surface facing to the left while I added white paint around it. The mask was flipped over to face the other way while I added more white paint around it!
• Once the white paint was dry, I outlined the figures with a white gel pen, just to tidy them up.
• I ran a gold calligraphy pen around the edges of the main panel before gluing it to the card front.

Both card making AND art journaling make me happy, not to mention all that stamping and getting messy with acrylic paints in the process . . . so, I'm running along to the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE 825 to join in with their WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY theme (entering just the journal spread).

Sunday Snippets

Hi Playmates!

After all that chocklit last weekend, I've got some good old-fashioned jelly babies and wine gums in my satchel to keep your sugar high going this week! I also have a little flask of something to spice up your coffee too!

For my homework this week I made a DL sized card from an A4 sheet of 300gsm white card. Then I grabbed some foliage dies and set about die cutting some snippets of card. I added brown and burgundy splatters to the card front before taking time to arrange the foliage in the vase. The "vase" is simply a bit I chopped off the larger burgundy square of card shown in my snippets picture. 

Snippets used

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. So why not take the opportunity to use up some of your snippets (scraps/leftovers), then come over to the Playground for a 'show and tell' via Mr Linky.

HAPPY CRAFTING.

Sunday Snippets - more collage!

Hi Playmates!

Last Sunday, I mentioned you would be seeing more collage cards . . . and true to my word . . . here's another!

I put the collage together using snippets from my Junk Journal shoe box of odds and ends (as before) - choosing complementary tones. 

5" x 7" card

The starting point was the snippet of silhouette flowers stamped onto white card and inked around the edges, followed by grouping some torn snippets around it. I added the Tim Holtz Small Talk stickers to finish it off, then glued it to the card front.

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. There's still another week left to play in the current challenge if you haven't already done so. The conker contest is in full swing! 

Autumnal ATC

Here's an autumnal ATC I made last night so I could join in with Week 797 of the ALLSORTS CHALLENGE where they want to see you using Autumn Colours (or you can choose the Anything Goes option).

Artist Trading Card measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

Card Info:

• Magazine snippet glued to piece of packaging measuring 2 3/8" x 3 3/8".
• Using my finger I applied orange and blue acrylic paint to the magazine paper, mixing those colours in places to create green.
• Once the paints were dry, I stamped over the top with various stamps by PaperArtsy; Kaisercraft and IndigoBlu using black Ranger Archival ink.
• I rubbed some white gesso over the top so that the leaves would stand out from the background.
• A white snippet of card was used to die cut the stem using the "Hidden Leaves" set by Sizzix. It was smeared with paints left over on my non-stick craft sheet from creating the background. 
• Black splatters were stamped on the die cut stem using a stamp from SU's "Gorgeous Grunge" set (discontinued) and black archival ink. 
• Shadows were created by using a black Stabilo All pencil and a waterbrush..
• Finally I stamped the  word "Flourish" onto a white snippet, cut it out with scissors and glued it on. The word is from Aall & Create's stamp set #628 "Spread a Little Happiness".
• Then everything was glued onto a white snippet of 300gsm card measuring 2.5" x 3.5" for the correct ATC size.

What's in Sarn's Satchel this Sunday?

Hi Playmates!

In my satchel this week, Ive got a new skipping rope and some white chalk to mark out hopscotch numbers. Anyone want to play?

I've also bought my homework along, as follows:

5" x 5" card - everything on the card front is a snippet.

Some of my snippets.

Close up of the layers.

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.

Adventures in Gelli Printing (2)

Hi Friends

Following on from last Wednesday's gelli printing adventures, today, I'm sharing more cards and an ATC using the golden circle print (shown further down this post). I chopped the gelli print circle into pieces, ensuring some of the circle was visible on each piece. 

I then set about adding stamping and die cuts over the top, then matting and layering to make 3 greetings cards and an ATC. 

It takes an AGE for stamping to dry if it goes over the top of an acrylic painted print . . . so to speed things up, I usually stamp with Versafine Clair black ink, then heat emboss with clear embossing powder. 

MATERIALS:

• Gelli print
• Stamps by Woodware (art nouveau birthday sentiment), Inkylicious (silhouette flowers), Visible Image (grungy numbers), Aall & Create (row of crosses) and PaperArtsy (myth quote)
• Matted and layered using Stampin' Up! card and a bit of packaging.

I used the golden circle gelli print shown below. The circle was created with bright orange paint, but I pulled the print after brayering a thin layer of translucent gold paint on top. The gold acrylic paint I used is Abstract by Sennelier (Iridescent Gold #028) available in pouches from Hobbycraft in the UK for around £4 (it will last you ages).

Close up of the embossing on the ATC:

Just look at the gloss on that embossing!

So there you go - a double whammy. First I had all the fun of creating gelli prints, then I got the opportunity to be creative all over again by turning them into cards and ATCs (and an envelope shown at the bottom of my previous post HERE).

And finally . . . I was inspired to cut-up my gelli printed circles and make cards this way after seeing THIS BLOG POST by Tricia Morris via Pinterest. No point keep pinning stuff to your boards if you never USE them is there? LOL!

Snippets Playground Challenge: 17th - 30th September

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting the new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight, so why not reduce your mountain of snippets and make something so that you can play along?

Here are some snippety cards made with my favourite flower stamp set (Aall & Create set #986 called 'The Good' by Tracy Evans). I decided to use up some white strips left over from cutting my own card bases.

The card sizes vary a little, but all measure approx 3" x 6".
Main image mounted onto a snippet of SU Pool Party card stock (centre card),
with the cards either side using up packaging for the mats!

DL and A6 sized cards.
Snippets used: black and white pieces of card and an inked up piece using an embossing folder,
plus some green patterned SU papers - all trimmed to fit.

The focal points of the above 5 cards started out life like this:

9 white snippet strips - uninspiring or what?!

Here are the 9 strips all stamped up.
The top 4 strips will be used to fussy cut flowers
for later use (like those seen to the right of them).
The bottom 5 strips are the ones I used to make the 5 cards shown in this post.

    

Congrats if you made it to the end of this longer post! 

I wish you a very happy day.

Bunny's outing

Hi Gang!

I was lucky enough to be gifted this lovely bunny die by a wonderful friend of mine (thank you, you know who you are!).  The little bunny die hopped through my letterbox and onto my craft desk and I've been playing with him ever since.

I've two cards to share with you:

The first is a birthday card - with bunny sitting on top of the straight edged lettering (an idea from my crafty and kindhearted friend . . . although I misinterpreted her suggestion!).  

The bunny and brown matting layer are both from
Alpen Bar packaging. Stamped word background by Gummiapan.
Tip: before you lob your packets into the recycling bin, check
to see if there is a fab "kraft card" colour on the other side!

The second card has bunny sitting on a stamped tree branch sending you some bunny hugs and happy thoughts. 

Those of you who know me well, know that I love a bit of positivity, and I often send out happy and positive thoughts into the universe. As I'm not religious, it's my equivalent of a prayer I suppose!

Leaves are an old SU stamp & were watercoloured.
Bunny was cut from packaging (Alpen Bars box).
He's stuck to the card with foam pads, with ears & feet glued.
Sentiment is from Altenew "Beautiful Day" set.

Wishing you a wonderful day.

Happy crafting.

Anyone for some cake?

Hi Gang

I decided to play along with the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE 737 where Brenda has added a mood board for inspiration. I picked the colour pink and the cake stand from the mood board and made the card shown below:

An A6 sized card

Details:

• Cake stand = wooden stamp by Stampendous called Tiers of Treats
• Pink ink = Distress Oxide Kitsch Flamingo (heat embossed with clear EP)
• Sentiment = a very old photopolymer stamps, possibly by Woodware!
• Daisy die = Leane Creatief.
• Daisy gem = by Julie Hickey
• Main image mounted onto fake "kraft card" that is really packaging!

Week 736 at Allsorts - Embossing

I hadn't played with my embossing folders for quite some time, so when I saw that the optional theme at Allsorts this week was EMBOSSING . . . I thought I'd get my folders out and dust them off!

The one I most fancied playing with was a cute Sizzix bird folder. Take a look at the picture below to see what I made.

The card measures 4" x 4¾"

The materials I used to emboss a white snippet of card.

I had a go at inking the debossed side of the folder in green ink, then running it through my Big Shot with a snippet of white card inside. 

LOVED the result so I mounted it onto a larger white snippet then fixed that to some fake "Kraft card" (which is really recycled packaging) with foam pads. Trimmed an A6 card down to measure ¼" larger all round, which of course means the card is an odd size, so I'll have to custom-make an envelope to fit!