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.

Sunday Snippets - Zigzag Card

Hi Playmates!

Miss Di is BACK (so look out!) with a new challenge to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND. 

For my homework this week, I used up a long strip of white card left over from making my own card bases. It was scored and folded into a zigzag shape, then stamped. More snippets were added to the front zigzag. I think this shape is sometimes called a scrapling?

The white snippet strip measures 11.5" x 2.5" and was scored and folded at 4", 8" and 9¾". Easy peasy to make, then just decorate as you see fit. The strip needs to be 11.5" LONG for the above scoring and folding details, but it can be as WIDE as you like!

Details:

• Stamps: Aall & Create "Lost Ink" Set #1260 for the large letters; Florileges Design "Texte Mouchete" Ref: FG317034 for the newspaper print; ancient unbranded stamp for the handbag.
• Gray "diamond" shape cut with a Heffy Doodle "Stitched Square" die.

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. 

Bird on a branch scrapling

Hi Friends 

I so enjoy getting out my gelli plate and making prints that I have quite a lot of them to hand from recent sessions. Then I go and use a little bit of one and end up with even more snippets in my collection!!!

For the above card, I die cut a leafy branch from a dark blue gelli print then stamped the bird onto a snippet of an orangey print. I added a bit of colour to the bird's beak, wing and crown then cut him out with scissors.

The card blank is a white “scrapling” left over from cutting my own card blanks from A4 card. I decided to use it in the landscape orientation for a change. The branch was glued directly to the card. The bird was added on top with a foam pad for a little dimension. I custom-made an envelope to fit the odd-sized card.

DETAILS: 

• The bird comes from an Aall & Create stamp set called "Strange Birds" and is still only £4.80 HERE (no affiliation). 
• The lovely leafy sprig was snipped out of a die-cut circle ("Circle of Leaves" by Simon Says Stamp) - recently gifted to me by a lovely friend. 
• The nice bold sentiment is part of the PaperArtsy ESN37 set by Sara Naumann.