Sunday Snippets - another Bunny card!

Hi Playmates!

Here's another bunny card. You have the chance to win a bunny die as part of the prize package over at THE SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next week. 

Zigzag card

Left over snippets!

Details:

• Pink patterned paper snippets
• SU Sahara Sand snippets of card used for die cutting, matting and layering
• Zigzag shaped card created from a snippet strip of white card left over from cutting my own card bases. (Strip measured 11" x 2" and was scored & folded at 4", 8" & 9.5")
• Unbranded Bunny and flower dies, cut from Sahara Sand snippets
• Retired SU four petal flower outline die cuts used on back panel; waste leaves used to ground Bunny

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. 

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. 

Sunday Snippets - Let's all eat cake!

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 made a card using one of the stamp sets you can win over in the Playground. No, I didn't use the ACTUAL set that's up for a prize, it's just that I happen to have the set in my own stamp collection too, so I made something with it as an example.

This little card was originally a triptych card that went wrong ages ago, so I cut off the third panel and kept the (now) two panel card in my snippets pile for later use.

Then, would you believe it, while I was making THIS card, I messed up the stamping at the bottom, so the original snippet got cut down some more! It now measures 4" x 2.75"!!!! But it's cute, so it's OK!

Attempting to show you the glittery gold cases!

Details:

• Hobby Art "Cakes" stamp set CSS003 (I made Post-It note masks for the cakes). I started by masking off the bottom cake, stamped the next cake up, masked that as well, then stamped the top cake.
• The cakes themselves are coloured with a mixture of Tombow pens and watercolour pencils. The cake cases are coloured with glittery gold Signo pens.
• White Sakura Gelli Roll 08 Pen used for highlights.
• Sentiment is ANCIENT - no idea of its maker!

Sunday Snippets - Masculine Card

Hi there!

I needed a masculine card for the guitarist in my life - so here’s what I came up with - a box card with a hinged sentiment.

A tutorial for this card is on the tabs at the top of this blog HERE - just scroll down to “Square Box Card” for details.

Materials:

• Guitar image from Visible Image’s Music Speaks set
• Sentiment from an old set by Stampin Up
• Bottom edge swirl from the Funky Fossil Rock n Roll set
• Sizzix circle dies used for the hinged sentiment
• Snippets: white card and SU Sahara Sand card used for the panels and sentiment

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.

Sunday Snippets - a Christmas Candle

Hi Playmates!

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

For my homework I was messing about in Art Class and drew a small candle on a snippet of white card. I quite liked it - so I mounted it onto a black snippet of card after rounding all the corners with a punch. I was inspired to draw the candle having seen Tina Cox’s designs for Clarity Stamp. (However, I figured I could draw a candle myself and save £20!)

It was still quite a small image due to the size of the snippet I picked, so I reached for a long strip of white card (a snippet left from making my own card blanks). The strip measured 2.5" x 11.5", so I scored it at 4", 8" & 9¾" to make a zigzag card base.

Side view to show the card shape.

A face-on shot!

After making the card shape, I stencilled over it and glued the candle to the front panel. Then added the Merry Christmas sentiment.

Materials:

• Hand drawn candle, coloured with Tombow pens.
• Retired sentiment by Clearly Besotted*
• Stencils: "Dotty Circles" (magazine cover gift); "Bubbles" Dinky Stencil TC005 by That's Crafty.
• Snippets - ALL the pieces of card used for the card.

*EDITED to say I originally stated that Clearly Besotted were no longer trading but this is not the case. I’ve checked and the owner, Stephanie, says her little business is fully operational. 

Snippets Playground - Anyone fancy a coffee?

Hi Playmates!

It's been such lovely weather this week, that we've had tonnes of fun running around playing 'Tag, You're It". All that running around has fair worn me out - so it's up to the Treehouse for some refreshments!

In the Sunday Morning Breakfast Club we'll be enjoying croissants & hot cross buns, heated up in the microwave, plus as much tea or coffee as you can manage. Here's hoping you remembered to put your clocks forward if you're in the UK! 

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. This is your opportunity to use up snippets (scraps/leftovers) in your creative projects, then skip over to the Playground for a 'show and tell' via Mr Linky.

For my homework this week I made a gatefold card with a coffee theme and a vintage vibe!

The card measures 5.5" square

Details: 

• 11" x 5.5" piece of white card scored at 2.75" each side to create the gatefold shape.
• Patterned paper snippets: two panels, each measuring 2.25" x 5"; a square measuring 2.25" x 2.25". A further piece to stamp the mug on and fussy cut (optional).
• 2 x square snippets of white card: one measuring 2.75" x 2.75", the other 2" x 2".
• Coffee mug from the Tim Holtz "Fresh Brewed" (THMB025) stamp set by Stampers Anonymous. The mug was stamped onto the smallest white square, then again onto a snippet of the patterned paper, fussy cut and glued over the stamped image. This was layered up and mounted as shown in the photo, ensuring only the left hand side of the central panel was glued on to the left hand panel of the main card.
• Coffee bean stamps from an Aall & Create set were added at opposing corners. 

EDITED TO SAY:

At Carrie's invitation, I am also linking the above card up to the Creative Creases Challenge 101 where I've snuck in at the last minute!

While I was making one coffee-themed gatefold card . . . I decided to make another - see below:

Same measurements as the first card for the gatefold. I altered the dimensions of the middle piece to suit the size of the coffee cup and sentiment. The card front was double stencilled - first with Aall & Create Cloister Grille in a light brown, then with Funky Fossil's retired Caffeine Buzz stencil in a darker brown ink. The coffee cup is by Uniko, stamped in brown ink and the flower coloured in with 2 shades of orange Tombow pens. The central panel (made entirely from snippets) was stuck to the left hand gate!

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.

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.

ALLSORTS CHALLENGE 784

It's Saturday morning and time for another ALLSORTS CHALLENGE where I am delighted to be their Guest Designer this week. 

This week's theme is FLOWERS GALORE (or you can, of course, choose the Anything Goes option). 

I think you'll agree that this pop up box card has flowers galore! 

A pretty boxful of flowers for someone's birthday.

Folds flat for posting.

The die cut snippets,
plus the final versions coloured and glued together.

Materials:

• Decorative papers from Craft O'Clock's Warm Breeze pad to decorate the pop up box flaps etc.
• Martha Stewart edge punch used on 3 of the box flaps.
• Tim Holtz Modern Floristry dies by Sizzix to fill the inside of the card.
• White and green snippets of card for die cutting. The die cuts were subsequently brushed with a variety of dye inks to colour them. I used the negative pieces to reinsert the flowers for ease of holding them in place while brushing with ink.
• The sentiment uses long-retired oval punches and birthday words, all by Stampin' Up!

I hope you will come and join in at the Allsorts Challenge. There is a lovely prize to be won.

What's in Sarn's Satchel this Sunday?

Hi Playmates!

In my satchel this week, I have some cheese and crackers, plus a fair few bottles of wine to share out! Lets have a cheese and wine party up in the treehouse! I'm sure Dudley will put on his waiter's bandanna. Di and I will be your hostesses with the mostest!

Here's my homework:

My card was inspired by Pauline's lovely card which made me get out the unbranded triptych die I received at Christmas.

White snippets for the die cut flowers.

The white panels were liberally decorated with multiple inks and a variety of stencils. I overdid it and they looked terrible! To remedy the situation, I painted over the top of the stencilling with an opaque blue acrylic paint, then stamped over the paint with Ranger Archival ink. Happy with the panels at this point, I glued on the white die cut foliage. The panels were then matted onto SU Island Indigo card adhered to the triptych card base. The sentiment was stamped then die cut with a Heffy Doodle stitched rectangle die.

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 - there's a lovely prize on offer - or you can just play for fun. 

Snippets Playground Celebrations!

Hi Playmates!

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight. 

It's another special challenge to celebrate the 12th year of Miss Di holding the Playground keys. In honour of this event, Di and I have decided to add another theme to the challenge. So - please submit your homework on the theme of "CELEBRATION". You are free to interpret this as you wish - any celebration will count (new baby; birthdays; special anniversary or any other celebratory event) as long as it is obvious what the celebration is on your project.

To comply with the challenge theme, I've chosen a special birthday celebration.

A diamond fold springy card.

Envelope already made. 
Remaining snippets of burgundy paper,
plus other pieces of card.

Hadn't made one of these cards for AGES and it was fun to revisit this springy card shape which, happily, folds flat for posting.

Over to YOU now . . . check out your pile of snippets, make something with them on the CELEBRATION theme, then come and play. There are 2 bumper prizes  full of festive goodies available, so you won't want to miss out. Plus, you can put on your party frock and come to the Treehouse where there will be champagne and lots of party food available on the evening of 8th Jan (the actual hand-over date all those years ago!).

You can make this shaped card from any size rectangle as long as you mark the quarter and half points, then score and cut as per the diagram below.

Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight.

Here's my homework:

A shaped card made for someone special. I cut and stamped all the panels to make a grungy background, then added a large silhouette flower stamp by Bee Crafty. I die-cut the circles, leaves and sentiment from SNIPPETS and added them to the card via a little hinge made from die-cut circles. This shaped card stands up easily but folds flat for posting.

Details on how to make this card shape are in my TUTORIAL page at the top of this blog HERE.

I'm running amok in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight - so grab your satchel and skip on over to find out what lovely prize is on offer, as well as all the details on how to enter. 

Allsorts' 700th Challenge

Hello and welcome!

It's 8 o'clock on a Saturday morning, which means there's a new ALLSORTS CHALLENGE waiting for you to play along with.

This week I'm delighted to have been invited back as a Guest Designer for their special 700th challenge.

This week's theme is Let's Celebrate - Any Special Occasion. This means any special occasion you choose, including Christmas. I chose to make a masculine card for an 80th birthday.

Here's my GDT card:

Lots of prizes to be won. Come along and join in the fun.

Allsorts' Special 13th Birthday Challenge

Hello and welcome!

It's 8 o'clock on Saturday morning, which means there's a new ALLSORTS CHALLENGE waiting for you to play along with. This week I'm delighted to have been invited back as a Guest Designer for their SPECIAL CELEBRATORY BIRTHDAY.

Brenda has chosen the theme of ANYTHING FOR A BIRTHDAY for this challenge, so that gives you plenty of scope to play along and join in with the celebrations. There are 15 prizes on offer in total - yes, you read that correctly FIFTEEN!

Here's my DT card:

See? It stands up all by itself, but it folds flat to post!

Snippets Playground Challenge 427

Hi there Snippets Playmates!

It's my turn to host a new challenge over in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND.  Miss Di is on a mission to tidy-up and sort out her craft room, so I think we should make the most of things while she's busy don't you? I'll bring along some contraband in my satchel for you to enjoy! Feel free to come up to the Playground Treehouse for a party!

My snippets homework is a little zigzag card - which is a great way of using up long strips.

This measures 3" x 4" when folded up

To make this little card: just take a long strip of card measuring 3" x 11.5" (mine was left over from an A4 piece of card) and place it on a scoreboard in landscape orientation. Score at 4", 8" & 9¾" then decorate with yet MORE snippets!

So, come and play on the Snippets Playground swings or join in with the Maypole Dancing. Miss Di will be patrolling the grounds with playground pup Dudley!

NEW BLOG FOR THE SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND!

WOOT WOOT!

You may already have seen Di's blog post about the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND having a NEW HOME - a blog space all of its own. But if not - GO TAKE A LOOK HERE. She has a lovely prize on offer to launch the new blog.

I'll be causing mayhem up in the new and improved Playground Treehouse, just as soon as possible!

I've made card full of snippets. I got the Balcony Card idea from Lesley's Stampin' Ground HERE and thought it would make a lovely card for a 90th birthday.

I had lots of white snippets to die cut from, so I decided that was the only other "colour" I was adding to the Wisteria Wonder DSP and Pool Party matting.

Only the 6" x 6" card base was cut from a whole sheet of A4 white card - everything else is a snippet! 

A card full of snippets!

The measurements:

White card base: 6" x 6" (scored in half).
Decorate with designer paper BEFORE gluing the balconies on!

White inside (middle) piece: 5" x 2.5" (scored @ 0.5"; 2.5" and 4.5").
Flatten the card base and attach this piece to the bottom of the card base by gluing the little side tabs (or do what I did and move this middle piece UP A BIT for extra height).

White bottom piece: 7" x 1.5" (scored @ 0.5"; 3.5" and 6.5"). 
Flatten the card base and attach this strip to the bottom of the card by gluing the little side tabs. 

• The left and right hand sides of the two balcony pieces were decorated with strips of Pool Party card and Wisteria Wonder SU designer paper BEFORE gluing to the card base. 

• I lined up each balcony with the centre scoreline of the card base. 

• Add all the die-cut and punched flowers AFTER you've constructed the card with its balconies!

Double Fold Back Cards

Hello and welcome!

I have a couple of shaped cards to share with you today.

I first saw this folded card on Sandy's blog HERE and bookmarked it to have a play with. I followed the link she gave to Splitcoast Stampers HERE, and proceeded to make the cards below. 

One is decorated with die cuts, the other is decorated using stamping.

Card One

The card all folded up with a wrap to keep it closed.

A birds-eye view of the whole card

Card Two

Written out measurements and instructions are included in my previous post HERE.

I wish you lots of creativity. Have a good day.

Golden Wedding Anniversary

Hi there!

Today's card is for my neighbours' 50th Wedding Anniversary. As it was a special occasion, I made them a special card. I used a lovely floral embossing folder on some gold mirror card, and die cut the numbers from the same card so it all matched.

This view shows the shape & dimension

Another view - more from the front.

60th Birthday Card

Hi there creative friends

I first saw this type of card on Sandy's blog HERE. I followed the link she gave to Splitcoast Stampers HERE, and proceeded to make the card below:

                                    

The decorated inside . . . 

                                   

I used SCS's instructions - which are great and worked out first time as it's pretty straightforward.

For ease of reference, the details are below:

BASE CARD

Piece of card measuring 5.5" x 11", scored down from the long edge at 1.75", 5.5" and 9.75".

Fold in half at 5.5" score line, then fold both flaps over. One flap goes over the top of the other.

PATTERNED PAPER (You only need ONE piece of 6" x 6" paper)

5.25" x 3.5" (adhere to main area of card front)

5.25" x 1.5" (adhere to largest front flap)

5.25" x 1.0" (adhere to smallest front flap)

CARD WRAP 

11" x 1" piece of card.

Wrap this around whole card and adhere the overlapping ends. Decorate with die-cuts or punched items and a sentiment, as desired.

I had a lot of fun making this card, and if you have a go, I hope you enjoy making one too.

HAPPY CRAFTING