Sunday Snippets - New Home

Hi Playmates!

Miss Di has kicked off a new challenge for you to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND so off you go to do your homework! LOL! 

Here's my homework - a colourful new home card, made with some larger snippets. 

A6 sized card

MATERIALS:

• Stampendous SSC218 stamp set for the houses
• Woodware sentiment
• Retired SU little leafy stamp (at top of card)
• Heffy Doodle stitched rectangle dies to cut the panels
• SNIPPETS - white card for the image panel and blue paper for the panel mount

The Witching Hour ATC

Hi there!

I don't usually make anything for Hallowe’en as I don't have any suitable craft materials . . . but an opportunity presented itself, so I went for it!

I ordered a stamp from Lavinia (a lovely looking clock face called Tick, in case you're interested) and when the stamp arrived, Lavinia included a leaflet about their Hallaganza Event which is being held on 23rd and 24th October 2026. I can't attend the event as it's too far away, so the leaflet was redundant . . . but not for long . . . I repurposed it into this spooky Hallowe'en ATC.

I would normally enter this card into the TAG ALONG & ATCS Challenge, but as it may infringe Lavinia's copyright, I'm not entering it into any challenges at all. I just wanted to share the ATC with you!

ATC

The remains of the torn up leaflet from Lavinia!

Materials:

• A leaflet from Lavinia Stamps 
• Snippet of black card, trimmed to 2.5" x 3.5" for the ATC base.

Sunday Snippets - Christmas Gift!

Hi there Playmates!

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.

For my homework - I made another card using my own set of Polkadoodle “Perfect Parcels” dies - which are available as part of the prize in the current Snippets Playground Challenge.

A6 sized card

Snippets

Materials:

• Snippets of journal pages for the main panel and mount.
• Polkadoodles’ “Perfect Parcels” die set for the gift boxes (can be won in the current challenge), cut from an acrylic painted snippet of originally white card.
• Ancient SU Sentiment, heat embossed with clear EP. 
• Funky Fossil’s Geometric Flowers stencil, brushed with SU Island Indigo ink on the card base.

Autumn Leaf ATC

I made an Autumn ATC, which means I can enter the current TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is ALL THINGS AUTUMN.

WE LOVE STAMPING also has a "SHADES OF AUTUMN" theme for the current challenge, so I'm joining in over there too! 

MATERIALS:

• Sizzix Hidden Leaves leaf sprig
• Crafty Roo "Autumn" word
• Carabelle stamped background on orange snippet
• White snippet for mounting main panel.
• Packaging cut to ATC size of 2.5" x 3.5"

Sunday Snippets - Gifts

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight, so please come and play. There's hot chocolate available in the treehouse!

For my homework this week I made a Christmas card which uses two of the Polkadoodle gift dies available as part of the prize (I bought a duplicate set just for you!). BOTH Snippets Playground Challenges in October will be offering festive prizes, so you should get your goodies in time for the coming season! 

A6 sized card

Materials:

• Snowflakes by Crafty Roo and Visible Image
• Sentiment by Uniko
• Polkadoodles’ “Perfect Parcels” die set for the gift boxes (can be won in the current challenge). I die cut the gift boxes from a white snippet that I had brayered with acrylic paints and splattered with diluted white acrylic paint.

Autumn Trees Tag

Hi there!

Lots of challenges are having autumn themes, so I made an autumnal tag to play along with them.

Tag

Details:

• Aall & Create Taggletastic die for tag shape, and Roadway Vistas for the trees, die-cut from white SNIPPETS and a WHOLE piece of SU Lucky Limeade card.
• Distress inks and brushes used for all colouring: Peeled Paint; Shabby Shutters;Wild Honey; Ripe Persimmon and Vintage Photo. 
• Hobby Art grass stamp from the Bee Kind set.
• Inkylicious circle stencil for the sun.
• Crop-a-dile used to set eyelet for string at top of tag.

I would like to enter the tag into the following challenges:

ALLSORTS #859 - Anything Autumn (ends 9th October)

TAG ALONG & ATCs October Challenge - All Things Autumn (ends 28th October)

WE LOVE STAMPING October Challenge - Shades of Autumn (ends 28th October)

It's Autumn Already!

Hi Playmates!

For my Snippets Playground homework, I made an autumn leaf card which means I can join in with Challenge 859 at ALLSORTS where Chris has chosen the theme of ANYTHING AUTUMN!

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.

5" x 5" card

Attempting to show the shine of the Glossy Accents!

Materials:

• Leaf image "Autumn Border" by Crafty Roo.
• Image panel die cut with Heffy Doodle stitched squares die.
• Snippet of blue paper from a Studio Light paper pad.
• Derwent Inktense pencils and waterbrush used to colour the image.
• Glossy Accents added to the leaf.

Sunday Snippets - Wired for Sound

Hi Playmates!

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

Along with a lot of other crafters, I find it easier to make feminine cards than masculine ones. However, I managed to make the masculine card below with the help of a Funky Fossil image and a sentiment by Visible Image.

The main panel was mounted onto a black piece of card which was in turn adhered to the card with foam pads for a bit of dimension.

5" square card

Materials:

• Funky Fossil "Rock n Roll" stamp set for the headphones.
• Visible Image "You're A Classic" stamp set for the sentiment.
• Larger snippets of black and white card, trimmed to size.

Autumn Leaves

Hi there!

Today I'm sharing a leafy, autumnal card which I'm taking along to the WE LOVE STAMPING CHALLENGE where the theme is TREES AND LEAVES.

5" x 7" card

Card elements - base card with masking tape for the stencilling removed;
leafy image stamped & coloured, plus extra leaves to be added
with foam pads. 

Details:

• 5" x 7" base card, masked off with tape and stencilled by brushing ink through a Skeleton Leaves stencil of unknown make.
• Crafty Roo Autumn Wonder stamps for main leafy image & sentiment.
• Distress inks: Scattered Straw; Ripe Persimmon; Spiced Marmalade smooshed onto a white tile, spritzed with water and picked up with a water brush to colour the leaves and to add splatters to main panel. Same inks used for the stencilling to co-ordinate. 
• Main panel cut with Heffy Doodle stitched rectangles.

Sunday Snippets - Butterfly Birthday Card

Hi Playmates!

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.

For my homework, I made a pink birthday card for Miss Di's recent birthday. 

Landscape A6 sized card.

Details:

• Memory Box Lunette butterfly dies cut from snippets of card and gel prints.
• Torn gelli print snippet.
• Ancient and long-retired wooden SU sentiment - still a favourite after all this time.

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.

Sunday Snippets - Masculine Make

Hi there!

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 made a masculine anniversary card, sort of representing the passage of time, love and shelter. Yes, you're right, I'm a romantic at heart! LOL! 

I stamped a clock image onto the main card panel, and then stamped another onto a white snippet, along with the umbrella man. The second clock and the umbrella man were cut out with scissors and adhered to the card with different thicknesses of foam pads as I wanted them to overlap slightly. 

I stamped, coloured and cut out a small love heart for the clock’s centre for a bit of spot colour. The last thing I added was the sentiment.

Card measures 6" x 4.5" 

Materials:

• Stampers Anonymous "Life's Possibilities" CSS25870 set used for the umbrella man and the clocks.
• Can't remember who made the heart stamp.
• Maker of the Happy Anniversary words is lost in the mists of time, but is possibly from an old Stampin' Up set.

A bloom for you

Hi there!

I only used up one snippet on today’s card, but it has impact! The rose was stamped onto a white snippet and cut out with scissors, then glued over the top of the leaves, which were stamped directly to the card front, along with the sentiment.

Details:

• 5" square base card.
• Altenew “Beautiful Day” stamps for the rose and leaves.
• Uniko sentiment.
• Elements inks to colour the rose. 
• Leaf Green Derwent Inktense pencil & waterbrush to colour the leaves.

Entering this card into the WE LOVE STAMPING CHALLENGE where they want to see SUMMER BLOOMS on your project (or Anything Goes). 

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.

A stacked ATC!

Hi there!

While I was in the mood for drawing stacks the other day, (see THIS CARD), I carried on and made an ATC in a similar vein.

ATC

Details:

• 2.5" x 3.5" snippet of SU Mango Melody card used to mount the white card snippet of the drawing.
• Sakura Pigma Micron pen 01to draw with.
• Various Distress Inks and a water brush to colour the image (using whatever ink was left on the white tile I was using while making the original 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!

Sunday Snippets - Fabulous Francoise

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.

For my homework this week, I've been playing with the Fabulous Francoise stamp and stencil set from the cover gifts of Creative Stamping magazine Issue 162. 

Using one of the ideas inside the magazine for the inking and stamping, I then added a little die cut bird snippet for my own spin on it. In fact everything added to the card front is a snippet!

Die cut snippet

Details:

• Snippets of white card for the main panel and the die cut bird, as well as SU Misty Moonlight for the matting and layering.
• Fabulous Francoise stamps and stencils - magazine cover gift. 
• I used Distress Oxides in Iced Spruce; Salvaged Patina, and Faded Jeans, for the background inking. VFC Twilight ink was used for the stamping. The dots stencil was brushed with Black Soot Distress Ink.

Handbags ATC

Hi there!

Here’s my first entry to the TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is FASHION (or anything goes). There’s a fabulous prize up for grabs too. 

ATC

Details:

• Snippets of brown card (for the mount) and white card for the main ATC panel.
• Small number stamp probably from an IndigoBlu set.
• Splatters from the SU Gorgeous Grunge set.
• Handbags from the Dotty Collection by Stampendous (long retired). Stamped first onto the main panel and again onto a white snippet, cut out and added to the panel with foam pads. 
• Stamped with VFC Pinecone ink and coloured with a Derwent Inktense pencils for the flowers and grounding.

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.