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 - 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.

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. 

January Rudolph Day - Christmas Penguin

Hi there!

Okay, so Rudolph Day was yesterday . . . but you have until the end of the month to join in with the challenge HERE.

On this card, I used a torn piece of paper with a blender brush and light blue ink to create the snowscape. Then I brushed the same blue ink through a few stencils. The penguin is a snippet that I coloured and cut out a little while back, and the "Christmas" word and "25th" stamps are from a new stamp set I acquired from Hobby Art, who recently stopped trading. As a final touch I added Washi tape to the left hand edge. 

C6 sized card

MATERIALS:

• Funky Fossil Washi Tape at the left hand edge.
• "Christmas" word and "25th" by Hobby Art from their "Christmas Post" stamp set. I coloured the sentiment in with blue Tombow marker pens.
• Geometric Flowers stencil by Funky Fossil and an unknown make for the swirly stencil.
• Torn paper used as a mask to create the snowscape with light blue ink and a brush.
• AALL & Create Penguin from set #604, stamped onto a white SNIPPET and coloured in with watercolour pencils. The penguin was 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!

Christmas Snippets!

Hi Lovely Reader!

Thanks for dropping by at this busy time of year.

As previously mentioned, I have started making next year's Christmas cards, so I stamped up a few white card snippets and coloured them in. Then I cut them out and set about making some festive cards. 

Stamped up snippets.

Coloured and cut out images.

Cards made with a few of the snippets.
I still have the remaining images to use up.

I was going to enter one of the red and green gonk cards into the We Love Stamping December Challenge . . . until I realised that I had no idea of the gonk stamp details (a requirement for copyright purposes). I thought the set might have been by Lisa Horton for Creative Expressions, but it's several years old and I cannot locate it anywhere, so that's that plan scuppered!

Sunday Snippets - 17th August

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 skip over to the Playground for a 'show and tell' via Mr Linky.

For my homework this week I created the card below, having been inspired to play with my wooden stamps by Lesley G:

A6 sized card

Remains of snippets used.

Details:

• Wooden Penny Black stamp "Whispers" (3377K from 2006) stamped with SU Rich Razzleberry ink and coloured with a waterbrush using Rich Razzleberry & Lucky Limeade inks.
• Torn snippet of patterned paper glued to bottom of card front.
• Happy Birthday sentiment (possibly by Uniko) stamped onto a white snippet of card and then cut with the smallest Heffy Doodle Stitched Rectangle die.
• Pink Sakura metallic gelly roll pen used around the edges of the petals.

Sarn's Sunday Snippets - 27-07-25

Hi Playmates!

After messing around sliding into the paddling pool and splashing about, I managed to get some homework done!

A6 Sized card

Details:

• Main panel features an ancient Rubber Romance wooden stamp - I think it was called Julia (stamped in VFC Pine Cone ink). She was coloured using a water brush and SU Rich Razzleberry ink. The book was coloured with Vintage Photo DI.  I added a small Happy Birthday sentiment (details lost in the mists of time!). Die cut using Heffy Doodle Stitched Rectangles.
• Main panel mounted onto a snippet of brown card at a jaunty angle!
• Snippet of torn burgundy patterned paper added across card front.
• Ancient SU floral stamp stamped three times across the bottom of the card using SU Rich Razzleberry ink.

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 - 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.

Sunday Snippets - Junk Journal Collage

Hi Playmates!

Conkers at the ready! We're doing it the old-fashioned way without any safety goggles or gloves!

For the next fortnight, I'm hosting the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND challenge. So take a look at your pile of snippets (I KNOW you have some), make something with them, then come and play - and remember to bring your best conker on a string!

I have been messing about with some of my junk journal snippets and made this collage which I then added to a card front.

I created a 5" x 7" WHITE card blank, then covered the front of it with brown parcel paper (as I didn't have any Kraft card at the time). 

I was inspired to use the parcel paper after absent mindedly putting the collage down on top of a Kraft envelope that was lying on my desk, while I was searching for a suitably coloured background to add the collage to! 

Turns out brown parcel paper was the perfect choice as nothing else "worked" as well after I'd seen it sitting on top of the Kraft envelope!

5" x 7" card

Materials:

• Lots of snippets from the shoe box where I keep my Junk Journal bits and bobs. The collage includes a stamped and cut out Aall & Create heart; gelli print piece and torn snippets of random stamping and papers.
• The hand painted circle was the starting point of the collage and I just keep adding little bits to it, here and there, until I was happy.

Close up of the collage before I glued it to the card front!

This was really fun to make and I keep practising piecing these little collages together, so expect to see a few more cards using collage! 

What's in Sarn's Satchel this Sunday?

Hi Playmates!

It's nearly St George's Day and in my satchel this week, I have some illicit hooch to stash around the Treehouse - out of sight of Miss Di - ready for a little St George's Day celebration. Di says she'll get the flags out and will be making some of her famous punch (but you can be sure I'll pep it up a bit!) Shhh!

Meantime, I've been busy tearing up my homework! LOL! Well - I tore out a page from the little book I mentioned over on this previous post . . . then tore the edges of a couple of smaller snippets of card that matched the colour scheme. Stamped just one word to finish. 

Suitable for a new baby card?

The card along with the snippets left over from tearing each side.

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.

New Snippets Playground Challenge 20th Aug to 2nd Sept

Hi Playmates

There's a new challenge to join in with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with yours truly in charge for the next fortnight. Why not use up some snippets and come over to play?

I've been playing with some jelly. Oops, no, I mean I've been playing with my gelli PLATE! (Not sure that sounds much better really!!!).

In any case, I made a gelli print which I stamped all over, intending to make it into a pocket! Unfortunately, I was a bit too enthusiastic with my scissors, which meant I couldn't fold the pocket up properly. So, I salvaged what I could of the print and (so far) I've made a few ATCs with it:

The 2¼" x 3¼" gelli print snippet has been stamped, then 
a leafy stencil was used with DOX inks for a focal point.
The Tim Holtz sticker was brushed with ink, then glued on.
All mounted onto a snippet of Alpen box packaging!

I stamped circles and a few splatters over the
Alpen box packaging "kraft" card, then added a
small snippet of the salvaged gelli print to the left and
some punched flowers to the right.
Flat back gems were glued to the flower centres.

A tiny snippet of the same salvaged gelli print is at the
bottom left of this ATC. The whole ATC front (from packaging) was covered
with a coloured book page snippet which had been gessoed first.
Writing and leaf sprig added freehand.

Just a couple of bits of the salvaged gelli print snippets.

That's all from me today folks! Keep on using up those pretty snippets of yours, then come and play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND.

Di has a snippets card to share with you HERE along with the latest Pupdate on Dudley's antics.

Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates

I've been tearing (around) again! 

The likely cause is that I have been learning about junk journaling over the last few months and have been ripping and tearing up all sorts of things to make ephemera. It's very satisfying!

What's more, I found I could apply some of my newly acquired junk journal knowledge to card making. Tearing up those last snippets of patterned paper is a GREAT way to add some interest and definition. As I've left the torn edges white on a white card blank, they're not so noticeable in the photo, but you can see them easily in real life! I could have inked the edges, but I preferred to keep them plain in this instance.

Torn patterned paper at the edge of the card front
and at the bottom of the topper.

Di has published her RESULTS from the previous challenge, so please hop over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire the top picks and discover who won the prize.

Sarn on Sunday!

Hi Playmates

There's a new challenge ready and waiting for you over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with Miss Di in charge for the next fortnight.

Here's my homework:

Dinky little gift cards measuring approx 2.5" square - made from long thin white snippets.

Some of the snippets used to decorate with.

After all the eggcitement(!) of Easter and the game of Tag . . . I think I'll have a little quiet time up in the Treehouse. There are still a few Hot Cross Buns left over . . . I'll toast them to make them seem fresher, then add lashings of butter! YUMMY!