A gift - in more ways than one!

A new challenge started at Allsorts today and runs for the next fortnight. There is a great theme of MATCHING PAIRS to play along with, or you can choose to enter under the Anything Goes option. Two prizes of Lavinia Stamps are on offer and you can enter up to 5 times now.

Earlier this week, I received Happy Mail from a good friend, which really cheered me up and inspired me to play (thanks, you know who you are!).

I made a card and a pair of tags using the same stamp and matching die.

My card measures 4.75" square

Matching tags - the right hand tag has 3 stacked presents!

Details:

Happy Mail!

Shown above is the sweet little present stamp and matching die that I used on both the card and the tags (so I suppose that could also cover the matching pairs theme!).

The card sentiment is by Visible Image, but the tag sentiment is old and I can't remember who made it. I used my favourite SU Island Indigo colour of ink, with a waterbrush, to colour the images. The tags were created with the SU Tag Topper punch (retired).

Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates!

I know Christmas is over . . . but I've already made a start on cards for 2025's festive season. That's because, these days, I prefer to make them in the winter months while I'm more 'in the mood'!

Card measures 4.75" x 4.75"

Details:

• Heffy Doodle Stitched Square dies used to cut the main image and the mount.
• White snippet of card for the main panel.
• Snippet of SU 'Certainly Celery' card for the mount.
• Very old 'Seasons Greetings' stamp - probably by Stampendous, coloured with green and orange Tombow marker pens.

Playground Round-up:

Didn't we have a lot of fun at the Playground Christmas Party?! A few too many imbibers of the spiked Playground Punch and hidden hooch saw a long and raucous Conga led by Miss Di and chased by Dudley Dog! Lots of frantic dancing to the music too - we sure know how to strut our funky stuff sho' nuff! I'm assuming you've all got over your hangovers now!

I have published RESULTS from the previous challenge, so please hop over to the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND to admire the top picks and discover which FOUR LUCKY PLAYMATES won prizes. There's still nearly a week left to play in Di's current challenge if you haven't already done so.

Sunday Snippets - it's party time!

Hi Playmates!

There's a new challenge to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND hosted by Miss Di for the next fortnight, where, once again, there will be FOUR lucky prize winners picked out at random at the end of it. Results will be posted on 12th January 2025.

I made a festive gift wallet for my homework and put a voucher inside, but it also fits a bar of chocolate (just saying!). 

Gift wallet (fits chocolate bar!)

My snippets

This is the template I made and used for the gift wallet - just in case anyone needs one!

Snippets Playground Round up!

The Playground Christmas party is being held in the school hall on Christmas Eve. Thanks to all the playmates who have been taking it in turns to make long paper chains and blow up balloons to decorate the hall. 

Di and I have been busy putting out tables and chairs and making sure there are plenty of twinkling lights about the place - plus we dragged in a huge Christmas tree and decorated it. The dinner ladies have been busy making party food and drink - including a massive bowl of punch (which I might just have to "spice up" a little)! Dudley is going to be DJ for the night and Di says she'll be leading a Conga at some point! All are welcome to enjoy the festivities, so let's eat, drink and be merry!

As this is likely to be my last post before Christmas, I wish all my blog readers, old and new, a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. 

Purple Pal

Hi there!

Over at ALLSORTS, there's a nice easy theme to kick off the new fortnightly challenges. Sarah wants to see us using our dies (or there's always the Anything Goes option). There are some new DT members to visit and there's a brand new blog header to see! All change!

I was happy to comply with the theme, so I used up a piece from a masterboard I recently made, then added two die cuts to complete the card. 

Card measures: 4.75" x 4.75"

The only snippets I remembered to take a picture of!

Materials:

• Masterboard snippet. I made the masterboard by scribbling a white Crayola wax crayon all over some white card, then added various Distress Inks over the top using a craft brush. The white crayon areas resist the inks leaving a nice effect. The original sheet of card was A4 but I've used up lots of it.

• As this portion of the masterboard was purple, I used a purple mount (larger snippet) and die cut some smaller snippets of the same cardstock for the word "friend" (from Heffy Doodle - no longer in business) and the little bird on a branch (from The Works - discontinued).

It's Winter Solstice today - happy Midwinter everyone - longer days and shorter nights are on their way!

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 - What's in Sarn's Satchel this week?

Hi Playmates!

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

Here's my homework:

Landscape C6 card (opening on the right hand side)

Card and matching envelope.

MATERIALS:

• Snippet of pink patterned paper (which was part of a magazine gift) glued to a white card snippet for sturdiness, then die cut with Heffy Doodle Stitched Rectangle dies. I used a further snippet of the same paper to decorate the envelope.
• Heffy Doodle "Friend" sentiment die, cut from a white snippet.
• Ancient Marianne flourish die cut from a white snippet.
• Three little flowers punched out of a white snippet with a discontinued SU flower punch.
• Julie Hickey Glossies for flower centres, plus a few more added just because!

In my satchel, along with my homework, I've got a tub of Bournville drinking chocolate for making hot chocolate up in the treehouse, plus some chocolate Digestive biscuits in both milk and dark chocolate varieties! Take your pick - personally I love the dark chocolate biccies! Oh, and don't tell Miss Di, but I've been smuggling in some hooch and stashing it around the treehouse ready for the Christmas Party! Wink, wink! 

Sunday Snippets - Whimsical Fairies!

Hi there Playmates!

Bonfire night in the Snippets Playground went well and everyone had a good time keeping warm by the bonfire, eating jacket potatoes and slurping from mugs of soup. 

Today I have a whimsical card made after experimenting with Distress Oxide inks on a gelli plate.

INFO:

• Blue and Orange Distress Oxide pads swiped on circular gelli plate then brayered to blend.
• A piece of packaging, that had been dry embossed with a cog embossing folder, was then dabbed lightly on top of the gelli plate to add an impression into the ink. I then spritzed the gelli plate with water before pulling a print using 300gsm white card.
• Once the print was dry, I stamped various Lavinia stamps over it using VFC Twilight ink before die cutting with stitched circle dies by The Works. Lavinia stamps used: Flower Fairy; Butterflies and one of the Fairy Foragers. The Believe word is from a Tracy Evans set for Aall & Create.
• Also cut a mat for the stitched circle using a Heffy Doodle Circle Frames die and SU Misty Moonlight card.
• SU Misty Moonlight ink was brushed onto the card front in opposing corners using a craft "make-up" brush and a TCW stencil (#424 Modern Spirals).

Why not take a look at your snippets pile, pull out a few bits 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.

Sunday Snippets - Eclipse Card

Hi Playmates!

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

Here's my homework - a Ruby Wedding Anniversary card using the eclipse technique.

5.75" square card base

A close up of the eclipse technique

My white snippets

In the Playground, we've all been enjoying the rounds of conkers without the interference of health & safety, and so far, apart from a few rapped knuckles, there have been no serious injuries! Vicky even taped marshmallows to her hands to prevent rapped knuckles! It's been fun meeting up in the treehouse afterwards for hot chocolate. Current champion is Lesley G - who appears to have had some advice from Miss Di on how to harden her best conker with vinegar! Hmmm!

Card materials:

• Heffy Doodle Stitched Square dies (for the 2 main panels)
• Julie Hickey number and ordinal dies (for the eclipse technique)
• White card snippets (for die cutting)
• Aall & Create #565 Wildflower stamp set, stamped in SU Sahara Sand ink onto main panel.
• Aall & Create #896 Forget Me Not stamp set. My cut-down heart was stamped over the clock image using SU Rich Razzleberry ink. I then stamped the heart again onto copy paper, cut it out and glued it over the top.

PS: Meet you at the Snippets Playground gates on Hallowe'en - Thursday, 31st Oct - to go trick or treating in the neighbourhood. Costumes on and candy bags at the ready! 

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! 

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! 

Sunday Snippets - Elegant Writer Pen

Hi Playmates!

It's results week over in the Snippets Playground, so why not nip over there to see who got showcased and who the lucky prize winner is?

I put my Speedball Elegant Writer pen (silver case 1.3 nib) into my satchel this week and during Art Class I stamped and coloured these flowers, then made them into cards.

Left hand card is DL size.
The right hand card was custom made to fit the image and measures: 3.25" x 5.5"

MATERIALS:

• White snippets for stamping on and black snippets for matting.
• Visible image flower image from Creative Chaos set stamped with Versamark Ink, sprinkled with black embossing powder and heat set.
• Coloured with ink from the Speedball Elegant Writer pen. I scribbled the pen on a non-stick surface and used a waterbrush to pick up the ink and add to the flower image, diluting the ink and dabbing some of it off as I went, in order to achieve different depths and colour splits. I gave the sympathy card a light wash of the ink in the background.
• I also used the EW pen to add a squiggle at the bottom of the flower to ground it. 

The pen is great fun to experiment with. I bought mine from an online store beginning with A. There is a link on the GO7 blog page (see HERE) plus lots of info on the pen - and further examples. If you want a UK link to buy a pen see HERE.

It's nearly CONKER time . . . so, as mentioned by Brenda . . . we ought to go conker hunting don't you think? xxx

Another Modern Floristry Card

Hi Playmates!

Here's another card made with the Sizzix Modern Floristry set of dies. I used white snippets for the main panel as well as all the die cutting. The flowers were coloured by using brushes with various Distress Inks (with the die cut put back into the hole left from cutting it to hold it in place). The main panel was then mounted onto a piece of SU Lucky Limeade card and adhered to the card front.

I was inspired to make this card having watched this Pete Hughes You Tube video.

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

HAPPY CRAFTING!

A card for Allsorts' 800th Challenge

It's Saturday and time for a special challenge over at ALLSORTS where they are celebrating their 800th Challenge.

There is no theme at all . . . it is purely ANYTHING GOES. There are extra prizes up for grabs and you can enter up to 3 times to increase your chances!

I'm delighted to be a Guest Designer with Allsorts this week (thanks girls) and look forward to seeing all your makes.

Details:

• Heffy Doodle Stitched Square dies used on white snippets to create centre panel and a frame around it. Unfortunately Heffy Doodle recently went out of business.
• Centre panel stamped and stencilled using Stampin' Up!'s Gorgeous Grape ink with ink splat stamps from Stampin' Up!'s Gorgeous Grunge set as well as Funky Fossil's Make Art stencil.
• Aall & Create "Nature's Beauty" sentiment added from the Forget Me Not #896 set.
• Visible Image Butterfly probably from the Live Life Now set. 

So why not make a card and come join in the Allsorts celebrations?

Sarn's Sunday Snippets

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 who won the prize. There's still another week left to play in the current challenge if you haven't already done so.

Here's my homework:

This week, my satchel is bulging with Bonne Maman Lemon Madeleines. They are SCRUMPTIOUS and go so well with a cuppa! 

Materials:

• Snippets of Sahara Sand and Basic Grey card for matting and layering.
• White snippet for stamping the main panel.
• Fun sentiment from Aall & Create's "Strange Birds" stamp set #464.
• Chicken from a retired Artemio stamp set.
• Grounding stamp from a (possibly retired) Asia Marquet stamp set made by IndigoBlu.
• Stamping was done using Stampin' Up!'s Sahara Sand and Basic Grey dye inks.

Wishing you a happy crafting week ahead. The nights are really drawing in now. Time to get cosy in the craft room! 

Sympathy Card

Hi there! Thanks for dropping by my blog today.

I have a sympathy card to share with you. The focal panel was created entirely from snippets.

C6 sized card opening on right hand side.

Die cut foliage snippets - stacked & glued together.

MATERIALS:

• C6 card blank in landscape orientation, opening on the right hand side.
• Heffy Doodle Skinny Metric Rectangle Frame dies used to cut a white snippet to surround the patterned paper. (Heffy Doodle are no longer in business.)
• Purple patterned paper die cut with same Heffy Doodle die for perfect match.
• Sizzix "Hidden Leaves" dies used to cut foliage from white snippets (see photo). The leaves were glued together in a stack to create a sturdy topper for dimension.
• Sympathy sentiment was stamped with SU Rich Razzleberry dye ink and is part of a Clearly Besotted "Small Sentiments" stamp set. 

I'm entering this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #799 where the theme is Get Well or With Sympathy (or you can use the anything goes option).

At the time of posting this, there is still a week left to play in the current SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND CHALLENGE. So if you use some snippets on your card, please feel free to come and play on the swings with us.

Artist Trading Coins & a Holder

Hi Playmates!

This trio of AT Coins and their holder were made entirely from snippets. This post is a bit picture heavy so you might want to grab a cuppa.

I originally cut a sheet of 12" x 12" double sided paper to make an ATC holder, then wondered what to do with the remaining snippet! Had a brainwave . . . and used it to make a smaller holder suitable for Coins instead of Cards!

The trio of AT Coins that filled the holder - die cutting
white snippets and patterned paper. Embellishing with more
die cuts, stamping and stencilling.

The AT Coin holder made by scoring and folding a snippet
of 12 x 12 paper and using an envelope notch punch
for the little groove.

This Coin uses the negative from die cutting a daisy out
of the circle of patterned paper, then adding a
punched out centre.
(The daisy was used for something else!)

White circle snippet, stencilled with The Greetery's brick
die. Foliage die cut from Sizzix Hidden Leaves set.
Words from Aall & Create's The Good set. 
Circular frame die cut from the patterned paper.

Die cut circle of patterned paper, plus a white frame.
Visible Image words stamped in embossing ink, sprinkled
with white EP and heat set. Sprig from Sizzix Hidden Leaves set.

A tiny card I made from a white snippet and inserted
into one of the holder's pockets - using up another snippet
of the double sided patterned paper.
I also punched out stars from a different snippet of the same paper.
Not sure who made the sentiment stamp.

The front of the holder - using up a purple square and
the blue graph heart which were originally
someone else's snippets! LOL!

I had heaps of fun making this little holder and its contents and then posted it off to surprise a friend who I normally trade Artist Trading CARDS with, not Artist Trading COINS! Well they do say variety is the spice of life don't they?!

If you have some snippets to use up (and let's face it, who doesn't?) . . . why not make something and join in with the current SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND CHALLENGE. You're sure of a friendly welcome and are free to come and play on the swings.

Sunday Snippets - Pretty in Pink!

Hi Playmates!

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. So take a look at your pile of snippets (I KNOW you have some), make something with them, then come and play!

In my satchel this week, I have cake, chocolate and bubbly to celebrate someone special's birthday. You'll find me, Di and Dudley, plus the usual suspects, getting up to mischief in the treehouse  - come and join in the fun!

Here's my homework: I had lots of fun creating this floral card from my pile of white snippets.

Materials:

• Everything apart from the card base was originally a white snippet.
• Distress Oxide Inks in Walnut Stain and Kitsch Flamingo were used to colour all the white die cut snippets as well as the panels they are attached to.
• Sizzix Modern Floristry die set by Tim Holtz used for all the flowers and foliage.
• Simply Said sentiment stamp by Uniko, cut out with scissors and stuck on either with foam pads or tiny snippets glued to it to build it up (I can't remember which!).
• Script background stamp (possibly by IndigoBlu) - stamped to the right of the panel after it was lightly brushed with Walnut Stain DOX ink.

Enjoy the week ahead. Wishing you plenty of time to craft.

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.

Sunday Snippets - Eclipse Technique

Hi Playmates!

My satchel is practically bursting at the seams with homework, but there's still plenty of room for a few bottles of hooch, bars of chocolate and packets of crisps ready for After School Club.

I was busy admiring Lesley and Val's cards made using the Eclipse Technique, so, after refreshing my memory by watching Chrissie Stokes's video - I had a go myself. Thanks for the inspiration girls!

5.75 x 5.75" square card

White snippets die cut for the layers.

Details:

• Julie Hickey "birthday" die to create the Eclipse technique (see THIS YT VIDEO) - die cut from the image panel once, and from white snippets x3.
• AALL & Create flower stem from stamp set #985 Flower Smudge, stamped in SU Misty Moonlight ink.
• Heffy Doodle stitched square dies (retired) to die cut the panel and mount.

I went on to make a wedding card (here) after I tried out the technique on the birthday card above, but the wedding card got blogged first! 

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.

Have a lovely week. 

HAPPY CRAFTING.

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.

What's in Sarn's Satchel this week?

Hi Playmates!

After all the cake and bubbly over the last fortnight, I've put the big skipping rope into my satchel, so we can all get together and have fun taking turns to turn the rope and jump in and out of it while singing rhymes to work off some of those calories!

For my homework I have created a leafy thank you card, using up some snippets that were originally white, but were subsequently inked up, with a little stamping added here and there, plus some splattering with Winsor & Newton gold drawing ink.

4.75" square card

Attempting to show you the gold splatters!

My die cut leaves for a number of cards
(originally white snippets of card).

And while I was at it - I made another leafy card with a couple more of the snippety leaves.

Washi tape at the side; leafy snippets and words from a PaperArtsy set.

There's a new challenge to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND hosted by Miss Di for the next fortnight. If you find yourself at a loose end, why not make something with your snippets then come over to play? There will be the usual shenanigans going on in the treehouse and behind the bike shed, plus . . . there's the aforementioned skipping to be done! 

Bird ATC

Here's a little Artist Trading Card (ATC) with a sweet sentiment that I'm hoping qualifies for the "Getting Sentimental" theme of this week's ALLSORTS CHALLENGE( #796). All you have to do is add a sentiment to your project (or choose the Anything Goes option).

ATC measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

MATERIALS:

• Washi tape by Funky Fossil (out of stock, but probably discontinued)
• Bird stamp from JOFY Lovebirds set by PaperArtsy, coloured with Tombow marker pens.
• Sentiment created from a couple of different Uniko stamp sets

Sunday Snippets - Love is in the air!

Hi Playmates!

I have a wedding card to submit as my homework this week. I stuffed a few bottles of bubbly and some wedding cake into my satchel too (see me up in the Treehouse to share some of the plunder later!).

I used the Eclipse Technique, plus some gold heat embossing to make the card panel with an AALL & Create heart stamp and a word die from The Works.

5.75" square base card

A close-up shot to show up the heat embossing
which is difficult to photograph

White snippet for the Eclipse layers

Details:

• White card snippet to die cut the word "love" x 3 to layer up.
• "Love" die by The Works (retired).
• Main card panel stamped with Versamark ink, then heat embossed with WOW gold embossing powder. The embossed heart image was subsequently die cut with the "love" die.
• Heart image by AALL & Create from stamp set #896 "Forget Me Not". NB: I have cut down the size of the hearts in this stamp set to suit me better.
• "On Your Wedding Day" - stamp make unknown
• White panel mounted onto a piece of SU Rich Razzleberry card - both were die cut with Heffy Doodle Stitched Square dies.

I'm hosting a new challenge over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND for the next fortnight. So why not take a look at your pile of snippets (I KNOW you have some), make something with them, then come and play!

Sunday Snippets - Bird ATC

Hi Playmates!

My homework for this week is an Artist Trading Card (ATC) measuring 3½" x 2½". 

Materials:

• Grey snippet cut to 3½" x 2½"
• White snippet cut to 3¼" x 2¼" & smooshed through some Distress Oxide inks.
• BIRD word stamp from PaperArtsy Hot Picks set HP1005EZ
• Bird & branch die from The Works. Can't remember the details of the flower stem die beneath, but both were originally white snippets, smooshed through spritzed Black Soot Distress Ink.

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. Plenty of ice cold jugs of squash available up in the Playground once you've finished playing. 

Sarn's Sunday Snippets!

Hi Playmates

Wow it's been a hot one in the UK this week! Not much crafting has been done at my place I can tell you!

However, I still have something to share with you, and this time it's a masculine birthday card for a friend of mine . . . made with my favourite leafy dies. 

There's a stash of blueberry muffins under a glass domed cake stand up in the treehouse for elevenses - feel free to help yourself. I bagsy the comfy seat nearest the fan - and because I'm Prefect, I'm gonna pull rank! I'm thinking about asking Miss Di if there's enough money left over from raffle ticket sales to install air con in the treehouse!

Card base: 4.75" square

Leafy snippet

DETAILS:

• White snippet of card inked by tapping various Distress Inks onto a non-stick craft sheet, spritzing the ink with water and dabbing the white snippet through the result. Added a bit of grungy stamping on top once the ink was dry, using an old Kaisercraft stamp, plus a few splatters.
• Tim Holtz "Leaf Fragments" dies used to cut leaves from the inky snippet.
• AALL & Create Washi tape #13 added along the bottom of the card because it matched the leaf colours so well!
• The sentiment is from a JOFY PaperArtsy stamp set.
• I stamped the tip of an AALL & Create grunge stamp at the very top of the card to join up the leaves and painted on a few dots for faux splatters.

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

Thanks for looking at my blog today, and for any comment you may choose to leaf(!). 

HAPPY CRAFTING.