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. 

You've got mail!

Hi there!

I made another little ATC so I could make a final entry into the current TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE for February - which ends in 5 days time, so get your skates on if you want to play along!

ATC

As the ATC hasn't got any numbers on it, I'll be entering under the Anything Goes option. Great prize on offer. 

Details:

• White snippet of card trimmed to 2.5" x 3.5" with a corner rounder punch used on opposite corners.
• Stencilled the background with AALL & CREATE's Florastella stencil. 
• Tore a gelli print snippet and glued it to the ATC front in opposite corners, then added an unknown script stamp (possibly by IndigoBlu) over the top.
• Die-cut the bundle of envelopes from white card and carefully coloured in the envelopes at the back of the bundle, along with the ribbon. The unbranded envelope die was a gift so I don't have the details, although it was possibly from Amazon or Temu. 

Sunday Snippets - Sarntangled Card

Hi there 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. There’s a lot of skiving going on as entry numbers are low at the moment!

5” square card

I trimmed a white snippet of card to 3” x 3” and tangled on it, then mounted it on to a black snippet of card that was trimmed to 3.25” x 3.25”. It needed something else on the card front, so I stamped my loopy Sarntangle stamp at opposite corners, which worked a treat!

Please feel free to play with your own snippets then come over to the Snippets Playground for Sunday Morning Breakfast Club. 

Magic Hare ATC

Hi there!

I have a little ATC to share with you today - created with Lavinia stamps and a dotty circle stencil.

ATC

ATC Details:

• Lavinia stamps: Slender Mushrooms (Mini); Wild Hares (Large); Stars 2 (Mini); retired foliage stamp; the word "Magic" was masked off and stamped from a much larger Lavinia sentiment.
• Background stencil: magazine cover gift from ages ago.
• Snippets of white card for the stamped panel, and navy card for the ATC base.

Playing along with the TAG ALONG & ATCs FEBRUARY CHALLENGE where the optional theme is NUMBERS, but I'm entering under 'anything goes' as my ATC is sans numbers! There is a brilliant prize available to one lucky winner, so why not play along?

Sunday Snippets - Hogs & Kisses

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 playful card for a good friend of mine who won't take offence at the sentiment on this birthday card. She also happens to love pigs! I just love the expression on the pig's face - and the sentiment makes me chuckle!

5" square card

Snippets left over after making
the above card. You can see my
embossed strip was only just
long enough for the card!

DETAILS: 

• All stamps are from the "So Weird" stamp set by Whimsy Stamps (CWSD473)
• Ancient Swiss Dots embossing folder used for the side strip.
• Heffy Doodle Stitched Squares die used to cut the pig image out.
• SNIPPETS = ALL the pieces of card on the card front.
• Self-adhesive foam pads used behind the panel for dimension.

I would like to enter this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE 843 where our Val (Aquarius) has chosen the optional theme of EMBOSSING (wet or dry). As you can see, I went for dry embossing.

New Home Card

I needed a new home card to add to my 'ready made' box, so I set about making one!

I created my own background, which complies with the current theme over at the Allsorts Challenge. So I am nipping over to ALLSORTS to enter their current Challenge 842. 

Custom made card measuring 4.5" x 6 3/4"

Details:

• Lavinia Stamps: Freya's House; Slender Mushrooms Mini; Vine; Woodland Hares; Fairy Forager.
• Other stamps: Hobby Art line of grass stamp from Bee Kind set; Woodware New Home sentiment.
• Dotty circle stencil - magazine cover gift from yonks ago.
• Custom made card blank.

Snippets Sunday - Ooh La La!

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 this week, I made a background and then added a snippet collage over the top. This means I can also join in with the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #842 where the optional theme is to CREATE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND (or anything goes).

Finished A6 sized card with a side opening.

The stamped & stencilled background.

Snippets pulled out ready to use.

Details:

• BACKGROUND created with Visible Image Daisy stencil. With the stencil still held in place, I stamped a little background stamp from Studio Light's Grunge Collection stamp set SL451 among the petals.
• SNIPPETS for this card had previously been stamped on to a scrap of white printer paper (left over from making card inserts) using Hobby Arts' "Vintage" set. The female figure is from SU's "Beautiful You" set and was cut out from scrap of white card. I often stamp things on to white snippets, cut out and keep for later!

Feather ATC

Here's a little ATC that I'll be entering into the February TAG ALONG & ATCs CHALLENGE where the theme is to ADD A NUMBER (or anything goes). 

In this case, I added several numbers with background stencilling and stamping!

ATC

Details:

• Stencilled background numbers created with whatever ink was left on my brushes, brushed through the Heffy Doodle "Numicon" stencil.
• Small line of numbers from an unknown stamp set.
• Large, grungy "6" stamp by Studio Light' Artists Atelier Grunge Set 32: "Feather".
• Feather stamp = magazine cover gift. (Stamped direct onto the ATC and again onto a white snippet, cut out and glued over the top.)
• Stamped & stencilled panel then glued onto a white snippet, cut to correct ATC size of 3.5" x 2.5".

Blue Bird Birthday!

Hi there - thanks for dropping by!

I made this card using the ink smooshing ink technique, along with a few snippets. 

I would like to enter this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #842 where they want to see you CREATE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND (or you can enter under the ANYTHING GOES option).

5" square card size

Details: 

• Unbranded bird die from Temu.
• Foliage die by Sizzix (Hidden Leaves, code 664581)
• Sentiment by Uniko (Simply Said Blocks)
• Smooshed background made using spritzed SU Misty Moonlight ink and a small piece of acetate to pick it up and smoosh on card front. 

Allsorts - Challenge #842

Hi there!

I've made a sympathy card from snippets that were glued over the top of a stamped and stencilled background. 

I would like to enter this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #842 where creating your own background is the optional theme, or there's always Anything Goes.

A6 sized card - tent fold

The stamped and stencilled background
before I added the snippets.

The snippets I pulled out to play with.

There's some gorgeously grungy AALL & CREATE stamps to be won at Allsorts, so why not hop over and join in? And if you use up some of your snippets, you can come and play at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND.

Details:

• Background created with Studio Light BJ04 stencil by Jolanda de Ronde and a splatter stamp from the Gorgeous Grunge set by SU, using SU Sahara Sand and Chocolate Chip inks.
• Snippets: the leafy strip is from That's Crafty Nature's Gatherings 1 stamp set; sentiment is by Uniko and the black heart is from a Crafts Too "Miss P Loves Boundless Journal Locking Tag set.

Sunday Snippets - LOVE is in the air!

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.

While I had the dotty stencil and the heart stamp out on my desk from other recent projects, I made a CAS anniversary card with just one black and one white snippet of card.   

C6 sized card

Details:

• The Crafters Workshop dotty stencil, brushed with Picked Raspberry DI.
• Heart stamp from the Visible Image "Accessorize" stamp set, coloured with Picked Raspberry DI.
• Partly stamped sentiment from My Favourite Things stamp set CS-794 "Everything Wonderful".

Why not take a look at your snippets pile, pull out a few bits and pieces and see what you can make with them? Then come over to play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND - there's a lovely prize on offer for UK & European entrants - or you can just play for fun. 

I would also like to enter this card into the Allsorts Challenge #842 where Donna wants us to CREATE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND. I have stencilled the background of the focal element on the card above, which I hope counts, but if not, it can be entered under the Anything Goes option. There are some FABULOUS Aall & Create stamps available as prizes at Allsorts.

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.

Sunday Snippets - Let’s Rock!

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, I made another guitar card for a friend of the guitarist in my life!

A6 sized card

I would like to enter this card into the current ALLSORTS CHALLENGE #841 - under their theme of “For Boys or Men”.

Materials:

• Stamps: Sentiment from a retired SU stamp set; guitar inc background (all one stamp) from the Rock n Roll set by Funky Fossil.
• Inks: SU Basic Grey ink for the guitar stamp. A few brown Distress Inks to colour the guitar itself.
• Dies: Retired stitched circles from The Works; retired Stitched Rectanges from Heffy Doodle.
• Snippets: The circular sentiment; the white image panel and a larger brown snippet trimmed to fit.

All you need is love . . .

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 this week,  I made a little love-themed ATC.

I stamped and stencilled a background on a white snippet that was trimmed to 2.25" x 3.25", then stamped and cut out the lovehearts from another white snippet and glued them on to the base. A black snippet trimmed to 2.5” x 3.5” was used for the mount.

2.5 x 3.5 ATC

Materials:

• Black and white snippets of card
• Hearts from Accessorize Stamp set by Visible Image (stamped twice onto white snippets and cut out by hand)
• Script stamp by IndigoBlu
• Bold LOVE stamp - unknown make
• Smaller Love stamp by Uniko
• Dot stencil by The Crafters Workshop
• White Gelli Roll 08 pen for heart highlights
• Picked Raspberry Distress Ink for all pink areas on card

I would like to enter this ATC into the January TAG ALONG & ATC CHALLENGE where there is a Love and Romance theme (or an “anything goes” option).

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!

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.

Coffee Love!

Hi there!

I made a little ATC which I would like to enter into the January TAG ALONG & ATC CHALLENGE where the theme is Love and Romance. 

Well, I LOVE decent coffee! If that’s too “out there” as an interpretation of the theme, there’s always the ANYTHING GOES option!

ATC 2.5" x 3.5"

My snippets!

Details:

• Background stamps used on ATC base: Tall Grass set by Funky Fossil; Studio Light Grunge Collection SL451; splatters from the Gorgeous Grunge set by Stampin’ Up! 
• Background Stencil: Ink Swirls by Visible Image.
• Focal point:Coffee Cup stamp = magazine cover gift, stuck to ATC with foam pads. Brown ink and waterbrush used to ground image.
• Words by Clearly Besotted (retired set)
• Heart from the Accessorize set by Visible Image (stamped, cut out and stuck on with foam pads).

Some bunny loves you . . .

Here's a little ATC that started life as a white snippet of card. It's a lots more colourful now!  

I’d like to enter this into the TAG ALONG & ATC JANUARY CHALLENGE where the theme is LOVE AND ROMANCE. Hopefully this little 'bunny hugs' image will qualify for the “love” part of the theme - but if not, there’s always the anything goes option!

2.5" x 3.5" ATC

Details:

• Little Cotton Rabbits stamp by Sugar Nellie (from 2008), stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black and heat embossed on a snippet of white card. Image coloured with Distress Inks and a waterbrush. 
• Hugs word is from a Clearly Besotted set. The stamp says “Sending hugs” . . . but I masked off the "sending” word and stamped only the "hugs" part of the sentiment.
• A gold pen was used all around the edges of the ATC.

Sunday Snippets - Altenew Rose Cards

Hi Playmates!

Wishing you a very Happy New Year. I hope 2026 is good to you.

For my homework, I CASED a card that the wonderfully talented Viv made back in March last year. I just love this Altenew stamp set and ended up making 2 more cards with it while I had it sat sitting on the desk!

Card measures 5” square

Details:

• Stamps: Altenew Beautiful Day stamp set for ALL stamping on the above card.
• Inks: SU Calypso Coral; Lucky Limeade; Certainly Celery, Basic Grey & Smokey Slate. As well as Mustard Seed & Wild Honey Distress Inks.
• Snippets: all the coloured foliage and flower are stamped onto white snippets of card.

Here are the other two cards I made with the same stamp set:

5” square card
+ Paper Artsy JOFY sentiment and Funky Fossil Geometric Floral stencil

A6 sized card
+ Retired SU birthday sentiment

Sunday Snippets in Red and Green

Hi Playmates!

Miss Di is in charge of the new SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND challenge for the next fortnight - and I must say the Playground is looking VERY festive. Everything has been decorated and there’s a huge Christmas tree in the Assembly Hall. 

Rehearsals for the Nativity Play are going well with all you little (ahem!) angels running amok. It’s going to be the usual mayhem with myself, Di and Dudley running around like headless chickens, but it is a lot of fun!

For my homework this week, I made a festive card with plenty of red and green on it so that I could enter the current WE LOVE STAMPING CHALLENGE using their theme.

The cream card measures 5" square

Materials:

• Background stamping = Numerous grunge stamps by Kaiserkraft, Studio Light, plus splatters fromSU’s  Gorgeous Grunge set, stamped onto a white snippet.
• Focal point stamping =The postmark stamp is from the Hobby Art Christmas Post CS068D set. I stamped it on the panel and again onto another snippet so that I could cut it out and stick it on with foam pads. I inked the postmark and panel edges with whatever orange Distress Oxide ink was left on the brush. 
• Die Cutting: Winter foliage from gel print snippets (Hidden Leaves dies by Sizzix Code 664581).
• The bird die (unbranded set from TEMU) was cut from the last remaining red snippets of card I could find.

Green gelli plate snippets & the last couple 
of red snippets I managed to squeeze the birds out of!

I also made an ATC while I had the above snippets out on my desk. Managed to cut x 2.5" x 3.5” piece out of the dark green gel print to mount the bird panel on. I stencilled the white snippet (not shown in the pic) first, adding some dark brown splatters, then stamped the sentiment before glueing the foliage and bird in place. 

ATC

I would like to enter the ATC into the DECEMBER TAG ALONG & ATC CHALLENGE where the theme is RED & GREEN (but there’s also an anything goes option).

Materials:

• Heffy Doodle “Numicon” stencil used on the white panel with light green ink.
• SU splatter stamp from “Gorgeous Grunge” used with dark brown ink.
• Crafty Roo “Happy Christmas” sentiment stamped in VFC Spruce ink.
• Dark green gel print snippet shown in the photo trimmed to 2.5” x 3.5” - used for the main panel mount.
• Green foliage die from the Hidden Leaves set by Sizzix (Code 664581) - cut from a gel print snippet.
• Red bird (unbranded die set bought from Temu) cut from red snippets of card.

Remember there are EXTRA PRIZES to be won in the December challenges at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND, so why not come over to play? 

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 - “Love" Collage Card

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 was in the mood to create some collage, so I grabbed my junk journal shoebox and found little snippets of paper which I arranged and then glued to the card front.

MATERIALS:

• Everything on the card front is a snippet from my junk journal shoebox. I used snippets of patterned paper; book pages; a leaflet; packaging and a Visible Image flower that had been stamped onto a snippet of copy paper, so I coloured it in and added it as the focal point. 
• The “love” word is a snippet from the Warm Breeze Craft O’Clock paper pack.

Psst: There are extra prizes to be won in the December challenges at the Snippets Playground - so there are even more reasons to use up your snippets than usual! 

A Steampunk Journal

Hi there!

Something a little different from me today - and it's a very PHOTO HEAVY POST - so you might want to make yourself comfortable!

A Steampunk journal made of elements from a Stamperia paper/sticker/pop-out die cuts pack called Voyages Fantastique. 

I went halves on the pack with a friend, and we each made a 5” x 7” journal from it. In addition to our journals, we have also made three Steampunk Zines. 

You can see more of the pocket and tag details if you  enlarge the photo’s.

Here's the front cover:

Front cover

And here's a little flick through the inside:

Pages 1 & 2

Pages 3 & 4

Pages 5 & 6

Pages 7 & 8 - with a flap to be lifted to reveal what’s beneath!

Pages 7 & 8 showing the flap lifted so you can see
the secrets beneath

Pages 9 & 10

Pages 11 & 12 showing the additional pocket and envelope
which tucks behind the collaged band as in the photo below:

Pages 11 & 12

Pages 13 & 14

Rear cover

If you would like to see the Steampunk Zine I made using further elements from the Voyages Fantastique pack, please visit the page at the top of this blog.

Thanks for looking.