Snippets Challenge #545

 Popping along to the Playground to hand in my homework and hoping there's still some hot chocolate on offer - certainly what I call hot choc weather.  I've used a purchased card blank and a WHOLE sheet  of the patterned paper from a six inch pad.  Everything else on the card has been cut from my vast collection of white card snippets and coloured where necessary.  This card is nothing like the design I had in my head because it just didn't look right with the square frame and apertures I'd planned so it was a case of back to the drawing board and I'm much happier with the result.  Of course the change of direction has left me with some more snippets to add to my collection.  I plan to incorporate them into another card very soon.

Background - Six inch papers from Temu (lovely images but quite flimsy paper)
Deckle Square - unbranded die
Torn Edge frame - Unbranded die
Polar Bears - Unbranded die set purchased last Christmas
Sentiment - from a magazine gift A4 stamp set (several years old)

Tag-along Challenge

 The theme for the current challenge at Tag-along and ATCs is to make your own background, which is something I do often.  A while back I had used a sheet of A4 cream card along with lots of miscellaneous stamps (mainly from magazine gift sets) to produce a masterboard.  There were a few scraps left which of course I'd saved and there was a piece of a suitable size for a tag using one of the dies which I won recently from Tag-along.  I've added some more bits and pieces from my pot of useful bits, punching a tiny tag so that I could add the gold heart.  Tag was layered onto a piece of darker card which I hand cut to fit.

Tag die - unbranded (won from a previous Tag-along challenge)
Tiny Tag - punch from Stampin' Up (long retired)
Stamps - mainly from magazine gift sets collected over the years
Ticket - stamp from Creative Expressions (years old)
Bunny - unbranded die

Allsorts Challenge # 862

 For the next Allsorts Challenge Brenda has provided a mood board to inspire you or as usual there is the anything goes option if you wish.  Prizes from Simon Says and All & Create (full details on the Allsorts blog post.

Definitely a Winter vibe going on here and  I've opted for the top left image and produced a winter scene with robins sitting on the fence in the snow.  I die cut the frame and shaped piece then stamped the trees and cabin.  The robins were die cut and coloured before popping them into place,  finally adding a stamped sentiment

Frame. fence and panel - Roadway Vista dies All & Create
Trees and Cabin - Peaceful Cabin stamps Stampin' Up (long retired)
Robins  and sentiment - dies from Craft Addiction UK

NOEL

I can't seem to stop making Christmas cards but what I really should do is check my box of ones left from last year so that I don't go too far into overload 😉.  This one today was inspired by a card made by Chris Stokes (on You Tube video).  It is quite similar although I used some different dies for mine as I didn't wish to make a direct copy and anyway I didn't have the same ones.  The deckle layer was embossed with snowflakes and the tags background-stamped using a sparkly blue ink pad.  The die cuts were cut from scraps of white card and coloured using Sizzix Distress ink pens.

Tags and Sentiment - unbranded dies
Embossing - unbranded embossing folder from Temu
Deer, Trees and Elf - dies from Gummiapan
Holly - die from a magazine gift several years ago
Sentiment - unbranded die from Temu

 

Snippets Challenge # 544

 I was asked by a friend if I would like to  adopt some pre-loved and fun grumpy penguin stamps and couldn't wait to use them to make this 'ho-ho-huddle' card for the current challenge in the Snippets Playground. I stamped them onto a snippet of white card, fussy cutting  the smallest one to layer up, adding a die cut Santa hat (also cut from snippets)  The background paper was another snippet left from a previous project.  A torn edge circle die was used to cut out the image and I finally cut the wording from a further snippet of the blue pearl card.  Everything here came from my snippets collection, apart from the card blank.

Penguin Stamps - pre-loved set (Katzelkraft)
Circle, Hat and Words - all unbranded dies

Pink Christmas

 I've made a pink Christmas card but would you believe I'm too late for the party at Jingle Belles where they were asking for pink cards in support of Breast Cancer Awareness which I thought continued until the end of the month.  However, it's Rudolph Days challenge also from today until the end of this month so I will be taking it there.  

I found this little Santa hiding in my pot of useful bits (he's been there since last year) so I decided it was time he was popped onto a card.  I printed a piece of snowflake paper in pink and trimmed it to fit the card, backing it with some silver mirri.  The slatted circle was also backed with pink and surrounded by a torn edge circular frame.  Final addition was a sentiment and a scattering of snowflakes.

Snowman - stamp from Funky Fossil
Background - printed from Artylicious Season's Greetings CD (very old CD)
Slatted circle - die from Craft Addiction UK
Torn Edge Circle - unbranded die
Snowflakes - dies from various sets in my stash

Allsorts Challenge # 861

 Lynn has chosen the theme this time for the Allsorts Challenge and she would like to see some *Feminine Style* projects or you could choose Anything Goes.  Prizes are from Aall & Create - full details on the Allsorts blog post.

For my card this time I've chosen to use a stamp featuring a perfume bottle and flowers which were stamped onto white card and cut out with a circle die, backing it with a pink doily die.  The perfume bottle has been highlighted with Wink of Stella although this doesn't really show in the picture.  Background paper was a delicate floral one from my stash and a die cut sentiment was added.

Stamp - Parfum by Aall & Create
Sentiment - from Crafter's Companion
Doily die - an old one from Docrafts