Two Challenges

 This is a very small item for two challenges - an AT Coin featuring text and made using Snippets.  I'm taking it along to the Tag-along and ATC challenge and also, because it has used no less than three Snippets, I'm calling in at the Playground on the way.  

For anyone who doesn't know, an Artist Trading Coin is a small piece of Art a whole 2.5 inches across and they are usually swapped with others who make and collect them.  I'm sure you probably know that the Snippets Playground is where we share any pieces of work which have been made using at least one Snippet (usually small scraps left over from other projects and which we just can't bear to throw in the bin) 😉.

I cut the circle from a white Snippet, added some text in the background, followed by a bit of stencil work.  I then stamped and fussy cut a flower which I over stamped with smaller text, adding a tiny label.  That's it - a teeny weeny project for the Tag-along theme of 'add some text' which was also made entirely from Snippets where the theme is always 'use Snippets'.

Stencil - from my stash, not marked with a name
Flower - from Floral stamp set by Craft Addiction UK
Text on Flower - long retired Stampin' Up stamp from French Foliage
Background text - very old ATC stamp set from Chocolate Baroque (Artylicious)

Allsorts Challenge #851

 The theme for the latest Allsorts Challenge is **Anything Goes in the Garden** with prizes coming from Oakwood.  Full details can be seen on the Allsorts post.  For my DT card this time I decided to make a tag for a change and I started by adding texture paste through a stencil over part of the space and, once dry, I added some watered down ink to add a bit of colour. The tag itself was cut from a piece of printed kraft card from a pad I've had for a long time. I then rooted about amongst my oddments and pulled out a scrap of torn paper and a few random die cuts which I arranged to make up a pleasing composition.

Tag - kraft card from a Tim Holtz pad
Leafy dies - from a Tim Holtz die set
Bow - die from Gummiapan
Bird and Film Strip - unbranded dies
No name on the stencil

Add Text

 There's a new theme this month for the latest Tag-along and ATC challenge and they would like to see us add text in some form to our projects.  It can be a simple sentiment or maybe some text used as an element of a background - lots of scope.  A lovely prize at the end of the month as well and you can enter up to four times.  My first entry is an ATC for which I trimmed a piece of inky background to size and then over stamped with some text and a few splodges.  I then die cut the 'Hello' word and the cat.  The title label was prepared on the computer and trimmed with scissors.

Background Text and Splodges - very old stamps from Stampin' Up French Foliage set
Cat - designed by Tim Holtz
Hello - die which came free with a magazine some time ago
Inky Background from my stash of odd bits and pieces
Label - composed using MS Word

Hello Bunny

 I often try to come up with ideas of places where everyone's favourite bunny might sit and thought this scenario might be a bit of a change for him ☺️.  Everything on this card has come from my oddments box and the dies used are all unbranded.  Once I had the idea it was a quick card to make for a bit of fun.

Party Bears

 I've used a digital download image for this card and opted for the pre-coloured version although it also comes uncoloured as well.  I found a nice toning piece of patterned paper and a strip of embossed card which has been lying around for ages just waiting for the right card..  Some little tags were added for the sentiment and to give extra interest.

Image - Downloaded from Craft Addiction UK, designed by Louise Dunne
Tags - also from CAUK
Everything else from my stash of bits and pieces (AKA Snippets)

Snippets Challenge # 533

 I'm heading off to visit the Playground in the hopes that the paddling pool has been refilled with cool water.  It's certainly turned into a scorcher this week and strange to realise that only just over a week ago I was still wearing a woolly jumper as an extra top layer to keep me warm indoors.  Anyway Sarn has started off another Snippets challenge with a fabulous prize so I will take my homework along as well to hand in. 

 Apart from a 5" x 7" card blank, everything on this card was selected from my Snippets 'mountain'.  I pulled out a left over white layer, slightly smaller than the card and this was stencilled in a stone wall pattern.  I then die cut the two slatted arched windows using smaller white snippets and backed them with blue snippets.  A snippet strip of blue was die cut using a wood-grain panel to act as a long kind of window box.  Furball, the rabbit was snipped out of a sheet which I'd printed for a previous project and hadn't used them all.  The image was water-coloured and fussy cut so that he could sit on the ledge between the two windows.  The flowers were die cut from really small white snippets, as was the embossed sentiment. The  tiny butterflies were die cut from the remnants of the blue card and have been painted with Wink of Stella.  There you have it - my Snippets scene for the current challenge. 

Slatted Dies - Arched dies from Craft Addiction UK
Window Ledge - from Fence Post die set also CAUK
Furball - digital download design by Louise Dunne again also CAUK
Sentiment - again CAUK die from Birthday Tags set
Flowers and Butterflies - dies from Gummiapan
Stencil - unbranded

Rudolph Days May

 It seems a bit odd to be posting a Christmas card on what is probably the hottest day so far this year but we are into the Rudolph Days Challenge for May.  This is an opportunity to make and share Christmas cards and of course it helps to build up a stock of cards through the year in an effort to avoid a last minute scramble in December.  For this one I've used a cute duck in a Santa hat - it's a digital image which I've printed and fussy cut, popping him onto a slatted circle with a circular die cut sentiment.  Some very old scalloped circle dies were brought of retirement to add interest.  Happy Rudolph Days everyone!! 

Duck - digital download from Craft Addiction UK, designed by Louise Dunne
Slatted Circle - die from CAUK
Sentiment - unbranded die
Scalloped Circles - very old Spellbinders dies
Background - printed using a download from Buddly Crafts
Square dies - very old set from Tonic