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Sunday 30 October 2022

Snippets Challenge #440

 The current challenge over at the Playground has an optional theme this time and yes, you've guessed it, Halloween or Autumn although if you want to play along with 'anything goes' as usual then that's fine.  Plenty of fun things going on there as well with hot soup, witches brew and the like and there's a rumour that the residents are dressing up😉.  Of course there is a great prize to be won  so why not delve into your supply of snippets and have a go.

I have no need of a Halloween card but I did decide to go along with the Autumnal idea and everything apart from the card blank was taken from my snippets mountain - mostly using white or cream snippets which I've coloured.  The first thing was to find some not too small pieces which were smooshed through a selection of Distress Oxide inks which, once dry, were used to die cut the larger leaves with the addition of a touch of gold glimmer here and there.  The toadstool and other small pieces were die cut from the cream and then coloured using Distress markers; the two layers of wreath were cut from snippets of brown and green.I found a larger cream snippet which was trimmed to fit onto the card, leaving a small margin and another die was used to cut out the corner detail, backed with yet another snippet of text paper, adding a few inky splodges along the way for added interest.  I even used a tiny snippet of raffia tied into a knot - you will have gathered by now that I rarely throw anything away if I think it could be used 🤣.


Dies used - from FIVE different Tim Holtz (Sizzix) sets


8 comments:

  1. Lovely Autumnal card Val beautiful colours

    Anne

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  2. Lovely layered autumnal card, took me a while to find the knot 😂 xxx

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  3. Hi Val,
    what a fabulous card and a very wonderful way to use up snippets.
    Good luck in the challenge.
    Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.

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  4. Lovely autumnal card Val and a great use of snippets. xx

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  5. A fabulous card with a great Autumnal feel Val.

    Sue xx

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  6. I LOVE this autumnal card with those smashing leaves and the cute toadstools. The inky background is brilliant too. See you tonight for the Hallowe'en Party in the Playground xxx

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  7. Gorgeous Autumn card Val - and I do love those toadstools - and leaves, wink!

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  8. Love how you combined all the different elements to make this wonderful autumnal scene. I have those TH leaves now - only just found out about them!

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