It is a Christmas theme this time in the Snippets Playground and with fabulous items being offered as the prize. The lucky winner will at least have them in plenty of time to start on making cards for this year which is great, even if it does seem odd to be making wintry cards when the sun is shining. Apart from the card blank, everything else used on my card came from my snippet collection. I trimmed a large snippet to fit and then used some red and white as background, running the white layer through a 'snow' embossing folder. Next it was into some of my much smaller snippets to die cut all the elements - silver for the star, green for the trees and the two tree stumps and characters were cut from white and then coloured using Distress pens and a red alcohol pen. I'm afraid I got a bit ahead of myself in tidying up my desk and swept the tiny left over snippets into the bin before I remembered to take a pic - sorry. They really were too tiny to keep anyway.
Background paper - snippet left over from a 12" sheet of Stampin' Up (retired)
Red layer - Distressed edge die set from Daisy Mae
White layer - embossing folder from Creative Expressions (no longer available)
Dies from Gummiapan, Stampin Up and Crafter's Companion
Great use of your snippets for this fun little card! I love the elf and reindeer sitting on those stumps! That background paper is very festive too.
ReplyDeleteA very sweet Christmas card Val and nice in the traditional colours.
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Cute Christmas card Val, lovely scene you have created
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Great use of snippets as always Val! Lovely card.
ReplyDeleteReally cute and lovely snowy embossed background.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely card Val - very cute indeed. I love the little die cuts - such a sweet scene. I do like how you overlapped some of the backgrounds patterned paper onto the red frame. Aha - optical illusion, caught me there, it's the frame that had some cutaways on the outer edges!
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Cute card. ps. just so long as its not a sign that we are loosing the plot. Hugs Mrs A.
ReplyDeleteWhat cute little reindeer and Santa Val, and I love the way you have some of the background leaves and berries brought over the top of the red layer, and the snowfall embossing makes a great background, and of course using lots of snippets. x
ReplyDeleteThey are such tiny die cuts! It really adds to how cute the whole card is and such lovely use of the frame giving the illusion of the paper overlapping.
ReplyDeleteA gorgeous festive scene Val.
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. Meet you up in the Treehouse for some Snowballs (Eggnog) later! Hugs, Sarn xxx
That’s a very cute scene Val, they look very comfy on their logs! Love the distressed edge die, and of course recognise that paper xx
ReplyDeleteA gorgeous card and everything works together beautifully x
ReplyDeleteHi Val,
ReplyDeletewhat a brilliant card and such a very super design.
A great way to use up your snippets too.
Love the sweet scene you have created.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.