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Tuesday 15 October 2024

Magical

 The theme for Allsorts challenge #802 is *anything goes* or *magical. myths and/or legends* and very appropriately prizes of beautiful Lavinia stamps.  My card has a fairy featured so I guess it covers the theme.  I used a round Gelli plate with some Distress inks to start off a background and then used a mask so that I could add the details of the hills, foliage and of course the fairy and goose. My next decision was to use a die to cut out this circle.  Some stencilling and second generation stamping has been added to the background for added interest.


Stencil - from Lavinia
Stamps - combination of Lavinia and Card-Io stamps


Sunday 13 October 2024

Snippets Challenge #491

 Whenever I set out to make a card I always try to include something from my Snippets mountain - I know I've said it before but somehow this collection never seems to diminish despite my best efforts.  Anyway this one is to take along to the Snippets Playground where I understand there's a conker match in progress and some hot drinks available.

Apart from the base card everything here came from my Snippets collection starting with part of a sheet of snowflake paper which was printed onto some pearl paper for another project.  I also have quite a lot of pearlised card snippets in various shades of white, ivory or cream so I decided to use some of the different shades to make a start on die cutting this elaborate 'Colorize' snowman using a die which I won in a challenge last year and had only used once previously.  These dies are quite elaborate with many layers and some concentration is required to get it all assembled.  I decided to focus on each colour and work methodically from the bottom up as it were - it's incredibly easy to lose some of the tiny pieces if you blunder in and cut them all at once.  No need to ask me how I know this 🤣 and I seem to recall that when I made the first one last year the die was put away with thoughts of 'never again'.  However, I'm pleased I tried again this year because I actually enjoyed making this one even if it did take me quite a long time - certainly not one for batch making.  Once he was assembled I decided the card needed something else so I cut some 'snow' to ground him and added a die cut tree from another set of dies - I didn't think it needed a sentiment.  Lots of snippets used and being in methodical mode I remembered to save them for a photo.

A great prize to be won this time so why not dig out some of your snippets and have a go




Background - Printed from Seasons Greetings CD Artylicious (possibly discontinued)
Snowman - Tim Holtz Colorize Snowman dies
Tree - set of unbranded dies