Snippets Challenge #494

Having a bit of a change from making Christmas cards so these birds are flying along to the Playground for the latest Snippets challenge which as usual has a lovely prize for a lucky winner picked at random.  I had some snippets of white card  suitable for cutting a couple of pierced squares and an even smaller snippet of black card for the birds.  I've actually remembered to include a picture of the left overs too.  I smooshed some ink onto one of the squares  and added a bit of visual texture using a circle stamp.  The birds on a gingko branch were then die cut and placed over the detailed area.  A simple stamped sentiment and that's it - quick card for the challenge.

Circle stamp - from Crafty Roo
Birds - one of a set of dies from Amazon
Squares - dies from Noble Pierced squares Creative Expressions

Current Allsorts Challenge

 The theme for this week's Allsorts Challenge is **Ribbon or Twine** or the usual *Anything Goes* with of course a lovely prize on offer.  Despite the fact that I have a huge selection of ribbons in my stash, I've chosen to use twine for this card.  I started by die cutting a fairly large tag and rummaged in my box of 'useful bits' and pulled out a couple of pieces of tissue paper on which I'd previously stamped some numbers and an old style typewriter using stamps from a couple of different magazine give-away sets. The pieces were adhered to the tag using Mod Podge, followed by some stencilling, inking and over stamping to add some visual texture.  Twine was used to wrap around the actual tag as well as being threaded through the top.  A die cut bee was coloured lightly with some toning ink and the wings brushed with Wink of Stella.  The design paper in the background came from an ancient 12" paper pad.

Tag - die set from Sizzix (Tim Holtz)
Numbers - stamp from Phill Martin magazine give-away a few years back
Typewriter - stamp from a more recent Stamping Magazine (Lou Collins designs)
Bee - die from Gummiapan
Words - sticker sheet also a magazine give-away (Indigo Blue I think)
Designer Paper - from a Tim Holtz 12" pad of kraft resist designs - years old!

Rudolph Days November

 This part of each month always seems to come around so quickly and this time of course it means that the Big Day is getting ever closer.  My card for the Rudolph Days October challenge was chosen as one of the top picks which means I'm invited to be a Guest Designer for this month.  I've used an image from a set of dies which I couldn't resist as they really amused me with four different seasonal characters all wearing spectacles although of course they can be used without.  I've also added some foliage and berries and popped Rudolph onto a couple of 'torn edge' rectangles, backed with some toning design paper.

Rectangle dies - Sizzix
Foliage - Sizzix
Rudolph - from Cool Yule die set Sizzix (Tim Holtz)