Snippets Challenge #497

 Monday (I think) and it will be good to be back into routine weeks after the holidays.  With both of the occasions being mid-week it seems as if four weekends have been crammed into just two weeks which I've found somewhat disorientating.  Anyway it's time to visit the Snippets Playground with my latest Snippets card and there are celebrations afoot because it's been 13 years since Miss Di took charge of the keys - 11 of those years running solo until Sarn joined her a couple of years ago to ease the load somewhat.  I wonder how many kilos (or tonnes) of Snippets have been used during that time, yet the supply seems to be endless, certainly in my case as I can't bear to throw out even the smallest scrap of anything which could be deemed 'useful' 🤣🤣.  Many congratulations on this Blogoversary and thanks for making the Playground such a sunny and happy place to visit.  A very generous prize this time for a lucky winner drawn at random.

Anyway onto my card for which I've used a stamp and die set acquired very recently.  After some thought I decided to print a 'word cloud' which I had saved on the computer - this of course had to be printed onto a whole sheet of card but once it was die cut I have the large snippet of white card left over for future use.  I used a large Snippet of white card to cut a layer slightly smaller than the card blank. This was then smooshed with Distress Oxide ink and overstamped with some light circles and edged using a fine liner pen.  The little parcel was stamped onto a snippet of a gel print from my collection and the blue circle cut from another Snippet.  A bit of extra colour was added to the spots and bow on the parcel. Phew! that took longer to explain than to actually do 😉  The shades of blue are in fact better matched than they appear on the screen 🙄

Just a picture of the smaller snippets here

Parcel - die and stamp set from Gummiapan
Blue Circle - die from Daisy Mae
Circle stamp - texture stamp from Crafty Roo
Word Cloud - produced by me a while ago using Craft Artist (I think)

Allsorts Challenge #814

 The theme for the first Allsorts Challenge of the year is **Matching Pairs** (card and tag/gift bag/ envelope ...) or of course there is always the *Anything Goes* option.  Don't forget that this challenge is now running on a fortnightly basis and you can see full details of how this will work by following the link to the Blog.  Prizes this time from Lavinia Stamps.

I've made a card with matching envelope - stamping a border onto a piece of card slightly smaller than the card blank using Versafine Clair ink and then using Distress Oxide inks to watercolour around the area and then painting into the tiny hexagons, which then made me think of honeycomb so I've added two die cut bees.  The sentiment was produced on the computer.  For the envelope I simply stamped the border down the left hand side, leaving it uncoloured because I thought the Oxide inks would run or smudge if the envelope got wet while it was in transit.

It will be interesting to see just what ideas come up as matching pairs for this theme so why not see if you can surprise us 😉

Border Stamp - from Crafty Roo Designs
Bees - dies from Gummiapan
Sentiment - produced on computer using Microsoft Word