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Thursday, 16 April 2026

Snippets Playground challenge #530

 The sun is shining this morning so I'm skipping off to the Snippets Playground to hand in my homework and hopefully there will still be some cups of hot chocolate around because it's still none too warm 
outside.  I started with a snippet of cream card trimmed to slightly smaller than the card blank and die cut the frame.  This left me with a smaller square snippet which I coloured by smooshing some ink to colour it before popping it back into the aperture, adhering both to the card.  More cream snippets were used to die cut the flowers and the decorative circle.  This die doesn't entirely cut out from the piece of card so I used a plain, slightly larger circle die to cut it free.  The flowers were coloured and assembled before arranging onto the fancy circle, adding a few leaves which came from my trusty 'useful bits' container.  Final touch was a small tag with an embossed sentiment.  There's the usual generous prize on offer for the lucky person who is randomly selected to win so why not use up some of your snippets to be in with a chance.

                                         

Square Frame - Stich Craft Fusion Frames die from Craft Addiction UK
Sentiment Tag - Mini Birthday Tags Collection also from CAUK
Decorative Circle - die from Irresistible Blooms die set Stampin' Up (long retired)
Plain Circle - die from Crafts Too circle set
Flowers - Magazine Giveaway from Die Cutting Essentials 


Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Tag and ATC Challenge

 It's mid-month reminder time from the Tag-along Challenge and this time I have an ATC to share. which has  the *butterfly* and *flower* part of the theme. I trimmed another piece of my inky background strips to the correct size and stamped the floral image and word.  Next I delved into my box of useful bits and pieces where I found the small white slatted circle and a stray butterfly which was die cut from a scrap of inky card which had been coloured a while ago using Pixie Powders.  A little silver gilding wax was added as well as a touch of Wink of Stella


Knapweed Stamps - from Aall & Create
Butterfly and Circle - dies from Craft Addiction UK