Snippets Challenge # 533

 I'm heading off to visit the Playground in the hopes that the paddling pool has been refilled with cool water.  It's certainly turned into a scorcher this week and strange to realise that only just over a week ago I was still wearing a woolly jumper as an extra top layer to keep me warm indoors.  Anyway Sarn has started off another Snippets challenge with a fabulous prize so I will take my homework along as well to hand in. 

 Apart from a 5" x 7" card blank, everything on this card was selected from my Snippets 'mountain'.  I pulled out a left over white layer, slightly smaller than the card and this was stencilled in a stone wall pattern.  I then die cut the two slatted arched windows using smaller white snippets and backed them with blue snippets.  A snippet strip of blue was die cut using a wood-grain panel to act as a long kind of window box.  Furball, the rabbit was snipped out of a sheet which I'd printed for a previous project and hadn't used them all.  The image was water-coloured and fussy cut so that he could sit on the ledge between the two windows.  The flowers were die cut from really small white snippets, as was the embossed sentiment. The  tiny butterflies were die cut from the remnants of the blue card and have been painted with Wink of Stella.  There you have it - my Snippets scene for the current challenge. 

Slatted Dies - Arched dies from Craft Addiction UK
Window Ledge - from Fence Post die set also CAUK
Furball - digital download design by Louise Dunne again also CAUK
Sentiment - again CAUK die from Birthday Tags set
Flowers and Butterflies - dies from Gummiapan
Stencil - unbranded

Rudolph Days May

 It seems a bit odd to be posting a Christmas card on what is probably the hottest day so far this year but we are into the Rudolph Days Challenge for May.  This is an opportunity to make and share Christmas cards and of course it helps to build up a stock of cards through the year in an effort to avoid a last minute scramble in December.  For this one I've used a cute duck in a Santa hat - it's a digital image which I've printed and fussy cut, popping him onto a slatted circle with a circular die cut sentiment.  Some very old scalloped circle dies were brought of retirement to add interest.  Happy Rudolph Days everyone!! 

Duck - digital download from Craft Addiction UK, designed by Louise Dunne
Slatted Circle - die from CAUK
Sentiment - unbranded die
Scalloped Circles - very old Spellbinders dies
Background - printed using a download from Buddly Crafts
Square dies - very old set from Tonic