Snippets Challenge #541

 Time to visit the Snippets Playground again which is the place where we are encouraged to use up Snippets left over from other projects, rather than cutting into whole sheets of card or paper.  There's a great prize on offer for one lucky 'Snippeteer' so why not have a go and hopefully clear the decks a little.  Everything used on my card came from the Snippets mountain, apart from the card blank.  I started by stamping the duck and various floral elements onto Snippets of white card before colouring using ink pads and a damp paintbrush.  Die cutting was the next move and as well as the florals, I cut the display stand/ladder and the little black cat from coloured Snippets.  Quackers was fussy cut as I don't have the dies for that stamp set.  The blue background was a slightly larger Snippet of printed paper and a random texture stamp used to ground the design.

Background - paper printed using a My Craft Studio scenic CD (years old)
Ladder - an unbranded die
Black Cat - from my famous pot of useful bits
Duck - Quackers stamp set by Craft Addiction UK (dies also available)
Flowers etc - from Pots of Joy stamp/die set also CAUK
Texture stamp - unbranded from Amazon

Tag-along and ATC Challenge

 My Mojo still seems to be on his summer holidays and I've been struggling to come up with a design for the latest theme on the Tag-along and ATC Challenge.  Straightforward theme really **Circles** with the usual *Anything Goes option*.  However, yesterday I spotted a video on Louise Dunne's You Tube Channel where she was making some shaker baubles using a set of dies which of course were circular.  Well, I don't have the dies and not much inclination,  or items to produce shakers, so I decided to have a go at making a bauble-shaped tag for Christmas.  I used two different sizes of circle dies to make the frame and a really small circle die to cut the top part.  The Cropodile came in handy for making a hole in the tiny circle.  A plain circle was cut for the backing and I found a Snippet of seasonal paper to glue in place as a background.  A couple of small poinsettia dies came out of hiding and these were cut from scraps of inky background and then treated with Wink of Stella.  A small 'Noel' word was also cut from the same snippet.  Finally a bit of red ribbon , some glitter on the background trees and that's it - job done - my entry for the circles theme at Tag-along. It certainly took me a while to get going this time 🙄

Circles - Noble Pierced Circles Creative Expressions
Poinsettias - Marianne dies probably 15-20 years old
Noel - die from a magazine cover gift set a few years ago