You Have to Try These Things, Don't You??

 Quite a few variations of this 'lattice'  technique seem to be going the rounds and it seems to be a case of combining suitable images with cutting dies, quite possibly involving adding a new die (or more) to the stash.  I was determined not to fall into that particular trap until I was sure I'd want to make sufficient cards in this style to warrant a purchase and my first efforts weren't particularly successful and ended up in the bin 🙄.  I've finally found a reasonable combination by stamping a fairly large image onto two matching pieces of card and combined them  using a die which I've had for many years (probably no longer available).    If you want to try this technique you can find a link to the video here giving detailed instructions.  It was fun giving this a try but I don't think it will become a favourite with me.

Image - stamp from Lavinia
Lattice Die - Couture Creations Tied Together (probably no longer available)
Sentiment - Crafter's Companion

Rabbit is Back!

 It's almost a week since my last post - not at all sure where this week has gone really, it just seems to have whizzed by.  Anyway as the title suggests the rabbit is back.  I found him in the 'oddments' pot which sits on my desk so I combined him with a few little flowers which were also left from previous projects.  I die cut a piece of cream card and a kraft frame to fit before embossing the bricks using a die - the bricks were carefully coloured using Distress Oxide ink and a fine brush.  A basket was cut and coloured using alcohol pens and the flowers added.- the rabbit was perched onto the bottom of the frame.  I trimmed a suitable piece of design paper to fit a kraft card blank and stamped a sentiment which was popped onto a shape cut from the smallest die in the rectangle set.

Background DSP - from a Prima pad which I've had a long time
Rectangle dies (frame and sentiment) - set from Crafts Too
Other Dies - Unknown, Gummiapan and magazine freebies
Bricks - die from The Greetery used to emboss

Snippets Challenge #453

 Time to visit the Snippets Playground for another challenge with a lovely prize to be won by one lucky person.  I started with a white card snippet trimmed to fit onto a square card blank and stamped the coastal scene.  More, smaller white snippers were used to die cut the seagulls and the 'Hello'.  The wooden posts on which one seagull is perched were some scraps of stamped strips left over from a recent project. The word and the seagulls were all cut twice so that they could be layered up to give them a bit of substance.  Stamping and colouring done using Distress Oxide inkpads.

Scene - stamps from Ocean Front set Stampin' Up
Seagulls - dies from Gummiapan

Floral Card

 I have a floral card to share today which was  made using various bits and pieces which were lying around .  The floral image was mix of stamping, fussy cutting (the flowers) and decoupage.  The backgrounds were from my larger snippets box and the sentiment produced on the computer was die cut.  Quite an easy card to make once I'd decided what to do with the odd bits and pieces.

Dotty Paper - piece left from a sheet printed using a Paper Pantry USB
Circle - die cut from a snippet of floral DSP from Stampin' Up
Flower Image - Stampin' Up Petal Park stamp set

Trying Techniques

 If I see different techniques incorporating items which I have in my stash I like to have a go and this time I've been playing with a 3D embossing folder using black card, Pixie powders and some gilding polish.  This card is a CASE of one spotted HERE but using a different embossing folder.  In the original inspiration the technique was shown using white card partially coloured by applying black to one side of the E/F but none of the pigment powders I have seem to show up differently when used on black as opposed to white and I don't particularly need to buy any more so this is a slight variation using black card.  The video explains this more clearly 😉

Embossing Folder - from Crafter's Companion

For the Love of Animals

Love of animals is the optional theme on the Allsorts challenge #725 . As usual it is anything goes or we can go for various options each week.  These two stamped and coloured  owls were loitering on my desk so I fussy cut them and found some other components to build up a card.  For the extra branches I dug out a really old die - one of the long strip ones with foam on the cutting side which I've had for many years. Things have certainly moved on a long way with dies over the years and I even had to bring an old die cutting machine out of semi retirement to cut these. Lots of lovely animal inspiration from the Allsorts design team and super prizes to be won.

Tree Background - Nested Friends die cut backed with New Horizons paper from Stampin' Up
Branches - Sizzix strip die from years ago
Owls - Adorable Owls from Stampin' Up
Designer Paper - from a Prima paper pad

More Clean and Simple

 I have another CAS card to share today, this time using up some odd bits and pieces of card left from recent projects.  These 'bits' hadn't even made it into the snippets boxes but were still loitering on my desk. The vase was die cut from a scrap of the glimmer card which I'd  coloured using alcohol inks and the tiny flowers from a small scrap of the Shaving foam experiment - branches were cut from an odd piece of card which was just lying around.  I started with a bit of stencil work as background and to 'ground' the pot.  Sentiment was one produced  on the computer using Word.

 Dies used - Ikebana set from Sizzix