There is a mood board for the August Stamping Sensations challenge but this time I've gone for the 'Anything Goes' option with a stamped scene using a Gelli plate background and a selection of Lavinia stamps. The wisteria top left is from Card-IO and the butterfly is die cut.
Christmas in July has finished in the Snippets Playground but I've made another seasonal card this time as I really wanted to incorporate the little lantern (with tiny candle) which was gifted to me by a generous friend who shared some of her white snippets with me. I thought it would sit well within a wreath design so I set about cutting all the components from my Christmassy snippets collection.
I had a white snippet which I die cut into a stitched square to fit the wreath but I have to say I had to cut into whole pieces of the design paper and the red card for the other two layers - still plenty of that left for another project of course. The lantern was coloured using a black Wink of Stella brush pen which has given it a subtle metallic sheen and I sponged a touch of yellow ink onto the background for a 'glow' effect. I've not decided whether to pop a sentiment on this one or just to leave it to speak for itself.
A super prize for a lucky winner as always so why not sort out some of your snippets and pop along to the Playground - where the sun always shines 😄
Background - printed from a Buddly Crafts Christmas download
Wreath - die set from Sizzix
Lantern and Candle - die set from Gummiapan
Yes, bunny is getting ready for Christmas - a bit early though. He's been out with his wheelbarrow collecting some festive greenery to decorate the burrow and he met up with one of Santa's little helpers for a chat before he continues on his way. The wheelbarrow die cut was sent to me by a lovely generous friend and everything else was from my stash. At least it's another card ready for December - the collection is growing.
Wheelbarrow - die from Charlie & Paulchen
Rabbit - unbranded die
Santa's Helper - die from Gummiapan
Greenery - die from a Sizzix foliage set
EDITED - Dotty Jo commented and suggested that the little Elf would qualify this card to go along to the Christmas Kickstart challenge so I'm off link up
The theme for the current Christmas Kickstart challenge is **Just Elfing Around** and my lovely blogging friend Di (of Snippets Playground fame) is the guest designer this time around. You can see her gorgeous Elf card HERE where she has used a super die set from Sizzix. I've chosen a different die set and built up a Santa's Workshop scene using just some of the dies and an embossed snowfall background. There's also a great Christmas tree in this set but there just wasn't room for it on this card 🙄. The challenge runs for a month so plenty of time to enter with a chance of maybe winning something in the Random Raffle.
Background - Snowfall embossing folder Stampin' Up (retired)
Words - die from Britannia which I've had for some years
Elf, Deer, Parcels and Stars - from Sizzix Santa's Workshop die set
Today I have another floral card to share and this time we have tulips. I must say it took me a while to fathom out just how to assemble the flower heads using the strangely-shaped dies but I got there in the end. The two larger flower heads consist of three die cuts folded and layered and the smaller one has just two layers.(double sided paper is needed for these due to the folding required.
Flowers - Flowering Tulips stamps and dies Stampin' Up
Layers - dies from Contour set also SU
I decided to have a little play session with some ink pads and stamps and this card is the result. It was inspired by a video on You Tube (Lavinia) and this is my interpretation, using stamps in my collection. There is some sparkle added to the leafy area but it doesn't show up well in the picture
Stamps - from Lavinia and Card-IO
Word Stamp - |Artistic Expressions by Chocolate Baroque (been in my collection for years)
Inks Used - Distress ink and Versafine Clair
Here is my card for the Snippets Playground second Christmas in July challenge where there is a bumper prize to be won by a lucky person chosen at random. Everything apart from the card blank has come from my snippets collection and I've included a picture of the remnants (I even used the cut out circle to die cut the sentiment. and a couple of ready cut leaves to ground the robin.. I started with a white snippet cut to fit onto the card blank and then cut a circular aperture and backed with a snippet of patterned paper. The remaining elements were die cut and arranged before adding the word. A fairly CAS card
