Something a Little Bit Different

I recently worked on a class in the post from the lovely Jenny Moor which included four cards to make and a sort of bag/box in which to place them.  There should be pictures of these projects shown on her blog shortly so I'm not posting mine here - we were using the wonderful new Butterfly set from Stampin' Up.   However I had a brainwave and decided to make another one of the boxes to contain six notelet cards which I've made using some A6 card blanks and some of my left over bits and pieces from the snail projects made recently.  I seem to have a good supply of cards for various occasions so thought that as a change I could make these sets of notelet cards to use as small gifts as and when required..  I did actually make the Butterfly class ones as notelets as well so now I have two sets ready to go.

The cards are all slightly different and I've used lots of scraps of paper and card along with miscellaneous images (and part images) from the Snail Mail set by Stampin' Up.   The sentiment was produced on the computer.

Tall Floral Card

 Another tall card to share today - quite getting to like this format now I've made a few cards.  For this one I've stamped the flowers onto cream card using two shades of blue ink and of course some green for the leaves.  A large sentiment was stamped onto matching card and die cut - relatively simple but I'm pleased with the result.

Floral Stamps - Art Gellery set from Stampin' Up
Label - due from a Sue Wilson set
Sentiment - from my favourite set of free sentiment stamps which I've had a while

Sympathy Card

Butterfly Collections seem to be taking over the crafting world at the moment and for this sympathy card I've CASE'd a card  made by Stacey Marsh which I spotted recently on You Tube.  Hers was smaller and was a Birthday one but I followed the basic idea using stamps and dies which I have in my stash.  I'm trying really hard to resist buying any of the latest butterfly stamps and dies which are fluttering around although I must admit that some designer paper is winging its way to me shortly.

I started by heat embossing the cream texture and 'splodges' onto some grey card before blending using two shades of blue ink.  This was layered onto black and I added a die cut butterfly and a sentiment stamped and heat embossed.

Brick Texture - stamp from a free set designed by Phill Martin
Splodges - stamp from French Foliage stamp set Stampin' Up (retired)
Butterfly - dies from Sizzix
Sentiment - freebie stamp on die cut label from Art Gallery dies Stampin' Up

Pixie Snippets Challenge #398

 The weeks do come around quickly and it is time for another visit to the Playground for the current challenge where Lesley is a guest designer with no less than three super cards for inspiration and to showcase the prize.  My Snippets make this time is an Anniversary card which of course incorporates hearts, and birds.  Apart from the card blank and the largest square layer, everything else came from my various Snippets boxes.  Birds were stamped onto scraps of watercolour paper, coloured and die cut; the fancy heart was also die cut from a scrap of watercolour paper backed with another heart cut from a kraft card snippet.  A couple of die cut scribbles and a stamped sentiment, together with a larger snippet of left over background paper and that's it - my entry for the challenge this time.

Design Paper - scrap left over from printout using a Chocolate Baroque CD
Birds - from Best Birds set Stampin' Up (retired I think)
Plain heart - from a set of Tonic dies
Decorative heart - die from Apple Blossom
Swirls - Swirly scribbles die set from Stampin' Up (also retired I think)

Tall Trees

 A card to share today which I made a little while ago using some patterned paper which was left from another project and a stamped image with an added sentiment, lined up using the Misti of course.  We've had a couple of very grey days here but today there is blue sky and sunshine which certainly lifts the mood even if it is still a bit on the chilly side. I can  hardly believe it is almost the weekend again - the weeks do seem to come around quickly despite everything.

Stamp - from Tall Trees set Chocolate Baroque
Sentiment - from a magazine give away

More Fun Snails

I've enjoyed my  little play with some of the Snail Mail images and for this tall card I decided to cut out some stamp shaped windows from a piece of white card so that I could do something a bit different with them. A piece of darker card was put behind the window layer before adding the fussy cut images.   Foam pads were used to layer the window layer and the backing to give it some dimension.  No specific sentiment on this one but I'm sure whoever receives it will smile and we don't always have to wait for an occasion to send someone a card 'just because'.

Windows - cut using postage stamp die from Spellbinders
Images - fussy cut from Snail Mail DSP Stampin' Up.
Heart - small heart punch Stampin' Up.

Singalong

The image on this card is one I came across in one of my boxes - part of a sheet which I'd printed from a CD and only used one of them for a card quite a long time ago.  I thought this one  deserved to be used rather than lying unseen in a box so I used a circle  die to cut it out and layered onto a fancy die cut and an embossed square. Finally I added some background paper and a sentiment.

Image from The Best of Just Inklined CD (I think)
Sentiment - computer generated using Word