Snippets and a Sketch

The lovely Jules has given us another great layout sketch for March - see it HERE - and I've chosen to use it for my Snippets Challenge card. These are two brilliant blogs to visit for inspiration when the Mojo goes walkabout as it does seem to from time to time. Challenge #399 is another one which this time is for Ruby's Memory and the prize is an adorable and very appropriate stamp.  Apart from the base card and the image which is from the remnants of a pad of  bear designs which I've had for quite a long time, everything else on the card comes from my snippets mountain.  Took me a while to sort out bits and pieces which would all tone with each other but got there in the end I think and of course following sketches like this is another great way of using up some of the ever-growing collection of  scraps which I can't bear to throw out.

The eagle eyed amongst you will notice that this is more or less a CASE of the card which Jules made but using different colours.  The image was cut using a circle die, sentiment was stamped onto a scrap of card and the flower stamped and fussy cut using up the tiniest scrap left after trimming the pink piece.

Image - from a Lili of the Valley pad of bear images from a few years ago
Flower - stamp from a set of florals designed by Christina Griffiths (Card Making Magic)
Square - die by Phill Martin
Pink layer - corners rounded using Papermania corner punch 
Circle die - stitched circles die set Tim Holtz for Sizzix

Honey Bees

 A card to share today which I made quite a while ago. I over stamped the background with some bees using a small stamp from a magazine freebie set and also used a text stamp from the same set to stamp onto a cream die cut tag.  The other bees, beehive and flowers were stamped and die cut before putting it all together with a simple sentiment..  Not  much sunshine today to encourage the bees but at least it is dry so not all bad.

Tags - cut with dies from Creative Expressions
Bees, hive and flowers - Honeybee stamp set by Stampin' Up (retired)
Sentiment - made on the computer using Word

Home Decor

 My Butterfly DSP arrived over the weekend and today I've fussy cut some butterflies from one of the sheets and used another of the pretty papers as a background to make up a box frame - a change from making loads of cards which I don't really need although no doubt I will carry on with cards because it is a thing I  enjoy.  Have to carry on really because no doubt you are aware that I have a mountain of scraps to use up as well as my regular stash items. 

 This was quite quick and simple to make, adding a die cut frame around the DSP because the box frame is slightly more than 6" square.  Also added white die cut butterflies, raised up over the coloured ones.  I think  that a white box frame would probably have been a better choice but unfortunately black is all I have at present.

Background and Butterflies - Stampin' Up Butterfly Bijou DSP

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)