Flowers

I received another class in the post recently but decided to 'break free'  and do my own thing with some of the die cut flowers which came with it using up some scraps of card and paper from my oddments boxes.  As the flowers were all white my initial idea was to colour them but once I'd found the paper and card I wanted to use, decided that they would be fine left as they were although I did die cut some leaves using one of my dies and also cut some coloured centres for the flowers.

Background papers - scraps from some long retired DSP Stampin' Up
Flowers - Pierced Blooms dies Stampin' Up (class in the post)
Leaves - die from Curvy die set SU
Flower Centres - from retired SU floral die set

Anniversary

A friend commented on my recent Garden Snail card that it could be used for an anniversary so as I had some more stamped and coloured images handy I gave it some thought and came up with this one for a bit of fun.  Hopefully it will make someone smile.

Images - Snail Mail stamp set by Stampin' Up
Hearts - dies from Crafter's Companion
Sentiment - download from Netty's Cards resized to fit a punch.

 

Garden Snails

 I've created a little garden scene with a couple of snails and a few other bits and pieces - always a bit of a fiddly job gathering everything together and arranging  to make a pleasing scene but this is something |I enjoy doing.  I started with a square of white card and blended blue in the sky area and some earth effect for the ground before digging out various die sets to build up the scene as well as stamping the snails which are coloured using alcohol pens and then fussy cut.  Lots of 'stuff' to tidy away after making this one and care has to be taken with the tiny dies so that they don't get lost - might need them to build a different scene 😉😉

Snails - Snail Mail stamp set Stampin' Up
Trees, Fence, Flower Border - from two Sizzix die sets
Bird, Toadstools, Grassy Tufts - Dies which I think came as  magazine freebies 

Steampunk

Another masculine card to share today using up various bits and pieces .  Started with a piece of cream heavyweight paper which came from a pad of text designs and the Steampunk 'airship' was stamped and embossed on this before cutting it into a circle. A larger circle was cut into a scrap of kraft card and then the whole thing was popped onto yet another piece of text background.  This pad seems to go on forever and has proved so very useful.  Finally a small sentiment was stamped onto another scrap added.

Image - from Steampunk stamp set Chocolate Baroque
Text Papers - Prima designs paper pad

Snippets Challenge #404

 Time certainly seems to fly and it is time for another Playground Challenge with the chance to go into the draw for a super prize.  Why not pop along to see some inspiration?  I've gone with a rainbow theme this time and used up some really small snippets for the flowers.  I've used  snippets of  blue and white card trimmed to fit onto a DL card blank and started by die cutting the rainbow flowers which I then popped in place to see how they would need to be spaced out so that I could then stamp the splodges using matching ink. before finally sticking down the flowers and adding a sentiment.  Clean and Simple style which didn't make much of a dent in my snippets mountain but it was fun to make, leaving me with boxes of scraps and six different ink pads which all needed to be tidied away before I could make anything else.

Spotlight Technique

 Trawling around YouTube (as you do!) I was reminded of this spotlight technique which is something I'd not come across for quite a while so I decided to have a little play using a floral  two-layer stamp.. The first stamping was done onto a label shape using a black outline and infilling with grey before stamping for a second time onto a scrap of card but this time infilling with colour.  This second image was then punched out into a circle and  carefully edged with a black pen.  Next I stamped the sentiment onto the label and added the 'spotlight' over the floral image, lining it up carefully and adding another circle of card behind to lift it slightly..  When having a tidy up recently I came across a pack of card blanks with embossing on the fronts so I trimmed one of them into a single layer before brushing some colour around the edges to highlight the pattern.  A scattering of matching gems and that's another card made.

At last the weather seems to be a little less chilly than it's been of late, yesterday was a lovely dry and sunny day and today is supposed to be dry again although at the moment no sign of the sunshine.  Hopefully it will remain reasonable for this holiday weekend.  

Chicks Create a Scene

 Back again with some more chicks - this time in a little scene framed by an octagon.  Started with the frame and then cut a piece of white card using the same outer die.  This was then brushed with blue and green to form a background and the frame was added lining it up carefully. I then fiddled about for ages with chicks and other components until I'd found a scene which I thought was pleasing before sticking them down, finally adding a slightly larger brown octagon and putting it onto a kraft card blank. 

Octagon dies - Daisy Mae stitched octagon die set
Scene - Stampin' Up Hey Chick stamps and dies, also Hey Birthday Chick stamps (fussy cut)