Christmas Snippets

My card for the latest Pixie Snippets Challenge is a Christmas one - thought I'd make a start and make one or two in between other projects and they will soon add up to what should be enough for this year when the time comes.   There is a super prize this time with inspiration from a guest designer - this one aims at using up some of our smaller snippets which we can't bear to throw away. Why not take a look and maybe have a go yourself.

For my card I turned to a set of dies and stamps which came as a magazine freebie perhaps last year or even maybe the year before that - all I know is that the packet had remained unopened in my box of Seasonal stash.  I sorted out some snippets of blue and white card which I used for the small square motifs but unfortunately I didn't have a large enough piece of anything matching for a background so I simply printed off a sheet from a favourite CD, cut a piece to fit this card and now I have yet another good-sized snippet for one or two more cards.  The sentiment was one from the gift set and was stamped onto the background paper and white embossed.  The small blue squares were snippets left from a piece of  card printed from the same CD on a previous occasion. For the scenes I cut stitched squares from white pearl card snippets and then used parts of the dies to produce the separate buildings and trees to fit the blue squares.

Backgrounds - printed from Season's Greetings CD Artylicious (Chocolate Baroque)
Squares - dies from Tonic and Stampin' Up
Scenes - die cut in white pearl card using die/stamp set given with a magazine

Stencilling and Stamping

 This clean and simple card is more or less CASE'd from one made by the talented Eileen Godwin who has made lots of YouTube videos well worth watching for inspiration. (Just Google her name).  I didn't have the stencil or all the stamps which she used but managed to improvise 😀.  I started off with brushing two colours of ink through a stencil to make a partial impression, followed by using the Misti to position the stamps.  The stars and the word were second generation impressions.  The image was mounted onto a piece of paper which had just the right colours to tone with the inking.

Stencil - Berry design from Lavinia stamps
Cat - also from Lavinia
Butterfly - from a Penny Black silhouette floral set
Word - from a stamp set which I've had for many years (Chocolate Baroque)
Stars - stamp from a large sheet of Christmas stamps, magazine freebie
Background - paper from Clarity stamps

Sense of Time

 Stamps which I've had for a long time are featured in another card which has a masculine feel about it. The clock face and wording were both stamped onto a piece of patterned paper and another paper was then over printed collage style with a selection of stamps which came as a magazine gift.  The greeting stamp was also part of the set and these were stamped onto tiny scraps of DSP and cut out.

Background - Paper and various stamps from a Phill Martin magazine gift
Clock and wording - Sense of Time stamp set Stampin' Up (long retired)

Man's Best Friend

 Just realised that I've not posted for over a week but I've had a bit of domestic catching up to do after suffering a week or so of vertigo which tends to make even the simplest of tasks something of a challenge. Most people like animals and dogs in particular so here is a simple doggy card to share today.  I found some scraps of patterned paper and used a stamp to add pawprints to the smaller piece.  Image was stamped onto a scrap of white and dies used to cut out the rectangles.  Colouring was done with alcohol pens.

Papers - from my scrap mountain
Image - Daisy Mae stamp set

Raindrops

 Another Gelli plate card to share today, made sense to do a few pieces while I was in the mood and before I tidy it all away again and get onto another favourite technique or maybe I'll try something new., who knows?  This time a favourite die cut flower has been added once the background was completed and the raindrop stamp is one which I've had for many years although it's not been used for a while.

Raindrops - stamp from Stamps by Ryn which I've had for many years
Flower - die cut from Tim Holtz wild flowers die set
Sentiment - from a magazine freebie set

Clean and Simple

 Sharing a card today in the CAS style - managed without any smudges too which is a result 😉😉. Thought it was about time I looked out my Gelli plates and for this card I've used a 3 inch square mini plate along with a stencil and a bit of stamping.  Original Distress inks were used on this occasion. The effect of the stencil is very subtle and actually shows up better for real than it does on the screen - think I need more practice with this technique.

Stencil - Imagination Crafts
Stamp - Silhouette floral set by Penny Black

Pixie Snippets Challenge #406

 My card today is for the latest challenge over at the Playground and there is a lovely prize on offer this time, well worth popping over to take a look if you are a fan of inky backgrounds and don't like getting messy.   I do enjoy a bit of inky play I must say but for my card today I've been stamping, colouring and fussy cutting as well as using up some of my snippet mountain.  As is usually the case, everything came from my snippets collection, apart from the base card.  This is a favourite stamp set and the birds can be any variety, real or imagined, depending on the way they are coloured.  The floral background was the last remnant of a 12" sheet which has stretched to several cards, and the curvy green piece of card was also a leftover.  Birds were stamped onto snippets of watercolour paper and I finally cut a label for the sentiment and punched a couple of tiny hearts.

Green Section - Curvy die set Stampin' Up
Birds - Free as a Bird stamp set Stampin' Up