Sympathy Card

 Today's card is one which I really hope I don't need any time soon although it is always handy to have one or two in the box just in case I get a request for one.  I've used stamps and a selection of dies for this and chosen my favourite shade of blue with cream which I think is a bit softer than using a bright white. Items used from several different sets and suppliers so plenty to put away tidily so I can find them again 😉

Background - paper from Stampin' Up Boho Indigo suite with some misty moonlight card
Leaves and Berries - stamps and dies from Forever Fern also SU
Smallest Berries - from a Sizzix die set
Square dies - from Phill Martin and Tonic dies used for plain squares
Smaller Square - embossed with Bark 3D folder from SU
Sentiment - stamp from my favourite freebie set from years back
Shaped dies - Stitched so Sweetly from SU (retired)

Coming Home

 Last Christmas I had some Designer Papers, some of which had several buildings and trees which could be fussy cut to add to cards and I went a bit mad and cut out far more than I could use at the time.  However in true 'never waste anything' style I have brought them out of hiding to use on some of this year's cards.  For this particular DL card I've used some of the smaller houses as well as a regular sized one in the foreground.  The snowy slopes were die cut using a variety of dies and a greeting sticker added to finish off the card even though there isn't much doubt that it is meant for Christmas 😉.   There are two more slightly less complicated cards which I will show you in due course and I still have a few stray buildings to be used up.

Snowy Slopes - dies from Crafter's Companion, Stampin' Up and Lawn Fawn
Houses and trees - mostly fussy cut from the Coming Home DSP Stampin' Up (retired) 
Sky - scrap of DSP from the same DSP pack
Sentiment - sticker from Clarity sticker book

Time Flies

 Somehow a week or so has whizzed by without me having made a card, due in part to my mojo taking a break.  I struggled a bit to get back into the swing but after a couple of false starts I eventually came up with this card using a selection of dies and stamps.  I started with the background fancy die cut which I backed with some blue card, no problem there, but then it was a case of what else would work on this tall slim card.  I eventually settled on cutting two smaller tall slim shapes then stamped the vase and die cut the leaves finally adding a couple of small flowers.  The sentiment tag was left from cutting some windows for a previous card so I decided to use it with the addition of a piece of ribbon and a computer printed sentiment.

 Tall dies - Paper Discovery Slimline set from Craft Stash
Tag - from Have a Hoot die set Stampin' Up
Vase and Leaves - from Boho Indigo Suite Stampin' Up

Pixie Snippets Playground - Challenge 409

 I'm here in the Playground again making use of more of my snippets of card and paper and apart from the base card everything else came from my snippet mountain, mainly white pieces this time.  I found pieces on which to stamp the words in several different colours and then fussy cut them all so that I had a selection of different coloured strips to build up the tag. Of course I now have quite a little collection of these variously coloured words to use on other cards. The stamp comes as a whole and was stamped onto a tag (die cut from another snippet of white) so that I could place the different coloured pieces, adding a punched heart and three tiny punched banners to tone in.  Similar colours were used to stamp the tiny motif over the background.  There is a really fun stamp as the prize this time around so do have a go if you'd fancy possibly being able to add this to your collection - someone has to win!!

Stamps - Birthday Wit set from Stampin' Up (retired)
Punches - heart and small banner Stampin' Up
Tag- die from Tim Holtz, Sizzix

Christmas Tomte

Another quick card for my Christmas collection, this time with stamping, colouring and fussy cutting.  Image was stamped, coloured using alcohol pens with the addition of some coloured pencil here and there before fussy cutting.  Found some paper which was a magazine freebie from some time back and as this had words incorporated there was no need for a sentiment.  A scrap of kraft card was embossed with a brick wall E/F and a sprig of holly die cut from scraps.  A fairly quick and easy card to make once I'd gathered all the bits and pieces together. 

Background - paper given \away free with magazine
Brick Wall - embossing folder from Stampin' Up
Holly - dies from a magazine freebie set
Gnome - Tomte (gnome) from Woodware Fuzzies range of stamps

Playground Challenge #408

 My card for the Pixie's Playground Challenge this time is another version of a recent Christmas card but using a whole different selection of snippets.  Again, apart from the card blank no whole pieces of card or paper have been cut into to produce this one.  The owls have been stamped and die cut but on the stamps they are surrounded by stars and sitting on branches so I was very pleased I have a stamp positioner gizmo to make sure the stamped images are in the right place on the background and sitting within the die cut 'windows'.  To do this I cut two squares of the same size, one in white and one in the patterned paper.  Windows were cut into the patterned layer and then I lined both layers up in the Misti to position the stamps, carefully removed the top layer and stamped owls complete with backgrounds before stamping them again onto snippets of card so that the owls themselves could be die cut.  As usual there is a lovely prize on offer for the lucky person to be pulled out of the hat so why not have a go - this one is a Ruby's Memory challenge, follow the link to read all about it.

Images - Have a Hoot stamp set Stampin' Up last Christmas (retired)
Snowflake - X-cut Papermania die

Heatwave

 I have the heatwave to blame for my lack of blogging this past week - in fact a lack of everything really.  When I feel hot and uncomfortable just sitting still that is really too much for me so in fact I've achieved nothing beyond the bare essentials although I have read a couple of books.  Suffering from sleep deprivation as well as I guess are many others.  Anyway there is at least a little bit of breeze about this morning and I've actually managed to produce a card even if it has taken me much longer than normal.  This one is for my Christmas collection and has used up a few more of my snippets for the stamping and die cutting - no whole pieces of paper or card have been cut into this morning 😉

Owls, frame and sentiment - Have a Hoot Stampin' Up set from last year (retired)
Holly - part of a die set which came with a magazine last year