Snippets Challenge #453

 Time to visit the Snippets Playground for another challenge with a lovely prize to be won by one lucky person.  I started with a white card snippet trimmed to fit onto a square card blank and stamped the coastal scene.  More, smaller white snippers were used to die cut the seagulls and the 'Hello'.  The wooden posts on which one seagull is perched were some scraps of stamped strips left over from a recent project. The word and the seagulls were all cut twice so that they could be layered up to give them a bit of substance.  Stamping and colouring done using Distress Oxide inkpads.

Scene - stamps from Ocean Front set Stampin' Up
Seagulls - dies from Gummiapan

Floral Card

 I have a floral card to share today which was  made using various bits and pieces which were lying around .  The floral image was mix of stamping, fussy cutting (the flowers) and decoupage.  The backgrounds were from my larger snippets box and the sentiment produced on the computer was die cut.  Quite an easy card to make once I'd decided what to do with the odd bits and pieces.

Dotty Paper - piece left from a sheet printed using a Paper Pantry USB
Circle - die cut from a snippet of floral DSP from Stampin' Up
Flower Image - Stampin' Up Petal Park stamp set

Trying Techniques

 If I see different techniques incorporating items which I have in my stash I like to have a go and this time I've been playing with a 3D embossing folder using black card, Pixie powders and some gilding polish.  This card is a CASE of one spotted HERE but using a different embossing folder.  In the original inspiration the technique was shown using white card partially coloured by applying black to one side of the E/F but none of the pigment powders I have seem to show up differently when used on black as opposed to white and I don't particularly need to buy any more so this is a slight variation using black card.  The video explains this more clearly 😉

Embossing Folder - from Crafter's Companion

For the Love of Animals

Love of animals is the optional theme on the Allsorts challenge #725 . As usual it is anything goes or we can go for various options each week.  These two stamped and coloured  owls were loitering on my desk so I fussy cut them and found some other components to build up a card.  For the extra branches I dug out a really old die - one of the long strip ones with foam on the cutting side which I've had for many years. Things have certainly moved on a long way with dies over the years and I even had to bring an old die cutting machine out of semi retirement to cut these. Lots of lovely animal inspiration from the Allsorts design team and super prizes to be won.

Tree Background - Nested Friends die cut backed with New Horizons paper from Stampin' Up
Branches - Sizzix strip die from years ago
Owls - Adorable Owls from Stampin' Up
Designer Paper - from a Prima paper pad

More Clean and Simple

 I have another CAS card to share today, this time using up some odd bits and pieces of card left from recent projects.  These 'bits' hadn't even made it into the snippets boxes but were still loitering on my desk. The vase was die cut from a scrap of the glimmer card which I'd  coloured using alcohol inks and the tiny flowers from a small scrap of the Shaving foam experiment - branches were cut from an odd piece of card which was just lying around.  I started with a bit of stencil work as background and to 'ground' the pot.  Sentiment was one produced  on the computer using Word.

 Dies used - Ikebana set from Sizzix 

Snippets Challenge #452

For my visit to the Snippets Playground I've used another of my spray starch/pigment powders backgrounds  and this time I think the gold veining effect actually shows up on the screen although, as always, it looks better in real life.  There is a link to the video showing this technique on a recent post HERE.  I used a fairly large snippet of white card to die cut the tree and then a selection of quite small white snippets for the fence, flowers and leaves.  The blossom on the tree utilised some 'waste' from a border punch - always save tiny bits of such waste which I think will come in handy 😀.  There is a lovely prize as usual for the lucky person whose name is drawn at the end of the challenge so why not use up some of your snippets and have a go.

Recently I've had quite a lot of very old comments appearing in  my spam folder on Blogger (some from as far back as 2010).  Does anyone know why this is happening and is it also happening to you??  It is easy enough to delete them but is just a bit irritating as well as puzzling 🙄

Background - produced using spray starch and clingfilm with various Pixie powders 
Tree die - unbranded
Fence, flowers and foliage - dies from Gummiapan and Stampin' Up

Allsorts Challenge #724

 The Allsorts challenge this week is **anything goes with an option to create your own background** so it seems fortuitous that yesterday I was dabbling with some shaving foam and re-inkers - a technique I've never actually tried despite my good intentions.  I can't say my first attempt was too brilliant but at least the craft room smelled lovely when I'd finished 😉.  I was determined to use some of what I made so I started out by cutting a tag, adding some stencilling and a bit of stamping and gold embossing.  I then decided to stencil a partial design onto a square to fit a card blank. I had a ponder over a coffee break and at that point decided this would be ideal as a masculine card with a few additions so I die cut a clock from a piece of black card which  had been smooshed through some gold spray and this in turn was popped onto a circle of another background from my 'useful bits' box - made a long time ago so can't remember quite how it was achieved. Everything was put together, finally adding a metal embellishment and sentiment.  There you have it - a card for the challenge incorporating no less than three backgrounds made by me - job done!!

Large background - stencil from Aall and Create
Tag - background made using shaving foam technique with Distress re-inkers
Clock background - not sure but probably used a stencil spritzed with water, added embossing
Clock die - came with a Phill Martin magazine quite a long time ago
Letters stencil on Tag - Tim Holtz stencil
Sentiment - produced on the computer in Word