Pixie Snippets Challenge

A sheet of decoupage came my way recently and rather than just filing it away I decided to make use of it to make a couple of  cards, one of which should fit with the Pixie Snippets challenge.  The designs are from Docraft and I've added snippets of backing paper from my stash along with some snippets of pink card which has been diecut for the panels and I also managed to squeeze three little  butterflies from the remainder.

Bright and Cheery

The challenge this week at Make My Monday is to use bright and cheery colours so I've used an image from the CD with 'Alice' images and printed off the Mad Hatter; searched through my bits boxes for some bright colours of card to match and here we have it - a bright and cheery card.

Image - from My Craft Studio 'A Very Important Date' CD
Background - printed from same CD, cut with Tonic die
Ovals cut using Sue Wilson Austrian Collection dies
Sentiment - computer generated on Cuttlebug die cuts
Border - Cheery Lynne die

Snippets challenge 161

The more observant (and inquisitive) of you may spot something purchased recently which entitled me to the free floral stamp set used in a recent post - let the cat out of the bag really didn't I??  I've used a different feather stamp which has a matching die to make this card for the Pixie Snippets challenge this week (and yes I know I have the free feather set but these ones were already on order when I was tempted by the magazine!!). What a good thing that feathers seem to be popular at the moment.  The largest snippet is a left over piece of Prima paper and everything else is cut from snippets of card from the bits boxes.  Just right to pop into the box for a male card I thought.

Background - Prima text paper snippet
Embossed panels - Cuttlebug folder
Feathers - from Four feathers set by Stampin' Up with matching Framelits dies
Sentiment - Tim Holtz stamp

20th Century Style

This is the title of the challenge this week on Make My Monday and here it is Saturday already - just about made it in time!!  I've gone for Art Deco style using a stamp from a free A4 set which I've had for some time and probably only used possibly one of them before - certainly not this particular one I know.  Stamped onto cream card and coloured with Polychromos pencils then cut using an oval die and put onto a couple of other layers with a Deco Style sentiment stamped and punched.

I had a good sort out of my miscellaneous stamps, mostly freebies from magazines and smaller single ones which I've bought over the years.  They were all in boxes but rather jumbled up so I went through them and re-organized into categories, keeping similar types together.  This has also resulted in reminding me of just what stamps I actually have and that they are rather under used, probably due to the current trend towards die cutting and embossing for cards without actual images in many cases.

Stamp - freebie from Creative Stamping magazine ages ago
Corners - Sizzix die
Oval die - Spellbinders
Cream embossed layer - Docrafts embossing folder
Blue layer - Deco labels die from Stampin' Up
Sentiment - Papermania stamp (Docrafts) SU punch
Backing paper - Die Cuts with a View

Very Important Date

A fairly quick card today using an image from a CD with the title 'A Very Important Date' which as you might guess features characters from Alice in Wonderland - I thought this would be a good male card.  Background paper was printed from the CD and I've added an embossed panel featuring watches.

Background and main Image - Important Date CD by My Craft Studio
Embossed Panel - Folder from Sizzix Tim Holtz range
Sentiment - computer generated

Lotus Blossom

Today's card for Pixie Snippets challenge uses a three step stamp set which comes free as part of Stampin' Up's 'Sale-a-Bration' promotion - a photopolymer set which makes this sort of technique easier than it was when using wood mounted stamps with a positioning gizmo.  I used Pumpkin Pie ink for the stamping and some scraps of matching card for the layers along with an odd piece of paper from the scrap box.  A doily was cut from a scrap of white card and the remaining coloured scraps  were used for the sentiments which were stamped and punched.  On my desk at the moment I have a pile of random bits and pieces, mostly left over die cut corners, flowers etc and I've almost decided to throw them out (something I find VERY difficult!!) - on the other hand they might be 'saved' and used on future Snippet cards.  I don't know why I find it so hard to throw anything away because after it isn't as if I don't have oodles of scrap card to cut more as and when they are needed and then at least they would hopefully be just the right colour or design I need at the time.

Image - Lotus Blossom stamp set Stampin' Up
Doily - X-cut die
Layers - Spellbinder dies and Tonic die
Sentiments - stamped and punched with Stampin' Up punches

Cats

When going through my computer files of pictures I realised this is a card from last year which didn't get posted.  It is one of the samples made for demonstrations showing techniques using embossing folders and the folder had been loaned to me for that reason.  After embossing I used brushes to apply Distress ink to bring out the detail in the scene, then die cut some little birds to sit in the branches and some cats to sit on the ground observing them.  I felt all this needed was a simple greeting which I added on a die cut shape (also embossed and inked).

I'm off now to go and sit by the fire because my fingers and toes are getting very cold sitting here in front of the computer.  It's been a beautiful day with lots of sunshine but very cold and the forecast is for more sub zero temperatures - brrr!!!!

Cats and Birds - Memory Box dies
Embossing Folder - on loan and I've forgotten who made it
Label shapes - Sue Wilson dies
Words - Creative Expressions, Phill Martin stamp