March Rudolph Days And Pixies Snippets Playground

While clearing up after my play yesterday I was trying to think what to make for the Rudolph Days challenge this month when I found some play pieces that I had made some time ago. They were sitting on the worktop forgotton along with the die cuts of the two Merry Christmas's. They not only solved what I was going to do for the Rudolph Days Challenge but also allow me to playalong with the Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge too, as they were made using scraps.

My first card was made using the debossed side of an embossing folder and then using Cosmic Shimmer Opel polish in Blue and Silver across the top. I mounted it onto an A5 card base and added the Merry Christmas die cut.

My second card was made using a piece of left over acetate packaging which I added some green  Alcohol ink to the reverse side and then some glitter. I then stuck some crumpled up tissue paper to the reverse. I was never happy with the finished result and didn't use it. Some time later I looked at it again and added some green paint to the back  and got something that I was happier with. I'm quite please with the result that I've managed to get with this card. Again I added to an A5 card base with some mirri card and finaly the die cut Merry Christmas.

I'm sure that many of you have extra time on you hands with self isolation at the moment, make a Christmas card and come and join the fun at the Rudolph Days Challenge. Maureen has got a great prize for the winner who is picked at random. If not a Christmas card then rummage around your scraps and make a card, you can than join in the fun over at Pixies Snippets Playground Di always has a great prize for whoever is picked at random. You'll find the rebels behind the bike shed.

Thanks you for taking the time to visit and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Keep safe and well
Sue

Butterfly Challenge And Pixies Snippets Playground

Wow this month is rushing past and I've been so busy the last week or so. It's time for the UK Stampers Network annual craft retreat and I've been busy getting stuff ready for this. This year were off to the Holiday Inn at Kenilworth 13th-15th March. We always have a great time too. However back to my card for today. I made it at the end of last week and have only just got around to taking it off of my camera. The Butterfly challenge this time is U and Mrs A wants to see cards using:- card in the colours Umber, Ultra Pink and Unbleached Silk, use dies, use patterend paper and make a U fold card and of course it must have a butterfly. Well I managed the Umber card and the Ultra Pink card along with the dies (flowers and Thank You) and the patterned paper also 2 butterfly buttons. The coloured card and patterned paper came out of the scrap box and the flowers were left over from a previous project so this means that it qualifies for Pixies Snippets Playground too so I'm off to see who's behind the bike shed this week.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Add A Heart

Just popping in at the end of a busy day today (we look after my nearly 11 month old grandson Mondays) to show this quick and simple Anniversary card. I used a Tonic die and some scraps from my bulging scrap box for the Heart and a Chocolate Baroque stamp from the sentiment. The backing paper came from a pad that I bought a show quite a few years ago. I've been busy recently and hope to show you what I've been making in a couple of days, until then I'm off to join in with the challenge at the Allsorts blog this week where they would like you to Add a Heart. I'm also to going join in the fun over and Pixies Snippets Playground, you just need to use some of your scraps.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Pixies Snippets Playground

It's been a while since I took a trip along to the Pixies Snippets Playground, but I've been trying to tidy my Craftroom for the last week (I'm getting there), but while clearing a shelf I found this image already coloured and ready to go. So I stopped long enough to get it made up. I can't remember were the stamp is from, as it was stamped as a result of a crafty play with a friend who bought the stamp along with her. But as I said I had coloured it at the time intending to make it into a card. The base card (5x7) was made out of a piece of card in the scrap box, one end was badly damaged so I cut it down to make the base, the silver glitter card was an off cut from a previous project too. Well I'm off to Ikea this afternoon to get some more shelves, hopefully once up I can get my room finished and back to some serious crafting.

As well as popping along to the playground this week, I'm also going to join in the following challenges.

Allsorts Challenge ... Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge ... Anything Goes

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Rudolph Days June

Last week I had some new dies and stamps arrive from Crafters Companion, so I wanted to use them straight away. I rummaged through my scraps boxes and found the right colours to make this card using the Poinsettia Die set. Everything came out of the scrap box, even the card base was made with an off cut of some A 3 card that I had laying around. This is where I admit to having made this last week but it's taken me until today to take the photo off of the camera and get it posted. I'm off to join in with both the Rudolph Days Challenge and Pixies Snippets Playground, it's been a while since I was last in the playground to play.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue 

Snippets Playground

I decided it was time to have a bit of a tidy up yesterday, needless to say it wasn't long before I got distracted and had a play instead. I found a couple of pieces of watercolour card sitting on the top and also some sparkle powders from Nuvo that were just whispering to me to play with them. The background that I created has quite a shine to it but you can't see it in the photos. Also sitting on the top quite nearby was a set of stamps from Visible Image, Hip Hop Girls. I thought the two went well together. I'm off now to join in the fun over at Pixies Snippets Playground as my watercolour card was about to go into the snippets box and the black matting card came out of it.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Pixie's Snippets Playground

I've been rummaging through my scraps boxes again and made this card with what I found in there. The die cut lattice was cut out and coloured a couple of years ago and then abandoned as it didn't fit with what I was doing at the time. So when I found I all neglected I knew that I wanted to make something with it. I also found a piece of backing paper in another box that looked good behind it. I used an A5 white card base and some flowers that I inherited from my Mum's forgotten stash ( she stopped crafting last year and has passed most of her stash onto me). Smile was cut out using Sheena Douglas dies and coloured to match the trellis and the backing paper, again using scraps. I'm off now to see who's playing at Pixies Snippets Playground this week.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Snippets Playground

The last couple of weeks my Mojo went for a walkabout and I found it very difficult to get motivated. However a little bit of snow and it came running back again (I'm glad to say). The other week on Create and Craft Kanban had some lovely looking dies, they came with a card kit as well. Normally I don't buy kits as they just stay sat in a box unused. But this weekend I decided to get one sheet out and make it up. This card was made using the smallest of the elements on the sheet, die cut using the die with the set, as are the top two layers of matting. I needed a background to put onto the card, so I went to one of my many boxes of printed papers (these have been either cut down or discarded after being printed for one reason or another) and found this which matches perfectly. I didn't even need to cut it to size, just pop it onto the top of a piece of silver mirri card. As I used a scrap or left over piece of backing paper it gives me a good excuse to pop over to Pixies Snippets Playground this week.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Snippets And A Butterfly

My card today came together after receiving the new Tonic Mixed Media dies, while taking the dies out of the packaging I noticed that the card on the inside of the packaging was an Apricot colour, just the right colour for the current challenge over on Mrs A's Butterfly blog this time. So I quickly trimmed all of the packets up into usable sizes and used one for the matting on this card. A rummage through my snippets box found some gold card and a piece of precious Graphic 45 from the seasons collection, I layered these together and then from my ribbon stash layered some ribbons across the bottom part of the card. The flowers and butterflies were from a Scrapbook decorative strip that I won in a blog challenge sometime ago, it's been sitting on my shelf waiting for a project just like this. Finally I added a button again from my stash and a Best Wishes sentiment that was from The Paper Craft Boutique. A a lot of this came out of my snippets box I'm off over to Pixies Snippets Playground to see if there is still time for me to play.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

August Rudolph Days

I'm lucky enough to have a whole room to myself for crafting, but as it accommodates two hobbies  - that of buying craft supplies against actually using the craft supplies to craft with - my room was rather crowded. I have just spent the last week cleaning and clearing my room so that I can get on and craft and actually use some of the stuff that I've bought. However my card for the Rudolph Days Challenge this month uses a stamp that was given to me recently by a friend who said it was not her kind of stamp and she wouldn't use it  and the white card was some off cuts that were sitting in a pile of off cuts, so that makes this card also suitable for Pixies Snippets Playground too. I stamped the image using black and coloured just the scarf and poinsettia with just red. I ran a red pen around that edge of the white card and then mounted onto a craft card base. The sentiment which I stamped onto the edge of the card is from Chocolate Baroque. I'm not sure who made the stamp, but it was a wood mounted one. Finally I added some flat back gems to the star.

I would also like to enter this card into My Time To Craft Challenge - which is Christmas in August.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

AWOL again

I don't know what's wrong with me at the moment, I just can't seem to get my act into gear. I've gone another week without posting anything on here, so today I'm going to post two cards. The first is for the Stamping Sensations challenge this month which is Close To Nature. This was a perfect excuse for me to get the Stampscape stamps out and inked up. Below is the result, I coloured the scene with pencils and added a little clear sparkle over the water (it doesn't show in the photo I'm afraid). I've not added a sentiment yet as I'm not sure who is going to receive it.

Next up is my card for the Allsorts challenge which is Fancy Folds this week. It's not a very fancy fold as I just folded back the front of the card. I had a lot of off cuts left over from a Graphic 45 project I made earlier this year which were calling out to be used. So after rummaging through the off cuts this is what I came up with. As it was using off cuts it also qualifies for Pixies Snippets Playground challenge, which is to use snippets/off cuts somewhere on your card. I added some clear sparkle pen to the fairy wings, a little glitter on the borders and a few gems on the front as well.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.
I promise to try harder and blog more often too.

Sue

Lavender, Lace, Letters and Layers

My card today has been made for the Butterfly Challenge which at the moment is L giving a choice of Lavender, Layers, Lemon, Letters, Light Blue, Lace and of course Butterflies. I went with Lavender (there is some on my background although it did not photo very well), Lace, Letters (my sentiment) and Layers (my butterfly one solid which has been colours through the die and one lacy also lavender). The background was floating around in my scraps box as it was left over from a previous project, as well as the card that I used to make the butterfly, so this will also qualify for Pixies Snippets Playground. It's been a while since I popped in for a play.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Checks, Cornflower, Corners and Butterflies

I've just realised how long it's been since I last blogged, I'm afraid I have no excuses. My card today has been made with the Butterfly Challenge in mind, which at the moment is the letter C. There is a new format to the challenge called spin the wheel and you have to have three things on there relating to the letter it lands on (do go and check it out). I decided on Checks, Cornflower (the colour) and corners. I'm also going to enter this card into Pixies Snippets Playground, which requires that you use up some of your scraps. Most of this card has been made using scraps so should fit in perfectly.

Thanks for taking the time to visit and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

U R 21

Before Christmas you may remember that I had to make five cards for a 75th Birthday all for the same family, well they now have a 21st Birthday coming up and yes I've been asked to make five 21st cards now. This one fits in with a few of the challenges and I'm safe to post this now as I know that the person receiving this card does not visit my blog. First I sprayed a piece if linen card stock with Dylusion Sprays and put to one side to dry while I got on with the rest of the card. I took an 8x8 white card blank and then folded the front of the card back on itself. I then cut out some flowers from some scraps of card from my box and also stamped the butterfly onto another piece. I used Stampin Up Bermuda Bay to stamp the butterfly which was from Impression Obsession and then with a water brush pulled out the colour. I then used the same ink around the edges of the flowers, before putting them together and adding some gems to the middles. Then with more scraps I cut out the Celebrate and u r 21, the leaf spray's were from some that I had already cut out.  I then cut up the background and popped onto the card using a silver linen effect card for the matting and also some silver ribbon too, then finally adding the flowers and butterfly.

 Below is a photo showing the fold in the card front.

I am going to take part in the following challenges with this card.
Butterfly Challenge - X is for extra fold and/or the colour peacock blue/green
Allsorts - Butterflies
A Bit More Time To Craft - Anything Goes
Pixies Snippets Playground - Must Use Scraps

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated

Sue

Happy New Year

Well I'm a bit late with the New Year Greetings with this blog post, but the New Year wasn't quite so good for us. New Year's eve my Father-in-law took a tumble at my Sister-in-law's (he was staying there for the New Year) this resulted in him breaking his hip and having to have a hip replacement done on New Year's Day. Everything went well with the op but as FIL is 90 in May it taken it's toll on him a bit. Two days later and now my Sister-In-law is in Hospital too with Kidney Stones. Hubby doesn't know which way is up at the moment.  Anyway onto my post today, after going to a workshop back in September when we cover a note book, I decided at the time that if I bought some inexpensive A5 diary's and covered them, that they would make good gifts for Christmas. I ended up covering 16 Diary's, 5 notebooks and 3 little journals (the journals were for 3 super little ladies). All were a big hit and I've had nothing but great feedback from all who received them. This is something I think I'll be doing again.

I'm entering this into the More Mixed Media challenge, which at the moment is anything goes and the option of blue. Think this covers everything.
I'm also going to pop over to Pixies Snippets Playground as I used some left over cardboard scraps on the front as well as making the 2018 out of scraps too. There's also a scrap of lace in there somewhere.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Snowflakes And Pixies Snippets Playground

My card today covers a couple of challenges firstly the Allsorts Challenge where they are asking for Snowflakes on your cards. Then Pixies Snippets Playground where you must include scraps or snippets on your card  (I stamped and embossed Christmas onto a scrap piece of card) and then finally Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge which is anything goes with the option of sparkle. I used an embossing folder from Sheena Douglas to make this card, coloured the background with blue distress inks and then used silver gilding wax lightly over the top. Mounted it onto some silver mirri card and then a white card blank.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Pixies Snippets Playground

With all of the cutting of papers for my last post, needless to say there was a lot of bits and pieces that have found their way into the scrap box. So it was only natural that I would would reach for them to make something for Pixies Snippets Playground this time around. Everything except the card base has come from leftover Graphic 45 papers from the seasons collection. The sentiment stamp was from a set by Crafters Companion.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Buttermilk/Zodiac and Pixies Snippets Playground

My card today is for two challenges, Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge and Pixies Snippets Playground. The butterfly challenge asks that you use Buttermilk colour and or something from the Zodiac. Pixies Snippets asks that you use snippets/scraps. While rummaging through my scraps box I found some buttermilk colour card and some brown that went with it. I cut the card to size and then stamped a script stamp from Inkylicious onto the buttermilk card using Distress Ink in Tea Dye colour. Then I inked around the edges with the Tea Dye ink, I found a doily that had been cut sometime ago from scraps, I inked this around the edges too and stamped a Lily of the Valley sentiment stamp. There was a little brown card left over and there was enough to cut out two butterflies to add to the card, making it a Gemini card. I popped it all onto a 6x6 white card base.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Friday's Playtime With Friends

Very often on a Friday I have a couple of friends who come for the day and we have a crafty play. Both are quite new to crafting so sometimes we end up doing something they have not tried before. This Friday we ended up decorating these expensive Mirrors from the Swedish shop, I'm going to make a couple of these for Christmas presents so now I've made this one I only have one more to go. I'm sorry that my hands have got in the way on the photo. I'm going to enter this into the Challenge over at Pixie's Snippets Playground this week (I've not been for a play for a few weeks now as I've been so busy) as the embossed pieces used on this are all from the scrap box, also most of the home made chip board pieces have been made with scraps too. As everything gets a coating of black gesso it really does not matter what colour the card is that you use. I'm also going to enter the More Mixed Media Challenge too, which is Anything Goes with an option to use orange.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Pixies Snippets Playground

I'm off to Pixies Snippets Playground with my card today. This was make as a "Just because" card for a crafty friend and my snippet was the wood effect background. I had made several in different colours earlier this year including two in this colour way which I had not used. So that was my starting place for the card, I then rummaged through my stencils and found these two, which are from Imagination Crafts, and then used some white pearlised embossing paste through the stencils. Straight away before it dried I sprinkled some purple glitter from my glitter mountain over the top and left to dry. Next I found my Lavinia stamp with the verse "Don't Let Life Dull Your Sparkle" stamped onto a scrap of white card and the cut the words apart edging with a little bit of black promarker I then stuck the onto the front. Next I mounted the topper onto some black card and then a piece of matching mirri card (it matches better in real life than in this photo). Finally I found a lovely poem about friend and printed this off onto an insert before giving to my friend. I'm glad to say the she loved it.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue