SUNDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

Happy Sunday!

I hope that you are all having a really lovely weekend.

The sun has been shining beautifully here .. .. .. it certainly puts a spring in your step and lifts the spirits doesn't it?

My "clear up" campaign is still continuing and part of that mission involves making use of snippets of card and backing papers that seem to keep breeding when my back is turned .. .. .. .. and that is what today's card consists of.  

All card and paper came from snippet mountain apart from the base card.

This used:

Image and Sentiment:  My Favorite Things "Birthday Bears"
Backing papers:  All from Snippet Mountain
Spellbinders Frameabilities:  Scalloped Edge Frame (but I used the plain frame within the set and inked through the holes with Distress Ink).
ProMarkers
Nail Heads
My Trusty Sewing Machine

So as I have used lots of snippets I am heading over to Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge.

Enjoy the rest of your day .. .. .. can you believe it is March tomorrow!!!!  Where is the year going? 

For saying we haven't been allowed to do much the time is certainly flying by!

FEZZIWIG'S FESTIVE FROLICS CHALLENGE

Hi Everyone

I hope your week is off to a good start.

Here tonight with a make for taking over to Fezziwig's Festive Frolics Challenge where the theme this fortnight is quite strict .. .. .. square or rectangular cards are banned.  Eeeekkk!!!

I decided on this little fella:

This used:

Backing Papers:  Wild Rose Studio "Winter Bauble"
Wooden Sentiment embossed with White Embossing Powder
Sizzix Snowflake Die "659912" (Discontinued)
Glitter Card
Gems
My Trusty Sewing Machine

and that is me for today with another Christmas card into the box.  

PENNY BLACK SATURDAY CHALLENGE

Hi Everyone

I hope you have all been enjoying your weekend.

Don't ask me where I have been this last week because I have no idea!  Life has been super busy and I don't seem to have stopped for a second.

The re-organising is continuing and I am actually able to see improvements in a few areas.  Woo hoo!!

I have a quick and simple share today that I am taking over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

This used:

Image:  Penny Black "1445K" Partying
Sentiment:  Computer Generated using font "Aracne Condensed Regular"
Backing Paper:  A lucky find in a snippet box .. .. I coloured my image last night and was quite pleased when I came to use it this morning that I had a scrap of paper that was a perfect match.
ProMarkers
My Trusty Sewing Machine

The theme for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge is always "anything goes" (provided it uses Penny Black products) and this month the optional theme is "paper-piecing".  I started going through my stamps to decide what I would paper piece (other than the ones I "always" paper piece) .. .. and decided I was wasting far too much time so decided to just go down the "anything goes" route.

Hopefully this coming week is going to see me much more productive on the blogging front and catching up with all my lovely blog pals!

Take care and have a good week.

Had my Covid vaccine last Friday and was really surprised to learn that they were also allowing "walk-ins" to have one.  I guess it is a case of the more the merrier ... .. .. but it did make for rather long and slow queues!

I wonder what announcements Boris is going to make tomorrow?  I certainly don't envy him his job that's for sure .. .. ..  give me my little craft pod any day!  

FEBRUARY'S SKETCH

Hi Everyone

I hope you have enjoyed the start to your week.  

Definitely the super cold snap seems to have given way to a much warmer day here today.

It is about time a new sketch for February made an appearance in my sketch vault (I am trying to add a new one each month) and this is how I have used this month's offering:  

This used:

Image: LOTV "Spring Blooms"

Sentiment:  DigiStamp Boutique Clear Stamp (sadly no longer trading .. boo hoo!)
Design Papers:  First Edition Papers:  Bella Rose
Martha Stewart Daisy Edge Punch
ProMarkers
X-Cut Flower Punch

Double Fishtail Die - unbranded from Amazon
Dew Drop Sticker
Pearls
My Trusty Sewing Machine

and my new sketch

If anyone wants to use any of my sketches then please feel free to do so .. .. .. I use them as a reference point when I want to create a quick card and don't have time to faff about thinking things through.

So that is me for today .. .. .. I will catch you again soon, hopefully.

LOVE

Hi Everyone

Just a quick scheduled post to send everyone a little love on Valentine's Day.

Mr Heart and I will be tucking into our Valentine meal as this goes live but I just wanted to send some love everyone's way .. .. it is important to feel loved and give love wherever you can.

Hope the heart wasn't too difficult to find today!

SLIMLINE CHRISTMAS

Hi Everyone

I hope your week has been going well.

Life is being super busy here at the moment with one thing and another and I seem to be getting nowhere fast .. .. .. in fact the only thing that seems to be going fast are the weeks!

Anyway, just flying in quickly with a card for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge where the theme for the current challenge is "Slimline Cards". 

This card did start off as a full blown DL card but in the end I trimmed it down a little .. .. so now I will need to make and envelope as well LOL!!

This used:

Image and Sentiment:  Indigo Blu " Stag Cliffhanger"
Backing Paper from snippet mountain
Distress Inks:  Stormy Sky, Pumice Stone and Milled Lavender
X-Cut:  Holly Die
White Gell Pen
Pearls
My Trusty Sewing Machine

Christmas card number five into the stock box!

Take care and stay safe.

WINTER WISHES

Hi Everyone

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend and are managing to find something to amuse yourself.

Certainly lots going on here which has resulted in me practically turning the whole house up-side-down! LOL!!!  

I must admit I was expecting to wake up to snow this morning (but thankfully we didn't) which is probably why I made this card last night.:

This used:

Die Set:  The Paper Boutique "Winter Wishes"
Backing Papers from snippet mountain
Gems
Ribbon
My Trusty Sewing Machine

I took photographs last night and again this morning but with using mirror card to mount the sentiment onto I was really struggling to get a decent shot without lots of reflections .. .. .. so today I am making do with just the one "fairly decent" shot.

This is for taking over to Fezziwigs Festive Frolics Challenge where we have a choice of ingredients this fortnight to pick from .. .. and need to use at least three of them. 

This is the list to pick from:

Ribbon (tick)

Shaped Card

Texture

Gems (tick)

Digi Stamp

Glitter

Red (just a teeny tiny tick LOL!)

Gold (tick)

Green

Snowflakes (tick)

Quite a good list to pick from really .. .. .. .. I wonder if anyone is going to manage all ten?

Anyway .. .. that is me for today.  Enjoy your Sunday whatever you are up to and stay safe.

THINKING OF YOU

Hi Everyone

I hope your week has got off to a good start.

Quite a bit of my time has been spent on re-arranging my craft pod .. .. .. I am nowhere near finished yet and already I can't find everything I am looking for LOL!!

Just jumping in and out of blogland  quickly tonight with a make I finished today:

This used:

Sizzix:  3-D Embossing Folder "662716" Botanical
Sizzix Thinlits Die Set "664163" Wildflower Stems #1
Sentiment:  Digistamp Boutique (sadly no longer trading .. .. boo hoo!!!)
Border Die:  The Works
Distress Inks:  Speckled Egg, Peeled Paint and Fossilized Amber
Gold Gilding Wax
Ribbon
My Trusty Sewing Machine

Apologies if you are getting fed up with seeing this die set and embossing folder, but I love them soooo much!!

.. .. .. and that is me for today.

Catch you again soon.

SATURDAY SNIPPETS

Hi Everyone

Happy Saturday .. .. .. I hope you are managing to find something to keep you amused .. .. .. especially if your day has been as dull and miserable as it is here.

Can you believe we are nearly into February?  I get the feeling this is going to be yet another year that is going to fly by in the blink on an eye!

Lots on my "do list" today, but for now I thought I would post a card that I started last night and finished first thing this morning.  It utilises lots of snippets (everything on this card was a snippet other than the actual base card.   This means I can take it over to Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge.

This used:

Image:  AALL & Create "Eclectic Stems" (well one of the flowers from the set)
Sentiment:  Polkadoodles "PD7995" Super Sentiments
X-Cut:  Mini Die "Buttons"
Fineliner Pens
My Trusty Sewing Machine

Off to the playground now to wave my creation in the air .. .. .. sadly it is the first time I have visited this year .. .. .. will have to make amends on that front if I am going to reduce the size of my snippet mountain(s)!!  LOL!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

EVER MADE A STENCIL?

Hi Everyone

I hope you have had a good day.

Have you ever made your own stencil?

I have often made them from paper or thin card and end up throwing them away eventually because they clearly aren't going to last very long.

Well the other day I had a brainwave and I finally got chance to try my idea out.

I laminated a piece of thin paper and then die cut into it lots of different shapes in a variety of sizes:

This is what I then did with it, using a cream base and card blank:

This used:

My home made stencil
Distress Inks:  Hickory Smoke, Peeled Paint and Tattered Rose
Sentiment:  Clearly Besotted "Fancy Sayings"
Peg Stamps:  Rubber Stamp Tapestry "Moonlit Vase" for stamping through the stencil
Nail Heads
Ribbon

Twine
Charm

Nail Heads
My Trusty Sewing Machine

Quite chuffed with my first attempt.  This stencil is definitely going to last .. .. .. and I think I will be making a few more!

I also laminated a thicker piece of card and have been using that as a blending mat!

So that is me for today .. .. the snow (and the neighbouring snowman who had already lost his head as we were going to bed) have now all disappeared so the roads are now going to be much much safer for those who need to use them.

Hopefully catch you again soon.

TEENY, TINY TUESDAY

Hi Everyone

I hope you have had a good day.

All that lovely snow I showed you yesterday is slowly disappearing .. .. .. and a snowmen that has been standing to attention in a front garden over the road from us is starting to get a bit of a lean on him.  I don't think he is going to have a head on his shoulders by morning.  Shame!!   But at least that means the roads are going to be an awful lot safer!

Today is Teeny, Tiny Tuesday when I try to make a small 3.5" square card .. .. and use up some of those ever increasing snippets of card and paper. 

This is my offering for today:

This used:

Butterfly Die Set "Crafter's Companion" Kaleidoscope of Butterflies (another fabby Christmas present xx)
Spellbinders: Circle and Scalloped Circle Dies
Distress Ink:  Tattered Rose
Glitter
Gems
Button
My Trusty Sewing Machine

I hope everyone is as well as they can be.  

Stay safe and take care!  

DID YOU GET ANY SNOW?

Hi Everyone

So Sunday here was pretty much non-stop snow .. ... and it made the day feel quite magical.

This is how much was left when we got up this morning:

I haven't seen this much snow in quite a while .. .. .. did you get any?

So with all the snow around what better than to make a snowflake card?

This used:

Snowflakes:  Bee Crafty "Yuletide Doodle Art Stamps - Snowflakes"
Sentiment:  Penny Black Clear Stamp Set "30-259" Wonderful & Jolly
Distress Ink Pads:  Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky & Faded Jeans
White Embossing Powder
Nail Head and Gems
My Trusty Sewing Machine

I am taking this over to Fezziwig's Festive Frolics Challenge where the theme this fortnight is "anything festive goes".

So that is me for today  -  Christmas card number three into the box!!  Yay!! 

I wonder if we will have any more snow overnight!

LITTLE MIRACLE

Hi Everyone

I hope your weekend has started well.

Our day started with snow .. .. .. great big flakes and lots of them .. .. .. but then the afternoon was lovely sunshine .. .. followed by an evening that has seen the temperatures fall and fall to give us a good thick frost on the cars etc.  I wonder what the night is going to bring?

Definitely feeling super sorry for all the people who have had their homes flooded .. .. what else can be thrown into the mix of misery I wonder?

Hopeful of some good news for someone further down the line here is a baby card from me today:

This used:

Image:  LOTV Baby Hammock
Sentiment:  LOTV Baby Sentiments
Backing Papers:  Nitwits Collection "Cherish"
First Edition Die
ProMarkers
Nail Heads
Crystal Glamour Dust
My Trusty Sewing Machine

and that is me for today.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend .. .. doing hopefully, whatever makes you happy!