SNIPPETS FOR TEENY TINY TUESDAY

 Hi Everyone

Tuesday already!!  I can see this is going to be another week that flies by in the blink of an eye!

Here with my teeny tiny card for this week (which measures a whole 9cms square).

I made something using my snippets, which I might regret doing, because I enjoyed making it so much that it might become another obsession.

I purchased (many years ago) some small patterned paper pads from The Works.  Beautiful papers .. .. but that is exactly what the pages are .. .. paper!  But actually using them hasn't been easy because it is so flimsy that lines from double-sided tape or glue would show through, or crinkle the paper.  But I loved the designs and colours so much I simply kept them, whilst wishing the designs were made from paper that was the same thickness as their 12 x 12 design pads. 

Anyway, this is what I made

This used:

Snippets of paper from a small paper pad from The Works (which probably now has antique value because it is very old, but the papers were too lovely for them not to move home with me)

X-Cut Butterfly Punch (another antique)

Wooden Embellishment
MFT Die Set:  Stitched Flowers
Gems and Pearl Embellishments
White Gel Pen
My Trusty Sewing Machine

WeRMemory Keepers Envelope Punch Board

To build up my creation, I cut and ripped the flimsy paper into various shapes and simply stitched them randomly to a base of patterned paper which measured 9cm square.  I added just a very, very tiny bit of glue where I wouldn't be stitching to hold each piece in place.  

Working by attaching and overlapping one snippet at a time, each were stitched in place, which left me with a decent weight of paper for attaching to my card base .. .. and I didn't think it turned out too badly for a first effort. I feel this style of design will work best with the lighter weight design papers and card in my snippet collection.  The majority of my plain coloured card snippets would be too thick, other than for the topmost layers or embellishments as I did on this trial make.

There were quite a few snippets left from where I had tried to use the papers in the past (tucked in the back of the pad to keep them flat) and alongside some plain card .. .. .. these are what I started with .. ..

I am running over to the Snippets Playground to show my little creation off as everything (including the paper I used for the envelope) was a snippet - even the card base which I had created earlier.

Looking forward to trying this technique again sometime in the future.