Sunday Snippets - Sharing a Guest Designer Make

Morning Everyone

I'm delighted to have been asked to guest on the Design Team over at Pixie's Crafty Workshop where our lovely playground head, Di, hosts a fortnightly challenge to us to use our snippets - of which, I have a mountain! If you popped over from there, thank you, and here's the card I made for this week.

This card was made using the Make A Splash die, stencil and stamp set that came free with this month’s Papercraft Essentials magazine, Issue 158. This design is loosely based on card that also appears in the magazine ... I've adapted it to use up some of the many snippets of spotty paper in my stash. I got a bit carried away so there's several more pairs of Wellies waiting to make a few more cards.

I used the following supplies to make it:

- one white card blanks, 5.25" x 4" used tent style

- the Wellingtons boots were stamped with a Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad on three different coloured spotty paper snippets and then they were fussy cut out.

- the three puddles and the raindrops were die-cut from snippets of aqua cardstock ... there’s a tiny die for the raindrops – great for the teensiest weensiest snippets.

- the greeting was stamped, again with the black ink pad, on a scrap of white cardstock, then trimmed down to size.

- the topper base is white cardstock trimmed to measure ¼" smaller all round than the card blank

- to assemble the topper I started by positioning and gluing the middle puddle and the green and pink boots to the topper. Next the left and right puddles were positioned in such a way that they just overlapped with the central puddle. The blue boots and the greeting were then attached with sticky fixers to give a bit of added dimension. Finally, I used some wet glue to position the raindrops fairly randomly.

- finally, the topper was adhered with sticky fixers to the card front.

Here's another card I made to use up a few more pairs of Wellies.

Here's what I used to make it:

- a 5" square card blank made from black cardstock cut to 10" x 5" and folded in half.

- a scrap of white cardstock trimmed to measure 4¾" x 4¼".

- Ranger's distress inks - Weathered Wood and Storm Sky - and Memento Tuxedo Black and London Fog ink pads

- as well as the Make a Splash set I used Designs By Ryn's Water Droplets (CM-T3) stamp.

- the background to the topper was made by brushing the piece of white cardstock with the two distress inks then stamping it with the Water Droplet in London Fog.

- two puddles and raindrops were die cut from a snippet of black card and the two greetings were stamped, using Tuxedo Black, on a scrap of white card.

- to assemble the topper I glued the two puddles at the bottom of the inked/stamped card. Next, the black polka dotted boots and the pink striped ones were glued down on top of the puddles. The red Wellies were then adhered using stick fixers, again to give a bit of dimension. The topper was then attached to the upper front of the card blank, leaving a ¼" margin around three sides and approximately ¾" at the bottom.

- finally the two greetings were trimmed to size, layered on to some leftover red polka dotted paper and then adhered to the card using sticky fixers.

The polka dot papers are leftovers from two fairly old 6" x 6" packs, Crafts Too Dots and Stripes Designer Pack and dated 2012 Raspberry Road Summer Goodness (the red one). The pink stripe is from a sheet of 12" x 12" Echo Park Dots & Stripes Bubblegum Large Dots. 

Here's a shot of the snippets I pulled out to use for these cards.

Needless to say, I've only used a fraction of them even though both cards are almost entirely made of scraps. I don't think there's much chance of me bottoming the scrap mountain any time soon!

Time Will Tell - A Scrap Page Layout

Good Morning Everyone

I hope you are all well and enjoying the start of the weekend. Here in Ayr it's damp from a fall of rain in the night but the sun is struggling to shine through - it may even succeed :) 

When I was considering what photograph(s) to scrap for my DT layout for the Scrap Our Stash August Challenge, Time Will Tell, I kept coming back to this delightful photo taken of my granddaughter, Shari-Ann, sitting on her granddad's knee, listening intently as he was telling her a story - when she was small she absolutely loved story time with granddad and particularly adored hearing his rather tall tales :) 

I chose a Daisy Bucket Designs background paper, Under the Boardwalk, because it is fairly neutral, and the other elements feature colours taken from the bird border - from Cosmo Cricket's Nutmeg Elements. 

Most of the papers used are from the snippet pile and unfortunately I no longer remember all the makers or even the what the sheets were called. However, I do know that the borders, along with the bird border, the Simple Pleasures sentiment and the Remember When journalling spot are from Cosmo Cricket's Nutmeg Elements. I cut the clocks from the fabulous World Map sheet (the clocks are on reverse) from Kaisercraft Timeless Collection. The large clock is only a partial image so I've disguised this by tucking it under the photograph.

I've used Kiwi Lane Designs templates a lot on this layout - the curvy borders are from the Abbie Road set, the bracket shape on the left of the photo is Bracket 1 and the arrow head is from the Tiny Nature set. 

The dotty photo matting was trimmed with a pair of scalloped edge scissors - these are the ones that came free with a craft magazine, the same ones I put them away thinking I'd never use them, and might even pass them on to Shari-Ann for her to play with, but here they are getting another outing! Definitely more useful than I thought :)

The embellishments - the die-cut butterflies, also in the RAK package from my friend, Chris Lee, Tim Holtz Adage Tickets, and adhesive-backed gems were all from my hoard of stash. 

I have still to add the journalling, will do that later when I've thought out what to write.

I'm sure you all have your own plans for how to spend your day, for some it will be shopping, catching up with housework, stoking the washing-machine, doing the ironing ... or any other task from the million and one things you have on your to-do list ... but I'm planning a day of craft related delights. I've been suffering from withdrawal symptoms and nothing else will do! 

To start with I'll be watching Barbara Gray's workshop on C&C TV, then I plan to make a start on Tim Holtz's August tag ... this could take some time as there's a requirement for the handmade roses he made in an earlier post and as this will be my first attempt to make a TH tag, I need to make the roses first! It will be interesting to see how far I get with that today :)

So, whatever you are going to be doing have a happy day and happy crafting,