WOYWW Week 892/112 - Don't Eat The Daisies

Hello & Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you've all had a good week wherever you are. It's been a cool, cloudy and damp Ardrossan here. Perfect weather for watching the tennis at Wimbledon! 

Which is why I'm really late today. I had to, really I had to, stay up very late last night watching, with bated breath, the battle between Djokovic & Auger-Aliassime. I'm sure it did my blood pressure no good whatsoever but what a match! 

Not that it stopped me scrapping altogether. This is my desk this morning. 

Under the folder full of the leftovers from the page made yesterday is a pile of homemade kits waiting for me to decide which one to work from next. They are surrounded with all sorts of bits and bobs that are slowly amassing around me. I can feel a time fast approaching where it will all have to be sorted out and filed away. Only to be brought out again I'm sure. 

Here's yesterday's make. It features two pics of the daisies that grow up through the cracks at the base of the retaining wall in the back garden. They remind me of among many things, times in my childhood spent picking them and making daisy chains to wear in my hair, and of Doris Day singing that song. That lovely piece of die-cut paper, from My Mind's Eye's 'Quite Contrary' collection, is, I'm embarrassed to admit, 16 years old. I've been hording it far too long!

Having completed one course I'm on to another. This time it's the 3x4 Photo Love classes again from Shimelle Laine . These concentrate on using photos half the size of the more usual 6"x4". The benefits are that I can print off two photos per page from my Canon Selphy printer - with the help of the collage setting on the new app - and more photos can be used on a 12"x12" layout. It means all the difference between having to either make double page spreads or having to reject many photos down to lack of space. In fact, space is the real problem. I'm running out of room to store my many albums and I have had to admit I need to put a limit on how many to keep. That's a sorting task waiting on my to-do list for another day. 

Given that I'm so late this morning, I'll just leave you with this photo of Silver and get on with the job of posting this to Sarah's Craft Shed where you can see many more creative workdesks every Wednesday.  If you don't already do so, feel free to join in the fun and show us what's on your workdesk today.  You'll be made most welcome.

Have a great WOYWW day and a fabulous week everyone,

Take care everyone,

Elizabeth

Sunday Snippets - Get Well Card

Afternoon Everyone

It's late afternoon too. I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday. It's been a gorgeously sunny day in Ayr today, the temperature was a positively balmy 56°F (13°C), tempting us outdoors with a visit to the local garden centre. Which explains why I've only just got to posting my Sunday Snippet for our lovely Di at Pixie's Snippets Playground. I'm sharing a card I made and posted mid February - I'm assuming that the recipient has received it by now - although with Royal Mail you can never be too sure of anything!

This is the last of the cards I made when I challenged myself to use leftovers from a scrapbook layout - details posted here.

Supplies used:

• white card base measuring 4"x 5¾"
• pink Project Life card used as base layer
• pink/white patterned paper from My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Collection 
• topper - cherry blossom die-cut from Tilda Garden Paper Pad
• snippet of black cardstock trimmed to mat the cherry blossom die-cut
• ink pad - Ink It Up gold metallic
• stamp - leaf from Floral Blooms set (came free with a magazine) - difficult to see in the photo but gold leaves are stamped all over the topper
• sentiment - die-cut words, Get Well Soon,  and the pink butterfly were a gift from a friend
• glitter glue - Yellow and Black Diamond Stickles

Ah! The sun has gone now and I can feel the chill of the night starting to creep in. Never mind, tomorrow might bring the sun again.

Have a great week everyone.

Sunday Snippets

Evening Folks,

Had a busy day so only just found time to write up this Sunday snippets post and join in with everyone over at Pixie's Snippets Playground with these cards.

On Tuesday last week, as I mentioned in this post on Wednesday, I challenged myself to make as many cards as I could with the leftovers from a scrapbook layout rather than just stash them away to be forgotten, possibly forever. The result was a set of four cards that definitely have a scrapbooking influence and so quite different to my usual. Here are three of the cards - I can't show the fourth yet ... it's in transit to someone who might just read this post.

Materials: white card base measuring 4"x 5¾", used tent style; Papermania green striped die cut - trimmed to size, backing layer; Dr Seuss card - possibly a Dear Lizzy product; hearts punched in two sizes from snippets of My Mind's Eye and Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic patterned paper - that's a gold dot on the light pink paper, not black as appears in the photo; gold sequins from stash.

Materials: white card base measuring 4"x 5¾" - portrait orientation; lavender patterned background is a very old paper - maker unknown; snippets of patterned papers from My Mind's Eye Lime Twist collection, and American Crafts Dear Lizzy's 5th & Frolic Lovely Lane; the topper is a cut-apart from way back - again maker unknown; the butterfly was in a RAK received from a friend; Fun Fair enamel dots.

Materials; a teensy-weensy white card base measuring 4" square; striped green die-cut from Papermania trimmed to size; another cut-apart topper, maker unknown, matted on a snippet of black cardstock; pink chevron  washi tape from Bella Boulevard; snippet of turquoise spot paper from American Crafts; tiny hearts and butterfly punched from a snippet of pink patterned paper; Papermania iridescent adhesive gems.

I should say that all the materials used are old - the one date I could find is 2012 - so I very much doubt any are still available.

I'd say this was a very successful challenge. If there is one thing I like better than recycling it's using up leftover stash, especially if they mean I can join in our lovely Head Snippeteer Di's challenge which is now a fortnightly event ... giving us more time to find a use for our snippets!

Hope you've had a fabulous weekend.