Life Is A Daring Adventure - Another Snippet Card

Afternoon Folks

It's a cool day, damp underfoot but not raining, so not bad for a November Sunday.  There are even a couple of rosebuds and snapdragons lingering in the garden ... on hard frost and they'll be gone.

The EM has stepped up his bird feeding adding an extra feeder for the winter. As I write this the summer birds have gone but the winter visitors are arriving and a couple of coal tits and a blue tit are helping themselves to lunch.

Autumn watch at Casa Worthington :))

On to what I have to show you today.

It's the card I was in the process of making on Wednesday - scroll down and you can see the butterfly stamp in the photo of my desk in the WOYWW post.

Method: I stamped butterflies over the Vintedge Flourish paper, using the second generation of ink technique. The topper is a small square of the paper, measuring 2¼ "x 2", stamped with the wonderful Helen Keller quote from Our Daily Bread, Quote 1, stamp using VersaMark and heat embossed with brown powder. The butterfly was stamped with a brown ink and then dusted with gold mica (set with hairspray) before cutting out and adhering to the corner of the matted topper.

It's Sunday, so I'm going to steal a leaf out of Jules', Always With A Heart, book and not give a list of the materials used. So, it goes without saying, if there is anything you would like further details on, please do not hesitate to contact me, either by comment or email ... always happy to oblige :)

And, also because it's Sunday, it's time to take a trip over to Di's blog, Pixie's Crafty Workshop to check this snippet make into the Crafty Snippets #45 list. Seems that Di's a mighty busy lady at the moment - off on a 'teacher training' course ... oh goody, we can can play hookie and have more play time :))

I see it's lunch time again so I'm off for a cuppa and a bite to eat and then it will be back into the craft space for a session of scrapping. I'm having a great time following Shimelle's course even though it is making me look at how I organise my stash yet again. Currently, I have my 12"x12" sheets organised by maker but I think, after all the rummaging I've been doing, this needs a re-think and perhaps by colour would make more sense. How do you organise yours? What works for you? I'd be really interested to know how your organise your scrapping paper.

In the meantime, I do hope you are having a lovely day, whatever you are doing.

Happy crafting,

Scrapbook Remix Course - Prompts #1 and #2

Hi Everyone,

The EM, generous man that he is, treated me to the Scrapbook Remix course currently being run by Shimelle.

I'm thoroughly enjoying it and it's doing wonders for my scrapping mojo :) I'm now looking at my stash of paper in a quite different way and the big bonus is that the photos are coming out of storage boxes and being scrapped faster too.

The course is based on a series of prompts and videos which are easy to follow and bursting with hints and tips on how to use up all those lovely papers I have stashed away.

Here's the layout I created as a result of the first prompt.

Shame about the glare - no matter how I positioned this page I couldn't eliminate glare and this is the best shot I managed. You may remember seeing these photos of my gorgeous great-niece, Arihanna, before. I'm really pleased that they are now scrapped and in an album, rather than still on the computer destined to be forgotten. The base is white cardstock that I spattered with two shades of pink Cosmic Shimmer. The papers used are a mix of various A4 size paper collections that came free with a couple of magazines - some of the embellishments came from other collections acquired free too. The flower embellishments are a combination of my knock down priced silk flowers bought at a garden centre and rosebuds that the lovely Rita gifted me. The little silver flowers were also a gift, this time from my friend and neighbour, Ruth. The title word is from Kanban. This photo was taken before I remembered to add a little bit of journaling in the bottom right corner.

And here's the page from the second prompt.

No glare this time. The photo is of one of the Martello towers to be found on the Island of Jersey. The papers were all found in the RAK kindly sent to me by my Canadian friend, Maureen ... so what do you think Mo, have I made good use of the papers? :)) For this layout I've mixed up blue and brown tones and I've added a couple of clusters of embellishments that, I hope, don't distract from the photo. Some of the embellishments are simply squares of the same papers, just the reverse side, there's a couple of die-cuts, a few stickers and some washi-tape ... this is the first time I've used this and I'm pleased with the effect.

The photographs have been chosen and the papers for Prompt #3 are now lying on the workdesk, so I better go and start trimming them ready for the next stage.

I'll keep posting the layouts I create so you can see how/if I'm progressing with my scrapping :)

I hope you are all having a great weekend so far, whatever you are up to. I suspect for some, unlike this very  happy pensioner, it means catching up on things like shopping and housework, but hopefully you will find time for some fun too. This weekend that could mean bonfires and fireworks. Me, I'll be staying indoors, keeping The Boss company ... she's no fan of fireworks ... and watching Strictly on the box. We have a Cannon and Ball DVD for afters ... never let it be said, I don't know how to live. :))

So, whatever you are doing, keeeeep crafting :)

Serenity - card using up just one snippet of 12 x 12 paper

Hi Everyone

Well, a better day here this afternoon, though it poured down earlier and yesterday was so bad it was a write-off. Hope you are enjoying better weather wherever you are.

I have a quick and easy card to share with you today - the eagle-eyed among you might have spotted it on my desk on Wednesday. It was made from bits and bobs leftover from a scrapping session.

I've used a basic white square-shaped card but rounded the bottom corners just for a change. The leftover piece of  patterned paper had  some distressed edging in an aqua shade so I emphasised the colour by  inking each edge with Peacock Feathers distress ink - love this gorgeous shade :)

The collection includes a page of stickers which has this strip of circle trim on it. A length of it has been used already on a scrap layout and the rest was perfect as a trim on this card.

The topper is also from the collection - cut from a page - and I have absolutely no idea what the characters mean ... I just hope it's something beautiful, and that I have it the right way up :))

Materials used:
Square white card; corner rounder; black cardstock for matting; leftovers from BoBunny Serenity Collection; Tim Holtz DI, Peacock Feathers; Turquoise seam binding from Ribbon Carousel; Craftwork Cards Vintage Berries red candi

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody #6 - Anything Goes
365 Cards - Day 246 - Say It With Flair
and I can't use snippets and not pop over to Di's Snippet Challenge :)

Time for a cuppa, I think, and then I'll hunker down in the craft space for a bit of scrapping - which means there will be even more leftovers and snippets to put to good use :)

I wish you all a wonderful weekend, take care and happy crafting,