Sunday Snippets - 'Child with goose family'

I've had this Alexandra Renke set of dies for ages, I knew it would mean a ton of die cutting and kept putting off using it: 

I used: 

- DL white card blank, tent style

- first of all I die cut and assembled all the adorable geese and the little girl, using snippets from a 'Paper Mill Direct' swatch and snippets of 'Pale Ivory' linen effect card - although I used the reverse plain side. The geese are all double layered and the little girl has several layers to add dimension- the die set is 'Child with goose family' by Alexandra Renke, fabulous detail to play around with!

- then set the die cuts aside whilst  adding the background layers to the card

- for the background layers I used part of a whole sheet of Sizzix A4 grey card trimmed to size plus a sheet of pink patterned paper from Whimsy's Slimline 'Champagne' paper pack, die cut using a Creative Craft 'DL stitched straight edge' die

- glued the pink patterned paper onto the grey backing layer then added the whole panel to the card front using very narrow foam strips

- die cut the sentiment, double layered it, using more of the grey backing card and a Poppy Stamps 'Merry Christmas - Poe Script' die - then glued it to the top right hand side of the card front

- used a glue pen to add the little girl and the 'goose family' to the card front

- final touch, popped a couple of bows onto two of the geese - finished!

I made two cards the same  and they were such a delight to work with. The set even includes a couple of hats for the geese!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge #824 HERE - everyone over there is having a fun time celebrating their 16th Birthday, and there are some lovely prizes to be won! 

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #74 HERE- the 'goose family' dies were out for a first play

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #98 - HERE - the theme is 'Winter Warmers'

Rudolh Days Challenge - May 2025 - HERE

Dudley Pupdate: Earlier this week, we were visited by my new mobile hairdresser - and Dudley was thrilled to pieces! He's a real pushover for the ladies - men, not so much. When Lisa came to the front door, naturally Dudley had to poke his head out to 'woof 'Hello, my name is Dudley, may I be of assistance?' 

Not a great photo but you get the scenario I hope! We have a CCTV camera in the lounge bay window, trained onto the front doorstep area - I've cropped Lisa out as it wouldn't be right to publish her photo on here. She's a lovely lady, very bubbly - and most importantly is a very good hairdresser!

We have a new Challenge #507 being run by our lovely Sarn, over HERE. Goodness knows what weather this week will bring - it's half-term for the schools so very probably we'll have rain!

Love from myself and Dudley,