Sunday, 28 May 2023
Sunday Snippets and Rudolph Days challenge
Sunday, 21 May 2023
Sunday Snippets - Brushstroke Butterflies
Sarn has posted the results of Challenge #453 over in the Snippets Playground HERE. As always, we had some really great entries - and a fantastic number of you came to play too!
Dudley Pupdate: He's feeling the warmer weather a bit and Len plans to give him a trim over this weekend. Ha, he's blissfully unaware as I type this! Now that the weather is improving it's lovely to spend time outside in the garden with him. It's endlessly fascinating to try and tune into his thought process. 'Oh look, a pretty pebble I pinched from the border - what shall I do with it? I know - I'll put it on the grass and roll and wriggle over it on my back - even though it won't be terribly comfortable'. Ha - THAT particular game doesn't last very long.
It's Mo's Rudolph Days Challenge beginning on Thursday 25th remember! And there's still one week of the current Snippets Challenge to go. See you in the Playground.
Sunday, 14 May 2023
Sunday Snippets and a new technique
- 5.75" x white card blank - tent style
- used a snippet of dark brown card for the background 'frame' layer - trimmed to 5.25" x 4" then glued onto the card front
- used a snippet of the same white card as used for the card blank, was embossed with SU's 'Textured' EF then trimmed to 5" x 3.75" and set aside whilst I fiddled around with the topping stuff
- I cut four circles, all from snippets in shades of brown, beige, cream and grey - a quarter of an inch different smaller in diameter and then used a small trimmer to slice them in half
- then glued them together - all in the same order, from the left hand side edge going down in size and butted up to the bottom edge of the half circles as well as the left edge (you can vary this for very different looks!)
- next I set to on the sentiment strip by using an Altenew 'Essential Sentiments Strip' die and another snippet of dark brown card for the sentiment die cut then added it to a strip of the beige card - same width as the white embossed layer for the card front
- xxxxxx sizeopanel of the same cream hammered card for the top panel and a slightly larger one for the gold 'frame' - Tonic Mirror card 'Inca Gold' - that gold was a sizeable snippet, but still a snippet!
- dug out another fair sized snippet of 'vintage rose' patterned card then added double sided adhesive paper to the back
- die cut the strips of rose patterned card, using two dies from a Lil' Inkers 'Slim Stripes' set of dies - taking care to keep them in the right order ready for 're-assembly'
- then, one by one, I stuck the strips on as neatly as possible onto a further snippet of Tonic Mirror 'Inca Gold' card - leaving narrow gaps of the gold mirri to show
- next die cut the sentiment from two layers of white snippet card and one layer of 'Inca Gold' mirri card and glued them together using a glue pen - this would help me with the final positioning of the main elements
- then die cut three circles, using Tonic dies, from the 'strips panel' - one large and two rather smaller than the main circle
- next, die cut two crescent/semi-circles into the largest circle, using the two smaller dies
- added all three circles to the card itself using thin sticky pads - making sure that the upright alignment of the strips of gold mirri was absolutely vertical (I hope!). NB, the mirri strips don't need to be in lines corresponding to the main circle - even I, with borderline OCD would draw the line at that!
- then added the sentiment die cut to the bottom left of the card
- final touch - two leftover strips of the rose patterned card were added to the inside of the card, to echo the outside
For a video explaining it - as well as showing the steps - visit Ann Melvin on YouTube HERE.
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge:
Darnell's NBUS Challenge #50 HERE.
Dudley Pupdate - oh he's a wily little chap and no mistake. It's often a bit of a battle to get him to 'ahem, perform his toilet routine' properly and at regular times. So, we always take turns to watch him when he's out in the back garden. Today Len discovered that he has a 'secret poop place' ..... behind our fairly recently installed log cabin! Had to laugh, all the ongoing encouragement from us 'hoomans' and there he was, secretly smiling, as he'd already left a 💩 or two - hidden out of sight! Dogs do pull you down to their basic level I must admit!
Yesterday afternoon it was sunny here and I was busy at a bedroom window when I spotted Len and Dudley down in the back garden. Dudley was doing absolutely crazy zoomies of pure doggie delight around the garden - an absolute joy to watch!
Love from both of us, Dudley Dog ('The Secret Pooper') and of course me