Sunday Snippets and a happy smile

October is a busy month for Birthdays here so, for today's snippets card, I took yet another short cut and this time used a Penny Black Stickeroo. A good while ago I stuck every single Stickeroo in my possession onto what I judged to be snippets of toning card stock and popped them all into a single cello bag to sift through at leisure. That really makes life much easier when the mad dog of panic is snapping at your heels (not Dudley I hasten to add!). I did note the set that each one came from on the backs of each 'mounted Stickeroo'. And this is my card for today:

 

My snippets are  non-standard sized card blank, snippet of thin foam and snippets of green card, all found on my desk - plus the Penny Black Stickeroo that started it all off!

I used:

- A6 (but quarter of an inch narrower due to operator error) white card blank, tent opening. It was a happy mistake a while ago when I was making some card blanks. The PB Stickeroo image being long and narrow fitted in just nicely, thank you very much! 

- the mounted Penny Black Stickeroo which I trimmed ever so slightly (it was on an ancient snippet of SU Designer Paper to pick out the pink as I recall) - is from the PB 'Touched by Love' set

- then glued the image panel onto a very slightly larger snippet of green card. This green card stock is called 'Forest Glades' by Altenew and I hit lucky buying a pack here in the UK ages ago. No longer stocked over here it seems and it's such a favourite of mine - think of a deeper shade to SU's 'Certainly Celery' and you're getting there

- glued the image panel onto a snippet of thin white foam sheet, trimmer to about quarter of an inch smaller all round than the image panel

- used a precious teeny snippet of the Altemew 'Forest Glades' card to die cut a couple of 'Smile' die cuts using a Penny Black die from their 'Hooray' set of dies then glued it in place

- final touch, something just didn't 'gel' so I used an X-Cut large corner rounder punch to nip off the bottom left hand corners of the card!

Sarn has posted the results of Challenge #463 over in the Snippets Playground HERE. Some lovely choices from Sarn as 'Picks' - and congratulations to the prize draw winner too! No names here, go and see for yourself. 😆

Dudley Pupdate: The entertainment continues here. Dudley's utterly predictable morning ritual is to have his little bowl of doggie breakfast (in between checking there are no available nibbles to be scrounged from our own breakfast of course). 

He then eats his Multi-Vitamin pill with no encouragement (popped in his dry food bowl) - wags his tail a few times and goes off to hunt for his precious pal 'Honka Duck'! He does sometimes forget where he left Honka the night before as I do close my craft room door overnight (lest he should hop up and find the scissor carousel or decide to have a rummage through my waste bin) - but we always take note and steer him in the right direction. The sweetest thing is how a Havanese trots - his little paws go ninety to the dozen, trit-trot, trit-trot! - and from behind, the view is of one very waggy and rather fluffy rear end. You need a trim young man!

But, for now, busy, busy and his only thought each morning is that there's a day to be faced by the 'Honka and Dudley Team' - stand well back!

There's still one week of the current challenge left to run! Make a card and come and play - there's a chance to win a nice prize if you join in the draw! See you on the swings!

Sobering thought, as I was typing this I looked at the date of 5th October and realised that my darling Mum was born 100 years ago today. Bless her, she only lived for 46 of those years - and I do know for sure that she would have adored Dudley Dog! And he, no doubt, would have been her utterly devoted little pal.  

Love, as always, from myself and Dudley,