Sunday Snippets - Aurora Snowflake

We've had quite a decent week weatherwise here. Not the silly sizzling temperatures we have known but still pretty hot!

I'm ploughing through my NBUS goodies and, as it's also the Rudolph Days Challenge, made a little run of Christmas cards - four of them, all the same:

The blue is much more vibrant in real life BTW!

A closer look at the sparkle!

I used:

- 5.75" x 4" white card blank, side opening

- Tonic Mirror card in 'Firestone Red', trimmed to exactly the same size as the card front

- glued the mirror card onto the card front using my ScorPal corner to butt up the base card and then just slipped the ready glued mirror card layer on top. pushing it into the same corner - easy peasy. I only recently spotted this idea on Chrissie Stokes' You Tunbe channel and it's a real game changer. I know, late to the party, once again!

- next, I die cut the backing layer of blue snowflake patterned paper using Whimsy 'Blurry Flurries' paper (love this particular paper pad so much that I have two of them, plus the leftovers in an original pad!) and a scalloped die from a lesser known UK branded set I bought recently on clearance. Rubbish quality, made in China for maximum profit and less robust than China made dies usually are. It's now in the bin as it distorted like a banana on the first pass - lesson leanrned there! 

- glued the backing layer onto the red mirror card layer

- then die cut the Memory Box 'Aurora Snowflake'  using a snippet of parchment paper for the back layer and a snippet of white card for the top layer. I had already covered the front of the white card snippet with Woodware double sided sheet scraps - something else I hoard!

- at that point I decided that the top snowflake layer was likely to be delicate so I immediately glued it onto the snowflake parchment backing using a glue pen rather than risk removing the protective layer and glittering it straight away

- it was a risk, but worked fine when I came to then glitter the snowflake - using something much akin to Glamour Dust but even better IMHO. I bought a huge unbranded pot many years ago from a local craft shop

- used a soft brush to whisk away any stray pieces of sparkle - still finding them on my clothes and (ahem) person days later!

- glued the finished snowflake onto the card front

- added the sentiment - ready made using snippets - from my little tub of my favourite small sized 'Merry Christmas' die cuts

- and that, was it - finished!

I'd like to enter this card into Darnell's NBUS Challenge #64 HERE

The Rudolph Days Challenge for July 2024 HERE 

And, into the current Allsorts Challenge, under the 'Anything Goes' rule.

Dudley Pupdate: Basically, Dudley had a wonderful Birthday on Monday - he nose dabbed each card and gift he was given (frantic to sample the edible gifts of course!) and was almost cuddled to pieces by yours truly! Huge thanks for all your Birthday wishes etc. He certainly realised that the day was special - err, and tried to carry it on for the remainder of the week! Rather like a child who has become over excited and just can't calm down.

I know that some of you will have already seen this photo of Dudley Dog in full show coat, taken in May 2019 - hard to believe he was only 10 months old. It didn't last long, being the little pickle he is - it became clear that a puppy cut was the way forward. And everyone was happier as a result!

Very importantly, the results of Challenge #484 are now published HERE. 

Do please come and play in Sarn's current challenge over in the Snippets Playground! Just scroll down from my results post - over in the Playground.

Love from myself and Dudley, xxx