Sunday Snippets - 'Happy, Joyous & Free'

It's been like living in an oven here and my snippets card took a few goes - I wanted to stamp the background but literally, no sooner did I stamp the background, the VersaFine ink dried before I could even utter the words 'embossing powder'! And so, in the interests of my sanity, you have a background paper to the rescue:

Hooray - I remembered my snippets this time!

I used:

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

- a piece  of the same card stock, trimmed to 5.5" x 5.5" for the top layer

- then used a 'The Works' (discontinued) 'oval stitched die' to cut an oval aperture into the top layer

- added a piece of patterned paper, slightly trimmed from full size. so not a snippet, behind the oval aperture using a glue pen - it's from a lovely pack called 'Sea Wave' from Amazon

- die cut the unbranded 'sailing boat' using snippets of brown, red and white card and then glued the sailing boat and sails in place

- added three white seagulls using a Gummiapan 'Seagulls' die then a glue pen - I love this set of dies!

- next came the Clarity sentiment sticker, which I particularly love. I stuck a sliver of card underneath the part of the sticker that overlapped onto the oval aperture to keep it level

- added the whole completed scenic panel to the card base using narrow strips of foam pad - finis!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges: 

- Allsorts Challenge #827 HERE - under 'Anything Goes' 

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #76 HERE - the backing paper and sailboat were having a first outing

Dudley Pupdate: It's super hot here and we're all suffering. Len took on board an idea from one of you lovely playmates and sprayed Dudley with a fine mist from what was my ironing water spray bottle. We half thought he would freak out and the first time sent him back into the house like a whirling dervish! However, over time he's actually begun to enjoy his 'spritz sessions ' and still racing around for a short time before flopping with a huge smile in front of the closest fan! My new nickname for him - 'Little Pocket Rocket!! 

Remember, the results from Sarn's Challenge #509 are now published in the Snippets Playground HERE.

Do come and play with us in the Playground - plenty of cold drinks and ice lollies are available - it's meltingly HOT here right now! Don't be surprised if Dudley takes a flying leap into the paddling pool with you girls! He'll be naked as a Jay Bird! Oopsie, I didn't get time to knit his cossie!!

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,

Sunday Snippets - Tiny Tag Trio

Here's my snippets card for today! It could well be a row of three bookmarks - although the dies are called 'Tiny Tags'. Duplicates of the tag dies and the sentiment die that I used are part of the prize bundle in our new Snippets Playground challenge:

I used: 

- A6 white card blank, side opening

- snippets of pale green, pink and blue card, which were die cut using dies from the Heffy Doodle' 'Tiny Tag Trio' die set (sadly Heffy Doodle are no longer trading). I cut the tags to three different lengths by usung the same die as I'd used per tag and just moving it a few stitches before carefully cutting off one tag end to suit

- added the ribbon slots using each of the three 'slots' dies which are included in the set

- then thought -'hmm, they're gonna look too plain' and so I dug out a NBUS Stampendous Andy Skinner set of background stamps called 'Industrial' plus VersaFine's Clair 'Nocturne' ink pad. I found the easiest/quickest way to use the stamps, which are thick cling rubber ones, was to lay them flat on my glass mat, face upwards, ink them and then pop the tags on top and then run over them over with a mini brayer - result! 

- then I dug out a selection of snippets of ribbon to thread through the slots and tie with very narrow black ribbon

- next, I die cut the sentiment from a single snippet of black matt card using a Creative Expressions die called 'Be Unique' and glued it in the bottom right hand corner of the card

- finally glued the tags in place - finished!

I carefully saved my snippets then promptly threw them out whilst tidying my desk! Edit! I found them late on Sunday, carefully tucked underneath my new glass cutting mat to ensure they didn't get thrown out - what a Dopey Di I am!

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

- Allsorts Challenge #827 HERE - 'Anything Goes' 

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #76 HERE - all of the dies and the set of stamps were having a first outing

Remember, I've just kicked off a new challenge over in the Snippets Playground HERE. 

Dudley Pupdate: the intensely high temperatures for much of the week here made seeing Dudley amble from one tiled area to another so hard to watch. At one point he totally did a tummy flop whilst following me along the tiled hall and that scared me - but he was up and checking on the progress of me making his evening meal as soon as he heard food prep. sounds! 

Hope to see you on the swings and, for now at least, the scorching hot weather has cooled to a bearable temperature. Apparently the respite won't last but it's certainly very welcome right now!

Love as always, Dudley Dog and me

xxxxx