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Sunday, 15 February 2026

Sunday Snippets - 2026 Valentine's Day!

My snippets card for today is a Valentine's Day card - from Dudley and myself to Len:

I used:

- 5" x 5" square white card blank - side opening

- trimmed a snippet of Tonic mirror 'Red Organza' card down to 4.5" x 4.5"

- trimmed a snippet of white card down to 4.25" x 4.25" and glued it to the front of the piece of 'Red Organza' card

- next embossed a snippet of Tonic pearlescent 'Luna Silver' card using a NBUS folder  by Arriettycraft called 'Hearts'

- trimmed the hearts embossed card down to 3.5" x 3.5" then cut across it diagonally using a guillotine

- glued the triangles to the top left and bottom right corners of the white layer of card. The card design sort of evolved as I went along, otherwise I'd have glued the triangles to the white layer before backing it with the red (easier to line up) . However, a blind man on a galloping horse wouldn't notice!

- then die cut the sentiment twice using another couple of snippets of the 'Red Organza' card and layered them together

- glued the sentiment onto the front panel and added five little hearts - die cut from teensy snippets using the same sentiment die, which is by Impression Obsession called 'Love'. I really like how the letter 'o' is depicted by a heart - another die that's on my long list of favourites!

- finally, the whole panel was adhered to the front of the card blank, using narrow foam strips - finished!

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

- Allsorts Challenge 843 HERE - under ''Embossing'

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #83 HERE - my NBUS item is the hearts embossing folder

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

Dudley Pupdate: It's been a mostly damp, but uneventful, week here for Dudley. At least he hasn't refused point blank to go into the garden in the rain - clever little guy seems to know when there's a break in the weather! Saturday, yesterday was a gloriously sunny day and Dudley was delighted - zoomies galore!

It was also Valentine's Day of course, and the card from Dudley (below) was such a lovely surprise, so sweet:


Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,



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5 comments:

  1. LesleyG15 February 2026 at 06:50

    LOVE your Valentine card, the red really shines! What an adorable card from Dudley too! I’m off to see if Sarn has the coffee going at the breakfast club in the Playground xxx

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  2. brenda15 February 2026 at 07:34

    A perfect card for our new Allsorts theme, when I saw the thumbnail on my reading list hoped it was coming our way. But of course the gold star goes to Dudley, what a clever lad he is to create such a beauty!

    B x

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  3. Sarn15 February 2026 at 10:18

    What a smashing Valentine's Day card you've made with the lovely heat embossed background. Love it.

    Dudley is so clever finding the pawfect Valentine's Day card for his Mama xxx

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  4. Linby15 February 2026 at 11:22

    What a great card design with the diagonal wording strip. Thanks also for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge. Such a cute card Dudley sent you too.

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  5. Sandra H15 February 2026 at 11:24

    Ooh Dudley really is a bundle of joy and fun too both your cards are gorgeous and the heart's embossed folder is lovely nice colour choice for the background x

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