Sunday Snippets - Out of the Woods

This month's Challenge over at Christmas Kickstart is 'Out of the Woods' - and here's is my offereng,, as well as my Sunday Snippets card for this week:

I used:

- A6 white card blank - side opening

- trimmed a snippet of Tonic pearlescent 'Majestic Gold card down to just slightly smaller than the card blank

- trimmed an image page from the utterly gorgeous Stamperia 'The Owl's House' 8" x 8" paper pad, down to slightly smaller than the pearlescent gold layer

- glued the image panel onto the pearlescent gold panel

- adhered the image layer to the card blank - using very narrow foam strips

- finishing touch, added a white die cut sentiment from my little dish of die cut sentiments. I'd used white snippets for a double layer and my very favourite Tonic 'Merry Christmas' die - sadly discontinued

- finito!

I stumbled across the 'Owl's House' paper pad on this blog - thanks for the inspiration Ellie!

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

- Christmas Kickstart #108 HERE - 'Out of the Woods'

- Allsorts Challenge #845 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge # 84 HERE - 'Owl's House' paper pad

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

Dudley Pupdate: The Havanese are such a breed of sunshine, velcro, love, panic, lunacy and calm - all mixed together. Certainly never a dull moment. Now and then Dudley has a crazy 10 minutes racing around and around the ground floor of our house, using it as a race track.He loves to skid down the tiled hallway and basically can get over excited in the process. 

We had one such evening early this past week and right at the end he decided to race up the stairs to me in my craft room as a 'finale'. Same as when he was a puppy and escaped from upstairs, he lost his footing and went tumbling back downstairs. On both this and the previous occcasion Len happened to be at the bottom of the stairs and caught him - in a pretty impressive rugby tackle. Dudley certainly has no sense of danger when he's fired up with doggie adrenaline! I'd call it 'totally loopy' to be honest!  

The subject of being unable to comment on our embedded comments has raised it's head again, after a long silence, with a good blogging friend having problems. She comments from her laptop, I've tried and she has too (obviously) to work out what setting(s) might be causing problems. We're both stumped and any input would be gratefully received! She uses Chrome as her browser, as I do. I might even send Dudley round to give you an all-over lick and towel-down - if that's your price for spilling the beans! Any suggestions?

Love as always, Dudley 'the bouncing ball' - and yours truly,

Sunday Snippets - Out of my comfort zone!

I decided to use some Aall & Create goodies for my snippets card today and ended up well away from my love of CAS cards, to say the least:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" cream card blank, side opening 

- a snippet of mustard coloured card. trimmed to 5.25" x 4", glued to the card front

- an A6 Aall & Create ready printed background from set #7

- trimmed the background card to 5" x 3.75" 

- stamped a further image onto the printed A&C, using stamp #981 and a 'Coffee Bean' Dewdrop Brilliance ink pad

- used the same stamp and inkpad to stamp again, this time onto a snippet of the same cream card as the card blank

- the central piece of the design is a really lovely leaf, which I then fussy cut, possibly that took the longest to be honest!

- coloured the butterflies' wings using mustard and also teal Prismacolor pencils - to pick up colours in the background and also the base mustard card 'frame'

- glued/paper pieced the finished leaf on top of the leaf design I'd stamped onto the card front 

- finally, glued the completed patterned layer onto the mustard card layer on the card front - and called it done!

I'd like to enter the following challenges: 

Allsorts Challenge #844 - HERE.  Under 'Anything Goes'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #84 - HERE. It's the Aall & Create 'leaf' stamp

Dudley Pupdate: I tend to write Dudley's Pupdate on the day before the post goes live, and sure enough he obliged me with a couple of insights into his day. First of all, I woke up at 5am on Saturday needing a quick trip to the loo. Trying to quietly slip out of bed I was bounced on by an ecstatic Dudley who'd been lying between Len and I. He jumped around giving me licks and doggie cuddles as I struggled to get out of bed without  making too much noise. Len woke up anyhow - 'cos I got the giggles! All I could see was an imaginary  'speech bubble' above Dudley's head saying this: 'Mum, oh Mum, I'm so happy to see you! Lick, lick. You've been asleep and I missed you soooo very much when you were on a 'dream safari'!! Good grief - I was right next to him!

Then, later on in the day it poured down with rain and what happened makes me wonder if he reads my blog! Remember Len holding an umbrella over him in the rain a few weeks ago? Not so this time - he strolled out a bit like John Wayne. And then, unlike John Wayne I expect, slowly proceeded to carry out his mission(s) - totally ignoring the downpour! Naturally he came in like a drowned rat and needed a brisk towel rubbing down - who knows, perhaps he's well into the joy of a brisk towel down!

This next bit is a bit 'apropos of nothing' really, but it does have a Dudley link. Late into the evening I often just browse around various platforms on the internet, as well as YouTube of course. It beats the real world events right now! And something popped up on Instagram! It's AI but is based on a real little dog in Japan and I immediately thought of Dudley ....... after a few dancing classes. If you do click on the link, you don't need an IG account, it's perfectly safe and might make you smile - I cried with laughter watching it the first time the other evening - it's the cheeky little knee bend towards the end that really cracks me up!  

You should turn the sound up - usually bottom right in the video box, and also ignore the dubbed cackles - not mine:Teddy Dancing.

I hope it makes you smile - we all need that right now! x

The results of Challenge #526 are now published HERE. 

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

Love from myself and Dudley, who is busy practising the 'knee bend' from that video clip! 😏

Sunday Snippets - 'BIG Hugs'

Happy 1st March folks - White Rabbits!

My snippets card for today was super fast to make, I wish I could say I made the pretty background, but then my nose would grow like Pinnochio's:

I used:

- 5.75" x 5.75" white square card blank

- glued a 5.75" x 5.75" layer of Creative Expressions' Foundation Card in 'Deep Blue' (such a gorgeous colour!) to cover the whole front of the card

- then trimmed a sheet of designer paper from a Stamps by Me 'Creative Watercolours' paper pack down to 5.5" x 5.5" and glued that onto the blue card front

- lastly the sentiment - for which I used snippets of plain vellum along with Tonic satin mirror card in 'Soft Amethyst'. The pair of dies is by Memory Box, called 'BIG Hugs' of course!

I so love this NBUS paper pad and have had it for simply ages - found it the other day languishing in a basket of snippets .... no doubt feeling like Billy No-Mates! 

I'd like to enter this card into:

Allsorts Challenge #844 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge # 72 HERE - the paper pack is my NBUS item

Dudley Pupdate: a couple of lovely sunny days here really have made Dudley's week. Courting pigeons are his favourite target in the garden, purely to say 'Hello, I'm Dudley. Can I play your dancing and bowing game too please?'. Of course, they're off like a shot, leaving him wondering what he said wrong!

He scared us on Thursday morning when he misjudged his flying leap onto our bed, via a low footstool placed permanently at the end of the bed as his 'springboard'. He did a perfect backflip back off the bed and landed on a heap on the floor! Thankfully totally unscathed but it was a heart-stopping sight. 

Sarn has opened up Challenge #527 in the Snippets Playground HERE .

Do come and play with us in the Playground - this last challenge was a bit thin on the ground, although it did pick up during the second week.Many thanks to those of you who commented on my post last Sunday - much appreciated!

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,