Happy Snippets Sunday, I dived into a load of snippets for my offering this week:
I used:
- 5.75" x 5.75" white card blank, side opening
- a snippet of Tonic's 'Blue Cashmere' pearlised card, slightly trimmed to 5.5" x 5.5" then glued onto the card front
- a snippet of white card, trimmed down to 5.25" x 5.25", which I embossed with some snowflake dies - called 'Dotted Snowflake Impressions' by Craft Addiction UK.
- glued the white snowflake layer onto the blue layer
- then I used the ready die cut and framed Penny Black Masterpiece image and positioned that onto the card front - using a glue pen. Yay, I found another five ready framed vertical hexagonal PB Christmas Masterpieces at the same time - along with the sentiment dies I used. Obviously lost interest last Christmas!
- final touch was the sentiment, cut from small snippets of 'Blue Cashmere' card, double layered and glued in place on either side of the image. The die set is unused and unbranded, bought from Amazon ages ago!
- finished!
I'd like to enter the following Challenges:
Allsorts #862 HERE - under the current theme which is mood board inspired. I hope that my offering encapsulates some of the mood of the bottom right picture on the mood board especially!
Darnell's NBUS Challenge #92 - HERE - the sentiment and snowflake background dies are NBUS items
Dudley Pupdate: Our plans with Jenny changed this week so Dudley skipped his bath. In many ways it was as well he'd had a calm day as it was 5th November - ie. time for fireworks. Almost simultaneously, two fairly nearby houses set off boxes of fireworks at 6pm. For the first time ever Dudley practically flew into my arms in the craft room for comfort and then subsequently hid under my desk for an hour - shaking, bewildered and terrified. Normally. fireworks don't bother him at all.
Wry smile here, I really needed the loo but sat with legs crossed until he warily emerged after an hour, sought out Honka Duck and tucked himself away in another favourite hiding place.
Thankfully, when it was the massive local display at the Community Centre yesterday evening, Dudley was fine. I suspect it was the proximity that shocked him into doing his sprint - abandoning Honka as he did in his hour of need was serious stuff! Needless to say I'm all the more vehemently against fireworks, outside of public displays, than ever! Even silent ones would be a step in the right direction - but all the petitions under the sun are falling on deaf ears it seems. Hopefully drone displays will become more affordable - but perhaps once a pyromaniac, always a pyromaniac!? Or should that be once an idiot, always an idiot?
Sarn has opened up Challenge #545 in the Snippets Playground HERE . See you on the swings - we're into hot chocolate season now and Sarn is well into the mood for the Christmas countdown!! So help me - she'll have me baking sausage rolls next!
Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,
Great card Di, love the snowflake background and funky sentiment (you don’t see many vertical ones). I’m against the continuous explosions too. It’s not necessary to have the loud ones, it causes so much distress 😢. Definitely need a hot chocolate this morning! xxx
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ReplyDeletePressed post before I started above! Beautiful card capturing the chill of winter Di, as Lesley said, nice seeing a vertical sentiment. Thankfully no close fireworks, one benefit of living in the back of beyond.
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Super image and lucky that you've come across a few more as well. Perfect for the Allsorts challenge, so thanks for joining in with the mood board theme. Poor Dudley - I'm fully in agreement that fireworks ought not to be available to the general public, many of whom are so irresponsible and thoughtless. Public displays OK up to a point but I do wonder what impact the resulting air pollution has on our environment.
ReplyDeleteSuper wintery themed card, Di. I’m with you on fireworks only being allowed for public displays. At least pet owners would know when the fireworks would be going off.
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A beautiful wintry and atmospheric card. Poor Dudley, some of them make me jump so can only imagine the distress to animals. I also wish they would ban them from being used outside public displays.
ReplyDeleteI keep forgetting about my PB masterpiece images, thanks for the reminder. Your card is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge!
ReplyDeleteThat’s a lovely Christmas card Di. Great panel shape and I love the snowflake background.
ReplyDeletePoor little Dudley, although I’m glad to read he was back to his normal self after the first upset.
With my GD hat on, I’d like to say thanks for joining in at Allsorts! xxx
This is a lovely wintery theme Di it makes a beautiful Christmas card x
ReplyDeleteVisiting from NBUS, where I saw your beautiful scenery plus silver and mirror! Great card, very beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous card Di - and great use of your snippets :)
ReplyDeletePoor Dudley - it's not nice at all!
We had quite some going's on in our neighbourhood, and one of the family's Rag Doll cats went outside, and stayed out until midnight, when he came in crying and shaking. It was only their second guy Fawkes, poor boys.
My boy, just an ordinary moggie, was on is 9th time around, came in fairly early and stayed inside, occasionally lifting his head, but not unduly worried.
Blessings
Maxine
This is a beautiful card Di and so elegant, and I adore the embossed stars in the background which I have seen and are definitely on my wish list, but have bought quite a lot of different Christmas related stuff lately so must reluctantly leave this for now. The fireworks were not too bad around here but there was one fairly close by which went on for a bout half an hour or so, and I do feel for people's pets who must wonder what an earth is happening. x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card, nice image and all the other details highlight your picture nicely! Always glad when you share at Allsorts challenge!
ReplyDeleteYum, sausage rolls! Boo, fireworks! Little Nellie hates them, but it's not been so harrowing for her since she lost most of her hearing. Small mercies. I love how you've framed the pretty PB image with the vertical letters and the pierced snowflake background is perfect! Perhaps I could send a drone for one of those rolls ... Thank you for inspiring everyone to use their NBUS! Love, Darnell
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