Sunday Snippets - A Partridge

My snippets card today uses an upcycled image and was made in double quick time when the temperature dipped a bit here. It's also my entry for the current Rudolph Days challenge:

I used:

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

- piece of pearlescent red card (snippet) trimmed to 5.5" x 5.5" 

- piece of Inca Gold mirror card (snippet) trimmed to 5.25" x 5.25" and glued onto the red layer

- whole sheet of unbranded Christmas paper (from Amazon) trimmed to 5" x 5" and glued onto the gold layer 

- glued all three layers onto the card front

- final step, added the image plus sentiment panel to the card front using thin foam tape. The image with handily placed sentiment came from an upcycled card from a few years ago - die cut using a 'stitched circle' die from The Works

- finished!

I'd like to enter the following challenge:

Rudolph Days May Challenge - HERE.

I've skipped the Allsorts Challenge as I know how aware Brenda is of possible copyright issues. Happy 17th Birthday ladies!!

Dudley Pupdate: Dudley has spent a few evenings and even the middle of the night just lying on the back garden lawn trying to keep cool and smell the sweet fresh air. He really has taken his time to get used to the 'white beast that might gobble him up' in a corner of our bedroom! We hit so lucky by buying a portable air con unit just the week before the heatwave arrived. Yesterday evening, Friday, he was finally content that it wouldn't eat him and spent the whole evening stretched across the end of our bed - luxuriating right in its flow of chilled air. The look of contentment on his sweet face was something to make anyone smile!

I've published the results of Challenge #532 HERE. 

Do please come and play in Sarn's current challenge over in the Snippets Playground - just scroll down from the results post. She has a super prize on offer!

Love from myself and Dudley, 

Sunday Snippets - Live life in colour

Happy Snippets Sunday, from a blisteringly hot Hampshire. Here's my snippets card:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4" yellow card blank, using  a sheet from the HunkyDory 'Garden Treasures' card pack, tent style

- an Aall & Create A6 background paper from their A6 'Papyrus Vert' #7 Design Paper pack. Trimmed down to 5.25" x 3.75" and glued onto the card front

- a snippet of white card, with a 'sunflower sticker' popped on then die cut using a die from SU's' Stitched Shapes Framelits' dies .............. a lucky pre-loved find not so long ago. The sunflower stickers were a Dutch brand sent to me by a very sweet blogger some time ago - but I can't find a maker's name on the packet

- then adhered the sunflowers image circle onto the card front using thin foam sticky pads

- added a Clarity pre-printed and cut sentiment to the lower left corner of the card - super handy buy ages ago!

- finished! 

I made two cards practically the same at the same time - the other one just has a slightly different sunflowers image. As always, the camera bleached the background somewhat - the paper and image blend together more in real life, sigh.

I'd like to enter these cards into the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge #850 HERE - Brenda and her wonderful Team are celebrating 17 years 🎊🎉🎋 since the challenge started - well done Ladies! All entries are 'Anything Goes' this time!

Darnell's NBUS Challenge # 86 HERE - the pre-loved SU stitched die set and the sunflower stickers had their first outing

Dudley Pupdate: As many of you will either know, or are experiencing, we currently have a Bank Holiday heatwave over much of the UK! And a little guy is feeling the heat for sure. This evening (Saturday) as the sun had just gone down, he disappeared through the 'currently left open for him' kitchen door to the enclosed garden. Len found him some time later - spreadeagled on his tummy - back paws straight out behind him and front paws out the front. Just flopped like a little sheepskin rug, fast asleep on the lawn. 

We left him to enjoy the cooler evening. A clip might be on the cards if this heat carries on - but he looks absolutely gorgeous right now and his coat is so fine and silky that I'm not sure it really would make a lot of difference. Decisions!

Sarn has opened up Challenge #533 in the Snippets Playground HERE. Great prize too!

See you on the swings! I reckon the paddling pool will be well occupied - and Dudley has my full permission to hose anyone down if they're still too hot! He's been itching to use the water hose for ages! Just don't let the little scamp charge you for the privilege! 

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,

Sunday Snippets - Season's Tweetings

My snippets card for this week is a quick make, another one for the 2026 Christmas card box:

I used: 

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, tent style

- a Penny Black Masterpiece 'Birds in Snow' image from one of their Christmas themed sets ('Home for Christmas' to be exact)

- die cut the image using a die from Hunkydory's 'Extended Hexagons' then backed it with a die cut layer using the next size up hexagon die, in pearlescent pale blue - cut from a snippet. For a change I used the die in landscape style

- trimmed a snippet of pearlescent gold card for the back layer on the card

- trimmed a snippet of 'script' paper from LOTV's 'Frosty Christmas' paper pad then adhered a snippet/band of blue 'snowflake' paper from the same pad across the centre and trimmed the edges to size

- glued the gold card and patterned layer onto the card front

- added the image panel to the card front, using thin foam sticky pads 

- glued a snippet strip of the snowflake paper to the back flap of the envelope- finished!

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

- Allsorts Challenge #849 HERE  - under 'Anything Goes'

- Christmas Kickstart Challenge #110 HERE - 'Season's Tweetings'

Dudley Pupdate: Another mixed week weatherwise, but more and more Dudley loves to do a little spot of sunshine worshipping, when it shows up! The other day, when it was time for his brush and comb session, Len took him into the sunny garden first for a wee. The little monkey had spotted the grooming table standing in the hallway - so he promptly lay on his back on the lawn for a snooze! I suspect one eye was slighty open though! Luckily he gave up after a few minutes with a shake and a sigh and headed back indoors to meet his doom. He certainly knows most of the tricks of the trade.    

The results from Sarn's Challenge #531 are now published in the Snippets Playground HERE. 

Love from Dudley and yours truly

Sunday Snippets - Spread the Love tag

I finally made a tag to join in with this month's Tag Along (and ATC's) Challenge - go me! It also doubles up as my Sunday Snippets card for this week:

I used:

- a snippet of plain white card. from which I die cut a complete tag, using a MFT 'Treat Tag' die

 - trimmed a preprinted, unbranded 'Fairy Wishes' paper and foiled card pad image down slightly, using the same tag die - just managed to cut off the foiled sides and bottom portion

- die cut the top portion of the tag using a smaller die from the same set plus a snippet of white card

- did the same with a small piece of pale blue patterned paper from the 'Fairy Wishes' pad and glued it onto top portion of the whole white card labeI which I'd die cut at the first step

- at that point I could measure and trim off the partial top portion of the die cut image so that it filled the lower part of the tag perfectly - then glued it in place 

- used a couple of lilac ribbon snippets, secured with a very narrow black ribbon snippet through the top of the tag

- added a Clarity pre-printed and cut sentiment to the tag

- then just popped a few SU gems in the bottom right hand corner to finish off

It's literally years since I dug around in my compartmented box of rolled ribbons - and even back then I kept ever single scrap/snippet of leftover ribbon! Now I know why!

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

- Tag Along (and ATC's) Challenge - under 'Anything Goes'. I'll try to get back with a pink entry, Pinky Promise! ☺

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #86 HERE - the tag die set was  having a first outing. It also has a scalloped edge top part but I decided to walk, before trying to run! Run? These days it's a battle to even walk far without some form of aid!

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

Dudley Pupdate: Oh boy, is Dudley a little homebird! Yesterday, whilst out for a walk with Len, he tried every single shortcut known to man, and canny pooches, to cut back home! He's a reluctant walkies pooch for sure.

Even taking him on a route with less shortcuts doesn't fool him - he stops and digs his heels in as if to say 'I know best - this route is quicker!'. Some of them are convoluted BUT, they do lead home quicker - gotta give him that!

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,

Sunday Snippets - Owl let it snow card

Following on from my previous post, here's another one using some of the single sheet of paper from Stamperia's 'Owl House' paper pad: 

I used:

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

- piece of paper (snippet) showing the reverse side of a piece of Stamperia's 'The Owl's House' paper pack trimmed to 5.25" x 4", then glued to the card front

- a small image from the same paper pack - it's a snippet left over from making a previous card, from the reverse of another sheet of the scrumptious paper

- I then die cut a 'frame' using a snippet of white card measuring exactly 4" x 3" then cutting into it using the middle sized die from Craft Addiction's 'Fusion Frames - Rectangle'

- die cut a tiny bit from the little image, using the same die as for the frame so it would just pop into the aperture

- backed the 'frame' with a slightly smaller snippet of white card so that I could then glue the image itself safely in place as I wanted to raise the whole panel

- popped a Clarity Christmas sentiment onto the top right hand corner of the image

- final step, added the image panel to the card front using thin foam tape 

I'd like to enter the following challenges: 

Allsorts Challenge #848 - HERE.  Under 'Anything Goes'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #86 - HERE - the set of Craft Addiction 'Fusion Frames' were having a first outing. 

Dudley Pupdate: Dudley loves to spend 'together time'  each morning, as we watch the news and have the first cuppa of the day. I think the nights could be long for him as we sleep. During 'together time' Dudley lies on our bed, being played with and generally fussed over. After a while he then stands up and trots off to find Honka Duck - it's all pretty predictable. Much like the news can be on a 'slow day for news' really!

However, this morning (Saturday), just as he was getting ready to hop down from the end of the bed he literally stopped dead in his tracks. Then turned round and, quick as a flash, rushed back up the bed to plant a nose bop kiss on my cheek, before turning and racing off! It was so deliberate and very moving, bless him. And yes, of course my eyes welled up!

I've published the results of Challenge #530 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, 

Rudolph Days - April 2026

Alomose missed the date but I am, with a quickly made card for the April Rudolph Days Challenge HERE:

I used:

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

- the image is carefully selected ** from an 8" x 8" Stamperia paper pad called 'The Owl's House', trimmed to 5.25" x 4" and glued onto the card front

- the 'labels' sentiment is from a Clarity set of self-adhesive Christmas sentiments - just popped onto the bottom right hand corner

** The sheet of paper that I used is double sided and with some careful measurement I managed to get two images and one piece of backing paper out of the same sheet - two from the front and one from the reverse, I do like a challenge! Watch this space for the other two yet to come.

Quick and easy - phew!

Sunday Snippets - Have a Beautiful Birthday

To be fair, the Beautiful Birthday has already been and gone, but I wanted to share the card I recently made for a very special friend - and I used snippets of course:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" purple card blank, using  a sheet from the HunkyDory 'Garden Treasures' card pack, side opening

- a piece of 'white brick wall' patterned paper from the 'Brick Wall Texture' pack - brand unknown, from Amazon - trimmed to 5.25" x 4" and set aside

- a snippet of purple card, leftover from making the card blank, which I die cut using a Craft Addiction's set of dies called 'Slatted Arch'

- piece of white card, also a snippet, onto which I stamped the adorable Newton's Nook 'Dainty Daisies' using Clair 'Nocturne' ink

- then coloured the 'daisies' image using Polychromos pencils before die cutting the bunch using a co-ordinating die 

- that meant I could sit and sort of juggle the flowers and arch around a bit until I was happy where the sentiment would go with it

- stamped the sentiment onto the bottom left of the card using Clair 'Nocturne' ink again and a NBUS stamp from Penny Black's 'super day' stamp set

- then glued the brick wall panel onto the card front, along with the die cut arch

- then adhered the bunch of daisies in place using thin snippets of foam sticky pad 

- finished! 

I'd like to enter this card into:

Allsorts Challenge #848 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge # 85 HERE - the set of slatted arch dies are my NBUS items

Dudley Pupdate: With warmer weather the past few days, Dudley is beginning head to cool, tiled, floors to lie on. By this time, late on a Saturday evening, he's usually cuddled up on our bed. Looks like a warm night ahead as he seems to be sprawled in the tiled hallway. Clever little guy! Doubtless with Honka Duck keeping him company.

Sarn has opened up Challenge #531 in the Snippets Playground HERE . See you on the swings! I think I heard mutterings about needing a new paddling pool earlier today!

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,

Sunday Snippets - Have a great day

My snippets card for this week is very simple:

I used: 

- 4" x 4" Silkweave 'pale ivory linen' card snippet 

- the image is a Penny Black Stickeroo, from their 'Gentle Blooms' sheet

- backed the image with a black square - trimmed down from a snippet

- glued the image panel onto the card front 

- added a simple sentiment from a Clarity Assorted Sentiments set of stickers

- quick and easy! 

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

- Allsorts Challenge #847 HERE  - under 'In the Garden'

Dudley Pupdate: The other day I had a routine dental appointment so Len took me there, and later collected me - with Dudley riding shotgun 'harnessed and secured' in the back of the car. He 'sang' all the way there and for Len 'exclusively' when returning home, and even did an encore when coming back later to collect me. Opening the back windows a few inches does help him as he's such a curious little guy and also loves to be able to smell and feel the fresh air rushing past.

However, on the way back home, after hugs and licky greetings, he just flopped down and dozed off. Happy in the knowledge that his 'tribe' were together again and we were heading back to his favourite place!  

The results from Sarn's Challenge #529 are now published in the Snippets Playground HERE. Three perfect picks and one lucky prize winner - what's not to like?

Love from Dudley and yours truly

Sunday Snippets - Penguin line-up

This month's Challenge over at Christmas Kickstart is 'Brimming with Style', ie. add a hat - and here's my offering, as well as my Sunday Snippets card for this week:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank - side opening

- trimmed a snippet of Creative Expressions 'Deep Blue' card very slightly down to 5.25" x 4" and glued it onto the card blank front

- trimmed a snippet of white card down to 5" x 3.75" and embossed it using a NBUS Altenew 3D 'Ribbon Waves' folder

- glued the embossed panel on top of the blue one - I deliberately used the 'wrong' side of the panel as it seemed to resemble drifting snow more than the 'right side' does. Either way up, it's a gorgeous folder!

- the baby penguins, hats and sentiment were stamped onto snippets of white card, using a stamp set by Clearly Besotted' called 'Penguin Parade'

- coloured the penguins and hats using Polychromos pencils before fussy cutting them

- also trimmed the sentiment to size

- added the hats to the penguins

- finally, glued the penguins onto the card front and the sentiment was glued to the top lefthand corner

Whilst everything was out on my desk I made a second card exactly the same.

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

- Christmas Kickstart #109 HERE - 'Brimming with Style'

- Allsorts Challenge #847 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #85 HERE - the Altenew 'Ribbon Waves' embossing folder is NBUS

Remember, I've just kicked off a new challenge over in the Snippets Playground HERE. It was lovely to see entry numbers climbing back up again in Sarn's recent challenge! Yay!

Dudley Pupdate: Wednesday was Dudley's annual booster vaccination(s) and also a full check-up. Apart from the usual operatic arias whilst in the car going there, he behaved perfectly. Not a single woof, despite several other dogs being in the waiting area at the same time. And, he behaved beautifully for Emily the vet. He also got a clean bill of health with everything getting full marks. Happy dance indeed.

However, he was unusually quiet in the car on the journey back home and wasn't even very interested in his tea later on - both of which are not normal! After that he just flopped on our bed, with his sad eyes peeping over his front paws, looking so sorry for himself, as well as somewhat bewildered.  It's that 'every three years vaccine, distemper, parvo and a couple of others' that hits him every time he has it. Heartbreaking that we can't explain it to him. However, the following morning he was back to being much the same as usual with no sign of any after effects. 

And, this morning he was ready to create a total riot whilst we were having a cuppa in bed - leaping up and down like a Spring lamb all over the bed with his 'come and play' posture that dogs display.  Eyes sparkling with mischief and ready to take on the world! What a difference a couple of days makes.

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,

Sunday Snippets - Feathers

Happy Easter everyone - I hope the sun shines for you and that perhaps you even got a new Easter bonnet! Here's my snippets card for today:

I used:

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

- a snippet of pearlescent Tonic 'Majestic Gold' card, trimmed to 5.25" x 4", then glued to the card front

- a snippet of chocolate brown card, trimmed to 5" x 3.75" and glued onto the gold layer on the card front 

- a snippet of white card onto which I stamped a feather stamp from SU's 'Four Feathers' stamp set. Did it three times using three different Memento Dew Drop dye ink pads - 'Desert Sand', 'Toffee Crunch' and 'Peanut Brittle'

- then die cut the three feathers using a die from the matching set 

- sentiment next and I used a Heffy Doodle 'hello' die to cut the word twice from a snippet of the same brown card as the background

- then gued both words together before mounting the 'hello'  mounted it onto the 'shadow' layer - die cut from a snippet of plain vellum 

- glued the sentiment in place in the bottom right-hand corner

- then glued the feathers in place - little tip - glue the top and bottom ones first so that the centre one can be evenly placed in between them. I also alternated the direction of the feather tips and quills for added interest

- finished!

I'd like to enter the following challenge: 

Allsorts Challenge #846 - HERE.  Under 'Anything Goes'

Dudley Pupdate: It's been another quiet week for Dudley in terms of adventures. The cabin doors have been open on a few of the sunny days we've had recently - and he always hops in to say hello to one of his little monkey toys which sits on a chair doing guard duty!

Never mind, he has a real treat coming on Wednesday afternoon - not that he'll be at all impressed. It's time for Dudley's annual check-up as well as a couple of booster jabs. One is only every three years and that one seems to take him one degree under. But, he's a healthy little bundle of fluff and will usually be right as rain the following morning.

The results of Challenge #528 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.

Remembering our lovely crafting friend Bernie and her cute Easter Bunny sign-off:

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Love from myself and Dudley, 

Sunday Snippets -Through the window

First of all, did you remember to change your clocks to leap forward by an hour, if that applies to where you live? If not, then I hope you enjoyed a bit of extra sleep rather then losing an hour in one fell swoop as most of us felt impelled to do! 

My snippets card for today used a very clever set of dies that Linby (Lynn) has used a few times - but which was sold out whenever I tried to get my sticky little paws on them! I succeeded eventually but it took about three or more months. However, here's the result of a first outing:

I used:

- 5.75" x 5.75" white square card blank

- the Maximum Crafts 'Picture Window Easy Frame' comes as a pair of dies. One outer, and one inner. The outer one has the thicker outlines to the frame and the inner one is smaller and fits beautifully on to of the outer frame

- I die cut a snippet of Tonic Pearlescent 'Majestic Gold', using the 'chunkier' outer frame die and set it to one side

- then die cut the 'finer' inner frame from a snippet of the white same card as the card blank. Admission here, ever trimmed down a card blank and at the final cut, sliced through the 'spine' by accident? Hence, I do have quite a few saved mis-cut panels, aka snippets in my 'box of daft mistakes'

- then glued the 'white layer frame' onto the gold one and then the whole frame onto the card blank

- the final die cut was to use the chunkier die and, as I was actually making two cards the same, I cut through two identical patterned paper scenes in one go from an Amazon paper pack called 'Glacie' which features general Winter scenes but only the one design actually has a log cabin in the centre. I do have ideas for the other papers, never fear. It was a lucky break when I found the log cabin one whilst browsing a couple of days ago!

- with hindsight, I could just have laid/glued the patterned paper behind the frame, but die cutting is more accurate and also fun to see the card come alive!

Like Linby, I can see so many uses for this Picture Window die set. I feel a play with some much loved snippets coming on! I didn't add a sentiment, die cut a couple and decided against it and left it as is rather than spoil the pretty scene. I'll be sure to add a special Christmas sentiment inside - this year I'm doing them as I go. Hollow laugh!

I'd like to enter this card into:

Allsorts Challenge #846 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge # 84 HERE - the paper pack and the set of window dies are my NBUS items

Rudolph Days Challenge - March 2026 - HERE 

Dudley Pupdate: Dudley is such a little chancer! I carefully slipped out of bed very early the other morning for a quick trip to the loo and made a point of really pulling up the duvet right up to pillow level to keep him away. Did it work? Not a chance, I came out of the en-suite in super fast time, to the sight of Honka Duck languishing on my pillow - and a wagging tail and wiggly bum sticking out of the top of the duvet as Dudley happily explored the warrmth and no doubt human scent of where I'd just vacated. The look on his face when I lifted the duvet and whispered 'Hello Dudley'. He seemed to drop his jaw at being rumbled, grabbed Honks and flew off the end of the bed like a little pocket rocket! 

It never lasts though as needless to say, when I woke up later on at 'ups time' he was lying like a little angel with his back pressed against mine. He never bears a grudge that's for sure!

Sarn has opened up Challenge #529 in the Snippets Playground HERE . See you in the Playground!

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,

 

Sunday Snippets - 'Hello Spring!

We've finally had a few days of lovely sunshine here - and Spring is in the air! Fingers crossed it lasts. Meanwhile it set me off making a bright and cheerful card as my snippets make:

I used: 

- 4" x 4" sunshine yellow card blank, made using a snippet of HunkyDory card - side opening. The camera lied and changed the bright yellow card base to lemon, whilst leaving the other colours as they are in real life!

- the image is a Penny Black Stickeroo, from their 'Gentle Blooms' sheet

- backed the image with a black square - trimmed down from a snippet

- glued the image panel onto the card front 

- added a simple sentiment from a Clarity Assorted Sentiments set of stickers

- quick and easy! 

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

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

Dudley Pupdate: It's been a week of bouncing about doing zoomies for Dudley - amazing what a tonic some sunshine is! Mind you, he's awake with the larks with the earlier sunrises but tends to quietly occupy himself by grooming Honka Duck like a fastidious Mother!

The results from Sarn's Challenge #527 are now published in the Snippets Playground HERE.  

It's way too soon for the paddling pool but Dudley has been earning some pocket money washing down the swings and see-saw!

Love from Dudley and yours truly

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,