Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 240

It's been a tad cooler here this week, but pleasant weather generally though.
I'm still trying to limit time spent sitting at the desk here, which can mean some slippage in timely commenting, but I do always get to you in the end!

A little bit of excitement here, we have a Mama hedgie bringing at least two of her babies with her when she comes for a nightly feed! As yet, they haven't got the hang of the feeding dish and seem to just scoot around the garden having fun. My guess is that they're about the size of a small mango - so still pretty young. Thankfully it's a while until Autumn so they have plenty of time to reach a comfortable weight for hibernation. I can't promise any photos as yet so you'll just have to trust me for now.

Here's my snippets card for this week, it's a little busier than I tend to like to make these days:

I used:

- 4" x 8" white card blank, tent style

- snippet of plain pink Core-dinations card from the snippets folder, trimmed and then each end was punched with a Martha Stewart 'Vintage Lace' punch before glueing it onto the card front

- cut a smaller oblong of white card stock and glued that on top of the pink layer

 
- then die cut the teacup stack and the sentiment using two Apple Blossom dies - called 'Teacups' (the stack of cups) and 'Time for Tea' (the sentiment) - using snippets of plain white card

- next die cut the sentiment using a snippet of pink gingham paper from the Craftwork Cards 'Kitsch collection pack and glued it to the matching white card die cut

- the cups were a little more fiddly as the die actually cuts the stack as one whole piece and it's up to you to chop and change papers then layer the cups up. I already had one failed attempt which is why I hit on the idea of die cutting the plain white card layer first. AND, this time I also remembered that you place the very top cup onto the card first, leaving a little bit extra underneath. Then cut across the top of the middle cup and glue that in place, also leaving a little bit extra underneath and finally cut right across the bottom cup and glue that in place. That way the cups look as if they're nestled inside one another

- glued the sentiment and cups onto the card front and then die cut three butterflies from a small snippets from the same paper pack using the SU 'Embosslits Beautiful Wings' die set and glued them in place

I've recently missed out on a couple of challenges where certainly the stacked teacups would have been just perfect and thought it better to get them while they were on a brilliant offer - and also still in 'vogue' too! Ha, the butterflies look like a little squadron about to land of the cupcake and tuck in :)

The sentiment would be clearer if cut from plain card but I wanted to pick out one of the cups with the pink gingham.

Now for this week's peek at the picks:

Vinita made this fabulous almost purely black and white card and I love all the beautiful detail.

I gasped when this amazing tea light holder popped up in the Playground! It was made by Sonia and is just breathtaking. So, so much work and love has gone into making this - you really do need to hop over to her blog HERE and see all the close-ups! The leaves were made from snippets of paper by the way - the flowers were made using Thai clay, which is a new one on me. I did think it might be much like Martha Stewart's paper clay but from the little bit of Googling I've done it seems quite different.

Now, isn't this just super-cute?! Maura brought this gorgeous card to share with us, I love the marching band as well as the fact that it's s really clever shaker card too. The red, white and blue is so striking as well.

Lesley comes up with some really great ideas - and this is a stunner! Totally made from scratch, and the 'sunburst' was designed and cut by hand, it's just perfect for a chap who's interested in or plays darts. Lots of photos to see over at Lesley's blog showing each step - what a clever sausage she is, love it!

We don't see as much of Eve since the arrival of 'Posy the Puppy', so it was a real treat when she nipped into the Playground to share this gorgeous card with us. More Stampin' Up goodies on my wish list! Sigh.

I must show you this, partly because of the amazing Brushos background - and also because the young lady (Aurora) holding the card was having a very first play with them! She's Alice's niece and has appeared on here previously - obviously talent runs in the family!

Now for a little drum roll, Jane J (who is often a weekly pick here) is celebrating six years of blogging with a fabulous giveaway HERE.

What a wonderful gesture, you can win all of the above items (a beautiful bracelet, bag charm and earrings) all  handmade by Jane, just by hopping over and leaving a comment. Of course it would be lovely if you become a follower and there are also a couple of ways you can have additional chances in the draw.

No new Playmates this week, although seeing as it's Summer holiday time we did have 46 of you come and play!

Now it's prize draw time, for the Sue Wilson Creative Expressions 'Dove of Peace' two piece die set. And the winner is:

Kitty

Kitty last won in the bumper Christmas draw, so it was good to see her name pop out as she plays each week and is often featured in the weekly picks too. Can you please drop me a quick email Kitty to confirm that your address is the still the same - I know you moved out while some work was being done but think you're back in the same house again? My email addy is on the right hand sidebar. As soon as I hear from you I'll post the die set off at our local Post Office.

Here's this coming week's prize - and in fact we have two prize draws this week - explained below:

First of all it's two dies, the same as I used on my snippets card. Both are by Apple Blossom and are called 'Teacups' and 'Time for Tea' respectively. They cut beautifully and come with their own magnetic backing sheet as well.

I'm very conscious that I seem to offer a lot of dies as prizes so also am also offering this lovely stamp set from a Playmater,

I don't have this stamp set myself so can't make a 'snippets sample' to show it in use, but, it comes with the flower stamp plus two sentiments. .

So, the dies and the stamp are two separate prizes. I'll draw the dies first and then follow with the stamp set - and there will be two different winners even if the same number pops out twice 'cos I'll do a re-run to make it more fair. All you have to do, if you want to be 'in it to win it' is to say in a comment if you'd like to play for both the prizes, depending which one is available if and when your number is chosen by the Random Number thingy - or for both the dies or the stamps. I won't be splitting the dies BTW, both make up one prize.

The Snippets Challenge will run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 6th August. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

A maximum of ONE entry and please say in a comment if you wish to play and be a possible winner of a prize. Please also link back to the Playground in your blog post to be eligible for the draw.

Mr Linky is below - please let me know if you have any problems linking, it's easy for me to sort out so don't struggle on alone :) 


Di and, of course, Parsnip
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Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 232

This is a scheduled post with my snippets card, a new Mr Linky for the coming week - and a new prize for the coming week as well.

As already said last week, I'm at 'teacher training' right now and will be doing a grand 'peek at the picks' round-up of last week (and this coming week) next Sunday, 12th June. At the same time, I'll also do the prize draws for last week and this coming week, so next week will be a bit of a bumper post!

I'll be around well before then but thought it best to keep to the routine of publishing the Playground results on a Sunday. Please note though, there's a new Mr Linky today and also a fresh prize to be won - so I hope you will find time to come and play on the swings. Parsnip is in charge and for a token fee is prepared to give you a push as well as turn a blind eye to any hooch etc. As Lynn (Linby) rightly said the other week - he really is a mercenary little bear! Which reminds me, I caught a few minutes of Lynn on Hochanda TV on Thursday and she's a blinkin' natural! Well done Lynn :)

So, here's my snippets card:

I used:

- 5.75" x 5.75" square white card blank, tent style

- patterned backing paper from LOTV's 'Up,Up and Away' paper pad, I cut into a fresh sheet for that layer - whimper! Trimmed it to just a smidgen smaller than the card front but didn't glue it in place just yet

- next I used a snippet strip of bright pink card to make a slightly wider band for across the centre of the main patterned sheet and punched one edge using a Martha Stewart 'Cherish' punch before gluing a snippet strip of gingham patterned paper across the band

- then I glued the band in place across the patterned paper and trimmed it flush at either side once dry, just using scissors and cutting from the back to ensure a straight edge. Only then did I glue the whole panel onto the card front

- next I die cut the 'Love' word using a snippet of bright pink card and an Impressions Obsession's 'Love' die

- that gave me a guide for whereabouts on the snippet of the clouds backing paper I needed to stamp the image - which I stamped using Ranger 'Archival Black' ink and an Impression Obsession stamp called 'Girl Swinging'. That cloud paper is so precious now that LOTV no longer produce paper pads, I wasn't gonna take any chances!

- then trimmed the cloud/image layer and stuck the 'Love' die cut along the top and the left hand side

- stuck the image layer onto a backing of bright pink card and added it to the card front using thin sticky pads. Probably stating the obvious here but when doing this, if you have a thicker layer such as the punched band I have across the card, make sure you don't add sticky pads where they will sit on the slightly raised layer, otherwise your image could look a bit 'bulged'

- added three round black Josy Rose nail heads to the image panel and bright pink round and heart shaped Josy Rose nail heads at opposite corners of the card front

I really love this stamp, it sums up the Playground perfectly and is very likely to feature on some of the little cards I enclose with prizes. Best to whisper that really as Parsnip is likely to be a touch sensitive if he feels he's been supplanted in any way!

And the 'Love' die is likely to be a favourite here too, I really do love it! I've seen the girl swinging stamp used with trees and branches but (partly as I wanted this week's prize to have two items in it) I thought the little girl swinging underneath the heart shaped letter 'O' would fit nicely - as if she's swinging from it :)

Quelle surprise! This week's prize is, as usual, linked to my snippets make - it's an Impression Obsession 'Girl Swinging' wood mounted stamp and an Impression Obsession 'Love' die - just like I used above:

The Snippets Challenge will run for one week as usual and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 11th June. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

A maximum of ONE entry and please say in a comment if you wish to play and be a possible winner of the prize. If you're only interested in either the stamp or the die then please feel free to say so and if you win I'd do a further draw for whichever item you don't want. Please also link back to the Playground in your blog post to be eligible for the draw.

Mr Linky is below - please let me know if you have any problems linking, it's easy for me to sort out so don't struggle on alone :)

Wishing you all a lovely week, I hope you haven't run too wild and I'll be around to see your entries very soon!

Di and, of course, Parsnip the 'Super Hero', guarding things for me - as well as selling Linby's autograph on the sly!!

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Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 228

Well, it's certainly a lot warmer and very sunny in the Playground and no doubt the swimsuits will be out before too long. Lots of you seem to have caught bugs etc. lately - let's hope this sunshine soon chases them away!

The image on my snippets card today is cute, cute, cute - using one of my very favourite Penny Black mouse stamps:

I used:

- 5" x 7" white card blank

- snippet of white card, Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink pad and Penny Black's 'gifts for you' stamp

- previously I've always coloured the daisy edges pink but fancied using mauve/purple so I picked out snippets of SU's 'Perfect Plum card stock and matched them to a daisy patterned snippet of paper tucked inside the back of a Daisy and Dandelion 'Picnic Patch' paper pad

- only then did I colour the image to match, using Faber Castell Polychromos pencils and Sansodor blending solution. Then added a tickle of Wink of Stella to the bee's wings and the flower head/petals

- die cut the image using a Lil' Inkers 'Stitched Rectangle' and backed it with a slightly larger plain rectangle of SU's 'Perfect Plum'

- the sentiment was stamped onto a snippet of white card using Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink and a sentiment by Inkylicious called 'Some Moments' which I thought went so well with the sweet image

- then I punched a snippet strip of SU's 'Perfect Plum' card along both edges using Martha Stewart's 'Daisy Dot' punch, making sure the pattern lined up top and bottom

- trimmed the sentiment strip to size then trimmed the sides off the purple puncheddaisy edged strip and stuck them together

- used another snippet of 'Perfect Plum' to back the panel of the daisy paper I chose first off

- then I just stuck everything in place using Collall glue

My recent little win over at The Craft Barn means I finally have some Woodware Ultra Fine Tipped glue applicators. I've decanted some Glossy Accents into one and Collall glue into another - LOVE them. Although you have to take great care to store them upright as am sure the pin which you use to 'seal' the opening at the tip could easily pop out.

I'd like to enter this card into this month's Penny Black and More challenge for May - where it's 'Anything Goes'.

Let's move straight onto this week's 'peek at the picks':

This brilliant card was made by Carol L - fabulous design and such a great way to use up little snippets in the 'honeycomb'. This is such a terrific embossing folder and Carol used it perfectly - topped with the lovely butterfly.

Our Founder and talented friend Jules hopped in with this fabulous card - following one of her own sketches. I love it and a great use of loads of snippets too.

Jules has been such a busy bee this past week, carrying out her resolution to blog a card each day - with a different theme for each day of the week as well. Loads of great ideas over there so I do suggest you take a good peek :)

What a sweet shaker card this is - made by Cara. Such a lovely design and another great use of snippets too. These little 'super heroes' are brilliant - so far I've resisted buying the set though!

Lynne in NI called by for a play on the swings and to show us this terrific card. It's just a perfect get well card isn't it - and of course the striped banner snippet just makes it 'pop' perfectly.

I love this card, made by Susan (Eden Land). It's been a while since Susan last came to play with us - and she stormed back in with this beauty! Wonderful image and all those lovely flowers and butterflies were cut from snippets - and the sparky wings are gorgeous.

This is one of Jane J's 'Moments' and the story behind this gorgeous creation is about 'hooch'! Not far from the Playground, there's a place called Laverstoke Mill, which is where Bombay Sapphire Gin is distilled - it comes in glorious blue bottles. Jane summed up her day so perfectly with the brickwork, bottles, blues, plants and of course the beautiful dragonfly.

Just six picks this week, mostly as the sun is shining in the Playground and it seems a good day to soak up a few rays out there. As always though, I really recommend that you try to peek at a few entries on last week's Mr Linky - there's always a ton of inspiration there!

Now for the prize draw, for the set of MFT Chevron dies and the Kaisercraft 'True Friendship' stamps set. And the winner is:

Tina Z

Congratulations! Tina first joined us in the Playground in November last year and this is her first win :) Can you please email me your address Tina (address is on my right hand side bar) - and I'll post your prize off to you this week.

This coming week's prize is made up of a couple of items, the same as I used for my snippets card:

You guessed! It's the same Penny Black (wooden) 'gifts for you' stamp plus the sentiment stamp by Inkylicious called 'Some Moments' - both are new and unused of course.

 
The Snippets Challenge will run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 14th May. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

A maximum of ONE entry and please say in a comment if you wish to play and be a possible winner of the prize. If you only want to play for either of the stamps, just say so in your comment and if you win then I'll do a further draw for the other item. Please also link back to the Playground in your blog post to be eligible for the draw.

Mr Linky is below - please let me know if you have any problems linking, it's easy for me to sort out so don't struggle on alone :)

Hope you have a lovely week and I look forward to seeing you in the Playground.

Di and, of course, Parsnip
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Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 202

Well, we made it to Sunday without the Playground being totally wrecked by all the fireworks, bonfire and general shenanigans! It's been a giggle hopping round after Sarn and watching how many of you agreed to bring food and hooch for the party. Ha, 'hopping' around was the order of the day as well for sure.

Anyhow, I did manage to make a snippets card for today, did two almost the same and it took me two days in between resting up. There's this one below, and I also switched the clothing, book colours and snowflake edged background for light and dark blue on a second card:

I used:

- 5" x 5" square white card blank

- a Hobby Art clear stamp set called 'Have A Very Mice Christmas' and Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink. I used just one of the five different mouse stamps to create a little choir by stamping, masking and more stamping - the masking instructions came with the stamp set

- then added the sentiment and some musical notes that also come with the set

- coloured the choir using Whispers pens. Am afraid it's quite patchy (made all the more so by the photo of course) and Pro Markers would have been a better choice but I couldn't lift the big rack/set across to my desk whilst balancing on one leg :)

- using a snippet of red card (probably SU's 'Real Red') and the Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page (PATP) 'Aspen Snowflake' set I created a 'frame' for the image

- trimmed the image down to fit and rounded the corners using an X-Cut corner rounder punch

- tickled the little choristers' ruffs with clear Wink of Stella just to add some glisten

- glued the layers onto the card blank and called it a day

Isn't it strange how we go mad for particular products and then almost forget we have them as styles move on and our own crafting style changes/evolves? I went really dotty over Martha Stewart punches a few years ago including the PATP ones - and am ashamed to say I have loads of them languishing here. Time to play with them a bit more I think!

The stamp set I used today really is adorable, it comes with five little meece stamps as I already said - one in a stocking, a chorister as I used today, one in a fur trimmed cloak and Santa hat, a fairy and also a modern mouse in a duffle coat. It also has little extras such as the sentiment (a bit cheesy - snigger - but really quite perfect for the images!), music notes, a plum pudding, piece of cheese wrapped in a ribbon and two teeny meece. So, you get loads of lovely stamps in the one really cute set - and I reckon that might be a pointer to this coming week's prize :)

But first, let's run through the weekly picks. I had the usual tough time choosing the 'final cut' from all of the possibles I'd jotted down - and if your snippets make doesn't appear as a pick it certainly doesn't mean it's any less fabulous!

I totally love this card, made by Jackie T. A darling image and all those lovely die cut snowflakes make it really pretty and very special.

Sonia brought us yet another fabulous make this week - this is one amazing bottle for sure! Beautifully decorated, and as always, Sonia has given lots of detail about how to do it can be found on her blog.

Kate is someone else with masses of patience. What a wonderful scenic representation of London - it's so detailed and I'm not surprised it was a hit with one of Kate's sons.

Oh this is such a fun card, made by JaneW. Do hope over to Jane's blog for a closer peek - this is the inside of the card and the outside is also great. It's a 'man flu' card :) Very clever and the details of how Jane made it are on her blog post.

I absolutely adore this Christmas card, made by Helen. It's just perfection, such a lovely design, beautifully made and coloured - and the addition of little snippets to paper piece the 'trio's' hats/scarves is brilliant!

Em hopped in waving a brilliant mug - perfect for filling with chocolates, sweets or perhaps Snowman Soup ingredients.  I do so love this, and it's an unusual make for the Playground - with a link to a tutorial in case you fancy having a play!

And we have two new Playmates this week:

This is a CD cover mini album, made by Kavita. So cute, and I love the little bears - made by quilling - amazing result and doubtless they took an absolute age to make!

Love this Halloween card, brought to show by Amanda (Purplemurtle) - love all the Autumn colours and the little kitty in the pumpkin :)

Welcome to the Playground girls - it would be lovely to see you again!

Bit of a drum roll now as it's time to choose the winner of the stamps (Woodware 'Christmas Bells' plus the four singles donated by Greta) from last week - and the winner is:

Eemeli

Oh WOW Eeemeli, I'm so, so pleased your name finally came out as a winner! Eeemeli has played with us since February of this year and has featured in the weekly picks but sadly my little welcome to her was in the week that I lost a lot of the post afterwards including the weekly picks and new folk and couldn't retrieve much of it. But just so you know, this was the very first card that Eeemeli brought to show us in week 162:

Clever isn't it? I do love the idea of offsetting the inner circles - a great way to use snippets and also a super design!

I don't have your address Eeemeli, so can you please drop me an email (di_wray@hotmail.com), and the stamps will be on their way to you as soon as possible.

And the prize this coming week is, as I expect you already know:

It's a Hobby Art clear stamp set called 'Have A Very Mice Christmas' - exactly the same as the one I used on my snippets card - along with a sheet of instructions to make the 'chorister mouse' masking process easier to work out - although you would still have to cut two little masks out of course. The larger mice are between 2 and 2.5 inches in height BTW. It's not a massive prize in the great scheme of things, but there are lots of elements to play with - and I know lots of you just play for fun a lot of the time. 

Even if you aren't into 'cute' and don't want to be in with a chance of the prize, I do hope you find time to come and play anyhow :) 
 

The Snippets Challenge will run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 14th November. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

Maximum of three entries and please also link back to the Playground in your blog post to be eligible for the draw. As always, I only include folk who say a positive 'yes' for the prize in a comment.

Mr Linky is below - please let me know if you have any problems linking, it's easy for me to sort out so don't struggle on alone :)

Have a great week - here's hoping things are more peaceful in the Playground, although I suspect there'll soon be Christmas in the air of course! I just can't wait to see what's on the 'mischief agenda' for that ............ not :)

Quick update on the toe/foot saga. I had to hop back to the docs on Friday as any improvement to date had been minuscule and the first lot of pills were finished and can't be repeated straight away. But the blood tests did point to grout (as Sarn calls it!). So now I'm on a strong dose of steroids for a few days - plus the strong painkillers. Quick edit at 11pm on Saturday, pain isn't as bad, and there's a more noticeable reduction in the redness and swelling - plus the joint is itchy albeit still painful (apparently a sign that the attack is subsiding). Bit scared to hope but perhaps things are finally turning around.

All this means that I haven't managed to package and post off your prizes from last week - I'll do it just as soon as I'm able, I promise!

However, there's absolutely nothing wrong with my ears, eyes and sense of smell - just thought I'd warn you, in advance of any more mad plans for the Playground :)

And of course, it's also Remembrance Sunday today - 'Lest we forget':

Coming from a family with a long military background, and being brought up as an Army child, today is always very poignant - as will be Wednesday 11/11 of course.


Di
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Lace and a butterfly card

I used:

- 5" x 5" square white card blank

- snippet of raspberry coloured card stock for the backing layer

- a snippet of 'Cath Kidston style' (well, to me at least!) wrapping paper, bought from a local supermarket and leftover from wrapping a gift ages ago. Little tip, I mounted the square of patterned paper onto white card stock with adhesive sheet first of all, and then trimmed it to the size square I wanted 'cos the paper on its own is shiny, not very thick and it's easy to crease - I also thought that glue might show through

- a snippet of white card stock for the 'lace', punched using a Martha Stewart 'Deep Edger Doily Lace' punch then mounted onto the backing and trimmed to width with scissors before being added to the main card blank. It's much easier to do this than  to try and measure and position a strip accurately after the backing is stuck onto the card

- die cut the double layered butterfly using pink and raspberry snippets with Memory Box dies ('Isabella' and 'Pippi') and popped them onto the 'lace' band

- didn't even add a sentiment

Told you it was simple :)

Di
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Corners

This is my card for today:

I used:

- A6 white card blank

- pale lime Core-dinations card as the plain backing

- I then cut a piece of patterned paper slightly smaller - using a sheet from the free paper pack with this month's Quick Cards Made Easy magazine - a Nit Wits design made by LOTV,  and called 'Perfect Pair'. Lots of pink, lime and white mixes in the 8" x 8" pad - a really great freebie!

- then I used a die from the Penny Black 'Hooray' set to die cut the word 'Enjoy' out of the patterned paper and added that onto the pale lime green backing

- ahem and this is where it all began to down rapidly downhill :( I'd popped into Hobbycraft the other day and picked up some 50 pence sheets of 'Fab Foam' with die cutting in mind. So, being mean I'd bought the foam without a sticky back but I added a snippet of my own sticky back and then using the 'Enjoy' die again, cut out a word from the foam

- that wasn't really the problem, it cut just fine but is a terror to remove from the die and it stretches terribly (a bit like pink bubblegum). Plus, the foam takes up every little press when you're adding it into the die cut frame in the patterned paper - and grimly hangs onto each little indentation/blemish :( So, I then brayered it which didn't help much, sigh. Finally I ran the whole piece through the Cuttle bug using my Anna Griffin 'Rosa' embossing folder which at least 'ruckles up' the whole of the panel :)

- punched each corner using Martha Stewart's 'Double Loops' corner punch

- then die cut a couple of butterflies using Tonics's 'Monarch Arch' die set - which frankly was rubbish and ended up in the dustbin - out of the pink foam

- these worked better so I just popped them onto the card and added a few little white pearls

I'd thought that the foam would be a good way to die cut words to add onto cards, without having to layer up three or four die cuts of card to get the thickness - but would I recommend the Fab Foam? I don't think so, although the butterflies turned out better than the sentiment :) Other, better quality, foam sheet might play ball - though I can't see me really bothering to find out. Some you win and some you lose!

Di
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Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Tag, You're It...

We have a new challenge over at Cuttlebug Mania starting from today, the theme is 'Tag, You're It...' and you just have to use a tag or add a tag to your creation. Entries must only use manual die cutting/embossing machines and also state what you used to make your entry. Easy and good fun so why not come and play? The prize this fortnight is donated by Random Vintage Finds - and of course the DT will be picking our top entry, plus runners up, as usual.

This is what I made:

I used:

- A6 white card blank

- a snippet of SU's 'Smoky Slate' card stock for the first layer on the card

- Teresa Collins 'Sweet Afternoon' patterned paper for the next layer

- a snippet of white card, die cut using a label die from the Marianne Creatables LR0154 set

- the sentiment was stamped using SU's 'Smoky Slate' and stamps from the Winnie and Wilfred 'The Big, the Bold and the Happy' set - I adore these stamps!

- then added leaves, punched from a snippet of SU's 'Pistachio Pudding' card stock using Martha Stewart 'Leaf Frond' punch

- topped with flowers, which were die cut using the little flower die which comes with the Marianne Creatables LR0154 set and leftover piece of the Teresa Collins paper

- final touch, little clear pink domes as the flower centres and a snippet of organza ribbon through the top of the label

- once the tag was finished it was just a question of adding it to the card using thin sticky pads

Really obvious tip for today I suspect, when adding the flowers I stuck three straight onto the tag with glue and then the next two were popped on with little pieces of  thin sticky pad just to add dimension.

Hope to see you playing along with us! This card uses the same colours as my last Cuttlebug DT card (white, pink, grey and green) - mental note to ring the changes for the next fortnightly challenge!

Di
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