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I'd been drooling over hexagon dies for some time and finally took the plunge. My excuse reasoning was that I have tons of square toppers - many of which are LOTV - to use up. Round, wonky squares, ovals etc. dies don't always work well 'cos you lose some of the image but I figured that hexagons would work in a lot of cases 'cos it's generally just the four corners you lose - as a change from plain squares:

The only alteration I had to make was to measure where the hexagon cut would be at the top, snipped round the upper part of the rose and make sure it slipped over the die when I cut out the shape.There are lots of  tutorials how to do this on YouTube.

I used:

- 4" x 4" square white card stock

- LOTV pre-coloured image - I love this little cutie! Die cut with a Spellbinders Nestie hexagon die then matted onto a snippet of SU 'Primrose Petals' card which was cut by drawing round the outer edge of the die then hand cutting. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, on many dies I don't go to the lengths of using the tan mat to emboss the edge - just use a ball ended embossing tool to run round the shape while the card is still in the die

- sentiment, stamped in Memento 'Tuxedo Black' is by Stampendous from their 'Happy Messages' set

Today was a really lovely day with Julia, Jan, Annie and her hubby (Doddy) - stupid me took no piccies but others did. Snort, I bought some DK wool and have been sat sitting this evening trying to crochet and don't think I'm gonna ever hack it. BUT, I also bought some lovely ribbon for cardmaking - best stick to what you know you can do (sort of) huh?!

Di
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Golden wedding acceptance

One of Len's relatives and his wife will be celebrating their Golden Wedding shortly and this is the little note I made to accept their invitation to a party:

I used:

- 4" x 4" square cream linen card stock

- a ready made topper (dating from the year 'dot' but wire and hessian is back in fashion so am glad I hung onto it) layered onto a snippet of matt gold card

- Elzybells sentiment, stamped in gold onto a snippet of cream card and punched with SU's 'Petite Curly Label' punch

- round and heart shaped Josy Rose nail heads

Now I just have to think about making them a card to take with us on the big day. Now that's the sort of project I like, hearts :)

Missing WOYWW again this week - but I have a great excuse. Am meeting up with Queen Julia, Lunch Lady Jan and Annie (Wipso) today - wahoo!

Oh, and my LIM card yesterday was accepted by Chrissie as one layer - no naughty step for me :)

Di
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25th December

Thought it best not to use that forbidden word yet agaaaaaain :) The current challenge over at Less is More is to use a number or numbers on a one-layer card. Oooer, that stumped me at first and then I also spotted the current challenge over at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge which is a picture inspiration, had a light bulb moment - and this is what I came up with:

This is Hazel's picture inspiration - I picked out red, green and white and the holly.

I used:

- 7" x 5" white card stock

- Woodware 'Christmas Date' stamp, red, green and gold Pro Markers

- little tickles of Stickles 'Crystal Ice' on the background snowflakes

- red 'dewdrops' on the holly berries. Funny, Sam and I spotted some in Flutterbys last week and were saying how we both had loads and never use them, thanks for the prompt Sam!

- then I looked at the number 25 which was coloured in non-metallic gold Pro Marker and it was just too matt and flat so I almost threw the cards away (yup, I made two the same). However, after some head scratching about how to add glitter to quite a large area I came up with an idea - which may disqualify me from LIM as it could be classed as another layer but in fact it's just a tip about adding glitter evenly

- what I did was to stamp the 25 part of the image again, onto some double sided sticky sheet and then carefully cut out the numbers. Then it took forever to get the backing off one side but once that was done I stuck the cut out numbers onto the cards, peeled the front of the sticky off and then covered with 'Gold' Glamour Dust, whisked off the excess with a big soft makeup brush, had a quick shower to de-glitter myself and it was done. I could have fibbed and said I just used glue but this tip is worth sharing and risking being disqualified and made to stand on the naughty step by Chrissie or Jen from LIM :))

Oooh, I'm such a rebel - no wonder the Snippets Playground is mayhem at times. 

This card is also for Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for August.

Di
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Punching session

A couple of weeks ago I had a punching session (not the fists kind!) with a Martha Stewart Deep Edge punch. This was to let a dear blogging friend know how well it punched on different paper and card. The results were all good, although to be honest the intricacy of the punch wasn't 100% on thin paper but that was possibly operator error. One of the toughest challenges, so I thought, would be thick pearlescent card - but it worked like a dream. Then, on Saturday I was sifting through stuff on my desk and came across the pearlescent card 'sample' which was usefully punched along one edge of an A6 card and this was the final result after a quick play:

I used:

- A6 'mink' coloured pearlescent card with the edge punched using Martha Stewart's 'Floral Vine Deep Edger' punch - one of the very first MS punches I ever bought, and still probably my favourite

- snippet of pink pearlescent card, cut to fit exactly behind the card front with just a smidgen less at the top to allow the card to still fold properly

- little strip of pink ribbon, fixed in place to the front of the card by using ultra strong DST on the back - this would be hidden by the piece of pink card

- I then used removable tape runner to fix the pink card exactly where I wanted it lined up on the opposite side inside the mink card and used more ultra strong DST so that when I closed the card and pressed firmly it would sit perfectly in place. Then I just had to carefully open the card and rub off the removable tape runner glue from the back of the pink card with a finger by gently rubbing

- a hand made pink rose along with a matching pink 'shrink plastic' butterfly were fixed in place using Glossy Accents

- finally, a sentiment by Craftwork Cards was added to finish off

A really super-fast card, made in minutes.

Di
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Pixies Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 85

And another busy week in the Playground, it's great to see so many people coming to play - and thank you so much for the lovely things you say in comments and on your blog posts. The main aim of the Playground is for you to want to come and play, make friends and perhaps pick up inspiration from your playmates on how to use up those pesky snippets :) It seems to be working folks!

Here's my snippets card for this week - I stumbled across the digi image called 'Sassy Sally is Just Hanging Around', goodness know who or what led me there but it was a must to buy. I only have a handful of digi images but this little rascal really touched a little piece of my heart.......I wonder what she reminds me of, and WHO?! Snigger.

I used:

- 7" x 5" white card stock

- digi image by Sassy Cheryl called 'Sassy Cheryl Is Just Hanging Around'. Coloured with Pro Markers, chosen to try and pick out the colours in the snippets I'd sorted out for the background papers. Once the image was coloured I realised some sky would be useful (always after the event here!) so out came TH 'Tumbled Glass' ink pad, clouds template I made myself and a mini duster brush. Found those little duster brushes at Newbury - they're so cute and great for small areas especially if you're like me and suffer from hindsight syndrome. Wish I'd bought more for the Playground toy box :( Poor little sausage though, she really must be swinging from a very tall tree

- snippets of SU's 'Daffodil Yellow' card to mat the image onto and also as the main backing on the card

- the patterned snippets were tucked inside the original pad so I can tell you they're from Echo Park's 'Hello Summer' paper pad. Mostly, if possible, I keep patterned snippets with the original pads/packs. Partly so I know the name but mostly because there's generally another full sheet which would go with the snippets if needed. But these were all little snippets - 'honest injun, spit on my hand and turn round three times'

- there's 'no show without Punch' so out came the ribbon snippets box and I found some bright pink organza and made a bow

- the sentiment was computer generated and then die cut with an XCut die from the brilliant 'Speech Bubbles' set then layered onto a snippet of 'Daffodil Yellow', cut in the usual way by drawing round the outside of the die and fussy cutting. I dithered over the die set having seen that Penny Black also have a set of these dies out on the market - but XCut won in the end. There are some 'Thoughts' bubbles plus 'double' speech dies so it's a very versatile set

That's my snippets card for today, complete with ribbon as is almost always the case!

Onto this week's picks, and it's been sooooo difficult. Every single snippets make is lovely - you gals are really so talented.

Sarah of 'Sazzle Dazzle' made this brilliant card - what a fabulous little sailing boat! To see just how this was so cleverly made with snippets do go and take a peek. I'm surprised to see that Sarah doesn't have as many followers as I'd expected - you're missing things and some great ideas girls!

Lots of lovely snippets too on this card made by Sue (Olliesmam) - I totally adore it Sue! Look out, Maureen is on her way to meet you soon - you're bound to have a super time!

And Maureen (ScrappyMo) made this beauty, again with loads of detail, clever girl Mo! And how much Sam and I enjoyed meeting up with you during the week.

Elizabeth has been playing making Gelli Plate backgrounds and brought us a snippets card to show - amazing - I truly had no idea that Gelli Plates could be such fun, and the snippets go perfectly!

I have to stop now, time is marching on and there are a million and one things to do today (Saturday as I type) - but do please check out all the lovely things your playmates have made here.

We do have a new playmate so will you please welcome Fiona (Flossbite Crafts).  Hope you come back and play with us regularly Fiona!

So, first of all the draw for the two sets of stamps, kindly donated by Sandra H. That took a few goes as lots of you already are snowed under with un-used stamps:

 Elizabeth

Well done Elizabeth, I wonder if the stamps would be good on your Gelli Plate? They're big and bold so could work well maybe? 

Next the draw for the 'Raindrops' stamp, kindly donated by Ryn Tanaka. I numbered the 19 qualifying entries and used the random number thingy:

Mary H

I do know that Mary really longed to win the stamp so I do hope you'll all be delighted for her - sometimes I squeak in shock when I realise who a winner is.  I know that Sam did wonder if she was a bit favoured the week she won the Lavinia Flower Fairy stamp - but that's absolutely not the case. The only time I do a second run of the random number thingy is if it comes up with someone who has declined a prize. I'd be cheating on myself, not just you girlies!

And don't be despondent girls, I have yet a different and equally brilliant Ryn stamp up my sleeve in a week or two. You're gonna love it!

And what's the prize for this coming week huh? Guessed yet?

Yessssss, it's a set of those lovely 'Speech Bubble' dies and they come with a magnetic sheet too. The same shaped die as the one I used today is hidden under the sticker. There are some quite quirky shapes too :) I know I'm gonna love playing with my own set.

Crumbs, I almost forgot - we have a Playground Mascot, courtesy of Sam :) After throwing her teddy into the Playground when the gates were closed the other week and me confiscating it - she decided that perhaps I needed a teddy for the Playground :) Here he/she is complete with such sweet bunting made by Sam:

Cute huh? BUT, Teddy has no name so if you'd like to leave suggestions (clean ones!) I'd be very grateful. No prize, just the fun of helping to pick a name :)

The Playground will run as usual this week with the gates closing at 11am UK time on Saturday 17th August. Maximum of three entries (I do check!) and please say 'No thank you' in a comment if you wish to still play but not be a winner of the 'Speech Bubble' die set shown above. Mr Linky is below - do please let me know if you have any problems linking, I can sort it out for you quite quickly and am always happy to do so.

Di
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A blast from the past

Waaaay back in time, when I started card making in earnest, I bought a shed load of die cut frames. This was before I even knew about desk top die cutting machines and amongst them was a great favourite, a triple aperture, that I used on many a card in those early days. Trying to find space for some new goodies the other day I came across a big packet of die cuts and some triples were still lurking. So I made three of these:

 I used:

- small DL cream linen card stock - again, bought eons ago

- gold triple (as opposed to tipple) aperture frame - probably from Craft Creations

- backing paper, a blast from the past by Craft Creations called 'Ivory Small Stars With Foil'

- Paper Studio 'Holly and Berries' gemstone stickers - bought in New Mexico last year

- then I cut up some squares of the linen card stock using the 'deckle' blade on my Woodware trimmer and stamped (on the non-linen reverse) the sentiment in gold before popping onto the card with thin sticky pads. The little sentiment is from SU's 'Joyous Celebrations' set

That makes a total of 57 Christmas cards all ready to just write and send. I'm not being smug, 'cos no-one likes a know-all, but it feels good to be a bit ahead of the game. However, we do send out absolutely loads of Christmas cards - mostly due to my globe trotting past - so there's still a lot to make yet :(

And, did you seeeeeee the fabulous 'card stand'?! I've craved one of these for years ever since I spotted Bev Rochester using one to display her cards for photos. It's a Yankee Candle (or similar) Jar Lid and Kay will confirm that we searched high and low for one the same or similar last September in NM. The wonderful Maureen of ScrappyMo kindly gave me one of hers on Wednesday, all the way from Canada - I love it to pieces! Thank you again Mo! Must admit, it sits on my desk and keeps being stroked with little whispers of 'My preciousssssssss'.

Remember the Playground closes at 11am today - UK time - and will re-open at midnight. I'll do the draw for Ryn's Raindrops stamp, plus the normal weekly prize - and next week I'll be asking you to help to name our new Playground mascot :)

Di
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A Friday Smile - Len versus Di

After a day out with friends I come home and twitter away to Len. In fact I always did that after a day at the office too so we usually sit for half an hour, with a glass of wine (in the garden when the weather is good) whilst I 'offload' as Len calls it.

When I got home on Wednesday, after the day out with Sam and Maureen from the Playground, Len said 'Before we sit outside with a glass of wine, just check your emails'. So I did - and this is the image he'd sent me:

And the caption:
When a male bird can't stand it anymore!

Once I stopped laughing - he still got his ear bent :)

This is for Annie's Friday Smile.

Di
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A Playground outing

On my knees here, after a fabulous day with our naughty (but well behaved girl) Sam (aka Hettie) all the way from Wales and the lovely Maureen (ScrappyMo) - all the way from Canada:

So here you have it - left to right - yours truly, Maureen and Sam. 'Stood standing' outside Highclere Castle in Hampshire UK yesterday.

We got on brilliantly, laughed about all the Snippets Playground mischief, and send you our love - your ears should have been burning, and every word was said with a big smile and a lot of affection. What a lovely Playground we have, and it just got a bit closer yesterday :)

More will follow - once I recover! Oh, and Maureen's Al is a hubby in a million too - endless patience with three squawking females - fight you for him girls!

No swings or slides to be seen :( I did have to haul Sam off the grand staircase though, poised ready for a swift slide down the looooong and sweeping banisters!

Di
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A flower - just for you

I've been looking at this little LOTV pre-coloured image on my desk for weeks now - time to use her:

Sigh, now matter how I tried, the lovely embossed butterflies on the frame wouldn't show up in the photo - the gold sentiment ain't doing too good either :(

I used:

- 6" x 6" square white card stock

- backing papers from a Tatty Teddy pad called 'Spring Chic' - I love that these are printed on both sides with some left plain colours, so easy to mix and match

- LOTV image which I popped behind a Craftwork Cards pre-cut and embossed frame (with those invisible butterflies on). So that the little bow would fit OK I just fussy cut round the top of it so it peeps over the frame. To make room for the mauve organza bow I trimmed both sides off the frame

- sentiment is by Craftwork Cards too

- just a few mauve pearls - job done!

One reason I love this image is that it reminds me of our Playground playmates - when they're on good behaviour :)

Today Sam (Hettie) and I are meeting up with Maureen (ScrappyMo) for the day - first stop is a craft shop and then lunch, before trotting off to Highclere Castle of 'Downton Abbey' fame. It promises to be fun ........... if they have swings :)

Di
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Christmas joy

The current challenge over at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge is 'Spread a little joy and love' - and this really happy image seems to be full of joy:

I can't help smiling when I see that happy face, saying 'Here's some joy, love me but please don't eat me' :) Am I alone in not eating gingerbread men, jelly babies, chocolate bunnies and the like without a pang of guilt I wonder?

I used:

- 6" x 6" square Kraft card

- Penny Black Stickeroo from the 'Snowy Christmas' sheet

- main background paper from Raspberry Road's Christmas Collection (free with QCME magazine) and all other papers from Echo Park's 'Season's Greetings' paper pad - wahoo, that pad is almost used up - that would be a first here

- strip of Christmas ribbon - too nice to hide and too bulky to tie a bow with

- sentiment was stamped using a SU stamp from the 'Joyous Celebrations' set, SU 'Old Olive' ink pad, punched with a Hobbycraft label punch, threaded with green cord and fixed with a brad from a set by My Mind's Eye called 'Decorative Brads - Red'

Am also entering this into Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for August - where it's always 'Anything Goes'.

Di
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Valley of the Butterflies

Many years ago, on a first trip to the island of Rhodes, I visited a breathtakingly beautiful place known as The Valley of the Butterflies (or Petaloudes).

The wooded valley is inhabited by literally millions of Jersey Tiger Moths in the months between July and September. When I was there we had to speak in whispers and very occasionally our guide would blow a little whistle whereupon it seemed as if the bark of the trees which was covered with resting moths literally came to life and fluttered around us in beautiful swathes of rusty orange coloured wings. Sadly I believe that too many visitors and not enough consideration over the energy these lovely creatures use when disturbed have changed the moth population's survival rate :(

I was thinking about the valley yesterday after we'd been sat sitting in the garden marvelling at the huge number of butterflies fluttering round the buddleias and the idea for this card just popped into my mind:

I used:

- cream card stock, folded tent style with one corner rounded

- SU 'Early Espresso' card, embossed with Tim Holtz folder 'Woodgrain'

- a snippet of twine

- 3 butterflies die cut using butterfly dies Memory Box, the solid one is 'Isabella' and the matching 'lacy' one is 'Pippi' - a snippet of terracotta patterned paper was used for the solid wings and a snippet of plain toning terracotta card for the lacy part and body/antenna

- sentiment is Elzybells, stamped using Brilliance 'Pearlescent Chocolate'

 

This is part of the walk through the valley, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Edit: Just spotted a challenge of at Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - this is the inspiration photo:

 

It sort of rocked me on my heels after what I'd written here today - I have the tree bark, butterfly plus the brown and terracotta on my card so I'm going to join in :)

Di

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Pixies Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 84

Oh wow - we had 57 entries this week, great going girls!

My snippets card this week is based on a very simple but I think clever idea - shown here on You Tube by Helen Allen. It's the second of the two ideas for using up little snippets of ribbon Helen shows in the video - great for using up those little pieces that I find are always left over after wrapping ribbon round a card/making a bow:

 I used:

- A6 white card stock

- a snippet of green card from the snippets folder, it's SU's 'Lucky Limeade' with the corners punched using a Woodware notched corner punch

- an assortment of little ribbon snippets from the little box I throw them into - just a couple of inches in length is enough to play with. I picked out same width ones but that's not necessary of course, plus my card has a real mix of colours on, different shades of pink or any other colour would look good though

- sentiment is by Inca 'Dot Birthday', stamped with Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink, corners punched with the notched corner punch and layered onto another snippet of card, black this time

Helen just added the card strip of ribbons to her lovely card, I covered mine with a scrap of black and white gingham ribbon. One thing to emphasise if you do try this is to use ultra strong DST throughout - ask me how I know :)

Here are my picks for this week, and it just gets harder and harder.

Just two snippets, the fabulous Memory Box 'Modern Landscape' die - bingo, one perfect New Home card made by Sarn.

A wonderful lavender themed card and bookmark, made by Elizabeth. It's beautiful and I love the dragonflies. Elizabeth also made the backing paper using the shaving foam trick - and there's a link on her blog posting.

Bonnie made this breathtakingly beautiful Christmas card - I love it!

And Mary H made this totally gorgeous card using the negative left over from die cutting a flourish.It's fabulous and another way to use dies without wasting what's left over.

Sigh, I could go on forever picking cards to show - so many beautiful ones, you can hop over and check them out here.

Onto the winner of the two Simply Gorjuss Girls stamps, plus the stamen punch - and it's:

Glennis

That's so funny - the first few names drawn by the random number thingy had declined (probably on account of being scared to colour the fawn - grin), and then out came Glennis who had squeezed into the Playground right at the end of playtime! I've been and peeked through some of the posts on your blog and there's some lovely colouring there so I hope you like this prize Glennis! Can you please let me have your snail mail address - my email is di_wray@hotmail.com

It's the second week for the Raindrops stamp, quite a few of you have already qualified for the draw I see. If you haven't, then you only need to make a total of three entries over the two week period to be in with a chance.

And this week's prize is....................a bag stuffed with ribbon snippets :) Come baaaaack, I was kidding!

These stamps are 3" in height

Each wing is 4" high x 3" wide

It's a couple of lovely big and bold stamp sets, donated by Sandra H, and I think they would be such fun to colour in - although they would also look very striking just as they are. I haven't tried Zentangling out yet but there's something about these stamps that reminds me I ought to! Thank you Sandra!

The Playground will run as usual this week with the gates closing at 11am UK time on Saturday 10th August. Maximum of three entries and please say 'No thank you' in a comment if you wish to still play but not be a winner of the stamp sets shown above. Mr Linky is below - do please let me know if you have any problems linking, I can sort it out for you quite quickly and am always happy to do so.

Enjoy your week and hope to see you in the Playground. Remember that next Sunday the winner of Ryn's Raindrops stamp will be revealed - good luck,

Just realised that this is my 1000th blog post since starting this blog in March 2010. In truth over time a few posts have been deleted so it's really more than 1,000, the deleted ones were some which were being targetted by spammers until I hit on the idea of not allowing anonymous comments - that fettled the little perishers, snigger.

Di
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Friday Smile - on a Saturday

On a cooler day earlier this week I went into a cleaning frenzy. Not just the flick of a duster either, oh no, it was 'full ferret mode' - in which no cranny is left unscrubbed and explored.

Whilst blitzing our shower room I turned to some industrial strength limescale remover - it's really lethal stuff and not for sale in your normal supermarket either. We live in a very chalky area here in Hampshire and limescale drives me crazy.

Seeing me waving the bottle of lethal chemical, Len warned me to be careful - but he'd never seen me in full cleaning garb when using that stuff. Later on, hearing the sound of a toothbrush frantically scrubbing in a particularly hidden part of porcelain ware, he stuck his head round the door to be greeted by yours truly attired as follows:

1. Elbow length rubber gloves - check

2. Huge protective apron - check

3. A protective pair of goggles - check

4. Toothbrush in hand - I buy cheap ones in packs of four from the supermarket as they're great for getting into tricky little places when house cleaning - check

As I turned round Len almost collapsed laughing and snorted 'Good God, The Graduate strikes again. Shall I go up into the loft for your flippers and snorkel?'

This is for Annie's 'Friday Smile' - go on, take a peek, it's all good fun!

Di
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A card for a rather dapper man

Not a very imaginative title for a blog post, but it's too hot here to really think very deeply:

I used:

- 6.5" x 6.5" square black card stock

- Core'dinations stone coloured plain card

- top hat patterned papers from Paper Cellar's 'Mens' pad, and the swirls paper is from First Edition's 'Noir et Chic' paper pad - I thought the colours matched well and the swirls echo the border round the top hat paper

- to cover the join I punched a strip of plain stone card using Martha Stewart's 'Double Loops' punch and just topped it with a strip of the patterned swirls paper

- Elzybells sentiment was stamped onto a strip of stone card using Brilliance 'Graphite Black' and the very dapper moustache is from a sweet set of moustache stamps by Studio G, given to me by our Brenda on her trip to the UK - mwah!

That's it for me - typing this on Thursday afternoon and you could fry eggs on the pavement here!

The House of Zandra 'Robin' stamp I used the other day that wasn't 100% has been replaced, the new one is stamping perfectly, not a fuzzy line to be seen. Bless them, they even tried the new stamp out first and enclosed the crisp image :) Also enclosed a SAE so I could send the faulty one back and they will be taking it up with the manufacturer. That proves, at least with House of Zandra, if you aren't happy with something it's always at least approaching the retailer to see if they can rectify things.

Di
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New home card for Dee

A crafting friend just moved house so I made this:

Couldn't think which house stamps would be suitable and then I found this ready coloured LOTV image :)

I used:

- 6" x 6" square white card stock

- plain pink card from the snippets folder

- LOTV ready coloured image, love those bunnies in the bath with the duck looking on :) Punched the corners of the trimmed down image with Woodware notched corner punch and just wound some pink and white bakers twine round the notches before adhering it to the pink backing with sticky pads

- the patterned papers came from a lovely paper pad, sent to me a good while ago by Mary Mac (I'm using them sparingly!) by Teresa Collins called 'Sweet Afternoon'

- embossing folder is SU's 'Honeycomb' folder with little infills of the patterned paper cut to size

- ribbon from the ribbon box

- sentiment is an Elzybells one, stamped with Versa Magic Chalk 'Pink Petunia' ink pad. Punched with SU's 'Large Oval' punch and layered onto a pink oval punched using SU's 'Scalloped Oval' punch

- three pink pearls in the top right corner

- then, sigh, I was left with an imbalance of too much lemon spotty paper so a quick rootle through the charms for a double heart and a pink pearl brad soon fixed that

- as everything was attached to the card when I added the charm and brad I just backed the inside of the front of the card with a piece of white card that I'd trimmed so slightly down from 6" x 6"

Now, I'm saying nothing, but the house move does mean that The Glitter Pot Craft Store is only a short drive away from Dee's new home :) Oh Dee, clever move!

Just spotted that we already have 45 Snippets Playground entries and there are still two and a half days to go. Well done girls, keep 'em coming, although it could be standing room only at this rate :) And Happy August!

Di
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What are snowflakes?

Unassembled snowmen of course :) I love that sentiment and when I spotted that the theme this week is snowmen (or women) over at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge, this Penny Black Stickeroo was my immediate choice:

I used:

- 6" x 6" square white card stock

- Penny Black Stickeroo from the 'Snowflakes Falling' sheet with an icicle border along the top made by covering a snippet of card with double sided sticky sheet, die cutting the icicles using Marianne Creatable LR0135 die, removed top layer of sticky and then covered with sparkly stuff. I keep a little box of these strips ready made, very handy too

- turquoise Core'dinations card for the main backing, behind the image and also the punched strip down the left hand side (I used Martha Stewarts 'Daisy Dot' punch down each edge). So funny, it's only just as am typing and looking to check the name of the punch used I realise I meant to pick 'Aspen Snowflake' out of the MS punches box - what a Dumbo, but waaaay too late to change it now! They are pretty similar and I didn't have me specs on at the time - if you squint perhaps you'll see how I made the mistake :)

- the snowflakes backing card is a snippet, make unknown, and at least THAT isn't daisies ............... I just double checked

- the white iridescent ribbon came from my ribbon box, then I added a little Christmas Tree charm using iridescent and silver cord

And this card, daisy edging and all (duh), is also for the following challenges:

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for July - Anything Goes

Ooooer, and I can just squeak into Penny Black's Saturday Challenge where the theme is Christmas in July.

Di

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