Festive Snippets

Hi everyone.  Today I'm playing along with February Rudolph Days Challenge, which is run by talented scrappimo!  I think I played there once a long time ago, but life has gotten in the way of me getting to play with all the challenges I like. :)

Anyways, I made it this month!  Mo runs the challenges every month with an "Anything Goes Christmas" theme.  The linky is open from the 25th until the end of the month, so you need to post your card or project during that time and link up to enter.

I went with my usual CAS style.  I pulled a small snippet from my stash of Alcohol inks backgrounds I made a while back.  Here's a video how-to if you're interested ... Alcohol Inks on Yupo.  I die-cut two snow hills and a cute little reindeer die that just arrived in the mail.  Isn't he adorable??!! :)

I used a NBUS sentiment as well from a set by Penny Black called Festive Snippets (hence the blog title for today). :)

I hope you'll come play along at Rudolph Days ... if it's too late for February's challenge, there will be another next month.  Again, anything goes as long as it's Christmas.  Post your card or project between the 25th and the end of the month and link up.

Stamps:  Festive Snippets (Penny Black)
Paper:  White card base (Neenah); Yupo
Ink:  Alcohol Inks (Ranger and Pinata)
Accessories & Tools:  Blending solution, Snow Drifts die (My Favorite Things), Retro Deer die (Simon Says Stamp)

Challenges:
February Rudolph Days Challenge - Anything Goes

Guest Designer at Snippets Playground

Hi everyone.  I'm thrilled to be joining Di & Parnsip at the Snippets Playground as Guest Designer!  YAY!!  I have snippets galore in my art studio, and I've used a few on the card above.  The hexagons are from leftovers of THIS card.  This is actually the second card I've made from leftovers from my original smooshed piece. :)  The small butterfly, sentiment banner, die-cut "You", and hexagon mounting foam are also snippets.  The only non-snippet piece is the card base. :)

I die-cut the hexagons and mounted them on die-cut pieces of white foam so there is lots of dimension.  I arranged them randomly on my card front, making sure to leave room for the sentiment.  A small butterfly finishes the design.  To keep the wings of the butterfly raised, I added a small drop of glossy accents on the underside of each wing and let it dry completely.  The I folded the butterfly, adding glue along the center line and a dot on top of each of the glossy accents, which keeps the wings fold upwards, even going through the mail. :)

Here's a close-up ...

I hope you'll come play along at the Snippets Playground.  It's a great challenge to encourage us to use up our snippets (I doubt I will ever use them all up ... but this helps!).  Di & Parsnip make it so fun and you'll get to meet lots of wonderful crafters.  It's a fun place to be!!  Thanks again to Di for having me as Guest Designer!

Come join us!

Stamps:  A Little Sentimental (Clearly Besotted)
Paper:  White card base (Neenah 110 lb.); Watercolour (Arches 140 lb. Cold Press); Black (SU!)
Ink:  Versamark
Accessories & Tools:  Liquid Watercolour Concentrate in Red and Purple (Dick Blick), water mister, Mod Hex Background Die (Poppy Stamps), Thinking of you die (Simon Says Stamp), Embosslits Beautiful Wings (Sizzix for SU!), White embossing powder, heat tool, corner rounder

Challenges:
Snippets Playground - Week 269 and 270

With Love

Hi everyone.  Today I'm back with another "LOVE" card for the CAS Watercolour February challenge.

I'm having a lot of fun with this challenge.  My card today can be used for so many different occasions ... it can be given to my sweetie, my kids, a dear friend, or even sent as a sympathy card.

The background for today is made with leftover ink from THIS CARD.  Mopped up the left over ink with a paper towel, placed the towel over a piece of hot press watercolourpaper, spritzed with water and pressed with my fingers to transfer the ink.  Love it! :)

Simply cut the watercolour piece down to size, framed it with a thin bit of black cardstock in the background, popped it up on the card and added a die-cut flower silhouette.

I hope you'll come join us for this challenge.  There's still a few days left to play along.

I used snippets for everything on this card except the card base, so I'm heading over to play at the Snippets Playground.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit!

Stamps:  Sentiment - Rose Thoughts (Stampendous)
Paper:  Watercolour (Arches 140 lb. Hot Press); Black (SU!)
Ink:  Black (Memento)
Accessories & Tools:  Leftover ink from Liquid Watercolour Concentrate in Red and Purple (Dick Blick), paper towel, Flower Frolic die (Penny Black)

Challenges:
CAS Watercolour February Challenge - Love
Snippets Playground - Week 269 & 270

Experimenting again!

Hi everyone.  Sunday I got together with my crafting friends Susan (Cardmaker's Garret) and Christine (It's a Card Day's Night).  We meet up about once a month to play with new products and techniques.  We always have a great time!

Yesterday, we tried out several new techniques and a few new products.  We had some successes and some failures.  Today I'm sharing one of the successes. :)

My dear friend Nancy S. sent me a lovely gift for Christmas that included the beautiful stencil used for today's card.  Not only did she sent me the stencil, but Susan, Christine and I used Nancy's AMAZING TAG as our inspiration.  Thanks Nancy!!

This is definitely a mixed media tag.  Started by adding black gesso to a piece of regular card stock.  Once dry, the stencil was placed over top and crackle paste was added.  Once that was dry, I simply sponged on a few coloured on ink.  Love how it turned out.  Added a die-cut black butterfly to cover up a small mistake where the embossing paste was too thin. :)

Here's a close-up so you can see the crackle embossing paste --- so cool! :)

Thanks for stopping by for a visit!

Stamps:  A Little Sentimental (Clearly Besotted)
Paper:  Neenah White (110 lb.)
Ink:  Distress Inks:  Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral (Tim Holtz); Black (Memento)
Accessories & Tools:  Black gesso, sponge brush, Swirls & Pearls Stencil by Rebecca Baer (gift from Nancy S.), Crackle paste (Finnabair), palette knife, sponges, Moonlight butterfly die (Memory Box)