Playing with snippets

I haven't made it into the playground with Jules and her campaign to climb our snippet mountains for a few weeks - I've been using my snippets but I've not had time to mention them in my posts.

So tonight I thought I'd have a play and instead of starting with an image and seeing what snippets I could use I thought I would put the snippets centre stage and see what I could create using a few snippets as my starting point.  I managed to come up with a couple of cards.

 For my first card I picked 3 little snippets that were about 4 cm wide and different lengths in tonal shades, cut them to size and used them to cover a 6x4 card.  I added a length of black vintage seam binding ribbon to one side, and stamped some simple floral stamps in black directly onto papers and finished with a fabric flower.  I think it turned out quite well but perhaps the ribbon is a little stark.

For my second card I started with a kraft base and a strip of white hammer left over from an A4 sheet when making another cardbase.  I then dug into my "even thinner" snippets drawer and found 4 green strips (well one was actually the bit left over when I trimmed the dotty strip for the my first card)  I stuck these into rows on the white card just large enough to cover the area of the spellbinders leaf die and cut it out of the centre so I could use the negative.  The bonus is I have a lovely stripy leaf to use on another card which has gone into my "die cuts drawer".

If you've not been to the playground before - here's the link for this week - the gates will be closing in a couple of days, but don't worry - they'll be open again for a new week on Sunday so do join in the fun!  http://jules-alwayswithaheart.blogspot.com/2011/11/jules-crafty-snippet-challenge-week-46.html

Tara x

Getting Edgy!

Sorry I've been MIA most of this week but I went down like a log with a bug on Monday and took to my bed for a couple of days.  I'm feeling much better now but I have totally lost my voice but whatever else this hinders it's no barrier to crafting so I'm back for my regular Friday night fix with CAS-ual Fridays  which this week is all about decorative edges - tearing, punching whatever takes your fancy to make a fancy edge!

I decided to play with some of my favourite MS punches to get my decorative edges on some strips of paper and I've been following my blogging mate Lynne's recent "snippet" posts with interest so took a leaf from her book and used some of the little bits in my stash I just can't throw away.  So this card is also being entered into Jules Sunday Snippet Challenge 

I used the branch punch on a dark teal strip, left a brown honeycomb snippet plain and then used a butterfly punch on a lime green strip onto which I stamped my sentiment.  I then decided to add another fancy edge to my focal image by stamping onto white card cut with a nestie, I then drew around the nestie on black and cut out for a fine border.  The flower stamp and the matching sentiment are from my favourite Elzybels set.  I added a little black glitter to the centre to make it pop.

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Craftilicious x