Here's my snippets card for this week:
My leftover snippets - yay, I remembered to take a photo! |
I used:
- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, tent style
- grey backing paper from Echo Park's 'Be Mine' paper pad (it's actually the reverse of a sheet printed, using the same grey that features in many of the designs - handy 😀), trimmed to the same size as the card front and glued in place
- another sheet of paper from the same pad, this time patterned, trimmed to 5.25" x 4" and glued in place on top of the grey layer
- then came the snippets - the previous day I found some offcuts of Strathmore Mixed Media card and played around making backgrounds using Lindy's Magical shakers - all from the 'Tea and Crumpets' range
- I chose to die cut the black top layers from a snippet of black 'velvet' card' first, using two dies from the Sizzix 'Detailed Butterflies Mini' set and put them aside for now
- used the leftover apertures so I could choose whereabouts from the backgrounds to die cut the bottom layers of the butterflies
- die cut the bottom 'solid' layers from the backgrounds already made using 'Lindy's Shakers', then ran them through the Gemini to emboss them, using the same dies
- glued the black die cut layers onto the embossed base layers
- final step was to add both butterflies to the card front, using snipped up thin sticky pads
It's a shame that the shimmer doesn't show up - especially in the purple butterfly. The embossing step was SO worthwhile, again in real life!
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge:
- Darnell's NBUS challenge #61 - HERE - the butterfly die set I used is NBUS,
Dudley Pupdate: At last, we've had some sunshine here and the difference it's made to Dudley is so heartening. He adores playing in the dry back garden, zoomies are his speciality, some lovely dry walks and he races back indoors with such a sweet lopsided grin on his face! Happy dog, happy home!
Remember, I've just kicked off a new challenge over in the Snippets Playground HERE. Hope to see you on the swings!
Love as always, Dudley Dog and me,