Snippety hellibores

Hello, crafting friends!

 

The other day, the postman came to my house with an exciting package full of stamps and dies. It was a bumper prize from The Snippets Playground that I was lucky enough to win in the draw when we were celebrating 12 years of the lovely Miss Di wielding the keys to The Playground. It was thrilling to examine each item and think about what I could do with it but, because the goodies are Christmas-themed, I have put them to the back of the NBUS box for an fun-filled moment when I'm ready for some festive action! Before I did so though, I spotted a little single hellibore in a Crafters Companion Christmas stamp set...

 

... and I thought I'd rustle up a card with not a fleck of glitter or tinsel to be seen! I stamped the flower in pale pink ink, multiple times on white card snippets, then coloured them with markers, fussy cut them and set them aside. I didn't know what hellibore leaves looked like so I looked them up and found they were similar to passion flower leaves. Bingo! Out came my Uniko Passiflora stamp set!

 

The leaves from the set were stamped onto a card base in two shades of green ink. The hellibore flower heads were arranged over the leaves. I glued them down once I was satisfied with the arrangement, trimming the overhang at the edges of the card base with paper snips.

 

The sentiment is a favourite from a long-retired SU set. I stamped it first in black ink using my stamping platform, then in the dark green ink to create a very dark shade of the green - don't know if you can see that on your screen. I find this is a good way to tie a sentiment into a coloured image.

 

Here are the snippets I used - the off cut strips were the perfect size for the hellibores! I only used one strip in the end, so look out for another hellibore card here soon!!

CHALLENGES

I'm nipping over to The Snippets Playground with my homework and will take advantage of the warmer weather to have a go on the swings. Head Prefect Sarn mentioned there might be hot chocolate in the tree house so I've got some squirty cream and sprinkles in my satchel! Come and join me!

I'm also joining in with the fun bingo grid at Allsorts, choosing the Distress Ink/Green/Flowers diagonal from top left.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I'm afraid the golden girls found a dead squirrel out on our walk today so I've had to go for a lie down on a chaise longue with the smelling salts at hand. All my 'Give' training paid off and I managed to get the corpse off Lulu (with a poo bag serving as a makeshift glove) and I chucked it over the hedge. Off we went, with the girls on lead until we got round the corner. I thought I had dodged a bullet but as the path looped round, Lulu suddenly broke away and galloped towards the Scene of the Crime! She returned shortly afterwards with the wretched squirrel in her mouth... I know when I'm beaten so I just hurried away with Eva on lead and Lulu followed us and finally dropped her prize. Relating this story to my youngest son on the phone later, he laughed and said she'd probably convinced herself that she had tracked the squirrel for three days and had fearlessly attacked and overcome it all by herself! Bit like those fishermen who have always caught a massive fish but er... threw it back in the water of course!!

Sending hugs,