Hello, crafting friends!
I don't know about you but it feels like ages since I looked at my craft stash. I decided to make cards to thank friends and relatives for their gifts but my mojo appeared to still be in festive mode and thought we should have some more of those nice chocolates and watch a film instead! It was tempting, but I told Mr Mojo that we'd do nothing of the kind, reached for my snippets box and tipped out the contents.
And there we are - instant inspiration! It's always such a good idea to have a play with all those things you stamped and coloured but then didn't use, or the things that were trimmed off things you did use, or the embellishments you die cut but then went with something different instead... Here's what I made today:
A collage of (from left to right) a piece of card snipped off a stitched die cut frame, a trimming from card stock that had been stamped with Gingham by Kaisercraft, a small strip of striped green paper and two skinny strips of Christmas paper by Stampin' up, and finally, a 'ric rac' that was the lucky result of some die cutting with Lawn Fawn's Wavy Borders.
After attaching everything to the card base, I added a popped up sentiment from Hello and Thanks by WPlus9 that I'd once stamped and fussy cut but never used. There were two die cut silver snowflakes in the box too and I used those embellished with clear gems.
EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD
Thrilled to see that my snippety card won a diamond award at Color My Heart Color Dare!
CHALLENGES
This is my entry for the Grand Prize Draw at the Snippet Playground where Miss Di is doing a sterling job of brightening the end of this unpleasant year. I'm also going to link up my traditional Christmas colours with Color My Heart Color Dare 423.
AND IN OTHER NEWS
We've had a restful and happy Christmas with excellent food (although perhaps a little too much of it!) A certain young lady became rather excited at the present opening and offered to help everyone unwrap their gifts. Fortunately, before things got out of hand, she was given her own present. She spent some delightful moments savaging the wrapping before discovering a plush tree trunk with little squeaky animals inside. Pulling the little animals out of her tree stump kept her bus all through Singing In The Rain after lunch!
Sending hugs,
