Sunday Snippets - Owl let it snow card

Following on from my previous post, here's another one using some of the single sheet of paper from Stamperia's 'Owl House' paper pad: 

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, side opening 

- piece of paper (snippet) showing the reverse side of a piece of Stamperia's 'The Owl's House' paper pack trimmed to 5.25" x 4", then glued to the card front

- a small image from the same paper pack - it's a snippet left over from making a previous card, from the reverse of another sheet of the scrumptious paper

- I then die cut a 'frame' using a snippet of white card measuring exactly 4" x 3" then cutting into it using the middle sized die from Craft Addiction's 'Fusion Frames - Rectangle'

- die cut a tiny bit from the little image, using the same die as for the frame so it would just pop into the aperture

- backed the 'frame' with a slightly smaller snippet of white card so that I could then glue the image itself safely in place as I wanted to raise the whole panel

- popped a Clarity Christmas sentiment onto the top right hand corner of the image

- final step, added the image panel to the card front using thin foam tape 

I'd like to enter the following challenges: 

Allsorts Challenge #848 - HERE.  Under 'Anything Goes'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #86 - HERE - the set of Craft Addiction 'Fusion Frames' were having a first outing. 

Dudley Pupdate: Dudley loves to spend 'together time'  each morning, as we watch the news and have the first cuppa of the day. I think the nights could be long for him as we sleep. During 'together time' Dudley lies on our bed, being played with and generally fussed over. After a while he then stands up and trots off to find Honka Duck - it's all pretty predictable. Much like the news can be on a 'slow day for news' really!

However, this morning (Saturday), just as he was getting ready to hop down from the end of the bed he literally stopped dead in his tracks. Then turned round and, quick as a flash, rushed back up the bed to plant a nose bop kiss on my cheek, before turning and racing off! It was so deliberate and very moving, bless him. And yes, of course my eyes welled up!

I've published the results of Challenge #530 HERE. 

Do please come and play in Sarn's current challenge over in the Snippets Playground - just scroll down from the results post.

Love from myself and Dudley, 

Rudolph Days - April 2026

Alomose missed the date but I am, with a quickly made card for the April Rudolph Days Challenge HERE:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25"  white card blank, side opening

- the image is carefully selected ** from an 8" x 8" Stamperia paper pad called 'The Owl's House', trimmed to 5.25" x 4" and glued onto the card front

- the 'labels' sentiment is from a Clarity set of self-adhesive Christmas sentiments - just popped onto the bottom right hand corner

** The sheet of paper that I used is double sided and with some careful measurement I managed to get two images and one piece of backing paper out of the same sheet - two from the front and one from the reverse, I do like a challenge! Watch this space for the other two yet to come.

Quick and easy - phew!

Sunday Snippets - Have a Beautiful Birthday

To be fair, the Beautiful Birthday has already been and gone, but I wanted to share the card I recently made for a very special friend - and I used snippets of course:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" purple card blank, using  a sheet from the HunkyDory 'Garden Treasures' card pack, side opening

- a piece of 'white brick wall' patterned paper from the 'Brick Wall Texture' pack - brand unknown, from Amazon - trimmed to 5.25" x 4" and set aside

- a snippet of purple card, leftover from making the card blank, which I die cut using a Craft Addiction's set of dies called 'Slatted Arch'

- piece of white card, also a snippet, onto which I stamped the adorable Newton's Nook 'Dainty Daisies' using Clair 'Nocturne' ink

- then coloured the 'daisies' image using Polychromos pencils before die cutting the bunch using a co-ordinating die 

- that meant I could sit and sort of juggle the flowers and arch around a bit until I was happy where the sentiment would go with it

- stamped the sentiment onto the bottom left of the card using Clair 'Nocturne' ink again and a NBUS stamp from Penny Black's 'super day' stamp set

- then glued the brick wall panel onto the card front, along with the die cut arch

- then adhered the bunch of daisies in place using thin snippets of foam sticky pad 

- finished! 

I'd like to enter this card into:

Allsorts Challenge #848 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

Darnell's NBUS Challenge # 85 HERE - the set of slatted arch dies are my NBUS items

Dudley Pupdate: With warmer weather the past few days, Dudley is beginning head to cool, tiled, floors to lie on. By this time, late on a Saturday evening, he's usually cuddled up on our bed. Looks like a warm night ahead as he seems to be sprawled in the tiled hallway. Clever little guy! Doubtless with Honka Duck keeping him company.

Sarn has opened up Challenge #531 in the Snippets Playground HERE . See you on the swings! I think I heard mutterings about needing a new paddling pool earlier today!

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,

Sunday Snippets - Have a great day

My snippets card for this week is very simple:

I used: 

- 4" x 4" Silkweave 'pale ivory linen' card snippet 

- the image is a Penny Black Stickeroo, from their 'Gentle Blooms' sheet

- backed the image with a black square - trimmed down from a snippet

- glued the image panel onto the card front 

- added a simple sentiment from a Clarity Assorted Sentiments set of stickers

- quick and easy! 

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge: 

- Allsorts Challenge #847 HERE  - under 'In the Garden'

Dudley Pupdate: The other day I had a routine dental appointment so Len took me there, and later collected me - with Dudley riding shotgun 'harnessed and secured' in the back of the car. He 'sang' all the way there and for Len 'exclusively' when returning home, and even did an encore when coming back later to collect me. Opening the back windows a few inches does help him as he's such a curious little guy and also loves to be able to smell and feel the fresh air rushing past.

However, on the way back home, after hugs and licky greetings, he just flopped down and dozed off. Happy in the knowledge that his 'tribe' were together again and we were heading back to his favourite place!  

The results from Sarn's Challenge #529 are now published in the Snippets Playground HERE. Three perfect picks and one lucky prize winner - what's not to like?

Love from Dudley and yours truly