What's in Sarn's Satchel this Sunday?

Hi Playmates!

In my satchel this week, I have some cheese and crackers, plus a fair few bottles of wine to share out! Lets have a cheese and wine party up in the treehouse! I'm sure Dudley will put on his waiter's bandanna. Di and I will be your hostesses with the mostest!

Here's my homework:

My card was inspired by Pauline's lovely card which made me get out the unbranded triptych die I received at Christmas.

White snippets for the die cut flowers.

The white panels were liberally decorated with multiple inks and a variety of stencils. I overdid it and they looked terrible! To remedy the situation, I painted over the top of the stencilling with an opaque blue acrylic paint, then stamped over the paint with Ranger Archival ink. Happy with the panels at this point, I glued on the white die cut foliage. The panels were then matted onto SU Island Indigo card adhered to the triptych card base. The sentiment was stamped then die cut with a Heffy Doodle stitched rectangle die.

So, why not take a look at your snippets pile, pull a few bits out and see what you can make? Then come over to play in the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND - there's a lovely prize on offer - or you can just play for fun. 

Celebrating Allsorts' 15th Birthday!

The amazing Brenda and her talented Design Team are celebrating 15 years of Allsorts Challenges, and I'm thrilled to be guesting with them for this special week. 

Way to go girls! It's no mean feat to keep a weekly challenge going for so long.

This big birthday bash is Challenge #781 and the theme is ANYTHING GOES!

Here's my card in honour of the occasion:

5¼" x 5½ custom made card.

The inside in all its die-cut glory!

AALL & Create are offering hundreds of pounds worth of prizes, which will be split into 15 parcels. It'll be pot luck as to what you receive - but who doesn't love AALL & Create products?

So, why not make something and join in the celebrations OVER HERE? You can enter up to 3 times.

AALL & Create prize haul will be randomly split
into 15 separate prizes

Materials:

• Designer paper by Stampin' Up!© from 2024 Sale-A-Bration
• Die-cut numbers by Julie Hickey 
• Unbranded die for the matting and layering of floral image on the card front.
• Floral image from "A Friend Like You" stamp set by Visible Image, with a bit of doodling added for the leaves!

Come and join in this special Allsorts Challenge. You could be one of the FIFTEEN lucky winners.

Pussycat card

I saw on Alice's blog that it is the 100th Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge. The challenge is now run by Fiki, but was originally run by my friend, the late Sue (Ike). Cannot believe it's over 2 years since she died. I'm sure she's running a cat sanctuary in the sky!

5.5" x 5.5" card

Card Details:

• 5.5" square card blank.
• Flower stamp: #986 set by AALL & Create
• Penny Black cat stamp from an old clear stamp set - details unknown.
• Sentiment - very old - can't remember its details.
• Images coloured with watercolour pencils & a waterbrush. Same used for splatters.
• White snippet used for stamping, mounted onto a purple snippet of card.

What's in Sarn's Satchel this Sunday?

Hi Playmates!

In my satchel this week I have my parasol! It's been such lovely hot, sunny weather for the last few days - but I don't want to get sunburnt. 

I made a twisted easel card for my homework, using up some whole sheets of patterned paper from the 13Arts "End of Summer" pad, as well as some snippets from it - left over from last week’s coffee & newspaper card which used the same paper pad.

Materials:

• Papers from 13Arts' "End of Summer" paper pad (including some snippets).
• SU Misty Moonlight (blue) snippets of card used for punching the butterfly stopper and die cutting the birthday sentiment behind the easel section.
• SU Basic Black snippets of card for die cutting the front sentiment and the silhouette bird.

There's a new challenge to play along with over at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND hosted by Miss Di for the next fortnight.