Snippet mountain

 Happy Christmas lovely crafters

I hope you've all had a good and restful time. I like this after Christmas time which I find much more relaxing. The only problem will be winding myself back up when I need to get going again. 

 On Christmas eve morning I made a little collection of tags ready for our wrapping session in the afternoon. Better late than never and it all got done in the end. 

I started with this pile of snippets which were all in the heap by my left elbow as I work. The heap contains card, paper, inky offcuts, dies and stamps (when I'm really disorganised) and anything I don't know what to do with. No matter how often I clear it, it always comes back. 

A gloomy picture but you can see they were all inked or stamped scraps and offcuts. 

I spent a happy hour with one stamp set (Creative Stamping from a year or two ago), inks, pens, pencils, a stencil, hole punch and corner punches.

We didn't go for elegant matching tags this year as you see!

Most of the colour was already on the snippets. The yellow candles were my favourite. 

These two also had embossing. I can't quite remember how I did it but I think it was embossing with stencils. Ink card first, then spritz and roll through die cutting machine. 

I really like this tag idea and perhaps I will make tags throughout the year with leftovers, it's a good way of using up those inky snippets. 

I hope this qualifies for Di's Snippet Playground Christmas draw which she is running for 4 Weeks. FOUR! To enter your snippet make needs to be Christmas or new year themed. Thanks Di for this Christmas fun and for running the playground the rest of the year, as well. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day and don't eat too much chocloate. x