Chloe stem #1

How's lockdown affecting your crafting? I found my mojo completely vanished at first, so I dug out  some old crafting magazines and am working through them taking inspiration from themes, sketches, techniques and colour schemes and combining them with my own stash and ideas to see what develops. I've found it really motivating - plus it's making a huge dent in the snippets box!

This was inspired by an article in an old issue of Making Cards magazine that made use of the Chloe Stem die (I think it was made by Memory Box)  that was a crafters' favourite a few years ago. I've made two cards inspired by it - this is the first.

The spotty panel is a snippet of black card, with embossing ink pressed onto it through a spotty stencil from Uniko  then embossed with white embossing powder. The background is the very last piece from a very useful piece of stripey green 12 x 12 (does anyone else feel sad when they use up the very last scrap of something they've loved, so they don't have it any more, or is that just me?) and the chloe stems are, of course,  all cut from snippets. The sentiment is from an old pre-printed sheet that's been lurking in my Box of Bits for years.

Stay safe everyone - staying indoors and crafting is a good thing to do right now!

I am sharing this with

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 375 

A place to start - use ribbons and/or bows 

Uniko Challenge - Spots and stripes + optional use a stencil 


AAA Birthday - dots and/or stripes