Pixies Snippets Playground - Week 99 - Part 2

As promised, here are the picks of the week, our new Playmates and the winner of the Memory Box 'Deer Trio' die and the Whimsy 'Layered Snowflake Die Set'.

Picks of the week first I think - and it truly gets more and more difficult as time goes by - you girls are coming up with some amazing makes using snippets! We reached 58 entries this week - almost at 60.

I had more than one card earmarked from Sue J this week, but this one was top of my list in the end. LOADS of gorgeous snippety layers and so cleverly put together. See those teeny dots around the edges of the patterned papers? I can't decide if they're little touches of liquid 'Perfect Pearls' or not - if so then I may as well throw mine away here and not bother, they really are so tiny and perfect!

Do hop over to Brenda B's blog to see how she made these adorable House Mouse treat bags for Christmas - already featured on Joanna Sheen's Daily Talent Spot.

Sorry girls, Blogger spacing is playing up here - even fiddling with HTML ain't working so please bear with me!

Loll made this totally brilliant Christmas card, breathtaking isn't it. I know it's already won at least one challenge, and rightly so! Perfect Less is More/CAS.

I picked this card, made by Elizabeth, as it shows a technique that's new to me - 'Bokeh' - plus Elizabeth has a link to the technique in her blog post. Last week was a special one to as Elizabeth and her DH finally moved into their new home - wishing you lots of happiness, and also hoping you found the kettle straight away chick!

I could go on and on with picks of the week, BUT we also had FIVE new Playmates arrive to play with us - and as is tradition let's give a big round of applause to:

 

Susanna - who brought this really clever 'Thank you card'.

KatheD, making sure of a warm welcome with what we hope is mulled wine! :)

 

Greta and this adorable little boy - just look how the paper piecing is perfectly matched to the background! 

Jean brought a beautiful set of Christmas cards - all using the same main image but each one with a little different twist. I'm almost sure I hadn't cottoned on previously that Jean is our Kate's sister - talent obviously runs in the family.

And Carol (cm) also came to play for the first time with this lovely card, I love the design and the faux stitching! Carol did mention geese along the way, nope, we can't fatten one up for Christmas in the Playground, before anyone even thinks of it!

Now, this is last but never least - I want you to see another amazing card made by Jules - look at the perfect design and paper piecing - beautiful!

I loved this stamp so much I did run out and buy one for me and one for the Playground so that's waiting in the toy box here for a future draw. Remember we have our 100 posts coming up next week and then in January our 2nd Birthday since I took over from Jules. So there are some lovely prizes on the way, including more Christmas dies, stamps, embossing folders - and a marvellous surprise donation for our 100th - so start thinking about how to use those snippets!

Aaaaaah, almost forgot the draw for those dies from last week - and the winner is: 

Karen P

 - who literally just squeezed in as our last entry of the week! I'm so pleased for Karen, am sure this will be a good pick-you-up (both pick of the week and also the winner of those fabby dies) - I just found your address Karen and will post the dies to you just as soon as I'm more mobile!

And I'll also post yours Irene from the previous week - it's only early evening here, no commenting today as yet (sorry) but I need to lie flat for a while. Am being good and trying to move about as well as rest - time, some strong pain killers and heat stuff - I'll get there, promise!

Have a super week girls! I hope to be doing hand-stands again with you soon :)

Di

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