Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 216

Well, that was a fun week with the Pancake Day shenanigans! I think everything has calmed back down again now - thankfully!

So much so that our ringleader/rebel/reporter has done a total about-turn and is very kindly giving me a little break this coming week. So please welcome Sarn (aka Dick Orem) as your Prefect - she will be commenting on entries and doing the picks for me. As well as that, Sarn made our snippets cards (three of them!) this week and also very kindly has a lovely double prize in store for you. I'll still be here in the background in case anyone has problems linking, seeing who would like to be in for the prize(s) and will still look at your entries (I'm just a sticky beak!), even if I don't comment.

Let's take a look at the three snippets cards Sarn made:

Aren't they absolutely gorgeous? You can hop over to Sarn's to find out more about them - lovely stamps and such pretty colours too.

Time now for a 'peek at the picks' - as always such a difficult job deciding:

I very rarely let on that something I see in the Playground will be a weekly pick, things sometimes change over the week and I can only show so many of your wonderful makes. But, I broke my own rule and this went right to the top of my picks list - and I also told Janis too! Do go and see exactly how Janis made this lovely work of mixed media art - I totally adore it!

I adore this card, made by Helen! So clever to use the newsprint paper for the flowers (yet another idea stored for future use!) - and the stamped central flower stems with Helen's hand doodled shorter stems and border are just brilliant too!

Isn't this fresh and fabulous? Sonia used the inlay technique to make this really pretty card using Distress Inks and a white gel pen - I love it! Sonia entered three times this week and I could have included every single make - chose this one as I felt it's such a great idea to CASE.

We had lots of Valentine's Day cards in the Playground this week - and I loved every single one! I picked this card, made by Sandy, because the paper piecing is great - and also it really made me smile, such a great sentiment too!

I picked this card, made by Lynn, because I love the colours and composition, so pleasing on the eye IMHO. Isn't that wavy die a stunner too?!

As it's Valentine's Day I thought it appropriate to finish the picks with this amazing pop up box, made by Jenny L. Would you believe it's Jenny's very first pop up box card? Totally stunning indeed Jenny!

So that's the 'peek at the picks' - and, I hope Carole D won't mind, we have one very, very happy new Granny in the Playground. Baby Thomas was born on Monday 8th February - and this is the lovely card Carole made, albeit not a snippets entry:

A rocker on a rocker :)

And ............................... here's the little chap himself:

Oh my word, isn't he one of the loveliest babies ever?

We have one new Playmate this week, and it's Darlene who is a friend of Diane H. Together they run a great challenge called 'Double D Challenges' - go here to take a peek. It's already a very popular challenge with some lovely themes! This is Darlene's really lovely card - gosh I so love that die!

Time now to pick the winner of last week's prize of the Crafts-Too 'Butterfly Garden' die and Inkylicious  two-stamp set called 'Sunshine Wishes'. And our winner is:

Jane W

Well done Jane! I have your address here and will post the die and stamps off to you this coming week.

Onto this coming week's prize, which as I already said is a double one - yay for Sarn!

First of all it's a Woodware 'Wedding Hearts' stamp set , kindly donated by Nina who is the owner of Creativity Cards and Crafts, which is Sarn's local craft shop. Thank you SO much Nina! Sarn used all of her own set of stamps for her snippets cards, with really beautiful and varied results.

And, we also have a beautiful set of three Creative Expressions 'Gemini - Cygnus' dies, kindly donated by Sarn!

Two really lovely parts to this coming week's prize!

The Snippets Challenge will run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 20th February. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

Maximum of three entries and please say in a comment if you wish to play and be a possible winner of the prize. If you only want to play for either the stamps or the set of dies then just say so in a comment - if your number comes up then I'll do a further draw for the remaining part of the prize. But, both items are up as one complete prize if you so wish of course. Please also link back to the Playground in your blog post to be eligible for the draw.

Mr Linky is below - please let me know if you have any problems linking, it's easy for me to sort out so don't struggle on alone :)

Enjoy your week - whatever mischief you might have planned! And please look after Sarn :)

Di and, of course, Parsnip!
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