Pixies Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 69

Crumbs, these weeks seem to be flying by - here's my snippets make, proving for once and for all that I truly do need to get out more:

I got the idea from Helen, over at 'It's All Fiddle Fart'. She really does come up with some great ideas and I've followed her blog from waaay back before this blog was even thought about. I truly do think you should go and see what she gets up to.

 A close up.

 Just in case you need proof of how I started out making this card, sleeves were rolled up all ready for action :)

I used:

- 6" x 6" square cream card stock

- another piece of the same cream card stock, layered onto a square of SU's 'Always Artichoke' card stock

- a snippet of brown card, die cut using the totally fabulous Memory Box 'Arboscello Tree' die - it's 3.2" x 3.7" in size

- seven different coloured snippets of thin card (ha, that didn't make much of a dent in the ever-expanding snippets folder), all punched out with a small Tonic punch flower punch - approximately 1cm across

- seven different colours of sparkly 3mm gems

- a big dollop of patience/OCD

I adore this die - if you Google it there are tons of way to use it. I got carried away and really covered the lovely branches but less is as good or even better. Plain white on a sympathy card, a bit of glitter for Christmas, more than one to make a little copse of trees, the list goes on. I like the idea of leaving it plain and just drawing a little line with a single heart dangling from a branch.

OK, so this week's show and tell - which seemed to stream in at the end of the week:

Bubbles has been catching fairies in jars this week :) Just so long as they're not Pixies I'm cool with that! Do go and see, and also make sure you look at her previous post of another fairy 'capture' - this one shown above even has a little light in the top of the jar!

Sandra H made this breathtakingly detailed card - I love it! So much detail and super use of snippets.

Debs made a beautiful flowerpot card, with a secret inside. It's gorgeous! And, I have right in front of me here a lovely thank you card (for the jars I found a new home for the other week) from Debs. It's a fantastic 'spinner/slider' card and I hope she shows it on her blog soon. I'll let you know if she does - how about it Debs?

And finally, Tara made this really amusing snippets card (could have been some of us last weekend girls!) - just look at the paper piecing! Great use of snippets.

I say it every week, and make no apologies either - each and every snippets make is gorgeous and I wish I had time to cover every single one. You can do your bit by going to last week's Mr Linky and having a little hop around.

And a big welcome to Max who played along for the first time this week too!

OK, drum roll - onto the draw for the lovely La Blanche stamp - and the winner is:

Scrappymo - aka Maureen

Again, it took me three goes to find someone who hadn't said no thank you.  I do know that Mo said she loved this stamp so it's going to a good home!

Maybe this week's little prize will be no surprise -yup, it's an Arboscello Tree die of your very own. Maybe I'm inflicting my own taste on you at times 'cos often when I find something I love - two fall into my shopping basket! One for me and one for the snippets toy box:

The Playground is open all of this coming week, will close on Saturday 27th April  at noon UK time and Mr Linky is below as usual. Just enter a snippets make into the Playground this week and I'll do a draw after the Playground closes next Saturday. 

 

As usual I am asking for a snippets make please, maximum of three entries and please say 'No thank you' in a comment if you wish to still play but not be a winner of  the die.

Enjoy the rest of the week! My back feels a lot better already, fingers crossed.

Di
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