Pixies Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 86

Sigh, Summer seems so have run away right now but my snippets card is still 'Summer themed' in the hope of better weather:

I used:

- 6" x 6" square white card stock

- whole (slap my wrists) papers from the Forever Friends 'Best of British' paper pad

- snippets of papers I found tucked inside the front of the same pad

- image is a stamp by Just Inklined called 'Water's Edge', coloured with Pro Markers and a tickle of Glossy Accents on the metal ring holding the rope. The clouds were added using the usual 'Tim Holtz Distress pad, template and little duster brush technique' - this time I used 'Faded Jeans' for the sky to match the papers a bit better than my usual 'Tumbled Glass'

- the sentiment panel came with the paper pad and I just stamped the word 'Hi!' from a Stampendous set called 'Happy Messages', in Memento 'Tuxedo Black' - to be honest the little panel woulnd't have taken a bigger word :)

Love the image stamp and it's super-easy to colour too.

And this week's picks are a bit fast and furious as once again I have a ton of other things to do today (Saturday):

 

Sam (aka Hettie) brought a fabulous layout to show - love all the pink and the story behind the layout is so inspiring.

Victoria is blogging again (wahoo) and made this fabulous Christmas card. Did you know there's a little one on the way too? Congratulations Victoria - no shortage of baby sitters in the Playground, they'll do anything for sweeties!

Darnell has been 'Smackin' Acetate' there are some gorgeous cards over at her blog. I did laugh at Sarn when I mentioned I'd love to try this and her reply was 'What's acetate ever done to you to deserve that then?' - very droll :) Do go and see how it's done, a great technique which a few of you have already been playing with this past week.

Eve made brilliant use of her snippets this week, following an idea by the lovely Jules - isn't it just stunning?

And speaking of Jules:

Oh wow Jules, what a brilliant card...............and so true as well :)

I could show so many more, to check them out here's the link to last week's Mr Linky.

So, moving rapidly on - we have a new little playmate this week - welcome Loll, hope you come and play often.

The prize for last week was won by:

Karen P

Well done Karen - proves that doing three entries increases your chances! The 'Speech Bubble' dies will be on their way to you ASAP.

And this week's prize is a double one, first of all there's your very own 'Water's Edge' stamp:

And, in keeping with the nautical theme, here's a lovely set of two dies by Marianne Creatables - kindly donated by Kim. I reckon if you were careful you could add the yacht alongside the stamped image perhaps:

As I said at the beginning, Summer seems to be slipping away a bit so I thought it would be good to offer a double prize (both to the same winner) in time for the last of those Summer cards.

And, we have a name for this little chap:

Can I please properly introduce PARSNIP. Last minute change from my original choice of Snippet, which was almost unanimous but I think you'll all still approve of Parsnip. After reading about my 'carrot carving' yesterday, Sarn challenged me to put my money where my mouth is and make/show a carved carrot rose. That led to me nipping out and buying some carrots and a large parsnip in readiness - can't resist a challenge! Sarn then suddenly came up with 'Parsnip' as a name - which is brilliant I think 'cos he's white, it has 'snip' in the name - plus is distinct enough from actual 'snippets' which might have caused confusion to him, you and myself :) Do you agree?  He's too big to come with me on my abroad travels, certainly not with flight luggage limitations, but perhaps he'll have a few UK trips now and then. After all, he's already met Sam's 'Fergus' :)

The Playground will run as usual this week with the gates closing at 11am UK time on Saturday 24th August. 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 stamp and dies this week as shown above. Mr Linky is below - do please let me know if you have any problems linking, I can sort it out for you quite quickly and am always happy to do so.

Di (and a wave from Parsnip)
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