Pixies Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 90

Wow, we're up to week 90 in the Playground - and I bet it won't be long until we reach the magic 100.

Here's my snippets card for this week:

I used:

- A6 white card blank

- white card embossed with Crafts-Too's 'Snowflake Banner' embossing folder

- Memory Box die called' 'Bells Are Ringing' and lots of snippets. I made three the same using lovely soft silk effect red mirri card and gold self-adhesive sparkly film - just popping the gold pieces into the inside cut out parts of the bells. That left me with gold sparkly 'outer' parts for another three bells. For those I did some playing round, one using the red silk mirri card - OK, OK, I confess - the red mirri pieces had already been scooped into the waste bin here and I could only rescue enough to make one complete pair of bells :) But, more snippets rummaging in the folder which is bursting at the seams and I found some little pieces of clear self-adhesive sparkly film in red and clear. The one above is my favourite, I think the bells look better with the 'frame/outer' part in thicker card

Also, and this is quite important, a bit like peel offs, the self adhesive 'frames' can end up just a smidgen stretched so that it can be tricky making sure the inner gaps are covered properly. My future rule will be firm card for the outer with either the sparkly or possibly contrasting firm card for the inner parts. Still with me? I thought not :(

These are the others so you can see what I mean about the different effects you can get using this lovely die:

I think this last one would be great, without the snowflakes of course, on a Wedding card too.

As I was about to take the photos I realised I'd missed out the sparkly little 'clanger' on the left bell on the card above. Perhaps a fortunate error, 'cos no waaaaay was I gonna get everything out again and die cut one so I just used a Sakura glue pen and some Glamour Dust to fill the area. And that led onto thinking that you can do the same instead of using the glitter film, either by adding glue and sprinkling glitter or even (if you feel up to the work) die cutting double sided self-adhesive sticky sheet for the 'inserts' and then adding whatever sparkle you wish.

Phew, for some small cards that was a very long and rambling explanation but I ended up with six cards to show for it.

So, onto this week's picks, tricky-woo as ever to choose:

Amazing card from Cathy R - I love it and how clever to use the 'daisy edge' border for the window dressing. Love the 'flicking' tail too :)

Apart from snippets, Kimbo's card used the 'faux silk' technique on the image panel - certainly one to try out and a stunning result!

Two beautiful cards from Viv, and I've shown both of them as it shows so well why you should never throw a negative away once you're die cut a shape. Snort, I'm guilty of doing that but these cards made me vow to change my ways. Reading more closely I think that Viv did cut the die a second time but the principle is there!

Elizabeth brought this really classy and elegant card to show, all white is so perfect for Christmas!

Crumbs, every card shown here so far has been white/blue so let's look for some different colours - how about this?

 

I really giggled when I saw this happy card, brought to the Playground by Lynn H :) And THEN I spotted some follow up comments -  no, no, no - we are NOT having a baby pig to play with in the Playground!

And Debs squeezed, in literally with minutes to spare, as I was typing this - with this lovely card. I adore how the flowers all pick up the colours of the image and papers!

We also have KathyK playing with us now - do please hop over and say Hello. Kathy makes fabulous cards and much more besides - I hope you come back to play again!

OK, so onto the draw now and the winner is:

ScrappyMo

 

Wahoo, well done Mo - and I didn't have to do re-draws this week. ICan you please drop me an email with your address in, to save me from searching here - thanks!

And onto this week's prize, as if you haven't already guessed:

Yup, it's the die I used in today's cards - 'Bells Are Ringing' by Memory Box.

Plus, a lovely set of Christmas stamps by Inkadinkado called 'Christmas Silhouettes'. I can just see these stamped and embossed.

AND, it's been six weeks since we had a Ryn Tanaka  stamp on offer:

It's called 'Rising Bubbles' and it's one of those two week things like last time. All you have to do to be 'in it to win it' is to make a total of THREE snippets entries over this week and next - so that might be three in one week, two one week plus one in the other, it's up to you. Of course you can still make a maximum of three entries in one week which would also count. I haven't used my own stamp as yet but can see loads of different things to use this lovely stamp for. I'm offering it now while there is still time for the winner to have some fun before the mad rush of card making before Christmas :)

The Playground will run as usual this week with the gates closing at 11am UK time on Saturday 21st September. Maximum of three entries and please say 'No thank you' in a comment if you wish to still play but not be the winner of the prize this week, as shown above. It might be an idea to also say if you're trying for the 'Rising Bubbles' stamp - sometimes I have to second-guess.

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.

It's very rare that I have a card all ready for Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - but this week I do 'cos the theme is 'cut it out', either by hand, using a die or punch. I think you already gathered I used a die :) Coo, being ahead of the game I might be tempted to have another go with something different. And it's also for Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra which is always 'anything goes'.

Di (and a wave from Parsnip)
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