Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 132

What a week! It's been really warm and humid here and of course Dumbo, with perfect timing, has been up to her eyes in sorting out, rearranging and cleaning round the house. So, my snippets card is a super fast one this week:

I used:

- a snippet of SU's 'Pool Party' card stock, folded to make a 5" x 5" card blank (so it was really a sizeable piece I found in the snippets folder but I make the 'rools', tee, hee)

- Penny Black's 'Soft Wings' stamp - stamped using Memento 'Teal Zeal', just off the edge of the card. Just a little bit of purple and yellow colouring using Whispers Markers - which I then tickled over with clear Wink of Stella

- the sentiment was also stamped using 'Teal Zeal' and the Winnie and Walter 'The Big, the bold and the Happy' stamp set

Super fast card as I said. I do love this stamp, it's very similar to SU's 'Swallowtail' butterfly stamp but only about two thirds of the size

Scampering quickly onto this week's Playground Picks:

Jules always makes fabulous cards - this Christmas one used plenty of snippets and so cleverly too.

Another Christmas make, this time it's a great Christmas Calendar made by Andrea. Love how the little discs will just flip over - one to copy I think!

Seeing the hedgie above, in case I forget to mention, Spike the Hedgehog is still visiting several times during the night to feed and have a drink but won't stand still once the light goes on outside and I appear waving a camera. Sigh :(

Oh wow, Jenny L made one of her amazing Wedding cards with a box to match -it's absolutely gorgeous! Do be sure to hop over to Jenny's to see the inside of this lovely card, plus the box.

I love this card, made by Mo - such a cheeky crab and all the seashore additions are just perfect. A card to make you smile I think :)

Another Christmas card, this time made by Cornelia. Such a fun design - love it! And what stunned me is that one of the challenge Cornelia entered this into required string, corrugated paper, plastic, a stamp and a hole - crumbs, no waaaaay could I have tackled that!!

Only five picks this week - out of 50 fabulous makes! It's busy here (Saturday as I'm typing) and after finishing and scheduling this I need to run out and do the weekly shop as I'm out playing on Sunday (Art Stamps at Newbury even though I already heard that it's not as good as usual from peeking at blogs, sigh). 

We had one new playmate this week too:

 aNNie (from Oz) made this adorable card and I persuaded her to come and join us in the Playground. Welcome and let's hope you came back and play soon Annie!

And the winner of the draw for last week's Penny Black 'Tree Treasure' stamp is:

Karen P

 

Well done Karen! Can you please let me have your address and the prize will be posted to you ASAP!

And, of course, this week's prize is linked to my snippets card:

It's a Penny Black stamp - same as the one I used today called 'Soft Wings'. We seem to have had a little run of stamps as prizes lately, I'll see about rectifying that next week :)

As usual, the snippets challenge will run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 12th July and will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

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.

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 :)

Have a great week! I've noticed a few more Christmas cards arriving in the Playground, it's almost as if once we reach the middle of the year a teensy bit of anxiety sets in :)

Di (and a wave from Parsnip)
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