Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 159

And another week into 2015 - already, so soon. Due to various other things going on here, my card today really is a bit of a cheat. Super fast indeed:

I used:

- 6" x 6" square white card blank

- a backing paper from BoBunny's 'et cetera' collection - almost a whole sheet, shock, horror

- the pre-coloured image came from LOTV's 'Wild Flowers' Art Pad, die cut using a die from the Spellbinders 'A2 Distressed Edges' set

- yay, and a snippet of yellow card from the snippets folder, die cut using the next size up in the die set (which is the largest one at A2)

That was it - told you it was a fast one. I first spotted this die set on one of the blogs I follow and I'm almost sure it had been used to die cut round one of those large vintage Christmas postcard stamped images - it looked fabulous! So, with more time to spare, these dies really can be used in loads of clever ways rather than my easy peasy card.

Onto this week's picks:

I know, Darnell's fabulous cards often feature here - and this is just such great use of little snippets of paper/card it would have been wrong not to include it.

Plus, it reminded me about a little trick I read on one of your blogs this week (wish I'd written down just where!) - if you (say) only have little birds facing the same way in a die set - remember you can die cut them and flip them over and then gently rub them with a largish ball ended rounder on the front to make the reverse look as if they were cut that way in the first place. Did I lose you there?

I've chosen this card, made by Anne F, because I love all the work that went into making it - right down the paper piecing of those adorable flowers.

This card is Vinita's very first venture into making a vintage style card - and I bet you'll agree that she really has cracked it! There are loads of lovely pictures with more detail over on Vinita's blog - why not go and check it out?

Alison C used a snippet of parchment here, which is such a lovely touch. I've also included this card because the stamp set that Alison used is absolutely beautiful and it's very plain to me just how much time went into building the background up using  a few different stamps - and with such perfect placement too. I confess that I did go and peek to see what the stamp set consists of and then ran away in horror! Amazingly painstaking work indeed.

I really dithered over this card as I also picked out Lucy's Mother's Day card which you can see over here. But, in the end Lucy's happy little Mr Gnome won the day - so clever to make the frame using lolly sticks too :)

As I always say, there are tons of inspiring ideas in every single entry this week - so why not just browse last week's thumbnails when you have a time?

And, we have two new playmates this week:

Cindy brought a host of beautiful cards to show, all featuring pennants. They're all really lovely and I was amazed at the variety too.

And Carole D skipped in for the first time, bringing this great card to show. Carole also does some amazing cake decorating - as well as card making of course!

Now for the winner of the Prima Paper pad and the Tim Holtz retractable craft pick:

Viv

Well done Viv! It really tickled me when I double checked back after your number was drawn and found that you'd commented that you hadn't bought any papers for almost a year and now wanted some :) I have your address and the package is already parcelled up to post, just as soon as I get to the Post Office.

And, all four packages from last week's bumper draw were posted off to the winners at the latter end of this last week. 

Next, if you haven't already guessed, this coming week's prize is:

Your very own set of Spellbinders 'A2 Distressed Edges' dies of course :) I do love that they've included two narrow and quite long dies, perfect for sentiments! I want to find time to sit and have a serious play with my own set.

The Snippets Challenge will run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 17th January. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

Maximum of three entries and please say 'Yes please' (or similar) in a comment if you wish to play and be a possible winner of the prize.

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

Di and of course, Parsnip!
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