Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 202

Well, we made it to Sunday without the Playground being totally wrecked by all the fireworks, bonfire and general shenanigans! It's been a giggle hopping round after Sarn and watching how many of you agreed to bring food and hooch for the party. Ha, 'hopping' around was the order of the day as well for sure.

Anyhow, I did manage to make a snippets card for today, did two almost the same and it took me two days in between resting up. There's this one below, and I also switched the clothing, book colours and snowflake edged background for light and dark blue on a second card:

I used:

- 5" x 5" square white card blank

- a Hobby Art clear stamp set called 'Have A Very Mice Christmas' and Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink. I used just one of the five different mouse stamps to create a little choir by stamping, masking and more stamping - the masking instructions came with the stamp set

- then added the sentiment and some musical notes that also come with the set

- coloured the choir using Whispers pens. Am afraid it's quite patchy (made all the more so by the photo of course) and Pro Markers would have been a better choice but I couldn't lift the big rack/set across to my desk whilst balancing on one leg :)

- using a snippet of red card (probably SU's 'Real Red') and the Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page (PATP) 'Aspen Snowflake' set I created a 'frame' for the image

- trimmed the image down to fit and rounded the corners using an X-Cut corner rounder punch

- tickled the little choristers' ruffs with clear Wink of Stella just to add some glisten

- glued the layers onto the card blank and called it a day

Isn't it strange how we go mad for particular products and then almost forget we have them as styles move on and our own crafting style changes/evolves? I went really dotty over Martha Stewart punches a few years ago including the PATP ones - and am ashamed to say I have loads of them languishing here. Time to play with them a bit more I think!

The stamp set I used today really is adorable, it comes with five little meece stamps as I already said - one in a stocking, a chorister as I used today, one in a fur trimmed cloak and Santa hat, a fairy and also a modern mouse in a duffle coat. It also has little extras such as the sentiment (a bit cheesy - snigger - but really quite perfect for the images!), music notes, a plum pudding, piece of cheese wrapped in a ribbon and two teeny meece. So, you get loads of lovely stamps in the one really cute set - and I reckon that might be a pointer to this coming week's prize :)

But first, let's run through the weekly picks. I had the usual tough time choosing the 'final cut' from all of the possibles I'd jotted down - and if your snippets make doesn't appear as a pick it certainly doesn't mean it's any less fabulous!

I totally love this card, made by Jackie T. A darling image and all those lovely die cut snowflakes make it really pretty and very special.

Sonia brought us yet another fabulous make this week - this is one amazing bottle for sure! Beautifully decorated, and as always, Sonia has given lots of detail about how to do it can be found on her blog.

Kate is someone else with masses of patience. What a wonderful scenic representation of London - it's so detailed and I'm not surprised it was a hit with one of Kate's sons.

Oh this is such a fun card, made by JaneW. Do hope over to Jane's blog for a closer peek - this is the inside of the card and the outside is also great. It's a 'man flu' card :) Very clever and the details of how Jane made it are on her blog post.

I absolutely adore this Christmas card, made by Helen. It's just perfection, such a lovely design, beautifully made and coloured - and the addition of little snippets to paper piece the 'trio's' hats/scarves is brilliant!

Em hopped in waving a brilliant mug - perfect for filling with chocolates, sweets or perhaps Snowman Soup ingredients.  I do so love this, and it's an unusual make for the Playground - with a link to a tutorial in case you fancy having a play!

And we have two new Playmates this week:

This is a CD cover mini album, made by Kavita. So cute, and I love the little bears - made by quilling - amazing result and doubtless they took an absolute age to make!

Love this Halloween card, brought to show by Amanda (Purplemurtle) - love all the Autumn colours and the little kitty in the pumpkin :)

Welcome to the Playground girls - it would be lovely to see you again!

Bit of a drum roll now as it's time to choose the winner of the stamps (Woodware 'Christmas Bells' plus the four singles donated by Greta) from last week - and the winner is:

Eemeli

Oh WOW Eeemeli, I'm so, so pleased your name finally came out as a winner! Eeemeli has played with us since February of this year and has featured in the weekly picks but sadly my little welcome to her was in the week that I lost a lot of the post afterwards including the weekly picks and new folk and couldn't retrieve much of it. But just so you know, this was the very first card that Eeemeli brought to show us in week 162:

Clever isn't it? I do love the idea of offsetting the inner circles - a great way to use snippets and also a super design!

I don't have your address Eeemeli, so can you please drop me an email (di_wray@hotmail.com), and the stamps will be on their way to you as soon as possible.

And the prize this coming week is, as I expect you already know:

It's a Hobby Art clear stamp set called 'Have A Very Mice Christmas' - exactly the same as the one I used on my snippets card - along with a sheet of instructions to make the 'chorister mouse' masking process easier to work out - although you would still have to cut two little masks out of course. The larger mice are between 2 and 2.5 inches in height BTW. It's not a massive prize in the great scheme of things, but there are lots of elements to play with - and I know lots of you just play for fun a lot of the time. 

Even if you aren't into 'cute' and don't want to be in with a chance of the prize, I do hope you find time to come and play anyhow :) 
 

The Snippets Challenge will run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 14th November. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

Maximum of three entries and please also link back to the Playground in your blog post to be eligible for the draw. As always, I only include folk who say a positive 'yes' for the prize in a comment.

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 - here's hoping things are more peaceful in the Playground, although I suspect there'll soon be Christmas in the air of course! I just can't wait to see what's on the 'mischief agenda' for that ............ not :)

Quick update on the toe/foot saga. I had to hop back to the docs on Friday as any improvement to date had been minuscule and the first lot of pills were finished and can't be repeated straight away. But the blood tests did point to grout (as Sarn calls it!). So now I'm on a strong dose of steroids for a few days - plus the strong painkillers. Quick edit at 11pm on Saturday, pain isn't as bad, and there's a more noticeable reduction in the redness and swelling - plus the joint is itchy albeit still painful (apparently a sign that the attack is subsiding). Bit scared to hope but perhaps things are finally turning around.

All this means that I haven't managed to package and post off your prizes from last week - I'll do it just as soon as I'm able, I promise!

However, there's absolutely nothing wrong with my ears, eyes and sense of smell - just thought I'd warn you, in advance of any more mad plans for the Playground :)

And of course, it's also Remembrance Sunday today - 'Lest we forget':

Coming from a family with a long military background, and being brought up as an Army child, today is always very poignant - as will be Wednesday 11/11 of course.


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