Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 248

This coming week will see me 'missing in action' from Thursday to Sunday at 'The Midlands Great British Craft Festival' in Coventry with Kim and others from the Snippets Playground. If any of you plan to be there and would like to meet up - do let me know! The Friday is a pre-booked day of workshops - and they're mostly - shudder - mixed media! We booked this little jolly back in July after our Southampton meet up with Darnell, well before I had a first play with the dreaded 'messy stuff' - should be verrry interesting :) Sigh.

We plan to be there all day Saturday at the Fayre as well - doing some shopping no doubt and may even pop back for a last look on the Sunday morning before setting off for home again.

That means I'll be scheduling next Sunday's snippets post (Week 249) with a new Mr Linky and a new prize to be won. But, my post won't include any picks or the winner of this coming week's prize. Those will appear on a bigger than usual Week 250 on 9th October, with some picks from the whole fortnight as well.

Doing things this way has been really made all the more possible just a day or two ago by our lovely Jane W offering to act as Prefect when she picked up that I was going to be away for a few days. So Jane will be commenting over this coming week and will let me have a note of her picks in time for the post I'll do for Week 250. I'll still be trying to peek into the Playground now and then but, although we'll have wi-fi where we're staying whilst away, a lot of the time will be spent totally out of touch with the internet - so I can't thank Jane enough for her really kind offer to 'babysit' you for this week. We've gone for the whole week as it frees some time up for me before going away and also gives Jane the chance to build up her possible 'weekly picks' list. What a lovely bunch you girls are! It really has been such an enormous help now and then (notably from Sarn and Eve) to have someone step in to help out when things here become stretched.

Here's my snippets make for today:

I used:

- 4" x 4" white card blank

- a snippet of SU's 'Real Red' card for the frame

- a little snippet of what I think could be a leftover from a Kanban background sheet of card with the snowy landscape design already printed

- white snippets and the really sweet Poppy Stamps set of stamps called 'Love never melts'. Stamped the images using Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and did a little bit of colouring using Pro markers and Whispers markers'

- then die cut all the little stamped elements using the matching Poppy Stamps dies

- glued the pieces in place to create the scene, stamped the sentiment using Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink and added the heart - all from the same sets of stamps and dies

- then glued the red frame to the back of the image panel and glued the whole thing onto the card front

I love these little stamps and dies - I made it look as if my snowman was juggling one lonely snowball :) Would be great for Christmas gift tags too of course.

Crumbs, almost forgot! It's Rudolph Days over at Scrappy Mo's from today until the end of the month - so I'm linking this card into one of my favourite challenges!

Here's a peek at this week's picks - quick scamper this time:

LOVE this paper quilling, made by Val. The detail is amazing and a super use of snippets of course.

Gorgeous paper piecing, by Bonnie. The little secret is that those lovely flowers were originally coloured with a gold Uniball pen and Bonnie hated the result - so it's a real lesson in hanging on in there and using paper piecing to cover up the gold. Thereby saving a really lovely background to end up with a beautiful card.

So lovely to see Elizabeth back playing with us after a little break - and I just had to pick this card for those amazing blue poppies! Stunning colouring and a beautiful card altogether.

Ruth came back to play as well, after almost 12 months of 'truancy' - and what a card she brought too! That amazing die (Memory Box 'La Rue Heart') is so elegant isn't it - a beautiful card!

Absolutely had to include this really fun card, made by Megan. I think it's a brilliant idea, just get those circular dies out with some green, white and red snippets and away you go! BTW, the 'pips/seeds' were made from little punched out hearts and then covered with glaze. So clever!

Another brilliant idea for a card came from Kath - this one is for a 35 year old. It's perfect for either male or female but really does solve those difficult to make cards for chaps!

I really love this as a different snippets make - Alison made a quilt! It's for one of her sons and isn't it great! It just shows that snippets come in all forms - and also that a patchwork quilt needn't be 'girlie' either. Snigger, I bet it took a whole lot longer to make than a card :)

This card made by Carole D is so elegant and also very clever as well. I don't think you could beat this for a design for a 3rd Wedding Anniversary card could you? Those three hearts are just perfect!

Stopping there at eight picks for this week. Each week I tell myself to only show three picks but it's almost impossible to limit numbers as each and every entry is worthy of showing.

We had one new Playmate last week, out of a total of 63 of you who came to play - so busy, standing room only at times!

Isn't this just the most terrific Star Wars paper pieced double layout? Brought to us by 'All Kinds of Crafty' - sorry I don't know your real name but you're so welcome to join in the Playground and we hope you come back to play again!

And it's prize draw time, for the bumper bundle of the Spellbinders dies, the Penny Black flower stamp and the Paper Smooches sentiments stamps set.

I really thought there was a strong chance that this prize might end up being split as some of you opted for only one or two parts of the prize if your number was picked. However, the name that popped out was (I hope from the comment left!) playing for all three items so we'll have one very happy bunny I think. Our winner is:

Lynn (Linby)

Well done Lynn! I'm finding it harder to keep up with when people last had a Playground win as we're almost up to 250 weeks since I took over from Jules, but am sure it was a good while ago Lynn! Possibly as long as a year or so.

Can you please drop me an email with your address in and I'll post your prize off as soon as possible! My email address is on the right hand side bar. I'm asking folk to do this just in case I have an old address or there are any other issues with posting their prizes. I'd like to post this off as early as possible this coming week so am hoping that Lynn sees this and gets in touch ASAP.

Here's this coming week's prize and it's so, so cute!

The lovely Megan totally surprised me a couple of weeks ago by sending a selection of goodies for the toy box - with duplicates for me to play with as well! Thank you again Megan - I really had such fun using my own set of Poppy Stamps 'Love Never Melts' stamps and dies. And, there are more stamps to come from Megan folks - but I'm saving those for now.

Both these items make up one prize, they are made to go together of course.

The Snippets Challenge will run for one week and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 1st October. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

A maximum of ONE entry and please say in a comment if you wish to play and be a possible winner of the prize, which won't be split of course . Please also link back to the Playground in your blog post to be eligible for the draw.

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 :) I'm hoping all runs smoothly with the linking as I hate tinkering on a notebook/pad and the laptop will be at home having a few days rest.
 

Have a lovely week! Big hug from Parsnip, and of course me! Be good for Jane too :)