Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize T

Here's the 20th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Celebration' prize draw:

I used:

- 5.75" x 5.75" square white card blank, side opening

- 5.5" x 5.5" piece of designer paper from Whimsy's 'Snow Flurry' paper pack, glued onto the card front using Collall All Purpose glue

- snippet of white card, die cut using Memory Box's 'Stitched Merry Christmas Square Frame' die set - I always keep snippets of white card in the box where the main sheets are, that way at least the shades of white are the same

- glued the large stitched frame onto the centre of the card front and added to die cut 'christmas'  - both using glue pens

- to finish off, added a few very flat sparkly 'gems' inside the stitched sentiment

The die comes with the word 'christmas' attached by thin wire inside the frame. There was nothing to gain by snipping them apart, it was easier to cut the two parts in one go and there's hopefully less chance of me mislaying the 'christmas' die. Hollow laugh here - who am I kidding?

This die set is great fun to use and super fast - bonus! I made three Christmas cards using different sheets of paper from the 'Snow Flurry' pack.

The prize is a Memory Box 'Stitched Merry Christmas Square Frame' die set.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

I hope you have a pleasant New Year's Eve - whatever you might have planned. I've never been a fan of New Year celebrations, but this year there will be a huge cheer going up from Len and I (and probably many more people). We'll be glad to see the back of 2021 for sure.

Love from Dudley and of course me. 

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize S

Here's the 19th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

By now, Santa most certainly is back home at the North pole having a well earned rest before he wakes up to see the New Year in. ☺ We have another Sweet Dixie stamp from Jackie T plus one from me. The Sweet Dixie stamp is called 'Destination North Pole', so cute! The Inkylicious sentiment stamp set is a favourite I've often offered for Grand Draw prizes, but I don't ever tire of it - it's called 'Seasons Greetings'. And of course, if you previously won the sentiments but have a yen for the snowman I won't split the prize, but, if you win, then you can always give the sentiments set to a friend, at your end.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize R

Here's the 18th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw': 

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, side opening

- snippet of pearlescent gold card, trimmed to 5" x 3.75"

- snippet of white card, die cut using a die from the Lil' Inkers set of 'stitched rectangles' 

- used the Misti to line up the tree and the sentiment at the same time onto the die cut stitched rectangle- both from Uniko's 'Rustic Tree' set of stamps

- stamped the tree and sentiment at the same time using Brilliance Tear Drop ink pads in 'Pearlescent Thyme' and 'Pearlescent Poppy'

- glued the image layer onto the gold narrow 'frame'

- then backed the gold piece using some Create and Craft 2mm thick double sided foam sheet - about quarter of an inch smaller all round.

- added the whole front panel onto the card front

- added a single shiny gold star shaped Josy Rose Hot Fix nail head to the top of the tree

The set does come with some really sweet little ornaments, a bow and a couple of cute birds - but I opted to let the tree and single gold star do all the work (the tree is the main reason why I fell in love with the stamp set). Partly due to so much else going on - although I did make four cards all the same whilst I was at it, stealing a march on Christmas 2022!

The adhesive foam sheet is great stuff but does need care when applying it as there's no 'wiggle room' as there is with glue. To be kinder to my nerves I might actually apply plain card to one side of the sheet and then use glue when I need to to be totally precise with the positioning. I got away with it but purely through a lot of care and angst. To be honest, it's just as easy to buy plain foam sheet and use glue, which I always do - until I spotted this self adhesive stuff and wanted to have a try. 

Here's another card I made, using my own set Uniko set of stamps called 'Rustic Wreath, for the Grand Draw last year - HERE. Also, the image of the Rustic Wreath stamp set is clearer over there!

And here's the prize:

It's both the Uniko 'Rustic Christmas Tree' and 'Rustic Wreath' stamp sets, from me. I felt that they make a nice pair and are fabulous for 'batch making'! I do know that three of you won the 'Rustic Wreath' stamp set last year - but don't let that make you feel you can't play for this prize. If you do win it, then I'm sure that you will have a friend who you can give the wreath set to, at your end!

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize Q

Here's the 17th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

It's two more stamps from Jackie T - I know, they keep on coming. Both are Sweet Dixie and one is 'Snowy Kisses' and the other is 'Best Friends' - two more gorgeous snowman images! In fact, I loved the 'Snowy Kisses' stamp so much I've ordered it - along with a couple of others - just for 'me, myself and yours truly'! 

You may be wondering why I've spread Jackie's very generous donation of stamps right across the Grand Draw. Basically, it gives you more chances to win, means that we have more fun and more winners - also the stamps are often worth almost £10 each. 

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize P

Here's the sixteenth prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

It's a cling 'Snow Brackets' stamp by Stampendous and the other one is a polymer 'Noel Flourish' by Inkylicious'. Both from me. Sorry the photo is so bad - the weather was really gloomy and the light in the run up to Christmas when I was racing round taking photos was dire. And with cello packets it's all too easy to get any lighting bouncing back. I just looked and found a proper image of the Stampendous stamp online - which I can't easily resize, but it shows how perfect it is for either the front or the inside of a Christmas card:

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize O

Here's the 15th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

This is a card I made using my own sets of Clearly Besotted Christmas Pudding stamps and dies, for the Grand Draw last year - HERE. 

And here's the prize:

It's a few Clearly Besotted items! First of all, from a previous Grand Draw, Liz donated her win of the 'Christmas Puddings' stamps and dies (rare these days) sets to Mary McMillan via me - and then COVID hit of course. Since then, Mary has decided she has a lot more craft goodies than she will ever need so the parcel never got sent, which means that this part of the prize is from both of them really! The other two stamp sets 'Festive Foliage' and 'Round and Round', both by Clearly Besotted are from me - again, bought to send to Mary and, as already said, times have changed.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize N

Merry Christmas everyone! If you manage to pop into the Playground today, I hope someone else is watching over the hot stove for you!

Here's the 14th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Celebration' prize draw: 

And a closer look at the little family ...... aw. Ha, I spotted that 'Daddy Meerkat' had a tiny white fleck on his nose. It was from the rubber tipped 'picker upper' I used for the tiny pieces - so I wiped his nose for him after I'd published this photo ☺

I used:

- 5.5" x 5.5" off white card blank with one side scored in half and folded to make the basis of an easel card

- trimmed a 5.5" x 5.5" off white piece of card for the upright card front, set to one side for now

- selected the most probable piece of scenic background card I wanted to use - from the well loved Kanban Christmas Wobblers backgrounds pack

- die cut all the little pieces for the family of three meerkats from loads of snippets of card (picking out the red and blue of the presents on the scenic design). The die cutting took a while needless to say (perfect for my Altenew mini die cutting machine) and I found that the best approach was to just take one die off the backing card at a time as there is definite logic to how the pieces are laid out on the die set images piece of card

- then glued the pieces together and reinforced some of the joins on the back using teeny pieces of sellotape

- at that point I had three little meerkats assembled, still with no eyes or snouts so they really lacked character - looked a bit spooky to be honest

- checked the background card scene I wanted to use and the little family fitted in just fine - success

- trimmed the background scene down to 5.25 x 5.25 round then glued it onto the previously cut upright panel for the easel card 

- used the top portion of a second piece of the same background card to cover the flat portion of the easel card - 5.25" x 5.25" again

- marked some pale shadowing onto the positions where the meerkats would stand then added the meerkats to the upright scene on the easel card 'front' - using a glue pen for the adults and thin sticky pad pieces for the little one 

- die cut the teeny eyes and snouts and popped them onto the little faces - and the card immediately came to life, what a difference!

- added a pre-made sentiment die cut complete with red ribbon tie (many years old, left from a pack of three) to the top left corner - at an angle as no way did I want to spoil the scene by having the sentiment just slightly 'on the wonk'

- stuck the card front onto the folded base using red line tape

- added a strip of card from the very top of one of the pieces of scenic card to the base, using thick and pretty big sticky pads then stuck it in place to act as a 'stop' when the card is propped open

- topped that with another present image - left from the second piece of scenic card I used - fussy cut and stuck down using small piece of thin sticky pads

- and that was it, finished - I'll write my message on the pale blue piece of base card at the front BTW then it will look more balanced

This Christmas card was made for Len, from me, as we both love Meerkats and when Dudley is up on his hind legs having a bit of a nose around, he does remind us of these adorable creatures. I'm sure it was a Playmate I spotted using this sweet set of dies and needless to say they were sourced and bought in double quick time! Huge fun to play with and although there's a lot of dies in the set, in fact it was fairly easy to find which piece is which for the different meerkat - once I worked out the 'hints' on the backing which holds all the different dies. Perfect for anyone who loves die cutting and it uses lots of little snippets too.

The prize, but of course, is a Marianne Design set of dies called 'Eline's Meercats' (sic), just like the one I used for my card.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

I'm entering this card into Jo's Christmas Kickstart Challenge #57, where the current them is 'If it's Christmassy'. And why don't you come and play too - get a head start on next Christmas ☺ Ho, ho, ho I hear!! 

Hope you are having a wonderful day, wherever you are - and that Santa was kind to you! Cheers - mine's a long cool glass of dry Martini and lemonade please.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize M

Here's the 13th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Celebration' prize draw:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, side opening

- 5.25" x 4.0" piece of designer paper from the Sticker Kitten 'Celestial' paper pack, carefully trimmed so that the image would be in the right place for the moon's aura on the end result

- once sized, I stamped the little house scene with moon outline onto the backing paper about 0.75" from the bottom of the paper - all stamping was done using a Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink pad and a Clearly Besotted 'One More Sleep' set of stamps

- used a ruler and a black Fine liner pen to draw right across the background panel, under the houses and to either side

- stamped the Santa, sleigh and reindeer flying across 'the moon'

- coloured the house windows in, using a yellow Polychromos pencil

- went over the area underneath the houses using a Wink of Stella Clear sparkly brush pen 

- glued the background to the card front

- stamped the 'critters' onto a snippet of white card, coloured them with Polychromos pencils and fussy cut them

- stamped the sentiment onto another snippet of white card 

- die cut the sentiment using a die from the Frantic Stamper 'Stitched Fishtail Banners' set of dies

- added the 'critters' to the card front using thin sticky pads and then the sentiment banner using a glue pen

- added three flat sparkly gems, which don't show up on the photo, sigh, and called it done!

This card was made for Dudley from Len and I - crazy or what?! Appropriate for Christmas Eve for sure! The design had been on my mind a lot in the previous week or so before making it. I wanted to 'cheat' and use some night sky backing paper - and it was pure fluke that the Paper Sticker Kitten papers included one design with a distinct 'aura/halo' which I could use to place the moon when stamping! Bit of juggling, but so worth it. 

The prize is a Clearly Besotted stamp set called 'One More Sleep'. Sorry the photo above isn't very clear. It's yet another stamp set that's been 'tweaked' twice by CB so mine, bought a year ago, is the first version. The one on offer is the second version and now they have a third version! To get a clearer view of the third version set - go here to Clearly Besotted. The second version, which is the prize shown above (and is the one I like best!), does have a few more sentiment stamps. I can't understand why you would produce three slightly different versions though. Supplier issues perhaps?

Whilst at it, I made a second card the same - it's often just as easy, and steals a bit of a march on Christmas 2022 cards.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

I forgot to enter this card into Jo's Christmas Kickstart Challenge #57, where the current them is 'If it's Christmassy'. Why not join in and play along too?

Love from Dudley and of course me. Remember - if it's not done, made, cooked or bought by now - you will still survive without it! Have a super day tomorrow and Merry Christmas to all our lovely friends,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize L

Here's the 12th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

It's two sets of Polymer stamps, designed by Katy Sue Designs for Sandra Wright, here in the UK. I bought these gorgeouse sets a good few years ago, they're still unopened and have been stored away from light and heat. I still absolutely adore the stamps, but am now realistic enough to know that my colouring skills probably wouldn't do them justice. They certainly are stunning - and just what we all should be planning to wear for the Christmas Festivities! Tee, hee ☺ 

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. Please read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize K

Here's the 11th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

It's three Sweet Dixie snowmen stamps called 'Santa's Sleigh', 'Santa's Reindeer' and 'Christmas Night', again kindly donated by Jackie T. All so perfect for the anticipation before Christmas, which is why I've joined them as a single prize. It's getting closer folks!

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize J

Here's the 10th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Celebration' prize draw:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, side opening - as always, cut down from a 5.75" x 5.75" pure white card blank - my 'card blanks of choice' by Craft UK, always super to trim down to a variety of sizes

- slightly smaller snippet of silver mirri card, glued to the card front as a 'frame'

- piece of white card stock (used part of a Craft UK 5.75" x 5.75" card to have exactly the same shade of white - a trick I often use. Mind you, Samuel Taylor's white card stock which I use for Pro markers is also a great match in shades of white - thanks to Sarn for introducing me to this at Ally Pally ......... a lot of years ago now!

- then embossed the piece of white card using a favourite Cuttlebug 'Scrollwork' embossing folder

- trimmed the white embossed piece of card to slighter smaller than the silver layer and glued it in place

- die cut the sentiment using a Poppy 'Believe Flourish' die and another snippet of silver mirri card

- glued the die cut sentiment to the card front, using a glue pen

- added three sparkly silver flat gems - they're flatter than the die cut sentiment and amazing what a difference they made too

I made two of these at once, I just like the clean and fresh look - dare I say almost elegant?

And this is today's prize, both from me:

A Cuttlebug 'Scrollwork' embossing folder, plus a Poppystamps 'Believe Flourish' die - which cuts like a dream!

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize I

Here's the 9th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

It's a Tattered Lace '12 Days of Christmas' set of four embossing folders, kindly donated by Brenda of Floral Fantasies blog. It's a beautiful set of folders and you can see the designs and dimensions of the folders if you look closely at the image. Do be aware that the largest folder is 19.8 cm x 19.8 cm so you will need a die cutting/embossing machine bigger than the likes of a Cuttlebug to use that particular die (eg. Bigshot Plus or similar). I love these folders, very unusual and doubtless they will produce some wonderful embossed card.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. Please read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize H

Picks and results from Challenge#417 can be found lower down. 

 

Here's the 8th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

It's a simple prize of a Do-Crafts 'Traditional Sentiments' stamp set from me. An all round useful set with some nice fonts.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge. Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

 

And here are the results from Ruby's Memory Challenge # 417!

 

First of all, the picks:

 

What a great way to use lots of small snippets - as well as little stamps and a snowflake punch! A great card from Kitty - and it's pink, even better! 

 

What a super card, made by Linby.  She used a really great John Next Door snowflakes die - so unusual and also versatile as you can use both the die cut 'fall out' snowflakes as well as the negative whole piece. For more ideas do hop over to Linby's blog HERE.

 

I instantly fell in love with this fabulous die - ran off and bought two .......... one of which is a prize later on in this draw. Not saying when, you have to keep on checking! ☺

 

Pauline hopped in with a set of three delightful bookmarks - using plenty of snippets. They're perfectly designed and beautifully made - the recipient is sure to be delighted with her very pretty gift.

 

These gift card/money holders, made by Diane, are fabulous! A wonderful way to use up lots of snippets and such fun! If you nip over to Diane's blog post you'll read that she's made some snowmen as well - shown in the post after the one with the Santas in.

 

That's four picks from Challenge #417, just couldn't whittle it down to three and if I'd had more time there would have been a few more as well.

 

We had 47 entries in total with no new Playmates.

 

Now for the prize draw, bundles A and B.

 

The winner of bundle A is: #33 Diane H.

And the winner of bundle B is: #20 Liz Cavill.

 

I've had real trouble with this post and the font changing size for no obvious reason. In the process of fixing it as best I could (dabbling in HTML code is always a total nightmare), I deleted the images I took from the Random number selector as I suspect they might well have been the root cause of the problem. So you'll all have to believe that I didn't tinker with the results. Luckily I had made a hand written note of who the two winners were!

 

Well done girls! Hope you enjoy your prizes. Can you both please send me your address, even if you know that I know it already, with your full name at the top as well so that it can be can be copied and pasted for speed and ease. It's a good prompt for me and also confirmation that you still would like the prize of course. Please put Playground Winner or similar in the subject line of your email in case it drops into my junk mail. Email address is on RH sidebar as always.

I won't be posting your prizes until after Christmas Day, perhaps even New Year's Day and will send you an email once it's safely on the way. The postal system is jam packed right now so it makes sense.

Challenge #417 as I already said was in aid of Ruby's Memory and I just sent off a further donation to USPCA, the rescue charity who saved Ruby and gave her the chance of the wonderful life she had with Lynne and Greg. That means, thanks to your generous prize donations, and the addition of Gift Aid tax relief onto my donations in lieu of buying prizes, we've raised £200 for USPCA so far. 

It's wonderful to see so many of you commenting and also joining in with the Grand Draw - what a happy way to end what's been a bit of a rubbish year for all of us.

Finally got all the indoor decorations finished yesterday, hooray! With the aid of my little four legged helper of course ☺ He's so funny, one rustle of tissue paper as I'm unpacking boxes of decorations (we have far too many to be honest) and he's beside me, with his paws on my lap. Every single item I unwrapped had to be held out to him - for a good look, sniff and then a 'nose dab' of approval.

He has a vet visit this coming Tuesday for his annual booster jab and check-up. Not our choice to leave it so late, apparently with COVID precautions you're lucky to even get an appointment, unless it's an emergency - or your pooch is right at the end of their vaccine protection from the previous year. Dudley is usually as good as gold ............ once he's actually inside the consulting room! Before that point there will be the accusing glares and 'You are so not my favourite person right now' vibes from him. Wish me luck - I drew the short straw to be the one to actually take him into the vet's. Thanks Len! ☺

Love from myself and the usual happy 'high-five' and woof from Dudley. Ha, but Tuesday might be different of course.

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize G

Here's the 7th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

You can see Darnell's card over HERE - huge thanks for letting me steal your gorgeous card image Darnell! 

Mind you, even though Darnell very kindly donated the prize, I still had to run out and buy my own folder - it's fabulous! I just didn't get time to make my own sample. Shame as my idea was, and still is, to use gold as Darnell has for the embossed layer - with a red bow or similar on top of matching red card 'ribbon' crossed strips to look like a Christmas gift. You heard that idea here first remember!

So, here's the prize:

It's a fabulous Sizzix 3D 'Christmas Trees' embossing folder, kindly donated by Darnell. It's so elegant yet super fast for making sumptuous cards!

I'm so grateful for all the lovely donations (both Christmas themed and other items as well) that you Playmates have made, it's just mind blowing! Mwah!

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize F

Here's the 6th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

It's two more Sweet Dixie stamps called ‘Oh Holy Night’ and ‘Shooting Star’, kindly donated by Jackie T. It's only now that I'm actually looking closer at the script on the star stamp that I can see it's of a 'super star' theme more than purely Christmas. Love them both and thought the styles would be likely to appeal to the same people which is why I paired them. The plain star stamp is great for Christmas cards too of course.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize E

Here's the 5th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Celebration' prize draw:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, side opening

- 5.25" x 4.0" snippet of silver mirri card, glued to the card front

- snippet of pale blue pearlescent card, trimmed to very slightly smaller than the silver layer, then glued on top of it

- the 'fun' part was die cutting that gorgeous 'un-branded' Nativity die. I tried all thicknesses and types of card and just couldn't get a totally clean cut using my Cuttlebug, even with various shims. Then, suddenly remembered some 120gsm pearlescent white paper I'd ordered a while ago in error - and it worked a treat!

- added the Nativity die cut (using a glue pen) to a snippet of deep blue pearlescent card, which I trimmed down after adding the Nativity scene. It's a neat little trick if, like me, you have a knack of not being able to centre things easily ☺

- glued the deep blue layer onto the pale blue layer on the card front

- die cut the star from a snippet of silver card - and it cut like a dream! So I really think it's the intricacy of the beautiful Nativity scene that was the issue

- glued the star in place using a glue pen, topped it with a teeny sparkly gem and added a few more directly onto the deep blue card

- finished! 

I made four of these in one batch and they're up in my list of favourite makes for this year's Christmas cards.

And this is today's prize, both from me:

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It is, of course, an 'un-branded' Nativity die the same as mine - plus a Crafters Companion 'Festive Phrases' set of stamps. I've added the stamp set in for two reasons. The Nativity die wasn't at all expensive (Amazon, most likely made in China) and, given my initial struggles using it, I would hate for a winner to be disappointed if they have issues cutting with it. I did overcome mine as I said above, but came close to giving up at one point. (I'd be happy to enclose some of the white pearlescent paper for the winner as well of course!). You have to snip the star out of the main die - and watch you don't lose it, I almost did when filing the used die away!

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #418 - Christmas Draw - Prize D

Here's the 4th prize in the 'Snippets Playground Christmas Draw':

It's two Sweet Dixie snowmen stamps called ‘Little Tweetheart’ and ‘Carol Singing’, kindly donated by Jackie T. Plus a sentiment stamp by Stampendous called ‘Overflowing Wishes’, kindly donated by Zoe. Both Jackie and Zoe sent goodies for Ruby's challenge, and I've used the Christmas items here in the Grand Draw Challenge as a double donation will be going to Ruby's Rescue charity.

All the rules can be found on the post for Sunday 12th December 2021, along with Mr Linky for your single entry. I do suggest that you read the rules thoroughly - particularly about the theme for this Grand Draw Challenge.

Just leave a comment on this post you're currently looking at, if you would like the chance to win today's prize.

Love from Dudley and of course me,