For most of the year there isn't a particular theme for the Playground Challenge apart from the fact that we are encouraged to use up some of our snippets for whatever we take along each time, also showing either a photo of said snippets or explaining what we've used. This time there is as usual a very generous prize on offer and a theme of *ANYTHING BUT CHRISTMAS*. I must admit I'm more or less 'Christmassed Out' so it was lovely to make something different and of course to see what others come up with as well. Certainly no shortage of snippets here because the pile never seems to diminish despite doing my best to use something from the 'mountain' before even thinking of cutting into whole pieces of card or paper 😉.
The sunset die was still out on my desk along with a remaining snippet of the Pixie Powder background I used previously and in fact while making the first card the idea for this second one floated into my head. Again apart from using a ready made card blank everything else here came from my snippets collection - The coloured background snippet already mentioned; a piece of cream card trimmed to fit the card; really quite small snippets of black, kraft and brown for the cats, birds and tree. Why not see what you can make for this challenge and pop along to the Playground with it. Di and Sarn work tirelessly to keep this challenge going so it would be lovely for them to receive lots of lovely entries to show just how much their efforts are appreciated by us all 😊
Birds - die set from Memory Box
Cats - die set from Impression Obsession
Sunset and tree - unbranded dies
Thank you for your very kind words and all your Playground support Val. 😘
ReplyDeleteLove all the little die cuts comprising your sweet scene.
Thanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. Still a few sausage rolls left up in the Treehouse! Xxx
I really do like those little kitties with the sun and tree! They're waiting for those birds to fly out of the tree, eh? I too am tired of Christmas stuff - time to move on to something different!
ReplyDeleteA lovely scene you’ve created with those lovely cute Dies, see you in the treehouse xxx
ReplyDeleteLovely card Val, I love the CAS scene you’ve created and the sunset die cut is fabulous. xx
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ReplyDeleteAnother great scene using that great sunset die .. .. it looks amazing .
Such a lovely scene and one which my eldest son and his wife would also appreciate very much. They added die cut black cats to the Christmas cards they made this year .. .. they adopted two black cats that had been badly treated in the past and so cats often make an appearance.
Hope you had a good Christmas.
Love Jules xx
What a gorgeous card Val - LOVE the sunset and the beautiful scene you created. A wonderful snippets make. And many, many thanks for your lovely words about the Snippets Playground!
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Di xx
What a beautiful sunset die! And lovely colours. You are right about the snippets, the pile never gets any smaller, I'll need to think up more ideas.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful die Val and I love the added birds in the tree and the sweet little cats eyeing up the birds I think..lol. The Pixie powder piece you used for the die cut sunset is absolutely perfect..a clever snippety make. x
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