Let's leap straight into the three top picks for Challenge #456, in numerical order:
Carol S brought this fabulous Christmas card to share with us - I love it! Plenty of lovely snippets and a great design - the arched window is beautifully worked with a clever idea to just slightly offset the window die cut onto another window die cut from black. Nice one!
Lesley G came up trumps with her Gummiapan die cuts 'sewing room' scene. The detail is incredible and carefully researched by Lesley - they say the devil is in the detail and it certainly is the little things that make this into such a stunning card. Look at those scissors and the tape measure for example!
Helen consistently makes the most wonderful cards and her colouring and paper choices are always spot-on. I love the added detail of the stitched outlines on the paper layers - once again, it's all in the detail! I also think that Helen must have a seriously big pile of snippets to match everything so beautifully.
The randomly drawn winner of the two sets of stamps with matching dies is:
To claim your prize, please send an email using the Snippets Playground email address shown on the RH sidebar, with PLAYGROUND WINNER (or similar) in the subject line. Please add your FULL NAME above your home ADDRESS so that I can copy and paste it for speed and ease.
IMPORTANT NEWS! Sarn and I are going to be doing CHRISTMAS IN JULY themed challenges for the next two challenges - starting NEXT WEEK!
For the July challenges #458 and #459, your entry will need to be CHRISTMAS themed to have a chance of being a Top Pick or to go in the prize draw. We will revert to 'anything goes' again afterwards - but do please play nicely, according to the rules and also our 'Christmas in July' theme - else your entry might be deleted.
Sarn and I will each have a lovely bundle of Christmas craft goodies to offer as prizes. Somehow the Toy Box has accumulated a few Christmas themed prizes, even after we cleared them right out last July!
Love from Di and Dudley
Fabulous picks! Well done to all and big congrats to Gail!
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Lovely picks. Congrats to all of you- especially to Gail on her win.
ReplyDeleteWonderful picks again. Congratulations to them all and to Gail on her win. xx
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Gail, Carol and Helen xxx
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Gail and amazing top picks.
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Brilliant creations as ever! What a talented bunch.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant top picks and congratulations to Gail on being the lucky prizewinner
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for choosing my card as one of the top picks - what a lovely surprise!
ReplyDeleteHa ha...yes, I do have *quite* the snippets collection - I keep even the tiniest bits! ;)
Helen x
Congrats to all of these wonderful card makers! Your cards are all so inspiring!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous top picks and wow, yeah, happy dancing and an extra round of swings!!! So happy to be the lucky prize winner. Looking forward to Christmas in July. Hugz
ReplyDeleteRemember to send your address to the Snippets gmail account Gail! X
DeleteJust did that Di. Thanks so much. Hugz
DeleteFabulous top pick! That sewing room is amazing. Congrats to everyone!
ReplyDeleteWow, lovely cards!
ReplyDeleteGreat picks..really inspirational, and congratulations to the winner Gail. x
ReplyDeleteWow great picks and congratulations to the winner xx
ReplyDeleteAwesome picks and congratulations to the lucky winner! Yay! Christmas theme. I need a kick up the bum as I haven't made even one Christmas card yet this year so, having just started blogging again, maybe this challenge will get me going on Christmas and keep me blogging! Fingers crossed! Take care my friend. Hugs xxx💖💖💖
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