JULES' CRAFTY SNIPPET CHALLENGE - WEEK 52

Hi Everyone

Well here it is .. .. my landmark post .. .. my year of the snippet challenge has come to an end :-(

Part of me is sad to see my year end as I have had such fun with the challenge and met some lovely blog buddies through it .. .. but another part of me is excited to be handing it over to Di and seeing what she does with it.

I know everything will be in good and caring hands and of course I will still be taking part because .. .. .. believe it or not .. .. .. I still have snippets left in my collection LOL!!!.

The Challenge started out as a personal mission to use up all the leftover bits of card and paper that were slowly taking over my craft space and to begin with was simply called my "scrap day".   People slowly started to join in and eventually it became quite a busy little challenge and it got re-named.

Here you can see the extent of my snippets as my mission began.  I did set myself some quite strict rules in that I wasn't allowed to colour any images just to crack on and use up as much paper as possible and I did stick to that all year.

This has worked quite well but I must admit going forward I think I will allow myself to use images that are coloured and sitting in my "coloured and ready to be used drawer" .. .. as this is getting a little full now too LOL!!!  (I take colouring to my Mum's with me and I colour whilst we put the world to rights.  But it is surprising how your stocks can quickly build up).

So you have seen the extent of my snippets this time last year .. .. .. what do they look like now? 

Well here are a couple of photographs I took yesterday.

Now you might think that this is one almighty failure on my part .. .. but actually it is far from it as you have to take into consideration the fact that I craft 24/7 and am constantly making more snippets. 

I only have to spend a day cutting out favour boxes and mats for wedding stationery to have produced a whole new mountain of snippets .. .. and they are far too gorgeous to simply throw away!!

OK so the little drawers are still full .. .. but at least they close now .. .. and the big drawer has definitely reduced.  My hope was that the big drawer was going to slowly make its way into the small drawers and eventually be empty .. .. but there is a long way to go before that will happen.

But my mission is going to continue and I have taught myself a really good new habit .. .. I always go to my snippet drawers first now to see if there is something I can use there before I attack a fresh sheet of card.

So the lovely Di, is the new keeper of the playground keys and has kicked us all off today with a lovely make .. .. I can just tell she is going to be a much more organised leader than I was .. .. she has already posted and had two playmates show their creations .. .. and I am still writing up the register LOL!!!

Some of that is because I didn't get to bed until 3.00am!!  That's what celebrating a new year starting does for you!!  Tee hee!!

Anyway, a quick snippet make to celebrate the keys going to a new home and also to enter into Pixie's Crafty Snippets Challenge Number 1: 

This just leaves me with the task of calling my last register :-(

The first to call by the playground last week was Sally .. .. in fact Sally called by twice.  The first collection of makes can be found here and the second set here.  So many gorgeous makes to look at!!  I know they aren't all snippet makes but they all deserve a good looking at as they are so inspirational and use lots of fabby techniques.

Irene was the next to share her snippets alongside a lovely Penny Black image.  Beautiful snippets and a wonderful image that is coloured beautifully.  Irene always manages to include a lovely bit of embossing with her cards .. .. great for adding an extra layer and a bit of texture!

Next to appear in the playground was my lovely Funky Hand playmate Jackie and what a fabulous array of creations she shared too.  Jackie is like me and creates snippets 24/7 so has a fair few to go at LOL!!  Lots of inspiration in Jackie's post!!

Next there was a super special share from the new keeper of the keys Di.  Thank you Di for making such a super special make .. .. you are very kind.

Hazel was the next playmate to share two lovely snippet makes.  The first you will find here and the next one here.  Hazel always makes the most beautiful decorated notebooks and these two are no exception.

Then last but by no means least was the lovely Tammy who sadly is feeling a little under the weather at the moment.  Tammy share a lovely thank you card she has made ... .. how super cute is this?

So that just leaves me to thank everyone who has ever, ever entered the snippet challenge and inspired me to use up my snippets and to wish each and every one of you a very, very happy new year.

I do hope you all continue to play along with the snippet challenge.  I shall certainly be there with my entries. 

Thank you Di for keeping the challenge going .. .. you are a star.

I will catch you again tomorrow.  No Handy Hippo make .. .. I am still on the Christmas break but if you haven't done so already why not try and win the 20 promarkers Handy Hippo are offering here.

Love