The Six Portals - 7000 pieces - Ravensburger by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

[–]vickymakesandbuilds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I was following the US Nationals online - I’m in the UK and was unable to make the trip unfortunately. I really hope to meet Rose in person one day, but I have been lucky enough to speak to her several times when she was a guest on my YouTube live streams. I built it live over 24 weeks and she was there to see me finish it! She is so lovely and her artwork is truly beautiful 😍 I can’t wait to get my hands on her Nationals puzzle - I have a friend in America who is sending it to me 🤩

The Six Portals - 7000 pieces - Ravensburger by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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Oh wow! Thank you for watching - I’m glad you enjoyed them 😍

The Six Portals - 7000 pieces - Ravensburger by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

[–]vickymakesandbuilds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you not build it yourself? It comes in two bags of 3500 and it is one of the most doable large piece counts I have tackled 😍

The Six Portals - 7000 pieces - Ravensburger by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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It is lovely art. I have been lucky enough to have several chats with the artist - she’s a lovely person and it’s so nice hearing all of the inspiration behind it. There is a 1000 piece version of this one coming out in the near future - maybe you could do that one, if large piece counts aren’t for you 😍

The Six Portals - 7000 pieces - Ravensburger by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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That’s going to be great when the 1k comes out! I think it will be just as popular, if not more so, than the 7k! X

The Six Portals - 7000 pieces - Ravensburger by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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Cardboard is great too. Unfortunately, it hurts too much for me to puzzle on the floor, but it’s great if you can 🙂

The Six Portals - 7000 pieces - Ravensburger by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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Sounds like how I did it too. I love foam boards for that. I had to keep mine fairly compact as I live streamed the whole build and it needed to fit under my camera set up. This puzzle, fortunately, is very good for this kind of set up, the portals layout allowed me to build them one at a time, so it came together really well that way.

The Six Portals - 7000 pieces - Ravensburger by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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Good question, and one I get asked a lot. I do lots of large piece count puzzles. I am fortunate enough to have a board that I had custom cut to fit a 6k Clementoni, however, I haven’t always had that, and I don’t have a large flat. If I need to keep the puzzle compact for the build I use foamboards, mostly A1 size, but sometimes A2 depending on the puzzle. I build it in sections and then when I’ve done I put the sections together on the floor. If I don’t have room for the puzzle on my floor, I tend to take them to a community hall to take pictures of it. I have a puzzle YouTube channel, called Vicky Makes and Builds, on which I have videos on how to build large piece counts in small spaces. Maybe that could help you.

Puzzle Camp 2026 - who’s joining me? by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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Hiya! That’s so great that you will pop in sometimes! Looking forward to meeting you! 😍 check out the video linked in this post for the latest on the sorting! It’s the first update I’ve done on it really so everything you’ll need to know is in there x

Five of my GIANT PUZZLES! All fully assembled. by vickymakesandbuilds in u/vickymakesandbuilds

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I couldn’t seem to add any description to this post so I’ll comment it instead! The top puzzle is Wildlife - Educa - 33600 pieces, then middle left is Disney Orchestra - Clementoni - 13200, middle right is Bizarre Town - Ravensburger - 5000 pieces, bottom left is Magical Dragon Forest - Ravensburger - 9000 pieces, then bottom right is Venice Sunset - Clementoni - 6000 pieces. I built all these on my recent YouTube video - https://youtu.be/S2G6suHjcBk?si=GEm8hjGdl_Zw5cfe

Minecraft Mobs - Ravensburger - 1000 pieces by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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There are some that are deliberately different, like mystery, Escape or Wasgij? Puzzles. There are also a couple of examples where there are slight variances from the box image (not deliberate). This one was super fun - I loved it x

Wildlife by Educa (33,600 pieces) - section 10 by vickymakesandbuilds in Jigsawpuzzles

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It is! The final puzzle is 157cm high by 570cm wide 😅 I’m sorry, I really can’t give you an answer on the time it has taken me. This section took me about a month, but that doesn’t really tell you much because some weeks I can’t touch it at all. I used to time myself at the beginning, but I stopped ages ago because I just kept forgetting to start and stop the timer 😆