Challenge #464

Here's another fresh challenge for you - I'm still on the 'Christmas card roll' for now and this is my Snippets card for today. Super CAS and pretty simple to make as well - but tricky to try and capture the 3D embossing in a photo:

All the details of how I made it are over on Pixie's HERE- as well as Dudley's latest 'adventures'. Think grooming and you're already on the way!

The prize for this fortnight is shown below:

The prize bundle this time  is: a Woodware 'Butterflies' set of stamps, kindly donated by Val and a Crafters Companion 10-piece set of 'Flying by to say Hi' stamps (with matching dies for the flying geese) kindly donated by Linby. Plus, from me, a set of HOTP 'Falling Leaves' embossing folder and a 2-piece leaf die set - just in time for Autumn!

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 14 October. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day. Mr Linky is below this post. 

Please state what snippets you used on your entry, or add a photo of them, otherwise it won't count in the prize draw. Remember that we do reserve the right to delete non-compliant entries. It's very important to us to keep the Playground as a happy place to come and play - as well as making sure everyone plays nicely and fairly. 

Winners outside the UK: please remember that you may be charged fees and import duty on your prize - although Sarn and I always send them out clearly marked as "gifts". 

Love and hugs from Di and Dudley,

Results of Challenge #462

Here we go with the picks from Challenge 462, in numerical order:

I keep looking at this card, made by Alice, and continue to be amazed at the realism and imagination combined - a really wonderful moonlit beach scene using snippets! 

Suzanne really 'rocked the boat' with this fun 'wobbler' card - you must go and see it in action for yourselves! What a fun card for anyone, especially a fisherman, to receive! 

And here we have another card with movement, made by Kate.  I love the 'leaping grasshopper' jumping over the adorable acorn house. Great design and movement - such fun!

It was a total fluke that all three cards depicted a scene of one sort or another. Never easy to do well and these are really fabulous cards!

As always, we had some marvellous entries, I can see Halloween beginning to sneak in! Always the sign that our Winter isn't far behind.  

The randomly drawn winner of the prize bundle is:

Linby (Lynn B)

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.

Don't forget folks, Sarn is still running her current Challenge HERE! And my own snippets card for today, as well as a Dudley Pupdate can be found HERE.

Love from Di and Dudley, 

Challenge #463

Hello Playmates!

It's the start of another fun challenge here in the Snippets Playground and you have until 30th September 2023 to get your homework in on time!

I've used up lots of white snippets on my homework, the details of which can be found on my blog HERE (along with 2 extra cards):

The prize for this challenge comprises a stamp set and some very pretty dies.

The Honey Doo set of stamps (called "First Choice") was kindly donated by Sandma; the gorgeous floral Paper Boutique cutting dies (called "It's time to celebrate") are from Di and the lovely Die'sire "Delicate Trellis" die was kindly donated by Val. Thanks to you all for your generosity.

Please bring your snippets homework to the Playground and use Mr Linky (below) to submit it for marking! Please remember to SAY WHAT SNIPPETS YOU USED (or include a photo of them) and leave a comment making it clear whether you're playing for fun or want to be included in the draw for the prize.

The Playground gates will clang shut on this challenge at 11am (UK time) on Saturday, 30th September 2023. They'll reopen at midnight (UK time) the same day for the start of the next challenge. Winners outside the UK: Please remember that you may be charged fees and import duty on your prize - although Di and I always send them out clearly marked as "gifts". 

Hugs from Sarn xxx

Results of Challenge #461

Hello Playmates - Sarn here - popping back in the middle of Di's challenge, to share my Top Picks and the prize winner for Challenge 461.

It's been HOT HOT HOT this week! Di and I had to drag out the paddling pool and fill it so that you could all cool off and splash about a bit, plus there's been more ice added to the Treehouse cocktails!

Anyway, onto the Top Picks, which are as follows:

PAT bought along this gorgeous birthday card and you can find the details of how she made the wonderful background on her blog.

LIZ is such a good 'paper engineer' - often making beautifully shaped cards, and this one is no exception. I love the style and the summery theme.

VIV has been playing truant, but came back to the Playground with this lovely piece of homework. I love the clean and simple layout and how all the little die cut elements have been put together.

If you've been showcased, please feel free to collect your 'Top Pick' badge from HERE.

The winner of Challenge #461 prize is:

MARJETA

Congratulations Marjeta. Please claim your prize by sending your name and address details via email using the Snippets Playground email address shown in the sidebar, with PLAYGROUND WINNER in the subject line.

Remember there's still nearly a week of Di's challenge to go. If you haven't submitted a piece of homework yet, just scroll down to the previous post to find all the details.

Hugs, Sarn xxx

Challenge #462

Time for a new challenge and I'm already planning ahead for Christmas here. So my snippets card for today used up cream and red mirri card snippets:

All the details of how I made it are over on Pixie's HERE - as well as Dudley's latest escapade, sigh.

The prize for this fortnight is unashamedly Christmas themed and some of it is linked to the card above:

First of all, I just couldn't resist adding the adorable Woodware 'Bubble Robin Stack' stamp set plus the set of bigger 'bubble dies' to go with the robins. The dies are also great with tons of other Woodware 'Bubble' sets of stamps. I love mine and so perfect for using up snippets!

We recently had a very generous donation of goodies for the Toy Box from Pauline C - she sent the My Mind's Eye 'Winter Wonderland' set of stamps PLUS a Gemini 'Nordic Reindeer' 2 piece set of dies. As well as more goodies for a future time! Thank you so much Pauline - it's super-kind of you. 

This might be an opportune time to let you know that we're always very happy to receive new and/or unused items that you might have bought but will actually never use! (We've all done it!)

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday, 16th September. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day. Mr Linky is below this post. Please state what snippets you used on your entry, or add a photo of them, otherwise it won't count in the prize draw. Remember that we do reserve the right to delete non-compliant entries. It's very important to us to keep the Playground as a happy place to come and play - as well as making sure everyone plays nicely and fairly. 

Winners outside the UK: please remember that you may be charged fees and import duty on your prize - although Sarn and I always send them out clearly marked as "gifts". 

Love and hugs from Di and Dudley,

Results of Challenge #460

Let's leap straight into the three top picks in numerical order for Challenge #460, no muckin' about:

I did so love this fun Christmas card, made by Diane. That certainly is one very funky flamingo and bound to raise a smile! 

The 'teeny tiny details' on this card, made by Lynne, are just fabulous! It certainly is a New Baby card to be carefully kept as a future treasure. Stunning!

And last, but by no means least, here's another fun card - this time made by Christa. I love shadow box cards and this one is brilliant - see the little bee at the back, almost invisibly held up 'in flight' on a little strip of acetate?! Clever!

I had a shortlist of six entries - and whittling them down to three was very hard indeed.

The randomly drawn winner of the prize bundle is:

Paper Paperielle (Gundi)

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.

Don't forget folks, Sarn is still running her current Challenge HERE! And my own snippets card for today, as well as a Dudley Pupdate can be found HERE.

Love from Di and Dudley 

Challenge #461

Hello Playmates!

It's the start of another fun challenge here in the Snippets Playground and you have until 2nd September to get your homework done.

My snippets homework is an ATC (below), the details of which can be found on my personal blog HERE along with a couple of other ATCs using up the same gelli print snippets:

ATC

The prize for this challenge comprises a floral Heartfelt Creations stamp set (kindly donated by Brenda), and Jackie T has kindly donated the very pretty Tattered Lace embossing folder and Tulip Trinket die set.

My thanks to Brenda and Jackie T for generously donating the above prizes.

Please bring your snippets homework to the Playground and use Mr Linky (below) to submit it for marking! Please remember to SAY WHAT SNIPPETS YOU USED (or include a photo of them) and leave a comment making it clear whether you're playing just for fun or wish your name to be thrown into the hat for the prize draw.

The Playground gates will clang shut on this challenge at 11am (UK time) on Saturday, 2nd September 2023. They'll reopen at midnight (UK time) the same day for the start of the next challenge. Winners outside the UK: Please remember that you may be charged fees and import duty on your prize - although Di and I always send them out clearly marked as "gifts". 

Hugs from Sarn xxx

Results of Challenge #459

Hello Playmates - Sarn here - popping back in the middle of Di's challenge, to share my Top Picks and the prize winner for Challenge 459.

Here are my top picks (in entry order):

Meg bought this lovely white and silver Christmas card along to the Playground. Great composition of the die cut elements and I love the extra little touch of embossing behind everything.

Next up, I chose Carrie Ann's beautiful card in traditional colours:

My third pick is Kate L's jolly card. I love the simplicity of it and the fabulous large sentiment.

If you've been showcased, please feel free to collect your 'Top Pick' badge from HERE.

Onto the winner of the Christmas bundle of goodies, and it's lucky No. 13 for:

HELEN

Congratulations Helen. Please claim your prize by sending your name and address details via email using the Snippets Playground email address shown in the sidebar, with PLAYGROUND WINNER in the subject line.

Di and I hope you enjoyed "Christmas in July" and all the festive Eggnog that was consumed up in the Treehouse. Still haven't worked out who put a holly sprig on Di's chair as a prank. She jumped up rather quickly, but luckily she didn't spill any of her cocktail in the process! Phew, we got away with it girls!

Remember there's another week of Di's challenge to go, so there's plenty of time to get your homework in on time! Just scroll down to the previous post to find all the details.

Challenge #460

A new challenge now that 'Christmas in July' has finished and we're back to the usual theme of must use snippets - and say which ones you used.

Here are my 'two for the price of one' snippets cards - I was on a roll:

Ooopsie - I cropped part of my watermark out!All the details of how I made it, as well as Dudley's latest 'Pupdate', are over on Pixie's HERE 

The prize for this fortnight is:

A set of stamps by Indigo Blu called 'Steampunk Flowers', a Creative Expressions Die and Stamp set called 'Because' (especially nice as the die cut 'because' comes with a shadow die too) plus an unbranded set of  A2 sized 'lace rectangle' dies thrown in for luck! I made a card using my own set of the rectangle dies recently - HERE - and they are great cutters as well as really pretty.

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday, 19th August. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day. Mr Linky is below this post. Please state what snippets you used on your entry, or add a photo of them, otherwise it won't count in the prize draw. Remember that we do reserve the right to delete non-compliant entries. It's very important to us to keep the Playground as a happy place to come and play - as well as making sure everyone plays nicely and fairly. 

Winners outside the UK: please remember that you may be charged fees and import duty on your prize - although Sarn and I always send them out clearly marked as "gifts". 

Love and hugs from Di and Dudley,

Results of Challenge #458

Let's leap straight into the three top picks in numerical order for Challenge #458, which was 'Christmas in July':

What a great card from Suzanne H. Loads of snippets which 'gel' together beautifully - and so festive for Christmas! Love it!

Beautiful set of snippets cards from Emma T - a Playmate who is always inspirational in the Playground! I just LOVE mistletoe at Christmas - although, with having Dudley Dog, ours are 'realistic' but artificial. Don't know if it's true about the berries being poisonous or not but we try not to take chances!

And my third choice is from Carrie HERE - who used lots of snippets for her lovely Christmas card. Also, there's a current craze for using six 6" x 6" designer papers, cutting them into a prescribed pattern and then making a bunch of 15 cards incorporating the 'snippets'. Looks like fun - check out Carrie's blog for more detail and links!

The randomly drawn winner of the bundle of Christmas goodies is:

Pauline C

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.

Don't forget folks, Sarn is still running our final week of 'Christmas in July' Challenge, with a great bundle of goodies to be won - HERE! And no doubt there will be the usual celebrations going on but if Dudley Dog staggers home with his bandana all askew and a silly grin on his face once more during 'Christmas in July' - I shall be having serious words with 'Miss Mischief'! His duties do not include being chief cocktail taster! 😂

Love from Di and Dudley 

Challenge #459

Hello Playmates!

Here we go with the final "Christmas in July" challenge where you need to enter your snippets homework using a Christmas theme.

Here's my homework, the details of which can be found on my personal blog HERE:

See below for a picture of the lovely bundle of Christmas goodies you have a chance of winning if you enter a Christmas themed project and leave a comment at the end of this post letting me know you wish to be included in the prize draw.

There are three Memory box Christmas dies; two Woodware stamp sets (a second chance to win those lovely sentiments) and the cute fuzzy robin stamps, as well as a Creative Expressions Christmas Cheer borderline die designed by Lisa Horton. 

So what are you waiting for? Christmas? 😄 LOL! Run along and pick out some Christmas snippets to play with, then bring your homework to the Playground and use Mr Linky (below) to submit it for marking! Please remember to SAY WHAT SNIPPETS YOU USED (or include a photo of them) and leave a comment making it clear whether you're playing for fun or want to be included in the draw for the prize.

The Playground gates will clang shut on this challenge at 11am (UK time) on Saturday, 5th August 2023. They'll reopen at midnight the same day for the start of the next challenge. Winners outside the UK: Please remember that you may be charged fees and import duty on your prize - although Di and I always send them out clearly marked as "gifts". 

Hugs from Sarn xxx