Results of Challenge #468

   

Here we go with the picks from Challenge #468, in numerical order:

Gorgeous Wedding Anniversary card from Carol L!  The shaker element works beautifully - and plenty of snippets used!

Such a beautiful Christmas Lantern card from Kate L - I love the impact of those glorious colours and shapes against the white background!

And finally we had this beautiful card made by Kath for her husband Steve for Christmas. It oozes elegance and style!

As always, it was hard to choose the final three - but of course do remember that it's subjective. It does not reflect in any way on all of your wonderful entries. In the very beginning of this challenge I wrote about every single entry but basically that was so labour intensive I almost killed myself in the process. I then eased back and since then the subsequent partnering with my wonderful pal Sarn has allowed me to enjoy the Playground even more than before! 

Thanks Sarn - you're a star. BUT, you cannot be the Star of Bethlehem in the Playground Nativity Play and help to run the Nativity Pantomime Play at the same time! And nope, you can't wave a star on a stick from the wings whilst being 'chief prompter, usher/poker onto the stage, wiper of tears' and also providing fresh knickers for over-excited particiPANTS! Do you hear me? 

Trust me - I did a stint as a School Governor at an infants school and none of the above was made up - in fact in real life it was actually waaaay worse! I still recall the shepherd who waved and shouted 'Hello Nan!' into the audience in his excitement at seeing his Granny!!  AND, the sheep who discovered that if they pressed their rather fabulous costume's ears they could make them go 'Ba-a-a-a'. To this day I remember the Deputy Head (also named Diane) waving a pair of scissors and threatening to chop the costume ears off any miscreant. She scared me so probably terrified those kids - there certainly was no 'ear pressing' during the performances.

The randomly drawn winner of the prize bundle is:

Kathy K

Congratulations Kathy! 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.

NATIVITY PLAY CAST LIST SO FAR:

• Shepherds = Di & Alice
• Sheep = Dudley, Tina Z
• Jesus = swaddled Honka Duck
• Mary = Carrie Ann
• Joseph/Innkeeper = Sarn
• Wise men = Gail L; Gail T & Maxine
• Angels = Alison C; Linby and Lesley G
• Lobster = Liz C
• Donkey = Front End Kathy K, Rear End = Pauline C
• Heavenly Choir = Pat (soloist) and rest of the cast
• Wardrobe Mistress/Star waver = Val (Aquarius)
• In charge of party poppers and streamers = Carol G

We still NEED volunteers to play Mary; Joseph; the Star; 2 more Wise Men and may be one more shepherd for the flock? possibly 2 halves of a Donkey - or the play might have to be cancelled! Come along now, don’t be shy!

IMPORTANT NOTE: A little 'heads up' about our next fortnightly challenge which starts on Christmas Eve, 24th December 2023. There's a theme - which is 'Anything BUT Christmas'. Just to give you a little bit of advance warning ..... and a rest from Christmas card making perhaps!

Love from Di and Dudley,