Results of Challenge 425

 

Hello Playmates - Sarn here!

Thanks for dropping by to see the results of Challenge 425.

It's incredibly difficult to whittle your lovely entries down to just three, so I gave up trying and took the liberty of choosing FOUR (praying I don't get detention for doing so!). Here they are in order of entry:

Sandra H made this rather cool and classy masculine card. Masculine cards are something I struggle with and Sandra made it look effortless! How? HOW????

Next, Carol L used a sketch and punched out a load of flowers from snippets, adding them to little snippet squares of paper. I love the layout and all the pretty flowers. Keep up the deep breathing Carol!

Pauline C - bought some lovely spring flowers to the Playground with her wonderful triptych card. Lovely layering with both snippets AND ink! A very cheerful card.

And last, but certainly not least, Inkami patiently folded nine little snippets into envelopes and added them to a square card to make the following little gem: 

On to the prize draw - the winner of the two Crafty Individual stamp sets is:

SUZANNE H

Congratulations Suzanne. To claim your prize, please send me an email using the Snippets Playground gmail address shown in the right hand sidebar, with PLAYGROUND WINNER (or similar) in the subject line. Please add your FULL NAME above your home ADDRESS so that it can be copied and pasted for speed and ease.

There's still nearly a week left to go on the current Snippets Challenge - just scroll down to the previous post to find it.

Challenge #426

Hopefully you're all having a pleasant Easter weekend, and that the weather is being kind to all of us! Been pretty warm/ verging on hot here for the past couple or more days. I suspect that Sarn has left the makings of a few cocktails up in the tree house for you all, should you wish to partake.

Straight onto my snippets card:

All the 'how I made it' details are over on my own Pixie's blog, HERE, should you want to know more.

The prize for this fortnight is:

A set of Sizzix thinlets dies called 'Susan's Garden' plus a set of Marianne 'Summer' stamps - both kindly donated by Brenda of Floral Fantasies. Thank you so much again Brenda.

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 30th  April. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day. Mr Linky is below this post.

The latest news of Dudley is also over on my own Pixie's blog post for today - HERE. He's such a source of laughter to us. Goodness know we need it with all that's going on in the world.

This was our lovely friend Bernie's really cute Easter sign off whilst she was still with us and blogging. She is still very much missed by so many of us who knew her:

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Love and hugs from Dudley and Di, xx

Results of Challenge #424

  

It's really wonderful to see you all welcoming Sarn as one half of 'Team Snippets Playground'. Good move wasn't it - and for me it's such a delight to be working with her.

Let's crack straight on with the 'picks' first:

I picked this delightful Easter card, made by Christa, as the whole design is really lovely and the colour matching to the designer paper background is sheer perfection! 

Here's a brilliant idea, shared by Linby. What a perfect way to use up lots of little snippety images inside a frame die cut. Very clever! 

This gorgeous card, made by Carol G,  is so beautiful. Great bokeh background and very dramatic with the lovely silhouette flowers as well!

 

Marvellous use of absolutely loads of different snippets, brought to share with us by Caroline (KISS). Even the teeny little animals were fussy cut - the detail is amazing! A really lovely card.

As always, we had some great entries - 47 in total as well! If you're a pick, please always feel free to collect your 'Top picks' badge from the 'Badges' page.

Onto the prize draw, the Clearly Besotted 'prize bundle'. And the winner is:

Helen

To claim your prize, please send me an email using the Snippets Playground gmail 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.

The current snippets challenge still has almost a further week to run - just scroll down to the previous post to find it.

Dudley's beautiful coat is already beginning to grow back - as are his peachy coloured silky ears. Len has spent a fair bit of time resting his back since waking up on Friday morning, having possibly slept awkwardly - and Dudley just curls up beside him to keep an eye on him! I might start hiring his services out as a 'Caring Dog/Nurse'! ☺

Love from Dudley (Mister W-B) and Di xxx

Good grief - and a wave of something, plus a yodel from Sarn, up in the tree house!Looks suspiciously like she's been printing off and laminating a cocktail menu!

Challenge #425

Hello Snippets Playmates - Sarn here! 

I've polished my Prefect's Badge and put my shoes on the correct feet for a change! Even managed to tie-up my own shoe laces (I'm coming along in leaps and bounds!).

As mentioned in the previous Challenge post - Di and I have joined forces, and, from now on, we'll be playing tag, taking it in turns to host the fortnightly challenges here in the Snippets Playground.

I'll still be getting up to all sorts of mischief in the treehouse, or behind the back of the bike sheds. The change means that Di will be able to put her feet up and relax in one of the nice comfy chairs in the Treehouse, while sipping a "Sarn Special" Mojito! No doubt she'll be sporting a cocktail umbrella in her hair while Playground Pup, Dudley, will be curled around her feet, keeping a watchful eye on us all!

So then, for my first official piece of homework, I went to town and emptied out a small drawer of snippets to make as many cards as I could. See below:

If you want to see a bit more about how I made these cards, please feel free to drop by my blog. 

There are a couple of lovely Crafty Individuals stamp sets making up the prize for this fortnight's challenge, both kindly donated by Sandma. (Thanks Sandma!). Both sets make up one prize and won't be split.

Di and I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone for all their support and congratulations on our new partnership. Let the mischief begin carry on!

Just before you run off to make a snippets card - you might want to skip over to fellow playmate Sue, of Zouave Cards. She is having a craft room clear-out and is giving away two lovely bundles of Little Claire stamps. If you live in the UK, all you have to do is leave a comment on her blog post here.

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday, 16th April. The gates will re-open at midnight UK time on the same day. Mr Linky is below this post.

Results of Challenge #423

 

Spring is sprung! Hooray for a few days of lovely sunshine here.  Did those of you in the UK (and any other places affected) remember to change your clocks? Spring forward - which means we lose an hour's sleep.

Here are the results of the final Ruby's Memory Challenge, with the 'picks' first:

This is such a clever card, made by Karen (Ladd). To see it open, do hop over to Karen's blog post HERE - a really great design, beautifully made (and 'constructed' too!) and of course plenty of snippets used. Love it!

This is just one of three cards that Janis made after a good rummage through her scraps/snippets etc. So good to see a real selection of cards appearing as if by magic out of 'bits and bobs'!  

So that was two picks featuring St Patrick's Day cards - and my final pick is a Mother's Day card:

Vicky made this really elegant card from a few snippets of flowers she'd previously coloured. I do love how Vicky happily shows what she began her project with and then tells how she set about making the card. Her idea for the 'Mother's Day' part of the sentiment is genius! You'll need to pop over to find out ☺ 

As always, we had some great entries. If you're a pick, please always feel free to collect your 'Top picks' badge from the 'Badges' page.

Onto the prize draw, that lovely trio of Easter Egg holders, also really useful for card fronts. And the winner is:

Liz

To claim your prize please send me an email using the Snippets Playground gmail 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.

The current snippets challenge still has almost a further week to run - just scroll down to the previous post to find it. 

We finally reached the £300 target for the USPCA Rescue Centre in Northern Ireland - well done once again to all of you who donated prizes.

Next week it will be Sarn writing the blog post for the new Challenge #425. So there won't be a Dudley 'Pupdate' on here - but I propose to still write about Dudley over at Pixies if there's anything to report when I'm taking it a bit easier. And of course on here when it's my turn to write posts. So do still pop into Pixies if you see a post appear on your reading list. If it's anything important then Sarn will let you know to pop over - but it's only fair that Sarn's posts are hers alone. And really, Dudley's tails tales are mine to tell of course. Mind you - I'm still not too sure where his loyalties truly lie, he will happily cover up high jinx in return for treats! I have eyes in the back of my head - as my Mum always used to say when I was into mischief. ☺

Dudley won't pose for photos right now (has only just stopped wearing a paper bag over his head during his walks) - but the fun still goes on. He wears a very sweet harness when he goes out for walks and his latest trick upon hearing the rattle of his harness, collar (legal requirement in the UK and it has his ID tag on) and lead is to dive onto our bed and lie on his back playing possum! It's like trying to knit with spaghetti manipulating a harness onto an upside down and very uncooperative pooch! Then, as soon as the harness and collar are on him - he hops up as if to say - 'OK, I had my fun, let's go!' And off he trots quite happily. 

Edit - result! On Friday afternoon, Len managed to catch Dudley whilst they were playing chase/fetch the ball (Dudley here, 'you gotta be kidding me - I don't do fetch').

See, I wasn't kidding about his ears having to be cut short after the nasty matt removal, but they will grow back and still be peach and silky soft and at least he still has his plume of a tail ☺ The other day, post massacre, a lady passing by said 'Hello gorgeous' - we're pretty sure she was referring to Dudders, although I did detect a slightly hopeful 'preen' from Mister Len!

Love from Dudley (Mister W-B) and Di xxx

Challenge #424

Spring is certainly in the air at long last! We've had some lovely sunny days and a noticeable rise in the temperature.

Straight onto my snippets card:

All the 'how I made it' details are over on my own Pixie's blog, HERE, should you want to know more.

The prize for this fortnight is totally unconnected with my snippets card by the way:

 

I've been having a 'sort out/Spring clean' of the Toy Box and pulled together all the assorted Clearly Besotted stamps, dies and a stencil (that stencil is on the way to me). From left to right, 'Chirpy Chicks' stamps set with matching dies and a small 'Happy Easter' sentiment by 'Stamping All Day', 'April Showers' set of stamps, no dies but there's a Clearly Besotted 'Rainy Day' stencil in the image below the stamps, pinched from their website - and 'An Apple A Day' set of stamps and matching dies. I know that some of these items have been previously offered as prizes - these are duplicates (brand new) for various reasons. 

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 2nd April. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day. Mr Linky is below this post.

Dudley news. It's been a bit of a week here - first of all, Dudley is fine. Us? Not so fine. After his bath/shower on Monday (which was an adventure and a Tsunami in itself) - whilst blow drying him - Len discovered a really huge and very tight 'cotton wool like' matt of his very fine silky hair on one ear. Right next to the skin so it was dodgy even trying to snip it away. We both pondered long and hard but it had to go and it was too risky to use even any of his grooming safety scissors.

So the matt was trimmed away by Len, using the clippers - and then the ear looked weirdly odd against the other ear, so the other one had to be trimmed, get the drift? - and the upshot is that both of his gloriously long haired pale peach coloured ears have been trimmed right back to being very short. They're still peach but back to how they were when he was just a little puppy! Then of course, his head looked tiny against his very fluffy body - so the rest of him has had to be trimmed. We now have a true little Havanese puppy here once again! He refuses all photos right now, not even if you pay him in treats. Of course, Dudley is really unaware that anything has changed, thank goodness - but we certainly know.

I now have a very small sized balaclava knitting project on the go - my version is in white, very tiny and with pale peach ears:

Having said that - he's still the same little tinker and just yesterday managed to roll on (what I suspect was bird poop) something in the garden. Sssssh, don't tell Len - he was merrily cleaning it off with an Aqua Wipe and I just had to zip my mouth - for once! Never a dull  moment for sure.

And, finally - here's some very exciting news. I've become worried about what would happen to the Playground if I was unwell or stepped under a bus. We've got close to that situation (the health, not the bus), but somehow, with the help of a very loyal friend it's carried on. She does get embarrassed if I 'gush on' so here we go. As of the next challenge I will have our Playground Prefect and Mischief Maker SARN sharing the running of the Playground with me!! The next challenge, #425 will be Sarn in charge. Help me ............I just deleted some rude words there!

We've been working this out for a little while - after I made the Playground into a separate blog - it suddenly made sense. As a team, and I stress we are a team, even though I can still 'pull rank' on account of being a lot older! Sarn and I will share the Playground gmail address, the commenting (for some time Sarn has been propping me up there), the Toy Box prizes and some of the decisions. The Playground will undoubtedly become naughtier, Dudley will be even busier snooping, despite the balaclava mentioned above, and let's hope we have many happy times ahead. 

The current plan is for Sarn and I to 'host' alternate challenges. I will be hosting the even-numbered challenges (+ posting the results) and Sarn will be hosting the odd-numbered challenges (+ posting results).

I am truly excited to have such a loyal friend to help steer the 'Good Ship Lollipop', as we continue on our voyage through this wonderful world of crafting, using up snippets! Remember, it's all about the snippets! 

OK girls - that's the news - remember that 'Launch Day' is two weeks from now! By the way - I did hear the clinking of glasses and bottles earlier this evening. Plus the distinctive shake of ice in a cocktail mixer - and a little voice from the direction of the tree house singing 'Aye, aye, aye, aye caramba!'. I think there could be some parties ahead - and someone is experimenting and perfecting her technique! We did think Dudley wandered in to his bed just now with a bit of a wobble!! I thought the limit was hot chocolate and crumpets, sigh. I sense fun and games ahead - sighs, and offers up a plea for mercy!

Love and hugs from Dudley and Di, xx

Results of Challenge #422

  

A few less entries for Challenge #422 - where were some of you? Up in the tree house eating crumpets and drinking hot beverages is no excuse whatsoever!

Let's get straight onto the top picks - first of all a *Gold Star* followed by three picks this time:

 

 

What a stunning card, made by Kate P for her musical son Ben! And what a wonderful surprise inside as well. No doubt he was totally delighted - the amount of detail - as well as love and snippets that Kate put into making this is so worthy of a *Gold Star*! Do feel free to take your Gold Star badge for your blog Kate - it's in the page labelled 'Badges' above.

Leslie M linked in this terrific snippets card - great use of snippets and I do so love the clean and fresh white with the vibrant colours. I did have a little smile, Lesley says that the stamp she used has escaped many purges in her craft room - it's certainly timeless and truly is a keeper! 

This card, shared with us by Vinita, is absolutely fabulous! The snippet is actually the white layer you can just see on that fabulous die cut 'shine' sentiment. I would love you to hop over to Vinita's blog post to see the step by step detail of how she created the glorious, glittered ombre gerbera. Certainly some inspiration there!

And we also have this lovely card, made by Alice. Lots of lovely snippets and a great Christmas card with a background also made of snippets. And it's so worth you hopping over to Alice's blog to see just what a splendid collection of snippets backgrounds she made in readiness for future cards. A great idea and one well worth copying I think!  

As always, we had some great entries. If you're a pick, please always feel free to collect your 'Top picks' badge from the 'Badges' page.

Onto the prize draw. As there were only 10 people, out of the 38 entries, who were playing for the Tattered Lace sentiment dies - I've resorted to the 'name out of the hat' system for once, as it would probably mean a lot of Random Number Generator reruns to pick two winners. The winners are: 

VINITA -  27

ALICE - 28

Well done to both of you! I did have to pinch myself when I realised that both of you were also in the Top Picks this time as well - pure coincidence and a dash of luck!

To claim your prize please send me an email using the NEW Snippets Playground gmail 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.

The current snippets challenge still has almost a further week to run - just scroll down to the previous post to find it. Challenge #422, despite lower than usual numbers, did have me running round the playground keeping an eye on our Guest Designer Sarn - but thanks again for being such a good sport Sarn! I fear that Dudley was being bribed with treats as he certainly didn't report back to me as often as he should have done! 

 

A gentle reminder. Can you please remember to use the URL of your entry post, not the URL of your overall blog when linking your entry. It just makes life easier when commenting otherwise it can be a bit of a hunt - and also helps other playmates to find your snippets posts as well. Thanks!

On Tuesday afternoon I missed a great shot of Dudley. He'd not long returned from a longish walk with Len and was flat out on his back at the top of the stairs (Dudley, not Len!). Unfortunately he heard me turn my camera on, so I lost the chance. Right now he's waiting at his favourite post, top of the stairs right beside my craft room door, for our grocery delivery, with his beloved Honka Duck tucked firmly under his chin. No doubt it's just in case the delivery guy should push Len aside, run into the house, race up the stairs and kidnap Honka Duck! And then (shock, horror) perhaps send Dudley a ransom note for Honka Duck ......... in exchange for doggy treats! Who knows the workings of a dog's mind? Or a cat's mind for that matter?

Love from Dudley (Mister W-B) and Di xxx