Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 289 and 290 - results

Gosh, it's been a bit busy here lately, and of course the kiddies are now on their Summer break in the UK so I expect that many of you will have your hands full :)

Let's go straight in with our Guest Designer:

 Jenny L made this fabulous snippets card - I think it's absolutely dreamy!

Shades of lavender and purple come very close to being my favourite colours (after pink) - and there's even a bit of pink as well! As always, Jenny has made a beautiful card with lots of clever little touches.

I'm sure most of you already visit Jenny's blog - if not then I do urge you to hop over and have a browse! For starters, you'll no doubt find out more about today's snippets card - although to whet your appetite this is what Jenny sent me about how she made the card:
I cut a 6"x6" size card with Couture Enchanted Escape Die for the shape. I used the size that is 4"x5" for the base of the card. I then used a snippet of paper left over from another card cut out an aperture with the smaller die, and glued some more snippets from another die cut left over from yet another project to the inside of the aperture.

Placed this on the card blank with foam tape.

Cut out some little flowers that came with the same die and glued them to the side, and added some gems, and a couple of butterflies that were given to me.
Finally I stamped thinking of you with London Fog Ink for the sentiment.

And I also picked up some background information about Jenny from her blog profile:
My name is Jenny Lawrence and I live in Kent. I am married to Tony, my dear and wonderful hubby. We have been married for 34 years. I lost my first Husband to the big C when I was quite young. I have 3 children and 3 stepchildren. 12 Grandchildren and 3 Little Great Granddaughters and a Great Grandson. I have been card making for about 17years. I have made things all my life as my Mum and Grand Mother taught me lots of hobbies. I have made my own clothes, knitted garments, hand embroidered items of clothing, and crocheted items too. I love to bake my own cakes as well.

So girls, we know who to turn to when it's time for cakes in the tree house! :) Thank you so much for being our Guest Designer this week Jenny, especially as it originally looked as if you were to tied up - I really appreciate it!

Now for my picks from this past fortnight - and as always, picking just three was nigh on impossible - and in the end I had one card that screamed out to be a Gold Star pick:

Valerija just blew yours truly, and all her commenters, away with this adorable Christening dress/card with matching box. It's stunning and a worthy Gold Star winner - please take your badge from the sidebar Valerija - with our love.

Then, for my three picks I had such a long list of possibles. So I looked for something of a theme and came up with 'Summer' to help me with the final choice. And here they are:

 

This is such a fun card, brought to share with us by Sue J after quite an absence. It's always lovely to see folk hopping back in for a go on the swings, no matter how long any of you are away - there's always a welcome waiting for you! Back to the card, every bit of detail has been so well planned - right down to the little porthole and the brilliant backing paper too.

Preeti  made this fabulous card using coloured snippets and (amazingly) a variety of stamps which have nothing to do with fruit! For instance, the pineapple began life as a penguin :) To find out more just hop over to Preeti's blog HERE. Well worth a visit as Preeti is always coming up with clever ideas.

And to round up the Summer theme - Charlotte (Lady Joyful) brought this really super bikini themed card to share with us. I love how the whole card 'flows' so beautifully with the vellum allowing the bikini to stand out . Love that sweet little bikini - which picks up all the different colours in the DP too. And a great sentiment as well!

That's my 'Gold Star' for Valerija, plus a further three picks - I do hope they will inspire you as well girls. Of course we had loads of fabulous ways to use up snippets and I really had to be very firm with myself and not add in at least two more cards from the final short list.  I highly recommend that you grab a cup of coffee and spend some time visiting blogs - the thumbnails with links are always there for you to look back over.

55 of you played along last fortnight and we had one new playmate joining in with us as well:

Linda W

Do hop over to Linda's blog post - it's full of great ideas for using up snippets, and her blog is well worth a good ole nosy around too! Welcome to the Snippets Playground Linda, and I do hope you return to play again soon.

Prize draw time now and our winner of the Concord & 9th 'Heartstrings' die set and a 'Label Maker Sentiments' set of stamps made by MFT is:

Barb (Williams)

 

Well done Barb! Can you please drop me an email with your address and I'll post your prize off as soon as possible. My email address is on the right hand side bar.

Keep those snippets entries coming girls, you still have a week left to play HERE remember! And the prize is the MFT 'Stitched Cover-Up Companion - Diagonal die plus the Clearly Besotted 'Aloha' stamps set. I will split the prize if you only want to play for part of it.

A couple of snippets of news:

- our lovely Playmate Sue (Morris of Zouave Cards) has been on tee vee!! Sue is involved with a fabulous scheme here in the UK where ladies crochet (and I've since learned they can also be knitted!) little octopus toys for premature babies to have with them in their incubators. The idea is that the tentacles can be grasped by the little 'preemie' in lieu of the umbilical cord - which apparently they play with pre-birth whilst still tucked up 'indoors so to speak'. Who knew? I certainly didn't. It's a great idea, the standards for making the toys are set very high (as they should be) and Sue is a co-ordinator who takes along the toys to local hospitals. There I was, sipping my wake-up cup of tea idly watching TV and there was a news item about the scheme - with a face I knew but couldn't quite put a name to! Anyhow, to find out more just hop over to Sue's blog HERE where there's a link to the news item.

Edit: Sue has quite rightly pointed out that although many places do refer to the little octopuses as 'toys' - the correct term is 'calming aids' :)

- and, our Playmate Jane of Jane's Journal is celebrating her 7th 'bloggerversary' with a giveaway, which runs until 9th August. A choice from three prizes for the lucky winner -

Ooopsie, my own 7th 'bloggerversary' slipped past me in March! But, every fortnight is a giveaway/celebration here so maybe it's OK :)

Love from the little white peril - and of course from me too (with a special punch of the air and a 'yaay' for Sarn from Parsnip. Private joke but it's catching!)