Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #409

Once again, quite mixed weather here - it's pleasantly warm but not unbearably hot. Plus we've had some pretty spectacular downpours, along with hailstones at times. I always remember my Mum telling me that when she and my Dad lived in India, it wasn't unknown for them to have hailstones the size of mothballs! To clarify for anyone who might misunderstand - mothball were used in the 'olden days' to basically keep moths out of clothing and linen - about the size of a large marble and they ponged of some sort of camphor. My granny always had that faint whiff of mothballs about her when wearing her 'Sunday best' for an outing. She was almost Victorian in many ways - always, but always, wore a severe black hat to go out, even to the corner shop .......... as well as to the beach! Little black lace-up boots or shoes, thick stockings, hat pin holding hat firmly in place and more often than not a black tailored coat. Memories - I do so wish I could have bottled some of my granny's soft cuddles and her sweetness.

Anyhow, that's away from why you're here. I posted my snippets card on this blog back in April. It's an Easter card but the timing wasn't right for folk to receive the prize in time to use if for Easter, so I bypassed offering the prizes I had waiting - but here it is now:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" rose pink card blank, side opening

- piece of patterned paper from a DecoTime paper pad, the papers are slightly 'flittered' and do catch the light very prettily 

- trimmed the patterned paper and glued it to the card front

- stamped the image using the Misti, Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink and the Stamping Bella 'Oddball Easter Bunny' stamp

- coloured the bunny with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils, picking up some of the colours from the backing paper

- stamped the sentiment using a sweet little stamp from 'Stamping All Day', the Misti and Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink

- popped the image onto a snippet of olive green card, same as in the backing paper and then glued the panel onto the card front - finished

I used just the one snippet on my card, for the backing behind the image.

And here's the prize(s) on offer - not one but three chances to win one of these stamps:

It's a Stamping Bella 'Oddball Easter Bunny' stamp. I used very similar colours for my card, just veering towards peach rather than pink for the bunny's cute little 'romper suit'. I thought, if I offer it now, you have plenty of time between now and next Easter - plus, truth be told, I slipped a bit behind with making a snippets card. Sigh. Shame on me really as I only make one proper snippets card for the playground every six weeks at the moment, thanks to Guest Designers and also Ruby's Challenge of course. However, it's a great stamp and I do love the Stamping Bella Oddball range of stamps - always make me smile.

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 21st August. The gates will open again at midnight UK time on the same day.

It's a maximum of ONE entry, please say in a comment if you wish to play and be a possible winner of the prize. Remember - there are three chances as I have three stamps here! Please also link back to the Playground in your blog post to be eligible for the draw.

Remember, if you link into the Playground and don't say clearly that you want to be in the draw in a comment on here, then you will be bypassed if your name comes out of Mr Linky. I'm sure you all know I ask for a positive 'yes' on the blog post itself - just in case you're only playing for fun - otherwise I don't add you to my little list.

 

Please also remember that I only allow a total of nine other challenges, which makes 10 in total, when you enter a snippets make into the Playground.

 

Gentle reminder. Can I please ask that you do put a link to the Playground challenge in your blog post when you enter a snippets make into the challenge. If you don't do that, then I don't include you in the prize draw. It would also help me a lot if you could mention, even generally, what snippet or snippets you used. I don't need the full details but sometimes I do struggle to work out what snippet(s) were used. And if I'm totally lost then, again, no entry into the draw. I'm aware that this challenge is pretty easy going and also that some folk do throw their cards made for other challenges in for a chance to be a winner. So please do at least acknowledge that it's a card using snippets and also link into the challenge on your blog post. I know that most of you already do this and I thank you kindly. ☺

 

Dudley is such a sweetie, I went to bed really early the other evening and twice woke up in the night to find him on the bed, wide awake and 'sat sitting' - staring anxiously at me! Am such a night owl he probably was worried I was unwell. 

We bit the bullet and weighed him the other day - phew, he's not as heavy as we thought - we must be getting weaker as we grow older! He could lose 500g or so but that's not a lot in the great scheme of things. That can be done before his Autumn annual check up with 'Auntie Georgina the Vet'.

Stay safe and be kind. 

  

Lots of love from us all - Parsnip, Dudley and of course me,