Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge # 329 - results

Having struggled to do much blogging all week, now it's a rush on Saturday to write this post so please bear with me if it's a bit of a gallop!

First of all, we agreed that for now we'd skip the Guest Designer slot on the results post - but I'm already making an exception! We recently spent some time in Southern Germany visiting our little grand daughters and family. We had a great time and the weather was glorious - hot, but not as stifling as we've been having here in the UK. We had a fabulous family BBQ, a trip down to Lake Constance for a lovely evening meal, some (not me!) mowed a lot of grass and we also just relaxed, with this lovely view:

 

And we crafted! Not quite so relaxing :)

We took an extra wheelie case on the plane (thank goodness for generous Business Class allowances) - packed full of craft stuff and gifts for the little ones. So hard to think what would be best to start kiddies off on their crafting journey but they (aged 10 and 8) were desperate to have a go at card making. So I dug out loads of card blanks, plain card ready cut for stamping, stickers, rub-ons, an assortment of stamps, little pointed scissors for trimming images, some templates to draw around, my old Fiskars stamping platform with the sponge feet, ordinary perspex stamping blocks, small tape runners, DST and sticky pads etc. plus new coloured markers and pencils for both the girls. And of course a couple of black ink pads. That was one thing I got absolutely right, I wanted to take Memento 'Tuxedo Black' pads and at the last minute bought some of the small 'tear drop' shaped ones instead of the normal large sized pads. MUCH easier for little hands to cope with - as well as less chance of ink everywhere!

Anyhow, here's some shots of them working away:

Mia - colouring an image

Livi (Olivia) seeing just how many stamps she can fit onto a card front :)

This cracked me up - the girls were fascinated to hear about the Playground and to learn about using snippets. Whilst I was taking a break in the sun, Len suggested to Livi that she could use their fancy edged scissors and make a snippets card. This was the result - one brand new packet of their own coloured lightweight card, with a strip carefully cut from each differently coloured sheet - which made them snippets! Great logic there kid :)

And at the same time, Mia went for more a delicate look, being two years older. This was a gold peel off sticker which she popped onto white card and coloured using her new marker pens. Then, having seen me do it with something else, she carefully trimmed around the outline without any prompting and mounted it onto a blue background (snippet) which she made by drawing around the outer scalloped edge of a Fiskars template I'd taken for them - and even got those corners just right when the template was about 13" x 9" in size!

So never underestimate what kiddies will come up with - and both those cards were made whilst I was outside chatting to their Mama.

The question that really rocked me came from Livi. She'd stamped a cute little penguin then came to me and asked how she could stamp the penguin again, but this time the other way around so it would be two penguins facing one another. 'There must be a way' she said, 'and I bet you know'. Of course she was thinking of 'mirror image stamping' - and luckily I could show her a rough and ready way to do it using a perspex block to pick up the inked image from the stamp and then transferring it onto her card. Amazing though - it's not that long ago that I revisited the technique and did it properly on the blog! And here was a little girl just beginning to try stamping coming up with the idea, phew.

Anyhow, we do have more photos - but most importantly a lot of happy memories of precious time spent together :) I always say, it's quality and not necessarily quantity - which is just as well given they don't exactly live a stone's throw away.

Let's do a very quick scamper around my picks for this fortnight, no particular theme - just entries which caught my eye:

Sharon F makes some beautiful cards, using up loads of snippets. This one really caught my eye - see the Tim Holtz 'pen nib' which forms the body of the butterfly? What a lovely finishing touch!

Oh how this card made me smile! Carol L brought it to share and I just love those reindeer - especially Rudolph with that sparkly red nose and cheesy grin! Great use of snippets and super colour combination too.

 

What a fabulous idea this is - and it was Nicky who scampered in waving this great card to show us. Anyone with a Scan and Cut machine OR a set of quite chunky alphabet dies can make this card! I have some similar dies and will certainly be trying this one - so clever to just butt up the letters at the bottom of matching coloured strips. Love it - and perfect use of snippets of course.

And here's one new Playmate:

Diny

Do please hop over to say 'Hello' to Diny!

So it was one new Playmate this time round and we had really great total of 58 entries - I think the prize was a real attraction to many, as well as the fun of the Playground.

Prize draw time now and our winner of the Sizzix 'Flowers #6' stamp and die set (thanks again Viv!), a Memory Box 'Sketchbook Imagine' die and the sweet little set of four hearts dies is:

Janice

Well done to Janice, it's a while since her last win and then it was just a sand eraser when I offered 20 or so of them, if my records are right :)

Do please send me your address Janice, with full name at the top as well so I can copy and paste - for speed and ease. I don't keep addresses of previous winners, even if they might be in my private address list - if that makes sense! I'll be off to the Post Office once I hear from you. Please put Playground Winner or similar in the subject line of your email in case it drops into my junk mail. Email address is on RH sidebar as always.

Remember folks, there's still almost another week to run on Challenge #330 - just check back a bit and you'll easily find it. The prize is an Art Impression 'Doggy Kisses' stamp set.

Hope you have a lovely week ahead, and that you come and play - if you haven't done so already!

Love from the little white peril Parsnip, who was delighted at the heavy rain we had (briefly) yesterday afternoon,