Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #366 - results

Dudley is doing really well. He isn't wearing his onesie any longer during the day and the scar on his side/tummy is healing beautifully. He hasn't shown any real interest in it, apart from one little lick as if to say - 'where did that come from?'. However, he loves to sleep in his onesie at night and goes to look for it at bedtime! It gives us a little more peace of mind until his scar is fully healed - just in case he has a lick or nibble whilst we're fast asleep. Highly unlikely but it's better to be safe than sorry.

Let's move straight into this fortnight's picks:

 

Jane W brought this fun card to share with us. It's so worth hopping over the Jane's blog to read just how she made it, and isn't the sentiment clever as well?!  The snooker balls were made using little round snippets of coloured card, punched out and then topped off with clear liquid pearls. Love it and a great card to CASE for snooker loving friends as well!

How about this for dedicated paper piecing! Made by Lia and so very pretty - as well as a great way to use up little snippets of course.

I just love the fresh, clean look of this card - made by Kath. A little rainbow of birds - how sweet is that?! Another great idea for using up little snippets with such a clever CAS look.

I couldn't whittle my picks down to three this time, so last, but not least, we have a gorgeous card made by Lynne R. It's so elegant and most certainly one to CASE. The Memory Box pine tree border dies are timeless (they might be discontinued now though - which is a shame). I think I've made a total of 10 cards using mine so it's time they had another outing! I adore the colours chosen by Lynne as well!

And we had two new Playmates this time:

LeAnne Pugliese

We also had an entry from Chris Lawler, using Instagram. Once again, I almost wrecked this post by trying to add a photo from Instagram and ended up with a load of rogue HTML code, so I'm resorting to just adding the link to Chris's card HERE.

If anyone has decent step by step instructions on how to add photos from Instagram, using my laptop only as I went back to using just a very basic mobile phone a while ago, then I'd be very grateful. Otherwise I'll not take the risk again. Shame as both cards are lovely but you have to use the link to see the one entered by Chris.

So, that's my picks, and our new Playmates from Challenge 366, and I do hope they've given you some inspiration for ways in which you can use up some of those snippets.

We had 55 entries including two new Playmates this time round - sticking with a nice steady number of entries!

Time now for the prize draw, which is for a Neat and Tangled 'Paint Night' set of stamps - plus the matching set of dies. And the winner is:

Marlene

Well done Marlene! I did have a giggle, you've been missing in action, came back to play - and won right away! Just shows, it's always worth buying a Lottery ticket - you never know when you'll hit lucky. Please send me your address, with your full name at the top as well so I can copy and paste or just write straight from the email onto the envelope - for speed and ease. It's also confirmation that you still would like the prize of course and I'll post your prize 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 #367 - you can find it HERE. The prize is a Clearly Besotted 'Hot Stuff' set of stamps, an MFT Peek-a-boo Window' square die and a packet of 10 MFT Square Shaker Pouches.

Preparations for Christmas are moving along here, not as fast as we'd like but we'll get there in the end. The main thing is that the Christmas cards are all done and posted and much if not all the store cupboard and frozen food for Christmas is bought. I'm still working on samples for the Christmas Draw prizes - but so long as I have enough for a few days then the rest can follow as between Christmas and New Year we have nothing much planned apart from walks with Dudley, archer for Len and the craft room for me.

Speaking of walks with Dudley - Len took him out for his first proper walk for a couple of weeks the other day. I thought his tail was going to drop off at the rate it was wagging in anticipation!

I took this photo on Saturday, the day before this post went live, of Dudley catching a quick snooze on his comfy fleece before his lunchtime walk:

'Hop it Mama - can't you see I'm busy counting sheep!'.

Love from Parsnip, a happy wave from Dudley - and of course hugs as always from me,