Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #395

First of all, many thanks to those of you who have already signed up to be Guest Designers, have very generously sent prizes for Ruby's Memory Challenge - and also those of you who played along with Challenge 394 where Jane was our Guest Designer. The cassette tape certainly brought back a few memories! The Guest Designer list is still open and any new and unwanted items for Ruby's Challenge are also always very welcome.

This fortnight it's my turn to be my own Guest Designer (snigger) and I aim to do this for every other challenge - interspersed with Guest Designer fortnights as well as Ruby's Memory Challenge. 

The basic Snippets Playground rules are just the same so we should move seamlessly from one type of challenge to another and back again without you really noticing much different.

So here's my snippets card for this fortnight and it's one that I've been itching to make for a little while now:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" black card blank, tent style

 

- snippet of white card onto which I stamped the main image using Memento 'Tuxedo Black'  and the Misti. The stamp is from the Stamping Bella 'Oddball with Martini' set

- then coloured the image using Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils and a Derwent blending pencil

- die cut the image using the matching die 

- stamped the sentiment using the other stamp in the same set, again using Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and another snippet of white card

- snipped the sentiment into pieces (following a design on the Stamping Bella Blog where there are lots of ideas, I just chose one which would fit nicely onto the snippet of patterned paper I wanted to use up)

- slightly trimmed a snippet of gold spotted paper which was tucked into the back of my Studio Calico's 'Snippet Collection' paper pad and glued it onto the card front

- added a little bit of grey shadow to where the 'Oddball' was going to stand, to 'ground her' slightly  and then glued her in place 

 

- followed by the snipped up sentiment words, which I just did fairly roughly - and called it done!

   

I made the card with a friend's Birthday firmly in mind but, due to keeping well hunkered down here, it didn't get written and posted - hope you had a lovely day my friend! x

 

Here's a photo of the prize for this fortnight:

It's a 'Stamping Bella 'Oddball with Martini' stamp set plus the matching die to cut out the main image. The sentiment doesn't need to be snipped up of course and you could stamp the 'Oddball' straight onto a plain card front without using the die. Lots of options!

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 6th February. 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. 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. From now on I will delete entries which break this 'rule'. I'm a soft touch and have been as lenient as possible up until now so please don't forget - else your entry will just disappear in a puff of smoke with no reminder.

 

The results of the Grand Draw were published last Sunday (17th January) and thank you to all of you who have claimed your prizes and sent me your address.

I'll put a post on here when they've been posted as that's easier for me than emailing you all separately. Perhaps more than one post as they will probably go off to UK winners first then Overseas winners shortly afterwards - as and when I feel it's OK to venture out. Don't fret, I won't do anything daft (or let's say dafter than usual!). I'm watching things very closely here - our local area is now above the national average infection rate for this wretched virus. Sigh.

Dudley's latest role in life seems to be 'care giver'. The other morning I was sat in bed about to get my lazy rear end into gear and suddenly had a terrific sneezing bout right out of the blue. Dudley literally leapt up onto the bed and almost wrapped his paws round me whilst nuzzling me, whining and looking very anxious. Dudley was the one whining, not me - gonna buy him a nurses outfit I think! Betcha don't get fluffy hugs and nuzzles on the NHS!

I'd like to enter this card into Darnell's NBUS Challenge #22 HERE. I resisted entering all the snippets samples I made for the Grand Draw, which would have been nine NBUS entries in total!  Darnell only went and broke a bone in her back fairly recently (ouch!) - get well soon Darnell and much love from all of us in the Playground.

 

Stay safe and be kind. Right now some of our lovely Playmates, as well as Darnell, need our love and thoughts more than ever. Please remember, we all care about one another in the Playground and if one of us hurts then we all hurt for you.

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