Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #397

Huge thanks for all the wonderful donations for Ruby's Challenge, as well as more Guest Designers popping their heads above the parapets shyly waving 'Me please'.

As you know, we're a friendly lot in the Playground and being brave enough to be a Guest Designer is a bit different to many challenges. I try hard to fit round your availability, absolutely no-one stands in judgement and it's fun as well! You would gain even more friends and followers I'm sure.

 

It's my turn to be my own Guest Designer ☺ and here's my snippets card for this fortnight, it uses a fairly recent purchase as well:

 

I used:

- A6 off-white/almost cream card blank, side opening

 

- piece of paper from Prima's 'Fairy Rhymes' paper pad with butterflies on, onto which I stamped the three blooms (which are on one stamp) and the words 'Blossom, Flourish and Grow', using the Misti, VersaFine Clair 'Nocturne' inkpad and stamps from Indigo Blu's lovely set of stamps called 'Flower Heads - A5'

- then stamped the flower heads only onto a snippet of plain-ish deeper peachy pink paper found in the back of the same set of papers (result!). The flower heads in this 'blooms' set are just perfect for paper piecing!

- fussy cut the flower heads and ran a black Whispers pen around the cut edges

- trimmed the 'blooms' panel down and glued it onto a snippet of black card which had been trimmed to a bit smaller than the card front

- then glued the whole front panel onto the card front

The hardest part of this card was scouting through my paper pads trying to find a soft looking paper and a co-ordinating deeper one for the flower heads themselves. From then it was a pretty quick and easy card to make.

 

As usual, I might well have spotted this lovely set of stamps on one of your blogs fairly recently - memo to self, make a note of where you spot stuff!

 

I did pull myself up when contemplating my original idea of cutting each individual 'petal' rather than the whole flower heads separately and then glueing all the tiny pieces in place. Am supposed to be making life easier here, not harder!

 

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

It's an Indigo Blu 'Flower Heads - A5' set of stamps with some other great stamps in besides the ones I used - love the funky frames and also the single blossom, as well as the additional smaller font sentiment. Loads of possibilities for sure!

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 6th March. 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.

Len is finally well again, we aren't sure what it's been apart from the fact it hit him five days after his 1st COVID jab - and exactly the same thing happened to me - my 1st COVID jab was a week after his and six days after my jab that I was pole-axed for 48-72 hours. Nothing like Len though, his dragged on and it's a bit of a mystery.

 

Dudley continues to be Florence Nightingale. On Tuesday night Len was still unwell and our self-appointed in house 'medic' decided he would climb on top of Len as he lay in bed trying to rest. 'Don't worry Daddy'- I'll keep you warm'. Loveable as he, is you don't really need a Havanese lying prone on top of you peering anxiously into your face when you feel pretty rough and your back is playing up 'big-time'. On the other hand, he's so funny and loveable we both had to suppress the giggles! 

We finally returned to Dudley's trimming sessions on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and he is such a little trouper. We just do around an hour or so at a time and he's so much more relaxed than when he even gets a just a sniff of the grooming salon - which is currently closed, apart from when a dog would suffer without being groomed. We're also relaxing more as we do more sessions - having finally got the hang of the clippers it's a big leap forward.

 

On Thursday evening, after his session, he truly looked as if we'd been at him with a knife and fork again. Friday's session saw huge steps forward as Len got to grips with using the clippers properly and he looked so much better. And then Saturday's session was done by Len on his own whilst I as trying to sort out an online grocery order.  And wow, Dudley really does look very smart - plus he behaved beautifully without me cradling his head and soothing him. It's almost as if he's beginning to actually enjoy the experience ............. so far. Now all that's left is to do a final trim of his pads and around his paws - plus the thing he plays up most over, claw clipping! It's been a real challenge and quite a steep learning curve, with a lot more practice to come in future, and I'm massively indebted to our lovely Karen Ladd for taking the time to send me lots of tips from when she trims their Toby! Mwah!

 

I'd like to enter this card into Darnell's NBUS Challenge #23 HERE. 

 

And do remember that ScrappyMo's Rudolph Days Challenge for February runs from Thursday 25th February to Sunday 28th - it's a short month remember!

 

Another little 'heads up' - on 4th April we'll see the beginning of Challenge #400 in the Snippets Playground (400, how did that happen?), which is a bit of a milestone and I'll be making a snippets sample or two as well as donating the prize. There is only one prize but I think it's a fun bundle that many of you will hopefully really like - just to keep you wondering!☺

Stay safe and be kind.

 

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