Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #412

I think we're gently moving into Autumn here, probably my favourite season. We have what I thought was a collared dove, but we now think is a pigeon, nesting where it did last year - in the middle of an ornamental bush/tree in the front garden. Not high enough to be safe from cats either. At first we thought there was just the one rather scrawny baby but the other day Len spotted two of them looking at him. Fingers crossed both of them survive to fledge and leave the nest safely. The hedgehogs are still eating us out of house and home and if they don't have any late 'hoglets' then they should be all set for the Winter ahead.

I needed a card for Len's great nephew's 16th Birthday in a bit of a hurry - and this is the result. Quite similar in design to a snippets card I made for Challenge #406 HERE. As they would say in Thailand - 'Same, but different':

I used:

- 5.75" x 5.75" square white card blank

- a sheet of paper from the very dramatic Altenew 'Poured Acrylic' set of papers, trimmed to 5.5" x 5.5" and glued onto the card front

- a genuine snippet of white card, die cut using a Lawn Fawn die called 'Giant Happy Birthday to You' and the Cuttlebug

- then just glued the sentiment to the card front using a Zig glue pen - finished!

Just love a super fast card - my 'in-house critic' said the background looks like a piece of modern art.☺

So, here's the prize for this challenge:

It's an Altenew 'Poured Acrylic' paper pack and a Lawn Fawn 'Giant Happy Birthday to You' die. The papers are double sided and really fabulous, many are just so perfect for male cards, the last photo shows the rear of the pack to give you a better idea of the colours and designs - and the die is also wonderful. I think the die would also be really cool to either use with rainbow paper on a plain background or, even better, use up your snippets to create stripes or whatever takes your fancy on spare card/paper and then die cut the sentiment to go against a plain background.

As always, the Snippets Challenge will run for two weeks and the Playground gates will close at 11am UK time on Saturday 2nd October. 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.

 

At last, the bruising has gone, my toes are back to being a healthy pink and recent events have been put aside. Still being a bit cautious but I suppose that's no bad thing. End of a chapter I hope. Onwards and upwards!

 

Huge, huge thanks to my very loyal pal SaRn for her brilliant help in stepping in and taking over the commenting when things weren't too good here - of course she also hosted a few 'illicit hooch' parties in the Tree house at the same time. Perks of the job I should imagine! Hic ☺ !

Stay safe and be kind.

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