It's Time to Trim the Tree for Challenge #56

We were in brilliant company for Challenge #56 - Christmas Snippets with the very lovely Di - The Queen of Snippets as our elfin inspiration.

Thank you so much for being a fabulous elf, Di! You've been so supportive, so generous with your time and creativity, and great fun 'backstage'. I can't thank you enough.

And you guys, haven't you been amazing too? The standard has been nothing short of jaw dropping for this challenge and a 112 beautiful snippets cards filled the gallery! Thank goodness I had Di to hold my hand and help me pick some favourites. Our short list was very long and I'm sorry that so many of you just missed out for our Top Picks.

Top Picks 

#51 - Greta

We both loved how Greta used the Disappearing Nine Patch technique for her card.

(You can see Greta's card on Instagram by clicking her name.)

#35 - Fran

Such a classy design using parcel snippets.

#21 Bonnie

Elegance, simplicity and perfect positioning of the different 

elements combine to make this a truly beautiful card.

#84 - Penguin Parade

Prudence blew us away with her careful and creative Christmas tree card.

(You can see Prudence's card on Instagram by clicking her name.)

Our Winner and Tree Topper for this challenge is:

#72 - Bobby 

Bobby's use of her snippets is just brilliant. 

Just think how much patience and care has gone into this design.

Congratulations to you all, please grab your blog badges and flaunt them for all the world to see, envy and enjoy!

Finally, here's the wonderful Rudolph with the results of his Random Raffle. 

We were very fortunate to be sponsored by Stickerkitten for this challenge and our lucky randomly drawn winner is:

#71 Margreet.

Congratulations, Margreet, please email me at dottypudding(at)aol.com so that I can pass your address details to Sarah so she can arrange for you to spend your prize. A very big thankyou to Sarah and James of Stickerkitten for being our sponsors this month. If you've not taken a look at their shop, please do so as they have some gorgeous stamps, design papers and other goodies at very reasonable prices and are offering 10% off to everyone who has played in this challenge.

Thanks again to Di, to Stickerkitten and to everyone who entered this challenge. You guys just make this challenge so much fun and I'm so grateful to the gorgeous folk of Cardland for playing along throughout the year.

There's just a couple of days until a new challenge begins, so I hope to see you back here again very soon!