August challenge

A very Good Morning to you all from us all here at Penny Black and More and we hope you are ready for a new challenge where we have the theme:

******Whiskers and/or Wings******

The perfect opportunity to ink up all those critters and beautiful fairies and butterflies. As always you can enter any type of project so long as there is a stamped image predominant on your work following the month theme. You can enter up to three times, but please remember strictly no digi images are allowed, any entries using them will be discounted from the challenge.

We have a host of fabulous prizes again and are pleased to welcome a new sponsor as well, Floz Craft

who are offering a prize of a $20 store voucher. Also a 12% discount on purchases made by challenge entrants during this week, just enter 'Penny Black and More challenge entrant' in the comment section when placing your order. Here is a little about the company:

"We are a small family-owned design and craft company from New Zealand. Our main goal is making and selling rubber and clear stamps and we have a unique collection of stamps that you can not find anything else. Don't worry about shipping from so far away, we are very experienced merchants and ship to customer in US, Canada or Europe within a week after payment. We offer a lifetime warranty on our stamps".

We welcome back Crafts U Love who are well know to lots of us for their well stocked on line store and currently have lots of new Memory Box Spellbinder and Marianne dies on their what's new section here, the lovely new Christmas ones are a must have for your early Christmas makes. There also some bargains to be had in the stamp section of the web site here.

They are offering a £15 store voucher to another lucky winner.

Our friends Sir Stampalot are your regular sponsors for the winning entry using a Penny Black stamp. Their re-vamped website is easy to navigate so do go take a look round and you will find all the latest new products here and the new Penny Black stamps which I mention below are already listed in that section.

Here is the prize from them this month:

Penny Black have just released their Christmas 2012 catalogue and stamps are already shipping to a store near you, here's a sneak peek.............

And just look at these yummy Madison papers, they come in pads of 48 sheets.............

Here are the prizes they are offering to two more lucky winners:

And last but by no means least, Joanna Sheen is back with us again this month and offering another £10 store voucher for to one winner.

Joanna needs no introduction to most of us and regularly shares her unique inspiration with us on her Create and Craft TV shows featuring her fabulous CD's and stamps. She also has a fabulous on line store full of the latest crafting products and of course everything is sent with free worldwide postage, how good is that ?

Now for some inspiration from the Design Team and all have been very clever and incorporated stamped from one of our sponsors Flonz Craft along with their Penny Black's.

Brenda
I used the butterfly sheet from Flonz Craft as my background and the large butterfly from PB Free Flight

Clare

Ellie
using Critter Party by PB & Grass Borders #1 by Flonz Craft

Linda
Penny Black garden friends and Flonz policeman and mermaid (corner stamp to create frame around image).

Lynn
 Flonz Craft stamps, one of the stamps from the waves, borders vintage set for the background stamping and the greeting is from the Best Wishes sentiment set.

Mervi
Stamps: Penny Black Toadily happy / Flonzcraft Baroque corner

Shirley
 I used a Flonz Craft butterfly from the set called " Three Butterflies".


Susan
Penny Black stamp - Bee Costume and Flonz Craft stamps from the borders set (Grass and central border) and from the corners set - an ornate corner stamped and cut out

Tracy
I have used Flonz stamps:- Butterflies 01, Happy Birthday greetings - Sweetheart, Oval Frame With Flowers

Have fun everyone and we look forward to seeing all your lovely creations.

July winners

Good evening, hope everyone is OK, to those of your living in the UK I won't mentions the 'summer' weather.

Another super month with some fabulous entries, as always our thanks to everyone who joined in the fun and shared your lovely work with us all. So now for some winners,

Winners of the stamps from Penny Black are:

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Sue

Beacorona

Lorraine

Winner of the Prom Markers from Letraset is:

Jane

Winner of the voucher from Addicted to Stamps is:

Katja

And finally winner of the Sir Stampalot prize is:

Alethia

Well done and congratulations to you all, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your full postal addys and go pick up our winners badge from our sidebar to display on your own blogs.

I will be back on Sunday with our August challenge so do pop back then and check out what we have in store for you.

Tell us your Blue Peter stories and Spotlight winners

You really did seem to enjoy sharing all your "Favourite Things" with us in June and there were so many contenders for the months 'In the Spotlight' feature, but as always we had to come down to just two from all the fabulous entries and I am very pleased to announce that these are Nanda and Lorraine with two stunning pieces of artwork.

As an aside before I move on, when I read what Lorraine had written it raised quite a smile and brought back so many memories of days spent sticking loo roll tubes together, usually with glue made from flour and water, paint all over the place, then total frustration that it never quite looked like the one on the TV, or in my case, usually fell to pieces as soon as I moved it. I'm sure lots of you remember those days and like me, think how things have moved on with all the fabulous crafting products now available.............who knows what we might have created if we had had just a few of them back in those days ? 

We would love to hear your Blue Peter stories and it would be great if you left us a comment or mailed me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your memories. If anyone has a picture of what they made that would be even better. I Have a feeling that for many of us, our crafting journeys started back then without us even realising it and if I hear from enough of you, I thought it might be fun to share them and do a special post dedicated to Blue Peter memories.

OK, now back to your winning entries, a few words from the DT about them and also something about both of our winners. 

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Lorraine

"so pretty, delicate and soft", "the soft colours make you feel like daydreaming is 

all that matters"

Here is a little about Lorraine:

"A well known children's programme (Blue Peter!) were making a 3D picture out of wrapping paper and a bathroom tile. I was about 8 years old and had to have a go! My crafting addiction had begun!! 

I spent many years making decoupage cards and just before Christmas my Husband bought me some promarkers so that I could try something new. Now all my spare pennies go on rubber stamps. I've only been colouring for about 7 month and I LOVE it!! I'm also addicted to Penny Black stamps! During the last 6 months I've made lots of new blogging friends and hope to make lots more. I'd like to say a BIG Thank You to Brenda and the DT for picking my card this month. I really appreciate it".

Nanda

"such beautiful precise work", "I really want to go for a walk in this 

pretty garden"

Here is what Nanda has written about herself:

"I am Nanda and I started making cards when I was 18. I started with 3d cards. Every new technique on the market I tried. After many years I found the stamps. I Liked that alot and started with stamping. At the same time scrapbooking came into the Netherlands. So I gave that a try too. Now I make cards with stamps and I still scrapbook alot. I like making cards because of all the little details and the small work area. But I like scrapbooking too, because it is bigger, the work area is different".

Congratulations to you both, very well deserved credit for your work. Please go grab our In the Spotlight logo and wear on your own blogs with pride.

This months 'Summer Blooms' theme is also proving popular, but if you have not had chance to join in yet, or would like to enter again.....you can enter up to three time, there's still plenty of time and of course some great prizes to be won.

July challenge

Welcome to another new challenge here at Penny Black and More and this month we would like to see:

........ Summer Blooms ........

As always you can create anything you like, be it a card, tag, gift box, l/o and so on, all we ask is that flowers are the predominant feature on your work and of course it's a stamped image. Remember, no digi images are allowed but you can use any make of stamp and if you use a Penny Black stamp you will be eligible for an extra prize draw. And all eligible entries will be considered for our In the Spotlight feature where we highlight two crafters and their blogs.

We have lots of fabulous prizes on offer again from our wonderful sponsors, just check them out.......................

In case you missed the news, Penny Black have some fabulous new  stamps  which can all be viewed here, if you like cute, backgrounds or florals, they have something for  you  and there are some stunning new butterfly stamps. It's wise to sign up to their on line newsletter as you will get notifications of all new releases ahead of time. Three great prizes from them this month.............

Sir Stampalot are our regular sponsors of the winning entry using a Penny Black image.

They stock a huge selection of Penny Black stamps along with many other leading brands such as Hero Arts, Magnolia, Molly Blooms, Magenta to name a few, as well as carrying a massive selection of die cuts, Design Papers, if fact they are the one stop store for all your crafting needs. Here the prize from them this month.........

We are pleased to welcome back Letraset who are offering a set of Prom Marks to one lucky winner.

Their website here is a source of inspiration and carries information about their various colouring mediums along with tutorials by many well known faces of the crafting world.

Addicted to Stamps are sponsoring us again this month and offering a $15 spend at the on line store to one winner. Do check our the store as they have some fabulous  stamps  and loads of  other  inspirational and  unusual goodies.

Now for some inspiration from the Design Team and our Guest Designer Helene, my team mate from Allsorts.  Please do find time to pop along to their individual blogs and see more of their fabulous work.

Helene

Brenda

Clare

Ellie


Linda

Lynn

Mervi

Shirley


Susan

Tracy

Have a lovely Sunday everyone, I hope the suns shines where you are and look forward to visiting your blogs to check out your lovely entries.