January challenge

Happy New Year everyone !!

We hope you all had a lovely holiday period and are all ready to go with some new year crafting with our theme of.........................

******** Love Is In The Air********

I'm sure there will be a lot of Valentines about, but equally your creation could be for a wedding, anniversary or even a card for that special somebody. Please just remember that the focal element of your work must be a stamped image using any make of stamp............but any entries using a Digi image will not be eligible.

As always we have some fabulous sponsors with a great selection of prizes on offer.

Crimson Cloud with the great prize of the winners choice of three sets of die cuts. A mother/daughter venture - a way to indulge our joint passion of cardmaking and crafting. We only sell products that we have tried, tested and love using. We have developed our own exclusive range of digital stamps, svg files and "Make Your Own Card" kits which reflect our styles of card making - and hopefully yours too!

Classy Crafts an on line store offering a huge range of products, latest arrivals include Spellbinders dies and Nellie Snedden stamps and don't forget that all new customers can get a 10% discount off their first order - use the code "first order" (no quotes) in the discount coupon box during the checkout process to claim your discount. (Offer excludes the Silhouette Cameo, and quotes for special orders).They are offering one winner a £10 voucher for an on line shop at their store.

Crafty Ribbons is a ribbon emporium, we are passionate about ribbons and want to share our fantastic ribbons with others. Our range of Christmas ribbons is second to none. Remember when we only used ribbons to add a bow to our hair, or tie up a birthday parcel ?  Ribbons are now a "must-have" for all types of craft.  Whether your project requires satin, sheer, silk, grosgrain, gingham or polka dot ribbon we have them all!  Lots and lots of different colours in a range of widths. Need a little bit of ribbon inspiration - then have a look at our projects on our blog,or visit our Inspiration blog,or maybe join in with us at our Challenge blog.  Go on, have a look... It's worth it ! 

The prize is a collection of Valentine/Love  ribbons, here's just a taster......................

Penny Black recently launched a lovely range of  Valentine stamps which you can see here. It's also worth joining the PB Club as you will get updates of all new releases and news as it happens and as the end of January sees the big CHA trade show when Penny Black release their spring images now is perfect time to sign up.

Here's the prizes from them this month..............



Sir Stampalot, are our regular sponsor of the winning entry using a Penny Black stamp. They stock a huge range of Penny Black stamps as well as products from all the leading craft companies.

Here's the prize from them this month:

We are always on the lookout for Guest Designers and if you would like to be considered for our March spot please add GD after your name when you enter...................and please feel free to add our hedgie sidebar button below to your own blogs if you would like.

Now it's over to the design team who have again pulled out all the stops with a fabulous selection of inspiration for you plus we also have some Guest Designers this month.............

Deborah who was selected from our Guest Designer call in November

Mel from Crimson Cloud

Tracy my teamie from Allsorts

Brenda
Using Penny Black 40-092 All you Need

Ellie
using PB stamp "Captivated"

Linda
Penny Black hmmm...3105F

Lynn
Using Penny Black 30-042 A piece of my heart

Mervi
Penny Black: cupid at work 4033K

Shirley
Using Penny Black  A Great Surprise! Number: 2623L

Susan

Squeeze til l Squeak 1664J

Tracy
 Using Penny Black Slapstick 40-017 Loving And hugging

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

December Winners

Happy New Year to you all and hope you had a lovely Christmas.

December certainly was a popular month and there were some fabulous entries, as indeed there have been throughout 2012 and we send our thanks to you all for your continued support of the challenge.

Now for the winners for December.................

The three prizes from Penny Black:

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Lada

Gerrina

Paula

£10 Voucher from Joanna Sheen:

Anja

£15 Voucher from Crafts U Love:

Sharon

Stamp from Sir Stampalot for the winner of the entry using a Penny Black image:

Kelly

Congratulations to you all, please grab our winners logo from the sidebar to display on your own blogs and mail me with your full postal addys so I can get your prizes off to you. Any prizes not claimed by 9th January will be re-drawn.

I will be back in Sunday with our first challenge of 2013, see you then.

Merry Christmas Ho Ho Ho !

Good morning, I hope everybody is well on the way to having all the Christmas plans done and dusted, although in reality I'm not sure if any of us ever think we are totally prepared and can always find something else we think needs doing.

You have shared some really wonderful creations with us so far this month and seem to be enjoying our 'It's Your Choice' theme, if you have not already joined in or want to join us again there is still plenty of time. In the meantime some of the DT have come up with some more inspiration to help you on your way.

Lynn

Using 30-103 .......wishes

Mervi
Penny Black: holiday delight 40-168

Shirley
Used Ladybug Love Number: 1721K

Tracy
Made using Penny Black Slapstick 40-034 Carolling Penguins

Linda

Using Penny Black Christmas Everyday 30-081

Brenda
Using Penny Black 4004K

Hope you all have a great week and wishing you......................

Happy Christmas and wonderful New Year

from

All of us at Penny Black and More challenge

Look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year.

December Challenge

A very good morning to you all, it doesn't seem possible that it December and Christmas is almost upon us, where did the year go ?

We thought we would keep it nice and simple this month with the theme..................

******** It's Your Choice********

Which means you can enter any sort of project or card so long as it the focal element of your work is a stamp image, you can use any make of stamp and those using a Penny Black image will go into the draw twice. You can enter up to 3 times, but please don't forget  Digi images are not allowed and any entries using them will be ineligible for the prizes.

As usual we have lots of prizes on offer again and first of all three from Penny Black. The design team always use Penny Black images and to help you identify them easily you will find thumbnail photos at the bottom of this post. 

Early in the New Year Penny Black will be launching a new range of stamps at the CHA Trade Show and it's a good idea to sign up to their club here so you get notification when they are available to order and buy.

Joanna Sheen are sponsoring us again this month and offering another winner a £10 voucher to spend at their on line store.

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. 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.

And finally Sir Stampalot who sponsor our section for the winner using a Penny Black stamp.

     

We have lots of inspiration for your again this month and first up is Lorraine who is the lucky winner of the December Guest Designer spot selected from those who applied to join us this month.......................

Lorraine

And our second Guest designer is my team mate from Allsorts Sarah............

Brenda

Using Penny Black 3381K Aspire, 3948K Fireworks and 3937H Birds on Wire

Ellie

Using Penny Black clear sets "Critter Party" and "Wonderful"

Linda
Using Penny Black's 'a bright tomorrow'

Lynn

Using PB 40-118 New York and for the sentiment 30-103 ...wishes

Mervi

Penny Black: wherever you are 4113K

Shirley

Using penny Black Merci Bouquet Number: 40-063

Susan

Using Penny Black Snowy 2521K and PB Wishing For Snow 3238F

Tracy

Used Penny Black's 4013k Snow Squad

I think that's about it from me for today folks, I imagine a lots of you will be Christmas shopping this weekend but whatever you have planned have fun.