Penny Black and More

Monday, 18 March 2013

Still time to join in

A very good morning to you all, just popping in with a reminder about this month's 'One for the Boys' theme and a little bit more inspiration from the DT who have some wonderful creations to share with you.

If you have not already done so then there is still plenty of time to join in, or you might fancy entering again or even a third time to increase your chances of winning one of the fab prizes on offer again this month.

Here's what the DT have made to inspire you..................................

Ellie
using "absolutely silly about you" No.1578K

Linda
using PB flowers sweet 30-096 and sentiment from PB salutations 30-014

Lynn
using PB 1658L "Cheesecake message" and for the sentiment PB 3942F "live life"

Mervi
Penny Black's " dash" 3846K

Susan

Using Penny Black Miniful 4220K

Tracy

Penny black - Prank Call - 1682K

Thank you guy's your a great team.

Sunday, 3 March 2013

March challenge

Good Morning and a very warm welcome to our March challenge here at Penny Black and More and this month we would like to see......................

********One for the Boys********

As always please feel free to create whatever you like, be it a card, tag, gift box etc., all you need to remember is you can use any make of stamp which must be the focal element of your card but we do not allow digi images (any entries using them will be discounted).

Our lovely sponsors this month are............................

Pretty Little Ribbons who are offering this wonderful collection of ribbons:

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop is an online store supplying a large selection of ribbons, twine, embellishments and much more for all of your crafting needs. This month we have many reductions for a limited period on buttons and button twine, bakers twine, satin and grosgrain ribbons while stocks last so it's a good time to stock up on all those crafting essentials. Free postage on all UK orders over £25 - International orders will receive the equivalent discount.

Penny Black's lovely new Spring collection of stamps are proving very popular and this week they introduced four more clear sets.....................

You can see the full range of all their Spring 2013 stamps here and if you can also sigh up the their newsletter here you will be amongst the first to get all the news and updates about new products.

Here are the prizes they are generously giving away this month:

Next another regular sponsor Crimson Cloud who have recently uploaded many of the new Spellbinder products to their website.

Crimson Cloud is a mother/daughter venture - a way to indulge our joint passion of card making 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! And the fabby prize 3 sets of die cuts of winners choice

The prize for our special section for an entry using a Penny Black image.

And a new special prize........we will be on the look out during the month for someone to join us as a Guest Designer, no need for you to do anything as we will sending our talent scouts, aka the DT to make their selection from all entries during the month.

Now for some inspiration and to begin with we are pleased to welcome two Guest Designers this month and first is my teamie from Allsorts:

Helene

And the entrant selected from our January challenge who we are really pleased to invite as our Guest is:

Jane

Brenda

Using Penny Black 40-194 Go Wild

Ellie

Using PB 3782J Lazy Days

Linda

using Penny Black 'a bear of all trades' 30-108

Lynn

Using PB Love London 30-093

Mervi

using Penny Black "tulip jungle 2300K"

Shirley
Using Penny Black 40-020 Fly Away

Susan

Using Penny Black Hedge-word 4060K

Tracy
Made using 3777H - Hook, Line & Sinker

Now it's over to you, have fin with this months theme and we look forward to seeing all your entries.

Thursday, 28 February 2013

February winners

Good Afternoon, I am just popping in with the winners from our February challenge, so I will get straight to it.....................

Prizes from Penny Black.............

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Iulia

Eneri

Daisychain

Voucher from Crafts U Love

Netty

Voucher from FlonzCraft...........................

Yenni Natalia

Winner of the Penny Black card section ................

Jan

Please all mail me with your full names and postal addresses so I can arrange for you to receive your prizes. Any prizes which remain unclaimed by midday GMT on 6th March will be re-drawn, no further winners post will be made and alternative winners will be notified by e.mail or blog comment.

Tanya

And last but by no means least we would like to invite Tanya to join us as your Guest Designer in April, please mail me Tanya so I can tell you more about that months theme.

Huge congratulations to you all, don't forget to pop back Sunday for you new challenge.

Monday, 18 February 2013

A bit of inspiration

Hello Peeps, the DT girls have been busy again and have some more inspiration to share following this months 'Pink, Pearly and Swirly' theme here.

We've not seen as many as of you so far this month and there was us thinking it was a really easy theme, but there is still a couple of weeks to go so I hope the great prizes on offer and the DT's cards below will inspire you to join in.

Brenda
Using Penny Black 3157H Growing Free and 40-102