Penny Black and More

Sunday, 2 February 2014

February challenge

Welcome to our February challenge where our new theme is................

********Make it Sparkle********

Most of us like our bling be it sprinklings of glitter, gemstones or subtle pearls but they all give our work that little touch of sparkle and that's what we would like to see on your work this month. As usual our DT will be keeping their eyes open on their visits to your blogs for our next Guest Designer who could be you !

You can enter up to three different cards or projects and use any make of stamp or Penny Black stickeroo but please remember we do not allow digi images and any entries using them will not be eligible for the prizes on offer or our Guest Designer spots. And we certainly have a whole host of prizes this month from your wonderful sponsors...................

Crafts U Love was formed in 2001 by Paul Baughton and Jenny Baughton. They are one of the largest stockist in the UK of die cutting and rubber stamp products as well as a wide range of general card making and scrapbooking products.

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.

Two prizes from Penny Black, a super cute hedgie and equally cute teddies set.

Penny Black invite you to explore their creative world and see for yourself why their rubber stamps, stickers, beautiful papers for scrapbooking, cardmaking and stamp crafting are everyone’s favourites. Their products are designed to integrate style and colour for creating the best handicraft projects ever.

Nicecrane Designs offer a huge range of high quality Vintage inspired design sheets and images to create and compliment all your crafting projects from cardmaking to scrapbooking. Designs range from Vintage fashion and animals to well known children's characters such as Peter Rabbit and The Water Babies with new images being added to the range on a monthly basis. Their prize is $20 to spend at their on line store.

FlonzCraft are a small family-owned design and craft company from New Zealand, a very small country where all people are great neighbours. We work hard for our work and store philosophy to reflect that in our company. We will never be ashamed of our products. Our main goal is making and selling rubber and clear stamps and we have and unique collection of stamps that you can not find anything else. They are offering a $20 voucher to spend on stamps at their store.

We are so pleased to welcome Dora as our Guest Designer this month and she has made two gorgeous cards...........

Using Penny Black Neighbours 3698K

And here is what the Design Team have come up with..........................

Brenda
Using Penny Black 3857H Footnote and 40-217 Venetian Summer

Ellie
using PB stamp asking the flowers Product No: 2296K

Linda
Using Penny Black cold nose warm heart 30-129

Lynn
Using PB4300K Melle Papillon and flonz butterlies for the embossed background.

Mervi
Penny Black Giggles 40-209

Sam
Using Penny Black Star Fairy - 1190K and Sentiment Happy Birthday - 2912D

Shirley
Using Penny Black Pin Striped- 4161K and Flonz Butterflies

Susan

Using Penny Black Transparencies - Allegro 30-033

Tracy

made using 40-015 You Are The Bestest

What a great display to set you on your way, I am so lucky to have such a lovely talented team and I hope you will pop along to their individual blogs to show them some love.

Friday, 31 January 2014

January winners

Good morning all, time to announce the winners from our January Love is in the Air theme, one that proved very popular and we saw some stunning creations so a huge thank you to each and every one of you for joining in.

Winner of the prizes from Penny Black

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Lis M

Eve

Kanda

Prize from Crafty Devils

Prize from Crimson Cloud

Heather

Prize from FlonzCraft

Kailash

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Congratulations to you all, please mail me with your full postal addys and name so I can get your prizes off to you, any unclaimed by 6th February will be re-drawn. And don't forget to collect our sidebar winner badge to display on your own blogs.

And as selected from the entries using a Penny Black image we would love Carla to join us as our Guest Designer in March, we lovely your sweet Hedgie Valentines card. Please mail me so I can tell you more about our March challenge.

I will back Sunday with our new challenge for February.

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Mid month inspiration

Good Morning to you all, just popping in with some mid month inspiration following our Love is in the Air theme. If you have not already joined in or want to join in with another piece of artwork there are still ten days for you to do so and you can check out all the great prizes in the post below.

Brenda our January Guest Designer had created another beautiful Valentine card for us.................

Brenda

Using Penny Black 40-092 All you need is love

Linda

Using Penny Black every which way 30-008

Lynn
Using PB 30-115 Lace Delight

Mervi
using Penny Black's "from me to you" 40-274

Sam

Using PB 'Sweet Slumber - 1916J', edging round image PB 'Scrolling Along ! - 3812J', sentiment on tag PB 'Hugs! (Transparent Set) - 30-020'

Susan

Using Penny Black Hedgehog Kisses 40-039

Tracy
using 40-016 Hedgehog Birthday

Whatever you have planned, hope you enjoy your weekend.

Sunday, 5 January 2014

January challenge

Welcome to Penny Black and More and our first challenge of 2014 and this month we are getting ahead with our romantic makes with the theme of........................

********Love is in the Air********

They don't have to be Valentine creations, they and can be anything along the theme of LOVE such as weddings, anniversaries or just for that someone very special.

Usual rules that you can enter three times and use any make of stamps, but can I please remind you as quite a few still forget:

The main and focal element of your entry must be a stamped image unless using a Penny Black stickeroo.
Digi images are not acceptable for our challenge.

Sorry to have to bang on about it but we hate having to leave messages telling people their work is not eligible for the fabulous prizes on offer. OK now on to those great prizes for this month...................

Crafty Devils are one of the UK’s leading paper craft specialists with over 10,000 card making, scrapbooking, stamping and die cutting products on line. We aim to bring youthe latest high quality products from all over the world, supplying quality branded products including Spellbinders, Marianne Designs, Molly Blooms, Tim Holtz, Ranger, Docrafts, Papermania, Promarkers, plus lots more at the lowest prices around and FREE postage to all UK postcodes for orders over £12.

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!

Now for some inspiration to set you on your way and to start with this months Guest Designers.............................

A lovely monochromatic card from Tracy my Allsorts teamie