Penny Black and More

Sunday, 6 April 2014

April challenge

Welcome to our April challenge and we have a theme in keeping with this lovely time of year............

******Blossoms and Blooms******

Same rules as usual, you can enter up to three times and combine your entry with other challenges, all you need to remember is that we are a stamping challenge so the focal element of your work must be a stamped image, plus we do not allow digi images and any entries using them will be discounted from the prize draws.

Our wonderful sponsors this month are............................

Buttons for Brains specialise in card making kits as well as an increasing range of craft accessories. We chose to focus on card making kits because they allow crafters to try out different ranges of products without the need to buy complete packs of everything needed to create a handmade card. The card making kits all contain top quality materials and are suitable for beginners and experienced crafters alike. They also make great gifts. Beautifully packaged the items are despatched quickly and delivered first class.

We know crafters want access to the very latest products and so will be adding new kits and supplies regularly so remember to visit often or even better, sign up for our Newsletter.

Hello! My name is Mei and I have been card-making for about 3 years now but my tremendous love for it has inspired me to open up my very own online store! Yours and Mine Paper Crafts is a place where you can purchase supplies to create your own projects, or view my gallery for inspiration! We carry brands like The Greeting Farm, Penny Black, Spellbinders and more! All the brands and products we carry are items I have personally used for my own projects and I feel are awesome products that you would like as well.

A $20 store spend from Nicecrane Designs who 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.

Three fab prizes from Penny Black............................

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.

A $20 store spend from FlonzCraft who 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.

Now for some inspiration from the DT and this months lovely Guest Designer Eve who has made this gorgeous blossom card to share with us all.

And our second Guest Designer with another beautiful card is Sarah from our sister challenge Allsorts.......

Brenda

Using Penny Black 3737K Red Tango, 4383K First Dance, 4378K Hollyhocks

40-282 Twirls and 30-229 Special Wishes

Using Penny Black 30-116 Social Butterfly, 3587K Jonquil and 3096 Host of Golden Daffodils

Ellie
using PB#40-274 From me to you

Linda
Using Penny Black Stickeroos collage flowers #10-147 and letter background 1999L

Lynn
Using PB 4037K mixed media and Flonz leaf spray

Mervi
using Penny Black's stamp: poppy time 40-323 and diecut: interlocking 51-029

Sam
Using Penny Black 'Sweet Talk / 1442J' and Marianne D 'Anja Border / LR0212'

Shirley
Using PB 1179L Blooming Pansies

Susan

Using Penny Black Tulip Jungle 2300K

Tracy
Using Penny Black Acrobat 3976K, Flonz Sentiment & Butterfly

Good luck to you all, myself and the DT look forward to seeing all your entries.

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Friday, 4 April 2014

March winners

Hello Peeps, what a great month it's been for our So Sweet theme and what super pieces of artwork you shared with us, our thanks to you all. So now for some winners.................

The stamps from Penny Black:

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Iona

Karen

The voucher from FlonzCraft:

Dreja

Prize from Crafty Ribbons:

Janice

And the prize from Crimson Cloud:

Fabiola

Well done to you all, please mail me with your full names and postal addy's so I get your prizes off to you, also don't forget to pick up our winners sidebar button. Any prizes not claimed by 11th April will be re-drawn and winners notified by mail or blog comment.

As always our DT have been keeping their eyes open for our next Guest Designer from the entries using a Penny Black image and this month we would like to invite Nela to join us as our Guest Designer in May, please mail me so I can tell you more about the theme for that month.

I will be back on Sunday with our new challenge so please do pop back then.

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

A little more Sweetness

Hello all, we have a little mid month inspiration for you following our theme of "So Sweet" and we certainly have seen some very sweet entries so far, but if you have not had time to join in yet the challenge runs until 26th March so still plenty of time, or of course if you would like to enter another piece of work.

Here are a few more from the Design Team........................

Brenda

Using Penny Black 4078K Reach for the stars and 4075K For the stars

Ellie
using PB no.4320H prize cupcake, sentiment from Critter Party

Linda
Using PB a tender hug! 3614F

Lynn
Using PB 4318K cupcake strut and sentiment from PB30-103 ...wishes, cupcake die from Marianne

Mervi
using Penny Black's " me and my bunny" 40-301

Sam
Using Penny Black 'Sugar Sweet Dreams 1670K' and Sentiment - Penny Black 'Betsy Bluebell 30-053'

Shirley

Using Penny Black no 40-021 "For Goodness sake" and Butterfly from Flonze.

Susan

Using Penny Black Transparency Set Cute as a Bug 30-220

Thanks for popping in and good luck.

Sunday, 2 March 2014

March challenge

Time for our March challenge here at Penny Black and More, lots of wonderful prizes on offer again and what we think is a real fun theme....................

******** So Sweet********

Now I wonder how you will interpret that one, sweet images, sweet food, sweet animals, we can't wait to see your take on the theme.

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.

FlonzCraftn 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.

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 !

We are so sorry to tell you that Crimson Cloud are closing down this month, they have been one of our lovely sponsors for so long and will miss working with them and would like to take this opportunity to thanks them for their support of Penny Black and More. They have an on line clearance sale which has just started and will run until 31st March, so please do pop over there and see what bargain you can find.

Now for some inspiration and are pleased to welcome two Guest Designers this month, first is Carla who was selected from last months entries and has made this lovely card to share with us all.....................

And Helene one of my team mates from Allsorts with this beautiful creation...........
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And this is what the Design Team have come up with to inspire you.................

As lots of you will know Penny Black have recently released their Happy Everything collection of stamps and dies, you will find them all by clicking here. I have made three cards to showcase some of them, however those I selected were mainly floral so the link to the theme is a little tenuous but I have tried to draw that in with my choice of computer generated poems and quotes.

Brenda
Stamps from the new Happy Everything Spring release
4383K First Dance, 40-128 Twirls and 30-229 Special Wishes