July challenge - Dies and Punches

Time for our July challenge and theme of...............

******Dies and Punches******

With dies and punches being so popular in crafting right now we are sure you will have fun making your creations this month. Usual rules apply, you can enter up to three times, combine with other challenges, use any make of stamp, but no digi images and we must see some stamping as the focal element of our work. Any entries failing to meet the rules may still receive comments from the DT but will not be eligible for the prizes on offer. 

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.

Three bright and summery stamps.

Marianne Design is a Dutch owned craft manufacturer. The company was established in 1994 by Marianne Perlot and is based in the Netherlands. For years now, we develop all our products with much care and quality. We have a practical understanding of the needs of crafters, we integrate product development, design and customer service to bring fresh ideas and beautiful products to the craft industry. All to enable the consumer to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other projects and enjoy this wonderful hobby. We produce a wide range of products which represent a complete concept of paper crafts. There are different lines of stamps and dies with matching papers and materials to decorate your card or scrap. Products are chosen carefully for mixing and matching and stimulating creativity.

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.

CraftBag is your one stop craft shop, for all your crafting needs, offering quality brands like Spellbinders, Sizzix, ProMarkers, Tonic Studios, Decopatch plus lots more.   If you are looking for Card Making, Scrapbooking, Die Cutting, Jewellery Making, Kids Craft, or just general crafting products, then you have come to the right place with over 10000 quality products in stock ready for a same day dispatch. It’s also FREE postage to all UK postcodes for orders over £12.

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.

We are so pleased to welcome Gerrina as our Guest Designer this month who has created this beautiful card for us using her unique and inspirational style.........................

And here are the creations from the Design Team who have as always done a wonderful job.....................

Brenda
Using Penny Black 1967H Music, 4263F Garden of Life, 40-282 Twirls
 and Penny Black 51-008 Bashful die

Ellie
Using Penny Black clear set Hello Friend 30-069 

Linda
Using Penny Black Homemade 30-119

Lynn
Using Penny Black Stickeroo 10-160 

Mervi
Using Penny Black Dash 3846K and Penny Black Bashful die 51-008

Sam
Using Penny Black Rosy 3344J

Shirley

Using Penny Black All Dressed Up

Susan
Using Penny Black Teddy & Company 30-034 

Tracy
Using Penny Black 40-024 Rain Or Shine

Now it's over to you and we look forward to popping round your blogs to see your creations.

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June winners

Morning to you all, the month seems to have flown by and it almost took me by surprise that it's time to announce our June winners. As always you really spoilt us again with some stunning pieces of artwork, thank you all so much for joining in.

So here are the winners as selected by Random Org.,

The prizes from Penny Black.............

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Lesley

Gerrina

Shellshearer

The prize from Crafty Ribbons...........

Dawn

This is a gorgeous Poppy creation but it's on Flickr which will not allow images to be lifted so sadly we can't share it with you. A little note about Flickr and Slipcoast entries, whilst we love to see your work it is only possible to comment on these entries if one has the appropriate account and as a number of the DT do not they will see your work but just cannot comment.

The prize from FlonzCraft............

Kiwime

And finally the prize from Stix2..............

Jane

Well done to you all, please mail me by 10th July with your full names and postal addys so I can get your prizes on their way to you. Two unclaimed prizes re-drawn 11th July and winners notified by blog comment/e.mail.

As usual the DT have been keeping their eyes open for Guest Designers and we would like to invite the following to join us, two months this time as it's the holiday season and thought it would give both us and the GDT's ample time to prepare their work.

August - we would love Catherine to join us, here is her lovely card from June..................

Ans in September we would like Riti to join us, this is her gorgeous card for June....................

Please both mail me so I can tell you all about the theme for your GDT month.

See you all again on Sunday with a new challenge.

Mid month inspiration

Good morning to you all, I am running a bit late with this post, I forgot to schedule it and this morning Mr Blogger is being decidedly difficult and oh so slow, but got here eventually with our mid way post for this months theme of 'Use your favorite Stamp'.

Lots of lovely entries so far, but you still have two weeks left if you have not joined in yet or want to enter a second or third piece of work and use one of those favorite stamps.

Here is a little but more inspiration from the Design Team.

Brenda
Using Penny Black 3381K Aspire and 3937H Birds on wire - I tend to use both of these stamps an awful lot so figure they must be favorites

Lynn
Using Marianne camera die PB Critter Party set 30-013 and Love London 30-093
with sentiment from Flonzcraft

Mervi
Penny Black Daisy Love 40-065

Sam
Another Oldie (and i so love the Men / Boys Images too) : Penny Black - 'Fish Dreams - 720K'

Shirley

Penny black sweet thing No 8084H

Susan

Penny Black Flower Amongst Flowers 4155L

My favourite 'quick' Penny Black stamp - no colouring required

Good luck to you all.

June challenge

Good morning crafters, I hope you are all ready for our June challenge where we have the theme..........

******Use your favorite stamp******

Most of us have a stamp that we find we return to time and again and this month we would like to see what yours is. Usual rules apply, you can enter up to three times, combine with other challenges, use any make of stamp, but no digi images and we must see some stamping as the focal element of our work. Any entries failing to meet the rules may still receive comments from the DT but will not be eligible for the prizes on offer.

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. 

Three great prizes from them.

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 ! A prize of a collection of ribbons.

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. One winner will receive a $20 voucher to spend on stamps from their store.

Stix 2 is the home of all your adhesive needs and much more as well. One winner will receive one of their Ultimate Adhesive Kits.

Now for some inspiration from the Design Team and this months Guest Designer, the first is my teamie from Allsorts Tracy who has created a fabulous inky piece for us...........

And Diane who was invited from our April entries with this beauty.................

And from the 'regulars'............

Brenda
I have so many stamps I love using over and again but my all time favorite has to be Penny Black 2695J Dance, Sing, Love and two favorites from the 2014 Spring releases 4373K Red Tango and 40-282 Twirls

Ellie
Using PB 3199J Poppy Fields

Linda
Using Penny Black Portraiture 3202K

Lynn
Using PB1652J Cheesecake wish

Mervi
My new favourites: Penny Black's stamp  "poppy time 40-323" and poppy stencil;
background stamp: "brick wall 40-137"

Sam
Oooo it's so hard picking but I do love the stamps that are at least 10 years old and mixed with the fact that I'm a dog lover (Whisper) : 'Penny Black - Scooter Dog / 2086H (2001) and Bon Mot/ 3683F' fit perfectly

Shirley
Using PB stamp from Betsy Bluebell  clear stamp set 30-025


Susan

My favourite Snowman Snowy 2521K

Tracy
My favourite stamp is 3980K Team Effort

Happy favorite stamping everyone.

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