March - Anything Goes

Good morning Peeps, I hope you are ready for a new challenge and this months it's a nice and simple one for you..................

********Anything Goes********

As always you can use any make of stamp and enter up to three times, but we must see hand stamping as the focal element of your artwork, it can be a stamped image/s, large sentiment or quote....... the one exception are Penny Black Stickeroos. But no digi images and please note: 

If we do not comment on your entry it will be because it does not follow the theme, qualify under our rules, or because we are asked to sign in or provide additional data to comment. We do not want to be rude but we do want to be fair to those who do follow the rules.

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. If you would like to be one of the first to hear about new products from Penny Black please click here to join the free club, plus their Facebook is full of activity and news.

Here are the three super prizes from them including a lovely Spring set from the just released Bliss collection and another from the new Follow your Heart collection.

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. A really super prize from them again.................

We are delighted to welcome a new sponsor this month Chalkola who are offering a set of 21 chalk and metallic pens. 

At Chalkola we are proud to offer an affordable selection of chalk markers and colour pens in beautiful vibrant colours. We offer only the best quality chalk markers at competitive prices because we love serving satisfied customers. As well as the link above you can read more about our products here and here.

Fantastic Ribbons have over a decade of experience in ribbon and are passionate about their products. You may have already met the team as they exhibit at all the major craft and hobby exhibitions where they have built up a huge loyal fan base for their beautiful ribbons.

We are pleased to welcome Lynne as our March Guest Designer with a really bright and jolly celebratory creation..............

Using Penny Black 30-036 UR the gift

And Annie from our sister challenge Allsorts with this pretty tropical tag...................

Using Penny Black 40-453 Passionate

And here are the creations from the Design Team

Brenda
Using Penny Black 40-506 Red Blush and 30-353 Fairytale

Using Penny Black 40-453 Passionate, 25-002 Flower Dance stencil and Chalkola pens

Ellie
Using Penny Black 2299L The Painter and the Bee

Inside of Card
Using PB 30-150 Chick to Chick

Linda
Using Penny Black 30-046 It's your day

Lynn
Using Penny Black 30-013 Critter Party

Mervi
Using Penny Black 40-385 Collage of Wishes

Shirley
Using Penny Black 40-276 Botanical Notes 

Susan

Using Penny Black 40-330 Pop Pop Poppy

Tracy
Using Penny Black 40-506 Red Blush

Happy crafting and hope you enjoy this months theme.

Before linking your entry are you sure it meets our challenge rules ? These are listed in a tab at the top of this blog and the most important ones also mentioned at the beginning of this post.

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February winners

Good morning crafters, we had a wonderful month in February with so many lovely entries, our thanks to you all, so now it's time to announce the winners and as always they have been selected by Random Org................but a note about that, part way through doing the draws for some reason it had a hissy fit and wouldn't let me copy the widget so you are going to have to trust me on the others !!

First the winners of the prizes from Penny Black 

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The £15 store voucher from Crafts U Love

And finally the die from Sizzix

The £10 store voucher from Stamp Addicts

Well done to you all, please mail me by Thursday 9th March with your full name and postal address so I can arrange for you to receive your prizes.

As usual the Design Team have been keeping their eyes open for the entrants using Penny Black images and would love to invite Mari to join us as our April Guest Designer. Please mail me Mari so I can tell you all about our theme for that month

I will be back on Sunday with a brand new theme and lots more prizes to be won.

February's Inspiration

Good morning and welcome to our mid month post where the Design Team have lots more inspiration to share following this months 'Favourite Stamp' theme, I think we all have one of those which we turn to regularly so we would love to know what yours is.

As always there are lots of prizes to be won from Penny Black and our other lovely sponsors. So please make sure you join in to be in with a chance of winning.

We must see hand stamping as the focal element of your artwork, it can be a stamped image/s, large sentiment or quote....... the one exception are Penny Black Stickeroos. But no digi images and entries using them WILL NOT be eligible for prizes or GDT spots. It so upsets us to see names come out in the draw who are not eligible for a prize because they have not read the rules. 

Brenda

Using Penny Black 2695J Dance, Sing, Love, 30-117 Free Flight and 30-116 Social Butterfly

Ellie
Using Penny Black 1442J Sweet Talk

Linda
Using Penny Black 1652J Cheesecake Wish

Lynn
Using Penny Black 30-305 Smile all Day

Mervi

Using Penny Black 40-040 Purr-fect Message

Sam
Using Penny Black 343J Bunches Of Wishes and 51-230 Flower Pop Outs

Tracy
Using Penny Black 432J Bitty Bear Angel

February - Use your favourite stamp

Good morning and welcome to our February challenge and this month we would like you to...........

********Use Your Favourite Stamp********

I think we all have one of those which we turn to regularly so we would love to know what yours is.

As always you can use any make of stamp and enter up to three times, but we must see hand stamping as the focal element of your artwork, it can be a stamped image/s, large sentiment or quote....... the one exception are Penny Black Stickeroos. But no digi images. Please note: 

If we do not comment on your entry it will be because it does not follow the theme, qualify under our rules, or because we are asked to sign in or provide additional data to comment. We do not want to be rude but we do want to be fair to those who do follow the rules.

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. If you would like to be one of the first to hear about new products from Penny Black please click here to join the free club, plus their Facebook is full of activity and news.

Three lovely prizes including brand new release stamps and dies..........

I super £15 voucher from Crafts U Love...........

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.

Stamp Addicts is a family run business based in Bedfordshire and have been in business since 1992. We have watched the popularity of rubber stamping and all papercrafts steadily increase over time and now manufacture our own branded rubber stamps which frequently feature on Hochanda TV as well as craft shows across the UK. The prize is a £10 store voucher.

Sizzix there's no bigger or better place for craft materials, custom dies and machines that can die-cut, emboss and texturize many materials, including cardstock, paper, construction paper, fabric, faux fur, felt and foil plus much more.

And of course we have lots of inspirartion to set you on your way starting with this months Guest Designer Marianne........

Using Penny Black 40-276 Botanical Notes and 30-031 Flower Gallery

Brenda

Using Penny Black 40-460 Sunburst and 2695J Dance, Sing, Love

Ellie

Using Penny Black 1449K Guess What and 30-325 All Abloom

Linda
Using Penny Black 30-021 Garden Friends

Lynn

Using Penny Black 1652J Cheesecake Wish and 30-107 Summer Fun

Mervi

Using Penny Black 40-461 The Lookout

Sam
Using Penny Black 3341H Can't Help It! and 51-128 Doodles

Shirley

Using Penny Black 40-443 Freshly Cut

Susan
Using Penny Black 2521K Snowy

Tracy
Using Penny Black 3980K Team Effort

Now it's over to you and we look forward to checking out all your entries.

Before linking your entry are you sure it meets our challenge rules ? These are listed in a tab at the top of this blog and the most important ones also mentioned at the beginning of this post.

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