Sunday, 4 March 2018

March challenge - Feature a Creature

Welcome to our March challenge, how quickly we seem to have arrived here but at least Spring should be just around the corner in our part of the world.

Our theme this month is...........................

********Feature a creature********

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 (a die cut Butterfly added to a card will not suffice to satisfy the theme), this means:

Stamping reflecting the theme must be the central point of attention and interest

The one exception is Penny Black Stickeroos, but strictly no digi images. 

As always some lovely prizes to be won...................


No photos of prizes this month as they are still en route from Penny Black in the States but what I can tell you is that there will be some from the lovely new Sweet Spring collection ..................

                     
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.


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.

And a gorgeous Bee Crafty stamp...................


Bee Crafty is a card making, rubber stamping and scrapbooking supplies shop. We specialise in card and papers, and all associated supplies, inkpads, adhesives, tools, 100’s of scrapbooking papers and 1000’s of other supplies for your card making, scrapbooking and craft projects. We have an extensive range of products with new ranges are arriving all the time which we will be adding to the new site everyday, including weekly special offers, craft classes and crops.

And Tracy by team mate from our sister challenge Allsorts

Using  Penny 1451F Black blank 453C Bear blank

Brenda
Using Penny Black 40-579 Snowy Fence, 30-261 Natures Friends, 40-520 Stately
and 30-419 Happy Wishes

Using Penny Black 40-194 Lets go Wild

Daniela
Using Penny Black 1755H Baby Kitty

Ellie
Using Penny Black 3345H Easter Carrots and 30-283 Snippets

Leanne
Using Penny Black 30-417 Delicate silhouettes, 51-127 Illuminate, 30-095 Flower Festival, 30-416 Happy Thoughts and 3699K Get-together.

Linda
Using Penny Black 2360F Good News!

Lynn
Using Penny Black 30-305 Smile all Day and Penny Black 40-501 On the Lake

Mervi
Using Penny Black 40-064 Dreaming Geraniums
Using Penny Black 30-027 Purrfect Day

Tracy
Using Penny Black 30-028 Micey Day



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 on third party hosts such as Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Slipcoast. We do not want to be rude but we do want to be fair to those who do follow the rules


Friday, 2 March 2018

Love, Hearts and Flowers winners

Morning Peeps and thank you for all your lovely entries to our 'Love, Hearts and Flowers' them last month. It's time to announce the winners so here we go with the names as selected by Random Org....................

Winners links removed to comply with GDPR

Winner of the prizes from Penny Black

Pinky

Eemeli

Christine

The voucher from Crafts U Love

Chris
And the stamps from Little Claire

Elly

Well done to you all, please mail me with your full names and postal addresses so I can send your prizes. Any prizes not claimed by midnight GMT Thursday 8th March will be re-drawn and new winners notifies by e.mail or blog comment.


We has quite a variety of styles using Penny Black stamps and we would love to invite Babs to be our April Guest Designer, well done Babs, please mail me so I can tell you all about our challenge for that month.

Please pop back Sunday for our new challenge and to see what prizes we have on offer.

Sunday, 18 February 2018

More Love, Hearts and Flowers

Morning Peeps, popping in with some mid month inspiration following our 'Love, Hearts and Flowers' theme we are looking for a romantic edge to your artwork. 

Some beautiful entries so far although one or two have forgotten the romantic element which sadly means they won't be in the running for the prizes so please do remember to check the challenge requirements before adding your entry.

The challenge runs until 28th February so there is still plenty of time to join in.

Here are the creations from the talented Design Team.......................

Brenda
Using Penny Black 4023K Love is in the Message and 30-419 Happy Wishes

Using Penny Black 1919H Heart Allover

Ellie
Using Penny Black 40-375 Demure and 30-269 So Very Much

Leanne
Using Penny Black 40-527 Purr-fect and 30-417 Delicate Silhouettes

Linda
Using Penny Black 30-2789 Woodland Friends

Lynn
Using Penny Black Stickeroo 10-208 In Bloom and 30-009 Clearly in Love

Mervi
Using Penny Black 30-273 Furry Affection and 51-022 Heart String

Using Penny Black 3925H Top Of The World

Tracy
Using Penny Black 30-396 Purrfect

Sunday, 4 February 2018

February - Love, Hearts and Flowers

Good morning, it's time for our February challenge and we thought we would go with a theme that can be about Valentines, Weddings, romance and beautiful flowers........

******Love, Hearts and/or Flowers******

There are so many beautiful stamps that fit this theme be they love, hearts or just beautiful flowers but whichever you choose we must see a romantic element.

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, this means:

Stamping must be the central point of attention and interest

The one exception is Penny Black Stickeroos, but strictly no digi images. 


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.

So to follow the flow of the theme.........Love, Hearts and Flowers, three gorgeous prizes...............

                                 

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. The winner will receive a £15 store voucher.

Little Claire is a team of 3 consisting of Gill (Little Claire) Steve and Carol (long suffering member of staff/friend/all round good egg – but not a beautiful as Gill!). Necessity is the mother of invention’ this is the saying that sums up the creation of Little Claire Designs – we love stamps and what better way to satisfy the stamping ‘urge’ than to create our own designs exactly as we want them! Two really sweet stamps to be won.
                       

Our Guest first Guest Designerer Diane has made this adorable card for us......................

Using Penny Black 30-008 Every Whish Way 

And our second Guest Designer Wendy, my team mate from our Sister challenge Allsorts with this sweetest card ........

Using Penny Black 30-303 Stitches

And some inspiration from the Design Team.........................

Brenda
Using Penny Black 40-092 All You Need and 3706K Words Sweet
Daniela
Using Penny Black 4370J Special delivery
Using Penny Black 30-325 All Abloom and 30-274 Posted with Love
Leanne
Using Penny Black 30-391 All About Love.
Linda
Using Penny Black 3773H Love Graffiti
Lynn
Using Penny Black 3785K Here's my Heart
Using Penny Black 30-270 Mimi's love, 51-022 Heart String and 80-011 Beau Jardin
Susan
Using Penny Black 4023K Love Is The Message
Tracy
Using Penny Black 30-398 Purrfectly Sweet

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 on third party hosts particularly Instagram, Facebook, Splitcoast etc. We do not want to be rude but we do want to be fair to those who do follow the rules.