Calendar Challenge Winner for March

Hi everyone,

I'm back today to announce the winner of our 

March Calendar Challenge.

 Your words were Yellow and Rabbits.

Well you certainly used yellow and there were rabbits galore.

The entries were amazing as always!

All 25 of them, and thank you to you all for joining in.

So, lets get on with the all important winner.....

Using the usual Random Generator....

......the winner is......

.....no. 6.....

HAZEL H 

Congratulations to you Hazel, please get in touch so that

I can send you your prize voucher.

I shall be back tomorrow with another project in 

our Curio Boxes week.

See you then,

Jane x

Challenge Winner for Tando

Hello again,

I'm back, this time with the winner of our 
Tando Weekly Challenge.


Its definitely winners day here today!

So, thank you for joining in the challenge.
We had twelve fabulous entries, and all so very different.

Using our usual Random Generator......

the winner is......

........no. 9.......


.....Fiona Spain

Fiona, I am so sorry your picture is not showing here....
the internet/Google was so bad while I was doing this
that I wasn't sure whether I would even get any of this post done.
As soon as I can get your picture on here I will add it!

And here it is, finally, Google still giving me problems but I've
managed to add it!

 Congratulations please get in touch so that
I can send you your prize voucher!


Thank you all for joining in, it means a lot to us that
you take the time and trouble to do so!! 
  




Jane x

P.S.  I spent so long trying to get this post to work that I hadn't 
realised that the Random Generator had picked our worthy winner 
Fiona for both challenges!  Amazing!  What are the chances of that??
Well done Fiona, a double prize is coming your way!! 

Calendar Challenge Winner for February

Hellooooooo,

Today is the day when we announce the winner of the 

Calendar Challenge for February!

We have had 22 entries in total,

thank you all of you that entered.

I hope you are enjoying joining in.

Ok, using our usual Random Generator......

the winner is......No. 4

Fiona Spain

 Congratulations Fiona please get in touch so that
I can send you your prize voucher!

Thank you all for joining in, please keep those entries coming
 for March!  

I'll be back in a short while for the winner of 
......Tando Weekly Challenge !  


Jane x

Q and L Challenge Winners

Morning everyone,

I promised you I would sort out the last two winners

for last years Q and L challenge.

I'm sorry it has taken me a while but here we go......

The penultimate challenge was Heart and Risk

We had 18 fabulous entries and using a random generator,

the winner is........no. 9........

Elaine

Congratulations Elaine!!

Please get in touch so that I can get your voucher sent to you.



Now our second winner is for the last challenge of 2014 Q and L.
This was Faith and Harmony.
For this challenge we had 17 entries, all superb and I'm so
glad we use a random generator as I wouldn't like the job
of choosing the winner.

So, again using a random generator.....

the winner is........no. 8.....

thassos456 

 Congratulations thassos456!!
please get in touch so I can send you your voucher.

I would like to take this moment to thank you all for joining
in with our challenges.  Without you we couldn't do them and I might
feel like I am talking to myself.....blah, blah, blah!
Your entries are always excellent and I hope you enjoy taking 
part and creating your brilliant works of art.  We certainly 
like seeing them.

I'm off now, 'Mr Selfridge' is calling me......

Hope you all have a good week,

I'm back tomorrow with the winner of last weeks 
Shoes challenge.


Jane x

Calendar Challenge Winner for January

Ok, here we are with our first winner of the year........

Calendar Challenge for January

We have had lots of brilliant entries and it is great to see so many

 of you playing along.  Hope you continue with us throughout the year.

We had 23 entries and using the random generator......

the winner is.......

No. 21. Paperplay

Please get in touch so we can send you your voucher.


I have spent ages on here trying to get pictures to upload, I'm sorry I had to take the
January entries off my previous post but will try and get them back on soon!

Anyway, I think I might have finally got there so here is what some of the DT
have been up to with Red and Hearts.....

Neil

Dawn

See you soon,


Jane x



Alpha/dictionary Challenge Letter C winner and wall of fame

Hi, 
Well, we've done it. Even more entries this time! 86!!! Well done to everyone. Love seeing your pages,  your ideas, how you alter your pages, how you "twist" the words sometimes, it's really great. 
More entries means more choice, so more difficult for me to choose which pages are going to make the Wall of Fame. 
A bit more about this later, but fisrt our winner for the C challenge... 

YVONNE GARNER

Congratulations!

Please get in touch so I can send you your £20 voucher 

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Now, for the letter C wall of fame

Angie with Climb

Just look at this one closely... pure artwork. Love it

Danielle with Champagne

ok, being French, I had to pick that one LOL

(although I don't like Champagne nor wine for the matter... but I love this area of France)

Claire with Cats

Love the shadow work on this

Paulaesuk with Celestial

What is there to say? I just went "oh wow!" when I saw this one... 

Arrowenn with Chiffre Cinq

Loved the stencil background work on this one. Very original

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ok, I know I said 5 pages every week, but I could not resist showing you this one made by little Juan, 6 years old.... isn't it just fantastic?

Juan (6 years old) with Camion

So if you are listed above either because you won the voucher or because you are on the WALL OF FAME, get in touch and I'll send you a little logo or blinkie to add to your blog ;-)

See you soon, 

Alpha/dictionary Challenge Letter V winner... and wall of fame

Hi everyone,

Once again, I want to thank everyone for entering the challenge. We got 69 entries for the first week, which is fantastic. I REALLY enjoyed looking at them all... see what word you chose.. what was your interpretation for each word...
We have a lot of altered dictionaries going on (yeaaah), but also a few ATCs.. I saw some tags too, and something else, really original, that really caught my eye. Back to that in a minute.

For those of you who want to play, don't have a blog but are on Facebook, I have done a quick PDF to show you how to create a Facebook page (which is public) so you can post your samples and share with us. 
Click here to download it. 


First of all the winner....

SARAH

Clarabellecrafts

Congratulations

You are the lucky winner of the £ 20.

Please get in touch so I have your email to send you your prize.

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WALL OF FAME

So with so many entries, I thought that we could start a wall of fame every fortnight. 

I will choose 5 entries that really caught my eyes.

Here are the first five for the letter V

Click on the pictures to read more details on their blog

VISAGE by Julia

VIVID by Eleni

VANDSPEJL (surface of the water) by LindaS

VIXEN by Laura

VACATION by Jan

And look at what Jan is using for her Alpha challenge... 

Click on the picture to check her blog and find out more. 

So if you are listed above either because you won the voucher or because you are on the WALL OF FAME, get in touch and I'll send you a little logo or blinkie to add to your blog ;-)

See you soon, 

Fancy a cuppa week - Chris and Neil

Hi, 
A couple of more cards today... very different, still with the Cuppa in mind, and both would be fantastic to receive. 
Chris Dark used the Crafty Individual images (doesn't that cupcake look yummy?)
As for Neil, he included a tea bag in his card. Wonderful idea for a friend who is far away and you can only meet on the phone.. 
What do you think?

Crafty Individuals Image sheet 'a nice cup of tea'

Crafty Individuals Stamps CI-351 Sweet elephants and swirl

Tim Holtz Alterations Movers and Shapers Die - In the bag

Memory Box Die - Fancy Blossom

Craft Barn White card

Ranger Distress Ink Salty Ocean

Double sided tape

Ranger Ink Blending Tool

Marabu Relief Paste - Metallic Gold

Cropadile

ball tool

pale blue polka dot organza ribbon

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Sometimes, when a friend is not close enough to visit you and you miss the good old natters over a cuppa; why not send them this card?

Then you can make a cuppa together and chat on the phone for a bit?

I used Distress Stains for the background, laying the colours in stripes across and up and down. Then I laid a couple of the Tando masks onto it and spritzed with water to create more interest.

I stamped the head and sentiment onto card and cut out. I stamped the "hair" onto the card with Archival Ink and coloured it with Distress Markers as well as the face.

Inside it's simple, a teabag and the sentiment.

Material

Stamps - Dylusions: The Right Words, Doodle Parts and Bits of This

Distress Stains - Barn Door, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers

Distress Markers - Barn Door, Antique Linen, Peeled Paint, Stormy Sky, Worn Lipstick and Black Soot.

Claudine Hellmuth Studio matte multi-medium

Tando masks - Distorted Harlequin and Hive

Our special offer this weekend

Spend £25 on our website from January 25th to January 28th and get a £5 voucher back

(you will find it in your parcel)

See you tomorrow