Sunday, 27 February 2011

February Winners

Hellp peeps, here with the list of winners for February, some wonderful entries again and our thanks for all your creativity which is a joy to see.

Apolos it is short and just a list of your names, but my first solo posting in six weeks after this enforced blogging lark, so keeping the time at the keyboard to a minimum:

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PB lifetime discount
Brenda B

Aquamarkers
Chillipip

Penny Black Stamps
Linda Roberts
Tina
Raisa
Doreen

Congratulations everyone, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your full postal addys (e.mail addy for Brenda B so Dick can contact you about your prize)

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Spring 2011 releases and prizes galore

Hi folks, in case the news passed you by, the new 2011 Spring release stamps were revealed at CHA last week and are all available to view here.

As usual Penny Black have not disappointed and there is a fabulous array of new designs so do check them out, I just know you will have lots of 'must haves', I know I do........no surprise there then ! They are shipping to your local stockist right now, so why not get ahead of the game and place your order so you are at the top of the queue.

And don't forget you can join the Penny Black Club here and you can even share your work with other Penny Black lovers at the Penny Black Circle as well as join in their competitions and win some super prizes.

It's lovely to see so many of you joining in this months challenge and as usual some really great artwork and of course there are lots of prizes up for grabs including the mystery prize for one of this months new followers of our blog. All details in the post below.


Tuesday, 1 February 2011

February challenge

Welcome to another challenge here at Penny Black at Allsorts and a bright new theme:

Say it with Flowers

Just about anything goes here as long as we can see a flower or two and of course a Penny Black stamp or Stickeroo as your main image.

On that point, we have noticed a few creeping in with no Penny Black image so please make sure your entry fits the rules........after all we are not called Penny Black at Allsorts for nothing........... and who can resist their stamps anyhow ? We always try to leave a note for any who do not use a PB image but this takes the DT a lot of time when they could be visiting other blogs, so in future we will just add a note alongside the name on Mr Linky.

And a note about the closing date for this challenge, as it's February and a short month, the last time for entering will be Midnight GMT on 24th of the month, when Mr Linky will close.

January was a great month for us, we have lots of new followers and so many of you joined in our Blog Hop which was great fun, thanks to everyone for making it all such a success.

As usual we have prizes galore and are thrilled to have another new regular sponsor..............



.............Letraset who are offering a set of Aquamarkers to one lucky winner. AquaMarkers are a dual tipped water based, pigmented ink marker with the advantage of being water soluble. They can be easily blended, even when dried, giving the effects of water-colour paint but with the convenience of a marker. The water colour quality of the markers makes an ideal accompaniment to an artist's tool box, providing a clean and convenient alternative to water colour paints.

And our regular sponsor:


PB stamps who are offering a lifetime 15% discount for products purchased from their store, it you have never visited them you don't know what you are missing.................new stamps, old stamps and even discontinued stamps.


The of course our very own Penny Black who are giving away these four lovely stamps.....


And just the one more, to keep the momentum going we will again be selecting one of the new followers who link up as a follower between now and the closing date of this challenge and they will receive a mystery prize........you can bet it will include something Penny Black...........
This months Guest Designer is Debs from our sister challenge Allsorts and she has created this lovely card.......


The DT were mega thrilled to have been given the opportunity to work with Aquamarkers.......for some of them a brand new experience......to create their work this month. They have thoroughly enjoyed using them and can't sing their praises enough, just take a look at the fabulous creations they have come up with to inspire you..............



Mervi

Shirley





Monday, 31 January 2011

January challenge winners

Time for some winners from our January challenge entries.

I have heard from all the Blog Hop winners and those in the UK should already have theirs, but I figure the others will take a little longer but rest assured they are all on their way.

As usual Mr Random Org has done his stuff and here is what he pulled out of the hat:

First up the winner of a fabulous 15% lifetime discount from PB Stamps........

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Louise (Quebec)

Next the winners of the four stamps from Penny Black:

Jeannie
Lynda (New York)
Tracy (UK)
Netty

And last but not least our special winner selected from all our new followers this month..............all 77 of you, welcome on board and thank you for linking up............

Berni

Congratulations all of you, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your full postal addys' so I can get your prizes off to you, or in the case of Louise I need your e.mail addy to pass on to PB stamps.

Sunday, 23 January 2011

Blog Hop Winners

Wow what a blast that was and a really fabulous Blog Hop.

I know from all your lovely comments that you all enjoyed it as much as we did and I want to say a great big thank you to everyone who joined in.

I also want to say thank you to my dedicated Design Team for all their hard work in helping me make it all possible.

So without further ado, here are the winners:

Correct answer using the letters collected which of course spelt out "Great Stamps".............I was thrilled to see so many of your comments of agreement on this statement..........is:

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Louisa - Little Mrs Bling

And from the individual DT Blogs:
Brenda - Pat
Ellie - Ann
Jules - Tina
Louise - Karen
Maarit - Cathy
Mervi - Tiiti
Penny Black - Jenn
Shirley - Krassimi
Tracy - Julye B

Congratulations everyone, please let me (brenda@ibas.co.uk) have your postal addy's so I can get your prizes off to you.
And don't forget you still have a few days left to enter this months challenge.

Saturday, 15 January 2011

Blog Hop



Blog Hop Now Closed........

Welcome to our very first Blog Hop, it's going to be such fun with lots of prizes to be won and we are all really excited and hope lots of you are going to join in the fun.

The DT have all created a special piece of work which you will find on their blogs as you visit and you have from today until midnight BST on 22nd January to enter. And don't forget you can still enter this months challenge as well......the theme is "All You Need is Love".

For those of you who have never joined in a Hop before this is what you need to do:

1) Start from here and leave a comment on this post.
2) Visit all DT blogs and the Penny Black blog - nine in total listed below
3) Leave a comment on each.
4) Collect a letter clue from each.
5) Use those letters along with the ones already given in the grid below to make two words and mail you answer to me brenda@ibas.co.uk

Your starting point is here and each blog you visit will tell you where you should have arrived from and where you need to go next.....and of course the prize you can win on their blog......but if you get lost you can come back here and start afresh.............

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Just to remind you that there is a prize up for grabs on each blog you visit and a winner will be selected from all those who leave a comment on each blog. Then a further prize pictured below will go to the winner selected from all correct answers mailed to me at the addy above.


Don't forget the challenge is still running until the 28th of the month as usual and there is an extra special prize as well this month selected from all our new followers.

So off you go to start hopping and have fun........................