More Christmas inspiration and October GD

Good Morning everyone, just popping in with a few more Christmas creations from some of the Design Team, I think they rather liked this theme and judging by all your wonderful entries so do you.

And it's also time to announce the lucky person who will be joining us as our Guests Designer in October......... it is Amelia, congratulations  please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk so that I can tell you all about our theme for next month.

Here's what some of the Design Team have been up to............................

 Mervi

Penny Black stamp 4111K jolly St.Nicholas and Penny Black's Madison papers

Tracy

Penny Black 3289J Snowy & Hedgy

Linda
using 'best day ever' 30-059

Lynn

Using PB 3986J Crystal wreath

If you have not already joined in this month there's still plenty of time and of course some great prizes to be won.

September Challenge

Good Morning to you all, I hope everyone is OK and all set for a brand new challenge with lots of prizes to be won.

Before I tell you about the new theme, I need to let you know that we are having a bit of a change around this month and instead of doing our 'In the Spotlight' feature, we're looking for some Guest Designers. So this is how it's going to work, if you would like to be considered as a Guest Designer, just add GD next to your name when you enter this month's challenge. When we do our mid month post on 18th September we will announce the name of the lucky person who will be our October Guest Designer. Then when the winners are announced at the end of September we will announce another name who will be our Guest Designer for November.

So now for the theme, I know lots of you are well into your seasonal crafting so this should be an easy one:

******Early Christmas Makes******

As always you can make a card, gift, tag, altered item and so on, as long as you follow the Christmas theme and remember that the focal element of your work must be a stamped image and no digi images. Any  entries failing to meet the requirements will be ineligible and although I always try and leave a note to explain, this is time consuming and takes up the DT's time when they could be visiting other entries, the majority of who do follow the simple rules.

We are again blessed with some wonderful sponsors and a super collection of prizes, first up we welcome our regular sponsor Sir Stampalot, with a prize for the winning entry using a Penny Black stamp.

Sir Stampalot stock a huge range of Penny Black stamps including the new Christmas 2012 collection, as well as products from all the leading craft companies. The great prize from them this month:

We welcome a new sponsor this month The Art of Craft:

"We stock everything you could possibly need for creative cardmaking -  a large selection of embossing folders, cutting dies from Memory Box, Cheery Lynn, Cottage Cutz, Joycrafts!, Marianne etc. together with peel off stickers, rubber stamps, punches and a huge variety of embellishments.  Please visit us at our shop or online."

They are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to use in their store.

Next up our very own Penny Black, I know I say this most months but as there are always new crafters joining in for the first time who may not know that you can sign up to the Penny Black Club so that you are one of the first to hear about new releases and products.

Super prizes from them a gain this month and yes, that is a pack of the brand new Madison DP's which are really fabulous and include designs suitable for Autumn, Christmas and all year round:

Our final prize is a pretty collection of ribbons and embellishments, you will find all the ribbons at  Pretty Little Ribbons:

Do pop over to Sarah's store and check out all the lovely ribbons, seam bindng, embellishments and much more to adorn your cards.

Now for some inspiration from the design team who all look to be really enjoying making a start on their Christmas cards and have come up with a fabulous collection of work.

Emma, my super teami form Allsorts joins us as our Guest Designer this month

Brenda

Penny Black 4277K Christmas Gorgeous and Penny Black Madison DP

Penny Black 4268K Crystal Drops

Clare
Main image and background stamp from PB "Jolly Friends Christmas" clear stamp set (30-058)

Ellie
using Penny Black stamp "Little Elf Mim" Product #40-089. Sentiment by Penny Black
 clear set "Holly Jolly" Product #30-039.

Linda

using image and sentiment from Penny Black Christmas everyday set, #30-081

Lynn

Using PB stamp3908K Favourite Time. The sentiment is from a Paula Pascale Set.

Mervi

Penny Black's "angel of peace" 40-156 and text "hanging treasures" 40-165

Shirley

Using Penny Black stamp 4101K "give us a kiss"

Susan

Penny Black Stamp Snow Joy 3759H, Sentiment also Penny Black Wishing For Snow 3238F

Tracy

Penny Black 40-007 Caroling Trio

It's over to you now, have fun creating your entries and we look forward to coming round to visit you all.

August winners

A huge thank you again to everyone who joined in this months challenge with your fab entries and now it's time to announce the winners.

Winner of the £10 voucher from Joanna Sheen:

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Tracy

Stamps from Penny Black:

Kev

Scarlett

The £15 Voucher from Crafts U Love:

Janice

Prize from Sir Stampalot for the entry using a Penny Black image:

Anesha

The $20 voucher from Flonz Craft:

Defi

Wow, so many prizes, congratulations to you all, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your full names and postal addys. Please note that any prizes not claimed within seven days will be re-drawn and the new winners notified by e.mail.

I will be back on Sunday with our September challenge and announcing a new way for you to get involved in future challenges.

July 'In the Spotlight' winners

Good Morning everybody, the weeks seem to be flying by and already it's time to announce the two talented crafters selected from our July challenge enetries who have made it into our 'In the Spotlight' feature. So without further ado, I am very please to introduce Christa and Lena Katrine

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Christa
Lovely components which all work so well together, beautiful soft colour palette

Here is what Christa had written about her crafting journey:

Before I start to introduce myself I want to say a big THANK YOU to the designteam for choosing me for your spotlight-winner. I feel really honoured and it means a lot to me. 

I live in Holland , I’m 48 years young and I started scrapbooking in 2005. Only a couple of years ago I discovered the card-making with stamps.  First I used Magnolia’s , but now I am trying different brands. At the moment I love to colour with my distress-ink-refill’s. I don’t know how to describe my style of cardmaking ….

I like vintage a lot , my colours are never too bright and my cards always seem to be too small for everything I want to put on it. Since I have started my blog I have met so many lovely scrapfriends. It is such a great hobby ! I wouldn't know what to do without it ….

Love from Holland , Christa.

Lena Katrine

A stunning creation with gorgeous flowers and dies, fabulous colours and 

matches the theme perfectly.

And from Lena Katrine:

I've always been doing all sorts of crafting, and I still love knitting and crotetching once in a while, but started paper crafting in the year of 2006 and got hooked! When I started blogging in 2008, my love for paper crafting really hit the roof!

There's so many talented crafters/artists out there, and they're all giving me lots of inspiration, along with so many other things around me. I love the smell of rubber stamps and papers, the beauty in pretty embellishments like flowers, pearls, lace and ribbon, and the relaxing and fun feeling of creating something new and unique.

I love colouring images with promarkers, prismacolors and distress ink, and so bringing the caracters in to life. I love trying out new foldings, technics and items, and I'm always trying to develope myself as a crafter.

Thank you so much for the space in your spot light!

Congratulations to both, please go pick up your 'In the spotlight' sidebar button and display on your blog with pride, it's well-deserved.

If you've not already entered this month's challenge or want to add another entry, remember you can enter up to 3 times, then you still have plenty of time to do so.

August challenge

A very Good Morning to you all from us all here at Penny Black and More and we hope you are ready for a new challenge where we have the theme:

******Whiskers and/or Wings******

The perfect opportunity to ink up all those critters and beautiful fairies and butterflies. As always you can enter any type of project so long as there is a stamped image predominant on your work following the month theme. You can enter up to three times, but please remember strictly no digi images are allowed, any entries using them will be discounted from the challenge.

We have a host of fabulous prizes again and are pleased to welcome a new sponsor as well, Floz Craft

who are offering a prize of a $20 store voucher. Also a 12% discount on purchases made by challenge entrants during this week, just enter 'Penny Black and More challenge entrant' in the comment section when placing your order. Here is a little about the company:

"We are a small family-owned design and craft company from New Zealand. Our main goal is making and selling rubber and clear stamps and we have a unique collection of stamps that you can not find anything else. Don't worry about shipping from so far away, we are very experienced merchants and ship to customer in US, Canada or Europe within a week after payment. We offer a lifetime warranty on our stamps".

We welcome back Crafts U Love who are well know to lots of us for their well stocked on line store and currently have lots of new Memory Box Spellbinder and Marianne dies on their what's new section here, the lovely new Christmas ones are a must have for your early Christmas makes. There also some bargains to be had in the stamp section of the web site here.

They are offering a £15 store voucher to another lucky winner.

Our friends Sir Stampalot are your regular sponsors for the winning entry using a Penny Black stamp. Their re-vamped website is easy to navigate so do go take a look round and you will find all the latest new products here and the new Penny Black stamps which I mention below are already listed in that section.

Here is the prize from them this month:

Penny Black have just released their Christmas 2012 catalogue and stamps are already shipping to a store near you, here's a sneak peek.............

And just look at these yummy Madison papers, they come in pads of 48 sheets.............

Here are the prizes they are offering to two more lucky winners:

And last but by no means least, Joanna Sheen is back with us again this month and offering another £10 store voucher for to one winner.

Joanna needs no introduction to most of us and regularly shares her unique inspiration with us on her Create and Craft TV shows featuring her fabulous CD's and stamps. She also has a fabulous on line store full of the latest crafting products and of course everything is sent with free worldwide postage, how good is that ?

Now for some inspiration from the Design Team and all have been very clever and incorporated stamped from one of our sponsors Flonz Craft along with their Penny Black's.

Brenda
I used the butterfly sheet from Flonz Craft as my background and the large butterfly from PB Free Flight

Clare

Ellie
using Critter Party by PB & Grass Borders #1 by Flonz Craft

Linda
Penny Black garden friends and Flonz policeman and mermaid (corner stamp to create frame around image).

Lynn
 Flonz Craft stamps, one of the stamps from the waves, borders vintage set for the background stamping and the greeting is from the Best Wishes sentiment set.

Mervi
Stamps: Penny Black Toadily happy / Flonzcraft Baroque corner

Shirley
 I used a Flonz Craft butterfly from the set called " Three Butterflies".


Susan
Penny Black stamp - Bee Costume and Flonz Craft stamps from the borders set (Grass and central border) and from the corners set - an ornate corner stamped and cut out

Tracy
I have used Flonz stamps:- Butterflies 01, Happy Birthday greetings - Sweetheart, Oval Frame With Flowers

Have fun everyone and we look forward to seeing all your lovely creations.