March winners

What fabulous creations you all shared with us again this month, some really stunning Spring creations which were a joy to see and in case we needed reminding, confirmed what an ubber talented bunch you are and how you love playing with your Penny Black stamps.

So without further ado, here are this months lucky winners:

Stamp from Penny Black:

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Sarham Finland

Kaz - UK

Paula - UK

Beverley USA

Lifetime discount from PB Stamps:

Cynthia - New Zealand

Set of Aquamarkers from Letraset:

Linda - Ontario

Congratulations to you all, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your full postal addys.

March Challenge

Welcome to our March challenge where we challenge you to "Welcome Spring".

The garden has been showing signs of new life for the last few weeks, a reminder of the wonders of Nature. I love this time of year and never fail to be amazed by by the fresh growth and colours that seem to burst forth as if by magic. The crafting possibilities are endless and we are really looking forward to seeing your take on this beautiful time of year.

As some of you might know, I have not been able to blog or craft for about six weeks now due to a relapse in my MS so am sorry I have not visited any of you this month. I think I am on the mend now, but would like to take this opportunity to thank all of my Design Team for their wonderful support during this time and ensuring the challenge kept running smoothly and you all got visited.....thank you girls, what a super bunch you are.

And I am afraid that I need to add a few words about the challenge rules.......I hate to keep reminding people but please, for the benefit of the majority of those who do comply with the rules, make sure you entry complies.....they are all listed on our sidebar and are pretty simple but these two are the ones that seem to get overlooked:

1) In line with all challenges, you must mention us in your post and link back to here........help in doing this is listed on our sidebar for those who are not sure how to do it.

2) Most important you must use a Penny Black image or Stickeroo as your main focal point on your work...........why else are we called Penny Black at Allsorts ?

Previously we have always tried to mail or leave a message to those with invalid entries, but this takes the DT a lot of time when they should be visiting valid entries, so in future I will just be adding a note alongside the name of any that do not fit the rules. So if you do not get any visits from our DT, it would be as well to check the rules.

Lots of prizes on offer again, first up four from Penny Black:

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.

Next Letraset who are offering a set of their wonderful colouring mediums.

And finally, Penny Black Stamps who will give one very winner a lifetime 15% discount off all purchases from their store.

Our Guest Designer this month is Helene from Sweden, just look at this lovely card she has designed for us:

Helene

Brenda

Ellie

Jules


Louise

Maarit

Mervi

Shirley

Tracy

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)

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.

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..............

Brenda

Ellie


Jules


Louise


Maarit

Mervi

Shirley

Tracy

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.