October Challenge

Good Morning everyone, I hope you are ready for our October challenge which is......

********Animal Magic********

Time to get out all those animal stamps, birds and bees and even fish and butterflies, we want to see them all. The only things you need to remember is that the focal element of your card must be a stamped image or sentiment - any make of stamp - but no Digi's are allowed.

We are still looking for Guest Designers, so if you like the idea joining us the logo below tells you what you need to do to be considered and please feel free to grab it and help us spread the word.

We have some wonderful sponsors again this month and a bumper 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 stamps and products from all the leading craft companies.

Letraset are joining us again and offering a set of Promarkers to another lucky winner.

Penny Black have three prizes for another winner. You can join their club here and be sure of being amongst the first to know about all the latest releases, their gallery is also loaded with inspiration.

A warm welcome again to Crimson Cloud with the great prize of the winners choice of three sets of die cuts. A mother/daughter venture - a way to indulge our joint passion of cardmaking and crafting. We only sell products that we have tried, tested and love using. We have developed our own exclusive range of digital stamps, svg files and "Make Your Own Card" kits which reflect our styles of card making - and hopefully yours too!

Phew, what a list, but there's still one more to go and that is Joanna Sheen with a £10 voucher to spend at their on line store.

So now for some inspiration and first we welcome Amelia who was the lucky applicant chosen from the applications for our Guest Design for October, here is the lovely piece of work she has created for us using a favourite PB image:

We are pleased to have Mel from Crimson Cloud joining us as a Guest Designer this month with this very elegant Christmas card:

And an equally warm welcome to my Allsorts teamie Debs, who has made a great Christmas card using lovely traditional colours.

You can visit all their individual blogs by clicking on their names above.

You can visit of our Guests individual blogs by clicking on their names above.

And of course the design team have worked their magic again with such a variety of takes on the theme. It would be really lovely if you found time to pop along to visit them as well, they work away every month bringing you lots of inspiration and I know they would soooooo appreciate a visit from you.

Brenda
Penny Black 3906H Greetings from the wise

My fabulous design team have worked their magic again with such a variety of takes on the theme. It would be really lovely if you could find time to pop along to the their individual blogs and show them some love, they work away every month bringing you lots of inspiration and I know they would appreciate a visit.

Ellie
Using Penny Black skip and romp 2877L

Linda
Using Penny Black  Very Scared 30-054 and Trick or Treat 30-005

Lynn
Using Micey Day 30-028

Mervi
Penny Black image "nature's day" 4157K

Shirley
Penny Black image 1729K Just buzzin by


Susan
Penny Black Stamp - Primp 3965K

Tracy
Using Penny Black Team Effort 3980K

Have fun with the theme everyone and as always we look forward to visiting all your super entries.

September winners

Good Morning Peeps, you really enjoyed our September theme and showed us how organised you all are with your Christmas cards and what beauties they were as well. I really need to take a leaf out of your books and get on with mine. 

So without further ado straight on to the winners, but first of all I would like to announce the lucky person who we would like to invite to join us as our guest designer in November..................

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Nela

Thanks so much for applying Nela, we loved your work and are looking forward to you joining us next month. Please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk so that I can tell you all about the theme.

Winner of the Penny Black entry winning the prize from Sir Stampalot is:

Deb

And winner of the gift voucher from Art of Craft:

Janine

Next, wext the two prizes from Penny Black: 

Riina

Jayne

And finally, winner of the collection of ribbons and embellishments:

Niina

Well done to you all, please mail me at the above addy so I can get your prizes is sent off to you.

New challenge starts on Sunday don't forget to check back to see what we have lined up for you.

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.