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Sunday, 3 March 2024

March challenge

Good morning and welcome to our March challenge. This months theme has been selected by Cathy and is....

Feminine

Perfect with Mothering Sunday due here in the UK next week, but equally a theme lots of crafters enjoy creating for, I know I do. There are so many options, Flowers, Fashion, Fairies and Fantasy to name just a few, we are sure you will all have a favourite and hope you will share them with us.

Please remember that there must be at least one stamped element on the front of entires to be eligible. If you are a seasoned stamper using conventional stamps (not digital) you may want to add your interest in being one of our Guest Designers, just add GD when entering.

Before telling you about this months prizes we are sorry to say that Maxine has left us, she has been with us for eighteen months and will be missed, but we all understand that sometimes life has other ideas for us. Keep in touch Maxine.

Two fabulous prizes from Lavinia stamps: 1)Small Pines, Christmas Joy and Eve 2) Fairy Chain. A great opportunity for the lucky winner to get ahead with some seasonal makes.

Lots of inspiration from the Design Team starting with

Cathy

And this months Guest Designer Helen, thank you for joining us again....

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 1 March 2024

February winners and Top 3

Morning everyone, it's the 1st of March and time to announced the winners of our February Romance challenge, what gorgeous creation you shared, thanks to all of you.

Random Org., has been put to work and here are the numbers he has selected ~~Mari~~, Elly (played only for fun) and ~~Anne~~,

Overseas prizes are always marked as gifts, but Customs fees may be added so please confirm when claiming you accept this risk as I am unable to assist once prizes leave the UK (if you do not, prizes will not be sent).

Please all mail me by Thursday 8th March with your full names and postal addresses.

Now for those top picks as voted for by the Design Team and in first place we have a tie as Chris and Priya had the same number of votes, so well done to your both.

And in second place is Natascha, lovely cards from you all. Please collect your badge from the sidebar to display on your own blogs.

We will be back on Sunday with a new challenge.

Sunday, 18 February 2024

Romantic inspiration

Morning everyone, we have some mid month inspiration for you following our Romance theme selected by Hilary, but if romance is not for you then there is always the Anything Goes option, we love to see them all.

Judging by the lovely entries so far lots of you have been in romantic mode this month and we hope you still have some creations to share for the chance of winning one of the super prizes from AALL and Create. You have until Wednesday 28th February to link up to three entries.

And a reminder that we are always on the look out for Guest Designers, if you are a seasoned stamper using traditional stamps (not digis) please add GDT against your entry.

Starting with this months featured DT Hilary and Guest Designer Helen, here are the romantic inspired creations the design Team have come up with.......

Guest Designer Helen

Hilary

Alice

Brenda

Using AALL and Create Fragile Fragments (538) and Elongated Hearts (156)

Sunday, 4 February 2024

February challenge

Welcome to our February challenge where our theme has been chosen by Hilary and is very appropriate with Valentines Day falling this month....

💕 Romance 💕

(or Anything Goes as an option)

Please remember that there must be at least one stamped element on the front of entires to be eligible. We are always on the look out for stamping Guest Designers, those interested in being considered please add GD when entering.

We have three prizes from AALL and Create, an A5 stamp set, a DL stamp and a stencil with an A7 stamp.

Here's a little bit about Hilary who has chosen our theme: My name is Hilary and I have been on the WLS DT since Nov 2021. I live in a small market town in Suffolk, England and started making cards seriously after I retired from the NHS. I set up my blog in 2017 and quickly found this wonderful online community.

I chose romance for this months theme because it is February and I couldn’t think of anything else! I am not a great one for making romantic cards, but the one thing I have found about being on this DT, is that it pushes me out of my comfort zone and my cards this month are a good example of that. Thanks to everyone who takes part in our challenge, you spur us on and inspire us. Please interpret the romance theme in any way you like and if you really can’t think of anything, the anything goes option can still apply.

Hilary

We have lots of romantic inspiration to share including our Guest Designer Helen who we are pleased to welcome for the next two months....

Guest Designer Helen

Alice

Brenda

Using AALL and Create Forget Me Not, Rosy Posy and Ephemera

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 2 February 2024

January winners and Top picks

It's time to announce the lucky winner of our January challenge where we saw so many lovely entries, thanks to each and every one of you who joined in.

There are three super prizes from Stampendous for the winners selected by Random Org., who are no ~~39 Gina~~, ~~no 119 Alice~~ and no 74 Elaine (unclaimed by 15th - new winner Helen notified by mail).

Please all mail me by Thursday 8th February with your full names and postal addresses. Overseas prizes are always marked as gifts, but Customs fees may be added so please confirm when claiming you accept this risk as I am unable to assist once prizes leave the UK (if you do not, prizes will not be sent).

The Design Team have selected the following entries as their favourites from January, well done to you all.

No 32 April

Sharing second place No 104 Anne, No 65 Elaine and No 104 Cathy

Congratulations, please collect your Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

We hope to see you all again on Sunday for our new challenge.

Thursday, 18 January 2024

New stamps on display

Good morning, the Design Team have some more inspiration to share following Mervi's 'Something New' theme and as you can see there's quite a few new stamps on display. Or of course you can use our Anything goes options as long as you have included a stamped element on the front of your card.

The challenge runs until Wednesday 31st January so there is still plenty of time to join in, or add a second of third entry for the chance of winning one of the three lovely stamp sets from Stampendous.

Mervi

New stamp