September Winners and New DT

I have been itching to do this post and share with you the names of our new Design Team members as well as the winners of the prizes for September.

Firstly I have to thank everyone who applied for the Design Team. You shared some superb artwork and I could have selected so many, but sadly that's just not possible.

There are some changes to tell you about as well. Several of the existing Design Team have stepped down due to other commitments, but I am pleased to say that all have agreed to stay in the sidelines and will be popping up as Guest Designers. Their names are on the sidebar so you can keep tags on them and what they are up to.

So this is the new line up from October,

Brenda - yours truly

Ellie - new DT member

Jules - joined the DT last month

Helene - fellow Allsorts teamie

Maarit - new DT member

Mervi - new DT member

Shirley - new DT member

Zoe guest last month and agreed to stay

Please join me in extending a huge welcome to all the new DT members. Obviously the newcomers won't be able to share their work with you until the November challenge.....I thought it might be a bit of a tall order to ask them to come up with something for tomorrow.....don't want to scare them away before they even start. But you can click on their names to go visit them and get a taste of what wonders they will be sharing with us.

Oh my, after all that excitement, I had better tell you who are the lucky winners for September. Mr Random Org., has strutted his stuff and this is what he came up with in no particular order:

Nina

Jeannie

Jenny

Niili

Congratulations to all of you, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your full postal addresses so I can get your prizes in the post. Please pick up our Top 3 logo....well all four of you actually......and display on your sidebar.

See you all tomorrow for our new challenge and some special news with even more chances of winning a prize.

September Challenge

Hello and welcome to our September Challenge.

We had a really great month in August with some super entries and we want to extend our thanks to everyone who took part. If you have not checked to see if you are a winner, it's all on yesterday post.

Quite a few things to tell you about before I move on to this months winners.

Firstly our search for new DT members will continue into September. Although there have been some stunning entries which is going to make life very hard, I thought this was only fair as the search only started part way through August and some of those that entered the challenge before that time may have missed the announcement. So if you would like to be considered for our team please add PB after your name when you link your work and if you did so last month, please do the same in September, although I will be going back through all August's entries as well. I will announce the lucky peeps at the end of September.

So what's the theme this month....

Punch away

With such fabulous punches available now, it's the perfect chance to get them working. It can be as simple as a single punched element or go really wild, all we ask is that we can see some punching on your work.

Next onto this months prizes and some more fabulous prizes from Penny Black themselves with a bit of cute, some Christmas and some elegance. And don't forget to pop along to Penny Black's website to check out all their products including the stunning selection of new Christmas releases and some great inspiration as well. And don't forget to sign up for their club so you stay right up to date with what is happening, it's totally free and you will be amongst the first to know when new products are released.

Penny Black 3877K An Afternoon

Penny Black 4000J Graduar

Penny Black 3861H Damask

Penny Black 40-024 Rain or Shine

I am very excited to tell you that Jules is joining our DT. Some of you will remember she was part of the original Allsorts DT but stepped down due to work commitments, but I am pleased to say she had agreed to come back to us as part of the Penny Black at Allsorts DT. Please join me in giving her a big welcome back.

And we also have a guest designer this month and I am pleased to welcome Zoe. I think it so nice to have a bit of an insight into how people got into crafting and their pet loves and hates, so here's what Zoe has to say:

"Like many if not most crafters have been doing something or another for ever, well almost. The first set of cards that were mine to make were given to me when I was seven and they were Christmas cards complete with little tubes of glitter. Since then there has been knitting, and cross stitch, drawing and painting. 15 or so years ago paper crafting entered my world specifically rubber stamping and that as they say was that. Love all the different directions paper crafting takes you in and how many looks you can get with just one stamp. Then there's the inks and powders and surfaces you can stamp on the journey never ends. My style at the moment tending to the inky grungy style but you can never be sure what I'll do one thing never changes that's the hand made look/feel of my stuff made by me proud of it!

Zoe

And here's what the DT have come up with, I'm sure you will agree they have done me proud again, please do pop along to their blogs to show your appreciation for all their hard work.

Amanda

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Jules

Kirsten

August Winners

Time for the winners of our August Glitter and Glitz and Glitter challenge.

My do you love your sparkle and we had a fabulous month and some really great artwork and it would have been so hard to select the winners, but luckily Mr Random Org did the job and here are the four winners for August that he came up with:

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Little K Smith

Pascale

Tracy

Spyder

Well done all of you, please collect your Top 3 logo from the sidebar.......artistic licence again as there are four of you so one each ! Please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk so I can get your prizes off to you.

I will be back tomorrow with a new challenge and news of our search for new Design team members.

Looking for new DT members

Good Morning crafters.

This is just a short post to let you all know that I am looking for some new talent to join the Penny Black at Allsorts Design Team. You will be seeing one or two new faces join us in September and I am hoping we can add a couple more in the coming weeks, so if you are a Penny Black groupie and would like to join our exclusive friendly little team, please read on.

I am not holding a full blown DT call, instead I would like anyone interested in being considered, to add PB after their name when they enter their work to Mr Linky in the August Glitter and Glitz Challenge below. Also mention in the post on your own blog that we are looking for new DT members. If you have already entered prior to this post, then please just add a note to the comment section of this months challenge post and tell me the number of your entry as shown on Mr Linky and amend you blog post accordingly.

Your artwork does not have to be a card, it can be a l/o or any form of craft you enjoy, so long at there is a Penny Black stamp as one of the main elements.

If you are one of the lucky peeps invited to join the DT you will be required to provide one piece of artwork each month in line with the months theme and of course use a Penny Black stamp. You will also be expected to comment on all entries to the challenge each month and promote the challenge on your own blogs. Please do not ask to be considered if you feel unable to commit to these basic requirements.

If you are interested in being considered for the team and can work within the guidelines above, all you have to do is enter your work with Mr Linky so I can come take a look, plus there is the added bonus of the chance to win one of this months prizes.

August Challenge

Good morning everyone and welcome to our challenge here at Penny Black at Allsorts. We had a fabulous display last month and want to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined in our Burst of Summer Colour theme with some absolutely stunning artwork.

We have another theme which we think you are going to really enjoy:

Glitter and Glitz

We all love our embellies so what better opportunity to pull out all those gems and glitters and get creating.

It's a pretty exciting time at Penny black this month as the new Christmas release stamps will be hitting the stores any time now. To be one of the first to get a preview of the wonderful new designs don't forget to pop over the the Penny Back web site where you can join the club for free. And the Penny Black design team are sure to come up with some great inspiration on their blog here.

This month there is even more reason to join our challenge as we have so many wonderful stamps to be won, here's what's on offer and as you can see, there's a set of the great new Betsy and Bluebell stamps, some real cuties and a touch of floral and elegance.

30-053 Betsy Bluebell 3910K Ice and Snow

40-012 Irises

4054K Gentlest kiss

The Design Team have created some great artwork again, please pop over to their personal blogs by clicking on their names and show them your appreciation for all their inspirational work.

Amanda

Brenda

Debs

Emma


Fleur

Helene

Kirsten