Wednesday 18 December 2019

Mid Month inspiration

Morning everyone, Sally here, deputising for Brenda whilst she recovers from her cataract op. It is time for some mid-month inspiration following our current theme of  'Anything Goes' which is going well with some super entries. The theme runs until Wednesday Ist January so there is still plenty of time to join in or enter a second or third creation and why not, when there is a super prize of a £25 store voucher to be won from 'be Creative!'

The Design Team have all been busy being very creative so take a look at their gorgeous work...

Thanks so much to everyone who joins in with our challenges! We wish you all a very Merry  Christmas and we will see you for the next challenge in the new year.

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Sunday 1 December 2019

December - Anything Goes

Good morning to you all and welcome to our December challenge, the last for 2019 and this time our theme is a nice and easy one as we know it's such a busy time of year for many of you...........

******Anything Goes******

The only thing to remember is that your focal image must be hand stamped, other than that the choice is totally down to you.

Please ensure you check our challenge rules here before entering, it may save you embarrassment and make sure your entry receives comments from the team and is entered into the prize draw

We welcome 'be Creative!' back as our sponsor offering the lucky winner a £25 store voucher.


'be Creative!' be Creative was set up in 2015 as a design and manufacturing business to source our own brand products from around the world. We appear on Create and Craft where we bring our own brand of products to your TV screens. We can also be seen at selected craft shows around the UK. Gordon and Justin.

And to set you on your way, here is some inspiration from the Design Team, click on their names links to visit them and see what they used to make their creation...................
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Friday 29 November 2019

November Winner and Top 3

Good morning, I'm here to announce the winner and Top 3 from our Traditional Colours theme, it was a rather quiet month but we must send a big thank you to all of you who did take part as we saw had some exceptionally beautiful beautiful entries.

And I am pleased to announce that after counting the Design Team's votes our winner by a clear lead is.................

Lynne who is entry no 40
with this beautifully coloured Christmas bouquet

Huge congratulations Lynne, please mail me from the link on the sidebar with your full name and postal address so I can send your prize and don't forget to collect our winner badge to display on your own blog.

And our Top 3 this month are..................

Lorraine entry no 80
Andrea entry no 31

There was a tie for third place.....................

Milla entry no 82 and Theresa no 7
                                                       
Well done to you all, please collect our Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

I will be back on Sunday with a new theme and another great prize.
 
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Monday 18 November 2019

Mid month inspiration

Morning everyone, we are mid way through our 'Traditional Christmas Colours' November theme and the Design Team have some more inspiration to share.

It's been a strangely quiet month so guessing lots of you are still to make your Christmas cards, so now seems to be the perfect time as you could be the lucky winner of the two beautiful Christmas stamps from Chocolate Baroque to help you on your way.

Using Chocolate Baroque A Christmas Garden
Dora
Joan
Using Chocolate Baroque Tomte Christmas stamps
 
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Sunday 3 November 2019

November - Traditional Christmas Colours

Good morning and welcome to our November challenge and this month we are in Christmas mode with the theme of............

****Traditional Christmas Colours - Red, Green, Gold****

We would like to see one, two or a combination of all these colours on your creations and remember the focal element must be hand stamped and reflect the theme which for the avoidance of doubt is Christmas in red, green and gold

Please ensure you check our challenge rules here before entering, it may save you embarrassment and make sure your entry receives comments from the team and is entered into the prize draw

                             Let's Get Festive Rubber stamp sheet - A5                           Hark the Christmas Rose individual unmounted rubber stamp  - A6

We have some lovely seasonal stamps from Chocolate Baroque for our lucky winner to use on their Christmas creations.
Chocolate Baroque is a small independent art and craft company, based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England and is owned and run by Lesley Wharton. Our resident artist, Sue Page, works from her home in Hampshire where she is inspired, amongst other things, by the natural world, botanical art and early 20th century illustration.

We design our own range of natural rubber art stamps from Sue's hand drawn originals, complemented by typography from Lesley.  The rubber stamps are made in house, by David, to our very exacting quality standards. And nothing gets past his eagle eye!

Please ensure you check our challenge rules here before entering, it may save you embarrassment and make sure your entry receives comments from the team and is entered into the prize draw: We run our challenge for fun in our spare time. It is your responsibility if entering to make sure you check our challenge rules, it is not our responsibility to read your posts and remind you if you fail to comply. If you do not follow the rules we will simply ignore your entry.

As usual the Design Team have been busy and have lots of inspiration to set you on your way, remember you can click the link on their names to visit their personal blogs and read more about their creations......................                                                          
 
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