Stamptacular DT Call

We are looking for some new DT members over on Stamptacular for initially a 6 month commitment from October 2009 through to March 2010.
Previous or current DT experience isn't necessary to apply, so nip on over to the challenge blog for full details of how to apply. All submissions must be in by 23rd August.

I'm sadly stepping down from the DT at the end of my 6 month commitment in September due to other commitments. But I must say the Stamptacular DT is a team in a million, and Priscilla is an absolute star. You really couldn't ask for a friendlier team, so don't be shy get over there and apply!!

Pollycraft's Friday Freebie & Triple Challenge Card

Meet Feathers the Dragon and he can be yours as he is this weeks Friday freebie over on Tales from Pollycraft.

I'm also entering this card into THREE challenges:

Dare You To Digi Stamp - Distressing
ABC Challenge - Y is for Yellow
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Simplify

Coloured Feathers with copics. DP is Basic Grey 'Offbeat'. Filed, curled and inked or chalked the edges of the dp and image for the distressing. Kept it simple with only using one dp and just a couple of card candies as embellishment. And there's plenty of shades of yellow.

Thanks for looking!!

Candy Winners!!

Happy Blogoversary to me!!!!

Thanks to everyone who entered my candy and especially to those of you who also showed piccies of your craft areas on your blogs, you all earned an extra entry into the candy. So as a special thank you I am doing an extra draw just between those who did show their craft spaces.

I spent a good few hours yesterday afternoon going through all the entries making sure those who earned a second entry got their second entry and picked out the few who thought they'd try their luck by entering twice anyway. I kept adding the names right up until close of candy. I put all the names on a spread sheet so I knew which number was for who and there were 129 entries all in all.
So using random.org I can announce the winner of my blogoversary candy is......

Entry 101 is....

Kym's Crafty Cards said...

Joanna, congratulations on your blogoversary and 20,000 hits - I've got a long way to go before I get there!!! Thanks for being so generous in offering some blog candy. I have put a link on my sidebar as I'd love to be in with a chance of winning. Best wishes, Kym xxx

23 July 2009 21:01

Congratulations Kym!!!!

Next is my followers draw, just a little surprise candy to say thank you for following my blog. I noticed a lot of new followers since starting the candy, which is wonderful, thank you. It wasn't a requirement of the candy so I hope you are following me because you want to and because you enjoy visiting my blog.
There are 177 followers, No.1 starts from my very first follower up to 177 which is my newest follower. Again using random.org the winner is.....

Follower 50 is....

Sue (ScoopysStuff)

Congratulations Sue!!!!

And finally the extra little surprise candy draw for all those who left links to piccies of their crafting areas, it was fab visiting them, so thank you for sharing your piccies. There were 17 of you and the list is in order of entry, so using random.org the winner is.....

The first person to of posted their craft piccies entry was....

Lorraine A (Lorraine's Loft)

Congratulations Lorraine!!!

Well done to all the winners, sorry to all of you who weren't lucky this time round, I wish I could have given out more prizes.

Thanks to everyone for their Blogoversary wishes xxx

1st Blogoversary Candy

****BLOG CANDY NOW CLOSED****

July 31st is my 1st Blogoversary and I'm also celebrating 20,000+ hits to my blog already, something I never ever dreamed of in the first year, in fact at the beginning I thought 20,000 hits would take nearer 5 years..lol. So I firstly want to say thank you to everyone who has taken their time to visit my blog and for all the wonderful comments, everyone has been so encouraging and it so warming to see there are so many wonderful people out there in blog land. On top of this I've made some wonderful friends over the past year and I have been lucky to meet a few too - Lorraine, Sue, Marcea, Nicola, Bev, Katy and of course not forgetting a very special buddy (who's also now my boss) Emma. It was wonderful meeting each and everyone one of you!!!

OK, so here's the candy....

WEEK 2 XTRA CANDY

WEEK 3 XTRA CANDY

WEEK 4 EXTRA CANDY

????IS A SURPRISE????

There is a selection of ribbons and lace.

PM Scalloped Circle Album

Big and Juicy Ink Pad in Soothing Sunset

PM Pop-Up

Two PM Metal Accents

Pack of Flat Backed Pearls

Summer Brads Set

Papirloftet Green Gem Brads

Kanban A5 Double Vision Card

PM 6 x 6 Exquisite Paper Pack

This is to get you started, I will be adding one extra item every Thursday for the next 3 weeks finishing on the 30th July. The candy will then end on 00:01 (GMT) on the 31st July and the winner picked at random will be announced later on the 31st July.

To be in with a chance of winning my blogoversary candy all you need to do is leave me a comment and if you wish to spread the word about my candy on your blog then that would be great, but it's not a requirement nor is becoming a follower. You could also earn yourself a second entry, a few days ago I posted some pics of my new craftroom, I'd love to see your craft areas/space/rooms/table, wherever it's is that you craft (yep I'm nosey!!) so to get yourself a second entry into the candy you need to put up a photo(s) of your craft area, space or room on your blog so not only can I be nosey but so can the rest of the blog world, just leave me a link in your comment to your blog post showing the photo(s).

If you don't have a blog you can still enter the candy but please make sure you leave an email address so that I can contact you if you are the winner. I will post worldwide!!

I also want to say a big thank you to my wonderful followers so on the 31st July I will be doing a second draw from my followers list the prize will be some stamped images and a few secret goodies.

Please only enter ONCE or twice if you want a second chance and are providing a link to your blog with photo's of your craft area. All other duplicates will be removed.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR MAKING MY FIRST YEAR OF BLOGGING SO ENJOYABLE XXX

****BLOG CANDY NOW CLOSED****

Simon Says - Let's Get Distressing

Blimey it's been a while since I've posted two cards in one day, if you didn't catch the first it's in the post below this one.

Simon Says they want to see distressing projects this week. I'm not a distressing fan except for a bit of inking on the edges, it's not that I don't like seeing everyone else's distressed projects as they are all gorgeous, I just think mine always look a bloomin mess. But hey-ho whats a challenge if it can't be challenging once in awhile, plus I don't want Lorraine chasing me up for not trying..lol. So here it goes, here's my mess.......



The image is from Papirloftet, I inked the edges, that was the easy part. Then I got tearing, fraying and curling with scraps of Funky Fairy papers from all different sets, I've chalked some of the edges. Lace was a bit of scrap in my stash. Flower is also from Pairloftet and added a pin with beads to it. Stamped a couple of flowery images then added two card candies to the top corners. And there it is!! To be honest this is the best mess I've ever done and I actually quite like it for a change. I need much more practice I think, but now I've done one that I'm not ashamed to show, it may just spur me on to keep at the distressing practice. I think it's because I'm a virgo, I don't like mess and things have to be just right, well perfect really, hate wobbly edges etc...lol.

Have you entered my candy yet?? Well there's only a few hours left to enter, my blog will be one year old tomorrow!! You'll find the candy post at the top of my blog.

Enjoy your evening!!

A Spoon Full of Sugar #62 and Pollycraft Sneak Peek

It's a fabulous sketch to follow this week over on A Spoon Full of Sugar.

This is one of the gorgeous soon to be released Twiddly Wings Set 2 images from Pollycraft. There are 9 new images being released for purchase on the 1st August, but you could be a lucky winner of the whole set!! Nip over to Tales from Pollycraft where Paula has a candy giveaway of this new set for FOUR lucky winners, but hurry you only have until midnight 31st July to enter.

Coloured image with promarkers and copics, then chalked around the edges and into the background with green then lilac ink right on the edges. Papers are all Funky Fairys 'Funky Garden'. Made up the flowers using the papers and adding flower gems from stash to the centres. Sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and inked the edges in lilac.

The day started off quite bright and pleasant so we went off shopping early so Steve could go fishing when we got back and I could do some cardmaking. Well that pleasant weather didn't last long, we have had some really stormy downpours with hail the size of marbles and awfully loud thunder on and off all day. Steve's been in and out between the storms to try and get some fishing in whilst waiting for the cricket to start which has also been delayed due to the weather. But at least the weather didn't effect my cardmaking, except for Mollie wanting to get on my lap for cuddles everytime it thundered, she really hates it bless her. I've another card done for another challenge which I'll pop on in a little while.

Hope you've all been having a good day. TFL.

Joanne xx

Funky Fairys Challenges #27

Thanks to everyone who joined in with last weeks 'GIRLY' Challenge, wow there was some wonderful creations and always a pleasure visiting your blogs.

This week over on Funky Fairys Challenges we have another theme for you...

"THINKING OF YOU"

The DT have all been really busy with their creations, so there's lots of inspiration to be found, so make sure you take a look. And here's mine....

I've used Funky Fairys 'Distressing Vines'. I punched holes through the paper and weaved the ribbon through then added a bow to the corner. The sentiment was a peel-off I then chalked and inked the area, then removed the peel-off. Cut out the sentiment using labels 2 nesties in the bug and mounted onto some more of the DP. Added a touch of faux stitching around the edges of the papers. Punched flowers from the papers and layered together with foam pads to add a bit height.

I do hope you'll join us this week for the challenge the DT are ready and eager to visit your blogs to check out your creations.

Need some Funky Fairys papers??

Inspirational Blog - Freebie Downloads
Funky Fairys Papercrafts Shop - Ton's of wonderful sets to purchase, and they wont break the bank either!!!

Enjoy your Wednesday!!!

Creative Card Crew #21 and some exciting news

"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" this week over on Creative Card Crew.
You can interpret this theme how you want.

Image is Twiddly Wings - Swing from Pollycraft coloured her with copics and promarkers and chalked the background in blue then inked edges. Cut image out with oval nesties in the bug and mounted onto a scalloped oval nestie cut of dp from K&Co, inked scalloped edges in lilac. Purple card from stash, embossed in the bug using Stylized Flowers floder, then gently dabbed a light green ink pad over the embossing to highlight it a little then inked edges in blue.. Background dp is also K&Co. Ribbon and flowers from stash and butterfly sentiment is from Craftwork Cards, which was light pink but I chalked with a little purple and inked edges in blue. Finished with some clear gems in some of the corners.

EXCITING NEWS!!!
I've been sitting on this news for just over a week, until things were official but I can now reveal that I have been invited to join Paula and the team over on Pollycraft as a GD until Christmas. I'm totally thrilled to have been asked as I so love Pollycraft products and religiously take part in the challenges only missing one challenge, because I was on holiday, since I started challenges. I'm joining 6 other GD's, so congratulations to them!! Looking forward to working with everyone.

Pollycraft Candy Giveaway

These are the new soon to be released addition to the Twiddly Wings range, aren't they gorgeous and Paula is giving the chance for 4 lucky peeps to win this new set. What do you have to do? Just pop over to Tales from Pollycraft leave a comment and spread the word on your blog. Hurry though it ends on 31st July and the winners will be announced on 1st August the release date.

Secret Crafter, Sketch Saturday & One Stop Craft Challenges

Well I never, another 3 in 1 card, and there I was thinking that last weeks was just a fluke...lol.
I've followed the fab sketch over on Sketch Saturday, the recipe over on Secret Crafter which is 3 buttons, 2 design papers and 1 ribbon and then finally One Stop Craft with the theme of 'Christmas in July'.

Coloured the Magnolia images with copics and sakura metallic gold and silver. I've used glamour dust on santa's furry bits of suit, which Im afraid doesn't show on the piccy. Cut out images and mounted on white shimmer card embossed in the bug with swiss dots, then inked the edges with red. Papers are Funky Fairys 'Lets Get Traditional'. Gold ribbon and flowers from stash. There are little green flower buttons in the centre of each flower. Sentiment tag is a Daisy & Dandelion stamp which came free with Creativity magazine. Added an eyelet and some red curling ribbon. Another xmas card done and ready to add to the stash. Ooops only just realised I've used two ribbons if you include the bit on the tag, sorry!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Thanks to those of you that left me some really useful advice regarding Explorer 8, it's now off my lappy and I'm back to no. 7, I've also downloaded Firefox, and I must say blogger seems to be working much better with that.
Thanks for looking and enjoy your day!!