Juliet's Blog Candy

Juliet at Juliet's Paper Palace is celebrating 10,000 hits on her blog with some really fab candy.There are three paper pads, Forever Friends, Creative Imaginations and DCWV Neutrals cardstock, a fabulous Wings and Flowers CD which contains some beautiful images to print off, a set of teeny alphabet stamps, two Studio G stamp sets, a pack of Christmas toppers, a pack of WR Memory Keepers designer brads and snaps, two pots of glitter in pink and red, a pot of snaps and an assortment of flowers, brads, buttons and ribbon. Ends next Saturday 8th November.

Suzanne's Thank-You Giveaway!

Suzanne at Suzanne's Card Crafts is giving away a Joanna Sheen CD of your choice (WOW) to celebrate 50,000 hits. Ends on Thursday. What a great giveaway, I love JS CDs.

Leonie's Blog Candy

Leonie at Leonie Design is celebrating 10,000 hits on her blog with some great blog candy. You can win 20 pieces of design paper, 8 x 1 meter ribbon and some Elzybells stampprints! Ends on November 1st.

Blog Candy at Saturday Secrets

Olga at Saturday Secrets has some fab Papermania blog candy to celebrate 1000 hits. You need to leave a comment on her blog before 11pm on 6th Nov. Open to UK and Ireland only.

Blog Candy at Kreativ Kristin

A fab Rachelle Anne Miller stamp up for grabs in blog candy to celebrate 15,000 hits over at Kreativ Kristin's blog. It ends 1st November 12 noon.

The Glitter Garden opening and Blog Candy

Helen at Ellephantastic Cards is offering some fab blog candy to celebrate the opening of her friend Katy Jane's online craft shop The Glitter Garden. I've visited the shop and it looks great, some lovely products from BasicGrey and 7Gypsies (2 of my faves) plus lots more. Wishing you good luck Katy Jane. Ends on Saturday 25th October.

Regina's Blog Candy

Regina has some great blog candy up for grabs. It ends on 26th October at 6 o'clock.

ABC Challenge

The challenge at ABC this week is 'N' for 'Nature'. It can either be a creation using images (stamped or otherwise eg. leaves, flowers) or the colours of nature. I've come up with something very different for me.Everything on this card is stamped. I used a dark pink pearl DL card. For the background I stamped some leaves with Versamark, then rubbed a couple of shades of green chalk over them. The main image of the rose is stamped with Versacolour greens and peony pink, with green chalk smudged round the edges. I added some pink ribbon and a French sentiment, with a leaves punch.

Friday Sketchers Challenge

The challenge at Friday Sketchers is sketch #24. I made a Christmas card using Dovecraft Victorian papers. I coloured Edwin with Lyra Aquacolours with some Stickles glitter, and added a couple of poinsiettas and a sentiment. I wasn't too happy with the colouring on this card, I'm thinking of getting some Copics for Christmas.

Whiff of Joy Candy

Hurry up'cos this is being drawn today! Jen has a set of WoJ Guardian Angel collection stamps to give away. What great candy!

Blog Candy from Julie at Scrapping Away

To celebrate the fact that she is now an independant Stampin' Up! Demonstrator (UK), and to say Thank you to everyone who visits her blogs, Julie at Scrapping Away has decided to do her very first blog candy giveaway. It includes: 5 Sheets of American Crafts THICKERS, Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber, Pot of American Crafts Typehouse Numbers, and last but definitely not least Ranger Perfect Pearls!!. Saturday 1st November at 10pm (UK Time) is the closing date.

Blog Candy at Papercrafts by Rach

Rach at Papercrafts has blog candy of a Whiff of Joy stamp plus more to give away on Tuesday 28th October. I'll be entering as I NEED a Whiff of Joy stamp.

Sassy Crafts DT Call

Theres a call for new Design Team members at Sassy Crafts. I wasn't going to go for this as I'm still very much a novice with my card making, but I changed my mind. I thought about it and came to the conclusion that I should have more confidence in my work. It's not the end of the world if I don't get on the DT, there's always time to improve and try again. I've only been doing this for 7 months and am getting better all the time. More important than anything else, I love it.
Emma's requirements are to show a stamped project, your favourite piece of work made up to now, and a project that contains 4 squares, 3 small and 1 large (new work only).

My stamped project: A Sarah Kay stamp on 7gypsies paper. (already on blog)



My favourite piece of work so far is this bird stamp on BasicGrey Granola papers. (already on blog)






A project that contains 4 squares, 3 small and 1 large. I used a Tilda stamp, watercoloured with pencils. HOTP Heritage papers with a little BasicGrey Granola. I turned the 3 small squares round and added flowers.

Maxine's Blog Candy

Maxine is offering some great candy on her blog as she's reached 1000 hits. Up for offer are
1 Dovecraft winter wonderland decoupage kit
1 pack of 2x12 winter wonderland papers
2 sets of Dovecraft chipboard stickers
You've got till the end of the month to enter.

It's Autumn!

Been busy today. Felt like making an Autumnal card. It also fits in with 4 challenges. I used a brilliant sketch from Lynda Benden at Our Creative Corner . The challenge at Cute Card Thursday is to make an Autumnal themed card. The challenge at BasicGrey is to show some stitching in your creations, it can be faux or real, and to use at least one item of BasicGrey. I used BG Granola papers. The challenge at Cupcake Craft is to use any form of heat or hot colours on your creations. I triple embossed the bird stamp.
I used my gorgeous brand new bird stamp from Crafty Individuals for this card. I stamped it with Vintage Sepia Versafine, stamped all over with Versamark, then triple embossed with clear powder plus I added a little Glamour Dust. I used BasicGrey Granola papers. The brown paper, I put through the Cuttlebug using the Script ef. I then distressed it and added some gold ink and layered it on top of the other papers. I put scallops in the flowery paper and added faux stitching to the background paper. Also added a blue ribbon with a brown HOTP brad. Added the image with foam pads to give it some dimension.