A Right Royal giveaway!... and winner of my blog candy

This weekend is the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and I am proud to be celebrating it! As most of you know who regularly read my blog (when i post..lol) I LOVE to giveaway to one unsuspecting blogger- gifts! Today is no exception! But first, the winner of the black Ranger apron is

GLENNIS!

Congratulations, and please email me with your snail mail address.
Now onto the celebrations for the weekend.. bunting, street party, cupcakes (of course, or here in the UK fairy cakes..lol) and lots of giveaways! We have a brilliant one of the website all weekend, just click here for details, there is the chance to win 60% off your order!
Here is my royal giveaway for this week, and all you have to do is comment, and if fancy a second chance, then post it somewhere on your blog :)) It ends next Saturday.

I am off to London for the day, and a wander round Portobello Market, which apparently has a 50's theme?  and am hoping to make it up there tomorrow for the river pageant... will have my camera with me, so hoping I get some good photos!

Have a great weekend, enjoy the fun, and keep creative
Hugs

Creative Team Challenge- Red , White and Blue

Welcome to flaming June, and of course in this part of the world, it is grey, with a slight breeze, and not a hope of the sun peeping through the clouds today! We have a wonderful weekend coming up with FOUR days of holiday, and the Queen's Jubilee, and in our case a possible street party ( apparently it depends on the weather!!), but who cares?  I have been happily making bunting and adding it to my Red White and blue card for The Creative Team's take on our new challenge.

Check out the wonderful creations the girls have done here!
We would love you to join in.
Have a creative day and watch this space tomorrow for news of our Jubilee celebrations at The Artistic Stamper, or if you would like to know sooner, join our mailing list :))
Hugs

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday...Happy 3rd Anniversary!

Alarmingly Wednesdays seeming to appear more regularly than most days of the week... worrying really when we have exactly the same days of the week every week. Maybe it is because every Wednesday I show you my workdesk or my space , wherever I may be.... Well this week is a Happy Anniversary to all WOYWWers! 3 years to be precise since Mrs Dunnit, of Stamping Ground deemed Wednesdays to be the day of the desk! To celebrate some of us are giving away an atc...., so if you follow me on the list don't forget to email me with your address so I can send it to you, and in keeping with the celebrations of WOYWW, I have decorated my desk..AND... wait for it... ADDED A MEZZANINE Shelf!!!!

The idea was a brainwave borne out of last week's post, and as all ideas come to be ( when lying in the bath!! LOL) I asked my long suffering hubby to build me a mezzanine floor on my desk! I am loving it....a place to put all the stamp holders, and bottles, and of course to get it really messy!! Perfect for hanging the bunting for the Diamond Jubilee!
I have made this ATC for a woywwer, and if you would like to see how, pop over to The Creative Team blog :))

Happy Anniversary to Julia, thank you for cheering up my weeks,  and to all the WOYWWERS! Have a splendid day...
Hugs

Smashing it up! with giveaway!

I am such a bad blogger....it has been an age since I did a proper post! I guess that work often gets in the way, and this week, we have been getting deliveries everyday, and they needed to be checked and priced, and touched, and in the case of the Smash books, squirrelled away for me...that's one for you , and one for me...LOL I am loving these and to be honest it is going to be really hard to add stuff to the books, they are well thought out, and the accessories are super! If you are a stamper, but love to journal or keep bits for yourself, then these are brilliant for just keeping by your side, and you even get a pen ( like the pen!) and a glue stick in one!  Did I just do a review? mmmm I think I did! LOL .

As I said we have had deliveries all week, and we have restocks of lots of products, and in one of the parcels, lots more Distress Markers including the Picket Fence.. and in the same parcel there were some of these!!

A BLACK Ranger apron! Perfect for making a mess... you know me.. paint paint everywhere...but not on my apron now!!
I am giving one of these away this week...all you have to do is comment on this post to be in with a chance :)))
I am off to help DH make me a mezzanine in my studio....pop back on Wednesday to see the finished result... I am getting very excited about it!! hehehe
leaving you with a quickie Tag using new journaling stamps, and Spring Distress inks!

Have a very creative weekend....and good luck in the blog candy
Hugs

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 155

Here I am again on a Wednesday showing you my sort of tidyish space! Actually looking at the pictures it is a pile it high, push it back, scenario!! Now to coin a phrase ...my mojo is a'missing! I haven't done much over the past few weeks. Admittedly I have been busy, but as for a piece of ART! nada, nothing, zilch... but I am sure that the sun will bring out my mojo... he was just waiting for it to appear! My desk is relatively clear, for me,  apart from a new acquirement in the shape of an antique stamp holder from fleabay, which was a bargain at 99p!!! Think I have a collection now! LOL Just need more space for them! Maybe a mezzanine floor is needed?!!!

Now if you think that I am a complete nutcase showing you my very unloved desk... then pop over to our esteemed leader - Mrs Dunnit, and have a peek at the several hundred desks that show up on a Wednesday!
I am looking forward to next week's 3rd anniversary, and now just have to get the mojo in gear to make an ATC!
Have a splendid woyww!

Welcome to our new Creative Team Members

Happy Saturday to you, and I am here with the fabulous news of our new

Creative Team members! We had the most amazing response to our callout last month, and this made it the most difficult task of choosing our new members! We hummed and haaed over creative artwork, and wonderful blogs, and finally after much deliberating made our choices. A BIG thank you to everyone who applied, we are just sorry we couldn't include you all :(

We would love you to welcome to the rubbery world of The Artistic Stamper, our THREE new members of the Creative Team, complementing all the fanatstic work created by Emma, Sioux, Alison, and Kat. Please put your hands together for

Louise Crosbie

Tit Belsoeur

Astrid Maclean

We know that they will bring the most gorgeous artwork , and make our samples for you even more exciting.

Welcome girls, and we look forward to seeing your ART very soon :))

Have a very creative day

Hugs

WOYWW 154...moving spaces

It's that time of the week again, and I am here showing off my desk...only this time I have cheated marginally..only marginally...and am showing  you my desk from last Saturday at Port Sunlight!!! I am sure it will count... I mean after all, I didn't take part last week due to other committments.. namely that thing called ....work!

Can you spot the headband with the wobbly flags... doing my bit for the Queen and country!I love working in my "pop-up" shop. I get to chatter incessantly about inks and dies and sprays and just generally make a nuisance of myself to anyone who will listen!!

Loads and loads of people I know dropped by.. Sue Roddis, Tracey Evans,

 my gorgeous talented friend Sarah Anderson ,

and lots of my customers whom I love! I even got a jar of pickles from my dear friend Annie... yum yum!!
All in all, it was very pleasant way to spend a Saturday!! Now i have been a very bad woywwer, and have so little time, that getting around to everyone's desks is quite a feat for me... so this week, I am aiming to make it to as many as I can get to....
If you haven't a clue what on earth I am wittering on about.. hop, skip and fly over the internet to Julia's blog , and check out the whopping amount of crafty desks!!
Have a very happy woyww
Hugs