This Thursday,it's all about...

Winged things! I was asked a while ago to sponsor This Thursday, it's all about challenge blog, and I sent them the Butterflies and insects plate from The Artistic Stamper for blog candy. Hels has designed a gorgeous Gothic arch, seen in detail on This Thursday and Hels's blog too!

Here are a couple of pics

Take a look at This Thursday's blog, and go create!

I have been given....

TWO awards! I haven't blogged for a couple of days or more, and lo and behold , I found I had been given two awards! Hels gave me this one

The Rules of this award are: Only 5 people allowed. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world. You must link back to whoever gave you the award. Quite simple really, it is a way of saying thank you to those who take time out for the wonderful comments that boost your day.and then I was given this one by Carol.

The rules of this award are 1. You can give it to one or one hundred or any number in between - it's up to you. Make sure you link to their site in your post.2. Link back to this blog site so Tammy can go visit all these wonderful women and remember the Purpose of the Award is to send love and acknowledgment to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy.

I love both awards, and thank you both for giving them to me. In return I shall give them both to Ifat, Donna, Bela, Adele and Andrea C. Pass them on with love!

A Present

I thought you might like to see what Lucy gave to me last week.She made a canvas from The Artistic Stamper products which I thought was gorgeous, and very kind of her. Lucy regularly does projects in Craft Stamper and is a member of our Creative Team too.

The background is using our pearlescent powder paints, the Gibson Girl die sheets, the Artist's die sheet, and fibres. I have to say the pictures do not do it justice.

Arty Girlz Challenge Guest Designer

Crissi and Julie from Arty Girlz, asked me to be their Guest designer for their challenge this week which is Eras. I had given them a set of 20's stamps for a prize, and they very kindly asked me to be a designer. At the moment I am using my BIA to good use with our chipboard book blanks. I made a journal with Black UTEE and gold inks, and combined everything! Here is what I made:

If you would like instructions they will be on the website under projects later this week.
Enjoy the challenge!

Winner of Magnolia Challenge

It has been one of those weeks, and suddenly it is Monday again, and that means that I must announce the winner of the Tilda challenge! The winner, chosen by random integrator is.... drum roll.....
Adele
Congratulations! Please email me with your address , so I can send you the goodies.
I have been very busy this week, meeting up with my Creative Team,

where we had loads of fun, (and a good lunch)and it was absolutely great seeing everyone together. I got a gorgeous canvas from Lucy and the gorgeous puzzle pieces from Andrea too, which remind me to remind you that the Christmas in July Challenge ends on the 31st July, so you still have time to enter. Andrea is also my featured blog at the moment (see the side panel) This is something I am doing periodically, and I was chuffed to find that I was also featured on another blog "Stampin' When I can" earlier in the week- which I was amazed about!

I have also been creating artwork for a swap and for a workshop , which I will show you later this week. I made a very saucy birthday card for a friend of mine who is 50 today, and I just hope he likes it. I used alcohol inks ( Kuretake ones) on the background and then stamped the girl in the water from the nudes A4 plate over it , and then layered it on some paper I have had for ages. It was a quick fix, and done in an extreme hurry!

New Stamps, New Challenge and Winner of the Red Roses!!!

I promised you a big surprise blog today and here it is!
Firstly,we have a brand new range of unmounted rubber stamps designed by Hels Sheridan called Stitchels

I just love them, and they are very versatile, as you will find out soon.

The winner of the Red Roses Giveaway is..... big drum roll......
Andrea C, and the runner -up is Wendy-AnnTaurus. Congratulations. Please email me your addresses.
Finally, I have a new Blog challenge using Magnolia stamps with blog candy (Rowdy William) see below courtesy of Donna from Crafty Krafts . Thank you Donna.

I am absolutely delighted with the stamps Hels has designed, as they go so well with the Magnolia and Tilda stamps. I got given a Magnolia stamp and bought the house , (okay I finally succumbed to the Magnolia stamps!) and made a card for the challenge .

I am quite chuffed with it, and used Prismacolour pencils to colour it in- very soothing colouring in! For the challenge you can make anything you like as long as it has a Magnolia, Tilda,or Stitchels stamp in it. Here is the blog candy and you will also get a Stitchels stamp too!
The challenge ends on Sunday July 20th.
Good Luck !

Surprises galore....

This Saturday sees the end of the Red Roses giveaway, a new blog challenge which some of you will love and some won't! I had great fun with it... horrid aren't I - No, I am not giving anything away at all...AND the best of all is a NEW set of stamps which we are launching this weekend!!!

Some of you have the first set already, and this weekend sees the official launch of them....

Here is a sneak preview of one of them...

Watch this space tomorrow for lots of fun and laughter, and put your name on the comments for the Red Roses giveaway as 2 lucky people will win !

More Christmas in July....

Just keeping up the momentum for the July challenge, Lucy from the Artistic Stamper Creative Team has created some gorgeous Christmas cards here. She has used the three wise men from Christmas Plate 1.
This challenge lasts until July 31st , so get out those cards you created last year or create a new one, or make a decoration like Dan, or a puzzle piece like Andrea.
Here is one of Lucy's cards

Alcohol ink Tasters

The rain has set in, and all hopes of a BBQ have been dashed , so not feeling very creative, I looked through some of the stuff I have done in previous times, and came across 2 small pieces of stampbord that I had alcohol inked and stamped on. This background technique is one of my current favourites , and I feel a need to get them out again. Stampbord provides a perfect background for them, as it is very smooth. The one with the face on is a stamp I have had for years by Stamp in The Hand, and this is a tiny part of it, and the passion and pattern are from

my range.

Hope you like .....

Weekly Discount

Every week on the website I have a weekly discount and this week's is too good to pass up telling you about. If you buy 2 Kling-On repositionable cushioning A4 sheets you get 1 FREE AND you get FREE the equivalent amount of Laminated storage sheets too!

Christmas is still here....

For those of you who like taking part in Blog Challenges this one is fab as you get to have a Hels' original canvas. All you have to do is make a card, or a cake or absolutely anything you like that is Christmas orientated and post to your blog or photo website, email me a link and be in the draw!I have used a tag card that I made for my DH last Christmas. I think it was the only card I made last year- terrible I know, and I did pinch the idea from Tim Holtz!!!

The stamp is from The Artistic Stamper Christmas Plate 1- one of my favourite stamp plates.
If you want to enter, use something you have already made...
Happy Stamping

Christmas in July Blog Challenge

Now I know , you are thinking I am quite mad! You would be quite right, but I always say the early bird catches the worm!. I love the end of June/beginning of July and days on the beach in the hot sun, cherries, strawberries and cream, Pimms, that quintessential drink, Wimbledon, and all things that make up an English summer come to mind.....and so I thought that no-one really crafts much when the weather is good and there are better things to do, so why not set a challenge that allows us to think of another warm and glowing time of the year- Christmas.
So I challenge all of you out there who read this make a Christmas piece of art, it can be a card, an ATC, a decoration, even a cake!
Hels has made a fabulous canvas for the winner-

All you have to do is post your entry on your blog or photo website and then post a comment, so I know you have entered.
Watch out for more artwork by The Artistic Stamper very talented Creative Team in the next few days too.
Oh, and I nearly forgot in my Christmassy excitement!! The winner of last month's Challenge is Kinglake! Congratulations! Please email me with your snail mail address, so I can post off to you your prize.
Happy Christmas in July!

Award!

Ooh I was given an award by Hels, and I am very honoured , and to follow the rules I have to give it to 7 other bloggers. So here you are
Crissi
Julie
Shaz
Rachel
Debbie
Shazza
Bee
1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate al least 7 other blogs
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls/guys you've nominated
I hope you enjoy and carry on the faith!!

Monthly Challenge- Animals ends tomorrow

Just a quick reminder if you want to enter the June Challenge it is supposed to end tonight, but before I post the July challenge, I thoughtI might give everyone another few hours to enter!

So you have until 6pm tomorrow 1st July to enter. Just post your entry and place where it is under June Challenge- Animals.

The prize is a FULL set of Linda Luckin animal stamps- a great prize for any stamper!
Here is a taster

Good Luck!

Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers -19

Not completely official yet, although we seem to have made it official, I am proud to be a member of the Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers 19 . I have to say a little bit about myself here to introduce myself to my other sisters. I am a rubberstamp manufacturer here in the UK, and am married for the second time to Mal, have two grown up children, Joe and Aimee, and love to create when the urge takes me! Welcome to my blog!

P.S. don't forget to add a comment to win
Red Roses giveaway

Red Roses giveaway!

Yesterday was one of those days where the blood pressure rose higher than normal ( I don't suffer high blood pressure mind :)), and it started when DD called to ask if you need a passport to go to Southern Ireland. She then told me she couldn't find hers, and was leaving in 20 minutes!!! Being a student and like me her room was a mess! So while she frantically looked for it, I called the airline to check the flying requirements, and was put on hold!!!while calling her on her mobile, as she searched her room. Literally 2 minutes before the cab arrived she found it!!! Now if she had told me the night before she had lost it, then I could have raced up to her house ( an hour away) and helped her look for it, but 20 mins before she leaves- not a hope!
My blood pressure finally went down, and I spent the evening creating a gift for a lucky reader of my blog! I used a 4 x 4 box canvas and sprayed with gold webbing spray, and then stamped our Clarice Cliff Style rose images around the edges. Then using white utee I stamped the roses into stampbord and layered onto the canvas, and edged the stampbord with gold Krylon pen. Finally I printed the words onto sticky backed vellum, and put on the canvas. I think it is rather pretty. The brooch is a domino piece of stampbord uteed with white and the Clarice Cliff style roses stamped into it with coloured stazon, then edged with gold krylon pen.

To win this canvas and this too- to make it

all you have to do is post a comment . I shall draw the winner by "the random integrator" on Saturday July 12th.
There is also a runner up prize of this brooch I made too!

Anyone can enter from anywhere in the world , just leave a comment for me. Good Luck!

Found!

Whilst doing my post and window shopping in our small Town, I came across a book with a label" FREE BOOK!". Never one to pass up an opportunity, I looked inside and found it to be a bookcrossing book, left for someone to pick up and read. I had been on this website before,and always wondered if I might come across any! So I am the proud owner or holder , if you like of a big fat green book called Supernature by Lyall Watson. It looks a bit too much for an easy read, but you never know. I mean I could always alter it, but then that wouldn't be in the nature of the idea of book crossing! So it may well find its way back onto a park bench similar to where I found it.....

All Boxed out!

I am a sucker for boxes, and a confessed collector of them! This weekend was no exception, as I spotted a gorgeous box at a show that I worked. What will I do with it- absolutely not got a clue, but I just had to have it! So I am now the proud owner of a "sewing box" by Mic which will no doubt go with my other boxes to be looked at and stroked and occasionally opened to look inside! (BTW I did ask DH permission before I bought ANOTHER box!!!!)

All suggestions for what I put in it are welcome!