Monday, 12 January 2009

Blog Awards...




Two New Awards!!!
Oh my I have been given two awards in one day!!!
How amazing is that?
My dear friend Irene at http://alloccasionscards.blogspot.com/ gave me the fabulous Encouraged award and Maria, a blogging buddy, at http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/ gave me the Nice Blog Award.
Thank you so much to both of you for thinking of me.
Now I really need to pass these awards on to 5 of my blogging friends. I would like to give them to each and everyone of the talented bloggers I visit everyday, but that would take me many weeks so if you visit my blog please feel free to pick up one or both of the awards to pass on to your friends.
Here are my five in no particular order:

Quick Card in a quarter...

The challenge at http://tandastamps.blogspot.com/ this week was to make a card in 15 minutes. Not for someone that can easily spend far longer than that just choosing the papers this was a toughie!!

As I have had an embosing on vellum phase this week I decided to go with that and use my Cuttlebug 'Bird Call' embossing folder. The sentiment is stamped on white card attached below the vellum with gold brads. I love the way the vellum softens the writing and I think for a sympathy card it's a very appropriate effect.

Materials used:
  • white card
  • gold card
  • Cuttlebug Bird Call embossing folder
  • gold border, sentiment and flourish peel offs
  • gold brads

Sunday, 11 January 2009

Exciting News...

It's only 50 something weeks to Christmas!!! No far more exciting than that - well it is for me anyway...

I am officially on the design team at http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/.

I am so proud and honoured to be asked to be a member of this team. I was lucky enough to find the Cuttlebug Challenge site when it first began and have been overwhelmed by the amazing tutorials and the way there is always something new happening. So many ideas and inspiration. It really means a lot to me to be on the team.

To celebrate my excitement I am offering some blog candy - not a massive prize, but one I'm sure would be appreciated by any cuttlebug fan out there. It's a brand new 'Treetops' cutting and embossing folder - the same as the one I used to make my all white card above and that I have used on so many things this Christmas.

If you would like to be in with a chance of winning this folder please leave a message here and let your friends know by putting a link on your blog. If you haven't got a blog that's fine leave a message and just tell your friends anyway.

Now there is a little twist to this candy!!! Next, Wednesday, 14th January, will be my first official challenge (am I nervous - lol?) and I would love this challenge to be really, really well supported so ...

Take a look at http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/ on the 14th and enter the new challenge which will be set that day - don't panic you'll have until the following week to complete your card and I'm not giving the game away, but it is a really good, fun challenge.

On Wednesday, 21st January, I will put all the names from the comments left here and the names of people entering the challenge (so some of you will have two chances) into a hat and draw out one lucky winner.

The winner will be announced that day and the prize posted out ASAP.

The Cuttlebug Challenge team are from all around the world so I will post the prize out to anywhere. Good luck everyone.

Thank you so much to great friends who have become followers of my blog. Love having you around.