Pink Elephant Day - going green...

Due to my computer's internet connection breaking down I missed last week's challenge at The Pink Elephant, but I am so happy to be back this week as it  really is a very special week.

We are being sponsored by Claudia and Company, which is great, but the extra exciting news is that the stamps we have used are from the Puddle Jumpers range designed by my team mate and friend Lori. 
How exciting is that?  
The little Puddle Jumper tiny tots are just fantastic.  I used super cute Daisy on my card, but do visit The Pink Elephant to check out the other cute characters on cards created by my team mates.  There is also the chance to win one of the new stamps.
The Pink Elephant  theme this week is to use green - lots of it! Quite a challenge really as I was tempted to go very pink on Daisy (must be Laura's influence rubbing off on me).

Materials used:

• Daisy - Puddle Jumper Stamp available at Claudia and Company
• Sentiment unmounted stamp - from stash
• green floral paper - DCWV Spring stack
• Fiskars Embossing Plate - to create paw print background - which hardly shows in photo, but is quite cool in real life - honest!
• gems, ribbon and green card from stash

Challenges:

• Pile it on - Lucky Me (how lucky was I to get my hands on this stamp before the release date?)
• Crazy4Challenges - 3 textures ( smooth paper, embossed paw prints and soft organza ribbon)
• Cute Card Thursday - Ribbontastic
• C.R.A.F.T. - Ribbon and sparkle

Have a great day everyone and I do hope you have time to enter this week's challenge.

Prima huge announcement and blog candy...

I saw this on Lorraine's blog and went to check it out.  I've done the same as Lorraine and copied and pasted the info from the Prima Marketing Blog :-)

Prima has something really big coming your way…. ..but we can’t reveal it just yet! We know you’re going to love it! And don’t worry-we promise to share the big news with you soon. It’s really hard not to spill the beans, but we are sworn to secrecy. So, in the meantime, we have an exciting opportunity for you to win BIG and it’s open to everyone! There are two fabulous prize baskets worth $100 up for grabs. Prima will choose one winner from the US and one International winner.

Here is what you need to do to be considered for the drawing:

• -Post about our Big Secret on your blog and include a link to our blog within the post.
• -Add a comment with a link to your blog.
• -You have until Sunday night to enter

If you have done all of the above-you will be eligible for the drawings.
The winners will be chosen and posted on Monday, March 1st!
Good luck!
Now go over to the Prima Blog to enter !! :-)

Back from holidays and it's Bah! Humbug! time...

Wow, I've just had an amazing holiday in York with my two wonderful crafting buddies, Max and Irene.  Oh what a week we have had!!!  So much fun - so much crafting and so much spending!  The best time ever and now it's Friday again and time for a new challenge at Bah! Humbug!  

This week our theme is

Trees...

I wasn't able to schedule my posting about the new challenge as just before I went away my modem decided to be ill and wouldn't let me on line.  How stressful is that?  No internet access - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!  Not good at all!  However, a new modem has been installed now and I'm back.  Phew - how many minutes can a girl take with no internet connection - not many in my case that's for sure. 
My card for our challenge has Cuttlebug cut and embossed trees mounted on a background created using strips of torn white card.  The trees and snow were given the bling treatment with gems and glitter and then framed with a great spellbinder frame die.
The purple paper is really glittery in real life, but it's not showing up that well in the photo.  I used the amazing sketch from the challenge at Truly Scrumptious which gave me a chance to use two of the thousands of eyelets that I seem to have collected over the years, but rarely use.  I think I'm going to use them far more in the future though as I love the way you can use them in this way to add ribbon.

My card is also for the challenges at ...

• SophistiCat Challenges - embossing 
• My Time to Craft - In the Frame
• C.R.A.F.T. - ribbons and sparkle
• Raise the bar - Threes company (three die cut trees)

Now I need to go and check out what everyone else has been up to while I've been away and maybe face the hundreds of Papercraft Planet emails (really must get that sorted out). Have a great weekend everyone.