Wow!!! The LotV Challenge blog is celebrating the new release of 12 stamps on June 1st by giving away a complete set to one extremely lucky winner!! You've got to be in it to win it, so I suggest you get over there fast ... and fast is the operative word as it is only on offer until Saturday 29th May. As they say .. when it's gone, it's gone!
Woo hoo!! This week is a very special week, because the Penny Black Saturday Challenge has reached challenge #100!! We think that's a wonderful reason to celebrate, so this week we have got a
We have a fantastic array of prizes this week from a number of our regular sponsors and one or two new ones .... too many to mention here (and a few being added even to the last minute lol!!) so you just have to pop over to the Challenge blog to check it out!! Don't forget ... to be eligible for the prizes the only rule is that you must use a Penny Black stamp or sticker as the dominant feature on your card (no teeny weeny PB sentiments hidden in the corner please, lol!!)
This week the DT has really gone into overdrive to produce some brilliant samples, including our lovely guest designers from the past few months who have been invited back for a "one off" guest appearance in honour of the event :-) Their cards are not published on the challenge blog this week ... oh no!! if you want to see them you will need to take part in our blog hop.
To find out how to take part, please see the bottom of this post ;-)
So here's my card for this week .... I decided once again to try something different - partly in honour of the special nature of this week's challenge, and partly to try out some new stash I bought at Aintree craft show. I decided to go for a "vintage" look (we are 100 after all lol!!) and felt inspired to try making my own background and a vintage scripted panel using a clear set of stamps and techniques I had seen on the Butterfly Kisses stall, plus one of my new Distress inks. I have made this card for a crafty friend who is going through a bit of a hard time at the moment, just t let her know she is in my thoughts :-)
Recipe:
Main image: Penny Black "Blush" (2666K), inked using Tim Holtz "Dusty Concord" distress ink;
Image panel: Butterfly Kisses "Clear 2 Collage" set - script and blotch stamps;
Sentiment: Penny Black "Friends matter" (4073F) (masked);
Papers: centre panel by Paper Pzazz; top and bottom is lilac linen card stamped with Butterfly Kisses set as above - crackle, swirl and blotch stamps - all paper edges distressed with distress ink;
Supplies: pearls from The Hobby House;
Tools: "peony" nestabilities; Fiskars paper cutter "deckle" blade.
I would just like enter this one for the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #20 - distressed.
So - onto our Challenge #100 blog hop.
We have a blog hop featuring all the DT plus guest designers who we have invited back - each DT member has a little yummy candy along the way. If you want to enter for any of the blog candies, here's what you need to do:
1. Enter a card into this week's challenge - leave a Mr. Linky link on the main challenge blog in the normal way. This enters you for all this week's challenge prizes on the main blog.
2. Hop around each DT member's blog - follow the instructions on each blog to leave a comment if you want to enter for their candy. If you are hopping you should have arrived here from Nat's blog ... if not please go back to make sure you don't miss anything and visit the following blogs ....
Beth
Carole
Domi
Jackie
Jacqui
Janiel
Janneke
Joey
Kath
Liz
Nadine
Nat
... before finishing back here with me :-) I am the last stop on the blog hop so when you've been here you're done - just make sure you have entered your card on the main challenge blog.
3. To enter for my candy, leave a link in Mr Linky with a direct link to your card. If you enter the challenge more than once you can enter my blog candy more than once, but you must leave a separate direct link to each card.
4. Candy entries close at 9pm BST next Friday 14th May. I will pick and announce a winner sometime over the weekend.
So here's my candy ... hope you like it ....
which is these 2 darling stamps
4. Last but not least, a one month GDT spot on the Creative Card Crew Challenge :-)
AND that's not all ......
We are also celebrating with
DT candy!
Most of the DT members are celebrating by offering a little candy for entrants to this fortnight's challenge ... if you want to be in it to win it, here's what you need to do ....
- Enter a project for this fortnight's challenge, using Mr Linky on the Creative Card Crew Challenge blog in the usual way.
- Visit each of the DT member blogs (you may like to show a little love for their fabulous cards whilst you're there :-))
- If you would like to enter for a particular candy, leave a comment according to each DT member's instructions
- Cross your fingers and wait for the winners to be announced after this fortnight's challenge is finished!
I am offering the following candy :
3 Lili of the Valley stamps
INCLUDING
2 from the new release due out 10th March!!
In order to enter for this all you need to do is leave me a link in Mr Linky directly to the project you have entered in this fortnight's challenge (please make it direct to your post, not to the whole blog). One entry only for my candy please so as to make it fair for everyone !! I haven't used Mr Linky before, so if he should take a holiday, please just leave me a comment with a direct link to your card and I will include you in the draw :-)
Update: please ensure that if you are entering for my blog candy that you have entered your card in this week's CCC Challenge and that it is a NEW project - any backlinks or projects not entered in this week's challenge are ineligible and I will delete the entries from Mr Linky so as to be fair for challenge entrants - thanks.
If you would like to leave me a comment about my card as well please feel free ;-) I will choose a winner randomly at the end of the challenge.
Don't forget to visit the rest of the DT's blogs to see their fab cards and find out what gorgeous candy they have got on offer.
Janna
Linda
Linda C
Maria
Paula
Pauline (me)
Sam
Victoria
... and for one week only, Sharon has rejoined us with her fabulous celebration cake!! :-)
After all that .... at last, my celebration card
I always think that this cute hedgie looks so joyful ... and no wonder, he is called "Hedgehog Joy" lol!
I followed the fab sketch for this fortnight's Sunday Sketch & Stamp #22 and would also like to enter this card for Cupcake Crafts #80 - round & round & FTTC #56 - scallops
Yummy!! Kellie Winnell is generously offering the stunning Sugar Plum Kids spring kit as candy ... the pic shows just some of the fab designs. Reluctant as I am to highlight this to other peeps who might want to add their names to the draw and thus diminishing my chance of winning these little beauties (lol!!) I just have to do it ..it's the law! So get over there before Feb 18th ...you've got to be in it to win it!!
I absolutely adore these personalised stamps, and the maker, Kellie, is offering one lucky winner a choice of one of the above 3 stamps personalised to your own liking. gorgeous ... and well worth a visit. Kellie's candy is open on her Magnolia Down Under blog until December 19th. 
My dear bloggy buddy Sharon is celebrating becoming a "big hitter" in the next 2 weeks as she reaches the magical milestone of her 50th birthday. her cards and blog are fab and well worth a look ... so why not pop over to say hello and help her to celebrate ... and whilst you're there you might want to enter for this yummy candy selection that she is offering to celebrate :-)
