Birthday Brew... and a treat for you!

It's time for a new I {heart}sketches challenge at From The Heart Stamps :)

Here's the sketch, and an optional inspirational photo too, should you wish to use it as well as the sketch and/or twist, which, this time, is to make a Birthday Card...

Join in the challenge, and EVERYONE who plays will receive a $1 discount code for the store, and if you are the challenge winner, you will receive a $5 discount code to the store! :)
Remember though, you must use an image by From The Heart Stamps to be eligible, and please include a pic of the sketch in your blog post too.

Here's my card, the one my son gave his dad yesterday for his birthday...

I've used the image Birthday Brew, this was the first image I ever bought from From The Heart.
Then I discovered the Birdbrains, Pigwits, Faithful Friends and other glorious images too :)
You get 4 free sentiments with Birthday Brew, 2 of which i've used on this card.
I've used papers from Bella Gypsy 'The Last Key' (star design), and 2 Echo Park papers, the spotty piece is from All I want for Christmas, and the zig-zag from Splash!.
I've used my tiny bubbles embossing folder, and Die-namics 'By the Letter' dies for 'DAD'.

You can find more inspiration, and enter the I {heart} sketches challenge by clicking HERE.
Please join us on Facebook and “Like” our page to read about the latest FTH news.
We'd also love it if you'd join our Facebook Group too, this group makes it easier for you to share pics of your FTH makes, we'd love to see them! 

I'm entering my card at:
That's Crafty - blue is the colour
Crafty Catz - polka dots
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Crafting By Designs - anything goes
Penny's Paper Crafty - anything goes
ABC challenge - A is for Anything goes


Now, you may have noticed that I mentioned a treat for you :)
Well.....
How would you like to win a $10 voucher to spend at From The Heart Stamps?!

HUGE THANKS to Faith for being so generous, enabling me to give this voucher to a lucky crafter xx

Not only was it my husband's birthday yesterday, but tomorrow (13th Jan) is my 7 year blogoversary!

So, if you'd like to win this voucher and go shopping for some awesome images to add to your own collection, all I would like you to do is leave me a comment please, saying that you'd like to win the voucher. No strings attached, just a comment. As Aleksandr Meerkat would say..."Simples!"
If you want to tell your friends by posting about this candy, then please do (Thank you), but it isn't a requirement to be eligible to win.
You have until 11:59pm, 19th Jan to leave your comment, and i'll announce the winner on Tues 20th Jan.
Good luck! xx

PBC3 challenge winner!

Thank you to everyone who entered last weeks birthday challenge over at Sketch Saturday, and to those of you who entered the draw to win my PBC.

The winner of my Party Box Candy is...

Ruby! (Ribenaruby)

with this gorgeous card...

Congratulations Ruby! :)
Please EMAIL ME your full postal address so that I can post your prize.
I hope you like the goodies that I have put inside.


You can see a full list of all of our PBC winners, as well as our main challenge winner who wins that amazing goody bag worth £50 from The Craft Barn, by visiting Sketch Saturday now :)

And remember, a new sketch challenge goes live at 8am today :)

Jo xx

Happy Birthday SS!

Wooohoooo! We are celebrating our 3rd birthday!

It's been 3 years since I started Sketch Saturday and what a fun 3 years it's been too :)

I've had the pleasure of getting to know loads of friends while blogging, especially my talented and supportive friends on the SS design team (past & present), our wonderful & equally talented guest designers, our awesome and very generous sponsors, and of course our talented SS challengers! Thank you to you all xx

On Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th of June, The Craft Barn are hosting their June Extravaganza weekend with FREE craft demos from 24 demonstrators, with a theme of 'The Best of British' featuring designers and demonstrators from the UK and wherever possible promoting products manufactured in the UK. What a wonderful weekend that will be, to find out more please CLICK HERE.

This week, to help us celebrate our birthday, our fabulous friends over at The Craft Barn are offering a goody bag with contents to the value of £50..... WOW!!!

Sandy, Thank you so much! xx

Like previous years, we are offering our SS friends the chance to win a Party Bag Candy too :)

It's really easy to be in with a chance of winning a PBC, to enter, all you have to do is take part in the main SS challenge and leave your entry with Mr Linky as you would normally, (new work/direct link to your work only please)

Once you've done that, please leave the same link on the blog of the DT member who's PBC you'd like to win.

So not only will you have a chance to win a truly amazing prize by The Craft Barn  but you'll also have a chance to win more goodies on offer from the design team :) YAY!

See? told you it was easy! :)

To keep it fair, there are a few rules that apply:

You are only eligible to enter each DT members party bag candy once, and ONLY if you've already taken part in this weeks challenge too (please leave the direct link to your work for each PBC you enter)

We want to thank sketch saturday challengers so this is why it's only open to SS entrants!

(we will be checking! and all entries that are not eligible will be deleted)

Each PBC will close on the DT members blogs at 8:00 AM (UK time) on Friday 3rd June, please note: FRIDAY MORNING. No entries will be accepted after this time, sorry.

This is so that the DT members can let me know their winner's name so that I can get the post ready for the following morning to announce the winners on the Sketch Saturday blog :)

However, the normal Sketch Saturday challenge (to win that amazing £50 goody bag) will run until 11:59PM on the Friday evening as normal, so if you are too late for a PBC you could still win that super-amazing prize!

Would you like to see my PBC?

well I can't show you a pic of the contents (that's a surprise) but I will show you the box that I have made, using this weeks sketch design...

My Party Bag Candy is actually a Party BOX Candy :)

I didn't use a template, I worked out the sizes I needed to make the top and bottom parts of the box after measuring the size of the stash I have put inside it.

The pretty patterned paper is from Stampin Up (sweet always) and the gorgeous image on the front flap is by LOTV, coloured with promarkers. The flap lifts to reveal an acetate window which shows a glimpse of the candy within the box.

So if you would like to win this box and its contents, please enter the main SS challenge and then leave your direct link here too.

Good luck everyone! xx

Thank you

To those of you who entered my blog hop candy draw, I will be using random.org to select the winner.
To find out if you have won please pop back on Sunday at 9am

A full list of winners will be announced on Sweet Stampin at the same time.

Happy Birthday Sweet Stampin!

Welcome to the Sweet Stampin First Birthday Blog Hop!

If you've just come from Faye's Blog then you are in the right place! While you're here, please leave me a comment, enter my Candy and then hop over to Lesley next.
Don't forget you need to enter this weeks Sketch Challenge at Sweet Stampin to be eligible to win any Design Team Candy! If you think you've lost your way, head back to Sweet Stampin and start from there!


Here is the gift wallet I have made which will be sent to one of our fab sweet stampin challengers...

We are sponsored by Di's Digi Downloads this week who very kindly gave the design team some images to play with :)
I have used Penguins Christmas Tree, such a cutie!
I've coloured him with promarkers, and added a little bit of flock to his hat to finish.
I used this weeks sketch layout but decided to add a few flowers too.The sentiment is from Stampin Ups 'best yet' stamp set.

So if you like the look of this gift wallet, and would like to win it, along with a surprise crafty present inside it too then please make a card using this weeks sketch from Sweet Stampin and leave a comment here so that I can come see your card and enter you into the prize draw.
Don't forget to visit the rest of the girls and leave a comment on the challenge blog too ;)

good luck! xx


DT CALL
We have a DT Call on at the moment if you'd like to be a sweet stamper :)
You have until 10pm, Friday December 3rd to apply.



Sketch Saturday
just a note to add that my DT work for sketch saturday will be a little late this week, I have had a few pc problems my cpu is permanently on 100% and it has completely slowed up my machine for anything else or has shut down completely, internet access is limited so I am adding a message to this scheduled post quickly before it slows up again.
will post my DT work asap, in the meantime, please visit my fellow teamies over at Sketch Saturday, thank you xx

PBC winner...

Thank you to everyone who entered the draw to win my PBC and thank you for your sweet comments too :)
To find a full list of winners please visit Sketch Saturday, and while you are there you will see this weeks challenge (goes live in 10 minutes time at 8am)

So here we go... the winner of my PBC is...

Uma! (A sense of Uma)

Congratulations!
Please EMAIL ME your full postal address so that I can post out the PBC to you.
I hope you like the goodies that are inside! :)

Jo xx

Sketch Saturday's 2nd Birthday!!

WOW! I can hardly believe that Sketch Saturday is 2 years old!
Thank you to each and every one of the amazing Challengers, generous Sponsors, talented Design Team (past & present) as well as our fabulous Guest Designers for making this blog as popular as it is today :)

By way of a personal thank you, Sketch Saturday challengers are invited to enter in our personal blog candies!
Our PBC (Party Bag Candy) was so much fun to do last year!
Some of the design team have put together a small package to say thank you to one SS challenger, please go to each blog and put your name down on the relevant post,
PLEASE NOTE: you are only eligible to enter each DT members party bag candy once, and ONLY if you've already taken part in this weeks challenge too (please provide a link to your work in your comment on each DT members blog that you visit)
We want to thank sketch saturday challengers so this is why it's only open to SS entrants!
(we will be checking!)
Each Party Bag Candy will close on the DT members blogs at 8:00 AM (UK time) on Friday 4th June, please note: FRIDAY MORNING. No entries will be accepted after this time, sorry.
This is so that the DT members can let me know their winner's name so that I can get the post ready for the following morning to announce the winners :)

However, the normal SS challenge (open to all who leave a link on the main SS blog) will run until 11:59PM UK time on the Friday evening as normal

The sketch is the same obviously, so make your card/project & then leave a link on the main SS blog so you are eligible to win this weeks prize kindly donated by The Craft Barn, then, if you want to be entered into the party bag candy too with the chance to win an extra prize, leave the same link on the blog of each DT member too, if they use mr linky or inlinkz then please use that, if not then please leave a direct link to your work in their comments box.
If your entry can't be found easily then you could miss out on winning, so please do try to leave a direct link, thanks :)

Here is my PBC, it's a wallet,
but i'm not telling you what's inside, that's a surprise for the winner :)

I've used my lovely SU Tea Party papers again :)
The base cardstock is So Saffron, I've also used some Pretty in Pink & Certainly Celery cardstock too the lightest pink card is just a scrap piece (not SU)
I used my eyelet border punch to make the scalloped edge, my boho blossoms punch to make the flowers (I used just the smallest flower on the punch)
and the image is from SU's 'A flower for all seasons' stamp set.
I wrote 'For You' by hand underneath the image.

I hope you will join in with us this week! Not only could you win the main prize by The Craft Barn, but you could also win one of the PBC's made by the DT!
Just remember to leave a direct link to your own work to be eligible to win :)
Good Luck! xx

To be in with a chance of winning MY party bag candy, please leave your entry here...

PBC NOW CLOSED
Thank you for entering...good luck!

winner of my PBC

Hiya! Thank you all so much for joining in my birthday giveaway :)

so without further ado, the winner of my paper bag candy selected using random.org is...

Lorraine!

Congratulations hunni! Please EMAIL ME your postal details so that I can get the wallet (with a few craft goodies inside it) posted out to you.

Jo xx

Happy Birthday to Us......... win my PBC!

"Happy Birthday SS... Happy Birthday SS... Sketch Saturday's a year old... Happy Birthday SS!"

and this week is a little different!
Not only can you enter the prize draw to win the fabulous goodies donated by The Craft Barn,
but you can also add your name to the "Party Bag Candy" (PBC) prize draw of the design team too!
Please go to each DT members blogs and put your name down on the relevant post (including this one of course),
but please note: you are only eligible to enter each party bag candy once, and ONLY if you've already taken part in this weeks challenge too and provided a link to your work in your comment on each of the blogs candy posts you enter.
We want to thank sketch saturday challengers so this is why it's only open to SS entrants!
(we will be checking!)

Here is the birthday sketch over at Sketch Saturday this week...

and here is my gift wallet, the cover is designed using the sketch

cardstock: Stampin Up!
floral strip : 'Forever Flowers' standard wheel by Stampin Up!
patterned paper: from my scraps draw, can't remember the name though!
stamp: from 'A kid like me' set by Inkadinkadoo coloured with watercolour pencils
sentiment: Pink Cat Studio
Flowers and leaves were made using punches

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To win this wallet and a small selection of craft goodies inside it, here is what you have to do...

Please enter this weeks challenge over at Sketch Saturday and leave a link to your work on the blog.
Please leave a link to your work under this post too.
& Please enter this Party Bag Candy draw by 8:00 AM (UK time) on Friday 5th June.

REMEMBER: this party bag candy draw is for Sketch Saturday entrants ONLY.
I will post worldwide, so all SS challengers are free to enter my PBC draw.

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Now don't forget to go visit my lovely friends & fellow DT members blogs too!

A list of all winners from the DT blogs will be posted on Sketch Saturday next week (6th June).

Happy crafting everyone, and Good Luck in the prize draws! xx

So who is going to receive the candy?

Firstly i'd like to thank you all for your lovely comments and for linking back to my blogoversary candy, blogging is a wonderful way to meet new friends don't you think? :)
I would have announced the winner at 10pm as promised, but my internet connection went down! all seems well now though *phew!*
So I have just used Random.org to select the winner of the lovely K&Co goodies, and the winner is...

Jessica! (aka Jezz79)

Congratulations Jessica! please EMAIL ME your full postal address so that I can get your prize to you as soon as possible ;)

Jo xx

It's my first blogoversary!!

This will stay at the top of my posts until 31st Jan

UPDATE 26th January... I wanted to THANK YOU ALL for your congratulations and kind comments and also for entering my candy prize draw. I'm sorry that I haven't been around to all of you to thank you personally, but I promise that each and every one of you will be entered in the draw before I use Random.org to find out the winner this coming Saturday. Thank you so much, Love, Jo xx

This blog is 1 year old today! (13th Jan)
Not only that... I have recently just passed 10,000 blog hits too!! woohooo!
Blimey, the last 12 months have gone by quick haven't they?
Over the last year I have made tons of new friends :)
So as a thank you for your friendship, kind comments, or just plain nuttiness lol, I'm giving away the following candy to one of you.

Made by K&Company...

A pad of 36 sheets of 6x6 assorted paper
A pack of green glitter alphabet stickers
Grand Adhesions brookfield words
Grand Adhesions daisies
Grand Adhesions butterflies
A pack of button brads

If you'd like to win these goodies then please leave a comment on this post and also leave a link on your own blog telling everyone about my candy too. That's it!
You have until the end of the month to enter, I shall use random.org to choose a winner on Saturday 31st January at 10pm (GMT).

Good luck everyone!!

Jo xx