Penny Black Saturday #77 & Blog Hop results!

Good morning! Wow! What a fantastic response to the Countdown to Christmas blog hop! There were so many beautiful entries and lovely comments left, but there can only be one winner....actually there's loads but you'll have to check the Penny Black Saturday challenge blog and DT blogs for those! There can only be one winner for my little candy, and that person is (chosen by Random.org but I don't know how to get the little box on here!)................drumroll please.................

Ali from Ali's Stamping & Papercraft Heaven!!!

Woo hoo!! Congratulations Ali! Send me an email with your address and I'll get your goodies in the post to you! Thanks so much to everyone else who entered! I hope you got lucky with the other draws!
Now for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, I've designed a little sketch for you all to play with! I hope you have fun with it, the DT cards are beautiful (as always!!) And here's my card - goody list below! I hope you like it! Have a fab weekend!

Supplies-
Stamp - 'Holly Jolly' clear set by Penny Black
Colouring - Copics, 'Crystal' Stickles & 'Polar White' Flower Soft
Papers - DCWV 'Christmas Wishes' stack & Core'dinations
Ribbon & gems - stash
Sentiment - 'Retro Noel' font by Scrap'n'fonts
Holly - Paper Mania punch & gems by Anita's

A Spoon Full of Sugar #79 & Quixotic Challenge #4!

Hi again! Just a quick post to show you another of my quick Christmas cards using these cute Pink Petticoat penguins! The first challenge is Spoonful of Sugar which is a colour combo: Brown with either Blue or Pink, I've gone for blue! And the second challenge it fits into is this weeks Quixotic Challenge which is 'Tearing', I love using torn papers on my cards, and I've glittered the edges to show them off - as usual it doesn't show, my photography atrocious!!! I hope you like it, thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Image - 'Have an Ice Christmas' by Pink Petticoat
Colouring - Copics & 'Frosted Lace' Stickles
Papers - DCWV Winter stack from a couple of years ago
Pearls - Hero Arts
Mat - 'Labels 1' Nestability die
Snowflakes - Cuttlebug die & Carl Craft punch
Card blank - Woodware

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #21 & Copic Colour Challenge #41!

***Scroll down for my Copic Colour Challenge card***
Hello! I hope you all are well! This is my fortnightly double challenge post so it's a long one! Firstly is my card for this fortnights Truly Scrumptious which is a sketch by the lovely Debbie and she's given us a fab extra challenge to include a Sparkle flourish. I've used this beautiful Flower Fairies stamp, I saw the show on Create & Craft and wanted the whole set, I've loved them since I was tiny! But I used my head instead of my heart and thought I would get most use out of the Christmas one! The flourish was made using one of the Bazill templates I got from Quixotic Paperie, I love it and you're sure to see a few more cards with this on! I hope you can join us for this fab sketch!

Supplies-
Images & sentiment - Flower Fairies 'Holly' from Crafters Companion
Colouring - Copics & Glamour Dust
Papers - Forever Friends 'Santa's on his way' paper pad
Ribbon - stash
Gems & gem template - Bazill

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Now for my Copic Colour Challenge card, and it's my turn to choose the colours! I'm not quite sure why I picked autumnal colours when I struggle with these colours but this Greeting Farm digi stamp came to the rescue - she's beautiful! I've covered her in a wash of Sakura Stardust to give her a magical shimmer! (zoom in for a better look!) Then a few gems and swirly bits and I'm done! I have to say I'm quite pleased with how both of these came out! I've got a feeling it's because I've moved my craft stuff into the lounge on the dining table, I don't feel like I'm cooped away by myself and I've been able to spend a bit longer on my cards - who knows how long it'll last! Thanks for looking, I hope you like them!

Supplies-
Image - 'Autumn Fairy' digi stamp from The Greeting Farm
Colouring - Copics & Sakura Stardust
Papers - Pink Petticoat 'Elegance Swirls' in sweetcorn, glitter card from Create & Craft & Core'dinations
Embossing - 'Birds & swirls' Cuttlebug folder
Swirls - Quickutz die
Gems - Anita's
Ribbon, flowers & spacer - stash
Border - Fiskars 'Threading Water' punch

Friday Sketchers #79!

Hiya! I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are having a nice (if soggy) monday! I've been busy making a collection of quick Christmas cards using these cute 'Ice Christmas' stamps from Pink Petticoat, I've made 7 so far and have 5 more to go to finish the set. They're so easy to colour and I've been using up lots of paper scraps. Here's the first which I used this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch on, there's always a good sketch to be found here! I'm off to do a bit of housework now - yuck! Then maybe get a couple more penguin cards made! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-
Image - Pink Petticoat 'Have an Ice Christmas'
Colouring - Copics & 'Crystal' Stickles
Papers - Cosmo Cricket 'Jolly by Golly' & glitter paper from Create & Craft
Gems & ribbon - stash

Penny Black Saturday #76!

Woo hoo! It's a very special week this week on the Penny Black Saturday challenge blog! We're having a 'Winter Wonderland Countdown to Christmas Blog Hop'!! There are loads of gorgeous prizes to be won, all you have to do is make a card with a Winter Wonderland theme and play along with this puzzle -

Can you guess this well known Christmas Song
---O--- T-- --- N---- -----E--
a little clue - one of Santa's helpers

it has five words and we have given you another little clue by filling in some of the letters but to collect the rest of the letters you need to visit each member of the Design Team including our lovely Guest Designer for this month Debby, shuffle the letters around to solve the puzzle and then e-mail your answer to Kath - kathinwesthill@btinternet.com
Entries will close at midnight GMT on Friday 27th November

And these are the letters you'll be needing from me.....R & N - Good luck!

TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN A PRIZE...YOU NEED TO ENTER A CARD IN THE CHALLENGE

and all the lucky winners will be announced on Penny Black Saturday next Saturday

Our sponsors have been amazingly generous, this little lot is up for grabs - 2 CD's from Funky Hand - 4 lifetime 15% off discount vouchers from PB Stamps - a Penny Black stamp from 1-2-3 Stitch - digi download from Pollycraft - 10% voucher from Valentines - $25 voucher from Simon Says Stamps - 10 rolls of ribbon from FR Ribbons - bumper pack of stuff from Simply Create!!

And not only that, each of the DT have put together a little Christmas Blog Candy on their blogs! To win mine, just leave a comment on this post with a link to your card for this week and I'll announce the winner in next saturdays post! If that's not enough to get you into the Christmas spirit, I don't know what is!! Here's my candy prize! There's 3 sets of Christmas papers, buttons, gems, brads, snowflakes, poinsettias, ribbons, some stamped images (not pictured) and a little bag of festive choccies! -

And here's my card for this week, I've had a go at one of the easel cards that everyone seems to be making at the moment, I love them! I've used one of the latest Summer Driggs downloads - appropriately called Winter Wonderland! I hope you like it and can join in with the fun this week! Remember to visit all the other DT girls for your clues! Have a great weekend!


Supplies-
Images - by Penny Black
Colouring - Copics & 'Crystal' Stickles
Papers & sentiment - Summer Driggs 'Winter Wonderland'
Thread - stash
Brads - Paper Mania

Copic Colour Challenge #40!

Hiya! Just a quick one from me, I'm up to my eyeballs today! Here's my card for this weeks Copic Colour Challenge using this funky Miss Anya stamp - I just don't get bored of them! I made the pink and orange swirly paper using the Elegance Swirls Pink Petticoat paper in a negative and postive, they fit perfectly into each other! This weeks challenge is sponsored by InStyle Stamps, they do some really funky digi images! Pop over and check out the DT cards, they're fab! Thanks for dropping in! xx

Supplies-

Image - 'Miss Anya' by The Greeting Farm

Colouring - Copics
Papers - Pink Petticoat

Gems - Anita's

Sentiment - made on the PC

Ribbon - stash

Anyone for Anya? GD: Getting Round to it!

Morning! I hope your houses and gardens weren't blown away last night - gales were howling outside my window all night! Here's my card for my second and last week as Guest Designer on Anyone for Anya, this weeks theme is Getting Round to It, use anything round on your card - spots, round card blanks, gems etc. There's a fab prize to be won and the Design Team have made stunning cards! I've made an anniversary card using this cute digi couple, I thought the 50's style would go with the polka dots! Not sure who it's for but I'm sure I'll think of someone! I hope you're having a lovely Sunday!

Supplies-

Image - '50's Sweetheart' Digi stamp from The Greeting Farm

Colouring - Copics

Paper - Pink Petticoat in 'Cranberry'

Gems & ribbon - stash

Glitter paper - Create & Craft

Sentiment - typed under the image on the PC

Penny Black Saturday #75!

Morning everyone! Thanks for all the gorgeous entries into last weeks Lyrics theme - there were some fabulous cards and I was singing along to them! This weeks Penny Black Saturday theme should come in quite handy, Christmas for the Guys! I can't quite believe I've made a Christmas card with no glitter or gems! :-) I thought I'd go for a very manly blue and grey theme, the Doodlebug paper was my inspiration for that, and I paper pieced the snowman onto a grey sky - much more British don't you think?!
1-2-3 Stitch are offering one lucky entry a $20 voucher for their online store, even more reason to join us! The DT cards are stunning as always and we've still got the lovely Debby with us with a 'Moo-tastic' card! I hope you all have a great weekend - if a little damp, it has not stopping raining here in the last 2 days! Oh well, more of an excuse to stay in and craft! Thanks for dropping in!

Supplies-

Image - 'Warm & Cool' by Penny Black

Colouring - Copics and a white gel pen

Papers - Pink Petticoat & Doodlebug

Pearls - Kanban Crafts

Sentiment - Dovecraft clear stamp

Snowflakes - Dovecraft mini punch

Ribbon - stash

Border - Fiskars 'Threading Water' punch

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #20 & Copic Colour Challenge #39!

Back again! It went so quickly but was really fun! Now for todays challenges....firstly this fortnights Truly Scrumptious challenge, a fabulous and unusual sketch by Dawn with the extra challenge of 'Texture'. I've gone for a funky Christmas style card using one of the new Pink Petticoat 'Gem trees'. My added texture is the gems on the tree, Twinklets glitter at the base and a stripe of it along the card and two stripes of black chunky glitter plus some fluffy fibre ribbon stuff! I've shown a close up of the glittery bits. I hope you can join us! This also qualifies for this weeks
Papertake challenge which is to use something Digi and some sparkle!


Supplies-
Image - Pink Petticoat 'Fairy Lights'
Paper - DCWV 'Rose Tinted Christmas' pad & black glitter paper from Create & Craft
Gems & fibres - stash
Glitter - 'Twinklets' & Doodlebug 'Sugar Coating' in Beetle Black
Star - Nestabilities circle & Sizzix die Star

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And now for my Copic Colour Challenge card. This week the colours are bright! I also have a little confession, it wasn't til now that I read the colours again and realised I got last weeks challenge (which I missed because I was poorly) mixed up with this weeks and used B02 insted of G05 - whoops!! Luckliy there is a little bit of green in there so I should get away with it! I've used one of Mo's Digi Pencil freebie images - this one is so cute and comes with a few little accessories! I've added some sparkle to the water to give it a shimmery look but it doesn't really show (why do we bother?!!)
Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-
Image - 'Summer Baby' by Mo's Digital Pencil
Colouring - Copics & Sakura Stardust
Paper - Pink Petticoat 'Pinstripes' and blue paper from stash embossed with 'Tiny Bubbles' Cuttlebug folder
Sentiment stamp & ribbon - stash
Embellishments made with various punches

I'm back!! And with a couple of cards to share!

Hi all! I'm back into the land of blogging! I had a BRILLIANT Hen Do last weekend - thoroughly spoilt, but exhausted afterwards and ended up getting a nasty cold which put me out of action for a couple of days - hence the lack of a card for this weeks Copic Colour Challenge and why this card is so late! It's for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge, a fabulous theme in my opinion of Song title/lyrics! The DT have gone all Christmas Carol-y which is so fun! I pulled put this image though and thought 'Just the two of us' by Bill Withers (or Will Smith depending how old you are!!) would fit the bill!
We also have a very special addition to our little team this week, we are joined by the amazingly talented Debby!! Yey! I love everything she does and really struggle to comment on her cards, trying to think of something more interesting other than 'WOWZERS!!!' every time! And she's with us for the whole of November too!

Supplies-
Stamp - 'Lovin' & Huggin'' by Penny Black
Colouring - Copics
Papers - My Minds Eye - 'Bloom & Grow' & Core'dinations
Sentiment - made on the PC
Pearls & ribbon - stash
Border - Fiskars 'Threading Water' punch

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There's a part 2 to this post and that's because this week I am thrilled to be this fortnights Guest Designer on the Anyone for Anya challenge blog - woo hoo!! I love these little cuties so any excuse to ink them up is a bonus! Thanks so much Dawny!
This weeks challenge is a Recipe:- 3 pieces of paper/card, 2 button & 1 ribbon or bow. To show how fab I think this challenge is, I've broken out the good papers - these babies don't get cut up very often!! I've also added some Flower Soft to her coat and muff to make her extra snuggly! I hope you like it and are having a great weekend! I'm off to Dorchester today, staying in a cottage til Wednesday for my Father-in-law's to be's 60th birthday bash, it's going to be brilliant! Catch up with you soon! xx

Supplies-
Stamp - 'Rain, Snow, Shine - Miss Anya' by the Greeting Farm
Colouring - Copics & 'Polar White' Flower Soft
Papers - My Minds Eye 'Be Merry' & Core'dinations
Border - Fiskars 'Threading Water' punch
Ribbon & buttons - stash
Holly leaves - Quickutz die
Sentiment - Dovecraft mini clear set