Can you forgive me!!!

What can I say.........but please forgive me........................

I have been abscent a long time due to having moved house (on the 4th/09) and despite the usual upheaval that goes with moving house the biggest hurdle of all - which we are still awaiting...is getting our broadband set up. The only reason Im posting now is that I have gone out and bought a mobile broadband dongle. I wont bore you with the details but our telephone line and broadband changeover have been "challenging"!! Im also still living amongst boxes and boxes and more boxes and dont even ask about my craft stuff!!!!!!!

Anyway, all this and just to add a little more pressure to the pot its Ally Pally this weekend, so getting ready for that is top of list at the moment and as Im still living out of boxes its not proving to be an easy task at all!!....but if you happen to be going do stop by the Particraft booth and say hello!!!....that would be really fab!!

BUT.........more importantly now, I have a winner to announce from my very overdue August candy, I was hoping to have done this on the Monday just after having moved as I was assured that we would have connection and be able to be up and running...but alas!!!! Anyhow, the winner of my August blog candy is............................

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Evelyn at "Evy's Crafty Creations"
congratulations to Evy

If you could email me (email on my sidebar) then I will get your candy out to you asap.

I just want to thank everyone SO MUCH for sticking by me in my absense and your patience. Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and for all your wondeful comments and words of support (about my move!!!). As we are so far into September now, I wont be doing a blog candy this month, BUT will be making October's blog candy SUPER DUPER SPECIAL, just by way of saying "sorry" and "thank you"!!

A little bit of Christmas in August!

Dont scream!!.....I know, it seems a little early to be thinking about Christmas and I have to admit it does take some effort to get in a Christmas creating mood, but I have already been asked to do some christmas workshops (in August) and Ive also some samples for Ally Pally in September to get ready!!....

The stamp image and the background images (snowflake & Holly) is from the new Christmas stamp plates from Particraft.

Im off to prepare for two more upcoming Christmas workshops and a Halloween workshop in between packing and getting ready for our house move in about 3 weeks...aaaggghhhhhh!!!!

Summer Bonanza Blog Candy

My blog candy this month is a little extra special - just because its summer and also because I've hit over 50,000 hits which is great for little ole me!!....

Goodies include; Fancy Pants & Junkitz 12x12 papers, distress ink pad, Cosmic shimmer mist spray, embossing powder, Messy rabbit stamps, rubbernecker unmounted stamps, Creative Expressions unmounted girls stamp, ezmount, ribbons, fibres, emelishments, spellbinder nestability squares, glitter etc etc.....

All you need to do for your chance to win is leave me a comment in this post by Monday 31st August 11pm (GMT) link me to your blog mentioning my blog candy - only if you want (but if you do it gets you double entry in the draw!) and that's it. I will announce the winner here on my blog on the Monday/Tuesday following. Good Luck!

Happy Crafting!!

July's Blog Candy Winner!!

The draw has been done and I now have a winner to July's blog candy!...............all were entered including those that emailed and those without blogs and nearly all twice!!!But alas there can only be one winner so without further ado the winner is......
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Simone at Simones Karten-Ecke congratulations to Simone

if you could email me (email on my sidebar) then I will get your candy out to you asap.

As always I would just like to thank everybody that participated and to everyone that takes the time to visit my blog, become followers and for all your wonderful comments.....without YOU it would mean nothing!!!

This months blog candy which I am just finishing putting together is a special Summer Bonanza Candy - just because its summer and I feel like it!! (although the weather at the moment would suggest otherwise!!) which I will be announcing tomorrow, so dont forget to check back......lol xx

Roses are red....or in this case 'Pink'

Just thought I'd quickly show you a card sample that I have made for Particraft, using the 'Dream' stamp set - I think this is a really gorgeous and very versatile stamp set.

I have used distress inks and cosmic shimmer watercolours, incorporated some stitching and ribbon weaving. The background frame is a cuttlebug die and the main image has been stamped on a nestability shape.

A somewhat romantic feel but I have not added any specific sentiment leaving it open for various options.

Hope you're all enjoying the summer holidays!!

You Rock my World!!

It seems that all I've been doing lately is apologising for my lack of bloging!! Unfortuntely, with kids on holidays and a number of workshops/demos and DT commitments - its not going to get alot better! BUT, I will hopefully be posting pics from those workshops/demos and DT's, plus some new tutorials, perhaps just not on such a regular basis until things get back to normal again - OHH and not forget that in between all these goings' on - I'm also moving house in a few weeks time!!!!!!!!!!!!...........(...luckily you couldn't hear me scream just then!! lol)

Anyway, here is a project that I did yesterday using a digi download image here and the papers are also digi downloads from here - the sentiment I created on my pc simply using wordart! - and I just love these new gothic brads which I bought at the Stamp Attick.

Dont forget to enter my blog candy this month - you can still enter and be in with a chance to win up until Friday 31st July - Good luck!

In His time.......

I just thought I would show you a very simple project that I made with a group of church ladies that I do worshops with. It was such a simple card to make, yet I think its simplicity is what makes it stand out!!

Both stamps are from Particaft the butterfly is here and the flourish is here, the butterfly has been coloured using cosmic shimmer watercolours and I have added some stickles for the glitz effect! The sentiment I came across on the web somewhere but couldn't tell you where...'cause I can't remember, one of those things I see and jot down in my book!!