Christmas Gifts...

Emma and I have been making Christmas gifts to hand out at school at the end of Christmas term, and what with the credit crunch this year it seems the right thing to do - and best of all they were really easy and great fun to do!

Emma attends a catholic school, so these candles, with tradional Christmas scene images along with a matchbox to match seemed just the thing.

We stamped and coloured our image - in this case a stamp scene from Joanna Sheen onto tissue paper to then be able to transfer the image onto the candle. When the image was transfered we just added some Twinkles glitter, and added a border to the candle which is actually a Martha Stewart design punch and some ribbon. The box is a template that I have used in various projects - anyone wanting dimensions - then, I will hopefully be putting up a tutorial for this with the dimensions and instructions!

Here is a close up of the image on the candles.

Megaliscious (if that's a word!) Blogcandy!!!

Yes...it's finally here, the long awaited "Mega blog candy" that I have been promising you all.....so, are you ready for it??!!.......

There are quite a few goodies to this one, if you click on the picture you can get a close up of the goodies. Not to mention that there will also be a second prize!!!!!

Goodies include: A brand new Spellbinders "Wizard" a wizard impressability plate, set of Joanna Sheen dvd's, paper lace rolls, distress crackle paints, umount, glitters, bling, design papers, 4 Sugar Nellie stamps, beads, grungeboard, hitch fastners, mixed ribbon, Fancy Pants ribbons, Spritzer bottles, Empty glitter bottles, Anti-static bag, twinkling H20's, 13 unmounted stamps of various images and 2 large background unmounted stamps....

And this is Prize #2

The goodies here are: Some mixed ribbons, a Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit stamp and Joanna Sheen's Vintage Christmas dvd (which is fab!!)

I will be running this blog candy over December and drawing the winner just after the New Year and this time in order to win these fab goodies all you have to do is leave your answers to the following question in this post. Question: What is your top crafting tip that you have found to be invaluable to you? And as per usual, in order to get yourself a double entry just post about my blog on your blog and thats it!!...


Ok Goodluck and see you back here soon with some projects I have on the go.....

It's been way tooooo long!!!!

I can't believe how long it has been......I've been busy, I was just so wrapped up in it all that I didnt realise how busy and how long its been since my last blog!!.....Well, let me tell you, I AM STILL HERE, works are still ongoing in the new house (and probably will be for a while :-() Still been squeezing in the workshops, managed to get up to the NEC for the Hobbycraft show (my first time, and it was great fun!) Off to see NEW MOON with my daughter and friends tomorrow (yeaahh!! can't wait....I'm a kid!!!...yes I really am that excited about it!!!) and on Sunday leaving for Kettering to start my new job with Creative Expression along with my colleague Lynne!!.......Wooooof, I'm out of breath!!!!!

AND, just to let you know that next week I will be posting my last (and long overdue!) blog candy for the year, and as promised it's gonna be a wopper!!!!!...I have it ready, just need to take a photo and post about it....so, watch this space and by the end of next week IT WILL BE UP!

Thanks so much to everyone who has stuck by me and still visit my blog for your comments and emails lul xx however, I AM now back and will post that blog candy (super duper blog candy!!!) for you next week!

Thanks!
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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