Candy winner and an apology!

Hi everyone – just a quick post today to announce the winner of my blog candy (how exciting).  Firstly I just want to let you know that I’m not ignoring you and to apologise for the lack of DT cards this week.  I know some of you are already aware that I was in a minor car accident last Tuesday and as a result I have been suffering from whiplash.  My neck and shoulder are still causing me some pain and discomfort and because of this I’m off work recuperating.  My lovely son is doing me the honour of typing this post for me whilst I closely keep an eye on him!! 

Ok, now for the bit that you are all interested in – the lucky winner of my blog candy.  I want to say a big thank you to everyone that took the time to enter and for sharing the news about my candy throughout blogland!!  Without any more blabbing from me, the lucky winner of my candy is -

No. 168 (chosen by random.org – sorry I couldn’t get the picture up from the blog) and that is                                    SUE U

Congratulations to you Sue U – please email me and I will arrange for you prize to be sent out to you. 

Have a brilliant day and thanks for stopping by.

It’s candy time!

** MY CANDY IS NOW CLOSED **

WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

** This post will remain at the top until 8th August**

I know it’s about time but I’ve finally got around to photographing my candy!! I will be adding a few more things before it ends (such as stamped images etc) but wanted to get it posted whilst I had the chance.

My candy is to say thank you to everyone who visits my blog and leaves me such lovely comments and also as I’m so thankful for my DT positions and the challenges wins I’ve personally had recently. So here is what is up for grabs (sorry for the terrible photo):

So in detail here is what’s in my candy:

1 6x6 Basic Grey Kioshi paper pad

1 6x6 Core’dinations whitewash cardstock pad

1 Sugar Nellie ‘peek a bunny’ un-mounted stamp (Elizabeth Bell)

1 Sugar Nellie ‘butterfly fairy’ un-mounted stamp (Mary Hall)

1 Mo Manning ‘ Bella and Bronte’ clear stamp

1 Whiff of Joy ‘shy Willow’ un-mounted stamp

50 white cherry blossom paper flowers

25 yellow gardenia mulberry paper flowers

50 pink aster daisy mulberry paper flowers

50 yellow open rose (10mm) mulberry paper

1 pack of 160 pink and white pearl stamen

1 metre of white insertion aglaise lace

I metre of white cotton lace with ribbon insert

I pack of assorted ribbons

1 pack of self-adhesive rhinestone chipboard letters

I hope you like what I’ve included :)

Now I don’t have too many rules but to in with a chance to win my candy please can you:

1. Spread the word by adding photo of my candy in your sidebar and a link back to my blog

2. Leave a link to your blog below

3. Only one entry per person

My candy will end on 8th August 2010 and I will announce the winner the following day.

That’s it! You don’t have to become a follower and I will post my candy worldwide.

Lili of the Valley candy!

Tuesday 1st June  is the date for the fabulous new release from Lili of the Valley.  There are 12 new designs – 4 Dressing Up Girls, 4 Boys, 2 Babies and 2 Get Well Designs.  They will also be reducing Overseas Postage to £3.50 and orders of £25 will get free shipping from 1st June.  As an extra special promotion the really generous and sweet Lisa and Laila are giving a whole set of the new release as candy to one lovely follower.  This candy is open from Thursday 27th May until Midnight on Saturday 29th May so you only have 3 days to enter.  Just post about this gorgeous new release and link back to Lili of the Valley on your blog.

Look what I won!

I recently won blog candy from Jo (Dotty Pudding’s Place) and look at the gorgeous stamps, ribbon and flowers I received.  The stamps are from Wendy at Secret Crafter and they are soooo cute.  I’ve been really lazy and pinched Jo’s picture from her blog :)

I just wanted to say a big thank you to Jo and hopefully I will get a chance to use them very soon.  

Kellie’s mega candy!

The super talented Kellie Winnell is offering amazing candy on her blog at the moment. One lucky person can win the whole Spring Kit from CC Designs.  They are so cute, who wouldn’t want to win them :) 

Kellie only has a few easy rules to follow, so why not pop over to her blog to see what you must do to be in with a chance of winning.  The candy is open until 18th February and the winner will be announced on 19th February 2010. 

Blog candy winner!

Wow I had so many entries to my blog candy – thank you so much for your interest and best wishes on my 30,000 hits (by the way I’m now already 34,677 at time of writing this post woohoo). Also thank you to everyone who decided to become a new follower, I hope you enjoy what you see when you visit, please drop me a comment to let me know you’ve stopped by.

Anyway enough of my rambling you want to know who the lucky winner is of the greeting farm stamp set. I deleted any duplicate entries (just to make it completely fair) and there were a total of 234 entries. I used random.org to choose the winner and that is:

Entry number 101: MELISSA75

Congratulations Melissa! Please can you email me your details (my email address is in the sidebar) and I’ll get your prize off to you ASAP. I did promise to add extra goodies for every 50 entries so in addition to the greeting farm stamp set you will also receive 4 smaller prizes too :)

Thanks to everyone for entering my candy, I’ll hopefully be back later with a card to show you.

It’s candy time!

**THE CANDY IS NOW CLOSED**

Hello everyone, I hope you’ve managed to stay warm today (it’s been absolutely freezing here I can tell you).

I recently passed 30,000 hits on my blog and so I thought I’d celebrate by offering some candy. Here is what you can win:

That’s right I have one brand new set of The Greeting Farm’s new stamp set called ‘Miss Anya Love’. You know how much I love TGF and when I ordered myself a set (from Dies to Die For) I decided to get one for my candy too. I will also be adding more items to the candy for every 50 comments I receive :)

To be in with a chance of winning this beautiful stamp set all I want you to do is leave me a comment and tell me what you really love (it doesn’t have to be a craft thing). I will leave this post at the top until 22nd January 2010 so there’s plenty of time to enter. You don’t have to become a follower but I would really appreciate it if you would spread the word by adding a link on your blog (sidebar is fine). Thanks for stopping by and good luck!

Quixotic New Year Candy

Quixotic challenge is offering some amazing New Year candy on their blog (and the mystery prize is worth £40.00). 

What do you have to do to be in with a chance of winning the prize?  Create a post on your own blog with the following information:

1. Details of the candy and a link to the challenge blog.
2. Your own favourite card of 2009 (from your personal creations).

Then pop back to the Quixotic challenge blog and enter your name and a link to your blog post in Mr. Linky.  That's it!  Entries must be in by 5th January 2010. 

Now I’ve had an interesting half hour looking back at my cards from 2009 and boy have my cards changed in that time (hopefully for the better lol).  I have quite a few favourites and I don’t mean that big-headedly (if there is such a word) but I have picked this card as my favourite one for 2009.  I hope you agree :)

I made this card for the first ever passion for promarkers challenge and it holds very happy and exciting memories for me.  You can see the original post here.  I can’t wait to see what you choose as your favourite of 2009.  Thanks for stopping by today.

 

Katharina's WOJ candy!

The celebrate the new WOJ Winter Stamp kit Katharina is offering 2 lucky winners a new stamp kit and some metal embellishments as candy. All you have to do is add the logo to your sidebar with a link to the WOJ shop and also post about the candy on your blog. The candy is open until 22nd Oct and the stamps are available to pre-order now - so what are you waiting for? For full details check out Katharina's blog here.

Hope you're having a fab Saturday, I'll be back later with a card, so see ya!

My blog candy winner!!!

I’m sorry to have kept you waiting but the time is finally here to announce my blog candy winner (how exciting).  I cannot believe how many entries I had and from all over the world.  I want to say a big thank you to everyone that entered and I hope you will continue to come and visit me. 

So without further ado, my blog candy winner, chosen by random.org is:

**** Amanda Boldy **** 

Congratulations Amanda, please can you email me by the end of the week so that I can arrange for your goodies to be sent out to you.  If for any reason I do not hear from Amanda I will of course re-draw another winner. 

Thanks again for all your support and excitement and lovely comments for my candy and my cards.  

It’s candy time………at last!

** EDITED TO ADD - THE CANDY IS NOW CLOSED **

I WILL BE BACK LATER TONIGHT TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNER -

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!

** THIS POST WILL REMAIN AT THE TOP UNTIL 23RD AUGUST

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR NEW POSTS **

I know I’ve been promising blog candy for a very long time but it’s finally here!! I’ve been very lucky over the last year (with several DT positions and candy wins myself) and I wanted to celebrate with all my blogging friends. Anyway I hope you like what’s up for grabs and I may add a few more surprise goodies by the time it ends! So what you have to do is:

a) become a follower, if you aren’t already!

b) add a link on your blog letting everyone know about my candy (sidebar is fine).

c) leave me a comment letting me know you’ve done the above.

The candy up for grabs is

1 x papermania embellishment trio

1 x high hopes unmounted stamp – ‘birthday buzzard’ (available from Dies to Die For)

1 x cuttlebug embossing folder – floral fantasy

1 x dovecraft 8x8 paper pad – wild blossom

2 x basic grey 6x6 paper pads – lemonade & boxer

1 x k & co 6x6 paper pad – hopscotch

2 x sheets of penny black stickeroos

1 x sugar nellie unmounted stamp – daisy with pram (available from Funky Kits)

1 x 5 pack of promarker pens – pastels

2 x pebbles inc rub-ons – happy birthday and thanks

1 x kaisercraft pack of adhesive pearls

1 x kaisercraft pack of adhesive rhinestones

1 x stickles - diamond

1 x liquid pearls – white opal

1 x wood mounted smirk stamp – sweet as honey

1 x imaginisce clear snag em stamp – sundae cone

2 x kaisercraft packs of flowers – pink & white

1 x crafting expressions pack of charms – bags and shoes

2 x ribbon packs – woodware pastels & lasting impressions caramels

1 x colorbox cats eye chalk inkpad – wisteria

1 x quickie glue pen

1 x pack of clear dew drops/bubbles

1 x roll of thin double sided tape

1 x set of downloads from Digistamp Boutique (winners choice)

The candy will run until 23rd August 2009 at 7pm and I will then randomly draw a winner. Please only one comment per person, duplicates will be deleted. All are welcome to enter so good luck!

Sketch Saturday #63

Here is my entry for this week’s sketch saturday challenge.  I stamped my new greeting farm image ‘sheriff Ian’ and coloured him with promarkers.  The dotty paper is from the dovecraft masculine paper pad and the plain cs is from the papermill shop.  The sentiment is stampendous and the ribbon and brads are from my stash.  The ‘splat’ shapes are cut with a woodware punch and the paper used for these is doodlebug.  I’m just getting organised for our family holiday.  We are leaving tomorrow morning and I haven’t even packed yet lol!  I hope you won’t forget me and will come back on Monday and Tuesday as I will schedule my DT cards for the CCC and PFP challenges.  It’s our anniversary over at cupcake this week and there are exciting things planned – you don’t want to miss them (that’s all I’m saying!).  I can’t believe my bad timing going away and missing all the fun.  Thanks for all your interest in my candy – don’t forget to keep spreading the word as it doesn’t end until after I’m back off my hols.  Thanks for stopping by today.  See you in a week!

Leanne's gorjuss candy!

The lovely Leanne is offering gorjuss candy over at her blog Flutterbyz Crafty Haven - the gorjuss girls set 3. That's right 6 completely gorgeously gorjuss new stamps. Leanne is celebrating moving to Dubai and also 5,000 hits. You have until 1st September to enter, so what are you waiting for?

New Bizzy Becs Creatalicious Challenge

There is a new challenge blog starting on 15th August called 'Bizzy Becs Creatalicious challenge. This will be a monthly challenge and at the moment they are offering stunning candy (which ends 13th August). They are also on the look-out for two DT members so if you are interested click here.

Sally's Blog candy

Sally is offering gorgeous candy on her blog Pink Sunshine to celebrate both her upcoming birthday and wedding (lucky thing!). As you can see from the picture there are lots of yummy goodies up for grabs. You have until 9pm on Tuesday 4th August to enter, and you can enter as many times as you like. Thanks for stopping by today.

Edited to add: This is my second post for today, to see my Cupcake DT card please scroll down.

Ida's blog candy

Ida, my fellow DT member on CCC and Passion for Promarkers, is offering candy on her blog, which ends on 15th June. She will also be adding new items to her candy for every 20 comments she receives. The candy is a surprise - Ida will post a picture at the end so that everyone can see what's up for grabs. Check out her blog for details. Thanks for stopping by.

Katharina's WOJ candy

Katharina is offering two lucky people the chance to win the soon to be released WOJ summer stamp kit. There are a couple of rules to follow (nothing difficult lol) so pop on over to her blog to check it out. You have until Friday 1st May to enter. Good luck. Thanks for stopping by.

Lorraine's Easter Monday candy - ends at midnight!

The lovely Lorraine is offering a surprise Easter Monday candy but you only have until midnight tonight to be considered for the draw. I love surprises and can't wait to see what the prize is. Click the link here to go to Lorraine's blog and while you're there check out her lovely creations. Thanks for stopping by.

Ida's lush candy!

Ida was lucky enough (like me) to be chosen for the Cupcake Craft Challenge DT and has decided to offer 3 visitors some gorgeous candy. The only condition is that you have to post a comment on your blog and not only add it to the sidebar (but I'm going to do both haha!). You have until 3rd April to be entered, so what are you waiting for? You can go directly to the candy here. Good luck.

Kath's blog candy fest #4!

Kath at All That Glitter is offering some amazing candy, there is so much to win. Just leave a comment on what you think Santa brought her for Christmas and a link on your blog. You need to be quick as it ends at midnight (GMT) January 10th 2009. Thanks for looking.