Best of British Day 2

Morning Everyone,welcome to the second day of our Best of British event....Thank you to everyone who joined in with us yesterday....For those of you didn't get a chance to enter you can still enter for the first day,just check out the post for Day 1 and leave your name with Inlinkz....

The Design Team have made cards/projects for your inspiration and all of the Companies have very generously given a prize for one of you lucky people to win each day...

All of the inlinkz links will remain open until Sunday 3rd June when the winners will be drawn for all days and announced here,so it means even if you miss one day you will still have time to enter...So please come by each day and join in with us,and leave the Design Team a comment as I know they would love to hear from you...


If you could give the event a little mention on your blog we would really appreciate it,let everyone know about the fabulous prizes up for grabs.....

Also for anyone who places an order with Crafty Ribbons for over £7.00 during the event there is FREE postage

And the Company joining us for our second day is..........

MULBERRY CRAFTS

Here is a little bit about them.....

MuberryCraftsUK online shop is a Home-Based business run by Bev . Who juggles caring for her family and running this business from home. At the moment we are focussing on providing miniature flowers made from genuine mulberry paper for crafts use - although we have a small selection of non -paper crafts too. Why mulberry paper? Because they are robust, realistic look and last longer than ordinary paper and it provides a sustainable income for people in the cottage industry. In due course we will be introducing more of other craft materials which is not related to mulberry paper.

Bev has very kindly given the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....

Two bags filled to the brim with flowers....

All you need to do is leave your name on the Inspiration Blog with Inlinkz,if you don't have a blog don't worry you can still enter just skip the URL bit....

ONLY ONE entry per person please to make it fair for everyone,duplicate entries will be deleted....

(open worldwide)

I don't have a card for you today but the DT girls have made some gorgeous creations for you to see so please hop on over to the Inspiration Blog to see them :-)

Who will be the sponsor tomorrow ????? hmmm you will have to wait and see !! :-)

I hope you all have a lovely weekend :-)

Best of British Day 1 !! :-)

Today the celebrations kick off !! YAY !! We are now on a countdown to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee !!

Todays sponsor is ,,,,,

Which Craft? UK pride ourselves on creating new and unique Quality Card Blanks'For Your Inspiration'

( If you are going to spend time creating a special card then we believe you need a high quality blank canvas as your starting point)

We are known in the Card making industry for using Only the Highest quality Card gauge throughout the complete 'For Your Inspiration' Collection - where many of our colleagues

use our designs to show case there own beautiful stamps and card making products

Our Designs can be seen on Create & Craft used by many of our Craft colleagues to also show case there own beautiful stamps and card making products..

We also organise the following event.......

Paula has very kindly given us the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....

All you need to do is leave your name with Inlinkz on the Inspiration blog HERE,only one entry per person please to make it fair for everyone...

The DT were sent a selection of shaped card blanks to use. I must say the quality is lovely and I really enjoyed making this. It would have been difficult if not impossible to cut and score this myself :-)

I went for a British summer afternoon theme and used this very cute Kitty Picnic image from the Wild Rose Studio, coloured with Copics. I used a spellbinders labels 8 to cut the image and the mat and I the edges inked with Stormy Sky and Forest Moss DI. I added star dust stickles here and there and used glossy accents on the ladybirds The papers are from Kaiser Crafts and I used a couple of Martha Stewart butterfly punches and a sentiment from Whimsy Stamps. The pearls are Hero Arts and the spotty organza ribbon and button are from Crafty Ribbons.

The DT have made some gorgeous cards for you to see so hop on over to the Inspiration Blog to see them all. Goos Luck with the prize draw too :-)
As a special promotion Crafty Ribbons will be giving free postage on all orders placed during the Best of British event

Please pop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration blog and join in the fun with us....

Now I wonder who the Company will be tomorrow???....

Challenges :

Sassy Cheryl’s ,,, Anything But a Square card

Crafts 4 Eternity ,,,, Things with Wings

Cute Card Thursday ,,, A Touch of Sparkle

Dutch Dare ,,,, Shaped Cards

Moving Along With The Times ,,, Keep it Real , no fantasy( well maybe no rain on a summer day is bit of a fantasy ,,, lol )

Card Crafters Circle ,,,, Sparkle Sparkle

Hotshot Crafts ,,, Die Cuts

Totally Papercrafts ,,, Lisa’s Sketch Challenge

Hi all :-) goodness this weeks gone quick ! where did that go ?? Friday is here again and its time for a new theme on the Totally Papercrafts Challenge :-)

This week the lovely Lisa is hosting and she made us a fabulous sketch to follow ! :-)

It’s wedding season so I thought I would make a card using this gorgeous new Wedding Cake stamp from the Wild Rose Studio, isn’t it pretty !

I stamped with Memento ink onto Neenah card and coloured with Copics. I used silver stardream card for all the layering and the papers are from a gorgeous WRS Wedding Bells pack. I used a Nellie Snellen Oval Multi frame die and threaded some satin edged organza ribbon through, made a bow and added a Prima flower in the center. I finished with a Martha Stewart punched butterfly, there are 3 layers to this, a white card base, then one punched from a matching paper from the pack and then topped with vellum. I added some lilac gems and made the antennae from craft wire. I finished with some Hero Arts Earth Dots and oodles of star dust stickles here and there :-)

We are sponsored by the lovely and uber talented Melissa from Meljen Designs so some fabulous digi images on offer this week !! :-)

Thanks for looking :-) the DT have made some really smashing cards this week so head on over to the TPC to see them :-)

Challenges :

Bearly Mine ,,,, Dies

Stamp With Fun ,,,, Wedding

Love to Create ,,,, Bingo ,,, Ribbon, Punches, Flowers

Paper Sundaes ,,, Things With Wings

Stamptacular Sunday,,,, Butterfly Kisses

Crafty Calendar ,,,, Things with Wings

DRS Design ,,,, Weddings/Anniversary

A Reminder :-)

Just dropping by to remind you all about our fabulous Best of British Event,which kicks off at 8.30am( UK time) on Friday 18th May you won't want to miss it ....Please read the info below and join in with us.....

Crafty Ribbons have launched a new inspiration blog,called

CRAFTY RIBBONS PURE INSPIRATION

To kick off our new inspiration blog we are offering some fabulous ribbon candy.....

If you would like to win these gorgeous ribbons..then all you need to do is become a follower of the blog,for every 100 followers we get we will draw a winner so please pass the details on the more followers the more candy and the more chances to win,leave your name with Mr Linky below and when we hit that magical 100 followers we will get Random Org to draw a winner so it could be you and should we get to 200 followers well we'll draw another winner and so on.....

We will be checking to make sure your a follower,if not a new winner will be drawn..


If you don't have a blog that's fine just become a follower and then leave your name with Mr Linky skipping the URL bit

There is also another reason to become a follower we are holding a fabulous event from the 18th May until 2nd June to celebrate.......

Now if you take the blinkie above and put it in your sidebar you can have a second entry to win the fabulous ribbons above,just leave your name a second time with Mr Linky below....

Each day we will be highlighting a different British Craft Company or Shop,the Design Team will be posting cards/projects on their blogs each day using products from each Company or shop,there will also be a prize each day from the highlighted Company up for grabs that's 16 prizes and you can enter each day,only one entry per person per day to make it fair,so make sure to become a follower and check back regularly for some gorgeous inspiration and more info on our Best of British event and remember to come back on the 18th May to join in the fun with us and for your chance to win gorgeous prizes from all the fabulous Company's and shops who are joining in with us....

ABC ‘J’ for Jingle Bells ,,,,,,

Hi all :-) we are on ‘J’ already !! ,,, how many cards is that ,,,, err ,,, a,b,c,d ,,, 10 !! YAY ! :-)

We have 3 new girlies joining the team !! Woo Hoo !! Please welcome ,,,,

Bettina, Wilma & Kelly!

Welcome to the team girls :-)

This fortnight it is our lovely Boss Samantha’s turn to choose the theme ,,,

‘J’ for Jingle Bells ,,,,, :-)

We are sponsored by the lovely Jodie at Bugaboo Stamps so a lovely choice of 7 digi images on offer for one lucky entrant :-)

For my card I followed the fab sketch on the Stella Says Sketch Challenge and used this very cute Reindeer Trio image from Bugaboo ,,, isn’t it cute ! :-)

I coloured with copics , added glossy accents sprinkled with glitter to the baubles and then added star dust stickles to the frame and stars. I also added glossy accent to their noses :-) The papers are Bo Bunny from a Snowfall pack and I added Robins Nest Dew Drops and a string of fairy lights cut on the Silhouette Cameo, coloured, glittered and stuck on with scrap dots, I added a little jingle bell and a twine bow to finish :-)

The DT have made some gorgeous cards for you to see so hop on over to the ABC Christmas Challenge to see them and also check out the winners and top 3 from the Icy Inspiration Challenge

Challenges :

Stella Says Sketch ,,,, Sketch

Stamps & Fun = Creativity ,,,, Song,,, Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

Simon Says ,,,,, Clean and Simple

Thanks for all your super sweet entries last week , all those yummy cupcakes and choccy cards made my tummy rumble !! :-)

This week we have another great challenge for you......

CLEAN & SIMPLE!!!

sp please no fussy and fancy creations this week :-)

This week we are showcasing LA LA LAND and LAWN FAWN stamps! LOTS of amazing stamps and stamp sets to choose from! PLEASE check out the huge selection at Simon Says Stamp Superstore!!!

Of course you don't HAVE to use LA LA LAND or LAWN FAWN stamps to join in but if you have them we would love to see them used :-)

And of course, Heidi will be giving away a $50 voucher to shop at the FABULOUS Simon Says Stamp Superstore!!!!

For my card I used several sets of Lawn Fawn stamps ,I recently bought the fab Chevron Backdrops set and that was my starting point and I thought they would look rather good as snow slopes ! Christmas card it is then !!

I used a Hero Arts Notecard for the base and some plain blue card for layering. I stamped the chevron design with Versamark ink and embossed with Hero Arts White EP. I was going to ink a little with distress inks but decided that I quite liked it plain white ,, not so sure now tho ,, anyways ,, I had stamped it on a slope and made 2 pieces to create snow drifts . The starry background was made using a Teeny Tiny Backdrops set and some blue colorbox chalk ink and the big star was made using a My Favorite Things Stacking Stars die and some white glitter. The image is Winter Bunny ,,, he is having a lot of fun eh !! sooo cute ,, do you know he is only $3.99 !! what a bargain !! I coloured with copics ,, not much ink used there ,,, :-) The sentiment is from a Critters in the Snow set and I added a little star gem on the tag. Of course no card is complete without me trusty Star Dust Stickles so I added a few spots onto the stars and along the icy edges of the slopes ,, ta da ,, easy peasy CAS ! :-)

I took loads of photo's of this but it was really hard to capture the embossing and sparkle ,, :-(

Thanks for looking, Dora and the DT have made some gorgeous cards for you to see so hop on over to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge to see them :-)

Challenges :

Lawnscaping ,,, Clean and Simple

Totally Stampalicious ,,, CAS

Pan Pastel UK ,, Sports

Pile It On ,, CAS

Craft Your Days Away,, All Creatures Great and Small

Jingle Belles ,,, Christmas + embossing

Top Tip Tuesday ,,, CAS ( thanks Samantha )

Neenah White	ATG Gun	Pop Dots	Star Dust Stickles
Copic Markers	prisma glitter	stacking stars	critters in the snow
chevreon backdrops	teeny tiny backdrops	winter bunny

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Papertake Weekly ,,,, In the Garden :-)

Good morning :-) I hope all is well with you all and you’re looking forward to a new theme on the Papertake Weekly Challenge :-)

This week we are all getting ready to enjoy the summer and clear away the weeds, get the bedding plants in ,,,,rabbits ,,,, :-)

IN THE GARDEN :-)

For my card I followed the fab layout on the Sweet Sketch Challenge and used this lovely Garden Bunnies image from the Wild Rose Studio. I coloured with copics and added star dust stickles here and there :-) The papers are Vintage Rose, also from the WRS and I inked the edges with various distress inks, Stormy Sky, Broken China and Victorian Velvet. I used a lovely Marianne Designs border die and threaded some pink vintage tape from The Ribbon Girl through the holes and added a bow, flower and Heart Swirl die cut. The flower arrangement is a mix of Prima, WOC and flowers sent from my buddy Kate, thanks Kate xx :-) I finished with a Martha Stewart punched butterfly, coloured with my copic air brush and a few gems added to the body.

We are sponsored by the lovely Jodie at Bugaboo Stamps so a fab choice of 7 digi images on offer for one lucky entrant :-)

Thanks for looking :-) our lovely GD’s Hazel, Jane and the DT have made some gorgeous cards so hop on over to the PTW to see them :-)

Challenges :

Bunny Zoe Crafts ,,,,, Anything goes

Ooh, La La Creations ,,, Ribbon or Twine or both

Paper Creations Ink ,,, In the Garden

The Crazy Challenge ,,, Outside

Love to Create ,,,, Bingo ,, Ribbon, Punches, Flowers

The Squirrel and the Fox ,,, One for the Girls

Crafty Emma ,,,, Anything Goes ,,, last challenge

Alphabet ,,, G for Garden

Fussy and Fancy ,,, Butterflies, Ribbon and Punches

Glitter Geeks ,,, Wings and Things

Totally Papercrafts ,,,, No Pesky Girls Allowed :-)

Hi all :-) the weekend is almost here and its time for a new theme over on the Totally Papercrafts Challenge :-)

This week it is thew very lovely Susan’s turn to host and she chose ,,

NO PESKY GIRLS ALLOWED :-)

Susan hates doing pink and girly cards ( me too actually !! ) so this is just up our street :-)

For my card I used my lovely new digi image from Sassy Cheryl, thanks Scoopy xx

I coloured him with copics and added star dust stickles here and there. The papers are a free download from Papercraft Inspirations, I have had these on my comp for ages and completely forgot about them ! Luckily I saw them cos I think they are perfect with this image :-) I stitched all the edges and made a daisy using a die cut and popped a card candi in the middle. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons and I added a LOTV sentiment and a couple of Martha Stewart ladybird stickers that I have had for yonks ,,, one of them has caught the glare so its not very visible but the larger one is covering up the stitching join :-)

Now for the close up ,, isn't he CUTE !! Love 'im ,,, he looks just like Sean did a few short years ago ,,,,, :-) I dressed him in Sean's fave colours,,, red and green :-)

This weeks fabulous sponsor is Alota Rubber Stamps !! :-)

and one lucky entrant will win this fabulous prize !! :-)

Thanks for looking :-) The DT have made some gorgeous cards for you to see so hop on over to the TPC to see them :-)

Challenges

Sassy Cheryl’s ,,, A Stitch in Time

Divas by Design ,, for boys

Crafty Cardmakers ,,, For the Boys

Digi Makeover ,,, May Flowers

Daisy Doodles Creative ,,, May Flowers

Come and Get It ,,, Masculine

Here Come the Boys ,,, Hobbies,,,, horticulture :-)