Sunday, 5 October 2025

October challenge

Welcome to our October challenge where we are going totally with the season for our optional theme which is simply....

🍁👻 Autumn 🐿️🧙🏻‍♀️
or Anything Goes

How will you interpret this one we wonder, showcasing all those beautiful rich colours of the season, trees and leaves, or will you go down the Halloween route, we are looking forward to seeing them all. Please remember to be eligible you must give details/make of stamps and focal products used and of course include stamping of the front of your entry.


Our prize this month is a £25 store voucher from Personal Impressions (inc pps, winner meets costs of any additional spend). Personal Impressions is one of the UK’s leading brand managers/wholesalers/distributors in the arts and crafts industry, specialising in mixed media, papercrafts, card-making, scrapbooking and journaling. PI are proud to represent over 70 brands from global, recognisable brands to small, niche and new.


You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 3 October 2025

September winners and Top 3

Hello everyone, we've seen some super entries this month, our thanks to all who joined in, we loved seeing your creativity.

So we'll get right to the two winners of the stamp sets from Grafton Crafts who as usual were selected by Random Org., no 30 Julie and no 1 Christine.


Congratulations to you all, please mail me by Friday 10th October with your full name and postal address. Any prize unclaimed by that date will be forfeited. Winners outside the UK: Prizes are always sent as gifts, but sometimes Customs fees are added in your own Country, this is out of our control so by claiming your prize you are accepting responsibility for any fees and we cannot assist should this happen.

Onto our Top 3 and in first place we have entry no 2 Kath


Followed by....
No 13 Meg
No 16 Helen
 

Congratulations, well deserved recognition, please collect the Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

We will have a new challenge for you on Sunday so hope to see you all again then.

Thursday, 18 September 2025

CAS inspiration

Hello to you all, it's mid month and time for our inspirational post following Helen's CAS theme as well as the option of Anything Goes.

We have some lovely stamp sets for two lucky winners, remember you can join in three times and the challenge will run until Wednesday 1st October, so still plenty of time to link up with your entry/s.

As always the DT have some wonderful creations which we hope will inspire you.

Sunday, 7 September 2025

September challenge

We're back with a new challenge and this time Helen has selected the theme which is....

......CAS......
or Anything Goes

This always seems to be a theme some of us struggle with, I know I do, so if your one of those maybe now is the perfect time to give it a go, but if not there's always the Anything Goes option. 

You can enter three times but please remember we must see stamping on the front of your entry and details/make of stamps and focal products used must be included in your post to be eligible.


Two prizes of stamps from Grafton Crafts, a well stocked bricks and mortar and on line shop offering fee p&p on all orders over £15.

Just take a look at the super creations from the Design Team which we hope will inspire you to come and join us....


You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Friday, 5 September 2025

August winners and top selections

Hello to you all, it's time to announce the winners from our Birds, Bees and Butterflies challenge.

The two prizes of Lavinia Stamps go to no 52 Mari and no 72 RosiPlease note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway.

And as promised we have some surprise spot giveaways selected from all entries and these go to no 17 Nat, no 27 Marjeta 

 
Congratulations to you all, please mail me by Friday 12th September with your full name and postal address. Any prize unclaimed by that date will be forfeited. Winners outside the UK: Prizes are always sent as gifts, but sometimes Customs fees are added in your own Country, this is out of our control so by claiming your prize you are accepting responsibility for any fees and we cannot assist should this happen.

Now for our Top 3 (which this time is a Top 4) in order of DT voting and they are......

Entry no 40 Emma
No 45 Lia

And sharing joint third place we have Jose entry 5 and Susan entry 67....

Entry no 5 Jose 
Entry no 67 Susan

Congratulations all four of you, well deserved recognition, please collect our Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

We will be back on Sunday with a new challenge so hope to see you all again them.

Monday, 18 August 2025

Birds, Bees and Butterflies

Time for our regular mid month inspirational theme following Carol's 'Birds, Bees, Butterflies' theme, it can on just one of those or more and as always there is the Anything Goes option.

Remember you can join in three times and no restriction on entering other challenges and this month there's the chance to win....

Two prizes of Lavinia stamps and stencil which fit the them so nicely, (photos not to scale). (Please note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway).


The Design Team have a selection of Birds, Bees and Butterflies to inspire you....

Using Lavinia Bumble and Hum