Tracy's crafting passions

Good morning crafters, time for our mid month inspirational post and over the next few months will be doing something a little bit different and inviting our DT's to answer a few questions about their personal crafting..........a bit like being a fly on the wall in their craft room.

This month Tracy is in the spotlight and has created a fabulous piece of artwork....................

And here's what she has to tell us about herself and her crafting......................

Q) When did your love of stamping begin?

About three and a half years ago, when I found blogland and saw all the beautiful cards.  I had just started scrapbooking then, but loved all the cards, so thought I'd give it a go. Bought a couple of stamps and loved the fact I didn't need to be an artist to produce something decent by my own hand

Q) What do you enjoy most about it?

"I love the colouring and how the stamp comes to life as you colour it"

Q) What is your favourite make of stamp ?

"Oh anyone reading this will know my answer - House Mouse and Penny Black"

Q) What is your most used stamp/product and why?

"A set of Dovecraft Sentiments, I use them all the time, in fact I used them on this card.  It's a large set and covers a lot of celebrations and names"

Q) What colours to you most enjoy working with ?

"Pastel and vintage colours"

Q) What inspires your designs?

"I think animals and nature are my biggest inspiration. I always start with the image and imagine the colours, then match papers and embellies. And I suppose Blogland is a huge part of it too"

Thanks so much for sharing that with us Tracy.

Next and because I forgot earlier in the month, here at last are two winners of our 1000 followers candy.

Sheetal

and

Maria

(I couldn't find a link to any blog on your profile, so please do mail me with your details so I can add them)

Congratulations to you both, please mail me with your full postal addy's.

Our January 'Friendship' challenge is proving popular and if you're not already entered hope you will do so and don't forget you can enter up to 3 times and can combine with our challenges of your choice.

January challenge

A very good morning to all our crafty friends, I hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year and are all raring to go with our new challenge and to kick start January we have a theme selected by Tracy which is.................

********Friendship********

As always you can create whatever you like, enter three times and combine with other challenges.

We have another fabulous sponsor this month Stix2 who are offering our lucky winner a bumper pack of crafting essentials, they are things that we all need in our everyday crafting and this little collection is going to keep you going for ages. Do spend a few minutes checking out their website here, I can tell you from personal experience their speed of delivery is fabulous.

Now you for some inspiration from the design team who as always have come up with a diverse collection of inspiration, first up is Jane who won our challenge last month and is joining us as a guest designer for January.........

Jane

Brenda

Francesca

Lynne

Pinky

Sally

Tracy

Good luck to you all from myself and the design team and we look forward to visiting all your entries.

Note added: Our 100 follower candy is still open (hands up because I actually forgot earlier) we have just reached our goal but will let it run for a few more days to give everyone a chance of winning. All you need to is leave a comment.

December winners

Good Morning to you all, I bet you thought I had forgotten all about this months winner and top 3, truth is I nearly did, I'm really not sure where my week has gone.

So I will get straight into it and firstly thank you all for your wonderful TreeMendous entries which judging from the lovely work we have seen you enjoyed it as much as the DT did. 

Our lucky winner of the fabulous collection of stamps from Visible Image is..........................

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Nancy

Huge congratulations Nancy, please mail me with your full postal addy so I can arrange to get your prize posted off to you and don't forget to pick up our winners logo from the sidebar.

And our Top 3 for December are.......................

Lisa Jane

Christine

Katie

Congratulations to all three of you, well deserved credit for your lovely work, please grab our Top 3 logo.

I will be back on Sunday with our new challenge and another fabulous prize.