allsorts challenge blog

One or more hearts

2012-01-28T08:37:00.003Z

This week it is my (Helene's) turn to host the challenge and I would like to see one or more heart on your project Hearts on backing papers don't count this week!

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Sally-Ann at Digistamp Boutique

Who is offering 6 images of the winners choice don't forget if you use a Digistamp boutique image you can enter your card twice with Mr Linky

Nicola

Thanks for joining us and dont forget to see if you were a winner or top 5 in our needles and pins challenge

Pins and Needles Winner and Top 5!!

2012-01-28T00:16:00.000Z

Hello Everyone,

Thank you all for the fabulous entries sent in for my 1st Challenge. I have really enjoyed seeing all your takes on the Pins and Needles theme and what amazing entries they were.  I really appreciate you all taking the time to take part.

                                              AND THE WINNER IS .....................................................

                                                      No: 68 - Melisa Waldorf

                                                     CONGRATULATIONS!!

Please contact me on lets.create@btinternet.com and we will organise this weeks prize to be sent to you.

                                          AND THE TOP 5 ARE ............................................................

                                                    No: 7 - Stephanie Hester

No:14 - Viv

No:22 - Cinni

No:55 - Anne

No:57 - Nicki Lt

Please grap the Top 5 button and be proud to display it on your blog. We are all so very grateful that you take the time to take part on the Allsorts Challenge and hope that you look out for this weeks theme from our lovely Helene.

Bye for now
Jo xxx

Week 138 - Needles and Pins

2012-01-21T07:56:00.004Z

Hi Everyone -

Thank you all for your fabulous designs on Celebration of Nations. Congratulations to our top 5! Check out the post below if you missed it, it could be you!

It's Jo today with my first Allsorts Challenge and I have chosen -

NEEDLES AND PINS

The reason why I chose this is when I was asked by Brenda to choose my themes I was colouring in some very cute House Mouse stamps and they were the Nice and Crafty sets and I thought this title would suit so many of you who are papercrafters as well as enjoying knitting, tapestry, crocheting, lace making, cross-stitching, the list is endless - oh! dont we have so much fun being a crafter!

We have two wonderful sponsors this week with two totally different prizes, first Pretty Little Ribbons who are offering the lucky winner 400 dewdrops in a selection of 8 colours.

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop is an online store providing a good selection of quality ribbon, twine, seam binding, rubber stamps, embellishments and buttons for all of your crafting needs. We aim to provide a fast, reliable and friendly service to our customers. Small orders and International customers are welcomed. We also offer a selection of special offers HERE.

Next is Digi Doodle Shop offering a $10 store voucher.

Digi Doodle Shop is the results of a mother and daughter’s love for the arts and crafts. It was started a little over 3 years ago with a little more than 100 stamps, and has since then grown to almost 500 stamps. Joy (the mother of this team) designs realistic images, while Judy (aka/daughter) loves the “fun side of life”, and create images with a cartoon flair. Having these two complimenting styles have enabled Digi Doodle Shop to offer a wide variety of stamps.

It is a real honor and pleasure to sponsor this challenge, and we look forward to seeing all the amazing creations. We thank the design team for their incredible creations, and wish all the participants the very best of luck in this challenge. Judy and Joy

These are some of the gorgeous designs that the Design Team have created. Each of the design team have their own blogs so pop over and have a look at how each one of the designs were made.

I hope that you enjoy this weeks Challenge and Good Luck! Jo x

Fleur

Nicola

Celebration of Nations Winner and Top 5

2012-01-21T07:00:00.011Z

Morning everyone, thanks so much for all your gorgeous entries over the past week, I've thoroughly enjoyed visiting such gorgeous blogs and seeing so many different interpretations of my theme!

Without further ado, random.org picked our winner to be:

#9 Esther

CONGRATULATIONS! Please email me nicolajacklinis@live.co.uk with your full address so I can arrange for your prize to be sent to you.

Next up, my Top 5 in no particular order are:

#6 Yulis

#15 Catherine

#3 Coops

#24 Ira

#11 Shelby

Congratulations ladies, feel free to grab our Top 5 badge to display on your blogs.

Thanks again to everyone, your continued support is very much appreciated, and with such gorgeous creations this week you are all winners!

That's it for now, but be sure to pop back later when Jo will be here with all the details of her challenge for the coming week!

Hugs

Week 137 - Celebration of Nations

2012-01-14T08:00:00.016Z

Hi everyone, thanks for all your amazing paper pieced creations last week and congratulations to our winner and Top 5! Check out the post below if you missed it, it could be you!!

It's Nicola here today with a new Allsorts challenge which I have chosen to be

Celebration of Nations.

This could mean a celebration of the forthcoming Olympics later this year, or you can celebrate your home country through your creations, ideally incorporating your national flag colours.
I chose this theme as blogging is truly international with no barriers and I wanted to embrace and celebrate the fact that crafting unites us all no matter where we are in the world.

Anyway, I'm getting soppy, so.....
here's what you can win:
our sponsor this week is
****
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offering one lucky winner $10 to spend in their online store!

Without further ado, here are the beautiful creations that the DT have made for your inspiration, and remember you can visit their individual blogs for details on how they made them, they would love to hear from you:

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Jo

Jo is poorly and we all wish her better very soon!

Nicola

Thanks for your continued support, have a wonderful weekend, and make sure your entry is with Mr Linky by 6pm on Friday 20th January.

Hugs

Paper Piecing winner

2012-01-14T07:00:00.026Z

Good Morning peeps, what a fabulous week it's been with some awesome paper piecing projects, thank you all for joining in, I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at them all.

So first up is the winner of the prize from Crimson Cloud.......................

Angela

Well done Anglea, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your full postal addy so your prize can be sent off to you.

And now my Top 5 for this week in no particular order..............................

Congratulations to you all, please grab our Top 5 button and wear on your blog with pride.

My thanks again to everyone for all your lovely entries this week and don't forget to pop back later to see what Nicola has up her sleeves for next week's challenge.

winner of new begginings challenge

2012-01-12T18:14:00.002Z

Hi there my most sincere apologies that this is so late!!!!

Due to technical difficulties with my internet I have been unable to get round and comment on almost half of the beautiful entries for the new beginnings challenge so for that week sadly there will be no top 5

but we do however have a winner for the Digistamp Boutique images

Random no79 Hazel (Didos)

Congratulations Hazel if you send me your email addy and your choice of six images from Digistamp boutique i'll send them to Sally-Ann

Emma xxx

Week 136 - Paper Piecing

2012-01-07T08:00:00.060Z

Good Morning peeps and a very Happy New Year to you all, it's B here with our first theme of 2012 and this week I would like to see some......................

'Paper Piecing'

Thank you all for your wonderful entries for Emma's New Beginnings last week, it was certainly a popular theme with you all. Emma's got tinternet problems at the moment and her Top 5 and winner may be a day or so late being posted so don't forget to keep and eye open for her post.

We are delighted to welcome back this weeks sponsor Crimson Cloud

"Crimson Cloud is a mother/daughter venture - a way to indulge our joint passion of cardmaking and crafting. We only sell products that we have tried, tested and love using. We have developed our own exclusive range of digital stamps, svg files and "Make Your Own Card" kits which reflect our styles of card making - and hopefully yours too!" The super prize is:

A Make Your Own Card Kit (7 elements)

And equally delighted that Mel from Crimson Cloud has joined us as our Guest Designer this week, here is her great card:

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Nicola

Have a good week everyone and thanks in advance for joining in this week and helping make Allsorts such fun for us all.

Week 135 - New beginnings

2011-12-31T08:00:00.010Z

Welcome back we hope you all had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the year ahead we had some beautiful creations for our two week long challenge from Fleur, it looked like blue and brown is a sure fire hit where colour combo's are concerned we had some truly stunning entries please check the previous post to see if you were a winner.

Ok now to this weeks challenge which is called

New Beginnings

This can be a new birth, new home, new year how ever you interperet it and his weeks sponsor is

Digistamp Boutique

the winner will recieve 6 images of their choice and dont

forget if you use a Digistamp Boutique image you can enter your card in

Mr Linky twice!!!!!

Ok heres what the DT came up with, some great inspirational peices

Brenda

Debs

E mma

Fleur

Helene

Nicola

Have a great New Years eve and we will see you all next year Lol!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

#134 Allsorts winners and top 10

2011-12-31T07:00:00.000Z

Well, where did that fortnight go???

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and got some lovely treats.

Thanks to you all who took part in my blue and brown theme,

your creations were all beautiful.

Emma will be back in a while with a fab new challenge,

but first ....

We have 3 lucky winners,

The Sir Stampalot goody bag goes to

#101 - Lovely Linda

xXx

The Pretty Little Ribbon selection goes to

#88 - Tracy Macdonald

xXx

The Love to Stamp voucher goes to

#58 - Elena

Congratulaions ladies, please contact me at darrenandfleur@aol.com

to arrange for your prize to be sorted.

xXx

Now onto our top10, this was a real hard decision

So in no particular order

xXx Click here to see image xXx

CONGRATULATIONS

and

Well deserved, Ladies

Please wear our badge with pride

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!

HUGZ

Mid Way Reminder and Merry Christmas

2011-12-24T06:37:00.004Z

Good morning. Just a quick reminder for you that our current challenge

BLUE & BROWN

will be running for another week - ends Friday 30 December at 6pm GMT

and Emma will be back bright and early (8.00 am GMT) on

NEW YEAR'S EVE

with a brand new challenge.

So for now on behalf of the

ALLSORTS TEAM

We wish you all

VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hope the Big Man in Red is good to you :o)

Week 134 - Blue and brown

2011-12-17T08:00:00.019Z

Good morning Fleur here, welcome to another challenge at ALLSORTS,

Firstly a massive Thank you for all your gorgeous entries for Brenda's "It takes two" challenge. Have you checked to see if your a winner or one of Brenda's top 5?

This will be our last challenge before Christmas and it will run for TWO weeks,

so hopefully you can find a little time, in between all the festivities, to join us.

This fortnight I would love to see anything thats predominatly.....

BLUE and BROWN

As this is a two week challenge to take us over the Christmas holiday period,

we have three fabulous sponsors.

First up is Sir Stampalot one of our regular sponsors who are offering a 'Hero goodie bag' to coincide with the release of the 2012 Hero Arts Debut Collection which Stampalot are already shipping, so you can be one of the first in the UK to get your hands on them. You will also want to keep an eye on the Specials section of their web site for their mega sale which starts on line on 24th December, it's one you won't want to miss.

xXx

And $15 voucher from Love to Stamp

xXx

Guest Designer

Sarah from Pretty Little Ribbons.................

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Nicola

That's what we did,

Why not pop over to our own blogs and have a nose around.

We love to hear from you.

and last but by all means not least

THE ALLSORTS GIRLS WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU ALL

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

BIG HUGZ

It takes Two winners

2011-12-17T07:00:00.075Z

Good Morning peeps, hope you are all OK. I was totally blown away with your fabulous entries last week and some wonderful colour combos that I would never have thought of, so the inspiration really did go two ways with last weeks challenge.

So of course I have some winners as selected by Mr Random Org., and my own Top 5, so first the winner of the images from A Passion for Stamps who can select their own choice of four images is......................

Darling Ho

And the winner of the packs of Restickable tabs from Scotch is....................

Janey

Congratulations to you both. Darling Ho, please let me have your e.mail addy and Janey, please let me have your full postal addy...................brenda@ibas.co.uk so I can sort your prizes.

And my Top 5 in no particular order are...........................

Monika

I just love the soft serene feel of this one

Karin

So elegant and makes a real statement

Anna

A wonderful mixture of textures and style

Andrea

A wonderful colour combo

Carol

So delicate and sweet

Congratulations to you all, please grab our Top 5 sidebar button and wear with pride on your own blogs.

Thank you all again for joining in and do pop back later to see what Fleur has for you for our next challenge.

Week 133- It Takes Two

2011-12-10T08:00:00.053Z

Good Morning everyone, I hope you are all OK and nearly ready for Christmas.

It's B here hosting this weeks new theme which is "It Takes Two", use only two colours on your creation this week, although you can also use white as your base colour.

Thank you all who joined in Debs theme last week with lots of you 'going round in circles', don't forget to check out her post below to see if you were a lucky winner or in her Top 5.

As we are really getting into the Christmas spirit we are spoiling you with two sponsors this week.

First up is A Passion for Stamps and the prize is the winners choice of four stamps

And second is Scotch Tapes who are giving away three packs of their new Restickable Tabs which retail at £3.32 per pack, a really practical prize at this time of the year. Here's is a bit about them:

The double-sided adhesive tabs are easy to use and ideal for sticking up your festive decorations to any surface. Scotch Restickable Tabs remove cleanly, ensuring you won’t have any marks or mess. And, because the tabs are clear, you won’t see them when used to hang your Christmas decorations, even on windows and mirrors. Best of all, when you’ve finished with them you can simply wash them with some soapy water and they’ll be sticky again and as good as new.

I am delighted to say that Ruth from A Passion for Stamps is joining us as a Guest Designer this week with this stunning creation.....................

Brenda

Using Ruth's Narcissus image

Debs

Using Ruth's Poinsettia image

Emma

Fleur

Fleur is having a week off, but hopes to be back with us next week.

Helene

Nicola

From us all at Allsorts, have a good weekend and we look forward to visiting you all.

Week 132 Winner and Top5

2011-12-10T07:00:00.000Z

Good morning. Debs here with last week's winner and Top 5

But first thanks to everyone that found some time during this busy season to join in the fun with us :o)

We had some gorgeous work to feast our eyes upon and it was not easy deciding who would make my Top 5

Luckily it was up to Mr Random.org to pick the winners and they are:

Winner of Digistamp Boutique Images

#15

and that's you

ELIZABETH

and

WINNER OF STITCHY BEAR PRIZE

#39

that's you

FIONA

Congratulations, please contact me on debs01may@talktalk.net

to arrange your prizes.

So onto my Top 5 in numerical order:

Congrats ladies. Please grab your Top 5 blinkie and display with pride.

Before I go I would also like to give the following talented young crafter a special mention

Little Mo

for this fabulous festive decoration

Well done Mo!

Thanks for popping by.

Brenda will be here very soon with another fabulous new challenge theme for you this week.

Week 132 - Going Round in Circles

2011-12-03T08:00:00.009Z

ood morning Deb's here with a new challenge for you this week.

But first - thanks to everyone that found time to join us last week for Helene's challenge - don't forget to scroll down to the previous post to see who the lucky winner was and who made Helene's Top5

It is with deep sadness that we have to announce that Jill has made the tough decison to step down from the DT due to family commitments. We will miss your gorgeous inspiration Jill but wish you all the best and look forward to seeing your work in blogland.

So onto this week and as 'The Big Day' draws ever closer it is quite possible that you (like me) are

GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES

(and getting nowhere fast lol!!!!)

So this week I would like to see your 'circular' projects.

They can of course be Christmas related or not - you decide :o)

Our sponsors this week are:

Offering 1 lucky winner 6 images of their choice
and

offering another lucky winner $10 to spend in their online store

Here's what the DT have come up with:

Helene

Nicola

I'm sure you'll agree the DT have produced some gorgeous inspiration again for you this week.

It would be great if you could pop over to their individual blogs and leave some love :o)

Please add your entry with Mr Linky below before 6pm GMT next Friday 9th December.

Thanks.

Winner and top 5 for pennants/bunting

2011-12-03T07:00:00.001Z

Winner of last weeks challenge is :

Maria M

Your prize is:

Grats, send your mail address to brenda@ibas.co.uk to claim your prize.

And the top 5 this week are:

Aline

Davi

Yulis Kartika

Lou

Wendy

Please take your well earned badge from the sidebar.

Have a fabulous weekend / Hugs Helene

Week 131 - Pennants

2011-11-26T08:00:00.009Z

Gosh, was I impressed by your one layer cards last week. It's such a struggle for me to make them and you all did a wonderful job!

This week it's my (Helenes) turn to host the challenge at Allsorts and I want you to use pennants or bunting on your projects. I bet there will be some Christmas inspired work ;)

Sponsoring this week is

And the design team came up with this for inspiration:

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Jill

Nicola

One layer card winners

2011-11-26T07:00:00.055Z

Good Morning Peeps, what fabulous one layer cards last week, thank you all for joining in the fun.

Helene will be along later to tell you all about the new challenge, so I just need to let you know who is this weeks lucky winner.....................................

Kate (scroll down because it must be your lucky week)

Well done Kate, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk so I can get your prize off to you.

And my Top 5 are, as they say on a popular TV programme "in no particular order"........................

Clare

Stunning work everyone, please grab our special logo from the sidebar and wear with pride on your blogs........... and I hope you all have a good weekend.

Week 130 - One layer card

2011-11-19T08:00:00.032Z

Good Morning peeps, B here welcoming you to another challenge here at Allsorts.

You loved Nicolas Black and White plus One theme last week and we saw some fabulous entries, what a talented lot you are. Don't forget to check if you were one of this weeks Top 5 or lucky winner.

This week we would like to see 'One Layer Cards'

An we are thrilled to welcome back Pretty Little Ribbons as this weeks sponsor with another lovely prize.......

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop is an online store offering a wide range of ribbons, twine, rubber stamps and embellishments for all of your crafting needs. This month's new arrivals are gorgeous Large Check Gingham and Polka Dot ribbons in a variety of gorgeous colours. International and small orders are always welcome.

Now for some inspiration for the Design Team, please do pop along to their individual blogs and share some love..................................

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Jill

Nicola

Have a good weekend everyone and thanks for all your continued support of Allsorts.

Black and White plus One winner and Top 5 - WK 129

2011-11-19T07:00:00.003Z

Morning everyone!

Huge thanks to all your magnificent entries for my challenge last week, my Top 5 decision was tough as ever!

I'm so glad I left Random. Org to pick the winner, who this week is

****

Number 44 - Sheri (unclaimed 1/12/redrawn)
and here is Sheri's gorgeous creation!

Congratulations Sheri, email me at nicolajacklinis@live.co.uk with your contact details and I can arrange for you to receive your Sir Stampalot prize.

Now for my Top 5, in no particular order:

#57 Maria

#14 Wendy

#73 Sarah

#30 Kami

#51 Gemma

Congratulations to you ladies on your wonderful creations, grab and display your Top 5 badge with pride!

Thanks again for your support last week and hope to see many of you back again very soon. Don't forget to check back in a little while, when Brenda will get you started on this week's fab challenge.
Love,

Week 129 - Black and White plus One

2011-11-12T08:00:00.017Z

Good Morning everyone and welcome to a fresh challenge at Allsorts hosted by me (Nicola). Firstly I would just like to thank everyone who played along with Jill's fantastic 'Anything but Square' theme last week. I can tell you all loved it as we had so many beautiful entries making Jill's Top 5 a tough decision!
This week I would love to see you create something using just

Black, White and One other colour.

As you can see some of us have used skin/hair tones too which is fine, just as long as everything else follows the set colours leaving you to choose your favourite colour to compliment the black and white.

Our fantastic sponsor this week is

Sir Stampalot are a UK based one stop craft store who offer a speedy on line shopping facility as well as having a spacious store in Peterborough which is jam packed with stamps from all the leading manufacturers along with a whole range of other crafting goodies. The 'Specials' section of the web site has just been updated with loads of special offers and there are loads of bargains to be had. Here's the prize from them, a set of three Art Impression sentiment stamps...............

Here is the inspiration that our amazing design team have for you to feast your eyes on:

Brenda

Debs

Emma

(hopes to be back with a creation next week)

Fleur

Helene

Jill

Nicola

We look forward, as always, to visiting you this week to see your wonderful creations.

Have a fabulous weekend

Love,

Winner and top 5 of my "Anything but square"-challenge

2011-11-12T07:00:00.085Z

Good morning blogland :)

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend

Wow what an amazing response at my Anything but square challenge.

You guys really made it difficult for me to choose, but I have made my desicion :)

Winner of the challenge # week 128 is picked out by Random generator

and he picked out...............

Nr. 186- Sonia

Congratulation Sonia!

You are the lucky winner of 6 digis from

Email me at : jill@vmnett.com and I will arrange for you the prize from Digistamp Boutique.

This is my top 5 for my week:

#157 Lena Katrine

#66 America

#153 Tammy Louise

#129 Lalkygirl

#47 Vicky

Congratulation ladies!!

Your work are outstanding :)

Wish you all a fantastic day!

Hugs, Jill

Week 128 - Anything but Square

2011-11-05T08:00:00.030Z

Good morning blogland!
Today at Allsorts we are having a new challenge and I hope you all are ready for it!
Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries last week for our Christmas easelcard challenge, it was a pleasure to see your work

This week it's me, Jill who is your hostess and I want to see

Anything but Square

You can make whatever you fancy, a box a card, a bookmark, a scrapbooklayout,-
as long as it is anything but square :)

This time we are sponsored by

As usual the DT have made some fabulous inspiration projects for you and here they are:

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Jill

Nicola

Looking forward to see your fabulous creations!
Have a fantastic, crafty weekend :)
Hugs, Jill

Christmas easel card challenge winner and top 5

2011-11-05T06:31:00.002Z

HI guys !!! well we had some beautiful creations last week for my easel card challenge !!

The winner of the Crimson cloud goodies is

#23 Catherine

Congratulations will you please send your snail mail details to me at Metalicbutterfly@hotmail.co.uk and ill arrange for your prize to be sent to you.

Now for my top 5 INPO

Sally J

Donna

Ellen

Jan

Rose

Congrats ladies please take the top 5 button from the sidebar and thank you all for your amazing easel cards last week

Week 127 - Christmas Easel Card

2011-10-29T08:00:00.020+01:00

Good morning !!!!

Emma here, Wow there certainly were some spooky goings on in the week with all those Halloween creations, hope Fleur didnt get too scared when she chose her top 5!

Onto this week now some of you maybe prepared and others may not be but it is officially only

56 days till christmas

So to help you guys on your way wether you are half way through your cards or just starting out, this weeks challenge is

A Christmas Easel Card

This week we are sponsored by

We cant wait to see your Christmas Easel Cards and I hope you will pop by all the DT and show them some bloggy love this week

Jo - her last week as our Guest Designer

in case you didnt see the news this week Jo is giong to be a permenant design team member :)

Week # 126 Halloween winners and top 5

2011-10-29T07:00:00.004+01:00

Wow you lot certainly know how to spook!

Thank you for your gorgeous cards.

There are 2 lucky winners this week,

so withouthout further ado, chosen by random org.

The winner of the $15 voucher from

is......

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1

Max: 198

Result: 49

Thats.....

Julia

and the winner of the $10 voucher from

is.....

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1

Max: 198

Result: 89

and that's...

Blankina

CONGRATULATIONS girls,

Please email me at

darrenandfleur@aol.com

for details of how to claim your prize.

Now for the difficult decision making!

In no particular order here's my top 5

#22 Angelique

Gorgeous cards ladies,
grab our top 5 badge and wear with pride.

Our lovely Emma will be dropping by in a bit with a brand new challenge for you.

BIG HUGZ

An exciting anouncement

2011-10-25T08:00:00.001+01:00

We are mega excited to tell you that we have a new DT member joining us.................Jo Channon.

As well as being our Guest Designer during October, lots of you will know Jo from her regular spots on Create and Craft and just last week she announced that she is going to be working for Joanna Sheen...................is that a dynamic duo or what to feast our screens.

I'll be totally honest that when Jo told me that news I thought there was no way I was going to persuade her to join our DT, but thought if you don't ask you don't know, so you can imagine just how excited I was when she said yes.

So please join myself and the whole Design Team in welcoming Jo to Allsorts on a permanent basis.

You can visit Jo's blog Lets Create here or from the link on the sidebar.

Week 126 - Halloween

2011-10-22T08:00:00.015+01:00

Hello everyone, I'm just hijacking Fleur's post to share some news, we are sooooooo sorry to tell you that Amanda has decided to step down from the team. She recently moved and much as she loves her new house, it's a lot larger than her last ones so lots more housework and demands on her time, so she feels it's time to take a break from crafting.

Amanda has been with us right from the start and we want to say a huge thank you to her for helping us get Allsorts securely on the challenge map. I know we will still see her about in blogland but want to wish her and her family every happiness in their new house. Over to Fleur now who will tell you all about this weeks challenge.

Hi Fleur here, Thanks B. We'll all be sad to see her go.

Thanks for your gorgeous lavender and lace entries, there were some truly stunning creations.

This week I've chosen the theme and as it's halloween shortly I'd like to see.....

Halloween Projects

We have two fantastic sponsors this week...

Are giving one lucky winner a $15 voucher for their online shop!

AND

are offering another lucky winner a $10 voucher to spend in their online store.

Jo our October Guest Designer
is back with another fabulous card.........

Jill

We look forward to seeing your creations,

Don't forget to pop over to the DT's own blogs to see more of their fab work

BIG HUGZ

Week 152 Winner and Top 5

2011-10-22T07:00:00.007+01:00

Goodness me this week seems to have flown by and I only realised just in time that I needed to ask Mr Random Org., to select a winner and for me to choose my Top 5 which was as always a really tough task as I loved every one of your entries.

So here we go, this weeks winner who will receive their choice of four images from A Passion for Stamps is............

No 41 Lisa Jane (must really be your lucky week)

Congratulations Lisa, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with so I can pass it on to Ruth who will contact you direct about getting your images.

And my Top 5, in no particular Order as Brucie and Tess would say are..................

Melodie

So elegant with the black lace and contrasts

Judy

I just fell in love with this image and her pantaloons

Lisa Jane

I'm always a sucker for Vintage and adore the embellies

Daniele

What a darling little fairy and pretty backing

Tracey

Such a soft floaty feel, totally lends itself to lilac

Week 125 Lavender and Lace

2011-10-15T08:00:00.030+01:00

A very Good Morning to you all, it's B here with a new challenge for you.

But before I tell you about that, wow oh wow, did you love Debs Bear with Us theme last week, some fabulous entries and I am so pleased the task of selecting her winners did not fall on me. Make sure you check Debs post to see if you were one of the lucky ones selected.

So on to this weeks theme which is Lavender and Lace. As always you can make whatever you like, all I ask is that there is some lace and of course the main colour is lilac.

I am pleased to welcome Ruth from A Passion for Stamps as this weeks sponsor and she will be giving the winner four images of your choice as this weeks prize. Here is a little bit about her........

“My name is Ruth and I live in Northern Ireland with my husband and two grown up sons.I started drawing my own images for my cards a couple of years ago and A Passion for Stamps was born! Since then I have got a great Design Team on board making beautiful cards using my images. I draw a wide range of images including florals, animals, birds, cute, male etc and love to use punches to complement them. Please pay us a visit and if there is something you'd really like drawn, feel free to drop me a line."

And here is the lovely card Ruth has created for us this week................

And another beauty from Jo Channon...........

Amanda

Brenda

Using Ruth's Cosmos flower

Debs

Using Ruth's Butterfly 2 image

Using Ruth's Orchid image

Have a good week everyone and the DT are all looking forward to visiting you this week to see what fabulous creations you have come up with.