Week 144 - Spread your Wings

A very warm welcome to another new challenge her at Allsorts and this week it's me B, inviting you to join in with the theme:

Spread your Wings

I just love my fantasy and flutterbys and am really looking forward to seeing what you all come up with, it could be fairies, birds, flutterbys or anything else with wings, the choice is yours. Just remember that the winged image must be the focal point of your work, not just an an added element or embellishment.

This week we have 2 sponsors our '1st challenge of the month' sponsor Digistamp Boutique

the winner will recieve 6 images of their choice and if you use a digistamp boutique image you can enter your card twice into Mr Linky

And we are thrilled to welcome another of our regular sponsors 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 I am please to tell you that Mel from Crimson Cloud has joined us as our Guest Designer again and has created this fabulous card to share with you all, just check out all those fabby nestie element which are all available from their store..................

Mel

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Jo

 
Nicola

From all of us here at Allsorts, thanks for joining in and have a good weekend.

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Word Verification

I'm sure those of you who are regular bloggers will have come up against the new style Word Verification, which frankly is an absolute pain to read, often requiring several attempts to get the correct letters and you will know it means it takes much longer to get round your favourite blogs.

So imagine how hard it has become for those of us on Design Teams, as it means we don't always get to some of you because the time we set aside for commenting is wasted faffing about with Word Verification when we should be moving on to the next entry. So in future, much as we love visiting you all, we will no longer leave comments on blogs using word verification.  

If you are concerned about spam or unwanted comments, then comment moderation will allow you to  protect your blog, having Word Verification in place will not do so. It's easy to switch off, but rather than go  over it again I suggest you go check out this excellent post on Ashley's blog. My thanks to Ashley for allowing me to link to her.

We are always happy to hear your views, so please do leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

Week 143 It's your choice

Good morning Emma here Week 143 here at Allsorts, my arnt the weeks flying by this year almost in March already!!

There were some amazing entries last week for our ongoing anything goes theme for February dont forget to keep an eye out for the winner of last weeks challenge and the top 5

This week again 'anything goes' and we have two fab prizes

$10.00 Store Gift Certificate

and

Love to Stamp

$15.00 Voucher


We cant wait to see your entries this week and don't forget any type of crafter can enter Allsorts challenges whether your craft is knitting, crocheting, crossstitching, dressmaking, altered art , painting or papercrafting we would love to see your creations

Here are the DT Samples for this week please pop by and show them some crafty love :)

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Jo

Nicola

Have fun guys this is the last free and easy challenge for February cant wait to see what you come up with

Wk 142 ~ Winner and Top 5

Happy weekend everyone.

Fleur here with this weeks winner & Top 5

Firstly a massive THANKS for all your gorgeous entries,

Just over 550, my goodness what beauties too.

The DT try really hard to get round to all of you, 

but sometimes life just gets in the way,

 making it impossible for us to visit each and every one of you.

So huge appologies if we couldn't make it this time.

Anyway without further ado!

There can only be one winner and this week thats............

#545 Dannii

Congratulations, please contact me at

 darrenandfleur@aol.com

to arrange your prize

Now onto the TOP 5 

and what a difficult decision that was

thanks to my teamies for their suggestions too!

In no particular order

Lou

Anne-Marie

 Lisa

with 2 entries (couldn't decide which I liked best)

Debs

Bea

Well done girls

grab your badge & wear with pride.

Don't forget Emma will be back later to host our next 

challenge and with information of this weeks prize

Bye for now 

BIG HUGZ

Week 142 Anything Goes

Good Morning everyone.
Fleur here with another challenge,
First a big thank you for all your gorgeous entries last week
and Sorry that Mr Linky was playing hard to get.
Hopefully he behaves himself this week.

We have another easy one for you this week

ANYTHING GOES

Our sponsor this week is

They are offering one lucky winner 4 images of their choice

Guest Designer Ruth from

 A Passion for Stamps

Brenda

Debs

Emma

Fleur

Helene

Jo

Nicola

Mr Linky problems

I know some people are having problems adding their entry to Mr Linky this week and I apologise for the delay in acknowledging your messages, but I am having mega computer problems myself and even the simplest post or comment is taking an hour or so.............that's why I've not been able to get to visit any of you so far I'm afraid.

I have been in contact with Mr Linky and there does not seem to be any obvious problem and both the Linky's I have active on other challenges are working fine, it just seems to be here at Allsorts where there is a problem. This is what Mr Linky suggests for those people having trouble linking:

I'm sorry to hear you've had trouble with the widget! but I hope we can figure out what's going on. I'm not aware of any trouble with the system itself. 

there are two other possibilities that I can think of. one is that the visitor has entered their site url and the widget server is having trouble connecting to that site to retrieve the list of pictures. the second possibility is the picture itself, whether it comes from their site or is uploaded from their computer, that the server might not have been able to understand its format or something like that. 

unfortunately we would need for someone to report which option they had chosen for choosing their picture, the site option or the upload option, and which picture they had selected or uploaded. if you have that information from any of your visitors, I'd love to pursue this further and try to get to the bottom of it.

Best regards,
Mister Linky

I always find the guys at Mr Linky really helpful, so would urge those of you experiencing the problem to drop them a mail. Here is their main addy: http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/ and if you select support and file a ticker ensuring you give them Allsorts link I am sure they will do what they can to help.