Week 643 🌳🌺Anything Goes with Option of Nature

Hello everyone and welcome to a new theme here at Allsorts challenge! Ellie here today, it's my turn to host and I hope to see many of you playing along with us this week for your chance to win one of the two prizes we're giving away! Don't forget to check the post below - if you haven't already - to see if you were last week's winner or one of the top 5!

This week our theme is...............................

                                                   Anything Goes with Option of Nature.

Our first prize comes from Chocolate Baroque and is the beautiful Harmony Tree:

Chocolate Baroque is a small independent art and craft company, based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England and is owned and run by Lesley and David Wharton. 

We design our own range of natural rubber art stamps from hand drawn originals, complemented by typography from Lesley.  The rubber stamps are made in house, by David, to our very exacting quality standards. And nothing gets past his eagle eye!

Our second prize comes from Ruth Hamilton Designs and is winners choice of three images.

Ruth Hamilton Design: I have enjoyed crafting all my life and have been involved in the craft industry for several years. I started drawing images to use on cards for my own use and then went on to design some stamps for a well known craft company.I am an avid lover of nature so most of my drawings are of flowers, birds and animals. Even when I can’t travel I love spending time in the garden, growing plants and looking after them. 

And here are the wonderful design team creations, each one inspired by nature. As always you can find out more about each creation by clicking on the names above the cards.

Our Resident Guest Designer Ruth has used her Pansy image on her inspirational card, thank you Ruth.

Brenda

Using Chocolate Baroque Orchard Design a Tree, Glorious Spring and Essence of Nature

Using Ruth Hamilton Design Montana Clematis

Ellie

Lolo

Using Chocolate Baroque Autumn Poppy

Lorraine 

Lynn

Using Chocolate Baroque Winter Birds

Using Ruth Hamilton Design Cosmos

Mervi

Using Chocolate Baroque Christmas Circles

Tracy Mouse

Using Chocolate Baroque Majestic Crane

Wendy

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Animals and Creatures winner and Top 5

Afternoon all, popping in to announce our winner of the £15 voucher and thank you for your lovely entries.

Stamp Addicts is a family run business based in Bedfordshire and have been in business since 1992. We have watched the popularity of rubber stamping and all papercrafts steadily increase over time and now manufacture our own branded rubber stamps which frequently feature on Hochanda TV as well as craft shows across the UK.

The lucky winner is......

Entry no 10 is Lynne in NI (claimed)

Well done Lynne, please mail me from the link on the sidebar by Thursday 30th September with your full name and postal address so I can arrange for you to receive your voucher.

Now for my Top 5 in order of entry......

No 37 Thera

No 57 Liz

No 64 Poydan

No 66 Gerrina

No 81 Kitty

Ellie will be along tomorrow with a new challenge so please do pop back then.

Week 642 🐕🐝🦓 Any 'Real' animal or creature

Good morning, Brenda here with our new theme and my choice is......

******Any REAL animal or creature******

That gives a pretty wide choice, wild and domestic animals, flying insects and birds to mention a few, but no teddy bears and fictional creatures such as Unicorns and Dragons which will not be eligible for the prize!

Our sponsor this week is Stamp Addicts offering a £15 store voucher......

Stamp Addicts is a family run business based in Bedfordshire and have been in business since 1992. We have watched the popularity of rubber stamping and all papercrafts steadily increase over time and now manufacture our own branded rubber stamps which frequently feature on Hochanda TV as well as craft shows across the UK.

Some wonderful inspiration from the Design Team as always, thank you girls......

Brenda

Using Stamp Addicts Funky Fish and Seaweed

Using Stamp Addicts Feline Family

Ellie

Lolo

Lorraine 

Lynn

Mervi

Tracy Mouse

Wendy

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A Challenge for Kath winners and Top 5

Good afternoon everyone, we have had a really fabulous week remembering our crafty friend Kath, some really beautiful entries.

Kath was the Queen on paper piecing and I know she would have been absolutely thrilled that so many of you went that extra step to use the technique on your work. Kath's family have been looking at the entries and it has meant a lot to them reading all the lovely comments about her. It was a special week for us all and we thank you so much for helping us remember her through her love of craft.

Now onto our winner and Top 5, there are quite a few prizes, several thanks to the generosity of crafting friends of Kath, something I am sure she would have been very humbled by. I am not listing out the names against actual prizes, it will be very much a lucky dip as I work my way through them.

Entry No 33 is Pauline

Entry No 48 is Sarn

Entry No 3 is Alice

Entry No 21 is Marjut

Entry No 55 is Pam

Entry No 62 is Valerija

No 63 is Tina

Entry No 43 is Lorraine

Please all mail me by Thursday 23rd September to claim your prize.

Now for my Top 5, an extremely difficult task as every single entry was fabulous......

No 21 Marjut

No 32 Sona

No 37 Lynne

No 39 Mari

No 47 Elly

Well done everyone and again our thanks for making this weeks challenge special.

We will see you all again tomorrow for our new challenge.

Week 641 🌺 A Challenge for Kath

Good morning everyone, Brenda here with this weeks challenge which is a rather special one and we are hoping lots of you will join us in remembering our DT Kath and celebrating her style of craft.

Kath had chosen the theme for this week months ago, she was always so organised and would choose themes and prepare her work weeks and sometimes months in advance. The them she had chosen was Favourite Stamps, so we are sticking with that and adding an option to include her love of paper piecing and flowers, something all who knew her associated with her pretty creations......

****Favourite Stamps with the option of Paper Pieced Flowers****

We have several prizes, the first a floral Woodware stamp from Craft Stash, one of Kath's favourite places to shop.

Next a winners choice of four digital images from Ruth Hamilton Design

A £12 voucher for digital images from the winners choice of store. It has been been kindly donated by one of Kath's crafting friends, she did not want to be named but wants to help make this a special challenge, thank you for your kindness.

  

Canary Bird Rose was Kath's favourite Chocolate Baroque stamp, this will be for a winner who follows the Paper Pieced Flowers option.

Kath loved her DP's so there had to be some for a prize, this is an 8x8 pad. Kath was an avid 'collector' of it and always vowing not to buy more, but we all know that story!

Another prize also donated by a friend of Kath's who also wished to remain anonymous, our thanks to you for being so thoughtful.

And yet another prize of a set of SU stamps called 'Happiest of Days', again from a friend of Kath's, you crafters really as all so very kind and Kath would have been so taken back to realise how much she meant to so many of us.

The prizes keep coming, I am overwhelmed by peoples kindness and I know Kath would have been as well, another of her friends would like to send some ribbons to another winner.

Ruth our Resident Guest Designer and one of this weeks sponsors joins us again with a pretty card using her Cosmos.

And here is the inspiration from our lovely Design Team. Kath had a particular love of Woodware, Penny Black and Chocolate Baroque stamps, especially florals and the team have incorporated those into their creations so beautifully this week, I know Kath would have been very appreciative of the time and love put into each of them......

Brenda

Both paper pieced using Canary Bird Rose and Life is so Much Better

Ellie

Lolo

Lorraine

Lynn

Penny Black Whispers

Mervi

Tracy Mouse

Wendy

Penny Black 3602K Dotted Petals

Myself and the Design Team are looking forward to visiting all your entries and send our thanks in advance to everyone who joins in.

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