Allsorts challenge blog

Sunday, 18 October 2015

Week 333 - All Sentimental

Morning, Helene here to guide you through this week's challenge. But first of all:

We are thrilled to announce that we have a new Design Team member and hope you will join us in giving a big welcome to Kevin. Many of you will know Kevin and I am sure he is going to fit into the team a treat and we are so happy to have him on board.

He made a grand start and the whole design team has made fantastic projects for this week's theme which is All sentimental. Use a sentiment on your project, as a focal point or as a catching part of your creation. We have two sponsors this week:

and

Marianne Design is a Dutch owned craft manufacturer. The company was established in 1994 by Marianne Perlot and is based in the Netherlands. For years now, we develop all our products with much care and quality. We have a practical understanding of the needs of crafters, we integrate product development, design and customer service to bring fresh ideas and beautiful products to the craft industry. All to enable the consumer to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other projects and enjoy this wonderful hobby. We produce a wide range of products which represent a complete concept of paper crafts. There are different lines of stamps and dies with matching papers and materials to decorate your card or scrap. Products are chosen carefully for mixing and matching and stimulating creativity.

And also we have another pair of tickets for next months NEC Hobbycraft show to give away...........

And here are the DT contributions to get you going:

Brenda

Helene

Julie
Using Butterfly friend

Kath

Kevin
Using Marianne LR0351

Mervi

Susan

Tracy
Using H is for Happy Birthday by sponsor

Tracy Mouse

Wendy

Using Marianne LR0206 and LR0200

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday, 10 October 2015

Week 332 - No design papers

Good morning everyone, Brenda here with our new challenge and a big thank you for all your lovely entries to Tracy's Nature theme last week, do be sure to check out the winners post below.

This weeks theme is.....................

********No design papers********

I know that so many of us love our pretty papers but sometimes it's nice to create or own background papers or even use none at all, so this week we are looking forward to seeing your take on the theme.

Two prizes to be won this week, the first from Deedees Digis................

Deedee's Digis offers wholesome digital "stamps" and printable digital papers that are the original creations of Deedee Anderson. All of our sets include both outline and pre-colored images, in both JPG and PNG formats. Our products are offered in high 300dpi resolution so that they are fully resizable to meet your crafting needs. We are a Christ-centered company, and you will find that many of our sets include KJV Scripture verses, in addition to encouraging sentiments of all sorts. We feel very blessed to be part of such a talented community of paper crafters, and thank you for allowing us to sponsor your challenges !

And also we have another pair of tickets for next months NEC Hobbycraft show to give away...........

And here is some inspiration from the design team and also one from Deedees Digis, thank you all for your lovely work girls.............

This one has been made by Faith from our sponsors DT using Thinking Spot.....................

Brenda

Helene

using Baked with love from sponsor

Julie

Kath

Mervi
Using Deedee's digis: Classics

Susan

Tracy

Tracy Mouse

Wendy
Used a Deedee design

Now it's over to you, I hope you have fun with this weeks theme.

An InLinkz Link-up

Friday, 9 October 2015

Nature winners

Good evening to you all.

What a super week it has been for Tracy's Nature theme, you really did embrace the theme and we visited some stunning entries, our thanks to you all. So without further ado here are this weeks winner as selected by Random Org..................

Winners links removed to comply with GDPR

The voucher from Whimsy stamps is......................

Karen

And the winner of the voucher from DigiStamp Boutique is.................

Majtolina

Congratulations, please mail me so I can arrange your prizes.

Now for our Top 5 in no particular order...........

Dora

Carol

Viv

Meg

Gerrina

Well done to you all, please collect our Top 5 badge to display on your won blogs.

Be sure to check back tomorrow when I will be back with a new challenge for you.

Saturday, 3 October 2015

Week 331 - Nature

Hi All

Welcome to another Saturday at Allsorts, please do check the winner and top five post from Wendy's challenge.

This week its me (Tracy) hosting you and I am setting the theme of "NATURE", plenty of scope for you with this theme.

Our lovely sponsors this week are:

$15 voucher

Whimsy Stamps are a family owned art stamp company dedicated to providing crafters around the world with whimsical and fun rubber stamp designs. span style. All of our rubber stamps are made from deeply etched rubber, mounted on Cling Cushion Foam and once trimmed are ready to use with an acrylic block. Our Shapeology Metal Craftings dies are exclusive to Whimsy Stamps and can be used with many table top cutting machines. These dies are made in the USA using top quality steel. They are perfect for cutting papers and fabrics and many coordinate with our sentiment stamps. We also have our own line of 6x6 designer papers printed on high quality, slightly textured vellum paper.

£10 voucher

DigiStamp Boutique offers a wide range of digi images designed by Sally-Ann Hancock. My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too - often the inspiration for my designs. Hope you enjoy as much as I enjoy creating.

Thanks as ever to my awesome team mates for their ideas and inspiration

Brenda