Down in the Garden ...

Welcome to a new challenge but before we get onto that we have a couple of winners to announce.  Thank you ever so much for sharing your gorgeous creations with us for the "So Sweet" challenge but sadly there can only be one winner of the £15 Joanna Sheen voucher and drum roll please, 

the winner is

134 - Sasha

Congratulations!  Please email Paula

cheeky_monkey_24@hotmail.com to claim your prize.

Now onto our Top 3 chosen by Sue

Wendy

Anne Gro

Lin Monika

 

Congratulations to you all!!  

Please grab your badge from our sidebar and display it with pride!

 And finally, our next guest designer also
chosen by Sue will be :

Natalie

Well done Natalie 

Please email Paula

cheeky_monkey_24@hotmail.com 

to get info for the next challenge and your GDT badge.

Onto the new challenge well we are 

'Down in the Garden' so you could do
animals found in the garden, flowers or even fairies
whatever fits the challenge.

The talented design team have produced some fabulous inspiration once again for you.

Natalie

Jane

Paula

Sandie

Sue

Guest Designer Pauline

If you want to be our next Guest Designer then please don't forget to add GDT next to your name!  

Please add the URL of your blog post (not your whole blog) to the Linky in order to enter!  This challenge will finish on Thursday 11th October and a new challenge will start Sunday 14th October.

So get 'Down the Garden' and create some

fabulous cards for us!

Happy Crafting x

Blog candy

Hiya everyone, 

Up for grabs this week is this Just for Joanna clear stamp set - "Travellers Joy" which is fab for all kinds of projects from vintage to steampunk.

As usual, to be in with a chance of winning you just need to be a follower of this blog and add a comment to this post.  Our weekly candy is open to anybody, anywhere in the world and even to those people without a blog of their own.   We'd very much appreciate you to pop a piccie of our candy on your blog but you don't have to.

This candy will run from Saturday 29th September till thursday 4th October @ 8pm.  A winner will be announced on friday 5th October.

Thanks for looking! 

Daily talent spot

Hiya everyone,

Todays featured card is the last from our "So sweet" challenge as we have a brand new challenge starting tomorrow!  This pretty gatefold easel card made by

Mags

from her Magagi's Crafty bits blog

I love the pretty pink papers and the fab image - it's also really great to see a different style of card.  To see more of Mags' cards you can visit her blog here.

Thanks for looking!

Blog candy winner

Hiya Everyone, 

Well, next week is going to be an exciting week for you all as we have a brand new challenge starting on sunday and we also have a week long Autumn blog hop starting on monday and we have some SUPER DUPER prizes up for grabs as well as some fab inspiration for you all! 

Anyhoo, back to the winner of last weeks fab Little Suzi's Zoo "singing in the rain" stamp set which is 

Yvonne B

Congratulations Yvonne!  Please e-mail me on cheeky_monkey_24@hotmail.com to claim your prize!

Be sure to check back tomorrow for new candy, sunday for the new challenge and monday for our Blog Hop!!!

Daily talent spot

Hiya everyone,

Todays featured card is this ever-so-sweet easel card made by

Rina

from her Scrapbook fashionista Designs blog

I love the cute image and pink and green together is one of my favourite colour combinations.  Such lovely embellishments too!  To see more of Rina's card you can visit her blog here.

Thanks for looking!

Daily talent spot

Hiya everyone,

Todays featured card is this gorgeous shaped card made by

Lin Monika

from her LinM's scrappekrok blog

I love the fab shape and all the pretty details on it - it really is ever so sweet!  To see more of Lin's cards you can visit her blog here.

Thanks for looking!

Daily talent spot

Hiya everyone,

Todays featured card is this gorgeous LOTV card made by

Pauline

from her Passion for papercraft blog

I love the image and the lovely choice of pretty papers and embellishments.  To see more of Pauline's cards you can visit her blog here.

Thanks for looking!

Daily talent spot

Hiya everyone,

Before I get to todays featured card I just wanted to thank you all for all the fab feedback you have been giving us regarding our 12 shortlisted DT members as we need to whittle them down further which is not going to be an easy task.  I really wish that we could take on each an every one of them but I'm afraid that just isn't possible.  For anybody that missed the post with all their fab creations made using the Jane Shasky "From the heart of the garden" CD Rom, you can go here.  We are keeping the post open for comments for 1 week only before we will gather all the info and then make our decision.

Anyhoo, the spotlighted card today from our current "So sweet" challenge is this gorgeous lilac and green one made by

Faith

from her Daffodil cards blog

I love the pretty papers and that cute image really is ever so sweet!  To see more of Faith's cards you can visit her blog here!

Thanks for looking!

The 12 shortlisted DT Call!!!

Hiya everyone, 

As you may know we had a DT call a few weeks ago and there were lots of talented entries so I would just like to thank each and every one of you for putting yourselves forward.  It was great fun taking a look round all the different blogs and seeing all your crafty makes!

It has been a very difficult few weeks trying to whittle all the entries down but I finally managed to get down to a final 12.  To makes things a little bit different I gave the final 12 a project to do to get a good idea of their versatility and creativity using a decoupage image and papers from the Jane Shasky "From the heart of the garden" 2 CD Rom set.  

 

 As part of the DT challenge we often get sent items to make a project with that is out of our comfort zone so I had to be sure that any new DT members will come up trumps with whatever they get sent.  A lot of entries were very much only into stamping and colouring but we needed people to show creative flair using everything from stamps to CD's to decoupage sheets.  

Can I just say that I was completely blown away by both the standard and creativeness of all 12 entries - they really have excelled themselves and I think you will agree that whittling them down further will not be easy.

As I said before in previous posts - we are NOT holding a vote but we do value your feedback on who you would like to see join our fab Design Team.  I will keep the comments section open for the following week and we will base our decision on our all the feedback left.  

The final 12 projects 

(In no particular order) - Please click on the name to be taken to their blog

Kate

Kim

Jayne

Tracy

Lorraine

Wendy

 

 Laura

Louise

Fi

Natalie

 Suzanne

 Lexie

I'm sure you'll agree that there are some fab projects - don't forget to have a nosey at their other designs on their blogs!

Thanks for looking!