Challenge Guidelines

You may combine your entry with a maximum of 6 challenges including ours.
Please link your entry not just your blog. You must mention Stampalot Challenge and link back to us from your post.
No backlinking - i.e. work posted prior to the date of the challenge.
You may enter a challenge more than once as long as each submission is with a different type of project - i.e a card, l/o, etc.
Entries which fail to observe the above will not be removed but marked as ineligible.

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Sunday, 5 February 2012

February Challenge


Good Morning everyone, it's time for a new challenge and this month we are thinking about Spring and Summer and those lovely lighter brighter days and inviting you to join us..................................

In the Garden

Plenty of scope there and we hope you will share all your lovely garden inspired work with us. This months challenge will run until midnight on 29th February.....................and that's the four yearly date tradition says's us ladies can propose apparently !!

Andy and Janice are due back from the big USA trade show CHA any day now and with them news of all the new goodies that will be coming our way over the coming weeks, as well as the new crafting trends that we will all want to be trying out. But if you just can't wait and want to get ahead of the game, I can share a few pictures with you and if you keep an eye on the what's new section here and here you will be able to pre order so your goodies are on their way to you the moment they are shipped and landed.

The new Tim Holtz Distress Markers, who won't want to get their hands on some of these ? I guarantee blogland will be full of talk about these.

This fabby machine is the answer to all my prayers, an electronic die cutting and embossing machine, large enough for A4 carstock and Grand Nestabilities. How good it that and before you ask, yes my name is already on one.

Kaisercraft have launched lots of new goodies, DP, embellies and chipboard kits like this "desktop spinney tidy thingie" - Janice's words !


And of course Penny Black have come up trumps again with some fabulous new stamps. This is sneak peek on one of the beautiful cards on display using one of the new images. I can't share the whole card until they are on general release later this month.

Back to this months challenge and as always there is a fabulous prize on offer from Sir Stampalot and of course the chance to be selected as one of our Top 3. Here's the prize full of gorgeous garden inspired goodies..........................................


My wonderful DT girls have come up with some beautifully inspirational work as always and as I looked through their work I really did believe Spring was just that little bit closer.

We also have a Guest Designer this month, Lai Yoke who has made these beautiful pieces to share with you. Please do pop over to her blog to find out more.





Have fun with our challenge this month, good luck to you all and we look forward to visiting all your wonderful entries

And please remember, you can combine your Stampalot entry with up to five other challenges.

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Friday, 3 February 2012

January winners


Good Morning to you all, time for some winners from our January challenge and what a mammoth month it turned into, you really did love our monochromatic theme and we saw some really awesome piece of work on our DT rounds. And that means we had a really tough time selecting our winner and Top 3, but we had to narrow it all down as we always do.......that's the very worse part of the 'job', so here we go.

In top spot and winner of the fabulous Hero Arts prize from Sir Stampalot is......................

What a stunning wedding card and candle

Congratulations Carina, please mail me brenda@ibas.co.uk with your full postal addy so I can get your prize posted off to you. And you can also be the first to pick up our brand new winners logo on the sidebar !

And now this months Top 3 entries..................

What a lovely keepsake this will be for the proud parents


The sepia tones work beautifully

Just so elegant

Congratulations to you all, please grab your well deserved Top 3 sidebar button and wear with pride on your blogs.

See you again Sunday with our brand new challenge for February.

Saturday, 14 January 2012

So what's in that gift box ?


Good Morning Peeps, I hope everyone is OK.

I thought I would share a picture of what's in the pretty box shown on this months challenge post...........................isn't this a fabby collection of all things Hero ?

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning it is join in this months Monochromatic challenge, all details on the post below.

And don't forget the Sir Stampalot January sale continues both in store and on line, you can check out some of the sale goodies here and new items are still being added so you might want to pop back again.

Sunday, 1 January 2012

January Challenge

Happy New you to you all, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and Santa delivered all those crafty goodies on your lists.

And what better way to start the new year than with our first challenge of 2012 where we would like to see projects on the theme of................

Monochromatic

Totally your choice what colours you work with so long as your card is all in shades of the same colourway (you can of course use white cardstock).............to avoid any uncertainities as I know this one often creates a few queries, this is what the tinternet has to say........."Monochromatic describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color".

As always, we have a fabulous prize on offer from Sir Stampalot.....................yep, it's a suprise package.........I will reveal the content is a few days time !!!!!!


Just a gentle reminder to ask you to check out our rules at the top of this blog before you link up your card..........we are still seeing quite a few entries that have been combined with more than five other challenges and I so hate having to tell peeps that their lovely work is ineligible.

Now for some inspiration and the Deign Team never fail to let me down and have come up with a fabulous array of work. Please do pop along to visit them all.............just click on their names to go directly to their personal blogs.

First up is our January Guest Designer, Fliss who has come up with this gorgeous creation for us..............

 
Guest Designer Fliss................

 

Clare
 
 

Francesca
 

Lynne
 
Pinky
 


Happy Crafting everyone and look forward to visiting you to see your lovely creations..............................