Kittys Krafty Giveaway....

Yes, another giveaway, this time from a youngish woman with 2 children from Dorset.

Her blog looks a wonderful read and fabulous inspiration...Im now following her

and Im looking forward to the next post from Kitty to see what comes next!

 

 

http://kittyskrafty.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/blog-candy-giveaway.html

 

Its worth £45!!!!!  Thank you Kitty  ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The giveaway ends on the 14th October and all details can be found from the link above the photo..

 

 

Pop over and say hello and follow her blog for a chance to win... 

STUDIO 12 (part of www.polkadoodles.co.uk)

Yes, you can read really good!!  There is yet another giveaway, this time
from the Studio 12 side of www.polkadoodles.co.uk.  

So what do you have to do to win some gorgeous Polka Doodles/Studio 12
goodies .... not at all hard they promise...

1] become a follower
2] put a note somewhere on your blog about the Studio 12 giveaway. Could
be in your sidebar or in a post .... the choice is yours.
3] leave a comment on the end of this post.
4] if you are already a follower (mwaaahhhh to you), just do points 2 & 3

This giveaway will last until the end of the month, when a randomly chosen
inner will be picked.

Thats all there is to it!! No reason at alNOT to enter as its easy enough,,,

Thats all for now dear peeps
Love Marg xx

Blog Candy Giveaway time....

With many thanks to Nikky Hall of www.polkadoodles.co.uk for posting about this giveaway on facebook late yesterday afternoon...

the giveaway is from Pink Delight Craft on her blog....which can be found here: http://pinkdelightcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/blog-candy-giveaway.html

What you could win is 6 months membership to Docrafts Creativity Club!!
This is a wonderful prize offering: 15% discount in the online store, daily sketches, downloads, Creativity TV, exclusive access to the forum and various other offers, and much much more! 

Not much else to say really, except:  GO FOR IT!!! All you have to do is
follow Pink Delight, comment and then blog about it yourself..


See you soon!!
Love Marg xx

Yet another Giveaway!!!

Yes, Ive found another sensational craft giveaway, this time via a dear friend of mine,
 Dawn. This time is from THE CRAFT BARN at: thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.com
Its worth over £150 and closes at 12 midnight on 9the Sept 2012. (Sorry about the
lateness of the post but Ive only just found out about it,read the rules for entering etc)

Anyway, if you are in time, to enter, click on the link below the picture of the crafty stash:

http://thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/its-blog-candy-tiiiiiime.html?showComment=1345981016776

There are loads of yummy stash here as in Memento dewdrop ink pads, diecuts, inks,
glitter, a CDrom, embossing folders, altered art media, embellishments, guilding flakes
and a whole lot more.............

I hope I win it!!! lol   Good Luck to you though, if you are in time to enter, but also to
all the other previous entries before me and after me.


Dawn, is from the blog: Dawns crafty cards and friends, her own facebook page,
website (inc forums) and her set of sincere followers, of which I am one. I love
Dawns work and I admire her attitude to the whole craft concept.
Dawns blog can be found here: http://www.craftingdawntilldusk.net/

My own business page on Facebook can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cards-By-Marg/113362945421329?ref=hl

A fantastic giveaway.....

Fantastic news for all of you wonderful crafters who loves to get something
for just a little bit of work on their own blog!!

Studio 12 at Polkadoodles,

Where paper meets digital...meets creativity that knows no bounds...

is giving away some gorgeous Polka Doodles/Studio 12 goodies

 

Check it all out at: http://studio12creative.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/september-giveaway.html

 

 

 

 

Thats all for a few days now peeps, as my disability adaptations start in 3 days and Ive

got a lot more packing up to do so Im afraid somethings got to give and its the internet...

including my facebook account as well as this blog, my emails and above all else-my card

making!!!  Ive taken most of my craft stash down to the property where Im having to stay

whilst the majority of the work is carried out. As soon as I can I will be back online and

all will be back to normal or atleast until most of the work is done and then I can move

back whislt they work around me, I hope anyway... lol.

I should be back online before the end of the week as soon as I hand over the keys, on

Wednesday morning, I can go to my temporary home and start crafting, that is  once Ive

made my bed up & put my clothes away.  (Im having to stay with my ex partner, my

youngest daughters dad) as there is no where else for me to live whilst all the downstairs

of my home is adapted to suit my disabilities. Its a long story and one Im not going to

write about on here.

 

Thats all for now peeps, take care, Enter the Studio 12 Giveaway, and Happy Crafting!!!

 

Love Marg xxxx

 

Mmmmm A good challenge....part 3!

This post is continued on from the blog post on August 19th:
http://craftycardsbymarg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mmmmm-good-challenge-part-2.html

I had some marvelous news 2 days ago, my best friend of almost 40 years, has 2 daughters and a son, the middle child Rebecca had announced her engagement!! I instantly went into thinking mode: wow, congratulations, what design of card can I make her, what to use???? I did know that I didnt want to use a picture, image, or sentiment so something different was called for! Well, as usual, That all went out of the window when I actually sit down at my craft table and decide on what the main element of the card is going to be....my eyes fell on the heart haped white doileys that I had brought a couple of months ago, that was it!! My focal point of the card was going to be the heart.....and I had the perfect backing papers from the same range to add to the whole ongoing design!!

I chose an 8 x 8 inch scalloped edged card blank in ivory to start the card going, adding a matt & layer consisting of 2 papers from the Dovecraft Tea Party range (cutting an invert quarter circle to each of the 4 corners) and then added the new ribbon I'd brought from an internet supplier., its a beautiful pale ivory lace ribbon with pink hearts woven in to the lace. I then added a heart shaped lace doiley from Dovecraft's Tea Party range to the centre of the card but not across most of the ribbon. I then used silicon glue to uplift a thin card heart that I cut from a pale lilac colour using a Marianne Design die. I then, after careful thought, added the smallest faux gems I had got in my stash, to cover the little holes left by the cutting die! I added the "congratulations" sentiment in the bottom right hand corner, with the assorted pastel coloured mulberry paper hearts to both sides of the doiley heart....giving a soft romantic feel to the card (in my eyes anyway lol). I hope you like the finished result...

This card is the final instalment for the Facebook challenge that Nikky Hall (owner/creator/designer at www.Polkadoodles.co.uk who set a challenge for us, on August 5th, to make 3 blog posts during the month of August:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/130211167019322/#!/groups/130211167019322/

Please, not only keep commenting on my posts, but also follow my blog....you never know what you might find out about me!! lol ;0 xxx

 

Mmmmm A good challenge.... part 2!



This post is continued on from the blog post on August 5th:

http://craftycardsbymarg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mmmmm-good-challenge.html

Part 2:  My dear neighbour moved house yesterday to a village a couple of miles away,

she did a house exchange with the tenant of the 3 bed house and luckily this woman

wanted to move back to here.  I wasnt going to let Alison go with out me atleast

giving a card so hence me looking through my stamps. I can across my Polkadoodles

box and I knew instantly that one from the "Neighbourhood" range would be ideal, so

I chose the mushroom house as I wanted the garden feel to the card...

I made the side stepper card from one piece of A4 card, chose the backing shaped

pieces of coloured card from one of my storage boxes (as when I get my Grande

Calibur out I tend to cut more than the ones I want for that particular card) and then

cut the felt flowers and the "grass" using my newer cutting dies (the grass one is from

Marianne Designs at http://www.mariannedesign.nl/ ) and felt squares from

the prize I won on Facebook last month (curtosy of Colour-Full-Felt at http://colour-full-felt.co.uk/craft-felt/craft-felt-metres?gclid=COHPj8_T87ECFVMdtAodvRwA8Q )

I stamped the mushroom house, trees and small flowers using Memento Ink and then

I stamped the trees using Momento Ink and Archival (for the green tree leaves). All the

stamped images were coloured using my Promarkers. The Butterfly is cut from a sheet

of Polkadoodle printed paper from the Pen&Circle Club mini cdrom issue 3. (I cant

remember where I brought or what company made the butterfly die).

The finishing touch is the flower shaped faux pearls on the centre of the 2 felt flowers

and then along the grass.

The verse was printed on a piece of pearlescent paper and folded in (half like a card),

cut to size to fit on the back of the card and then stuck down on to the back of the largest

side of the card.  Photographs taken and the card is finished....

This card/blog is being entered into the following challenge: https://www.facebook.com/groups/130211167019322/
Polka Doodle Dandies August Challenge to blog 3 times during the month of August