Hobbycraft show - NEC

Well what a day I had yesterday at the NEC, I don't think that I stopped smiling all day!  Had a fantastic day out with my crafty pal Hazel and also met loads of other crafting buddies from around the country.  It's so nice to put faces to names of the people that you know through their blogs and facebook pages. I also had a chance for hugs with the fantastic Maria Simms and Barbara Gray and to catch a glimpse of Joanna Sheen and Sara Davies!  WOW what a day....

In between all of the chatter and hugs and catch up I also managed to do a bit of spending and even had to take a trip out to the car to deposit my goodies as my rucksack was a bit heavy - oops!  Here's a couple of piccies of my purchases:

Now I've got to tidy up my craft room and find new homes for all of this lot, so I may be gone for some time.  If you don't see me for a little while please send a search party - tee hee.

Hope everyone that's visited the NEC this year has had a fab time and it'd be great to see your stashl.  Why not add your link in my comments for me to pop and have a look?

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Winter Philip

Good morning crafters and welcome to an icy morning, winter has well and truly arrived!

I'm getting excited now as there's only another week to go until the NEC and as I've only ever been to one smaller show before I'm viewing this as a real Aladdins cave and of course a chance to spend the left over money from my birthday too.  I shall be going on the Saturday so if you see me walking around please stop me and say hi it would be lovely to meet some of you in person (my picture is at the top of the side bar on the right if you want to know what I look like) because I'm not going to walk around all day with a red rose between my teeth - lol!

I look forward to seeing pictures of what everyone bought and hopefully I can fit all of mine into one photo, tee hee.

Today I've got a reminder that the current challenge running over at A Gem of A Challenge is "Polka Dots/Spots" and it's my turn to host this challenge.  I think this one is really easy isn't it?  Everyone loves their  spots and dots don't they?  Why not come and join in the fun, you could be in with the chance of winning 4 fab digi designs from Pink Gem Designs!  Why not pop over to see what my fab teamies have created for inspiration, but here's my card to get you started:

Materials used:

Digi - Winter Philip

Coloured with promarkers

Flowersoft - polar white

Glossy accents

Nestability - scalloped oval

Distress ink - weathered wood

My Minds Eye papers: Lime Twist - Happy Go Lucky

Die - snowflake corner

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers - cute

Creative Inspirations - let's celebrate

By The Cute and Girly - stars

Card and Scrap - Xmas

Live & Love Crafts - Xmas

Divas By Design - Xmas

Fab 'n' Funky - dies/punches

Outlawz - circles

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Winner of my Celebration Candy

Thank you to everyone for my birthday wishes.  I had so many people come to visit me I had to bake another cake!  Hope you all enjoyed it?

I know you are all eager to find out who the lucky winner of the Saturated Canary voucher is so after Mr Random.org took off his apron from washing up all those cake plates and hoovered up all the crumbs you lot had dropped I put him to work again and he picked:

#2 Sue (bearhouse)

Congratulations Sue!

Please contact me at sazzlecraft@hotmail.co.uk

Thank you to everyone else for entering and helping me to celebrate, apologies there wasn't enough candy for you all, but I need to save my pennies for the NEC in November.  Is anyone else going on the Saturday?

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Celebration Candy

This post will remain at the top of my blog whilst the Celebration Candy is running.

For all other posts please scroll down.

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Good morning crafters and welcome to another week.

Today's a kinda special day for me as it's my birthday (Monday 8th October), not a biggy but still a celebration of my life.  Would you like a piece of my birthday cake?

It also seems as though my 200 followers passed me by recently and I got my 40,000th hit yesterday too.  So as a way of saying thank you to everyone that supports me I'd like to bring you some candy.  How does that sound?

I thought long and hard what my candy should be and then it suddenly hit me.  Everyone (or nearly everyone) loves Saturated Canary digi images don't they?  So I've got a £20 gift voucher ($30) for the lucky winner to spend in Krista's gorgeous store.  Why not take a sneek peak at them here just in case you're the lucky winner or maybe you've not come across them before!  Here's the voucher that could be yours :-)

The usual rules apply:

1)  You have to be a follower to enter my candy.  New followers are always welcome, but no candy hunters please!
2)  Display my candy in the side bar of your blog with a link back to mine
3)  Leave your details with Mr Linky and a comment to let me know which are your favourite Saturated Canary images too
4)  Closing date is Saturday 27th October and the winner will be announced on Sunday 28th October

Good luck!!



xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Devilina Jodie

Welcome to the weekend crafters....

This week has gone like a flash for me as it's only been a 3 day working week, unfortunately it was cut short by a funeral on Thursday which was a sad occasion but a good send off none the less and of course I don't work Fridays so I get an extra long weekend - yeah!

Anyway less of me and more of the crafting, my get away from it all....

I'm here with a reminder that the current challenge theme running over at A Gem of a Challenge is 'flowers'. How simple could this challenge be as we all love our flowers don't we?  Although you all know I don't like to make it easy for myself do I?  I decided to use one of Janet's new digi's from her Halloween collection and add my flowers in the form of buttons and by using a flower stamp onto film and fibre.

I hope this gives you some different ideas as it's not the normal 'cute' card, apart from the image of course!  If you want 'cute' you ought to see what 'The Pinks' did last week as well as 'The Gems' along with me this week, check them out here.  Also if you're interested we've got a DT call running with this challenge so if you'd like to join us please pop over and check out the details.

Materials used:

Digi - Devilina Jodie

Coloured with promarkers

Clarity Card

Adirondack Ink - Sunset Orange & Pitch Black

Speedball Brayer

Splodgemat

Splodge A Mask - Stenskape - City View

Mask - Mini Chicken Wire Reversed

Stamp - Tree

Stamp - Birds in Flight

Film & Fibre kit

Stamp - Garden Set

Stamp - Letterbox Set

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers - anything goes

Papertake Weekly - fright night

Emerald Faeries - anything goes

Creatalicious - halloween - TOP 5

Digi Galore - halloween

Live & Love Crafts - halloween

Sassy Studio Designs - halloween

Crafting for all Seasons - spooky

Divas By Design - spooky

Fab 'n' Funky - colour challenge

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Jodie with Baubles

The countdown to Christmas has begun with only 78 crafting days to go.  The shops have started to stock their shelves and I even saw Santa and a snowman walking through the city centre the other lunch time "ho, ho, ho'ing".  I think it's bit early for that don't you, they'll lose their voices by the time the big day gets here!

Anyway back to my card and I've decided to go for an aperture card as I haven't done one of these for ages and I found a stack of Christmas vellums that I wanted to use too.  It was simple to make and I think it sets off this gorgeous image from Pink Gem Designs beautifully.  Why not pop over and have a look at all of their designs?  Just think of all those special Christmas cards you've got to make!

You may have noticed that there isn't a sentiment on my card but I will be adding a personalised one before sending it, maybe by just adding a tag to the present.

Materials used:

Digi - Jodie with baubles

Coloured with promarkers

Accented with glossy accents
Nestability - scallop oval small
Printed vellum
Krylon gold leaf pen
Card candi - Carnaby Street

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Penny's Paper Crafty - die cuts
Deep Ocean - more than 2 colours
Crafty Bloggers Network - anything goes

Crafty Boots - world cardmaking day
Created With Love - christmas
Cutie Pie - use a digi - WINNER
Catch The Bug - anything goes

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx