The Best of Both Worlds

Candy For The US/Canadian Friends

Candy For The UK Friends

Our lovely friend Enfys who lives 3 months in the UK and then three months in US is showing her generosity again by offering two different sets of blog candy. She has identified that there are things in the UK that US people cannot get for love nor money and vice versa, so she has two sets of candy to give away. If you live outside the US or UK then you are going to be allowed to choose your preference - how lucky is that? Nothing complicated to do, leave a message and if you have a blog post a link - what could be simpler? Go one have a go - you have to be in it to win it! So go one treat yourself to the chance to win visit Enfys's blog here

100 Carts already!

Well another week passes by and we are into the second week of the 100 give away, three more separate weeks to go.

Help Cricut to celebrate their 100th Cricut cartridge—Winter Woodland! That’s right, they have reached 100 cartridges. They’re giving away 100 cartridges over five weeks (20 per week).

Here’s how it will work.

Each week they will be posting a thread. When you respond to the thread you will be entered to win. You can enter once by replying and you can enter a second time by posting on your blog about the celebration and linking back to the cartridge product page.

Here is the link to include in your blog. Once you’ve posted on your blog with the link back you can post again to the thread.

http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Cricut Hits 100

No that is not how old the Cricut is but it is how many carts are produced to work with the Cricut. The Winter Wonderland cart is the 100th and can be found at http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Now you have two opportunities to enter the prize draw one is to sign up to the message board at http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=5248058&mpage=1, the other is to post a link like me telling of the 100 carts that are going to be given away over the next four weeks with a link back to the product and then visit back to the message board and tell everybody you have left a link.

Go on treat yourself and post away, fingers crossed for everybody.

Stephanie's Generosity - Yet More Blog Candy

Stephanie is being really really generous again, she never seems to stop! More lovely blog candy and all you need to do is leave a comment and put a link on your blog if possible but not essential. Pop over and see some of her wonderful designs as well as the glorious blog candy.

Less than a Week To Go

Less than a week to go to stand the chance of winning this brand new cart. There are four different ways in which you can take part to win this cart and Julia will post internationally. Don't miss your chance, you need to be in it to win it. Hurry over now to jujubeesscrapbookcorner. Must make it over before August 21st to stand your chance.

Blog Candy to Win, Last Few Days

This amazing blog candy is up for grabs, just a few days left to take part. Opportunity finishes on August 9th. For your chance to win the punches go over to Paper Crafts by Rach and leave a comment. Sit back and wait to see if you win. Dont forget if you have a blog to post the candy on your blog, in a post or in the sidebar whichever suits you better. Go on you have to be in it to win it!

Christmas Night

I created this scene by taking two of the corner drawings from Lilly-Boo's Boutique and joining them together. I put them into a photo-editing program and flipped one of the images and then placed one behind the other. Once I had them overlapping in a suitable position I grouped the images and then resized them to fit in a 8" x 8" black card from Craftworkcards.

I coloured the images in which were from the Christmassy Corner Collection over at Lilly-Boo's Boutique with Promarkers imaganing the light source to be fairly central.

I then found on my Cricut Christmas cart the moon and the santa sleigh. I cut the moon from some scrap yellow card and then the sleigh is cut in Bazzil Black Tie and outlined with a shadow cut in white.

Rose Invitation

Just a quick post of an invitation I have done for a friend's daughter's 13th Birthday. Her name is Rose. Inside was the details of the day with a tear off portion for the reply. The Roses are from the Indie Cricut Cart and just have the base and one layer of petals, highlighted with glitter and the centres are silver card candy stuck with silicone glue.

Design Team Calls

If you are interested in becoming a Design Team member then there are two chances to do this. There is a call on Polkadoodles for a design team member.

Now also Sam is looking for new design team members on Lilly-Boos Boutique. Her drawings are so scrummy to manipulate and colour, what an opportunity.

Lily-Boo DT call.
We are looking to add to our existing DT.
If you are interested, please send us 3 photos of your favourite work.
Tell us why you would like to be on the design team.
Tell us the address of your blog and any forums that you visit regularly.
In return you will be sent Lily-Boo images to work with and will be expected to produce 3 cards or projects each month, to be shown on the website, and on your blog.
The Design Team term will run for 6 months until February 2010.
Applications to be sent by email to Sam and Louat lucy.daubney@btinternet.comif you could pop'DT CALL'in the subject box that would be a huge help to my spam box!!
closing date 02/08/2009
Good luck!

Well I cant remember who said it, so I cannot give the credit - "you have to be in it to win it". I am having a go so you never know I might be lucky or I might not but one thing for certain if you don't try you dont stand a chance!

Callum's Birthday

Well this was a little bit of an adventure of techniques etc. My son's best friend is having a birthday on Saturday, he is the youngest boy in his year and a totally cheeky little chappy that you can't help but like! This image from Lilly-Boo's Boutique. reminds me so much of him and he pedals around on his bike to the park and to visit friends within his village.
Lilly-Boo's images are great to work with and great value. £1.99 gets you a set of six images that are totally resizeable and could be computer coloured as well as coloured by hand, the choice is yours. Do pop in and have a look at her images there are a couple of freebies so you can try your hand.
The recipe for this card was to colour the image using Promarkers and then cut out the image (still need to work on this cutting out thing!). I then cuttlebugged the 'for a day' and inked it over with a blue inkpad to tone with the backing paper which is from a nursery pad for boys. I also inked a matt white piece of card with the same blue ink pad and also a yellow inkpad and then embossed it with the Happy Birthday cuttlebug folder and pieced the mats together on a white card base. The cut out boy and bike I put on with dimension pads. I did consider in my minds eye using silicone and trying to distort the shape of the front tyre but I thought that might look better in my minds eye and not work out in reality, so being short of time I did not take the risk I played safe.
I would love to hear your thoughts and comments, thanks for dropping in.