March challenge

Good morning and dare I say Happy Spring, although the Spring Equinox is not until 20th March, according the the Met Office the first day of Spring is 1st March so goes nicely with the theme selected by Lynn which is....

🐣Hello Spring🌷

or 

Anything Goes

As always there must be some stamping on the front of your entry and brief details of products used. 

Our prizes are two Penny Black stamp sets from Buddly Crafts with a lovely Spring feel to them.

A wonderful Spring display from the Design Team....

 Anesha

Brenda

Using Penny Black 3355K Iris, 1483E Cherish Yesterday and 40-592 Lilac

Cathy

Emma

Faith

Hilary

Lynn

Mervi

Using Penny Black Loving and Hugging 2863J

Pinky

Penny Black Slapstick Soft Spoken 40-688

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

February winners and Top 3

The month has sped by and already it's time to announce our winners and Top 3. As always some beautiful entries and we thank each and every one of you for joining us.

First we need to tell you about some changes which have been prompted by yet more increases in postal rates and changes to Customs requirement relating to the USA and Australia. It was a difficult decision to make and we hope you will understand why we will no longer ship physical prizes to those destinations. We are so very sorry about this but hope you will still join in and share your lovely creations for a chance of Top 3 recognition.

The winners as selected by Random Org are no 29 Avril, no 91 Maryann

Well done to you all, please mail me by Friday 7th March with your full names and postal addresses.Any prize unclaimed by that date will either be re-drawn and new winners notified direct or returned to the prize box.

Winners outside the UK: Prizes are always sent as gifts, but sometimes Customs fees are added in your own Country, this is out of out control so by claiming your prize you are accepting responsibility for any fees and we cannot assist should this happen.

Now for our Top 3 as voted for by the Design Team, a difficult decision as always....

No 11 Loll

No 40 Rosi

No 44 Milla

Congratulations, well deserved recognition. Please collect your badge for your own blogs. 

Hope you will all come back on Sunday for our new challenge.

CAS inspiration

Good morning, welcome to our mid month inspirational post where the Design Team have been busy making more CAS inspired cards. So many lovely entries already and if CAS is not your thing, there's always the option of Anything Goes.

The challenge runs until Wednesday 26th so plenty of time to add another entry for the chance of winning one of the two prizes of Lavinia stamps and stencil.

Anesha

Brenda

Using Lavinia Basil and Bibi, Musical Notes and Glory stencil

Cathy

Emma

Faith

Hilary

Lynn

Mervi

Pinky

February challenge

Welcome to our February challenge and this month we are focusing on a theme elected by Faith, it's....

CAS 

(Clean and Simple)

along with Anything Goes

We know from reading your blogs it's a theme many of us struggle with, it'a always so tempting to add a bit more, then a bit more, but if it's just too far outside your comfort zone there's always Anything Goes to fall back on. 

Usual rules apply which you can find here and most importantly there must be some stamping on the front of your entry and a few details about products used.

Two prizes of Lavinia stamps and stencil (photos not to scale). (Please note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway).

The Design Team have been very restrained and produced a wonderful display of CAS cards....

Anesha 

Brenda

Using Lavinia Large Hummingbird, Small Hummingbird, Bumblehums and Bumble Words

Cathy

Emma

Faith

Hilary

Lynn

Mervi

Pinky

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

January winners and Top 3

January proved to be a really busy month with some beautiful entries and so many following the Anything but Square option with some unique shaped cards, out thanks to each and every one of you.

First the winners of the lovely prizes from AALL and Create as selected by Random Org., they are no 25 Pat (not claimed 8/2) and no 63 Ellie

Well done both of you, please mail me by Friday 7th February with your full names and postal addresss. Any prize unclaimed by that date will either be re-drawn and new winners notified direct or returned to the prize box. Non UK winners: by claiming your prize you are accepting any Customs fees which may be applied within your own Country, we mark all prizes as gifts but are unable to help should that happen. 

Now for our Top 3 in order of votes cast by the Design Team:

No 56 Annie

No 74 Maz

In joint third place no 15 Lorraine and no 43 Mari  

Congratulations all four of you, please collect your badge to display on your own blogs.

We look forward to seeing you all again on Sunday for our new challenge.

Anything but Square at We Love Stamping

It's the middle of the month so time for some more inspiration following our Anything but Square along with Anything Goes challenge. The challenge runs until Wednesday 29th January for the chance to win one of the prizes from AALL and Create.

As always the the Design Team have pulled out all the stops with a fabulous array of fascinating shapes and first up is this months Guest Designer Chris, thank you so much for creating another lovely card to share with us Chris.

Using AALL and Create Intricatags (29)

 Anesha

Using  AALL and Create Postal Pooch (863)

Brenda

Using  AALL and Create Inflatably Awesome (1143), Red Wine rub ons (10) 

and Heart Marks the Spot (46)

Cathy

Emma

Faith

Hilary

Lynn

Mervi

Pinky