Birthday Candy Winners

Here are the results of my Birthday Candy Draw!

I had 13 blue froggy links and  an email entry. Not sure how to best choose the winners, I Googled a random no. generator & the numbers it generated are as follows:-
Drum Roll Please........................................
14, 6, 5, 9

14 Tilly, you win the craftystash voucher!

 6 Denise you win the CMD Voucher



5 Emma, you win the Crafty Bundle
I hope you find a use for it all!



9 Edel one of my latest followers. You win a surprise!!!

Thanks to everyone who entered and shared! I hope you enjoy your candy ladies! Sorry you couldn't all be winners!!!

I'm off to have a coffee now, while I wait for the phone engineer to come!                                 



Another lovely blog award!!!

I recived another Stylish Blogger award from Cindy-Linn!!! Thank you sooo much for thinking of me. I just love getting these!!! Make me feel all warm & fuzzy!!!

There are of course the rules that come along with this!

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this - Done!

2. Share 8 things about yourself - Done!

3. Pass it on to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered - Done!

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards - I'm on to it Done!

8 things about me:

1 I just turned 50 a week ago!
2 I still have my birthday cards up cos I keep getting more!
3 I spend far to much time on my laptop! (sound familiar?)
4 I'm totally fed up clearing my path of snow! (as soon as I've done it it starts to snow again!)
5 I totally lurve Fridays, get sooooo excited about them!
6 I did a bit of Tap Dancing back in the day!
7 I love ! I add them to the end of everything I write! (have to go back & remove them at times!)
8 I always try to look on the bright side!

Now who to pass this on to???
I have two lovely new followers so I will pass it on to them first!
1) Edel welcome to my blog!
2) Suz who has a brand new blog! Welcome to my blog!
3) Alison who has a brand new challenge blog!
4) Elaine who has the cutest kittens
5) Mervi who is cosier in Finland than we are here!
6) Paula some great new stamps!
7) Ali not technically just met her but she's got her 1st GDT chance! WTG!!!
8) Chrissy met her through her great candy giveaway!!

Pink,Silver & Black

I have another card to share! I have been busy making lots of Birthday cards this week!

This is Grumpy Gretchen! The digi stamp is called Big Deal Birthday and comes from Digi's With Attitude!

I have coloured her up using my promarkers & to fit in with their current Challenge #8 which is a colour challenge. Use Pink Black & Silver!
I have used a bit more colour on the cake but I hope it fits the bill!!!
The base card is A5, black & I have added a matt of silver & then a flocked paper which I got in a Do Crafts Goody bag eons ago! I also added another panel using a striped paper from the same pack. I love these papers sooo much, I can barely bring myself to use them!!lol
I added a bit of pink ribbon from some candy I recieved. I matted Gretchen on to some black and then some silver card which I had punched down one side using a Martha Stewart punch. Then to finish off a computer generated sentiment & number star, some card candy & a flower.
I hope you like her!!!

A Girly Christmas Card

(Hi all, just a quick reminder that my Birthday Candy is still up for grabs here!)

At last I have managed to get my competition entry done for the 

November Comp over at Cardmaking Downloads! 

The November theme was for Christmas! 

You must use a download from either Cardmaking Downloads or Scrapbookingmad to enter

 but there are many different styles of downloads to choose from!

I used a combination of two downloads designed by Elaine Hayhoe. 

I love the non traditional colours she has used and, as intend this card to go to a lady 

who lives on her own,  it's an ideal girly card!

The main download is the pyramage and border with the sentiment. 

The base card is made with backing papers which are included with this and another download. 

The only added elements are a few pieces of ribbon which came tied round 

cards & envelopes that I bought!

                                                                                      

I did also use a border punch on the stop.

I quite like the effect of the matting and layering under the punched section

Have entered this into the  2 Sisters Challenge Blog  Challenge#15