Week 271 - All Sentimental

Good Morning Crafters,

How are you all today?   It has been a busy week following a very successful Birthday celebration last Saturday.  Sheena was  absolutely amazing and demonstrated her fantastic new range of Christmas design stamps and embossing folders.  I would have like to have shown you some photographs but I am waiting for Mum to send them through from her camera as she was in charge of taking the photographs on the day!

We always run a raffle for special events at the shop and the profit from the raffle goes to one of our local charities.  We raised £93.00 this time and we are going to send it to the Emergency Blood Bikes - Lincolnshire section as they are in need of funds to keep giving us this amazing service.

the first prize was £150.00 hamper full of crafting goodies and one of our lovely customers Heidi Rice was the lucky winner and this is a picture of Mark and myself presenting it to her on Tuesday.

She was thrilled to have won and we are so pleased that she did. 

I also had some Birthday Blog Candy up for grabs and the prize was a choice of a set of Sheena's Christmas stamps and the lucky winner picked at Random is .................................................................................................................................................................

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...................................................  Carolyn B !!!!

Thankyou Carolyn for the lovely comment and well done!  please email me on lets.create@btinternet.com and let me know which set of Sheena stamps from her latest collection you would like!

 

As it is a Saturday morning it is also our Allsorts Challenge and it is my week to host the Challenge this week and I have chosen ~

 

All sentimental

 

as a title for you to have a go at for the Allsorts theme.  I love to put a sentiment on a card design or a canvas and there are some fabulous sentiments available either by using a rubber stamp or  computer generated. 

 

The design that I have decided to show you is this one ~

 

 

I really enjoyed making this card - we made it in a workshop a couple of weeks ago when the theme was Crafters Companion Die-sire Dies. I love these very clever dies they really are so easy to use and create a fantastic result. The one that I have used here is called Enchanted.  I chose not to use the middle die section but used a die-d'lite frame to make an aperture so that the sentiment can be centered on the design. I cut the die out of craft card and then used chalk inks and inked through the die. The sunflowers are from Cheery Lynn and love using these as they are

 so pretty. The sentiment is from a set of stamps from Paper Artsy.

I hope that you like the challenge and you will have a go this week.  We have 2 fabulous sponsors this week giving away some great prizes ~

Buttons for Brains

and PPR Papercrafts.

Thankyou to them for their generosity.

 

Today is a busy day as we are at the Hunkydory show at Stoneleigh doing Make and Takes. We are expecting 60 people in each class throughout the day so I think we will be kept on our feet!

I will let you know how it goes!

In the meantime thankyou for popping by and please pop into the Allsorts Challenge Blog to have a look at the Design Teams gorgeous samples and this will inspire you for sure!

 

Must dash now and see the lovely people in the workshop room!

Take care and please leave a comment for me,

Bye for now

Jo xx