Have you visited...

..."The Crafty Elf" ?
If not, you really should as she has some fabulous candy for her followers right now.

In celebration of her blogaversary and the number of followers she now has, the lovely Elf is offering the most wonderful blog candy. If you want to know more about it just hop over to her blog using the link above or the button over in my side-bar.

There are a couple of things you will need to do but she will tell you all about it over on her blog.

You really should go visit as in addition to the candy she has some wonderful tips and ideas which can be adapted for any time of year. Go on - take a look - you know you want to...............................

Mega Candy...

...over at LOTV "Ideas to Inspire".
How would you like the chance to win 12 LOTV images of your choice? Well if you do you need to hop over to the site via the link above and see what you need to do to be in with a chance.............................

Why can't...

...things be straight forward?

All I wanted was to print off a couple of photos from my camera - not hard really - or so you would think. There was a queue at the machine in my local Boots on Friday, the machine in Morrison's wasn't working and today it took attempts at two machines in the Boots in Basildon before I managed to get the pics I wanted.

After doing so well at the crop on Thursday it seemed like I wasn't going to get the LO finished because of a lack of the most important ingredient...the photo.
I finally got the pic I wanted to finish the LO. Unfortunately, because of the poor light levels I've managed to get some flash glare in the pic but I wanted to show you the finished item.

Back to work tomorrow, not something I'm looking forward to. I dread to think what is waiting in my email and in my work tray after two & a bit weeks off. I was really looking forward to this break and on the whole it has been the 'chill-time' that I think I was in need of but as they say "all good things come to an end" and tomorrow it is back to the grindstone...

Oh how lovely it would be to go in tomorrow and find out we won the lottery...Oh well, I can dream, can't I?..........................................

Predominantly Purple...

...is the latest challenge over at "Simply Less is More".

Although one of my favourite colours, purple is not a colour I use very often in my card making and to add to this I had to keep things fairly CAS...so not a very easy challenge for me.
I decided to go for two shades of purple CS to create the card blank and the main matt.
The image is stamped in Dusty Concord (Ranger Distress Ink pad) and I have added a little bit of shading using a couple of Copic pens. The stamps are from a clear stamp set by Kanban (Stamp11064).
I was in two minds whether to colour the flesh areas in skin tone but decided to leave them blank and just went for a bit of bling with glitter glue and purple flat-back gems.

Oh and before anyone says anything - yes, it is a Christmas card...thought I'd make an early start LOL.......................................

And the Winner is...

...wait for it...

Being the non-techy person that I am I used the 'Hat of Chance' again.
Here is the hat.
Here is a peek at the names in the hat - thank you to those of you who left lovely comments (((hugs))).
...and here is the winner: -

Congratulations Claire (Cardzbyclaire) you have won yourself a ruffle scarf.

If you email me your snail-mail address I will get your scarf in the post to you within the next week..............................

Some Candy...

...to see in 2012.

To celebrate the fact that I will soon be reaching 1000 posts (gosh, I never thought I would keep this blog thing going when I started) and we are about to start a new year - I thought it would be the perfect time to offer a little something to the folk who visit my little bit of cyberspace.

For those of you who visit from time to time, you will know that I do a bit of knitting and that my current knitting obsession involves these...
...so if you would like to win a 'ruffle' scarf please leave me a comment below.

That's all you have to do folks, just leave a comment - you don't have to become a follower (although I am always very excited to have new folk join my little world) and you don't have to post anything on your blogs (but if you want to spread the word, I don't mind - the more the merrier) - all you have to do is leave a comment and then your name will go into the hat. I will draw a name on Friday 6 January and the winner will receive a scarf - the colour will be a surprise.

Now if I can remember how - this post will stay at the top until Friday 6 January - for newer posts please scroll down....................

First Crop of 2012...

...and we got Christmas goodies.

Here are the lovely PPs and stuff that we got as our kit to start the new session...
A mix of PPs from a number of different ranges, some pretty ribbons, fancy brads, ribbon sliders, buttons and blooms - and a mini bare chipboard album.
I made a start on covering the pages of the album...
...and got two pages covered when I suddenl;y had an idea for a scrap page.
Using white CS as the base I inked around the edge with Festive berries (from the Winter stack of Distress Ink pads). I then cut some panels from a couple of the PPs and arranged them on the CS - the bauble panel has been edged with holly satin ribbon.
The little cluster includes gold rose buds, a stocking brad, some white fir fronds (Martha Stewart punch) and some red gems.

Although I know what photo I want to use on this LO I haven't had it printed yet so that's something for tomorrow and then I think I'll add a bit of stickles to give a bit of glitz.

Despite it being a chatty evening as it was our first back since before Christmas, I feel I actually got a fair bit done in the two hours that we were there and managed to amaze myself by almost completing a LO - the first for 2012. I'll show you what it looks like once I have sorted the photo..............................