September blogcandy/giveaway

I'm back with more giveaways. Lately I've been spending some time looking for lots of candy and look what I found for you!

I've also been contacted by the givaway scout if I'd like my blog to be on their list. What they do is they search the internet for giveaways and present them to you, both on the web and by newsletter if you'd prefer that. They have different categories you can look through and the sire is updated once daily. You get it all served on a silverplatter. Great, huh? So if you want to get more (or different) candies make sure to visit their site. I've also placed their widget on my sidebar under my candylist so you will find it easily. I'm off checking it out.


Diny - early september

*Amy 2:nd

*Bev 2:nd

*Fuzzy wuzzy - new challenge blog starting september 3:rd. Candy ends 2:nd

*Karen midnight 3:rd

*Elaine 4:th

*Jacqui 4:th

*Leanne 4:th

*Maria Therese 4:th

*Susie 4:th

Debs 6:th

*Stine 6:th

*Mary Lou 8:th

*Val 8:th

*Cheryl 10:th

Irit 10:th?

*Purplicious 11:th

*Sylvia 11:th

Dawn 12:th-

DeeDee 12:th.-

Diana 13:th-

Lisa 13:th-

*Denise 14:th.

*Lori 14:th

*Susie 14:th

*Helen 16:th

(*24:th)Lindsey 16:th

*Lynsey 16:th

*Claire 17:th

*Debs 17:th.

(*25:th)Denise 17:th

(*25:th)Pauline 17:th

*Squirrel 17:th

*Claire 18:th

*Trisha 18:th

*Bonnie 19:th

*Bibi 21:st.

*Janet is having a candy to thank her followers and visitors even when she's been a bad blogger. Her candy ends 22:nd

*Kate 23:rd

(*)Cor 25:th

*Mina 25:th

*Zoe 25:th

*Karen 26:th

*Ying 27:th

Cadie 29:th

*Chrissy 29:th

Christy 29:th

Cuddly buddly 29:th

Kona kid krafter's 29:th. For kids up to 17 years old

Mandy1 29:th

Michelle 29:th

Squirrel 29:th

Jacque 30:th

Karen 30:th

Kari 30:th

Lothian crafts 30:th

Mandy2 30:th

Marielle is having an autumn surprise candy. Ends 30:th

Prima product pick 30:th

Randi 30:th

Robin 30:th

Sparkle dreams challenge blog 30:th

Jolanda, create 4 fun - when she reaches 1250 followers

(PS. If you're wondering why I have pics under some names and some without, it's because whenever I find a giveaway I put it on this list; by date and alphabetically. When I enter that person's candy I add a photo so I know which ones I've entered. Some names have (or will have) a * in front of them. Those are the candies that I've checked to see if I won or not. So basically this is for me to keep track of. I think this way of spreading the word is very good because it saves me a lot of time and doesn't clutter the sidebar with old giveaways. You can find a direct link to this candy by checking the sidebar - "september" under blogcandy. If you have found any other craftcandy that's not on the list, please let me know, by e-mail or by commenting under this post. Thank you.


All you have to do now is click the names and you will be taken directly to that person's candypost. Enjoy!)

Great contest and giveaway

EDIT: Since we've had so few entries to this contest all the DT members will be having some kind of clue on their blog. It can be a part of the photo shown in an old post (most likely an old sweetpea project, HINT: use the labels list on the sidebar), a hint about something you're doing, wearing etc. Here's my hint:

"To-day do I bake, to-morrow I brew,

The day after that the queen's child comes in;

And oh! I am glad that nobody knew

That the name I am called is Rumpelstiltskin!"

Hope it's not too hard. Hop over to the sweetpea blog where you will find links to the other DT member's blogs. You have until sept 1:st to join. This is your chance to get some extra sweetpea rubba, so what are you waiting for?

There is a very funny contest going on at the sweetpea blog at the moment. What you have to do is correctly match the design team members with their baby pictures and email your guesses to: sweetpeachallengesu@yahoo.com before sept 1:st.  On September 2, 2010 all correct entries will be included in a drawing and one lucky person will receive a sheet of sweetpea's wonderful images! 


Sspeaking of sweetpea:  there are some wonderful new stamps coming up.
First, a slightly different style from Elaine Cox:

And then another sheet from ching chou kuik:

Now is a perfect time to get your sweetpea images: Lyneete is offering free shipping within US for orders over $25(valid through august 30:th)
International customers only pay $4.95.

Blogcandy giftbox

I'm finally back with another sweetpea stamps project. I made a giftbox filled with a non-fat candy. The images I have used are spring night (left) and Moonlight siren, both by ching-chou kuik. I masked the images and coloured with my promarkers.

The box is supereasy to make: a piece of patterned paper about 12x30cm and then one matching piece about 12x8 for the flap. The candy is in a see-through bag and attached with tape and staples.

This time I have played along with:

ABC - b is for blue
Charismacardz - die cuts
Colour create - ivory, duck egg and one more colour
Crafty creations - butterflies (there are 2 butterflies sitting on the mermaids)
I love promarkers - the seaside
Pixie cottage - anything but a card
Simon says stamp - make a gift
Stampin for the weekend - anything goes
Stamptacular sunday - 2 images

I really wanted to play with pile it on because they had a very fun recipe challenge. The only thing I needed extra was the 7 buttons and the last patterned paper (I cut out the text from a PP). I haven't decided if I like it better with the buttons and the text or not. I think the buttons make it a bit interesting, but they also take away from the images. Maybe it looks too cluttered - what do you think?

Blogcandy giftbox

I'm finally back with another sweetpea stamps project. I made a giftbox filled with a non-fat candy. The images I have used are spring night (left) and Moonlight siren, both by ching-chou kuik. I masked the images and coloured with my promarkers.

The box is supereasy to make: a piece of patterned paper about 12x30cm and then one matching piece about 12x8 for the flap. The candy is in a see-through bag and attached with tape and staples.

This time I have played along with:

ABC - b is for blue
Simon says stamp - make a gift

I really wanted to play with pile it on because they had a very fun recipe challenge. The only thing I needed extra was the 7 buttons and the last patterned paper (I cut out the text from a PP). I haven't decided if I like it better with the buttons and the text or not. I think the buttons make it a bit interesting, but they also take away from the images. Maybe it looks too cluttered - what do you think?

Win free sweetpea grabbag

Would you like to win a 10 count Sweet Pea Stamps grab bag????????

S
imply post your favorite Sweet Pea Stamp image in the comment section on the sweetpea blog (click the link)
before Friday, Aug 20th. Lynette will pick one lucky winner on Sunday, Aug 22nd.
Good luck everyone!

Win $50 in free sweetpea stamps!

Simply place an order(s) between Aug 14th through Aug 31st and your name will be entered in a drawing on September 1st. One winner will be chosen. Your name will be entered as many times as you order. Winner will be posted on the sweetpea blog. The winner will receive one $50 gift voucher that they can use in

the Sweet Pea Stamps online store.

There are a bunch of beautiful stamps on sale now...

Sunny necklace

I'm such a bad blogger lately and I want to apologize to my readers (if you are still out there) I'm exploding with so many ideas I can't get my head around it. In my mind I'm already done with one project and want to go to the next. Unfortunately my hands aren't as fast. I guess that's why I have a bunch of hal-made projects laying around. But I must give myself some credit because I have finished some of them anyway.

Ok, so on this post I'd like to show you a long necklace I started on my vacation to Mallorca. It's made out of light yellow fresh water pearls and crackled beads. I like to bring something to do while my fiancée is showering or if we're just relaxing on the balcony. He loves to read, but I get bored after a while so I need something else to do. Unfortunately we had an afternoon sun on our balcony and it was way too warm to sit there so most of the times we were out on the beach. I didn't finish it until I got home, but I started it with a specific outfit in mind: (the white lei I have around my neck was something I got at a bar. It's not a part of the outfit) I really love this cottondress which I got at a thriftstore at 70% off. It's slightly too cold to wear here in Sweden, but was perfect for the 25degrees weather on Mallorca.

Here's the "horrific" view I had while showering:

More sale at sweetpea stamps!

Today is your lucky day because starting today and until saturday august 14:th you save

15% off EVERYTHING !!!

To get this wonderful pricing you MUST enter the shop through the link below:

link to sweetpea blog that will lead you to the shop


Here are some examples of some of the newest stamps. You'll find them under "new items" There is something for everyone.

 

Remeber to use the link above to get your discount.

/Katarina

More candy

Cathy is offering some wonderful blogcandy to thank her vistors and to celebrate being on the DT for the secret crafter saturday challenge.

Wendy from the secret crafter and Virginia from instylestamps has donated things towards the candy. I have shopped myself at the secret crafter and it's a shop I recommend. I bought all the newest promarkers from her at the best price I could find and the shipping was resonable too. All her promarkers are on sale now for only £1.60 and she also has copics if you prefer that.

The candy closes at 10pm BST on Sunday 15th August and the winner will be announced on Tuesday 17th August at 12pm BST.

Every rose has its thorn...

This week's challenge over at the Simon says stamp challenge blog is absolutely brilliant! The challenge is to make a card with a song of your choice in mind. I chose: every rose has its thorns by Poison. I had just seen a documentary about the band on MTV and this beautiful ballad got stuck in my head. As soon as I saw the challenge and started singing the song I thought of this image - Love is gone from sweetpea stamps. It's very goth and rock'n'roll.

I started by choosing matching papers. I had a small rosey panel that I matched with a stripey one ffrom BG. I then coloured my image with coordinating promarkers. I wanted the circular part of the sketch to look like a rose so I cut out circles in different shades and sizes. Then I assembled them so they would look like a rose. To accentuate the detail I added a small piece of leaf-ribbon. It was white, but I coloured it with my promarkers to match. The final touch was some glitter and pearls in the corners.

I also had a bunch of other challenges in mind when making this card. "Music" was the theme at promarker challenge and pile it on also had "a little bit of country, a little bit of rock'n'roll".

I used a sketch from sketch and stash challenge and "pearls" that was the theme over at basic grey. The thing I used from BG is the stripey paper at the bottom. I don't remember what the line is called, but I know it's Basic Grey.

And finally, this month's theme at stamp and create is: "flowers".