Challenge 53 - sparkle

Well howdy there from my windy cold corner of Blogland! I somehow think that winter is just around the corner! Yipes I hope there's none of that nasty white stuff this year! I've come to the conclusion I'm more of a warm weather girl you can keep your nasty cold stuff ;))

So many thanks to all who came to play last week! Well you were all very pretty in pink I have to say. Huge thanks from the Gorjussettes and myself, without you we wouldn't have this little corner of Challenge Blogland. I couldn't believe its a year, where has the time gone to?

So I cranked up the Random Picky Thing and threw in all the names, he picked Stacy Email me your details and I'll sort you your prizes out. Please include the challenge number ;)) Oh it'll be a treat for you. I've had a root through my goody bag and I'm sure you'll like them.

So what are we doing this week? Well this week we'd like to see you all sparkle! Now this can be bling or glitter or indeed anything that sparkles! This week we're sponsored by Crafters Companion. The lucky winner will receive a voucher for £10 to spend in their fabby on-line shop! You will be spoilt for choice!

The Gorjussettes have naturally sparkled like they do every week

Sarah

Paola

Net

Mary

Kat

Gez

So sparkly huh? And pretty fantastic too. So are you going to show us how you can sparkle? We'd love to see! Remember the prize too just in case that adds a sparkle to your eyes at the thought!

Please enter via Mr Linky and link to your entry and not your blog. Please new submissions only and no back dating - be fair to the other players ;))

Challenge 52 - Pink!

Wayhey!!!

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us.... Yup we're celebrating our first anniversary! Wow how cool is that? Well pretty darn cool I reckon, I'm thrilled! I have to say its been great fun and a very steep learning curve for me! That's probably down to me a numpty in the technical department. I think its an achievement that I've neither broken the whole Internet or just Blogger to be honest. Mind you the way they both perform at times I do have to wonder.... ~runs off and touches wood~ But I mean 52 challenges! I do hope you've all enjoyed them as much as I have/ I know some of you have been very regular players with us - thank you! Of course HUGE thank you's to my lovely Gorjussettes. Without them there wouldn't be anything pretty and inspiring to show you - thanks girls! Some of them have been here with me from the start, a patient bunch.... well you have to be patient with me.... Anyway enough of the speeches its getting like Oscar night!

Lets get down to the important stuff, last weeks winner. The Random Picky Thing behaved impeccably and he picked Carol please email me your details and I'll sort your prize out, please include the challenge number in the title for me - helps filter the emails. I mean lucky me has $600,000 million waiting to be transferred to my bank account. Lucky that kind stranger found me to tell me eh?

Anyway onto this weeks challenge. Our first ever challenge was PINK, nice and easy. I hope you find all of our challenges easy ;)) So I thought we'd revisit PINK. And this month is Breast Cancer Awareness month - so please make sure you're all well Ladies. Don't miss those check ups! Back to the challenge - Now it can be anything as long as its pink, predominantly pink, partially pink... you get the picture huh? Now this week we're sponsored by Lili of the Valley So seeing as its our birthday I wondered how I could make it a bit special. Birthdays are meant to be special aren't they? So for every 50 people who enter I'll had another prize to the winner - how does that sound? So literally the more the merrier.

So the inspiration from the Gorjussettes;

Sarah

Paola

Net

Mary

Kat

So there you go, pretty in pink I think you'll agree.

Oh remember there's a DT call out for guest Gorjussettes too - are you coming to play with us?

So please enter by our good friend Mr Linky, please link to your entry and not your blog.

So come on!

Challenge 51 - not a square!

Yawnnnnnnnn!!! Oh the joys of coming back from a fantastic holiday! I'm trying work through the lack of sleep.... so if you seen any typos that's the reason ;)) Well that and my natural blondness.


We've had a super two weeks in sunny Florida, oh my I love it there, sunny, nice places, lovely people and one or two ~ahem~ craft shops! Well seeing as they're nice enough to be there it would be rude not to investigate them wouldn't it? I managed to get a moderately indecent amount of much needed new stash - I'm a lucky girl!

So enough from me - a few thanks - firstly to fabby Gorjussette Gez who kindly did the 'work' while I was off on my jollies, the lovely Gorjussettes for all their beautiful cards, Bev who did us a guest spot - thanks sweets! All you who came and played.... Crikey this is like the Oscars! Oh and some good news, our Guest Gorjussette Mary is staying with us as a full time Gorjussette!

Phew! Finished!

So thanks to last weeks players, your takes on my sketch were fab! The lucky winner is Claire Email me your details with the challenge number and I'll sort out your prize,

So are you all still awake? And I'll tell you about this weeks challenge. This week I want to see a card which isn't square. Our super sponsor is the appropriately named Fantastic Ribbons, a haven of lush ribbonosity.

So here's the inspiration from the fabulous Gorjussettes;

Suzie

Sarah

Paola

Mary

Kat

So fabby huh?

We'd love to see your 'unsquare' creations too, remember there's ribbon for the lucky winner!

Please enter via Mr Linky and link to your entry and not your whole blog. It would be fab if you could pop over to the Gorjussettes blogs too ;))

Challenge 50 - its a sketch

Yoohooo! Its me in the sun again!

Thanks to you all who came to play again - you are all so clever. Its lovely to see what everyone has made. We are honoured you come to share it with us.

Now we have a little treat for you this week! This week we have a Special Guest Gorjussette! None other than the very talented Bev Rochester! Woohoo! She's certainly made my simple little sketch look mega fantastic! It looked so good I had to pinch myself that it was mine! Thanks for doing this for us Bev its a beauty. This week we're sponsored by the very kind Joanna Sheen The lucky winner will receive a £10 voucher for spends in Joanna's super stocked web site! Oh and the free p an p means you get to spend it all on stash! So the RPT has picked Sharon Email me please with the challenge number and I'll sort your voucher out for you.

Here's the nice easy sketch

So here's the inspiration!
 

Special Guest Gorjussette!

Bev

Net

Paola

Kat

Sarah

Squirrel

Suzie

Gez

So there you are! Pretty fantastic huh? Oh and there's that voucher too ;))

Please enter via Mr Linky and link to your entry and not your blog.

Challenge 49 - Christmas

Wowser! Thanks to all you wild things who came to play! Oh my you're animals! The lot of you... even the one with the cute worm on! Well it is an animal isn't it? Absolutely beautiful. I can say on behalf of the Gorjussettes and myself (oh how swanky sounding is that?) that its fab to see you all come and play with us. Now as you're reading this yours truly, that's moi is off on her jollies and experiencing some serious sun! Oh and golf oh and purely for research purposes I may be involved in a teeny tiny amount of stash acquisition..... Well what's a girl to do when such havens of stash are on her doorstep? Yup go in and spend is the answer!

So enough of me gloating.... Is it raining?

This week our challenge is really helpful - its Christmas! I know we all need help to get ahead with all those cards. Well I do for sure! It'll make a change for me not to make and send on the same day, oh and pray the glues dry! ~blushes~

This week we're kindly sponsored by Cupids Clear Stamps - they have some lovely images and are a treat to stamp with. This week the winner is Vicky email me please with the challenge number in the title;))

So as usual the Gorjussttes have been fantastic;

Squirrel

Mary

Net

Sarah

Nina

Paola

Gez

Kat

Suzie

As usual please enter by our good friend Mr Linky, he's being quite good recently.....I do hope its not a mistake to say that!

Challenge 48 - Wild Thing

Howdy there peepsters! Rawrrr!!!! Oh that's just me being wild, bear with me, oh another animal pun! Gee how do I do it? Or why? ;)) More of that shortly. So are you in winter mode? Seems we are in my neck of the woods. Oh not forgetting the rain, the high winds... oh its been delightful.... NOT! Oh and pretty chilly too.

So MASSIVE thanks to our players from last week - it seems lots of you are partial to the odd flower or two as well as me. Well as I said last week I tried to resign from the DT just so I could enter.... they were having none of it though, I mean I'd have come back this week ;)) So I threw all the names into the RPT and boy did he groan! He chugged and churned and he picked Susie Sunshine (how I wish it was!) If you email me your details I'll pass them on and then you'll be the lucky recipient of that floral lushness courtesy of Wild Orchid Crafts Lucky you!

So this weeks challenge, you recall well if you aren't asleep yet you will my references to animals? Well this week we want to see an animal on your card. I know its called wild thing but we'll accept any animal. My own personal animals have their wild moments for sure! This week we're kindly sponsored by Crafters Companion. A £10 voucher for you to treat yourself with - I know you're worth it ;))

Well I'm sure I've rabbited (another animal joke there!) on enough.

Here's what the Gorjussettes have done to inspire you

Suzie - welcome back!

Squirrel

Sarah

Nina

Net

Mary

Kat

So don't they make you go wild with inspiration? Well those and the chance of that nice voucher from the lovely peeps at Crafters Companion

So please enter via good old Mr Linky and link to your entry and not your whole blog. No back dating of entries please and new stuff only.

Challenge 47 - flower

Well hello there my little blogging flowers! Oh the humour! It'll come to you eventually... honest it will. Well as you're reading this I'm on a quick break to Vegas! Wow I hear you say how lucky is she eh? I mean Vegas for a short break! OK I'll 'fess up its Skeg-Vegas! Off for a weekend to Skegness with some pals. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it does really? Vegas or Skegness.... hmmm..... well I've been to both and I enjoyed them both! Vegas proper does tend to be warmer though! Oh and just in case you think that all of a sudden I've gone techy and clever and have scheduled this... think again Bloggettes! My friend Gorjussette Gez is very kindly posting! Thanks honey ;))

Thanks to those of you who came to play last week. The RPT has picked Nicky as the lucky winner of the Joanna Sheen voucher for £10 of treats. Now I promised to fill you in on my flower 'joke' this week we want to see flowers on your card! We're also sponsored by the fabby Wild Orchid Crafts. Cop a load of the prize they've given! Its L U S H!!! I asked if I could resign this week and enter myself... For reasons of decency I'll not give the answer that I got.... I think it meant 'no you may not'....;))

So the prize

Heres the inspiration from the Gorjussettes

Squirrel

Net

MaryJ

Suzie

Sarah

Kat

Nina

Please enter via Mr Linky and link to your entry and not your blog

Challenge 46 - its a sketch

Yo there peeps! How y'all doing? Well we have a bit of an Indian Summer thing going on here at the moment. Its lovely! Mind you I'd have liked a proper summer as well.... but hey this is better than all that rain and stuff. I hope its nice in whichever corner of the world you're in. Hmm how can you have a 'corner' in the world? I mean its round isn't it? And if its round it doesn't have corners.... Oh thanks for all your good wishes for my Harry. She's a lot better now thanks very much.

So thanks to last weeks players. Looks like a lot of you are getting ahead on your Christmas cards! I am too, well a bit and much more than usual. Most of mine are last minute and the glue just about dry before they hit the envelopes ;)) So I got the Random Picky Thing going and he picked Franca Email me your details and I'll get the prize off to you, please include the challenge number in the title line.

So this week is our Joanna Sheen week which means we have a nice easy sketch, well I drew it and I only can do easy! This weeks lucky winner will a £10 spend in Joannas super shop! Heck there's even free post and packing so its a full £10 of crafty wonderment for you. Oh and there are some absolutely fantastic things in there. I'm boring you all now aren't I? So....

Here's the nice easy sketch

And here's the inspiration from the Fantastic Gorjussettes;

Kat

Mary

Net

Nina

Squirrel

Fab huh?

You can turn, twist, rotate or flip the sketch - we'd like to see it somewhere in your submission though ;))

Please only submit new work and no back dating, they won't go into the random Picky Thing. Oh and while I'm nagging (only teasing) please link to your entry and not your whole blog.