Introducing Tucker the Elephant!

Hi everyone,
I am very sad today - no time for blogging or crafting all day!!! :(
You can be sure I am going to make up for it over the weekend though!! LOL
Anyhoo - Heather over at Heather'sHeavinlyStampations is celebrating the launch of Tucker the Elephant along with 8 other sets of stamps by Inktegrity. 

Heather actually got to name Tucker herself and I think you could say she is quietly chuffed to pieces.  She is giving away a set of Tucker stamps and one of the eight others being launched when she announces the winners next Thursday.  So what you waiting for - get on over there and leave a comment!  Good luck!

Follower's blog candy

I cannot believe as I am writing this that there are people out there who don't know about this candy.  It's Chris's birthday and she wants to celebrate by giving not one but two of her followers some blog candy.  Now here is the fabulous news:  The first candy is worth over $300 and is shown below:

And Blog candy number 2 is worth over $50 and is shown below:

Now, as I said this is to celebrate her birthday and to say a huge thank you to her followers.  All you have to do is become a follower and post about her candy on your blog - I'm sure sidebar will be fine.  You gotta go take a look - this is truly fab candy guys.

By the way, if you haven't seen my tutorial over at Digital Delights Tuesday Tutorials yet then please hop on over to have a look and leave me a comment so that I know you visited. Thanks alot.

Candy alert!!

Hi everyone in blogging land.
Just a quick note to say that Marianne is having a blog candy giveaway.  She has only been blogging since June (July for me) but like me is totally hooked and has decided to offer this candy as she has been lucky with her wins and has also been asked to be part of a DT too!!

All she asks is that you become a follower, post about her candy and put a link in your sidebar.  This is open until the end of October - so what are you waiting for - get on over there and follow, follow follow!!

Tuesday Tutorial!

Hello all,

Well, it's here.  Tomorrow is my first tutorial over at Digital Delights.  If you are on the Digital Delights home page click on the Tutorials tab at the top of the page.  I hope you all like what I have done for you and hey who knows, you may even learn something you never knew before.  I have really enjoyed doing this tutorial and now I can't wait for the next one.

Please leave me lots of comments - good or bad!  And if there is something you want to see on the Tutorial pages then why not let me know what you're looking for and I'll see what I can do!

Enjoy my blogging buddies and see you again in two.

Right now, it's down to some serious challenges.

By the way, don't forget, Wendy now has her own range of Clear Rubber Stamps over at Clear Dollar Designs. 

Click here to take you there and see what is on offer - I guarantee you won't be disappointed!

Gro's Candy

A quick note to say that Gro is celebrating blogging for one year, 15,000 hits (now approaching 20,000) and having done 300 posts.  This is super Candy so hop on over and have a quick look.

My Exciting News!!!!

Well, I think I must be dreaming, I can't believe it but Wendy over at Digital Delights has chosen Me, little 'ol Me to be part of her Tuesday Tutorial team. I will be sharing this spot with the multi talented Deanne Burton who will be posting tomorrow so be sure to check back tomorrow on the Digital Delights blog and check out her first Tutorial post for Digital Delights!

I will be back next Tuesday with my first Tutorial for you all, gosh, I am sooooo nervous, please be kind to me guys.
I want to thank Wendy for having the confidence to give me this opportunity and I want to say thanks to each and every one of you that comes back next week to see what I have to offer. Have fun people.
Many hugz
Dawn xxx

A round dozen!!!

Hello my blogging buddies
I hope this Sunday finds you all well and fighting fit.
I have been working on a couple of things today - one I can't tell you about until tomorrow! :) I am sooooo excited!!
And the other one is the card below:

For this card I used a Pollycraft image called Cherry Kisses Kitty.
I stamped and heat embossed a butterfly using a Clarity Stamp and once embossed with clear embossing powder I used Pee Wee glitters, coincidentally called "Butterfly" which I bought from Create and Craft ages ago and have ashamedly neglected them, and then added the butterfly using Silicone to raise it off the paper a little. 

The image was printed three times and I have decoupaged both Cherry Kisses and her Kitty.  I have used small pieces of wire for Kitty's whiskers again for a 3 dimensional effect. 

I have cut a pink tag from a book of Hot Off The Press papers called Garnet and used an odd piece of burgundy ribbon from my stash.  The cream/burgundy and green/burgundy papers are both from a 6 x 6 pack of Laura Ashley flock effect papers (a recent purchase from Hobbycraft) and the small flowers at the bottom are punched using two flower punches (again purchases from Hobbycraft).  I used a border punch around the edge of the image and a burgundy fibre (a candy win from Ellephantastic - thanks again Helen).

The spotty paper is from my craft stash and the little hearts were punched from Burgundy card.

Now I decided to follow the sketch and Sketch Saturday who also wanted you to include Pets that's why I chose the Kitty image.  Here is their sketch:

The other challenges I am entering this for are as follows - take a deep breath everyone:

ABC - E is for embossing

Simon Says - Card for Paige/Girly card

Artful Inkables- Something that sparkles

Charisma Cardz - Decoupage

Crafty Cardmakers - 3d Elements

Crafty Catz - butterflies

Creative Card Crew - All that sparkles

Digital Tuesday - Include a heart somewhere on your card

Pile it On - 3 Dimensional

Pink Elephant - Dots/Punch/Tag

Bizzy Becs Creatalicious Challenges - Colour Combo - Pink Burgundy and Green

Well folks I think that makes 12!   I am now going to sit down with a very large glass of wine!

Hope you like my efforts folks!