March ATC challenge is here...come join in x

Update .... The winner of this fabulous print which was up for grabs on the 'Cookie Doodle' challenge is on its way to live.....

H E R E....please click on the link...... Congratulations, you need to make a space on a wall and enjoy.

Back to our challenge
It's the beginning of March and another great ATC guest designer and blogging friend has joined us this month, some of you will already know Nancy, she has that wonderful challenge blog 'GOTHIC ARCHES,' Nancy updates a fab new challenge for us every Sunday ....
....you can find it H E R E.

Yesterdays challenge on GA was set by a very talented lady... Lynn Stevens her theme being 'Paris Exposition' .
Why not pop along and join in with her this week you will love it, it's a great shape to work with.


For those of you who do not know ...this is the lovely Nancy

Hello!
I am a dabbler. I love to create using all sorts of mediums.

Pattern papers, rubber stamping, fabric, wood, assemblage, collage, altered art, a never ending smattering of whatever strikes my fancy in whimsical moments.

I find creating allows my soul to be fulfilled and love to spend hours in the studio.
Love Nancy x

Nancy, has been so kind as to sponsor this months challenge by offering her plate of 'SEASIDE' stamps.... you can find them H E R E and as always to be in with a chance to win them please pop over to the link above.... find the price of them and email me the correct answer....

Also please leave a comment saying you would like to be entered in the draw... the names will be put into a hat, vase, box whatever I have to hand and the winner picked out by Marley, my DGS.... he loves that job :).

Your chance of winning Nancy's gorgeous give away closes on Sunday 7th March Midnight UK.... GOOD LUCK EVERYONE.

Okay back to this months challenge on our ATC blog ....SWAP 'TIL YOU DROP and as spring is in the air...(in some parts of the world lol) alot of us will be thinking of our gardens... me for one as this will be my first year with a garden in a long time.... Nancy has chosen the theme ' Garden Fairies' for us and has created 5 gorgeous ATC's using digital images from 'Paper Whimsy'

How would you like to take on this challenge and be in with a chance of owning one of Nancy's fab ATC's?

What do I have to do I hear some of you ask....

Easy Peasy...I cry...

Just create 5 ATC 's on the theme of ' Garden Fairies' ....send 4 into me to be swapped and keep the other one for your own collection.

Once you have created them and IF you have a blog please post them and leave a link to us..

tell us you have posted them and we will come and visit you.... you know we all like to come and see what you have created :)

Any more questions then PLEASE contact me on the addy in the header.

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS CHALLENGE AND HOPE THAT YOU ARE TOO.

The closing date for the ATC Garden Fairies challenge is 31st March.

A big thank you to Donna our Guest Designer for February's challenge 'Cookie Doodles'.

The winner of her fab Sketch will be announced a little later on on this post.... I will update the post.

An apology from Jenny.

Hello Chris,

I've just gone on to the ATC website and think I've been a bit ungracious. I'm not a fan of Blogs, but then I don't really understand them. So I thought I'd check on some of them.

ok I can see that it is fascinating to see what other people are up to and understand your comment about feeling closer to folk who join in the challenges.

I'll have to get my sons to get me started, But i'm last in the pecking order on the computer

I'll look forward to the March challenge.

Bye from Jenny.

Thank You Jenny x

Winners of my OWOH gifts yet to be announced sorry I am a bit behind on that one i have drawn it and its in a draft ready to post.

The winner of the 6 ATC's for the 30,000 Visits to our ATC blog is......

H E R E click on the... link is it you?

Will post a pic of them later when I have a new scanner... me thinks that scanning 34 sets of Zetti ATC's made it down tools.... lol.... I just bought 3 sets of new inks for it... okay they were compatibles ....put them in and CLUNK.... dead..... Hope that the company will exchange the inks for inks to fit my new one.....cos that's an awful lotta of rubber stamp money :( if they won't.

Another long post and if you are still with me...T H A N K Y O U :)

Hope that by now everyone has received their Zettie ATC's x

Chriss x...hope that I have not forgotten anything.

Guest ATC Designer over at SCD

Happy Friday and hey I am so excited as I have been asked to be this months Guest Designer over at Something Completely Different you will find them H E R E... When Carol asked me I thought... ME! ....Do you really mean me... well once I knew she meant it I jumped at the chance and I am thrilled to join SCD design team for the month of February taking on the challenge of creating 4 ATC's on a set theme 1 a week... well I love a challenge don't I.

Thanks for asking.


The challenge this week is MAD MARCH HARE well I have hundreds of stamps but not one single stamp to do with Alice, (Alice who the hell is Alice?..lol) and so as not to be beaten here is my take on the challenge....


'3 WISE MEN AND 1 MAD HARE'


Both the wise men and the hare stamp are those of Crafty Individuals.

Carol who runs SCD has also suggested and kindly agreed to run an ATC swap at the end of the month.

So the creative team on SCD hope lots of you will take part.

Join in the fun and upload your ATC onto your blog and we will come and Visit.

At the end of the month send Carol either 1,2,3 or ALL 4 ATC's with an S.A.E., (large letter stamp)and you will receive 1f or 1 back. A little piece of someone elses creativeness dropping through your door :)

Contact Carol via the email link on her blog and she'll send you the relevant info.

I was playing with 2 of my gorgeous Tanda female stamps last night and just thought that I would share them with you click on H E R E and visit Tanda see what other lovely goodies they have.

Ok and a very Happy Birthday DD Cheryl... we are having a girls PJ crafting party tonight with lots and lots of creative goodies and challenges going on and fab food, wine and lots of chocolate..don't you just wish you could be there. lol.

Sorry a little late posting this I didn't get the blogging clock right ..hopeless at that sort of thing.

Have a great weekend.

Chriss x

2nd post of Winter Day ATC's

Karen D, welcome Karen your first time with us :) Loved the use of Christmas serviettes.

Gez brilliant CI stamp used above thanks for taking on the challenge as I know you have been busy caring for your dad x

Chriss, I loved doing these (above).

Dawn, your first swap with us big welcome. x

Still more winter ATC's to be shown soon.

February's doodle challenge is on the post below, create your ATC's put them on your blog before you post them, leave a comment and then we can all come and visit you :)

Below is also my OWOH give away.

Hey the workmen are finally here to put a lintel above my kitchen window 7 months later....yahooo!

Only another dozen jobs to finish before I can do the nice stuff like put paint and pics on walls and a carpet on the stairs.

chriss x

EVERYONES A WINNER BABY, THATS FOR SURE

The very last of our birthday gifts S9 AND FS20 from the very generous Patty over at LAA


Who will be the the lucky person going home with them I wonder?


Popping out to generate the lucky number from Random.org be right back.

Pheeew all that running back and forth.... here we go....

I had also left a comment on this post, comment number 1 and so when putting the comments into the random number finder i left out mine and so we start at number 2-13

Good Luck Everyone

Off to see who won them.... BUT.... before you leave we have a little goody bag for each guest who attended our 3rd Birthday Bash.

First the winner of the other goodies

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

8

Timestamp: 2010-01-28 00:19:23 UTC

TO FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE WON CHECK OUT THE GENERATED NUMBER/S ON ALL THE ORIGINAL POSTS YOU LEFT COMMENTS ON


Now we all know you can't possibly have a Birthday Party without Birthday Cake and so... da-da....

Like magic you all get to take home a sheet of cupcakes and a sheet of phrases with you, my little thank you....now how good is that.


Thank you all for coming I soooooo enjoyed it.

Please would everyone who won ATC's send me their snail mail addy and those of you who won one or more of LAA send me the email addy you wish to receive your images and cake in..... watch out for the crumbs they make a mess in your printer. lol

This all took a little longer than I thought to post and so the BIRD ATC draw will be posted on Thursday evening.

That will keep you guessing...lol.

Good night to you all xxx

That's why they call it the blues...winners

10 members left a comment on these 2 blue's using CI harlequin and ledger stamps on the alchol ink backgrounds...inky fingers getting down and dirty with inks... love it.

Who are receiving them in the post very soon I wonder....

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7

10

Timestamp: 2010-01-27 17:46:41 UTC

Good Luck xx

where in the world are they going to live?

Another 8 comments left on this post so just who has been picked to give them a home?

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

1

2


Timestamp: 2010-01-27 17:27:14 UTC

Top one to number 1 who is happy to be herself..lol

bottom 1 to number 2 who is just discovering her Zetti legs.

they wont cost you anything as they wont need feeding.

Good Luck xxx

popping off to see who's home they are going to. x


scroll down are you the owner of any of our BB ATC's

2 MORE RANDOM WINNERS X

Thanks once again Chris for these 2 fab ATC's to give as pressies.

2 lucky winners will be chosen at random..

1st number out gets tip one and so on.

We had 8 comments on this post.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7

4

Timestamp: 2010-01-27 16:22:16 UTC

Good Luck xxx

SCROLL DOWN FOR OTHER BB WINNERS

2 MORE WINNERS X

AGAIN 2 WINNERS ON THIS POST

First number out gets the top one and 2nd number the one below.

We had 10 comments left on this post.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

10

2

Timestamp: 2010-01-27 16:10:04 UTC

Good Luck to you all xxx

NEWS UP DATE, Keys and Zetti ATC's

Hope that you have all had a Happy Sunday x

Here are some more Key ATC's and still a few more to come however the 1st ATC is one of my Zettiology ATC's that can be found over HERE



Key ATC's

Still another of Gini's to be shown next time. Get well soon Gini from all of us here.

Thanks to Sharon and Gini.

The blog candy winners for Hermines stamps should look out for them as they have been despatched to you...lucky you x

Thanks for looking

Chriss x

UPDATE,
KAREN OF SCRAPZ IS BACK IN TOWN WHY NOT POP OVER TO HER BLOG AND SAY HI, SHE HAS SOME NEWS, HER BLOG LINK IS ON THE RIGHT.

30,000 visits and Key ATC's,

Hi Girls and Nigel,

Some more of our KEY challenge ATC's and as you can see I have been playing and managed to put your names on your ART.... thanks for taking part.

Thanks for such a wonderful response to January's challenge, the Zettie ATC's are arriving thick and fast with emails still coming in asking how they can join in with the fun and become a club member.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE.

WOW, last week we went through the 30,000 visitor on our counter and so to celebrate I shall create 6 ATC's and put the names of our club members in a hat, pull out a winner and that person shall receive all 6...because without you all there would be no ATC blog for people to visit and take inspiration from... thanks to all of you who create and send in your challenge ATC's when you can.

Okay, I spent the weekend making ATC's.... how awful is that ...lol... I managed to create 17 to send out to those who entered but didn't win our blog candy draw... so please could you send me your snail mail address.

See more Key ATC's in earlier post's and still more to come in furure post's.

Please check out our Zettiology challenge for January.

Luv Chriss x

BLOG CANDY WINNERS AND ATC's

HELLO EVERYONE,

Well here we are with our winner's of the fabulous blog candy kindly donated by a very generous lady, Joan.... see her link under our blog candy sponsors..and why not check out some more of her lovely stamps.

I asked my DGS Marley to do the honours by pulling the names out of the hat......well my mixing bowl actually...... a bargain buy from a charity shop, all of £2 .....can you believe it :)

That chef is me...lol.

And the first out of the bowl is the winner of that FAB plate of Hermines stamps.... lucky you.

Our second name out is .... the winner of 3 twinchie stamps

And our 3rd winner also gets 3 twinchie stamps and she is ......all the way from Australia .....

Very well done to all 3.

Please send me your snail addy and I will pass it on to Joan she will send out your prizes ....ENJOY and if you want to show us something you create then email me a pic.

And as it's New Year I will send everyone else an ATC for taking part and if I don't already have your snail mail I will contact you. x

Please excuse the unpainted walls but my builder still hasn't come back to put a lintel in and then finish plastering and so I cant paint the kitchen. ... 5months of excuses...lol.

Some more of our KEY challenge ATC's

Thank you Chris love that grungy look x

Thank you to Karen, you really must see these in real life, love those words. x

Thank you Paula very girly and blingy all the way from Brunei x Paula has just set herself a blog up you can find her on the right...please pop over and make her welcome she has been doing our ATC challenges for more than a year now.

Pauls has also recruited her friend Tina also living in Brunei...welcome Tina we will meet and see her winter ATC's

I am sure there was something else I was gona tell ya BUT I cannot remember what it was...lol...the pills are not working.... Ah! I am back... I have remembered.... We ladies have our very 1st MALE stripper..oooops! sorry I mean SWAPPER..he is Nigel and you can find him over HERE.

Think thats it for now will be back again soon with some more KEY ATC's.

Don't forget our monthly challenge this month it's ZETTIOLOGY all details if you wish to join in are in the post below.

Happy Friday.

love Chriss x