My Give-Away Winner

Just a quick post to congratulate the winner of my Give-Away. 

I used Random Org to select and as you can see the number generated from 46 entrants is number 2 and that is .........

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KATHYK of PURPLE PRINCESS DIARIES

Congratulations Kathy.

I hope you enjoy the new supplies and if you send me an email (address on my sidebar) I will get these in the post to you.

A huge thank you to everyone who took part.

Watch out for another give-away coming soon as I have just reached 600 posts and I thought that should warrant another pressie for some-one.

I have been out all day today but I am now gonna feed the grandchildren and then once I have dropped them home I will get onto WOYWW.

See you soon.

hugs {brenda} xox

GiveAway Winners

Hi Everyone

Sorry I am a little late in publishing my Giveaway winners but I have been having technology problems – it started with my Iphone crashing and having to re-set it to factory settings and losing everything. Luckily I had backed it up, but it was quite a few months ago so I have still lost some phone numbers and email addresses etc. Then my usb ports were causing power surges when I plugged anything into them and I couldn’t sync my iPod until I used a port on the back of the computer. Even now I have lost my printer network connection, it really frustrates me when my days get high-jacked with trying to sort out something I know little about. So that will now be a job for tomorrow.
 Onto the winners then. Firstly a huge thank you to everyone who took the time to enter and join in the fun. I had lots of lovely comments and some of you became new followers, which was fabulous because this wasn’t a condition for entry. There were 36 entries altogether of which 21 were followers, so they got an additional chance in both of the draws. 15 of you matched or improved on my 6Bs.

The winner of the first Giveaway prize – which includes


Two Books and a Box for altering
Blue, Brown and Black papers
Black (and white) Buttons and Bows
Bling - to include adhesive stones and glamour dust
chipboard Buttons
Butterfly 3D stickers
Beads

          Is number 42 and that is …………………Rebekah at Berrylicious.

The winner of the second Giveaway prize – which includes 

Butterfly stamps (papermania)          
Bare chipboard album
A Box canvas
A Book for altering
Black and white tags
Chipboard Buttons

    

 and that is ……………………..    number 15
    

Claire at Claire’s Crafty Creations.

Congratulations to you both and if you email me your address I will get these in the post to you as soon as possible. brenda_brown25@hotmail.com

Can I say a big welcome to -
cv.nikolaeva, buswellclare, shercauble455, Dragonlady, AK Hoynes, (sorry I do not have a links to your blogs from my followers list and cannot get over to see you). Rusty, Silvia, Debra, Noukie, Josie, Dawn, Sarah, Trisha, Zahreen, Chriisy, Emma, Gina, Debbie, Susie, Sue, Esther, Gayle, Lucy and Tammy Louise.

I am getting used to using Windows Live Writer and find it has so many more options for formatting text and changing the sizes of photos, so I shall continue to explore what else it has to offer.

Have a good week and look after yourselves.

luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

One Year Blogaversary and Giveaway

On the 29th January my blog is ONE year old. I can't believe I have been doing this for that amount of time, and still just loving it. I have looked back at the things I was posting in those early days and oh boy how different my work is now. I have experimented (and I still am experimenting) with so many styles of papercrafts and altering and have learnt so much from all you bloggers out there. This is such a wonderful community for sharing ideas and techniques and for making friends. Long may it last.

So to celebrate I am posting a small giveaway. Just a few bits and pieces that you may like. (But not my basket hehe).

In the basket is -
Sizzix Halloween embossing folders
Papermania ATC clear stamps
Jolly Nation Women accessory stamps
Making Memories Wedding stamps
Personal Impressions Cute Characters stamp set 2

Outside the basket is -
2 boxes for altering
1 x pack gem brads
1 x pack pearl brads
1 x 12 white gem flowers
1 x 12 pink gem flowers
Crafty Bitz pink and red flat back gems
1 pack Pergamano create your own cards.
I may well add some extra bits over the next couple of weeks.

All I ask is that you are one of my friends/followers (and I hope that if you decide to become a follower you do so because of the work I do and not just for the giveaway), and that you leave me a comment telling me your favourite card or project of mine that I have done in the last few months. I am interested to see what style people feel I do the best.

I will do a draw (using that random thingumy) on Valentine's Day, which is Monday the 14th February, so you have till midnight on the day before to leave me a comment.

I must thank Sarah at Sarah Wright Designs for her blog candy which I won woo hoo, so I have a nice pressie coming in the post too. Thanks Sarah xxx.

Good Luck and thankyou all so much for being part of my creative journey and for all your support.

luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

Blog Candy Winner

Hi Everyone, thanks for stopping by to visit me.

Today my blog candy has closed and I can't believe I have so many new friends, so a warm welcome to Angela, June, Belinda, Nikki, Sarah, Evelina, Sue, Donna, Satoko and Debs, you are so very welcome and I will be along over to see what you are doing if I haven't already.

So who won the tin of tags? Well ............ it is ..............

................................  and the lucky number 13 is Sarah A of Craft Naturally. Well done Sarah, I hope you will enjoy these tags and as promised I will be adding some other bits and pieces to the parcel.

Please email me your address and I will get it in the post this week.  brenda_brown25@hotmail.com

Thankyou to everyone who took part, thankyou for being fabulous blogging friends and followers and I look forward to seeing you all soon.

Keep a lookout in January when I have my first blogaversary and I will share some more candy with you.

Just a quick update with Mum - she is feeling a bit stronger today and the tube feed is obviously giving her some nourishment at last. The physio has also been round and got her out of bed for a while. I saw the doctor tonight and the diagnosis and prognosis is so much better than we were led to believe last week and I am more hopeful now that she will make a recovery and be able to come home. Thankyou so much for your prayers and good wishes, they have meant so much, and really helped to keep me going through this very tough time. My very best wishes to each and every one of you.

Right I am off to see what tag Tim created today, I have made a start on yesterdays and want to get that finished too.

Take care. luv {brenda} xoxox

Blog Candy Update

Hi Everyone

Just a quick post from me. Welcome to Melissa, Pami (a new team mate over at MAWTT),  Michelle and Katy, it is lovely to see you as new followers and I have passed the 100 post - amazing in less than 12 months of blogging - thankyou to all my following friends

I have just checked on the comments for my blog candy as we are one week away from the draw. 15 people have left comments, 14 are followers and 5 have put my candy on their side bars (I can't see posts on the other blogs), so 5 people are eligible for the draw. Please let me know if you have posted and you think I haven't seen it. I want everyone who thinks they are taking part to be sure they are.

Sorry I am not around at all at the moment, my Mum is in hospital and this is now taking up even more of my time. I am sooooo looking forward to being back and in touch.

Take care everyone - have a great week and keep warm.

luv {brenda} xoxox

Winner and My Blog Candy

Woo hoo I am a winner at A crafty Little Place with my tin of tags.

I still hadn't decided what to do with them  -  so I have decided that I will offer them as Blog Candy as I said I would give something when I got to 100 followers and I am almost there. See the post here to look at the tags individually as well.

If you would like a chance to win my little offering, - and I will ship worldwide,  - then please become a follower if you aren't already, post the candy on your blog on your side bar and leave me a message below with a link that I can contact you if you are the winner. The winner will be chosen by the Random Number chooser thingy.

I will add some other bits and pieces to this when I ship it out.

This will remain open until Monday 6th December so that hopefully the lucky recipient will get it before Christmas.

Have a good week.

luv {brenda} xox

And the winner is ..............

Happy Sunday Everyone

I have been to see my sister today and had to travel back in all that rain, oh my goodness the spray was awful on the M1 and there were delays on the M25 (as usual) because of the road works. But heyho I am back now.

So onto my blog candy - I have looked through all the suggestions for what I had done differently on my 'To Do List' card. Surprisingly there were only 10 guesses - but then that means there was more of a chance for those who did have a go. Anyway ................................

What did I do that was different and new for me? Well as you know I love using my distress inks and had recently been on a workshop with Hels Sheridan to explore ways of using them, but one thing I had never done with them until I made that card was  ...............................

PAINT WITH THEM

All my colouring up of images had been with promarkers.

So who is the lucky person who guessed this - and yes there was one!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO HAZEL

Hazel said   -     "MMm struggling to see what it is. Could it be the colouring medium you have used inkpads instead of pens??????"

So well done Hazel, a box of goodies will be wending it's way to you soon and I am adding a few other bits and pieces. I hope you have fun playing with them.

See you all again in a while as I have another post I need to do to get a challenge in before tomorrow.

Luv B xxxxx

My SURPRISE BLOG CANDY

Now come on you followers very few of you have guessed what I did that was new for me on my MAWTT challenge 65 - 'To Do List' card.

I tell you what ............ I will continue to promote this candy and say that those who have already had a guess have not yet got it correct, so please go back and have another go and those of you who haven't yet tried please go and take a look. I am now going to post this on my side bar as well.

Perhaps it's because you don't know what you could win that you are not trying or perhaps because it was in with the information about the card and the challenge that you didn't see it, but whatever - here is a pic of some bits I have got together already and there could be MORE added whrn I get home. (Depends if I get any more guesses).

So far there is a Lisa Bearnson 'Friends' mini album with all the bits included to make it up straight away, a fan with a stand ready to be made into a card or album, See-D's alphabet stamps, Distress Ink in Brushed Corduroy and a set of Tim Holtz clear stamps called 'Lost and Found'. (These are all brand new and unopened).

Now isn't that worth having a go for???

Go see what you can come up with and a little clue is .............  enlarge the pictures to see if that helps you.

I am not trying to get more followers by doing this but just to say thankyou to those who already are followers. So now it's up to you.

See you soon. Luv B xxxx