Monday Candy Number 4 - Winner!

Evening everyone, a super quick post from me just to announce the winner of last week's candy.

My random number generator (otherwise known as my OH) chose the number 4.

That's you Valerija

Please email me at linda.levoir@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Lorraine, I apologise that I have not sent out last week's prize yet, I had a massive sort out and then couldn't find where I'd stashed the stamps I was giving away. I've found them now so the stamp will go in the post to you tomorrow.

Now...I did have a nice 500 followers candy planned. However, Blogger seems to be a bit broken and all followers lists have disappeared from people's blogs, including mine, so until they fix this, my candy will have to wait as I have no way to track it lol!

Until next time...

Monday Blog Candy Number 4

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Morning everyone! Monday has rolled around again, I hope you all managed some fun and relaxation this weekend. I'm back with my final giveaway for June. The first 2 stamps have been claimed and now posted out, and I'll be drawing the winner for number 3 this evening once I'm home from work.

This week I'm giving away this cute Lisbeth stamp from LDRS Creative.

If you would like to win this stamp, just be or become a follower and then leave me a comment in the comment section below and I'll draw a winner next Monday.

Good luck!

Monday Candy Winner number 3

Morning!

I'm a little late, this was supposed to go live last night, but I typed it up and saved it and rushed off to make dinner thinking I'd hit publish but oooops...

Time for the winner of my 3rd Monday Candy - Candibean -Hold Tight.

As previously my OH was my random number generator lol, picking a number between 1 and 20. 

He chose 9 and that is........

Lorraine of Rainey's Craft Room

Congrats Lorraine. please contact me at linda.levoir@gmail.com with your snail mail and I'll get it posted out to you. You have 1 week to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who entered and don't forget you till have another week to enter my 4th Monday stamp giveaway.

Next week I'll be changing things up a little as I will be offering a selection of goodies as a 500 follower candy as I only have 11 followers to go to reach that milestone!

Good luck :)

Monday Blog Candy - number 3

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Well Monday has rolled around again and i have a new stamp to give away.

This time it's a Candibean stamp called Hold Tight.

This is a brand new never been inked stamp.

If you would like the chance to win this stamp, you just need to be or become a follower and to leave me a comment below. 

If you would like to help me reach my 500 follower goal by sharing this post, I would be very grateful. but it isn't necessary to do so to be eligible to win the stamp.

I'll draw the winner of week 2's stamp tonight when I get home from work.

Have a great Monday!

Monday Blog Candy Week 2

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good weekend. I spent a lot of mine crafting as the OH was working nights

I'll be posting last week's winner this evening when I get in from work, so look out for that.

So this week I have a stamp from LDRS - Saturated Canary called Ducky. Brand new and in the original packaging.

If you would like to own this stamp, please leave a comment below. You do need to be a follower or become one. You don't need to do anything else, though I would, of course,  be very grateful if you shared the news with others.

I'll draw a winner next Monday when I post next week's stamp, and post the winner that evening.

Good luck! 

Monday Blog Candy!

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Morning!

I've been trying to have a bit of a sort out of my crafty stuff recently and I found a lot of stamps that have never seen ink, where I have doubles or have the digi version, and some that have been inked up just once for a DT post and then packed away again. As I'm approaching my 3 year Blogversary on the 29th June, I thought it would be a good idea to give these away.

Then I thought of all of you lovelies who follow my blog, many of whom leave me lovely comments which I often don't have time to return the love (I do always visit, even if I don't comment), if I could afford to give up work, I would dedicate an hour or two each day to visiting blogs and leaving comments, but sadly work and travel to and from work takes up a huge chunk of my time, it doesn't leave a lot of time for crafting, blogging, sharing on Facebook, commenting on FB and blogs as well as time spent with family and friends and finally squeezing some time in to spend with my poor very patient and mostly understanding partner lol! One big lot of blog candy only benefits one lucky follower.....so what if instead of one BIG lot of candy I split it up?

So that's what I decided to do. Throughout June and July I'm going to be giving away a stamp every week, and because we all tend to get the Monday morning blues, I thought I'd do this every Monday.

This is just for blog followers, I'll do something separate for my Facebook and YouTube followers at another time, but this is to celebrate my Blogversary of 3 years, so it's open to followers of my Blog only.

To enter just be or become a follower of my blog (this needs to be via blogger as I can't track followers on Blogloving etc, you can follow that way too, but you need to be a blogger or google follower to count for entry), and leave me a comment below the post. I'll draw a winner the following Monday evening after I post the new stamp I'm giving away.

You don't have to do anything else, but if you could share the post or put a button on your sidebar I would be very grateful.

So the stamp I'm giving away today is a brand new never been out of the packet  La-La Land Crafts stamp called

Kimono Marci with Umbrella

So if you would like to win this stamp just leave me a comment below and I'll draw a winner next Monday.

Good luck! 

Candy!

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Well it's very late but finally I'm here with my promised Candy. Honestly I had so much trouble taking pics of this, meant to do it in the day but forgetting and since that's only the weekend that I can do it I had to make do with artificial lighting and it kept reflecting off the packets lol.

Anyway, so the pic is not perfect but shows what I'm giving away.

The candy contains the following 8 rubber stamps:

1Candibean - Friendship is the Sweetest

 Candibean - Wild Thing

Magnolia - Tilda with Big Icecream

La-La Land Crafts - Masquerade Marci

Candibean - Pamper Time

Saturated Canary - Multi-Tasking Mama

Dollhouse - Wings

Lisbeth - Winter Cuppa

So how do you enter? It's easy.

1. Be a follower

2. Share this with others. You can do this by adding a button to your blog (if you don't know how to then check out this short tutorial here), or by mentioning it on your blog and linking back to this post.

3. Leave me a comment below so I can add you to the draw.

I'll draw a winner on Christmas Eve, so you have until then to enter. New followers can enter as well as existing ones, but please, no candy only blogs.

This candy is just for my blog followers, but I will be adding some Facebook only Candy and some YouTube candy later in the month.

That's all from me today, good luck! :) xx

Butterflies and Bling Candy Giveaway

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Hi everyone.

As a little thank you to everyone following my blog this year I have a little end of year giveaway.  I thought that instead of doing one big giveaway, I would do a few smaller ones, breaking them down into separate categories as not everyone likes/wants the same thing.  So for my Candy today (there will be at least 2 more over the holidays) I thought I'd give away some of the bling and butterflies that I often use on my cards and that so many of you admire.  The photos really don't do them justice, mostly because my photography skills for these small items are not the best!

So....if you would like to have the chance to win these lovely embellishments all you have to do it.

1. Be a follower.  If you're not already, you can become one and still enter, but please no Candy only blogs/followers.
2. Add your name to the link up below.
3. Share the love.  You can either put a button in your side bar with a link back to this post. (instructions on how to do this can be found here). Or if you are with Wordpress or something that makes a sidebar button difficult, you can make a small post on your blog and link back from there....

and that's it! Simples!  :) xx

I'll be posting the winner after 10 am UK time on the 2nd January, so you don't have to long to wait to see if you won, and I'll post World Wide.

An InLinkz Link-up

Celebration Candy Winner

Good morning everyone!  I hope you're all starting a lovely weekend, the sun is shining here in the UK and I'm looking forward to enjoying a relaxing weekend and some crafting thrown in for good measure.

I've had a delivery this week of some Inktense pencils, after buying a starter set at the Lili of the Valley birthday bash last weekend, I decided I loved them so much I couldn't be without the full set, especially as they're so portable and non messy. So you can expect to see some cards from me in the coming weeks, coloured with this new (for me) medium.  Also because I now have a full set I'll be giving away a starter set of these fabulous pencils as candy, but more of that in another post.  Right now it's time to announce the winner of my current blog candy. Random.org has picked....

....number 34, that's you Cebelica.

Please email me at linda.levoir@gmail.com with your postal address, and I'll get that posted off to you next week.

For those of you who didn't win this time, I will be having more candy in months to come.  I have an Inktense Pencils give away to sort in the next day or so, and then it will fast be approaching my Blogversary on the 29th June, so I'll have a special Candy for that.

Have a great day everyone and happy crafting!! : ) x x

Candy.....finally!

Happy Saturday folks, I'm feeling a little better today, not quite so full of cold, and I finally got around to sorting out the candy I promised to have for reaching 100 followers and my birthday.  I know, I know, that was back in February...I really have been incredibly busy.  

Anyhoo, seeing as I have now reached 150 followers ....whoohoo!!...I thought it was time to get my backside in gear. So finally I'm offering the following:

Now there wasn't a lot of room and some bits got rather covered so I'll quickly list what's there:

1 x La-La Land Crafts, Pinata Marci Rubber Stamp

1 x Whimsy, Time for Tea Sweetheart Rubber Stamp

1 x Magnolia Aquarius Tilda Rubber Stamp

1 x Kraftin' Kimmie Michele Rubber Stamp

1 x Saturated Canary Charmings Rubber Stamp

10 x various MagnoliaInk 6'' x 6'' Design Paper

1 x KaiserCraft  Up, Up and Away Collection 6'' Paper Pad

A selection of plain and fancy buttons

18 x bunches of Wild Orchid Craft paper flowers (various styles as shown)

A large selection of decorative pins

A selection of charms

A selection of metal clips and embellishments

A selection of lace, ribbons and trims

All you need to do to be in with a chance to win is:

1. Pop you name in the linky below

2. Be a follower (or become one) (Unfortunately you will need to follow by the standard blogger or google method as I have no way of tracking followers by email or other methods)

3. Pop the pic in your side bar and link back to this blog

For those of you who are new to this, I've written out a simple 'how to' for how to add the pic and link to your side bar here. I know how difficult I found it when I first started blogging (though they have made it easier now).

This candy will be open until  15th May, and I'll ship worldwide,  good Luck!!

Pinch Me I'm Dreaming with Added Candy

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Good afternoon all you lovely people, it's the weekend!!  I'm doing the happy happy dance around the house today for many reasons. 

1: After an exhaustingly busy and stressful weekend at work, it's finally the weekend and that means I can craft and relax.

2: Although it's cold it's sunny out and that makes me happy, I went to the post office early today to post out a card and the parcels to my Candy winners and it was lovely :)

3: I had some incredibly fab news this week......but let's start at the beginning to explain that one.

A few weeks back the super lovely Tracy from Dies to Die For put out a DT call on the DTDF FB page and yours truly thought she'd try her luck. DTDF is one of my all time favourite online craft stores, the selection of dies is...well the hint is in the name...to die for lol.  They have such a huge and wonderful selection and in addition to this they sell a gorgeous array of beautiful strokeable paper and more stamps than you can shake your ink at, as well as masses of lovely embellishments and trims.  If this isn't enough, when you get your order you also receive a lovely surprise because Tracy puts a selection of die cuts in with your parcel for you to try out.  

Anyway I love the store and so was just completely on cloud 9 when I picked up an email from Tracy on Monday asking if I'd still like to join the DT...haha, would I ever....I was grinning like the Chesire Cat all day at work, I think they thought I'd finally cracked lol!  So you could say I'm very very happy right now ;)

So to celebrate my fab news and happy mood, I'm offering some Candy.  To link it with the the Dies to Die For  store, it will be a £15 gift voucher to spend there on whatever you like..

..but this Candy draw is going to be a little different to my last.  Instead of using Mr Random, I'm going to do the old fashioned pull names out of a hat...wait for it, there's a good reason.  Instead of having just one chance to win, you can have several and I'll explain how below:

• For the chance the win you need to be or become a follower of my blog, and link back to this post, either by a post or by putting a pic and link in your side bar, either will do and then leave me a comment below letting me know you've done that.

• For another chance to win (and this is why I'm drawing names from a hat, cos I can put in your name again, IE 2 pieces of paper with your name on so 2 chances) just like my Facebook page (I know not everyone has FB, but this is an option for an extra chance it doesn't stop you entering). You can click the link at the top left of my blog to take you there. If you do , please add that to the comment you leave so that I know to add your name to the draw again. If you've already liked my page previously, that counts too.

• For yet another chance to win, become a follower of the Dies to Die For blog you can find the link here. Make sure you tell me you've done it in your comment so that I can add your name to the draw another time. current followers also qualify, just let me know you're already a follower of the blog.

• Finally for yet 1 more chance, go like the Dies to Die For Facebook page, the link is here and let me know in your comment so you get another draw entry. Again if you've liked it before so are already following, just mention it, that counts too :)

Easy right? That's up to 4 chances to win! But please no Candy grabbers, I will be checking to see that there are no Candy only blogs entering.  This Candy will run up to Christmas eve and I'll do the draw at midnight, so some lucky someone will wake up to an extra gift on Christmas day :)

This post will stay sticky until my Candy is won.

My posting day for DTDF is Tuesday, so look out for a card from me then and I may be back with a card today too if I get my skates on hehe.

Enjoy the rest of your day, hope your weekend is as brill as mine :) xx

Hey Little Birdie, A Creative Romance DT

Happy Friday to all my lovely followers and visitors.  I'm so very glad that this week is over, it's been hectic, stressful and downright depressing. At the end of last week I was on top of the world and regardless of being too busy to catch a breath everything seemed to finally be going right, then I came crashing down to earth last night with some awful news, I won't go into details here but Christmas was almost cancelled.  We managed to pull some of the worst of it out of the fire, but still Christmas is not going to be quite so merry as it was.  Ahh well, I dare say I'll bounce back in time, but anyway I'll stop whinging now and share my card.

It's time for a new challenge over at A Creative Romance, and as it's our last one for this year, both the teams have combined to make it extra special.  The theme is 
'Sparkle at Christmas' 
so we want to see lots of sparkle on your cards.  Here's my take on the challenge.

I used one of the new Sugar Nellie Christmas Fairies but avioded a Christmas sentiment so that the card could also be used as a card for a winter birthday, or  thank you card etc.

I've used a Martha Stuart Punch Around the corner set to shape the card, and a Go Kreate die for the base of the image. Other dies used are Magnolia Doohickey Die - Leaf and Swirl  and  La-La Land - Scalloped Border The gorgeous papers are by Maja, from my favourite collection 

Crea Diem - With All My Heart and 

True Friendship love, love, love these. They've all been inked with Pumice Stone DI and stitched with grey top stitch thread and plenty of stickles on the edge for more sparkle.

I just love this image, all the new fairies are fab tbh, this one is called Hey Little Birdie, isn't she adorable?  Sooo pretty, I coloured her with Copics as usual, but I tried to keep my colouring quite light, as she's really delicate looking.  I really must try out colouring with distress inks soon, I think they would quite suit this. I'd add them to my Christmas list, but my list is already so long I think Santa may end up with a hernia lol!

I've added lots of Glamour Dust to her hat, collar, cuffs and wings for plenty of sparkle.

Flowers, ribbons, button . twine and lace are from The Ribbon Girl. The bird charm is from my stash.

I finished off with some clear gems for ...yup, you got it...extra sparkle.

This card is for sale in my Etsy Store with some other recent ones.

I hope you like my inspiration for today, do head over to A Creative Romance to check out the rest of the teams creations, they are very drool worthy!  Why not join in our challenge, you can use any image, and can enter as many times as you like and combine with other challenges, as long as it's a new creation and follows the theme.  We have a fab prize on offer from our sponsors 

Little Darlings Rubber Stamps....yum!

Well that's it from me today, if you haven't already, do take a look at my other card for today...it couldn't be more different than this one other than the colour lol, and if you haven't already entered my giveaway for a 

Dies to Die for £15 Gift Voucher 

you can find it 

here 

with up to 4 chances to win!

Enjoy your day, I'm working till 4.30 pm but I have crafting planned for my weekend, so I'll see you soon :) xx