The Stampman Awards and Blog Hop

We are doing something a little different for Challenge # 13 at The Stampman. Last year we held our first awards event, the awards were for proudly presenting your best/favourite crafting project you feel you made during the year. We are going to hold it again this year but we are linking it with our fortnightly Challenge.

We would like you to join in the challenge, which is to show us your best/favourite project of 2010. The award blinkie is just a nice random award for anyone that joins in. Display your award blinkie on your sidebar with a link back to The Stampman challenge Blog.
The most important part of this is that we would like you all to have fun and enjoy taking time to look back on your crafting over the last year, so pick something you have made that you are particularly proud of and feel was your best/favourite work of 2010.

As part of the challenge we are hosting a Blog Hop.  You should have arrived here from the lovely Janet, if not jump back to the start of the hop HERE.

Here's my favourite Stampman project for 2010 which is The Look stamp from Tracey Coates' Alluring ladies set which was stamped on sticky back canvas and coloured with promarkers.

The next blog on the hop is MICHELLE and I guess you'll be wanting a letter or two from me?  That would be.... P  and I have an extra one which is A Don't forget to leave me a quick comment :)

A quick reminder what you need to do to play on this hop!

• Join in the actual challenge with your best/favourite projected linked with Inlinkz here
• Follow your way around the blog hop collecting all the letters you will find on each blog. Write these down then work out the answer when the hop is finished.
• Leave a comment on ALL the blogs you visit in the blog hop 
• Post our event blinkie onto your blogs or a post about the event with your best/favourite project
• Take your award blinkie with pride
• Email the answer to: thestampman@btconnect.com by 9pm (GMT) on Thursday 13th January 2011.  Please put bloghop answer as the title

Challenge Reminders

Its nearly the New Year, have you got any plans?  I'm a stay at home person, have been out once on New Year in 18 years lol!  Prefer to be around my kiddie winks as they're important to me so I like to see in the New Year with them :)

Anyway just a few reminders of challenges if you're looking for an excuse to use all that new stash you got!  I got a letrajet for my birthday on Tuesday, the promarker airbrush system so will be playing with that soon!

Tomorrow over at The Stampman we will be hosting an end of year blog hop with candy to be won!  It will run for 2 weeks and all will receive an award for presenting their favourite project of 2010!  It starts at 12pm tomorrow so hope you join in the hop!

Meanwhile over at the ranch - CRAFTY CARDMAKERS is asking to see your first or oldest projects (Scroll back to your first blog posts if you have nothing older)  Its a bit of fun, shows you how far you've come and some inspiring words from guests including Suzanne from Joanna Sheen's DT, Jill from The Stampman and Linda Elbourn designer for Craft Stamper.  You can make an anything goes with it but you must show an old card!


There is also an Anything Goes Mega Christmas challenge over at Passion for Promarkers, it can be any theme but you just need to use your promarkers or aqua markers and loads of great prizes up for grabs!


Finally there is also an Anything Goes theme at Crafts & Me until Wednesday and the prize being 2 stamps from their new artist and let me tell you my jaw hit the floor when Teresa told me who she'd signed, wowwwwweeeeee!  I am so excited to be working with this stamp range! 

I'll be back tomorrow to show my favourite Stampman project so pop back!

Anything goes at Crafts & Me

Its our last challenge of the year over at Crafts & Me Challenges and we're having an "Anything goes" for the next 2 weeks so pop over and come play!  There is a FAB prize up for grabs oh yes!

"THE PRIZE IS TWO STAMPS FROM CRAFTS AND ME OWN STAMP RANGE YET TO BE RELEASED SO YOU WILL BE ONE OF ONLY TWO PEOPLE BESIDES THE D.T'S TO HAVE THESE STAMPS ON RELEASE DAY IN JANUARY(YET TO BE ANNOUNCED)"

I am sooooo excited over these stamps let me tell you!  Can't wait for the release as they are wowzers!!!

Onto my DT offering for the challenge and my DD asked me to make a candle for a client who's decor is black and silver and I came up with this, doesnt photo very well as the wax coating reflects.

There's a tutorial HERE over on Letraset how to do them.  I've coloured with promarkers, the trim is the martha stewart doiley lace punch (secured with glue dots) with added iridescent crystals and I've added a silver flower with swarovski crystals on her hat.

Would also like to enter into...

Paper Playtime - Christmas
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Simon says stamp - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Critter Challenge - Anything Xmas
Thanks for stopping by & have a lovely xmas whatever you're doing x

A humourous xmas

Good Morning!  Its silly o clock here and  have FLU!  I havent had a proper flu for years and I'm suffering, also flaring the fibro up so popping painkillers and cant sleep.  Thought I'd tell you as I dont get no sympathies from my OH *sniff*
Seeing as I cannae sleep I thought I'd blog this one which is a 2 in one.  I saw the old lady image on Meesh's facebook and she told me it was by Just Inklined and I thought it would go soooo well with one of the Kenny K images.  We were trying to think of funny quips about beer goggles but my OH didn't want to appear to insult his friends partner lol!

On the front is Maude Merry Christmas coloured with promarkers.  I've given her tortishell glasses and glazed them and some coral lipstick as when I was a kid old ladies all wore coral lippy :)

Onto the inside which is Christmas Hottie by Kenny K again coloured with promarkers using cool grey 4 for the shadows and distressing around the edge with red ink.  All papers are from Bearly Mine Designs Xmas Frolics

Would like to enter into...

Kenny K Krafty Girlz - Distressing
Sparkles Forum Challenge - Christmas
Gingerloft - Distressing
Some Odd Girl - Bling x 2 (glamour dust, glittered flower and the little blingy sticky thing on the insde lol!)
Crafty Purple Frog - Christmas
Pennys - Christmas
Creative Inspirations - Anything goes xmas
Crafty Emmas - Anything goes
I love promarkers - Santa

I was kinda hoping to watch a bit of the lunar eclipse which is just starting but typical british weather its cloudy and I cant even see the moon so off back to bed x

Any Christmas babies?

I just thought I'd mention this (pass me my soapbox please Meesh!) I've noticed a couple of challenges running recently on "December birthdays" and the DT creations are beautiful, they really are *but* theyre essentially christmas cards with happy birthday on...

I'm a christmas baby as is my fwend Meesh and as Christmas babies I'd like to mention that we always get forgotten about.  We've lived our lives with comments such as "I got you this for xmas and your birthday" and birthday presents wrapped in spare christmas paper, tins of roses and leftover bottles of wine (I dont drink wine!)  Our birthday presents being left under the christmas tree (wrapped in xmas paper and the only way you know the dfference is if happy birthday is written on the label!)  We're slap bang in the middle of christmas and new year and WE WANT A BIRTHDAY like July people have!

So please spare a thought for us Christmas Babies and our forgotten birthdays and send a december baby a nice bright cheeful completely non christmas card and make their day!

PS.... I like cherry lambrini and archers :)