Welcome to the Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge Blog. New challenges will be posted each Friday morning. You may combine your entry with any other challenges you like, as long as your entry has a stamped or digi stamped image on it. Please make sure your entry has not been previously posted on your blog. It must be a new card.
Please post your entry on your blog with a link to our challenge before 8 pm on the Thursday prior to the new challenge starting and use the Mr Linky widget to link to your project ONLY - NOT your blog.
If you don't have a blog we do accept email entries, please email us a picture of your card or project and we will upload it to the challenge blog for you.

November 20, 2009

Challenge 25 - Its Sketch Time!

Good Morning Everyone!!


Before we go on to the challenge we have some Winners to announce!


The Winner from last week of the BIG CELEBRATION CHALLENGE is ... 






Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:
15 
Timestamp: 2009-11-19 21:28:03 UTC


Congratulations go to



If you would email me I will speak with Heidi from Simon Says Stamp ASAP so you can start shopping in the store!! If you'd like to look in the Side Bar there is a Winners Blinkie for you.


Our Top Three Winners this week chosen by the team are:










Congratulations Ladies - If you look in the Side Bar this is a new Blinkie for the Top Three Winners


These blinkies are Courtesy of Donna at Bearly Mine Designs! If you've not checked out her blog shop, can I ask WHY NOT hehe... She has some amazing backing paper discs available! 


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CHALLENGE 25 - A SKETCH!


This weeks challenge has been set by our lovely and very talented team member Nancy!


Nancy had created this Sketch and all of the team are waiting in anticipation as to what you come up with!







Nancy is also sponsoring this challenge and has lined up this stamp for the one lucky winner!!

Its Doraline and Dexter under the Mistletoe!
How cute are they!


Its only right that we start with Nancy's card as the Sketch is hers!!


 


























I hope the team and I have been some inspiration to you!


Have a wonderful week, and have fun!!




Good Luck!


The Stampin' for the Weekend Team
Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!





If Mr Linky decides to go for a walk when you need him, please leave a comment with a link to your challenge piece.Please only use the comment box if Mr Linky is unavailable.

November 13, 2009

Lets Celebrate!! Challenge #24

Good Morrow Stampers!


A fair few of you gave the Festive Goodie Boxes a bash last week. Thank you so much for jumping outside your comfort zones and getting stuck in. Some fabulous works of art!


The Winner this week to be chosen by Random.Org is...



Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:
5 
Timestamp: 2009-11-12 20:09:46 UTC



Congratulations Sonja!!


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And our Top 3 Winners are:








Congratulations Ladies!
If you'd email me using the side bar I will see that the prize is arranged and also your top winner blinkies forwarded onto you!
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Before we move onto our challenge this week, I'd like to take a moment to say a HUGE thank you to Penni


Penni is leaving the team and the Stampin' girlies and myself would like to wish her well for the future!

Take care hun xx

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On to this weeks challenge!!!


This week we would like to see some BIG Celebration Cards or Projects! - so those big land mark birthdays - 1st, 18th, 21st, 30th etc or those big Wedding Anniversaries - Ruby, Gold, Silver etc - you could even count a wedding or a christening! The choice is yours!


I'd like to let you in on a little secret! Donna - one of the original founders of Stampin' for the Weekend who left a couple of weeks ago celebrates a BIG birthday on Sunday! Wonder if you can guess what age she will be (Wont be very hard if you look at my card haha - Sorry Donna).


Our Sponsor this week is




Heidi is offering one lucky Stamper a $25 Gift Voucher to spend in the Simon Says Stamp Store!!
Thank you Heidi J



Onto our cards then!!


Our Guest Designers this week are the fabulous








I think that is all from us for now, so all that is left to say is...


Have Fun and Good Luck!


The Stampin' for the Weekend Team
Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!







If Mr Linky decides to go for a walk when you need him, please leave a comment with a link to your challenge piece.Please only use the comment box if Mr Linky is unavailable.


Thank you

November 06, 2009

Festive Goodie Box - Challenge 23







Good Morning fellow Stampers!


This week we have a fabulous challenge (even if I do say so myself!)


Vicki one of our very talented and versatile Desigers has come up with this weeks challenge!


FESTIVE GOODIE BOX!!


Yup - We'd all like to see some boxes which you can put some festive goodies in, be it a present for Chritsmas or some yummy choccies or biscuits - the choice is yours!


Vicki would also like to see some Distressing, as its one of her favourite techniques, however this is not a must!!


As a Thank You for following Vicki's challenge she is offering up this Gorgeous Candy!!









12x12 MME Just Dreamy Papers
A Bottle of gold glimmer mist
Tea Roses


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We have two lovely Guest Designers this week!







If you are unaware of who Benedicte is, she is the very talented daughter of our own Nancy - Yup, thats right, Benedicte is following in her Mum's footsteps and has found a passion for crafting! Please visit Benedictes Blog and just see how beautiful her cards and projects are!



The uber talented Gry-Heidi with us again this week.

Its Gry-Heidi's last week with us, so don't forget to visit her too!


So onto the teams Festive Goodie Boxes!!














I hope there has been plenty of inspiration for you this week. We can not wait to see what you come up with!


Have Fun and Good Luck!


The Stampin' for the Weekend Team
Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!











If Mr Linky decides to go for a walk when you need him, please leave a comment with a link to your challenge piece. Please only use the comment box if Mr Linky is unavailable.


Thank you

Winners for Challenge 22

Good Morning.

I'd like to take the opportunity to announce a few changes! From today, we will be choosing our Winner by Random.Org to make everything fair. We will still be having our top picks, however, not this week.

For this week only, we have just a winner! Next week we will be back to normal with our top picks and Random.Org choosing a winner.

Thank you!


Soooo.. The winner this week of the Peachy Keen Stamps $25 shopping voucher is:


Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

14 

Timestamp: 2009-11-05 23:42:00 UTC


Number 14 which was


Tara!!


Congratulations Tara. If you'd like to email me using the button in the side bar and give me your full name and address I will pass it on to arrange your Shopping Spree.


Thank you to everyone who participated. It was a tough Challenge but you did us proud!


Kimmi xx

October 30, 2009

Challenge 22 - Back to the 80's with a Twist!

Good Mornin' Stampin' Fans!


This week we have a bit of a challenge on challenge thing going!


We'd like to see you use the following Colour Combination on your cards and projects this week!


Orange, Blue and Purple!


AND
Use one of the following Song Titles from the 80s for inspiration


Girls on Film - Duran Duran


Dirty Laundry - Don Henley


Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper


[Please just use the song title as inspiration, don't over complicate things by reading into the lyrics :o) ... ]

This weeks sponsor is Peachy Keen Stamps!


One of you lucky stampers could win a $25 Shopping Voucher to spend in the store!
How cool is that - There are load of fabulous cute and fun stamps in the store, which I have still to get my hands on!!


We have THREE Guest Designers this week.
Aunty Sue's second week with us was postponed until now, and then we have two lovely ladies Lil Sis (a.k.a. Becky) and Gry-Heidi!


Please leave them some love as they've been working their socks off coming up with cards for this challenge!


Lets start with:












Then we have the Design Team's Cards for you!
Check out the colour shades and the images we've all used!
















Good Luck and Enjoy Crafting


I do hope there is a lot of Inspiration you can use from the Design Team and Guest Designers! Please do check out their blogs and leave them some love too!

Have Fun!!




The Stampin' for the Weekend Team


Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!






If Mr Linky decides to go for a walk when you need him, please leave a comment with a link to your challenge piece. Please only use the comment box if Mr Linky is unavailable.


Thank you

Winners!

Whoop Whoop!

Its another Friday which means we have another Winnner!!

The lady taking home the prize this week of the fabulous Designer Extreme Vol III disc from Bearly Mine Designs is


{drum roll please}




Congratulations Dawn - please send me your details, inc full name and address and I will arrange to have the fabulous disc sent out to you!
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Top 5 Winners are as follows!!


Congratulations Ladies!

If you would email me using the button on the side bar and I will arrange for your Top 5 Blinkie to be sent to you!

Ooooooo some fabulous cards this week. Can not wait to see what you come up with this next week!

xx

A Goodbye!!

Hello Stampers!!

Its a sad day today as we are losing one of our members.


Vanja has stepped down from Stampin' for the Weekend to pursue other interests outside of Crafting. She will still be around from time to time and we all hope that Vanja will grace us with her presence in the challenges we hold in the future.

The team and I would like to wish Vanja the very best of luck in the future with her card making and life in general!

Its been a pleasure to work with you sweetie and I do hope we see you out and about in blog land!

Take care, lots of hugs!

The Stampin' Girlies!

Here are some of Vanja's Works of Art while she's been with us!




October 23, 2009

Winners of Challenge 20

Wow - Lots of variation on Amy's Fabulous Sketch from last week. We've enjoyed looking through your cards this past week and we have picked some winners!!

The winner of the WoJ Stamp Bruno with Cupcake is:



Congratulations hun! Could you email me using the button on the side bar and I will arrange for the stamp to be sent to you. I will need your full name and postal address!


The team have been busy again and have picked their top 5!

The winners of the Top 5 Blinkies are :






Congratulations Ladies.

If you could email me, I will send you out the Top 5 Blinkie!

Hope to see you all in this next weeks challenge which is Halloween Themed!

Good Luck all, and more importantly - Have Fun!

xxx

Challenge 21 # A Haunting Good Time

Good Morning Fellow Crafters



Firstly, I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took the time and effort to join in last weeks sketch challenge, it never fails to amaze me how one sketch can be interpreted so many different ways, all the entries last week was amazing, thank you for supporting our little blog here at Stampin' for the weekend.

This week we would like to see you all come up with some Fangtastic Halloween Cards, our Design Team and Guest Designers have made some outstanding creations to share with you this week.

This weeks sponsor is Donna from Bearly Mine Designs and she is offering the winner a copy of the amazing Designer Extreme Volume III, and I can promise you there are some really lush papers on this CD, you're going to love this prize.





We are joined this week by 3 Guest Design Team Members













Now onto our Design Team Creations































Please remember to visit our Design Team Members and Guest Designers blogs, as their creations always amaze.


So fellow crafters that's what we've come up with this week, we can't wait to see your creations.

Good Luck and Enjoy Crafting


The Stampin for the Weekend Design Team


Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!




If Mr Linky decides to go for a walk when you need him, please leave a comment with a link to your challenge piece. Please only use the comment box if Mr Linky is unavailable.

Thank you

October 16, 2009

Winners for Week 19

Hello

Ooooo I never thought we'd see so many of you for last weeks challenge but you've gone and blown me away! Nearly 100 of you (had to discount the duplicate entries)!

Its with a Great Pleasure that the Winner of the Simon Says Stamp $25 spending spree goes to (drum roll please)


Congratulations Norma - please contact me using the side bar and I will arrange for your prize for you !

This week, I think the team were overwhelmed with the response we had! If it were up to the team I think each and everyone of you would have a Top 5 Blinky!

Well - The teams Top 5 Are :






Congratulations Ladies - If you'd like to email me using the side bar, I'l get right onto it to let you have your Blinkie - for being a Top 5 Winner :D

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Challenge 20 - A Sketch for you!

Good Morning Everyone.




Thank you to each and everyone of your who took part in last weeks challenge. It was lovely to see you all back with us. I've had a few problems with Blogger and I'm hoping that this will be posted 9am sharp Friday morning. I've tried to leave comments on most peoples blogs, but for some reason, each time I did I was either asked to log in, or my comment never appeared - Bad isnt ! I hope this week I get to leave lots of comments!



This week we have a Sketch from our wonderful and very talented teamie Amy! Amy got her creative hat on for this weeks challenge and came up with the Sketch below!





This weeks Sponsor is the lovely Katharina from Whiff of Joy. Whiff of Joy hosts many stamps by Elizabeth Bell and Alison Acton. The below stamp is one of the Animal Party Stamps which was released not that long ago. You can check out the collection here!

Bruno the Bear with Cupcake is on offer to the lucky crafter this week, so to be in with a chance , take a look at the Guest Designer Cards and the Design Teams cards and get creating!


Our Guest Designers this week are: Jerusha and Tracy.


It is Jerusha's last week with us, so please go visit her blog and leave her some love! I'm sure she'd appreciate that!


Tracy has created this little cutie of Henry (also a WoJ Stamp) and he is so sweet! Tracy will be designing for us this week and next!


So - On to the Design Team's Cards starting with mine. Please visit the teams cards and see how they made them and what they used - I love visiting blogs as you pick up so many tips and techniques that you yourselves might like to use!



So ladies and gents - Have a wander around the fabulous DT cards on their blogs, then get your thinking caps on and start those craft engines!!!
Good Luck
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The Stampin' for the Weekend Design Team
Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!






If Mr Linky decides to go for a walk when you need him, please leave a comment with a link to your challenge piece. Please only use the comment box if Mr Linky is unavailable.


Thank you

October 09, 2009

Welcome Back Everyone - New Challenge!

Good morning and welcome to another challenge from the Stampin' Team!


Again, I am sorry we have been 'off line' so to speak due to family and health issues, but hopefully we are back up and running to some degree.


For this challenge we have a colour combo, which screams 'THE END OF SUMMER IS HERE!'


~ This weeks Colours! ~
So lets see your autumn colours and the fabulous creations you will come up with!
Orange, Brown and Leafy Green



Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp.



The lovely and very generous Heidi is again giving away a fabulous $25 spending spree in the Simon Says Shop! If you've not visited the shop, go have a peek - there are fabulous craft items for sale!!




So on to the cards





Guest Designers:
We have two lovely guest designers this week. Sue and Jerusha. So would you please be kind enough to visit their blogs and leave them some love. They are both very talented ladies. Sue will be designing for us today and again at the end of the month, and Jerusha will be with us this week and next!


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Now for the wonderful Stampin' Teams Cards, starting with:














So ladies and gents - Have a wander around the fabulous DT cards on their blogs, then get your thinking caps on and start those craft engines!!!
Good Luck
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The Stampin' for the Weekend Design Team
Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!





If Mr Linky decides to go for a walk when you need him, please leave a comment with a link to your challenge piece. Please only use the comment box if Mr Linky is unavailable.
Thank you

October 08, 2009

Goodbye from Donna

Hello everyone, just to let you all know that I as one of the creators of Stampin' for the Weekend, will be stepping down effective immediately. Kimmi and the rest of the team will carry on with the challenge blog, with the new challenge starting tomorrow, so I wish them all the best and hope you will continue to join in on their weekly challenges, but for myself, I've come to realize I was spending far too much time on my "hobby", so now I will go on and enjoy my other interests including spending more time with my husband and our dog Kody, and just craft when and as I wish. I want to thank you for all the support you have shown when we first started this challenge blog up and also for the lovely comments you have left for myself and emails received since I became ill, although I am on the mend, it may still be some time, so best of luck to you all.

hugs
Donna xx

October 03, 2009

Winner of Challenge 15

Hello Everybody...

I believe that Challenge 15 has no winner as of yet, so I have used the trusty Random.Org generator to give me a number. There were 30 entries and one of them was of Stampin' so we had 29 entries in total which were eligible for the draw.
So - Having done the draw the result was:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

12 

Timestamp: 2009-10-03 16:29:40 UTC


GroT


Could you please email me using the link on the side bar so that I can give your details to Heidi over at Simon Says so that you can spend those $25 on some crafty goodness.


From the 9th October, we will be doing the personalised draws as per usual, unfortunately for this week we do not have a top 5 :( but good news is, it will be back on the 9th Oct!


See you all then for some fun challenges!

October 01, 2009

Announcement - Good News!!!

Hello Ladies and Gents!

I am back to blogging after spending two weeks with my family grieving for my Brother who I lost sadly to a horrific car accident on the 13th Sept - I am still grieving and I will miss him greatly, but I know in my heart of hearts, he'd hate for me to sit around moping and crying for him which is what I have been doing of late. He'd laugh at me and say, 'get on with our kid, divint cry ova me!' He was my big brother and my only one at that, I will always keep his memory alive and talk about him to Poppy too, so she knows the Uncle she had so briefly loved her lots!

Now - I have some good news for you all. As of the 9th October Stampin' for the Weekend will be live again, so spread the word! We will have more fun challenges for you and the team and I will be eager to see what you all come up with !

Donna is still very much unwell at the moment and unable to craft at all due to dizzy spells. Hopefully she will be back with us soon. She has made a few cards for the upcoming challenges in advance so you may yet see her work, however, she may not have a post for it.

On behalf of the Stampin' Teamies and myself, we will see you all on the 9th of October!!

September 13, 2009

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to a death in Kimmi's family, and with my ill health at the moment, I am afraid we are currently suspending Stampin' for the Weekend. Not sure at the moment when we will be back. I hope you all understand, and I thank you for the support you have shown to our challenge blog.

Many thanks
Donna and Kimmi xx

September 11, 2009

Winners of Challenge 14

Good Morning Crafters :D

Please scroll down to the next post for this weeks challenge!

Thank you to everyone who entered the challenge last week. We loved visiting all of your cards. Donna and I had a very difficult task of choosing a winner as we had different favourites to each other, however, we managed to chose a winner and the winner is :


Congratulations!
You've won the gift voucher to The Craft Barn where you can spend it on some crafty items, I'm sure are on your wish list and in stock over there! Have fun - Please send us your details by clicking the link in the side bar to email us, and we will arrange your prize for you!



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Oh boy - The team have had a wild time picking out their favourites. They have managed to pick a lot of people and they have chosen the following five people to receive the fabulous Top 5 Blinkie!






Congratulations Ladies!!
Please email us so that we can pass you your Top 5 Winners Blinkie so you can proudly show it on your blog :D

If it were up to the team, I think everyone for this challenge should get a blinkie as I think this week was a real toughie! So a pat on the back for everyone!!

Have a look at what the next challenge is and hope to see you with some new card(s).

Happy Crafting!

Challenge 15 - Its Sketch Time!

Welcome to another challenge at Stampin' for the Weekend. We have a sketch for you this week, which should be a little easier for you all, as I saw some of you mention you were either put off by the colours or you thought they wouldn't work, however, those of you who did make a card - WOW - the different shades and images and challenge combinations you all chose were brilliant!
Thank you so much for stepping out of your comfort zone and giving it ago, a lot of you were surprised at how well you'd done :D


This week Donna has given us a fabulous Sketch for us all to play with. It has lots and lots of layers so its a really nice excuse *not that we need it, ey?* to use up all the fabby papers you have in your stash.


This weeks challenge is sponsored by the wonderful Heidi at Simon Says Stamp.



Heidi is kindly offering one of you lucky stampers a fabulous $25 spending spree in the store, to buy all your favourite items, what I wouldnt give to be able to enter this challenge for this chance!!


We have some lovely Guest Designers this week too. Lorraine was having Internet problems last week, so you may not have seen her card, but hopefully today we will get to see her second creation she has carefully put together for us! Its Lorraine's last week with us, so please visit her blog to see her fabulous creations!



Our second Guest Designer is the talented Lisa - Lisa has been making cards since 2005 and has recently taken up the challenge of Scrapbooking too. So please do visit Lisa's lovely blog and see what she has come up with this week too.




Here below, we have the talented Stampin' Teamie's Cards for you to draw inspiration from.
I wish you well with this challenge, and we all can not wait to see what you come up with!



inside of Donna's card









































Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!


Remember to upload your cards before 8pm GMT on the Thursday before the next challenge!





If for whatever reason, Mr Linkie decides to go walkies, please leave a comment with a link in the old fashioned way.


Thank You
xx

September 04, 2009

A New Challenge and New Team Members

Good Morning Everyone, Wow here we are on challenge #14 already, and it was so lovely to see such fabulous baby creations last week as in cards, books, cartons, etc. You certainly are a creative lot, and it gives us all some ideas when we see such beautiful works.

This week we are going with a color challenge.......with three colors, ORANGE, TEAL AND PINK. Now you may be thinking, that's going to be a tough one, but once you see what our team has come up, you'll agree, those colors look fabulous together.


We've got a fabulous new sponsor this week......The Craft Barn, who is offering our lucky winner this week a £15 gift voucher for their shop. Oh what I wouldn't do to win that.......LOL. I spent that on the weekend while they were having a Bank Holiday sale, but I left some things behind...so I could really use it....but alas I can't enter. But one of you lucky crafters can and will win it.
This week we have as a guest designer Lorraine. who has some lovely cards on her blog.

And now onto the Design Team's cards....as you all know we have 6 new Design Team members joining us this week for their first time. So please welcome our new Design Team Members along with the rest of the team.




Please use Mr Linky to link to your PROJECT and NOT your BLOG... To do this, when on your own blog, click on the title to your project for this challenge. In the URL bar at the top of the page you should find your blogs unique page address for that project.. It will look like your own blog address, followed by the date and the name of your project. Copy that and then paste it into the URL bar on the Mr Linky, under your chosen name!


Remember to upload your cards before 8pm GMT on the Thursday before the next challenge!





If Mr Linkie goes walkies, please leave a comment with a link in the old fashioned way.


Thank You
xx

Winners for Challenge #13

Once again, a hard choice for picking a winner, as there were so many lovely baby themed cards, whether it be for a birthday, christening, or even a new baby.....and we even managed to jog a few memories to get those cards made. But after much deliberation Kimmi and I chose our winner for this week to receive the lovely Whiff of Joy stamps provided by Kimmi.....and that winner is


Jan if you could email us with your details, we will get your prize sorted and sent out to you.
And now for the Top 5 this week, the Design Team have chosen the 5, in no particular order we have


Ladies if you could please email us on the sidebar, we will send you the Top 5 Blinkie award to display on your blog.

Congratulations ladies.