Monday Morning

Hi all,

Hope you've had a good weekend and were busy crafting or staying warm inside :)

These past few days I haven't done as much crafting as I would have liked, but I did have some great crafty news which brightened and started my Sunday off to a good start. I entered Sally's blog candy competition. Like so many of you, I entered without thinking I'd ever be picked.... but guess what.... I was! What a lovely start to my Sunday morning, to open up my email to find that I had been randomly picked to win the Hougie Board. I've not used or had a proper look at one of these boards in real life before, but it's winging it's way to me very soon - how cool is that?!? I was thrilled to say the least - thank you Sally for your generousity. Please check out Sally's blog here as she creates wonderful cards and does a lot for a good cause.

So, this week is another busy week for me. This Wednesday I will be holding my next monthly Evening Session where crafters local to me come over and craft for a couple of hours in the company of others without the distractions at home. Yesterday I was busy prepping for the card kits that the ladies can choose to make and so check back on Thursday to reveal the cards made :)

Hope you're getting on with your Christmas cards. I'm slowly but surely getting there and I'm loving Contempo Christmas with the matching co-ordinating punch to create numerous Christmas cards along with my new stamp set that I've recently purchased called Delightful Decorations which is part of the Christmas Gift-Giving Bundle on offer this month.

If you'd like to join in my Christmas Wish List Service, purchase a Gift Voucher, or order any products from the Idea Book & Catalogues, please let me know :)

Take care.

Bye for now,

Alex

Blog Candy Results...

Thank you to all of you taking part in my Anniversary Blog Candy :) The odds to winning were quite good if I do say so myself! After sifting out the people and leaving only from the UK, you all had a 1 in 14 chance of getting picked...

So, using the Random.org to generate my Blog Candy Winner, I can now say Congratulations to...

gina g

gina g said...

Hi Alex Fab candy and thank you for the chance of winning i have added a link on my blog. luv gina xx

11 January 2010 22:09

Gina, congratulations! Please email me your Full Name and Address with postcode asap and I will mail off your Stampin' Up! goodies in tomorrow's post.

Thanks to everyone taking part.

Bye for now,

Alex

Happy New Year!

Well hope whatever you got up to last night, you rang the new year in with lots of bubblies :) Can you believe it's now 2010! Early January last year I signed up to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, which has been the best decision I've made, a whirlwind of a year learning lots, making new friends online and offline and I have had a blast. So, my thank you to you, I thought some Blog Candy might be in order :) Check back by the end of the weekend to see what's up for grabs...

Until then,

Alex

SU Blog Candy Has Arrived!

Hi all,

Well what a great day to come home to. I have mail and it's my SU Blog Candy that I won from the promotional Blog Hopping at the beginning of this month to launch the new Idea Book & Catalogue.

I won a stamp set, punch and ink pad and here they are below:


Can't wait to ink up and play now!

Bye for now,

Alex

OMG: I Won SU Blog Candy!

Hi all,

What a great day I've had today... After the Blog Hopping that went on late Wednesday night for the release of the new Idea Book & Catalogue, today I received an email from Suzanne Torr that I have been picked in the "night owl" category for the Stampin' Up! Blog Candy that she was giving away :) How cool is that!

I heard about this Blog Hopping event and blog candy and really wanted to enter, but this meant staying up till past my bedtime, lol. So at midnight I was raring to go to do the blog hopping on the three websites that I had listed earlier to leave my comments. Can you believe that at midnight I was trying to look at all their blogs and when I tried to press "Post Comment" it wouldn't allow me for some strange reason. Well as you can imagine, I was in a flap that I had stayed up late to do the blog hopping and candy especially and with all my computer glitches etc I was still frantically trying at 12.50am with no luck! Anyway, as they say the rest is history really, because at 12.54am I managed, eventually to leave a message.

Now I can say it was all worth it staying up till around 1am after all that! I can't wait to see what I find in the mail in due course... all I know is that it's a stamp set, ink pad and a punch... how exciting is that!

Have a good weekend everyone :)

Alex

Winner...

Hi all,

Hope everyone's well. Been a busy week and when I received email last night from Steph to say I've got a surprise waiting for me over at her blog, I was really excited and couldn't wait to see what was in store for me. Anyway, Steph had some blog candy up for grabs, and although I didn't win the ultimate prize of the four SAB stamp sets, I did get picked out of the remaining 184 entries for one SAB stamp set which has just made my day! :) I've won Polka Dot Punches and am soon to be receiving it in the mail. Steph, thank you so much for this, I'm really honoured to be receiving this.

Watch this space for some sample cards using Polka Dot Punches - one of the SAB stamp sets you could get free when you spend £45 between now and end of February. For more details, you can contact me via email or by telephone.

Bye for now,

Alex