RANGER- MEMORY FRAMES TUTORIAL

Here's a great tutorial from Ranger - how to customise and colour your Memory Frames, just using pigment inks!



Hope you enjoy it.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Copyright Kistune-insomnia

COMPETITION - AND THE WINNERS ARE...

Hurrah! The poll is closed, the votes are cast and I am so happy to announce the winners!

1st place: 1943 by Greta Young
who gets the new, just released, I Believe in Angels UM plate by BladeRubber Stamps (designed by me)

2nd place: Alice by Anita Hickson
who gets 3 large UM stamps by BladeRubber Stamps

3rd place: Envelope Book by Shell B
who gets 1 large UM stamp by Blade Rubber Stamps

All are fabulous art pieces - and so different, too! Big congratulations to the very worthy winners! Again, thanks to everyone who entered.

Please email me with your addresses, and I'll get your prizes in the post tomorrow!

HALLOWEEN - FREEBIES & BLOG BACKGROUNDS

Copyright and image from Penniwigs - go directly to the site if you want it. 


I just put up some freebie Halloween images on my blog Freebies

If you want some Blogger backgrounds, they're on Blog-ology and headers are on Extras. All the instructions for installation are there as well.


If you'd like to see how the backgrounds look in Real Life:

• 3-column Fright Night is on Freebies

• 3-column Horror Show is on Computery 

I'm really proud of Horror Show - I think it has the "Frankenstein's Laboratory" vibe.

Have fun!

ADVENT CALENDAR - WITH COTTON REELS

Photographs copyright Cathe Holden
 

I just found this on the web - a brilliant Advent calendar from Something I Made. 

I'm posting it now as you'll need a little time to collect all the cotton reels. Everything you need is in the link - even printable pdfs for the labels!

This is a brilliant idea for anyone with kids or grandkids, who wants something a little more fun.

Thanks Cathe!

COMPTETITION - IT'S VOTING TIME

We've had a fantastic standard of entries - and here are the final 11 (we couldn't cut it down to just 10!) chosen by the staff at BladeRubber Stamps.

Here we are - in no particular order!

Mother Nature

Road Trip

Seashore

Alice

1943

Alison No 2

Summer Hols

August Week 3

Enjoy the Summer

Summer school

Envelope book

Please cast your votes - click in the panel in the sidebar. You can vote as many times as you like! 

I just want to say thank you to everyone who took part - I wish you could all have won a prize! I loved everything that was sent in! 

The voting will be left open until next Saturday night (17th October) and I will announce the winners on Sunday (18th October). You'll notice the voting is totally anonymous.

BRAG TIME

Whist the Blade Rubber staff are looking at all the competition entries, I thought I'd brag about the freebie stamp on the cover of the current issue of Craft Stamper magazine.

It's a Blade Rubber stamp (and designed by me)!




There are also some samples of artwork inside, using the freebie image: some by Katy Fox (editor of Craft Stamper) and the rest by Yours Truly. It's all rather exciting!