hAnglar and stAnglar Christmas Candy Number 1

Sorry to be a pest and post twice on one day but this is just a little add-on to the post below.
Since the other kit hasn't turned up and I really wanted to offer a reasonable choice, I have another alternative.
If you're a regular reader you will know that I don't really like hAnglar stamps that much except for the 'Chubby Baby Fairies' as I call them.
So when I saw the kit on Ebay I had to buy it and actually keep this kit myself. Unbeknown to me at the time, St. Phil had bought me a kit too. So Phil has a spare kit.
He's working away this week up in Edinburgh, I so wish I could've gone with him, I love Edinburgh! I needed to ask him first if I could nick his kit and add it onto my candy.
So.....
                                                  Kit 7

.... this is also up as a prize.
For full details please see the post below.
Thanks for looking.
Love Elaine xx

hAnglar and stAnglar Christmas Candy No1.

Hmmmmm....anybody out there like hAnglar rubber stamps? Anyone fancy a peak at my Christmas blog candy? It's taken a while to work out how to do this candy. Hubby made an excellent suggestion, but when I really thought about it, it would've been a lot of work for me and at this time of year I really don't have much time to spare. I want to start the candy early so that whoever gets picked as winners will have their prizes before the mad Christmas rush starts.
Also, I've been hanging on as there should be 4 kits but the last one hasn't turned up, it appears to have gone missing in the post which is a bit of a bu**er as hAnglar won't replace them if lost in the post.
If it turns up in the meantime I'll add the photo and the kit into the candy.

Kit 14

Kit 17

Kit 18

So, this will be run in stages and here is the first one:

For this first part, the name picked out of the hat can choose whichever ONE of the above sets they would like to receive as their prize but before I get down to how to enter I want to say:

Starting my blog has been an amazing experience, I've met so many lovely people - bloggers and non-bloggers alike - and made so many new friends. In such a short time I've been asked to be a  Sugar Bowl Sweetie - Thank you Gayle for having faith in me and seeing something I surely couldn't see - and the honour of a position on the Sugar Nellie DT - Thank you too Karen, the honour is all mine. It was Sugar Nellie that set me off on the road to rubber addiction! (Though I don't think my hubby or my bank thank you much!)

Candy is my way of saying Thank You.

Thank you to the followers and the non-followers, those who leave comments and those who lurk!

Particularly those who leave comments when I don't always have the time to return the gesture.

So the first draw is now closed as the winner will be picked only from all the names who have already commented on my last post - Fairytale - I hope you like hAnglars but if you get picked and don't like hAnglars then please let me know! 

Just because I'm a witch and a tease, I'll be back tomorrow with the winners name and details of how to enter the other candy's.

Apologies too for my absence over the weekend, I'm full of a snotty cold and feel like poo!

Thanks for looking.

Love Elaine xx

Simply Sassy Fairytale

Oh I do so love these Simply Sassy stamps - even though they do have a lot of hair! I know they're going to be available to buy very soon from Funky Kits and I'm quite sure that Karen will be offering a sweet deal on these.
This one is called Fairytale...

Ain't she sweet? I followed an old Sugar Bowl sketch, as I quite often do. This was sketch number 39 from Lilian and I love this sketch. It really makes the image the focal point and requires little else in my opinion.
I tried to colour her in more delicate shades to go with the pastel papers. DP's are another set of Dream Street Papers from Jill at The Hobby House. 


Blimey, hasn't the weather turned cold? Today I have been chilled to the bone!
The building my office is in is an old church, and I'm upstairs at the side of what was the chapel, so it's a cold building anyway, but I love my little office, there's only me works in there and the temperature is hot, hot, hot! Someone says my office is the temperature of Barbados, and that's the way I like it. But not today.
(For those who don't know, modern aircon heats as well as cools, except in my office where I only ever have it on heat)
Today the aircon wouldn't work and it was freezing cold. I only took my coat off to put on a cardigan and a body warmer then put my coat back on top! Anyone know any good aircon engineers? Cos the sods I work for wouldn't come in and sort it out! So I've told them that tomorrow I shall bring in a flask...of hot gluhwein and Amaretto, I might not get much work done but I'll be warm (and happy). Well, 'tis the season for it...almost!

Hope you're all warm and happy wherever you are!
Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave.
Love Elaine xx

An award

I've got a lovely award off two of my lovely blogging buddies, Patty and Christine. Thank you ladies for thinking of me!

This is an award I've not seen before and it comes with a $5 gift certificate to spend at Digi's With Attitude store. Firstly I have to tell you 3 unknown facts about me/things that make me different from others.
Gosh this was hard!
1. I'm a very tidy crafter (unlike most of you! Don't deny it, I've seen your WOYWW photos!) In fact, I'm very tidy full stop. My mottos are : There's a place for everything and everything in it's place AND cleanliness is next to Godliness. If that last bit was true then I would be up there with Saint Phil!
I tidy up every day when I get home from work, I hoover up, load the washer and do the ironing.
If only I was a little less anally retentive about housework I would maybe spend more time crafting!

2. Although I often come across as being self assured and confident, I am actually rather shy until I get to know people. And if there's any trouble I'm the one looking guilty even though I've done nothing! You can ask my darling hubby about that. Who gets stopped and searched every single time we go through passport control.....me!

3. It would seem I plod through life slowly and steadily. But I'm really a duck! Whilst I'm calmly glided along seemingly effortlessly below the water my feet are going like the clappers! Deep down inside I'm never really quite sure what I'm doing and if I'm doing it right!

Next I have to pass this on to 5 other bloggers.

Lorraine

Sian

SusieLou

SuzieQ

Kerry

I'll be back hopefully this week with my Christmas candy, I know it's early but I'd really like to get it drawn and winnings sent out before the real Christmas postal rush starts.

Thanks for looking.
Love Elaine xx

Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy Candy Winner

Sorry for the lateness. My boy, who likes to pick the winners name out of a jar/bin/hat etc had been to a bonfire so I had to wait until he returned. Apologies also for the photos, it is rather late and dark!

So without further delay it goes like this.....

My boys hand getting ready to pick out a paper......

.....and the winner is:

Sarah said...

Hi Elaine, glad to hear that all is on the way to recovery with the p.c. Your cards with these Sassy chics on have really inspired me. You know I wasn't so sure of these at first but now just love them so to win your candy would be awesome. At least I can hold my hand up that I was wrong not to like them!!!! Hugs Sarah x

30 October 2010 21:20 

Congratulations Sarah, if you can EMAIL me with your address and I will pop in the post.

Thank you to everyone that entered, I will be doing one more candy this year, my Christmas candy. I hope you will like what I have picked for this candy, although they're not to my taste! So if you're a regular then you'll probably be able to guess what it's going to be.

Thanks again everyone.

Love Elaine xx

Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy Candy

Candy Now Closed .
This post will remain at the top, please scroll down for newer posts.

It's almost Halloween and everybody lurves a little candy. What could be better than Scotland's finest sugar free candy in the form of Sugar Nellie's Simply Sassy stamps.

I so love these images and they have quickly become my favourite range of stamps. They colour so beautifully and I've had such fun playing with them. They have also cured my hair phobia!

As I said earlier, my photos are all on Phil's hard drive, but I'm quite sure that the next set of Sassy stamps will be being previewed shortly, so I thought I'd better get my candy posted now.

Since I can't get at my photos yet, here are the samples I made with the stamps. I hope you are all suitably impressed with me because I realised I can upload photos off my blog! I've only just found that out. I know, I know, everyone else has probably known that fact for ages.

You will of course get brand spanking new and unmounted stamps, not the ones I've used here.

Rules of entry:

In order to enter you must be a follower, but you can still enter if you don't have a blog but leave comments.

*That's you Sandra* hahahaha!

To enter please leave a comment on this post.

I will post worldwide, but please note that I am not responsible for any customs/duties that some countries charge. I will mark the parcel as a gift.

Candy will close on Saturday 6th November at 9pm GMT.

Thanks for looking

Love Elaine xx

Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy Set 2

I've been playing with the delicious 2nd release of Simply Sassy stamps, and now Karen has shown them on the Sugar Nellie blog I can post them here.

First off is.......

...this little beauty Bella Bunting, available to pre-order very soon from Funky Kits. I just had to colour this sweetie up first as she SO reminds me of my niece Rhi. It's that smirk on her face!

She's coloured with DI's, and the beautiful papers are Websters Pages from my lovely buddy Amanda over in the good 'ole US of A. *Thank you Amanda, I love them*. Another simple card, a few pearls, a flower and a Doo Hickey swirl.

Then I've got.....

..... Luv a latte. I LOVE this image too! I used the gorgeous Ella Blue papers but they always look so wishywashy in my photos. They are so beautiful in real life. I followed the sketch from Friday sketchers (I think!) but forgot to get it uploaded in time, ho hum. A few pearls and a little punched flower.

Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave.

Love Elaine xx