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Wednesday, 13 February 2013

February Challenge is upon us!

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenge last month, we had some fab entries. 



And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random from the January entries  is
No 19 - Lisa T
Could you please e-mail Jenny at  jenny@jandccreations.co.uk with your Snail Mail Address.
Our Top Three from January are:
No 5 - Rachel
No 10 -  Susan
Thank you for your wonderful creations, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar and show it off!
AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE SPONSORED BY  Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations who are offering a fabulous £20 Voucher to spend on the website
The Design Team  will be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations blog to inspire you over the coming month.  The website features lots of crafty products and the blog is easily linked for you to purchase items seen in the projects.  Click the logo to the side of the post to be transported to crafty heaven!

The Challenge title this month is INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP.  It can be between humans and/or animals.  It's your interpretation of the title.

To enter this months challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. The rules are that we only require 1 item which can be purchased from J & C Creations to be featured on your project.  Please include this on your blog post. The Challenge will close at 6pm on the 12th March.

As always, could we ask a huge favour please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. Also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.

Sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.


Here is some inspiration to get you started on this month’s Challenge, we will be posting more inspiration throughout  February.

Tracey Anne
Here's my inspiration for the February Challenge 'International Friendship Month' Not the first time this stamp has been out as it is such a cutie I trend to use it a lot for  friendship and/or lovers cards.


 Items used:
Penny Black 'Furry Embrace' Stamp
The stamp Barn Friendship Sentiment' Stamp ( WOR123G) 
decorative Square die 
Marianne flower and swirl die( from Straight frame set)
Pearl embellishments 
patterned papers
Spellbinders labels17
Gold Peel offs
Alcohol pens to colours

Colours used for the little pussies were LG1, LG3, LG4, F2,NR2, NR3, Swing Seat NR3 ,NR5, Flowers LY2,LY4 and DG3, LG2, LG4 .
 All highlighted items can be found over at the J and C Creations website

Rocky

Items Used:
Stamp - Penny Black set - Hugs
Spellbinders - Blossoms Two & Foliage
Embossing Folder - Garden Lattice
Distress Inks - Bundled Sage/Tumbled Glass/Wild Honey/Rusty Hinge/Scattered Straw
Archival Ink - Coffee
Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder - Clear

This Penny Black set is great for friends, anniversary, Mother's Day and even Valentines, it has so many cute stamps in one set. The flowers are also cut with the Blossoms die set and snipped to give petals.

Sue

Items used from J & C Creations:
Penny Black stamp
Spellbinder Label 21
Heartfelt Creations Decorative Butterfly Corner 
Distress Pens

Patterned backing papers
Flower and pearls
sentiment from the internet:
Need a smile, text me - Need a laugh, call me - Need a hug, come see me - Need love, you've already got me.




Link your project here:



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Sunday, 13 January 2013

Welcome, Crafty People!

Thanks to everyone who entered our Challenges last year, we had some stunning entries. 

Sorry we have been away for a month but we are back full of crafty inspiration and your talent. What a combination!


And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random from the  November entries  is
No 13 - Pamela
Could you please e-mail Jenny at  jenny@jandccreations.co.uk with your Snail Mail Address.
Our Top Three from November are:
No 8 - Sam
No 11 - Celine
No 19 -  Joyce
Thank you for your wonderful creations, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar and show it off!
AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE SPONSORED BY  Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations who are offering a fabulous £20 Voucher to spend on the website
The Design Team  will be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations blog to inspire you over the coming months.  The website features lots of crafty products and the blog is easily linked for you to purchase items seen in the projects.  We have Sues Technique Tuesday and Thrifty Thursday, Jacquis Friday Master Class, Natalie showing us the 12 tags of 2013 from Tim Holts and a whole lot more.  The team will also be showing off their talents throughout the month, so do come and visit us.  Click the logo to the side of the post to be transported to crafty heaven!

The Challenge title this month is SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW.  So you need to dust off your oldest crafty stash and your newest finds and combine them together.

To enter this months challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. The rules have slightly changed in as much that we only require 1 item which can be purchased from J & C Creations to be featured on your project.  Please include this on your blog post. The Challenge will close at 6pm on the 12th February.

As always, could we ask a huge favour please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. Also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.

Sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.


Here is some inspiration to get you started on this month’s Challenge, we will be posting more inspiration throughout  January.

  January Challenge Georgina

Here is one of my cards that I have made in 2013 !! Couldn't wait to get started, hopefully this will be a good year for everyone.

Products used for Something Old:
Music sheet backing card from old card stock
Black organza flowers
Spellbinder die (labels Twenty) from J & C Creations
Tim Holtz distress pens from J & C Creations


Products used for Something New:
Digital Stamp from Saturated Canary
Spellbinders (Floral Flourishes) from J & C Creations
Bow Maker
Red Ribbon
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  January Challenge - Natalie!

Hello!
Here is my card for this month's challenge over at the Challenge Blog!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas & New Year!
Natalie
xxx
Something New - Penny Black Cling Stamp 'Kisses 40-097'
Something Old - Penny Black Sentiment Stamp 'Love You 2843B'
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  January Challenge - Pauline


Items used:
Heartfelt Creations Delicate Asters (HCD 726) 
Memento Bamboo Leaves
FabScraps Heritage Pink Floral (C38 007A)
EK Success edger punch Arch Scallop
Spellbinders D-Lites Fantastic Flourish Two (S2-009)
Pink ribbon
Glitter
Gems
Small flower
Tiny pink beads

Method:
Die cut 6 flowers from the cryogen paper with each of the 4 flower dies.  Die cut 2 leaves. 
Curl all the petals of the flowers inwards and then assemble inside each other starting with the largest and ending with the smallest.
Colour the leaves using the Bamboo Leaves dye ink.
Die cut 3 pink flowers using the smallest die and assemble together, glue inside the flower and add some of the pink sprig embellishment to the middle.
Using green card, die cut a flourish using the D-Lites die.
I have used a strip of double-sided tape to adhere the glitter.
Assemble the card as in the photo.
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  January Challenge - Sue


 Penny Black - Ladybug 'n Hedgehog
Distress ink in Walnut Stain - SomethingNew

Bitty Spellbinder flowers - Something New

Button - Something Old

Spellbinder  Label 5
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January Challenge - Nat

Something Old - Penny Black stamp & ribbon
Something New - Spellbinders 'Labels 25' & leaf charm


Heartfelt Creations Vintage Floret stamps and dies  -  Something Old
Gilding Flakes  -  Something New

Best of Luck.
Please leave your link here

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

NOVEMBER CHALLENGE–FLORAL DELIGHTS

 
Thanks to everyone who entered our October Challenge we had some stunning entries.  We had a really hard time choosing Top 3 again this month the entries where of such a high Quality. 
The winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random  is
No 16 – Sue Bearhouse
could you please e-mail Jacqui at www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com with your Snail Mail Address.
And Our Top Three are|:
No 1 – Brigit
No 11 – Deborah A
No 10 – Jane
Thank you for your fabulous creations girls, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar
 
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This months challenge is
FLORAL DELIGHTS – We would like to see flowers on your card whether Backing Paper, Stamp or embellishments.
 
Remember you do not have to use J & C Creations Products on your card this is an open Challenge 
 
WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR 2  GUEST DESIGNERS TO JOIN US FOR THE NEXT 3 MONTHS IF YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED JUST ADD GDT AFTER YOUR NAME ON YOUR ENTRY.
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AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE AGAIN SPONSORED BY
Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations Who are offering a fabulous
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£20 Voucher To spend on the website..
The Design Team  will also be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations Designs to Inspire Blog featuring lots of Dies from Spellbinders, Marianne Dies ,also This month we are showcasing Dry and Heat Embossing Sue will have some brilliant Ideas to save you money on Thrifty Thursday and Jacquis Friday Master class this month is Colouring with Distress Inks, of course their will be the stunning work of Natalie with all her hints and tips,  so do come and visit us.
 
 
Here is some inspiration to get you started on this months Challenge, we will be posting more inspiration at the end of November
 
 
Sue
 
 







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To enter this months challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. It is not necessary to use products available from J & C Creations on your entry, but those who do will be entered twice into the candy draw and all entries may be entered into other online blog challenges. The Challenges will close at 6pm on the 12th December


Saturday, 13 October 2012

October Challenge–Contemporary Christmas

September Challenge–Cute Christmas
To enter any challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. It is not necessary to use products available from J & C Creations on your entry, but those who do will be entered twice into the candy draw and all entries may be entered into other online blog challenges.  The Challenges will close at 6pm on the 12th November
And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random  is
No 23 – Pamela
could you please e-mail Jacqui at www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com with your Snail Mail Address.
 
Our Top Three has been really difficult to choose this week but we have finally come up with the following:
 
No 5 – Lorraine B
 
No 16 – Brigit
 
No 37 – Donna
 
Thank you for your fabulous creations girls, can you grab the Top 3 Banner and add it to your sidebar
 
This months challenge is
CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS
AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE AGAIN SPONSORED BY
Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations Who are offering a fabulous
 
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£20 Voucher To spend on the website..
The Design Team  will also be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations Designs to Inspire Blog featuring lots of Dies from Spellbinders and Marianne Dies  so do come and visit us.
Here is some inspiration to get you started
 
 
 
 
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Nat G

Blue Christmas 
 
So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and  don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.
As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.
Also just to let you know that sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.
This Challenge closes at 6pm on the 12th November
Best of Luck
From all at J & C Creations xx
Thank you for participating




Thursday, 13 September 2012

September Challenge–Cute Christmas

To enter any challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. It is not necessary to use products available from J & C Creations on your entry, but those who do will be entered twice into the candy draw and all entries may be entered into other online blog challenges.  The Challenges will close at 6pm on the 12th October
 
And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random  is
No 8 - Jayne
could you please e-mail Jacqui at www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com with your Snail Mail Address.
This months challenge is
 
CUTE CHRISTMAS
 
 
AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE AGAIN SPONSORED BY
Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations Who are offering a fabulous
£20 Voucher To spend on the website..
The Design Team  will also be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations Designs to Inspire Blog featuring lots of Penny Black Stamps and Wild Rose Studio Products with full tutorials during August./ September  so do come and visit.
Here is some inspiration to get you started.
 
 
 
 
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So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and  don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.
As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.
Also just to let you know that sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.
This Challenge closes at 6pm on the 12th October
Best of Luck
From all at J & C Creations xx
Thank you for participating




Tuesday, 21 August 2012

August Challenge–Something a Little Bit Different

 
To enter any challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. It is not necessary to use products available from J & C Creations on your entry, but those who do will be entered twice into the candy draw and all entries may be entered into other online blog challenges.  The Challenges will close at 6pm on the 12th September
Thank you for your fabulous creations for our Anything Goes Challenge, we were so pleased to see so many entries for the challenge, once again we have had a hard time finding our top 3 from your entries but have finally come up with the following:
No -  1 - Marcea
No 29 – Seafield Jo
No 55 – Pamela
Congratulations girls could you please grab the top 3 Banner from our Sidebar and wear it with pride
And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random  is
No 67 – Karfty K
could you please e-mail Jacqui at www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com with your Snail Mail Address.
This months challenge is
SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT
AND FOR OUR PRIZE THIS MONTH WE ARE AGAIN SPONSORED BY
Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations Who are offering a fabulous
£20 Voucher To spend on the website..
 
The Design Team  will also be posting some fabulous creations on the J & C Creations Designs to Inspire Blog featuring lots of Tim Holtzs Products with full tutorials during August./ September  so do come and visit.
 
Here is some inspiration to get you started.
 
 
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So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and  don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.
As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.
Also just to let you know that sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.
This Challenge closes at 6pm on the 12th September .
Best of Luck
From all at J & C Creations xx
Thank you for participating

Friday, 13 July 2012

Anything Goes

 
To enter any challenge, please post your entry on your blog and use the InLinkz box at the bottom of the competition blog post to provide a direct link to your project. It is not necessary to use products available from J & C Creations on your entry, but those who do will be entered twice into the candy draw and all entries may be entered into other online blog challenges.  The Challenges will close at 6pm on the 20th August
Thank you for your lovely creations for our Animal Antics Challenge once again we have had a hard time finding our top 3 from your entries but have finally come up with the following:
No -  4. Joyce
No 29 – Pamela
No 19 – Lorraine B
Congratulations girls could you please grab the top 3 Banner from our Sidebar and wear it with pride
And the winner of the £20 J & C Gift Voucher  who was chosen at random  is
could you please e-mail Jacqui at www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com with your Snail Mail Address.
 
This months challenge is
ANYTHING GOES
Our DT have all created cards and tags using Sizzix Dies from the J & C Creations  Website
Jennie & Denise from J & C Creations are offering a fabulous
£20 Voucher
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to be spent on their website
 
We would also like you to join with us in welcoming the 2 new design Teams members, both called Natalie,Nat G  -  NG Cards and Nat B – Crafty Nats Cardmaking Corner,. they both create stunning cards and in such different styles, We know you will just love their work so please pop over and visit their blogs.
To get you started  here  is some inspiration from our Design Team, full details on how the Design Teams created their wonderful cards and tags will be available on their websites, just click their names to take you there, and we will be featuring lots more  of their Sizzix Creations on The J & C Creations Designs to Inspire Blog with full tutorials during July/August so do come and visit.
 
 
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So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and  don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.
As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please; could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead. Please, pretty please, it’s ever so easy to do  and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking.
Also just to let you know that sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the moment, but please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.
This Challenge closes at 6pm on the 20th August .
Best of Luck
From all at J & C Creations xx