Pear Tree Designs Challenge 24 - Bonfire Night

Hi all,

Hope you had a great Halloween!  We got no trick or treaters again this year, but to be honest, I'm fine with that!! I usually associate it with being egged...so I'd rather not open the door!

Anyway, back to this weeks challenge - Bonfire Night!!  Anyone doing anything for this?  I will be at the NEC Hobbycraft show so I might get to see a few Firework Displays on my journey back from Birmingham!

We would like you all to produce a card/project which is related to Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes/November 5th! Please stick to this theme only otherwise your entry will be deleted.

Here is my challenge card:

I found a beautiful picture off of Google Images after reading one of my magazines showing different ways of scrapbooking images, and thought I'd do the same for a card!  Unfortunately I am not very good at taking photos when using glossy paper, so I have a glare from the flash.  I have used my fab glitter pen on the fireworks to add some sparkle.

We are being sponsored by The Character Cafe this week.  They are a brilliant digital design website, providing excellent digital images.  They are offering our challenge winner a $10 Gift Certificate to spend on their online store!  Please head over to Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog and enter your card/project before this Sunday @ 4pm.

Have a good week, and good luck,

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 23........Halloween!!

Hi everyone,

Another week has gone by so quick, I can't believe Christmas is only 8 weeks away!!! Who has started Christmas shopping yet?  I have!  If I had it my way, I would have my decorations up too! They make me feel all happy when the days get dark early and the weather outside is miserable!  In my town they have just put up all of the decorations, so I can't wait until they get switched on, as they always look stunning.

Anyway,  Challenge 23 is up and running over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog and we would like you to make us a card or project with a Halloween theme!

Here is my DT card for this week's challenge using a Digi design by Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More called 'Five Pumpkin Friends'.  A big thank you to them for letting us chose from a selection of fab Digis this week!

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More  are offering the lucky winner 5 digital stamps or digital paper sets of their choice, so please enter your card or project before 4pm this Sunday to win!  You can enter up to 2 projects too....

I have entered my card into the following challenges:

 Paper Issues Halloween Party Challenge
Baby Bud Designs
Trimmies Craft Challenge
Ooh-la-la creations challenges
My Time To Craft Challenge

 Have a good week all, and......

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 22....

Hi everyone!!!!

Well I missed last weeks challenge as I was away on holiday, so I couldn't wait to start the DT card for this week for you all!

This week is Challenge 22 - 'Free for all'.  We over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog would love for you to produce ANY card/project to your liking, it can be any theme you like...!

Here is my DT card:

We are sponsored by Lilac Lemon Designs this week and they will be offering our challenge winner a fab prize!   Please head over to Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog for more information.

Look forward to seeing your enteries which must be in by 4pm on Sunday 24th!



I'm Back from my weeks holiday with a blog candy WINNER....!

Hi everyone,

I got back late Monday evening from my fab holiday in......IBIZA.   That means that my Blog Candy winner is DARIA who had the closest guess of Spain.  Please could you email me your full name and address and I will pop your surprise candy in the post ASAP!  Congratulations!

Thanks to all of you that took part xx

Mark and I had a fab time in Ibiza, despite the storms we encountered for the last few days that were fun to watch!! Can't say I appreciated it much while trying to carry my suitcase down all the steps which was a bit like a waterfall on the last day though!!  It was nice and sunny and pretty hot on a few days, so I did manage to get a tan.  It was nice to sit on the beach and relax, listening to the waves.

Here are a few pictures of our time in Portinatx, Ibiza.

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 20......

Hi everyone,

Challenge 20 is up and running over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog and this week we are being sponsored by The Character Cafe.  Please head over to the blog to see what you could win if you are the lucky winner!!

This week you are asked to make a card/project with a Good Luck theme, and Good Luck must be featured on your card/project somewhere.

Here is my DT card for this week:

I have used the Sugar Nellie - Catch a Falling Star stamp for this card and replaced the star with a 4 leaf clover covered in lots of lush green glitter to fit in with the good luck theme!  As it happens, Mark and I went blackberry picking the other week and mark actually found his very own 4 leaf clover!!  He was very excited about this, bless him. haha  I have put it inside a book and its now drying in the airing cupboard.  Unfortunately, its not the best looking clover,as it looks a bit eaten, but it still good luck right?  Did you know that for every 4 leaf clover, there are 10,000 ordinary ones?

Anyway, I would love to see all your fab projects for this weeks challenge, but I am away on holiday for the week, so I wish you all lots of luck and a very good week ahead.

Best wishes,

Surprise Blog Candy up for grabs everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone,

I am going on holiday on Monday and I would like you all to guess where this could be!!!  I am only going for the week, so it's not too far away, but it's out of the UK!  Thats all I'm giving away!!

The first lucky guesser will win themselves some lovely candy!!

For you to be in with a chance to win, I need you to do the following:

1. 
   
   Become a follower if you aren't already.
2. 
   
   Post a pic of my surprise Blog candy picture above on your blog with a direct link back to my blog to spread the word.  This can be in your sidebar.
3. 
   
   Post your guess of where I'm going on holiday in the 'Post a comment' section on this post.
4. 
   
   You have until 12th October to do this.

Simple!

Good Luck.

Pear Tree Design - Challenge 19!!

Hi everyone,

Please head over to Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog to enter your card in this weeks fab challenge!

This week, we are asking you do design a card/project for a celebration, whether it be new baby, wedding, anniversary.....As long as it is a celebration!

This is my DT card, which I have made for Mark's Sister Karen. She is definitely a shopaholic!!

I got this stamp as a freebie from Creativity! Magazine.  They usually have rather good freebies!  I used my beautiful Martha Stewart punch with a doily edge to split the background up, and made my own background paper with my new paisley stamp!

This week Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More will be sponsoring us, and the lucky winner will recieve either 5 digital stamps or 5 digital papers sets of their choice. 

Looking forward to seeing your designs!

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 18 - Sketch with a twist....

Hello everyone,

Challenge 18 is now up and running over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog, so please head over there and enter before 4pm on Sunday!  The twist is to put gems somewhere on your card.

Here is my DT card for the challenge:

I had to by myself Sharon Armstrong's latest CD called Walter and Winnie does Christmas!! It's super cute and a brill CD!  I have been making my Xmas cards from it. 

So, this week we are sponsored by Lilac Lemon Designs and they will be giving away something fab, but you will need to head over to the challenge blog to see what it is!

I would also like to welcome two new guest designers to PTD, and hope they both enjoy there time here with us!

Good luck everyone, and looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 18 - Pink Theme

Good afternoon bloggers!!

Challenge 18 is now up and running over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog and the theme for this week is PINK!! I think most of us girls love pink, so this should be a very easy one, and lets hope it's just as popular as our animal theme challenge last week!

Here is my DT card:

The flower is made up of 2"hearts which I have folded in half and then stuck together on the back of the yellow circle in the middle.  It was great fun to make!  It sort of reminded me of one of those little hand held windmill things that kids play with? lol

I have given this card to my lovely Godmother, Anne, who had Mark and I over for lunch a few weeks ago. We had a lovely day and to finish it off she handed us both a lovely cheque to help put towards the wedding.  We are so grateful Anne, thanks so much again! xxxxx

So, back to the challenge!  We would like you to create a card/project which is of Pink! The card/project needs to be majority of the colour pink, but some of the card/project can be of a tiny bit of other colours!!

This week's Sponsor is One Stop Card Crafts and they wil be giving the lucky winner a selction of Girly Craftwork Card Candy worth over £10.00!

Have fun, and look forward to seeing what you all come up with!

Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog - Challenge 16

Head over to Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog for this challenge 16!  This week we want you to make a card/project with an animal theme.  As you can see from my DT project, I have decorated a candle with a Daisy & Dandelion range image!

Pear Tree Designs Donna is going to sponsor this week and the lucky winner will get the following:

1 Month's Guest Designer Slot

Superise crafty goody bag

3 x digital images from my store

Good luck everyone!