November Monthly Challenge

The challenge for November is SPARKLE. (see the post below for the October winner)

It doesn't matter what you use - just a hint of sparkle or full on bling it up. I appreciate it is difficult to photograph anything sparkly.


Your prize this month is a packet each of the Raja and Sultan flower centers

To enter please click on the mister linky at the bottom of this post with a link to your entry.

Closing date for entries is 30th November and I will use random.org to select a winner on 1st December.

Entries can be any craft project - scrapbook page, card, altered art, knitting, sewing, crochet - whatever you like. I have done a scrapbook layout as an example.

I went a bit over the top with the sparkle and used raja centers, some stickles and a glittery thickers alphabet. I also used Wink Essentials and Violet Painterly Petals

Clickety click below to enter.

October Monthly Challenge Winner

Thanks to everybody who took part in the October challenge.

I used random to find the winner who is entrant number 1 from the 10 who entered.

Congratulations to Kirsten. Please can you email your address details to lambournekerry@aol.com and I will get your prize out to you.

New Monthly Challenges Start Today

I am starting a monthly challenge with a prize from my shop. These challenges will be set on the 1st of every month and all entries will be accepted until midnight on the last day of the month it is set.

You can enter a craft project, scrapbook layout, card etc as long as it fills the criteria for the challenge.

Entry will be by Mr Linky which will be at the bottom of each challenge and I will then use a random generator to pick the winner.

So without further ado here is this month's challenge.

As it is the first challenge and my shop specialises in flowers I am keeping it simple. Your challenge is simply to use FLOWERS.

I have done a scrapbook layout using flowers

You have until 31st October to upload your entry to your blog, link to it with Mr Linky and I will pick the winner on 1st November.

Your prize this month is all the flowers pictured and 2 packets of the brand new release of Say It In Pearls & Crystals.

This challenge is now ended and was won by Kirsten - entrant number 1

It's Flower Prize Time

Would you like to win this?





This week I am sponsoring the Allsorts Challenge. To find out how you can win hop on over there.


I am also offering Allsorts readers 10% off purchases in my shop until the end of October. To take advantage of this just quote allsorts in the discount code box at checkout.

Colour Mixes

New to the shop are colour mixes. Ranging from very pale, to bright, to muted right through to dark these ranges are mixed to give you variety in your card making and scrapbooking.

The links to each product are not working but if you click on this link to get to the shop and then click on the colour mixes category when you get there all these new mixes can be accessed from there.

White Mix (all same colour)

Brown/Orange Autumn Mix (bad photo sorry)

Green Mix

Pink Mix

Blue Mix

Yellow/Orange Mix

Officially Open

At last I can turn the sign around to OPEN.

The Craft Garden is now open for business.

I have been filling the online shelves today with the new stuff I received at the end of last week and by the end of the week I hope to have all my stock in place. Then it will be adios to Ebay. They served a purpose but now I am ready to stand on my own.

Working On It

A quick update - I am almost there with the initial set up of the shop. I have had to go with co.uk instead of .com. The full address is www.thecraftgarden.co.uk and I hope to have the shop full of products in the next week.

My order from across the atlantic is on it's way right now so *fingers crossed* there will be lots of yummy new CHA flowers in stock by this time next week.

I will be working on the shop as often as I can - well until my eyes go blurry from too much internet use - to bring everything I have into stock.

My Ebay shop will still be up and running for a while albeit with a limited stock after the new shop opens.