And the Winner is...plus new candy

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In celebration of five years in blog land the winner of my first lot of candy is............

Tracy Harris

Congratulations! Hope you haven't made all your Christmas cards already! Please email me Tracy, with your snail mail address so I can post your goodies off to you. Thanks for all your fab comments. I wish I could send all of you something. Still there are more chances to come!
 Now on to the second lot of candy. Again this is follower candy for you lovely people who leave a comment on this post and are followers of my blog. If you want to be in with a chance make sure you leave a comment and follow this blog via google friends connect on the right there.

Onto the next card and candy then.

 A simple card using three stamps, two of which are up for grabs, the script  and the trees. I dusted and stamped with Kaleidacolor Cappuccino Delight. The two die cut panels are matte card and the base panel is silk art card. One of those 'any occasion' cards I think. Hope you like it.

Here are the stamps on offer this week.

I will draw the winner next Saturday, and with any luck there will be another lot of candy too! I am back at work on Monday though, so the card may be a bit later than today. Thanks for looking!

5 years in blog land! who'd have thought it!

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Would you believe it?! I have just realised it is my fifth anniversary of being a blogger! 745 posts and 245 followers later, I don't regret a second of it. First I think I need to say a huge thank you to all my followers and especially to those of you who comment and give me encouragement. Without you I would have given up long ago! Second I need to say thank you to Guzzie Sue and Lynne, without whom I wouldn't have dipped my toes in the water in the first place! Sue explained the process of setting up and Lynne and I took the plunge together, bouncing ideas off each other all the way.
To mark this occasion I decided to have some blog candy for my lovely followers. I am going to give away some stamps along with a card featuring said stamps, and there will be more than one lot. So, here is the first:

And here is the card:

For anyone who is stuck for ideas for Christmas cards, this could be right up your street. The possibilities for this set are endless! There are more cards made with the winter spruce set on this post. The only stamp I haven't included is the sentiment, and hopefully you will have some of those of your own.
I will draw a winner next Saturday 2nd November, by which time I should have sorted a new lot of candy. Just leave a comment below if you are interested and a follower. 
Thanks for looking!

BLOG CANDY and changes to the Stampalot challenge

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Thought I ought to let you know that as from November the starting date of challenges at Sir Stampalot will be the first Sunday of the month. That means that most months our challenge will run until the end of the month................unless the first Sunday falls on the first of the month...............but rather than complicate things there will be a list of exact dates on the sidebar to make life easier for all of us. Our current challenge will run until 31st October and the new challenge will start on Sunday 6th November.
Now, on to my Blog candy. If you come here regularly you will know that I have celebrated my third Bloggerversary this week, so as a big thank you to all my lovely followers I am having a bit of Blog candy to celebrate. I have also passed the landmark of my 500th post too. I do love being here in blog land and am amazed by all the lovely people I've met both electronically and in real life through blogging.  I want you to know how much I appreciate all your lovely comments and I'm offering this with no strings attached. If you are a follower then pop a comment below. I don't expect you to put anything in your side bar about it, but if you do then thank you. If you are a follower and you leave a comment below by 11th November you will be in with a chance of winning this prize.

 I will attempt to add a few more bits to it over the next couple of weeks. Now, forgive me, but I've been to Doncaster and have some lovely new stash to play with so I'm off to have a little fun, probably with my own Inkylicious stamps like you can see in the picture!

Happy Birthday to Tueday Taggers!

Tuesday Taggers is one year old this week! We've decided to celebrate with a theme of chocolate and cream (what else?!). We hope you can join in the celebrations by taking part in a huge swap! Pop over to the Tuesday Taggers blog to find out more and get a fab freebie from our talented teamie Teri! Have you checked out her Delicious Doodles shop yet? Thanks for looking!

And the winner is...

First of all I want to thank you for all your lovely comments and say a big welcome to all my new followers. I have drawn a random winner for the blog candy and it is... drum roll please....

Brenda

Congratulations, Brenda. Please drop me an email with your snail mail address so I can get it sent off to you. You can email it to me via my profile page.

Happy Bloggerversary to me!

This candy is now closed. It is a whole year ago today that I first set foot in Blog land, and what a happy place it is! I have made so many new friends and learned so much! I am still surprised and delighted by the responses and messages I receive. To celebrate this wonderful community I am offering the blog candy in the photo above. I will try and find a few more bits too. If you would like to be in with a chance of winning it You can leave a comment on this post. You get two chances if you are a follower and three if you leave a link to my candy on your blog and are a follower. Does that make sense? Comment = 1 chance, comment+follower = 2 chances, comment+follower+link= 3 chances. I will draw the winner on Saturday 31st October.
You will have to forgive me. I am operating through a fog of pain killers and antibiotics due to an infection in my mouth. I can't open my mouth very wide and my tongue and cheek are swollen. I'm being very quiet and eating flat food!!!! Biscuits slide in nicely, but I could no more bite an apple than unicycle at the moment! The dentist is going to see what is causing it in about ten days, once the pills have done their job. I've got a funny feeling it might end in them taking out another wisdom tooth that is growing at a very funny angle.
Anyway, enough about my teeth. I want to say a huge thank you to all of you for being such wonderful bloggers and great friends too!