That Craft Place blog hop!

Come and join us on our blog hop for 

That Craft Place 

We are having a wonderful Blog hop to show case our amazing Design Team!

The theme is Anything goes so don't forget to enter into our challenge.

 TCP facebook Shop 

 TCP Natter and Chatter facebook page 

 Ditzie Digi Design's inspiration facebook page

 DItzie Digi Design Etsy store 

We give away freebies in the Ditzie Digi Design group once a month so please hop over and say Hi. 

Here's the prizes 

 1st £10 spend in That Craft Place

 2nd £10 DDD esty store 

 3rd £5 That Craft Place 

 4th £5 DDD etsy store 

Now to win you need to make sure you're a member of each group 

The amazing Design Team have some inspiration on their blogs and ( some of the DT ladies are giving away their creations to one lucky blogger ) so make sure you hop by and give them some love!!!

I've got two creations to show you today, and I'll give them both away to someone, so leave a comment to be in with a chance!

The first is a dinky little wooden plaque that I've turned into a magnet- the Visible Image stamps, plaque and star blank all came from That Craft Place. The background of the plaque is painted with acrylic paint, with the bird stamped in archival ink. The star is also painted, with Free heat embossed in white.  A little tip if your white embossing gets a little rough around the edges is to go round the words with a black Promarker to tidy it all up- works magic!

This is a hand doodled card with a Ditzie Digi Design as the main image. I love those little toadstool houses! Sooooo cute.

So- if you fancy me sending you a little package through the post, leave me a comment!

If you're blog hopping, you should have got here from Aurora's gorgeous blog

and you need to hop off to see Erin S's lovely blog.

If you want to start from the beginning, then you need to be on the challenge blog - That Craft Place 

Love and Hugs 

from me and all of us at 

That Craft Place 

The Stamp Man Blog Hop, Challenge and Awards are go!!!!

Ooh, it's so exciting!!! Welcome them to the 2nd annual Stamp Man blog awards event! There's so much to tell you about!

We're showcasing our favourite project from 2010 and asking you to do the same. Just pick your best or favourite work of the year and link to it on the challenge blog. Here's mine....

Long time readers of my blog will recognise my first ever DT card for the Stamp Man. It holds many happy memories for me, I was (and still am) thrilled to be part of such a creative design team. For more info on how I made the card, you can see my original post here. Don't forget to display your best project and award with pride!

Finally, let's talk about  the Blog Hop. The hopping starts at The Stamp Man Main blog, click here to go back there. If you're following the hop round, you should have arrived here from the wonderful Sue's blog. You'll need to leave a comment so that I know you've visited me!

You'll be picking up letters from every blog you visit to make a word or phrase, and my letter is......

W

Make a note of it and then hop on over to Kay's blog to see what she has to show you!

A quick reminder of what you need to do to enter the blog hop and be in with a chance of winning some loooovely goodies! The winners will be randomly selected, and everyone's welcome to join in!

• Join in the actual challenge with your best/favourite projected linked with Inlinkz
• Follow your way around the blog hop collecting all the letters you will find on each blog. Write these down then work out the answer when the hop is finished.
• Leave a comment on ALL the blogs you visit in the blog hop 
• Post our event blinkie onto your blog or a post about the event with your best/favourite project
• Take your award blinkie with pride
• Email the answer to: thestampman@btconnect.com by 9pm (GMT) on Thursday 13th January 2011.  Please put bloghop answer as the title

Right, that's it from me- good luck everyone, and get hopping over to see Kay!

The Stamp Man blog hop winners

Hurray, it's time to announce the winners of the Stamp Man's blog hop from a couple of weeks ago! The winner of the prize on my blog is......drum roll please.......

BrendaB

Well done Brenda, you've won the lovely Hero Arts- Celebrate simple joy set. You now have 7 days to claim your prize. You need to email your full name and postal address to thestampman@btconnect.com

There are lots more winners, all listed on The Stamp Man challenge blog. Nip over and see if you're a winner too!! Oh, and come back on Friday for another challenge.

The Stamp Man Blog Hop!

Hellooo! Welcome to the Stamp Man blog hop.

You should have arrived here via Vix's blog if you're following The Stamp Man blog hop, and have arrived looking for my blog- I'm Lisa! I'm so excited, this is my first blog hop as one of the hosts, I hope you're enjoying your journey so far.

If you've not started the blog hop, and you'd like to join in, or if you think you've missed a blog out, just click here to go to The Stamp Man challenge blog! There are loads of fabulous prizes up for grabs, and some beautiful blogs to visit, so you're more than welcome to join in! I'll tell you the next stop on your blog hop tour at the end of this post.

To qualify for a prize you need to do the following (full details on the Challenge blog).

- Display The Stamp Man Challenge blinkie on your blog (if you have a blog), you can get it from the challenge blog here

- Create a post about our blog hop with a link back to our challenge blog

- Leave a message on each blog you visit.  If you don't have a blog you must put your full name in your comment.

There is a letter on each of the blogs, you will need to make a note of each one to solve the anagram- once you've worked it out, follow the instructions on the last blog you visit to submit your answer.

You will need to leave a message on every blog, including on this post to be eligible for the prizes. The wonderful prize on my blog is this gorgeous Hero Arts stamp set called Celebrate simple joy.

Don't forget, there's also the fortnightly challenge to enter as well- this time the challenge is Altered- of course!!! There's a fabulous prize of a £30 Stamp Man voucher to be won.

Each of The Stamp Man design team was given a letter to alter as they saw fit. Mine was the letter A (make a note of it for your anagram!!!).

I decided to use some of my favourite things and colours to make it something I'd like to put on my wall, in the hopes that Jill would like it too!! I gessoed the A and then painted it with red acrylic paint, so that it's really nice and bright. Red is my default setting- I always go back to it!

I know how difficult it can be to stamp directly onto odd shapes, particularly if they're not perfectly flat, so I stamped up a sheet of white tissue paper with swirls from the Aspects of Design 40 Dragonfly Dreams stamp sheet from The Stamp Man in red and black ink. 

I was intending to attach the tissue paper with modge podge, which is water based, so I stamped in Stazon so that it wouldn't run. The modge podge acts as a sealant and an adhesive for the tissue paper, and as an added bonus, the one I used has glitter in it. I looooove a bit of sparkle! Part magpie, me!!! I could have used any clear sealant though.

The tissue paper gives a lovely soft effect, making the whole thing much more mottled, and giving pink areas where the red shows through the tissue paper. To finish off I stuck lots of buttons on and swiped over the edges with a black Stazon ink pad for added definition.

OK, that's my letter, now hop on over to the fabulous Janet to continue your blog tour! Have fun, and don't forget to leave us all messages, and don't forget to join in this fortnight's altered challenge. Take your time and have a look around my teamies' wonderful blogs, they're such a talented bunch.