Hello Everyone,

I would like to introduce you to our new artist exclusive to C&M Bente Schlick, whose georgous fantasy paintings have been made into deeply etched unmounted rubber stamps for you all to enjoy!
These beautiful stamps are now available in the store to purchase at a very reasonable price of £4.99 each.
They are all available here http://www.craftsandme.co.uk/crafts-stamps-bente-schlick-c-290_291.html so pop over and take a look!!



Here's a brief Bio about Bente Schlick:

Bente Schlick is an illustrator & designer from Hamburg, Germany. From an early age on she loved to paint and draw.
Since graduating from art school with a degree in illustration & design she works full time as a freelancer.
Bente has worked for a number of art and computer magazines, book publishers and clients in the games & advertising industry.
Her main scope of work are fantasy themes; however, she has also done non-fictional work (including children’s book illustrations and nature illustrations).
Her work is inspired by legends, myths, poems, fantasy stories, music.
Among authors that inspire her are Edgar Allan Poe and J.R.R Tolkien.
Moreover she loves other fantasy-artists like Alan Lee, John Howe, Brian Froud and old master painters like William Bouguereau, Hans Zaztka and John W. Waterhouse.
Bente's artwork also has been licensed on a wide range of products such as jigsaw, t-shirt, postcards, notebooks, posters, calendars and cross stitch designs.



The Design team have made some wonderful cards to show you some of Bente's images


using Her Secret by Bente Schlick
 

Blissful Halloween.

Good morning all.
Nic here to share a little creation with you today using the new Blissful Halloween digi stamp by Hannah Lynn.
I decided to have a little play around with some acetate and the fabulous image and i ended up with this.
Its not turned out how i thought but its ok for a bit of Halloween fun.
The gorgeous image is now sitting in a pumpkin patch.
I have used one of the `sweet thing` charms in the middle of my bow.

A close up of the image, she is so much fun to colour up.

This is a pic when the lights were all turned off, using the night setting on my camera.
I have just placed a couple of battery operated tealights behind the pumpkins.

Thanks so much for looking and do go and colour up your Hannah Lynn digi`s and stamps and enter our current challenge HERE for the chance to win the AMAZING prize from HANNAH LYNN.
I really wish i could enter it myself.
Good luck :D
Hugs Nic.xx

Hello everyone,

It's time to let you know the winners of this Fridays spot & mystery prize from the entries to Challenge #141

The winner this week is:-
no.3 kym's crafty c

Congratulations Kim please contact Rose in the side bar with your address details to receive a lovely stamp from the Hannah Lynn Collection Punch of Colour Girls.

The mystery prize this week chosen from the followers goes to Rachel Taylor.

Congratulations Rachel please contact Rose in the side bar with your addy details.

Don't forget everyone to join in the challenge to stand a chance to win next Friday, winners are picked after 8pm and will be posted on here as soon as possible after.

Don't forget all entries have a chance to win the fabulous signed print by Hannah Lynn.

Happy Crafting,

Teresa xx

Winners and Top 3 September Challenge

Hello and good evening everyone! Thank you so much for participating our September challenge where we wanted to see lovely lace on your projects. We enjoyed to see all your gorgeous entries. This time we don't have just one winner, no... we have several winners!! So read the whole post and watch if you are one of the lucky ones! So, here we go...

The winner of the main prize; sponsored by Marianne Design, chosen by random.org, is:


the winners of the 5 SPOT PRIZES EACH MONTH OF ONE STAMP PER PRIZE BY THAT MONTHS CHALLENGE ARTIST, PICKED BY RANDOM.ORG FROM ALL ENTRIES are:

The 4 weekly winners of Septembers  MYSTERY PRIZES CHOSEN FROM THE FOLLOWERS ARE:
terriavidreader (in u.s.a)
a_priceless 86
n@tie
kraftygirl

Congratulations everyone!! Please contact Rose to claim your prizes. You find her e-mail in the sidebar.
 
And here are the top 3 entries in no particular order:






 

Congratulations ladies for your gorgeous cards!!! Please take the top 3 badge for your blog. We hope you will wear it with pride.

Have a wonderful day now!
Hugs, Karina

Challenge #141 - Use Hannah Lynn Images

Welcome to our October Crafts and Me Stamps Challenge.  We're so glad that you found our new home and that you'll share your beautiful creations with us here.

We have another fabulous challenge for you! We want to see you use Hannah Lynn images on your projects.


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The very generous prize for this challenge is a wonderful signed 8 x 10 inch matte photo print direct from the artist, Hannah Lynn!
 
Hannah Disney photo prints are archival quality on matte finish photo paper, produced in-house (USA), and closely resemble the original work of art, providing the best in colour and quality.


Remember that for the next couple of months TO CELEBRATE OUR NEW BLOG until January we will also be sharing special giveaways.

5 SPOT PRIZES EACH MONTH OF ONE STAMP PER PRIZE BY THAT MONTHS CHALLENGE ARTIST PICKED BY RANDOM.ORG FROM ALL ENTRIES.

1 MYSTERY PRIZE PER WEEK PICKED FROM OUR FOLLOWERS OF THIS NEW CHALLENGE BLOG SO DON'T FORGET TO FOLLOW US.
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Here are the wonderful and very inspiring creations submitted by our amazing Crafts and Me Stamps design team showing how we've used Hannah Lynn images on our projects . . .

Nic using Rochelle by Hannah Lynn, 



using Punch Of colour Girl 1 by Hannah Lynn , Metal Butterfly



♥ ROSE ♥
Using
Payton Digital Stamp by Hannah Lynn
and Sweet Thing Charm




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We sure hope that you’ll join us for our month-long "Use Hannah Lynn Images" challenge and share your projects with us.


Inklinkz has been included below. You have until 8pm UK time on November 3rd to post your entry for a chance to win this great prize by Hannah Lynn!

Also for this challenge we will be limiting the number of entries per person to 2 ONLY PLEASE!!

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Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugz and Good Luck! from the Crafts and Me Team