St David's Day: What it means to be Welsh in the 21st century - Need to Read - News from @walesonline

St David's Day: What it means to be Welsh in the 21st century - Need to Read - News from @walesonline


Happy Saint David's Day to you

Hapus Dewi Sant i chi 

Parchment Grid Siesta - AOL Search results

Parchment Grid Siesta - AOL Search results

The reason for this blog

This is a work in progress, so please be patient with me as it is time consuming. Cheers!

























I  started this blog for my  own personal use in aiding me with Card and Scrapbooking challenges. Also having Candies and Sketches in one place.  All this information, although useful and necessary is cluttering up my card challenge blog which is starting to annoy me, as I like everything neat and tidy and in the right place.  Lol (I think this may have Something to do with my OCD and the need to try and be a perfectionist. )

I actuallly spend more time sorting and reorganising my stash than I do Crafting. Which at times is so frustrating.

I will probably also add information about blog hops, New stamp releases and other articles (tutorials and Links)that I think may be of interest to myself and to any other crafter that  is reading my blogs.

When I have completed the various tasks - like listing all the different card challenges i will share this information with you. (Actually I will share as now and Keep this blog as a work in progress)

If you know of any card challenges that i may have not added please let me know. And if there are any links that don't work, please let me know so that I can bring this blog up to date.

Thank you and Happy crafting

Hugs Julie

Craft qualification centre

Craft Qualifications Centre

Images of Handcrafted Cards 

Supplied to 

Craft Qualifications Centre

No exams, no attending classes, just a totally flexible approach to qualifications, giving you the opportunity to attain a qualification whilst doing something you love.

http://www.craftqualificationscentre.com/

Enquiries:
CraftQualCentre@aol.com
Craft Qualifications Centre, Jennie Cornwall, 
2 Miners Terrace, Wallyford, Musselburgh, Scotland, EH21 8JW

Jelly park challenges new Digi release.

Good Morning Ladies.
                                    Have you been to visit http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.com/
Claire has decided to adopt a wonderful place called Little Havens.

Jelly parks have a new digi release and all the funds are being donated to http://www.havenshospices.org.uk/little_havens_care/about-little-havens

You can visit  http://www.jellypark.co.uk/page_2579188.html to learn more.


Please visit their site today and check out their challenge..... and their new digi release


hugs   Julie

My first card Challenge of 2012 Starring Tilda in cozy Christmas

Good Evening ladies! I would like to share a card I made earlier using a neglected stamp I purchased but did not make good use of when making my Christmas cards.

So here is the card I made earlier .. featuring Tilda skating in the snow...

I am entering this card into the following challenges.....

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/   Week 138. Simon says Monthly challenge use something New...
The stamp is new and the snowflake white paper is new

http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
The first challenge of the year is A for anything goes.

http://christmaschallenges.blogspot.com/
the challenge for this week was to follow their sketch with the added twist of using dies or punches.

and finally

over at http://magnoliamaniachallenge.blogspot.com/ their challenge this week is to use snow.


http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/  paper piecing

12 stamps can be won

There are 12 stamps to be won of your choice over at


http://ideastoinspire.blogspot.com/

Did you know that Lily of the valley's challenges have been changed to Lily's little fairies challenge.

Same address at http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/.

Good luck and have fun if you enter the challenges

hugs julie

Creating with a heart is offering candy

http://cindyvernon.blogspot.com/2011/12/winner-winner.html


Over at Creating with heart beautiful inspiring cards and scrapbook pages is offering blog candy every other friday. To win you need to leave a comment on the candy post every fortnight.

12 days of christmas

Religious symbolism of The 12 Days of Christmas

And Lyrics :)

The partridge in a pear tree represents Jesus Christ
2 Turtle Doves refers to the Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens refers to Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds refers to the Four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
5 Golden Rings refers to the first Five Books of the Old Testament
6 Geese A-laying refers to the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming refers to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit
8 Maids A-milking refers to the eight Beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing refers to the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping refers to the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping refers to the eleven Faithful Apostles
12 Drummers Drumming refers to the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed

A three year celebration

Hi! Visit Lynn's blog today to be in for a chance of winning some absolutely stunning candy



http://trashtotreasureart.blogspot.com/2011/11/three-year-blogaversary-giveaway.html

a Beautiful journal made with a rusted cover, vintage laces

Its a etched brass and antiqued book with charms

Next a little tin necklace. It opens so you can hold a cherished note or trinket inside.

and there is also a surprise if you mention this candy on your blog
and there is also a bonus of a pile of new rubber stamps if your mention bonus in your comment
 

The giveaway will run until Nov 18th


and closes at 8 p.m MST.

A Passion for stamps

Have you noticed that Digi images have become very popular and are being used on many blogs.

The reason for the use of these images is the

• versatility.
• the size can be altered.
• the image can be mirrored.
• the image can be flipped.
• there are no stamping errors.

After the image has been printed it can be used in the same way as a stamped image.

The image can be used on cards, tags, scrapbooking, and other Paper Craft Projects.

Have you ever visited A Passion for Stamping.

http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/2011/10/digi-image-giveaway.html#comments

Pop on over for a chance to win 5 Digi images of your choice.

But to be in for a chance  you must become a follower

Post the above  picture on the side bar of your blog .
Leave a comment on http://apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/ saying why you would like to win 5 digi's.


Please visit this site there are many digi's to see on many subjects like Animals, Flowers and plants, Babies and Children, Birds and butterfies,  Male, Christmas, Love and Food. If you do visit after reading this post, I would love to know so please leave me a comment.

Hugs Julie

Special Charity Digi

http://www.craftyemmasstore.co.uk/ourshop/prod_1112167-Ronnie-Says-Cheers-By-DigiStamp-Boutique.html


Check out this charity Digi over at Crafty Emma's store.

All proceed's go to Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity.

The image costs One pound fifty.

http://kylieskraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/10/fortnightly-candy-3.html

http://kylieskraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/10/fortnightly-candy-3.html

More candy will be posted on the 22nd of October.
If your not in it, you can't win it, so pop pver to Inklings from Kylie's Kraft room  for your chance to win this sugar free candy


hugs Julie

santa analysis

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http://www.astro.umd.edu/~avondale/extra/Humor/ChristmasHumor/SantaAnalysis.html


IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?

As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renowned scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus.





No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.



There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.



Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seemes logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.

This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.





The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.



353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enourmous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.



In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.







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Have you heard the news?

Paper Playtime's DIGI MONDAY has moved and been renamed


THE QUEENS ROYAL DIGI CHALLENGE

The first challenge will be on Monday Septemeber 26th


so put it in your diary and take a note

to find out more pop over to

THE SCRAPBOOKING QUEEN

New Crafting blogs

Have you yet to stumble across the new blogs that have started.

If not, let me help you find them. Click the links below to see what new challenges they have for you this week


http://craftingwhenwecanchallenges.blogspot.com/



http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/

and they have an online store at
http://www.craftyboots.co.uk/   where they sell cards and A minimum of 10% from each card sold will be donated to the Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research charity in memory of Mrs Joan Baker.


http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.com/

C R A F T - Parchment

The challenge over at http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ is to use Parchment. I love this craft because the details are so intricate and elegant.

Here is a card made from Christine Coleman's Collection
Pattern pack e D6
3 D Beauties

Parchmentpaper  is layed on to a purple colour card after embossing and perforation work is complete.  The petals are coloured using dorso crayons.

All that scraps sale

Have you been to visit http://www.allthatscraps.com/ lately. They have added many items to their  clearance section. There is 45per cent off many items.

Included in the clearance are items from Graphic 45, Stamping Bella, Wild rose studio and many more.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to get these items at sale price.

Thanks for viewing

Hugs Julie

Easel Card

The Presurfer: Quilling - The Art Of Turning Paper Strips Into Intricate Artworks

The Presurfer: Quilling - The Art Of Turning Paper Strips Into Intricate Artworks