ANNOUNCEMENT.......

Congratulations to all the latest winners and a huge congratulations to all the deserving winners of previous challenges since the blog started.
The support for the blog has been nothing short of amazing and I for one have loved to see everyones amazing creations.

I am passing the following message on from Helen's little sister Clare who lives in England.
Luv Marg xxxx

Hello Ladies,

I just wanted to let you all know that I am going to have to to put the "Card and a Half" challenge site on hold for a little while, possibly until February 2012. I am sure that you are all aware I lost my beloved Husband Matthew in August and me and the boys life is total chaos at the moment as we are in the middle of moving home. I am aware that this time of year is a very busy one for us all with Christmas around the corner so hopefully the break will be welcome. I have been able to rely on my lovely friends to keep things ticking over but they also have busy lives too so this is why I feel a break is necessary. I do hope that you will all understand. 

I would like to take the time to thank you all for your continued love and support and as soon as I get back to some normality I will announce when we will get the blog back up and running. 

With love and best wishes Helen xxx

Winner Sketch Challenge #6

Well it's time to announce the winner of the

Sketch Challenge #6

And I know that it is said every challenge, but it really was a difficult decision to pick just one recipient of the prize. There were such lovely entries, so congratulations to everyone that entered.

However, it is with great pleasure that we announce the Sketch Challenge #6 winner... opening the envelope...

Shirley Tait

You can view Shirley's lovely projects on her blog HERE
And here is Shirley's winning entry

Shirley, could you please send you details via email to:
thescrapfarm@bigpond.com
And we will organize your prize as soon as we hear from you.
Congratulations!!

Now, keep posted as there is a little announcement coming to the blog!

WINNERS Sketch & Extra Challenge #5

It's time to announce the winners of the Sketch Challenge #5 and the Extra Challenge #5.

As always, it was a difficult decision, so please give a big round of applause to our winner of the Sketch Challenge #5:

Leanne McDonald

Such a beautiful card Leanne, congratulations!

Leanne has won herself a fabulous $30 shopping spree
donated by Cath at the wonderful on-line store

The Little Scrapbook Shop

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And another round of applause for the Extra Challenge #5 Winner:

Tania B

Here's a peak at Tania's festive and fun entries

Tania has won herself a surprise Christmas mystery box, again
donated by Cath at the wonderful on-line store

The Little Scrapbook Shop

Make sure you stop by and take a peak at The Little Scrapbook Shop as Cath has an incredible range of products and one of the biggest on-line scrapping forum's full of the funniest and craftiest ladies... once you're in, you'll be hooked!

Leanne and Tania, could you please email your details to:

thescrapfarm@bigpond.com
and we'll organize your shopping spree and mystery box prizes

Now don't forget to pop by in a couple of days to find out who has won the Sketch Challenge #6.

Card Sketch Challenge #6

Hello everyone i hope you are all well and ready for this months card sketch challenge

This month is sponsored by the lovely Tracey over at Platypus Creek Stamping And Craft



You can check out all of the wonderful stamps and goodies that she has in her store here.....
http://www.platypuscreekstamps.com.au/

Also you can check out all the wonderful digital goodies she has here......
http://www.platypuscreekdigitals.com/

Tracey is offering the winner of this months card a $20 voucher to spend in store

Here is the wonderful card sketch she has created for you to play with....



And look at this beautiful card sample she has created ......



I hope you enjoy this challenge

To be eligible for a prize you must link your card or cards (no more than 2 please)and it must be your original work and not be entered into any other challenges

Have fun and cant wait to see all of your creations!!!!!!

Love Helen x

Extra Challenge #5

Hello everyone!

Here is your next extra challenge

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Little Scrapbook shop



They are our sponsor for our sketch challenge this time and have kindly put up a wonderful prize for this challenge too which is a surprise christmas pack :-)



Your challenge this time around is to create 2 christmas cards same papers different look

What better way to get a few christmas cards started!!!!!
Here are a few wonderful samples that the LSBS Design Team girls have been working on (thankyou girls they look awesome!)

Virginia

Tara

Nicole

Lauren
Anna



To be eligible for a prize you must link your card or cards (no more than 2 please)and it must be your original work and not be entered into any other challenges

Have fun and cant wait to see all of your creations!!!!!!

Love Helen x

Extra Challenge #4 WINNER!

Congratulations to Narelle you are the winner of this months extra challenge with this beautiful card!

That is some very serious fussy cutting girl!!!!!



Email me your addy and your yummy prize pack from Sonya from Stamin Up! will be on its way to you

jollygirl71@bigpond.com

Thankyou so much Sonya for the great prize pack
Dont forget to contact Sonya if you would like to place an order (the new catalogue has been released and there are some BEAUTIFUL new things!)

http://myinspirationaldreams.blogspot.com/

Sketch Challenge #4 Winner

Big congratulations to our winners of our Sketch #4 Challenge

So many beautiful entries and as always such a hard job picking a winner!


Well done to DEB for this beautiful card its just so pretty!




And of course we cant forget our honorary Cadbury award winner Sandee your card is soooo cute!



Thankyou so much to Scraptherapy's Leeanne and Danny for being wonderful sponsors this month

Dont forget to check out the shop full of so many wonderful products!!!!!



Please email me your addy at jollygirl71@bigpond.com

Sketch Challenge #5

Hi everyone!

Whos ready for the next sketch?

Our sponsor for this months challenge is Little Scrapbook Shop
http://www.littlescrapbookshop.com.au/home.php



They are offering a voucher for $30 to spend in store!

Wait till you check out all the yummy goodies they have :-)


Here is this months sketch for you to play with............

Thankyou Cath it looks fantastic!


And check out the beautiful samples the Design Team have created.....


Tara
Rachel
Deanne
Anna

Virginia

Thankyou so much girls you have done an awesome job!!!!



So Go For It Girls!!!!!!!!

To be eligible for a prize you must link your card or cards (no more than 2 please) before midnight on October 19th and it must be your original work and not be entered into any other challenges

Have fun and cant wait to see all of your creations!!!!!!

Love Helen x

Big Thankyou

I just want to say a big thankyou to everyone that has helped out with the blog in the past few weeks
And a big thankyou for all of you for being so patient with waiting for challenges to go up or winners being announced

Its been a very tough time here as you could imagine, me and the boys are doing ok and im so thankful i have them to keep me focused and positive

All of my beautiful friends and family are a huge blessing and have just been amazing and im so grateful for that

Thankyou so much for all your thoughts, prayers and kindness

Im just trying to get on top of things and get up to date with everything

Thankyou again for your patience and happy cardmaking

Love Helen xxx

Extra Challenge #4

Extra Challenge #4

Hi everyone
Im so sorry that the extra challenge is so late this month

Our sponsor for this challenge is the lovely Sonya who is a Stampin-up! consultant
you can follow her on her blog here
http://myinspirationaldreams.blogspot.com/
Im sure if you would like to order anything from her she would love to help you
The latest catalogue is now available too


So for this months extra challenge i would love to see some fussy cutting, go get out those scissors girls!!!!

Here is what Sonya has created for this challenge




Check out this beautiful prize pack Sonya is giving to the winner!



So Go For It Girls!!!!!!!!

To be eligible for a prize you must link your card or cards (no more than 2 please) before midnight on September 26th
and it must be your original work and not be entered into any other challenges

Have fun and cant wait to see all of your creations!!!!!!

Love Helen x

Extra Challenge Winner #3

Hi everyone, it's Melinda here again. I'm back to announce the winner of the extra challenge #3 which was proudly sponsored by Bits and Pieces made by Marg and what a gorgeous prize package! Thanks Marg.

Again, there were so many beautiful entries and all so different. But there can only be one winner and this month's extra challenge winner goes to someone who has been dabbling in making new flowers and the flower on her card was just divine. We loved it and it complimented the card perfectly. So big congratulations to...

Tracie

Here's a look at Tracie's gorgeous card.

Congratulations Tracie. Could you send your details via email to Marg at margie_oliver@bigpond.com
and your prize will be shipped out to you as soon as possible!

Sketch Challenge #3 Winner

Hi everyone, it's Melinda here again on behalf of our dear Helen who is continuing to amaze us with her strength and determination to get through this tragic time in her life for her boys. She is a remarkable woman that is an inspiration to us all.

Now, firstly I would say thankyou to everyone for the beautiful entries this month, each one different from the next but amazing in it's own right. And my goodness it was difficult to choose just one winner so it was lucky that there was a little group of wonderful helpers to make the decision easier.

So how about a round of applause for the winner of the Imaginisce Prize pack
Claire

 Claire your card was just delightful
and we really loved the little pops of flowers and that
wonderful dragonfly.

And we can't forget to announce the winner of Helen's Cadbury Award, so congratulations to
Jan

Jan your card was so pretty and had such sentiment
that we couldn't go passed choosing it
for the Cadbury Award!

Could both winners please send their details to me (Melinda) at thescrapfarm@bigpond.com and I will get your prizes sent out as soon as I can. Thanks and congratulations!

Once again I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for taking part in Helen's card challenges and look forward to seeing more wonderful and inspiring cards being entered from a terrific bunch of crafters.