Blog Candy

Hi ya crafty peeps.

well here it is a little experiment of mine.. i have designed one mahooooooooooooosive kit for you all. and its going on sale on the 9th of july for 3 weeks and 3 weeks only. After this time its going to be split up and sold as individual pieces. Current individual price on this kit is £51.50. It will be on sale for £6.50 ONLY!!!!. A saving of nearly 90% I'm offering this kit to one lucky individual in the next week for complete free. All you have to do is blog about it... let your friends know that i have a huge Free kit. Leave me a comment and i will make the draw on Friday the 9th. :)





This huge kit includes.

1 A4 sheet of boarders
20 coordinating 20x20cm (8"x8") papers in blues, lemons, greens and browns.
6 x pre designed envelopes various shapes and sizes
6 x pre designed cards in a variety of sizes, they will fit the envelopes there are also topper sizes on the sheets.
2 x sets of paper piecing duckies.
6 x A4 sheets of duckie characters
2 x Alphabet sheets. in lemon and blue.
3 x A4 sheets of scrapbooking titles wording featured is, just the two of us, hoppy birthday and Quackers
a full set of digital stamps. 7 in total, this would be £6.99 for the set on their own.
and to finish 5 30x30 (12"x12") pre-designed scrapbook pages in png format, all you do is slip your photos behind.

if this is a sucess, you will find a lot more kits in this format giving you great savings. :)

design team get ready, elements will be on their way to you shortly.

Enjoy folks :) xxx

Comp Winner!

So we have some news and a winner of the "name the character"

Winner recieves this kit below.... i guess i should tell you the winner then lol.

Penny D congratulations hun, This new character will now fondly be refered to as Rita. please let me know your email address and i will get this kit off to you asap.



If any of my love bloggers would like to purchase this kit, it's now in the shop. Which brings me neatly on to the fact that the website is now open again yay :) full of new kits characters, digital stamps, design tools, and some more lovely goodies. New prices also, so dont miss this opportunity to be one of the first to go visit.

cherrio for now, back with some more lovely goodies later today. xxx

New Mini Comp

Ok so becuase Hank went down quite well i have a new character for you to name this week. Comp will close on monday, so get your thinking caps on. It's to name this character.



The winner will recieve the new kit once it's designed :)

Take care all xxx Jo

Thinking Caps

Hi ladies and gents. Isn't it a beautiful day, just been out on my bike and kinda feel ready to start the day, apart from feeling absolutely pooped! lol Anyways i thought it would be a neat idea to show you how i go about designing a character so todays post is dedicated to this little fella here.



He's not named yet so thought it might be a cool idea for a competition. Winner will recieve his kit when i get it finished hopefully later today.

and here is how he started.



this is the process in which he was designed.



and this is the end product.



i want to be able to name in the next couple of days so i will close this on wednesday. :)

right im off to battle the grannies and their carts at the supermarket, wish me luck! xxx Jo xxx

Update and Freebies

hi all, sorry it's been a while since my last post, but i'm glad to say normal service has now resumed. I don't know if any of you heard about google, facebook and twitter taking some hacking over the last couple of weeks, but the probs i've had with facebook, soooo annoying. Anyway on to the news.

Don't forget to enter the two comps Tinker & Co have running at the moment. You could win some lush Blog candy on september the 1st, and there is also a chance to win a completely Blog makeover, from Tinker & Co, drawn on the 15th of september. I also have a couple more comps coming over the next day or two. The lovely Janet over at Tops Toppers has offered a lovely stamp up as a prize, and so too has clip clop crafts, offered some lush goodies, so stay tuned for news of these.

At the Shop!

It's my birthday as i keep reminding you all lol, on sunday this week, so as a thankyou to all i'm offering 25% off on all downloads at the website. Hoping to have this go live on friday. So check out the store. Full terms and conditions of sale will be available to include, that which and that which is not, included within the sale.

Freebie time

i know, i know, i'm so sorry, it's late, but here are the motifs that go with Country Fair downloadable papers. I love these and they are sooooo versatile.



YOu can download the flowers here

Well thats all for now folks, will be back soon with more.
thanks for reading kind regards jo and the team.

Blog Candy time. Yay!!!

well in about 28 days or so , i'm celebrating my 30th birthday, so i thought i would offer some blog candy to honour the fact lol. All you got to do to win, is link our blog candy on your own blog. Those that become or are followers will get two entries into the draw as a special thank you for keeping your eyes on Tinker & Co. So what are you going to win.



you will receive:

1 8x8" chipboard 6 page album with three rings
1 6x6" chipboard 6 page album with two rings
2 metal butterflies in green
oodles and oodles of ribbon in varying patterns, widths and lengths, in pink, orange, shades of green, lemon and white
1 A6 sheet of our build a flower stamps, beautiful stamps very versatile
1 2x2" tinker Die, of our logo birdy. Die is the same thickness and tolerance to that of quickutz
10 C6 cards
petaloo pink and red flowers
10 a6 pattern matts
1 cd tin for altering housing our logo chipboard birdies
packet of velvet flowers, in pink, green, white and honeydew melon
packet of patterned chipboard flowers
selection of plain chipboard flowers
and 1 cd containing our soufle range of papers and alphasets.

Winner will be announced on the 1st September, so get posting your links.
enjoy jo and the team

....and the winner is!!!!

Today also marks the day that you find out the winner of our first blog candy. I am completely in shock, over the amount of lovely enteries we've had for our blog candy. A massive 171 crafters from all over the world, joined in. It was great to see entries from Argentina, Poland, England, America etc etc. Wow just fabby.

So a little reminder of what you will recieve.



The winner is ... as chosen totally at random by my sister..... DEBS!!! who runs the Especially For You Blog. Congratulations to you Deb, please get in touch with us so we can make arangements for your goodies to be shipped to you asap.

A big massive thank you to everyone who joined in, Because of the sheer volume of participants i've decided to hand out 3 other prizes of the "Couture Darling Kit"



winners are.

Agus
May-chu
Sabina bjerre

If you could get intouch ladies with your email address i will make sure you get this kit sent out to you for the weekend.

We'll be hosting another blog candy around august time as it's my birthday! so stay tuned. take care all Jo and the Team

Blog Candy

This was ment to be posted 377 hits ago, but with the bank holiday weekend upon us i thought i would save it till now. Here it is, Tinker & Co's first blog candy. To celebrate our first 2000 hits on this blog. The response has been fantastic over the last couple of months, and i'm truly greatful for your continued suport. i love what i do and it makes it all the more enjoyable reading the feedback from you.



Simply tell people about my candy with a link to our blog, then leave me a message to say you have. Winners will be drawn on May 1st!

Blog candy includes
Chipboard D I V A letters
72 piece alphabet set, and cute purse
handbag stamp
Tinker & Co Couture Darling CD 20 printable papers, and 1 sheet of dress motifs
Tinker & Co Adhesive Fabric strips
5 yards of ribbon in varying widths, colours and patterns
Tilda wooden figure
1 x 20x20 - 8x8 inch chipboard 6 page album
1 x 15x15 - 6x6 inch chipboard 6 page album
1 box of petaloo flowers in pink and black
2 metal butterflies
12 chipboard flowers

thanks for reading x