Wednesday 9 December 2015

Winners - November Technique Challenge

Thank you for all your wonderful inky creations for the November Technique challenge. Your cards were inspirational!
I'm pleased to announce our winners:
Joint Top Honours:
and #15 Andreja
We should have five honourable mentions, but the voting was evenly split, so we have seven! (it is nearly Christmas after all!)
#3 Marina
#6 Deepti
#8 Maura
#16 Sandma
Congratulations to all our winners! Please don't forget to join us for our final challenge of the year. Merry Christmas!


Saturday 5 December 2015

December - Pick a Previous 2015 Challenge

Hello and Good morning.  It's December and you know what that means, there are only 19 days until Christmas Day!!!  We know that this time of year gets very busy for many of us, however, crafting can offer a bit of stress relief.  So with that in mind, we have only one challenge this month
PICK A PREVIOUS 2015 CHALLENGE.  
You can choose a sketch, pick some colours, a theme or a stash/technique - it's entirely up to you - you can find our previous challenges in the tabs at the top of the page.  We would ask that you tell us what challenge you've used.


Just a quick note to let you know that the challenge will run for two weeks and the deadline for submission is midnight (GMT) Friday 18th December, that's 7.00 pm EDT for those of us in the States.  We will be posting details of the challenge winners on Saturday 2nd January 2016.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted their cards to the DT Call, we will be contacting the successful applicants by Saturday 12th December.  I got the date wrong in our earlier posts - sorry!!

And we will announce our new DT members on 2nd January 2016.  New challenges start the following week on 9th January.

Here's some inspiration from the Design Team:

April
Colour Challenge August 2015

July Theme Challenge Snowman

may 16th challenge:"oh little town"

Christmas Greetings - photo by Deborah Frings - Deborah's Gems


 

Before we go, we'd like to thank you all for playing along with our challenges during the past year, and to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.  See you all again in 2016!


Now - have fun and we can't wait to see your creations in the gallery.

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Thursday 3 December 2015

Winners - November Theme Challenge

Sorry this is a bit late!  We were delighted to see so many fabulous submissions for our Family & Friends theme.  Here are the results:

WINNER



HONOURABLE MENTIONS
(in order of submission)














Congratulations to you all.  Please pick up your badges from the tab at the top of the page and display them on your blog.

Finally, there is still time to join in with this week's challenge - it's a technique to use either SPONGING OR BRAYERING - have fun!


Happy Crafting!!

Saturday 28 November 2015

November Technique Challenge and DT Call

Hello! It's April here. I hope that as a fun part of all your Christmas preparations you will be able to join us for this month's technique challenge. However, before we get to the challenge, a final reminder about the DT Call.

DESIGN TEAM CALL

It's the last challenge of the month:
  • Week 4 - Stash/Technique
If you have played along with THREE  of the challenges this month, and put the letters DT after your name on your entry submission, we will be considering all applicants next week.  We will contact successful applicants no later than Saturday 5th December.  Those selected will join the DT with our first post on Saturday 10th January, 2016.

And now, our Technique Challenge:



We would like to see your Christmas or winter themed cards that use the techniques of sponging or brayering. I'm sure that we will see some fabulous inky effects! Please read our challenge rules carefully before submitting your card.

I hope that you will feel inspired by the DT's cards!




taking a break this week - but please feel welcome to visit her blog and say "hi"

Fabiola


April


Deborah

Merry Christmas - photo by Deborah Frings - Deborah's Gems

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Wednesday 25 November 2015

winner-november color challenge

it's time to reveal our color challenge winner
and it's a great honor for me to announce.

out top honor goes to:


and our honorable mention goes to
congrats to all of you and please join us for our "friend and family " challenge


happy crafting!

Saturday 21 November 2015

November Theme Challenge and DT Call

Hi, it's Deborah here with you today.  Before we get to our new challenge, it's time to remind you that we're having a DT Call.  Details below:

DESIGN TEAM CALL

There are only two more challenges left this month and they are:
  • Week 3 - Theme/Recipe
  • Week 4 - Stash/Technique
If you wish to be considered you need to play along with THREE of the four challenges this month. If you've done Week 1 and 2, then you need only do 1 of the remaining challenges, but you can do them all if you want!! Put the letters, DT, after your name on your entry submission.  We will contact successful applicants during December and the new DT members will start with us in January 2016.

Now it's time to tell you about our Theme Challenge.  We want your Christmas card to be about Family and Friends.



Here's some inspiration from the DT:






taking a break this week - but please feel welcome to visit her blog and say "hi"


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Wednesday 18 November 2015

Winners - November Sketch Challenge

Thank you for all of your gorgeous cards made using the November sketch!
I am so excited to announce the winners

Top Honour
Entry #1 Sandma

Honorable Mentions:
(We usually list 5 but we had a tie so there are 6)

#3 Marina

 

#9 Denise


#16 Kajcyika

#18 Lucinda
Christmas card with holly pattern border and banner

Saturday 14 November 2015

November Color Challenge and DT Call

Hello , welcome to our color challenge for November,
I'm Fabiola and I'm your hostess for this week
the team propose you to play with green and purple to create your christmas card
so let your inspiration escape
and join us.

DESIGN TEAM CALL

Before we get to the challenge, you'll have noticed from the title that we're looking for a few new members to join the team in 2016.  We have a rota of challenges each month:
  • Week 1 - Sketch
  • Week 2 - Colours
  • Week 3 - Theme/Recipe
  • Week 4 - Stash/Technique
  • Week 5 - Pick a Previous (the host gets to pick)
If you wish to be considered you need to play along with THREE of the four challenges this month. Put the letters, DT, after your name on your entry submission.  We will contact successful applicants during December and the new DT members will start with us in January 2016.

Now, back to our regular post - the colour challenge:


we will enjoy to see your beautiful creations but
please read our rules carefully before you submit your Christmas or winter themed card.

let's see the sweet cards from the Dt members

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