Happy Birthday to US!!! Challenge 79.

It's our Birthday!   We are three years old!  Can you believe it?  Wow, those three years have just flown past!

Before we get to the celebrations, we need to let you know the results of our last challenge to create a card or project for a guy, with an appropriate sentiment!

So, the winner of the prize from Bugaboo was.....

Tshupile!

 Please drop me a quick email to claim your prize and don't forget your badge!

Top 5, in no particular order were....

Judith

Kevin

Lena

Kim

Kirsten

Congratulations all - don't forget your badge!

So, onto our birthday fun - we are having a blog hop (as well as our regular challenge) and so hope you will join us!  We have got three fabulous sponsors this time round (one for each year!!).

Robyn's Fetish who offer a fabulous range of digital stamps - an incredible mixture of styles and designs.

Stamp and Create who are an online store based in the US with worldwide shipping. They specialize in Rubber Stamps including Magnolia, Whimsy Stamps, Wild Rose Studios, and many, many more at the lowest prices around!

My Heart Pieces who create such gorgeous images, some of which are really unusual and just can't be found elsewhere!

"How do we win?" I hear you cry. Well there are two ways to win:

1.  Follow the blog hop - each comment you leave entitles you to one entry - so the more comments you leave, the more entries you get (only one comment per blog please!).

2.  Create a card or project with a suitable BIRTHDAY SENTIMENT on it and enter our challenge as usual.  We will be picking two winners from all the entries.

Here is the all-important Blog Hop order....

Start here!      

Ginny    

Helen  

Julie   

Kym     

Laura   

Mel      

Ruthie 

Sandra   

Valou   

....and then you can pop back and see us here and leave a comment for us.  

Don't forget to enter our challenge as well! The challenge runs until 7th May - gosh, time really IS flying!

#78 For a guy! Inspiration

Click here to enter the current challenge.

Welcome to the second week of our challenge.  Just a reminder...
We would like you to make a card or project for a man - using an appropriate sentiment!  Don't forget that sentiment !

Here are the gorgeous creations of Team B...

Ali from The Crafty Dragon

Sandra from Crea-Sandra

Stephanie from Whimsical Designs

Ruthie from Gotta Find a Cool and Funky Name

This challenge will run until Tuesday, April 23rd

#78 For a guy!

Thank you to everyone that joined in on our challenge to make something for a child and include a sentiment.

The winner of the prize is...

KIM!


Congrats! Please email me so that I can get your prize to you and don't forget to grab your badge from the link on the title bar.

Top 5 (in no particular order!)

Cara

 3s

Deonna

 Louise

Donna

For this challenge we are so excited to have Bugaboo as our sponsor. Thanks so much!

Here is a little bit about them...

"I have been designing graphics for 9 years, mostly for those who digitize, and now venturing into this new idea of digi stamps.   I love to draw and love to see where my designs go and how they are used.   I find making people smile with my graphics very rewarding!  For many many years I drew mostly cutesy kids graphics, a lot of which you’ll find on my site.  But my latest passion is my cranky old boots....

Stella ,Gus, Margaret and the Gals who came after them.
I just LOVE to create them and they seem to be a favorite!

What else can I say? 
The name Bugaboo Stamps...how did I come up with it?
Well...... Bugaboo is a nickname i have for my kids sometimes."

OK, now onto the challenge. We want to see a card or project for a man - with an appropriate sentiment....

Here are the beautiful creations from Team A. Stop by next Thursday for more inspiration from Team B

 Julie from Julie's Crafty Spot

Kym from Kym's Crafty Cards

Mel from Princess Melus Crafts

Helen from My Crafty Creations

Ginny from As I do Rodos

Laura from Scrappin' Around the Clock

Sherri from Sherri's Flip-Flop Blog

Valou from La Faerie du Scrap

Phew!  Lots of inspiration!  Remember we asked you for suggestions for improvements?  Well you asked for Guest DT members to be considered.  So, starting very soon....we will be asking the winner of our challenges if they would like to be GDT for an upcoming challenge...watch this space!

This challenge will run until Tuesday, April 23rd

#77 For a child...part two!

Click here to enter the current challenge.

Welcome to the second week of our challenge.  Just a reminder...
We are looking for cards or projects suitable for a child, with an appropriate sentiment!

Here are the gorgeous creations of Team B...

Ali from The Crafty Dragon

Sandra from Crea-Sandra

Stephanie from Whimsical Designs

Because some of our DT have been unable to create for this challenge - various issues that affect us all from time to time! - we asked Sheila from Craft creations to step in as a guest DT member!  She did a great job!  Please pop over to her blog and leave her some love! 

This challenge will run until Tuesday, April 9th - we look forward to seeing your entries 

#77 For a child....

Thank you to everyone that joined in on our challenge to make a project or card for a girl, including a sentiment.

The winner of the prize from The Paper Shelter is...

Kevin!

Congrats! Please email me so that I can get your prize to you and don't forget to grab your badge from the link on the title bar.

Top 5 (in no particular order!)

Alyce

Anita

Karen

Lena

Shari

Congratulations to you all - please don't forget your badges too!

For this challenge we are so excited to have TWO SPONSORS!!!  Thanks so much!

First up is....Doodle Pantry

Here is a little bit about them...

Hello, my name is Laurie.  I am a wife, mother of 2, crafter, and artist of many trades.  I'm just a regular Joe crafter.  I decided it would be FUN to put my images up at affordable prices for anyone to purchase and use for their personal crafting.  It is not my dream to be the biggest or the best or the most popular.  I truly enjoy what I do and enjoy sharing the creativity that God has given me in the hopes it will inspire others to create too.
Each doodle of mine has a special place in my life.  Even if they were done for a special customer request.  I drew it for a certain reason, maybe someone I know whom I had in mind to make a card for, or just someone that inspired me in some way, and sometimes it was just a random thought of a funny little critter doing something critter-ish that I thought would be cute. I have a variety of doodling styles and I like to keep a diverse selection at my hand for my personal creations.
I hope you enjoy creating to your hearts content with some of my doodles.  But if my images don't suit your personal tastes, I sincerely hope something here inspires you to go create something unique that then puts a smile on another's face.~Laurie Wilson

And our second sponsors....Digis by Kris

And a little bit about them....

 Welcome to Imagine That!...digis by Kris™ and also home of Carly's Cuties™

  We're so glad you're here!!  We're a mother/daughter team bringing you our cutest hand-drawn digital images that you can resize, flip, recolor, print and use in your crafting creations!  This store is brand new and we hope to add lots more digis in the coming weeks/months, so please check back often!

OK, now onto the challenge. We want to see a card or project for a child WITH a sentiment! 

Here are the beautiful creations from Team A. Stop by next Thursday for more inspiration from Team B

Julie from Julie's Crafty Spot

Kym from Kym's Crafty Cards

Mel from Princess Melus Crafts

Helen from My Crafty Creations

Ginny from As I do Rodos

Laura from Scrappin' Around the Clock

Sherri from Sherri's Flip-Flop Blog

We are also thrilled to have projects from Doodle Pantry DT members....

Lori

Marsha

Phew!  That is a LOT of inspiration!

So, remember week one of our last challenge we said that a prize had been unclaimed?  We asked you to tell us what to do to improve our challenge blog - we had some great answers...including giving the DT a hug (which has duly been done!).
We have acted on a few of the suggestions already...numbering the challenges so you can keep track, having a pop out comments box, having a top 5 and clearer wording of our challenges.
Some of the others are going to take slightly longer to work on - GDT spots, Sketches, Tutorials among those - we are not promising, but are talking to the team about them.  Keep watching this space!.....
I randomly chose one suggestion (it wasn't "picked", just a random choice) and the winner of the unclaimed prize is.....Gail!  Gail, drop us a quick email - could you make it clear that you are emailing about the unclaimed prize!

Thanks so much for all your suggestions!

This challenge will run until Tuesday, April 9th