Sunday, January 6, 2013

Meet Ali and Sandra! ...

Another couple of introductions......

Hi all my name is Alison and along with Ruth and Julie I am one of the longest serving members of Aud Sentiments. I work part time for the Civil Service, and the rest of the time I look after my beautiful daughters who are 8 and 6 years old. A full time job in itself as I am an older Mum! I have been seriously crafting for about 8 years and started blogging a little over 3 years ago. We have two gorgeous cats called Misty and Fluffy - girls chose the names - they are about 7 months old now. 

This is Ali's fave project..... 




Hi all! My name is Sandra, 26 years old and I love in the Netherlands! I have been crafting all my life, (I am left-handed, that seems to explain everything) and I started scrapbooking in 2005. I don't do that very often anymore, right now, I am totally addicted to cardmaking and coloring stamped images! 


Look out for the next couple......

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Meet the DT - Ruthie and Kym

I said I would periodically pop a few DT members up, so that you can get to know the new DT and some of the existing DT.  

As ever, someone has to go first....so I jumped right in.....

My name is Ruth (Ruthie in craftland!) - my surname is Gedalovitch - I wasn't born to that name, I married
 it!  The other owners of that name are Tony (my husband) and Josh (our 12 year old son). 
In our area, there are very few of us - which makes it really easy when booking dental 
and doctor's appointments!

I live in the UK - on the borders of Essex and London (officially we are London) - yep, 
we are just up the road to "TOWIE" guys and girls - in fact some of them were schooled 
at the same school my son used to attend!  

I work full-time in libraries - am on the senior management team - and laugh with my boss
 that I get to do all the fun stuff (events and outreach) whilst she has to do all the 
boring stuff (finance and performance management) - I am definitely NOT suited to the 
boring stuff! 

We have numerous animals - 3 cats, 1 hamster, 4 rats, 1 guinea pig, 1 bearded dragon, 
1 budgie and some fish - we foster for our local rescue centre too!  I am currently 
learning sign language and we had to name and describe our animals - mine took a while!

Crafting wise, I am trying really hard to improve my colouring, then I plan to focus on 
layouts.  I will pretty much try any craft, so you never know what will pop up on my blog! 
 I go to an annual crafty weekend - which really pushes my crafting forward!  AND we do lots of 
giggling!

I am so honoured to be part of the AudSentiments team - I seriously think I would not get
 on it if I applied today as the talent has just kept growing each time we do a DT call! 
 
Here is my fave card - 
 
 
Kym was the next brave soul to post up a profile....
  
Hello my name is Kym and I have been on the Aud Sentiments Design Team for a few 
years now.  I have been married 21 years and have two boys aged 20 and 16.  The 
oldest left home in August 2012 but he comes and sees his mum 1-2 nights a week on 
his way to college to finish his degree.   I work part-time as a Medical Secretary.
I have been crafting now for about 6 years.  I make my cards solely to sell to raise
fundsfor different charities so my funds are therefore very limited so I love to 
use craft CDs, stamps and digital images as I can use things over and over again. 
 I have also got into scrapbooking and hope to do more of that in 2013.

And here is Kym's fave project....


Hmmm I wonder who will be the next brave souls to post up their profiles?...... watch this space.....

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Winter Wonders AND new DT!

Thank you to everyone that joined in on our challenge, we had so many lovely entries it was hard to choose.  In fact, we nearly reached 300 entries!  Wonder if we will do that with this challenge?


The winner of the prize from My Heart Pieces is...


Shell!

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 3 (in no particular order!)

Marianne

Kevin

Katie
Congratulations and don't forget to grab your badges!

Something very important is happening over the next few weeks....drum roll....we are bringing on board our new DT members!  YAY!  We are so excited to be joined by such a talented group of people - in fact, if you take a peek in the sidebar, you will see all their names so you can pop over and leave them some love - or just have a good nose around their blogs...not sure if they have dusted or not so "take them as they are"!!!.  

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting up a brief bit of information about some of our DT, so keep an eye out for these additional posts. 

At this point, I have to say a huge thanks to our outgoing team members who have blessed us with their creativity for the last term.  AND of course say how pleased we are that some really talented peeps have decided to stay with us for another term!



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 were 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, alot of which you’ll find here.
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 as that is a nickname i have for my kids sometimes.


OK, now onto the challenge. We want to see you use any sentiment as long as it is about winter - so you could pick "Thanks snow much" or "Have a n-ice day" or some other creative wonder!  Just don't forget an applicable 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






Carol from CM Design




This challenge will run until Tuesday, January 15th. I wonder if we will get more than 300 entries!



Thursday, December 27, 2012

Any Sentiment - inspiration


Click here to enter the current challenge.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  We are full of goodies over here - I am sure I am twice the size now! I won't be able to reach passed my belly to get to my crafting!

Welcome to the second week of our challenge.  Just a reminder...this is a nice easy one to get us over Christmas, and its to use ANY SENTIMENT on your project.


Here are the gorgeous creations of Team B...







Sandra from Crea-Sandra



Just a little update on the DT call...all successful peeps have been contacted - I have to say, it was very, very close for a couple of people and we would have taken more if we could have done!  Thanks so much to those who tried out - whether you got in this time or not. Please, if you didn't get in this time, don't feel bad - we try to have a balanced team stylewise and sometimes we just have too many people with the same style! :) 
 
We will hopefully, be unveiling the new DT next week - we are just waiting to hear back from a few people.  Please, if you entered, check your emails and blogs, in case there is a message for you!

This challenge will run until Tuesday, Jan 1st.  Good Luck!

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas!
Hugs to all x

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Use any sentiment!

Thank you to everyone that joined in on our holiday sentiment challenge.  We were thrilled to see all your creative happenings.


The winner of the prize from Birdie Brown is...


Rina
 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 3 (in no particular order!)

Laine

Karen

Jo Ann
Please don't forget your badges ladies!

We are working through the DT applicants and will be contacting our wonderful new peeps asap.  It has been a really, really tough decision! When we have our final line up, we will introduce them to you all!





For this challenge we are so excited to have My Heart Pieces as our sponsor.


Here is a little bit about them...

 Welcome to my art world. My art is inspired by fairy tale and fantasy, but I draw all type of Digi images. All images are hand drawn and scan so it preserve its originality.


OK, now onto the challenge. We want to see Anything with a sentiment!  Couldn't get very much more open - we thought we would have a nice easy one this time!

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


Julie from Julie's Crafty Spot




Carol from CM Design



Helen from My Crafty Creations


I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our lovely DT, sponsors and fellow challengees a wonderful holiday time - whatever you call it and however you celebrate.  AND a Happy New Year!!!

This challenge will run until Tuesday, January 1st!


Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Dt call and inspiration!



Click here to enter the current challenge.


Welcome to the second week of our challenge and DT CALL!  Just a reminder...we would like to see any creation as long as it includes a sentiment relevant to the holidays - so that could be Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza etc.  I can't stress this enough, PLEASE don't forget to include a sentiment!  

Unfortunately we are half way through the challenge and have had to exclude a number of entries as they are either back-linked, don't have a sentiment, don't have a relevant sentiment etc.  We hate having to do this as we love all the hard work and creativity that everyone brings to the challenges, but we need to keep it fair for everyone.  If you are unsure of our general rules, please take a peek at the tab above.

If you would like to have a go at our DT call, more information is on the post here

Here are the gorgeous creations of Team B...









Sandra from Crea-Sandra




Doreen N from Sister's Craft




This challenge will run until Tuesday,December 18th