Some more for CRAFT Challenge 209 - 30th of May – Fathers' Day/Male

Morning All!

It's time again for our next challenge here at CRAFT Challenge. This week we would like you to make a project bearing the below brief in mind

Fathers' Day/Male

So, anything bearing the above in mind will qualify. We can't wait to see what you come up with.

And here are some more of my creations for this week to help you get some inspiration. Using images from our sponsors and my own papers.

(using 'Let's go Fishing Puppy' by Sweet n Sassy)

(using 'Bluebird' by Sweet n Sassy)

(using 'All Wrapped Up' by Sassy Studio Designs)

all cards using my own papers

These cards have also been entered at challenges at CDAC.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 209 - 30th of May – Fathers' Day/Male

Morning All!

It's time again for our next challenge here at CRAFT Challenge. This week we would like you to make a project bearing the below brief in mind

Fathers' Day/Male

So, anything bearing the above in mind will qualify. We can't wait to see what you come up with.

And here are my creations for this week to help you get some inspiration. Using images from our sponsors and my own papers.

(using 'Hunter Bubu' by My Heart Pieces)

(using 'Let's go Fishing Puppy' by Sweet n Sassy)

(using 'Camping Bear' by Karen's Doodles)

(using 'Fun in the Pool' by Karen's Doodles)

(using 'Time to Relax' by Karen's Doodles)

(using 'Vintage Cars stamp set' by Flonzcraft)

(using 'Dolphin Box Card' by Trimgym's Digital Stamps and Images)

all cards using my own papers

These cards have also been entered at challenges at CDAC.

Hope you like them, thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Colour combo at CRAFT Challenge, 2 cards for today.

Morning all (if only just),

Hope you are all well and having a lazy and sunny Sunday, like I am having. Remember the colour combo at CRAFT Challenge this week? I have used my new papers from a paper pack using these colours for the cards below. You can find some of these papers as freebies on my digistamp blog if you are interested (as well as the monthly challenge with choose your own freebie).
Just in case you were thinking of entering something into our challenge and did not have any papers to match.

Here are 2 cards I made for 2 separate challenges. The first one is for the Progressive Freebie challenge at CDAC and uses a lovely image by Nana Vics. Hope you like it.

here is the lovely set she offered to use for this challenge:

And here is my second card today. This one is for the Progressive Freebie Challenge at Imagine That!. Kris sent us all another lovely freebie to work with. Guess what? My 10 year old son chose this card to give to his friend today. He is off to his birthday party in about half an hour, so I'd better be quick with this post, lol.
Hope you like this one as well. I will probably be back with some other cards later.

And here is the lovely set Kris sent us to work with

Well, I hope you like my 2 cards today, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Don't forget my regular freebies and challenge on my digistamp blog.

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 208 - 23rd of May – Colour Combo

Morning All!

I hope you all enjoyed our annual Blog Hop and claimed your prizes if you were a winner. We certainly enjoyed ourselves, although Blogger did not appear to be behaving itself very well for some of our stops. We hope it did not put you off taking part.

Now it's time for our next challenge here at CRAFT Challenge. This week we would like you to make a project bearing the below brief in mind

Colour Combo

(see for our combo below as well as for some freebies)

And here are my creations for this week:

(using 'Gus - Mandatory' by Bugaboo Stamps)

(using 'Giving Bear' by QKR Stampede)

both cards use my own papers with this colour combo

(see 2 as freebie above and some will be on my digistamp blog as well)

And here is our colour combo for this week and some freebie papers using this colour palette

So, anything bearing the above in mind will qualify. We can't wait to see what you come up with. This is our monthly Christmas challenge to keep you on track for your Christmas cards this year.

Here are a few background papers by Jo (aka Trimgym's digistamps and images) to get you started if you need some help with this colour combo.

Thanks for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 207 - 16th of May - Christmas

Morning All!

I hope you all enjoyed our annual Blog Hop last week and didn't find the sentence too hard to work out. We certainly enjoyed ourselves, although Blogger did not appear to be behaving itself very well for some of our stops. We hope it did not put you off taking part. I will be announcing the winners of the Blog Hop on our challenge blog this weekend when I have had a chance to do the random draws on the blogs. The random draws on the Rick St Dennis MFA blogs, will be done by them, so please check on those blogs to see if you're a winner as well.

But now it's time for our next challenge here at CRAFT Challenge. This week we would like you to make a project bearing the below brief in mind

Christmas

So, anything bearing the above in mind will qualify. We can't wait to see what you come up with. This is our monthly Christmas challenge to keep you on track for your Christmas cards this year.

Here are my creations this week, using my own papers:

(using 'Snow Family' by Eiglas)

(using 'Winter Twins' by Eiglas)

(using 'Winter Trees' from Gingerloft)

(using 'Santa Choo Choo' by Doodle Dragons Studios)

(using 'Flamingo Santa' by Doodle Dragons Studios)

(using 'Santa Sleigh' by Doodle Dragons Studios)

(using 'Naughty List Snowglobe' by Doodle Dragons Studios)

(using 'Snowboard Dragon' by Doodle Dragons Studios)

(using 'Melting Snowman' by Doodle Dragons Studios)

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.

Happy Birthday To Us! Our Blogaversary Blog Hop and challenge at CRAFT Challenge.

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday Dear CRAFT Challenge

Happy Birthday To Us!

Can you believe it? CRAFT Challenge is already 4 years old. Originally started by Tracy from Just Tracy Crafts and with a DT mostly recruited from Trimcraft forum members (Hence the term CRAFT Challenge, which stood for Crafters Residing Are Friendly Trimmies. Or if you wished alternative meaning of Can't Remember A Flipping Thing) on the 4^th of May 2009.

We have now grown to be a large team of Design Team Members from all around the world, supplemented with lots of Guest Designers who join us for a month at a time.

We have always welcomed all kinds of craft, not just paper craft (unless specifically stated so in the challenge at the time) and are happy to have such a large group of faithful followers.

So, how are we going to celebrate this milestone?

Well, how else can we celebrate than to have our yearly Blogaversary Blog Hop?

We all feature one of our sponsors for this blog hop on our blogs and I have the honour of featuring and offering a prize from the following sponsor. You can win this prize by adding your name to Inlinkz at the end of this post. I would love to see your comments as well.

Flonzcraft

Prize: $ 20 voucher

How can you get to win any of the prizes provided by our sponsors?

That is easy! Just follow the route on our blog hop (you can also find that in our side banner), Our Blog Hop lasts for the duration of this challenge, which means a closing time of Wednesday 6pm GMT on the 15^th of May 2013.

And here are our little rules for this challenge/blog hop:

• Our challenge this week is Birthday
• Create something with this in mind
• Add your project to our Inlinkz on our Challenge blog to be in with a chance of being one of our Top3 and win a prize from Karen's Doodles
• Follow the route of the Blog Hop
• Add your project to the Inlinkz at each of these stops to be in with a chance of winning the prize advertised on that blog
• Collect the letters on this and the blogs on the blog hop
• Form a sentence with these letters
• Return to our challenge blog and put your winning sentence in our comments under the post.
• We will enable comment moderation for the duration of this challenge/blog hop to ensure there is no cheating, lol.
• And the main rule: HAVE FUN!

What can you win on our challenge blog?

1. The winner of the winning sentence wins My Memories Suite 4, amazing software, for free.

Everyone else can also get this software with a $10 discount. Just follow the links to My Memories.com or My Memories Suite 4 and use ourcode in the discount box on purchasing this software you get a fabulous $10 off this software. That is not to be sneezed at.

In order to get $10 off this great software, copy and paste our code

STMMMS98952

and enter it in the discount slot while purchasing this software. It will take it automatically off the purchase price. It is however only valid for this software and nothing else!

2. Our Top3 this week will win a prize from Karen's Doodles

• Top3, 1 : 3 images of choice
• Top3, 2 : 2 images of choice
• Top3, 3 : 1 image of choice

You should have come here from Jeanette's blog and as you can see your next stop is Judy (GDT)'s blog. The start and finish of this blog hop are at CRAFT Challenge Blog.

And here is my project for this week, hope you like it. I have used Vintage Cars stamps from Flonzcraft. 

And now for our Blog Hop route:

CRAFT Challenge Blog

Aunty Sue

Carol

Divya (GDT)

Evie

Hazel (from Rick St Dennis MFA)

Jeanette

Jo (you are here)

Judy (GDT)

Lyndsay (from LEJ Designs)

Nikki

Rachel (GDT)

Rick St Dennis (yes the man himself!)

Saskia

Sharon

Sheryl

Sylvia

Trimgym's Digistamps and Images

Wenche (GDT)

CRAFT Challenge Blog

And here is the letter to be collected on this blog:

Your next stop is Judy (GDT)'s blog. Enjoy the rest of your hop! Don't forget to add your name to Inlinkz below to be in with a chance of winning the prize on my blog.

Love,

Jo

Progressive Challenge #6 at Imagine That.... digi stamps by Kris Breach

Evening all,

A bit last minute as I have been rather busy organizing our Blog hop at CRAFT Challenge, but here is my creation for Progressive Challenge #6 at Imagine That.... digi stamps by Kris Breach . Hope you like it. I have used her freebie sent after the last challenge.

Thanks for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo

CRAFT Challenge 205 - 2nd of May - A Stitch in Time/Use Stitching

Morning all,

Time for our next challenge at CRAFT Challenge. This week we would like you to make a project bearing the below brief in mind

A Stitch in Time/Use Stitching

And here are my projects for this week, hope you like them. For some I have taken the stitching angle, for others the time angle. The papers are my own.

(using 'Mozpoz image 3' by LEJ Designs)

(using 'Bashful Bear' by LEJ Designs)

(using 'The Watch Gobbler' by LEJ Designs)

(using 'Hot Chocolate' by Beary Dust Stamps)

(using 'Rose with Cross' by Trimgym's Digistamps and Images)

(using a card kit from CraftsuPrint)

These cards have also been entered at challenges at CDAC.

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated.

Love,

Jo.