CRAFT Challenge 154, Celebration and *Blogaversary Blog Hop*

Morning all,

This week is a special week at CRAFT Challenge. We are 3 years old this week! So, Happy Birthday to us!!

Our challenge this week is 'Celebration'. So, any project fitting this subject will be eligible for a prize.


We also have our blog hop this week and you can choose to do one or more of the following this week:

1. Take part in our challenge
2. Add your name to Inlinkz on the DT and GDT blogs to be in with winning a prize on their blogs.
3. Complete the blog hop (adding your name to Inlinkz on your way), collect all letters and form the sentence it forms and leave a comment at the end of our challenge post with your answer.

We have a lot of sponsors this week, with lost of prizes to be won.

• A prize for the winner of our 'Celebration' challenge this week.
• A prize for the randomly chosen winner on each (G)DT member's blog.
• A prize for the randomly chosen comment with the correctly formed sentence from the collected letters along the way.

To ensure all is done fairly, we will enable comment moderation this week to keep all answers behind, so there can be no cheating.

Our blog hop route:

Elke 

Sue 

Nikki 

Tigerlover 

Liam and Owen 

Jenny 

Coops 

Carol 

Sylvia

Sharon 

Sheryl

Jeanette

Alison 

Jo - You're here!

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As you can see you should have received here from Alison's blog. If you have not, please return there or to Elke's blog for the start of our blog hop.


The sponsor on my blog is My Heart Pieces

By adding your name/blog to Inlinkz below you can be in with a chance of winning 

3 images of choice

Don't forget to link in and to collect your letter on this stop which is

So, now it is time to get you some inspiration for this challenge. Here is are my cards for this challenge. Hope you enjoy them. The last one will also be entered at CDAC progressive freebie challenges.

(using 'Ice Cream Cutie' by My Heart Pieces)

(using 'Santa and his Reindeer' by The Stamping Boutique)

(using 'Baptism and sentiment' by Trimgym's Digital Stamps and Images 

and 'Heaven Sent' by Designed to Delight)

Here are the images used for the last card:

Image supplied by DESIGNED2DELIGHT

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Baptism and Sentiments, by myself (on my digi blog as well)

Your next stop will be CRAFT Challenge, which will also be your last stop. Hope you are having fun! Enjoy the rest of our blog hop!

On top of this, I will also be drawing an extra winner on this blog to win 3 digistamps, 2 easel card sheets or 1 paperpack from my digistamp blog when I reach 75 followers on this blog, or if I reach 25 followers on my digistamp blog. If I would reach both these targets, another winner will be drawn to win this prize. This will be a draw of my followers only though.

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 153, Use Buttons

Morning all,

Thursday again and time for another challenge here at CRAFT Challenge. Our challenge this week is 'Buttons'.
We hope you will enjoy playing along with this one again.


Here are my cards for this week. Hope you like them.

(using 'Field of Flowers' from Digi Doodle Shop and my own papers/easel card sheet)

(using 'Checking it Twice' from Love To Stamp and my own papers/easel card sheets)

(using 'Checking it Twice' from Love To Stamp and my own papers/easel card sheets)

(using an image from WhoopsiDaisy and my papers/easel card sheets)

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

Love,

Jo.

Another CDAC 16 card.

Hi all,

Just saw this image and really had to do a card with it. Hope you like it. Here is the image from the current challenge at CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenges.

Image provided by Whoopsiedaisy Digi Stamps

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And here is my card. I created some new Easel card templates/sheets and used one of these for this image. The papers are my 'Some Bunny Loves You' papers. Hope you like it.

Thanks for looking, all commentgs very welcome and muc appreciated. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Love ,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 152, Animals

Morning all,

Thursday again and time for another challenge here at CRAFT Challenge. Our challenge this week is 'Animals'.


Here are my cards to give you some inspiration for the challenge. I have used images by all our sponsors this week, and also one from Wags n Whiskers I used last week. Hope you like them. The easel cards are my own designs with my own papers. I hope you like them.

(using 'Robin' from HopeJacare and my own papers)

(using 'Present Problems' from The Stamping Boutique and my own papers)

(using 'Roses' by Floppy Latte Designs and 'Some Bunny Loves You' by Wags n Whiskers)

(without the 'Some Bunny Loves You' image it looks like this)

Thank you for looking, all comments very welcome and much appreciated. Hope you will be joining us again this week at CRAFT Challenge!

Love,

Jo.

CDAC 16 challenge card.

Evening all,

I have just quickly created a Christmas Easel card (star shaped, own design and papers) for the current CDAC progressive freebie challenge (16 already).

For this card I have used this gorgeous image:

Image provided by Nana Vic

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Hope you like it, can't wait to see the images for the next challenge.

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 151, Wedding/Anniversary

Morning all,

Time for challenge 150 already at CRAFT Challenge. This time our challenge is 'Wedding/Anniversary' and this subject has become rather appropriate as my mum announced last week that she will be getting married later this year.. We have got several sponsors again this week and I have used images/papers from all as well as from myself. Hope you like the cards.

(using an image from CraftsuPrint)

(inside the card my own Retirement verse)

(using another CraftsuPrint image)

(what a lovely anniversary present this was)

(using Kitty Cat Love from Meljen's Designs, the papers are my own using the colours used in the stamp)

(using Teddy Bear Couple from Meljen's Designs)

(using Some Bunny Loves You from Wags n Whiskers)

In case you wonder how I have done these, I have coloured the stamps, then scanned them and printed them on the papers (png).

Hope you like them, I certainly enjoyed doing them.

Love,

Jo.

New Sentiment for you.

Afternoon all,

My mother told me earlier this week she is getting married later this year. I have therefore been thinking of getting some verses sorted for an engagement or wedding card. The cards still need to be sorted, but here is the first sentiment if you are interested. You can use it for your personal use if you wish, but please credit me.

2 Hearts

When 2 hearts come together

Are hit by Cupids dart

Not even the weather

Can keep them apart

Happy Engagement/

Congratulations on your wedding!/

Happy Anniversary! 

Hope you like it. Have a great weekend and I hope Friday the 13th is as kind to you as it is to me.

Love, 

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 150, Inspiration Picture.

Morning all,

Time for challenge 150 already at CRAFT Challenge. This time our challenge is 'Inspiration Picture' and you can find our picture below, one I made on one of our Scottish holidays. We have got several sponsors again this week and I have used images/papers from all as well as from myself. Hope you like the (rather quick) cards.

(using 'Skye Bunny' from Bugaboo Digital Stamps and my 'A Scottish Loch' papers)

(using 'Monarch' by Eiglas, Spring Blossoms 1 Paperpack by Panda Bear Designs and my 'A Scottish Loch' papers)

(using 'Lil Mermaid' by Lil Diva and my 'A Scottish Loch' papers)

(using Spring Blossoms 1 Paperpack by Panda Bear Designs and 'Seamonster' by me)

(using 'The Big One' by StitchyStamps and my 'A Scottish Loch' papers)

And here is a last one with the inspiration picture and my papers. (digital one as I didn't have any craft materials with me on holiday when my mum let me know her boyfriend is celebrating his 65th today).



And here is our inspiration picture, hope you will join us again this week. As it is our 150th challenge this week, we will draw some extra winners this week, they will all win my 'A Scottish Loch' paper pack. The number of extra winners will depend on the number of entries we get for this challenge.

Up to 50 entries: 2 extra winners
50-100 entries: 4 extra winners
100 + entries: 5 extra winners

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

Love,

Jo.

Afternoon all,

A quick post to upload my entry for this round of  CDAC Progressive Freebie challenges.

A bit of a quickie as I had to do it last minute before my holidays. I did not really think I would have a chance to do one on my return in time for the deadline. This is a lovely image and I hope you like what I have done with it. The papers are from Spring Blossoms 1 Paperpack by Panda Bear Designs. 

and here is the image used.

Image provided by Inked Treasures

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

Love,

Jo.

CRAFT Challenge 149, Easter/Spring.

Morning all,

Have you seen any snow these last few days? We had a little bit of the white stuff here on Wednesday morning.


Another Thursday brings another challenge here today at CRAFT Challenge again, this time our challenge is 'Easter/Spring'.


Here are my cards for this week, hope you like them.

(using 'nurse' from Sassy Studio Designs)

(using 'Daisy Fairy' from The Stamping Boutique) 

(using 'Easter Surprise Jeannie' from eyeCandie Creations)

Love,

Jo.