Wednesday 30 December 2015

DT CALL...



Hello Everyone

We are looking for some new members to join our friendly Design Teams. We have 2 teams, which means you make 1 card/project each month.  If you are interested, we would love you to apply.  No DT experience needed and all styles and projects are welcomed.  Here are some requirements...


  • You will need your own Blog and have an email address.
  • You need to be willing to work with digital images/papers from any Sponsor.
  • You will be required to provide 1 card/project every month, using the theme for that challenge.
  • You will have to Blog your card/project when the challenge goes live on a Saturday at 9.00 am (GMT) and also enter it into other challenges to showcase the sponsor's images. 
  • It is important that you comment on 2 out of every 10 entries who have entered that particular challenge.
  • In return for joining Crafty Friends, you will receive lovely digi images to work with from our wonderful Sponsors.
  • If you're interested, please leave a link to your blog below before Saturday 16th January 2016.



Hugs

Diane Louise and Tanya (Team Leaders)

and all the DT Ladies xx


Saturday 19 December 2015

Challenge 21 - Anything Goes

Hello everybody and welcome to our latest challenge!


Before I give you details of this times challenge, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, all the entries were fab, we loved looking at them all :)


Our randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from Pink Gem Designs is....
No 27 Kleido   **Claimed**
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Congratulations, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog@gmail.com  to claim your prize.
(Don't forget, you have 14 days to claim)

And now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Petra.
Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.

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The theme of this weeks challenge is

ANYTHING GOES

This time, we have two wonderful sponsors: 


Sami Stamps

Click HERE to be taken to their web-store and
Click HERE to be taken to their blog

Our second wonderful sponsor is...
Toadstool Printables
"I am Joyce Geleynse and I live in rural Ontario, Canada.  I have been an artist for over thirty years, creating hundreds of custom portraits, paintings, and illustrations in the realism style.  Working with pencil, oil pastel, and color pencils as my main tools, I love to create realistic drawings as well as images found only in my imagination.  I have four stores on Etsy: Toadstoolprintables is the one where I sell my clipart and outline drawings,Freshairprintables is the store where I sell my detailed, realism drawings, as well as printable bookmarks and greeting cards; I sell my actual physical prints and originals via my CountryArt Studio Store, and in my fourth store I sell my original line of hand-sculpted clay babies.  I have five grown children and 17 grandchildren so my life is full of God's blessings!!"

 Here is the DT inspiration from our talented ladies, take a look and then please do join us :) 

Tanya
Using Sami Stamps "Holiday Cheer" and "Curious Gifts"



Blankina
Using Winter Romance from Sami Stamps

Lisa W
Taking a break

Melanie

Shirl
Using Birds and Mice from Toadstool Printables

Wendy
Using Mince On Toadstool from Toadstool Printables

Diane Louise
Using Alphabets and Little Gnome Girls from Toadstool Printables


Using Snowflake Feathers from Sami Stamps


Have fun crafting

Love
Tanya & Team 1 xxx


Saturday 5 December 2015

Challenge 20

Hello and Welcome...


Good morning and welcome, I hope you all had a fantastic crafty fortnight.  Thank you so much for your gorgeous entries for last week’s challenge.  


I would like to take this opportunity to say 'Thank you and Goodbye' to the lovely Julie, who unfortunately has had to step down from the design team, 

It was lovely to see your wonderful entries.  
we wish her 'All the Best for her Future'




Here are the lucky winners of our last challenge 'One for the Girls'

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from 'All Dressed Up' is....
30 Linda Simpson  **Claimed**


Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from 'A Day For Daisies' is..
59 Sharon


Congratulations to you both, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog@gmail.com  to claim your prize.
(Don't forget, you have 14 days to claim)


and now for the Top 3 favourites (in no particular order), as chosen by Melanie
Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.

36. Cicci Vid Pennan  


48. Larissa 


111. Elena F.

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Now onto our new challenge for this fortnight at Crafty Friends...
The theme of this challenge is

CHRISTMAS


You can make anything you like, maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home decor
You can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this fortnight 
and don't forget you can enter up to three times per challenge. 


We would like to say a big thank you to
Pink Gem Designs 
who are our sponsors for this challenge.


Pink Gem Designs is based in Stourport on Severn, Worcestershire UK and began trading in November 2008 to design cute and whimsical craft stamps in  clear polymer.  As digi products became more popular Pink Gem Designs also started to produce digital stamps and other digital products such as downloadable papers, clip art etc.. 

If you enter our challenge and are picked as the winner,
you will win the following fab prize,,,
2 single digi stamps of the winners choice from their web store

Click HERE to be taken to their web-store to see everything on sale and
Click HERE to be taken to their blog for further inspiration and
why not enter your card into their Challenges at
A Gem of a Challenge... click HERE



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 ...and here is inspiration from Team 2 and as you can see, their cards are absolutely gorgeous.... thank you so much ladies. If you want to take a closer look at the DT's beautiful cards or leave them a comment, just click on the name above their card and it will take you straight to their own personal blogs.






Have fun crafting this fortnight

Hugs
Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx



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