Saturday 31 December 2016

Challege 48 and Winners of Challenges 46 & 47

Good morning and welcome

This will be our last challenge of 2016, so I would just like to say….

·         Thank you to each and everyone one of you who have entered our challenges, without you there would be no ‘Crafty Friends Challenge blog

Thank you to the fantastic design team ladies who are so talented and have created beautiful work throughout the year.  I hope they have all inspired you.

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors who have supported us during 2016 

offering prizes and supplying the DT with their gorgeous digital stamps.

I wish you all a very Happy, Healthy and Creative 2017




Its now time to announce our lucky Winners and Top 3 Favourites. 

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive the following digital stamps 

from Small and Round is  23 Petra M  **CLAIMED**


Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize 
from Art by Miran is Number 54 Ingunn  **CLAIMED**

Congratulations to you both, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog8@gmail.com  to claim your prize
and receive your winners badge.

On your email, in the subject line, can you put the words
'Winner of Challenge 47 and the name of your Sponsor'

(Don't forget, you have 14 days to claim)


and now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Tammy
Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge 
from the tab at the top of the page.
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Re-Draw for Challenge 46 Prizes

Deanne, who was the winner of the Sherri Baldy, My Besties prize has asked me to to a re-draw for the digital stamps, as she would like the prize to go to another winner, as she already owns them.



The new randomly picked winner who will receive the digital stamps above
from Sherri Baldy, My Besties is Number 78 Claudia  **CLAIMED**



The 2nd prize was not claimed within the 14 days, 
so the new randomly picked winner who will recive a prize 
from Star Stampz is Number 1 Sheryl Hare  **CLAIMED**


Congratulations to the both of you, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog8@gmail.com  to claim your prize
and receive your winners badge.

On your email, in the subject line, can you put the words
'Winner of Challenge 46 and the name of your Sponsor 


(Don't forget, you have 14 days to claim)


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Now onto our new challenge for this fortnight at Crafty Friends...

The theme of this challenge is

ANYTHING GOES


You can make anything you like, maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home decorYou can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this fortnight. 


Here are details of this challenge's wonderful sponsor... 

Di's Digi Stamps


I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people. I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.  This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

One lucky winner will receive a $12 voucher to spend
 at Di’s Digi Stamps on-line Store.

Click here to be taken to their web-store and
Click here to be taken to their blog.

For more inspiration, please visit Di's Digi Stamp's 


If you would like to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous prize,
please enter your creation using Inlinkz below.

Don't forget you can enter up to 3 times


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...and here is inspiration from Team 2... If you want to take a closer look at the DT's beautiful cards/projects or leave them a comment, just click on the name above their card/project and it will take you straight to their own personal blogs.



Taking a Break for this Challenge



Have fun crafting this fortnight
See you in 2017

Crafty Hugs
Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx


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Saturday 17 December 2016

Winners of Challenge 46

Without further ado, here are the winners from Challenge 46.

Click here to be taken to our newest challenge - Challenge 47 (Sparkle)

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from StarStampz is....
No 48 Sasha   
** UNFORTUNATELY THE PRIZE REMAINS UNCLAIMED, SO WE WILL RE-DRAW, PLEASE SEE CHALLENGE 48 POSTING FOR THE NEW WINNER**


Our second randomly picked winner who will receive the following prize
from Sherri Baldy My Besties is....
No 132 Deanne 
**Deanne has declined the prize as she already owns the 3 digital stamps, so she would like another Crafter to receive the prize... so we will re-draw, please see Challenge 48 posting for the new winner**


Congratulations to you both, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog8@gmail.com  to claim your prize
and receive your winners badge.

On your email, in the subject line, can you put the words
'Winner of Challenge 46 and the name of your Sponsor'

(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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Challenge 47

Hello everybody and welcome to our latest challenge!

This is the last challenge before Christmas for us, so we'd like to say a big thank you to all of our wonderful entrants who make this challenge blog what it is, as well of course as all the amazing sponsors, and our great DT - thanks so much to all of you, and we look forward to seeing all your creations and images in 2017!

A special thank you also to two of our DT members who are stepping down; thank you so much Jennifer and Annette for all the beautiful creations you've made for us during your time on the Crafty Friends DT.

The winners and Top 3 of Challenge 46 will be announced in a couple of hours, so check back soon for those :) 

The theme of this week's challenge is

Sparkle


Here are details of this challenge's wonderful sponsors... 

The lucky winner will receive the following images:




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

Our next wonderful sponsor is...
Art By Miran

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

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

Tanya
Will be added in the morning, using Art By Miran image Brittany 1920s Flapper

Diane Louise
Using Small & Round image Morning Light
Close up of her gorgeous sparkly hair!


Annette
Using Small & Round image Walking With You

Using Small & Round image Butterfly Wings


Jennifer
Using Small & Round image Walking With You


Laura
Using Art By Miran image Sunny

Melanie
Using Art by Miran

Tammy
Using Small & Round image 

Wendy
Using Art By Miran image Hello Snowman

Lisa W
Taking a break


Have fun crafting

Love
Tanya & Team 1 xxx




Saturday 3 December 2016

Challenge 46 and Winners of Challenge 45

Good morning and welcome, 

Thank you so much for your gorgeous entries for last times challenge, we all enjoyed looking at your lovely cards and projects.  


 Here are the lucky winners....

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize 

from Sami Stamps is Number 12 Rosina **CLAIMED**

Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize 
from Toadstool Printables is Number 59 Mel **CLAIMED**
 


Congratulations to you both, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog8@gmail.com  to claim your prize
and receive your winners badge.

On your email, in the subject line, can you put the words
'Winner of Challenge 45 and the name of your Sponsor'

(Don't forget, you have 14 days to claim)


and now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Laura...  Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.
Laura says "It was very difficult to choose the top three cards, are all very nice, but these are the ones that caught my attention"
Number 52 Marie


Number  58 Kim


Number 36 Tanvi



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Now onto our new challenge for this fortnight at Crafty Friends...

The theme of this challenge is

MERRY CHRISTMAS


You can make anything you like, maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home decorYou can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this fortnight. 


Here are details of this challenge's wonderful sponsors... 


Our first wonderful sponsor is Star Stampz


Prize - One lucky winner will receive 3 digital stamps of their choice
from Star Stampz Store

Click here to be taken to their web-store  


Our next wonderful sponsor is Sherri Baldy from 'My Besties'




Prize...
One lucky winner will receive the 3 digital stamps below, 
which the team was given to use for the challenge

Click here to be taken to their web-store and
Click here to be taken to their blog and
Click here to be taken to their Facebook Page



If you would like to be in with a chance of winning these fabulous prizes,
please enter your creation using Inlinkz below.

Don't forget you can enter up to 3 times



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GUEST DESIGNER SPOT

  We are joined this fortnight by the fabulously talented Bonnie Taylor from "This Creative Day".  We would like to say 'Welcome and Thanks' for making this beautiful card for our challenge using Cup of Cocoa from Star Stamps.



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...and here is inspiration from Team 2... 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.



Diane Louise
Using Image 815 Gingerbread Girl from Sherri Baldy, My Besties

Dora

Using Christmas Elf from Star Stampz
 

Geesje
Using Christmas Elf from Star Stampz


Leslie
Using Cup of Cocoa from Star Stamps


Linda
Using Cup of Cocoa from Star Stamps


Lisa G

Using Image 924 from Sherri Baldy, My Besties


Petra
Using 'The Gift' from Sherri Baldy, My Besties



Tracey
Using an image from Sherri Baldy, My Besties
To be added shortly




Have fun crafting this fortnight

Crafty Hugs
Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx


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