Challenge #54~Sentiment

Morning, Morning everyone!!

How has the month of February treated you? It's almost over but we still have this week with our current sponsor:



Are you ready for our last challenge of the month?

CHALLENGE #54~SENTIMENT

I would like to see a sentiment on the front of your creations. This can be a one word sentiment or you can work your entire creation around the sentiment. Use your own style and creativiity and have fun.

Here's what the DT came up with:

We have a guest DT member today and here is her fabulous creation for us:

Be sure to leave her some love and browse her blog!

Thank you so much Tammy for joining us and sharing your wonderful creation with us.

Tammy:

Creatively Me

What a beautiful card and wonderful layout!

Colleen:

How fabulous is this? Those colors are great! I love easel cards and I just love how the sentiment is the full and main focus!!

Georgia:

What an adorable card. That flower is sooooo cute!!! And she even decorated the inside.

Marsha:

STUNNING as usual!!! Love the sentiment, the ribbon (is always lush), and the butterflies!!

Moira:

Who never lets us down with a great layout (or two).

Great costumes huh!!!

Challenge #53~Sketch AND WINNERS!!!!

Good morning ladies! Man did I have a hard time getting up this morning. And of course I came downstairs to about 2 inches of snow on the ground. I know that some of you have been having some really pretty "springlike" weather...sorry folks....winter isn't quite over yet! I hate how mother nature likes to play games with us...gives us that little taste of spring then bam...the next day there is snow everywhere!

But I'm going to brighten your day up by giving you winners for January and a new challenge!!! Sound good to you? Let's get started.

JANUARY WINNERS:

I say winners because if you remember...for our 50th challenge Melanie put together a little extra prize for that week's challenge........so....

WINNER OF 50TH CHALLENGE PRIZE:

J and J's Yummy Creations

So Juelmarie...please contact melanie so she can get your info to send you your prize!!!!

WINNER FOR MONTH OF JANUARY:

Stargroves

Ann Ray....be sure to contact Melanie for your prize from The Stamping Boutique

Melanie: newbymom@embarqmail.com

CHALLENGE #53

Sketch AND Ribbon

This sketch was put together by myself...I hope you enjoy it and have fun with it. And don't forget your RIBBON!!!

And before we get to our DT's inspiration for the week I can NOT forget to tell you about our sponsor of the month:

They are still having their 30% off sale so if you haven't taken a look at the shop yet....be sure to do so, you don't want to miss out on this HUGE sale!!

DT's Work:

Kelly:

Such a cute image and wonderful sentiment!

Tanya:

Love these colors and ribbon and can't miss the half pearls!!

Tammy:

She did a great job with my sketch...love the border punch and that ribbon...yummy!!!

Robyn's Fetish image used.

Sandye:

Another great usage of the sketch....adorable image! I'm ready for some baseball (okay...softball for me...lol)

Crystal
Love the color combo with this and again....great way to use the sketch...and have you noticed something? This Robyn's fetish image has been really popular with our DT and guess what??? It's on sale in their store so go grab it for yourself!!!

Michele:

I'm a huge fan of banners and I just love this...see how many ways you can interpret the sketch?!!!

Happy Valentines Day!!!!

Happy Valentines Day Ladies!

This is just for you Melanie since you just got back from your little Disney vacation!!! It's for all of you of course, but I picked Minnie for Melanie!!

I hope that all of you are getting at least a little spoiled by your loved ones!! My kids woke up to more candy then they knew what to do with!!!

We are still being sponsored by:

Don't forget they are having a huge grand opening (of their new site) and Valentines sale of 30% off so make sure you drop by and take a look at what they have to offer! I promise they have a huge selection, something for everyone!!!

Challenge #52~Sketch AND Color PINK

This sketch was put together my none other than....ME!!! LOL! I hope you enjoy it, I'm not an expert at making sketches...we have some girls that have some awesome programs and theirs come out great but I think you get the point with mine...right? I can't wait to see what you come up with and don't forget....you have to use the color PINK also!!

Okay....Here is what our DT came up with:

Colleen:
I love this color comboand that DP is super cute!!
Robyns Fetish image used.

Georgia:
Great minds think alike huh?? I think I recognize that image ;-)

Marsha:
I just love all those hearts...wonder what punch she used??? I think the border one looks like it might be Martha Stewart...hmmmm! That bear is adorable!
Robyns Fetish image used.

Moira:

Very adorable layout with the sketch...love the banner!

Challenge #51~Critter

Well....who were you rooting for yesterday? We aren't much into football here (plus we had no way to watch it) but we would have been rooting for the Steelers being that we are from Pa. and have to represent that!!!! I did see all over FB this morning that they lost...too bad! I also heard that Fergie didn't sing too well which is disappointing because I really like her and Christina botched the National Anthem...wow...not a good night for celebrities huh?! I hope that you all had some good food, good friends, and good times yesterday and are ready for todays challenge.

It's the beginning of a new month for us so that means a new sponsor:

Our Sponsor this month is:

Right now Robyns Fetish is having a huge 30% off sale to celebrate Valentine's so be sure you hop over to their new store and check out her fantastic selection of digital images and papers.

Don't forget their challenge blog either....great challenges with chances to win more digital images!

Challenge #51

CRITTER related. I would like to see a card or project created using a critter/animal image. That is it, have fun, make it sassy, or cute, or simple!! Whatever your heart leads you to do.

Here is the work of our wonderful DT:

Kelly:

What a cutie of a Valentines...you can't miss those google eyes on that chick!!

Tanya:

Wonderful colorning and DP...love the layers.

Tammy:

What a great CAS (clean and simple) card...great paper piecing!

Michelle:

This is a digital scrapbook page and it looks great. She imported one of Robyn's Fetish images and "colored" it digitally...how great is that!

Sandye:

This looks sooo pretty and vintage...the image with those papers....perfect...and she did some paper piecing too...makes that dress stand out just a bit more!

Crystal:

Those DP's are really great together and those snowflakes are too cute...and YES....most of us GOT SNOW!!! LOL!

Robyns Fetish image used



~~~Challenge #50~~~Sketch....and MUCH more!!

GOOD MORNING!!! Today is the very last day of January. I don't know about you all but...wow...I can't believe the month is over already. I can't say it makes me unhappy though, I'm so ready for this cold to be gone so I am dying for springness (I made that word up I think...lol).

We have a lot going on today so stay with me okay!! 

Our sponsor for the last week is the wonderful/fabulous:

This is our 50th challenge as you can see sooooo Melanie has come up with something a little extra special to help celebrate.....she's going to be giving one lucky person a little give-away....do you want to see what it is????

AND.....5 card kits!!!

Sooooo.....I hope that you all will join us this week for our challenge and have a chance at being the winner of this prize. Just an FYI....this prize is going to be won by someone from this week's challenge ONLY!

So that brings me to the challenge:

CHALLENGE #50~SKETCH

From our fabulous Colleen

What a great sketch huh!! Just wait till you see what our DT did with it!!!

We have a little something else for all of you this week....a guest designer. Please be sure to give a big shout out to:

Rae Anne

It's Clever, But is it Art

Please be sure you go by and leave her a little extra love! She made a wonderful project to go with this weeks sketch

Love that ribbon and the die cut snowflakes!

Thank you so much Rae Anne for joining us this week!

Now for the rest of the DT:

Colleen:

I just love the color combo and the dots!

TSB image was used.

Georgia:

Love the embossing for the background and really like seeing some bright colors...I'm so done with winter!

TSB image was used!

Marsha:

I mean really.....what do I say to this? How bout you all help me out and leave her some love....she truely has become my inspiration!

TSB image was used.

Moira:

Our scrapbook guru has done it again! She actually sent us an email saying the first thing she thought of when she saw the sketch was Mickey's ears!!!

She pretty much just flipped the sketch upside down to work in her favor and it worked great!!!

Welp....that's it for me this week, I hope you all enjoy your week and join us for this weeks challenge! We will see you next week with a new wonderful sponsor!!!

Challenge #49 AND Dec. Winner

It's Monday....I hope everyone had a nice weekend. Is everyone ready for today? We have a fab challenge for all of you AND the winner for the month of Dec.

WINNER....WINNER.....WINNER

Winner for Dec. who will get a prize from last months sponsor



IS..............

CREATE-A-HOLIC

Tara please contact Melanie at newbymom@embarqmail.com to claim your prize!!!

CONGRATS!!!!

Our sponsor for the month of January is:

I've already said PLENTY about the wonderful TSB so make sure you go over and check out all her wonderful images!

Challenge #49

Distressing a part of your project AND a circle...the circle can be a punch, buttons, brads, something cut into a circle....whatever you want just as long as we can see a circle!

Let's take a look at what our DT team has come up with!

Welcome another new DT member:

Sandye:

I just love that embossing with the distressing over it!!!

Crystal:

Another great embossing with distressing over it...too cute! LOVE that butterfly

TSB image was used!

Kelly:

You just have to love Kelly's humor!! Isn't this just adorable? I know you can't help but laugh a little!!!

Her distressing is that crumpled cardstock!

Michele:

I just love having a scrapbooker on each team....it just goes to show that you don't always have to do a card...you can do anything you want...especially scrapbook pages!

This is a great layout!

Tammy:

Adorable layout for this card. Love  that puffy paint on the cupcake and her distressing is around the edges of her paper!

Last but certainly not least:

Tanya:

Another great layout...love the gel pen markings and the wonderful ovals!

TSB image was used!

Well....did you find yourself inspired? I hope so!!! Have a great week and please join us for this weeks challenge!

Challenge #48~Color and Embellishment

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a nice weekend. Mine was pretty uneventful.

Welcome back this week for another great challenge. I hope you all are ready!

Our sponsor this week and the rest of the month is:

I hope that you all go over and take a look at the fabulous images that Tracey has to offer. I think I have talked her up enough by now that you all should have gone over and found something that you liked! Did you know that they have started their monthly contest up again? Well...they have so if you use a TSB image in any of your projects, link it up to the monthly contest for a chance to win some images from her....if you do 8 projects in a month using a TSB image....link them all...that gives you 8 chances to win!!! Awesome right?! So click HERE and enter those projects!

One last thing then on to the challenge:

The Latte Lounge (TSB) is having a digi day here are the details:

When - This Saturday January 22nd. 8-10PM EST

Where - The Latte Lounge January Digi Day Group

What - fun, challenges, games, trivia and PRIZES!!!

Alrighty then....

Challenge #48~Color and Embellishments

Your Colors are: Blue and Silver

Accents/Embellishments are: Pearls or Rhinestones

I can't wait to see what you all come up with...until then...here's what the DT came up with for you:

Georgia:

Love the swirls on that DP....that snowman is rockin huh?!

TSB image was used

Marsha:

I just love the embossing on the silver paper and all those pearl acccents...lovely!

TSB image was used

Colleen:

What a great winter card....this image is blank on the sign and she found the perfect stamp to fit right in that sign!!!! I'm loving all these pearls.

TSB image was used

Moira:

What to say.....WOW....this is a stunning SB page! Wouldn't you all agree. I love the photo in black and white but with that little touch of blue on the motorcycle...this page is stunning...LOVE IT!

Did you find something that inspired you for this weeks challenge???? I hope so can't wait to see all your lovely creations!