No Challenges At The Moment....

Good Evening our lovely crafty friends

Its Diane here... I am very saddened to let you know that myself and Tanya have taken the decision to close Crafty Friends Challenge Blog for the foreseeable future, with the hope to re-open later on in the year...

The reason for our decision is that unfortunately I have been diagnosed with cancer and so I now need to concentrate on coping with the treatments/side effects and have plenty of rest whilst recovering... and more importantly, I want to spend as much time as possible with my lovely family...  I hope you understand.

Enjoy the summer months, happy crafting and see you all later on...

If you need to contact us regarding anything, please use the following address
craftyfriendschallengeblog@yahoo.co.uk

Hugs

Diane, Tanya and the Design Team Ladies xxx

Challenge 8 - Winner and Top 3

Hello Everyone...

Thank you to everyone who entered last weeks challenge, your cards were absolutely gorgeous... the DT ladies enjoyed visiting your blogs.

The lucky winner of Challenge 8 is...

No12 Melissa
With this gorgeous card and fab doodling...

 Congratulations Melissa and please contact Diane at craftyfriendschallengeblog@yahoo.co.uk
to claim your prize from Eurka Stamps.  Please collect your Winners Badge from the side-bar on the left


and now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Lisa G.

Congratulations Ladies and please collect your Top3 Winers badge from the side-bar on the left.

No16 Nancy Parker

No6 Kali

No8 Kozmik

Thanks very much
Love
Diane, Tanya and the Design Team Ladies xx

Challenge 8

Good morning everybody and welcome to this week's challenge!

Before we get into challenge details though, we have to announce last week's winner and Top Three :) The DT had a great time looking through all your cards :)

Our randomly selected winner, who wins one bundle of digi images from Melonheadz is...

No 57 Melissa
who made this gorgeous card!

Congrats Melissa, please contact Diane at craftyfriendschallengeblog@yahoo.co.uk to claim your prize - and don't forget to take your winner's badge from the sidebar :)

And our Top 3 for this week, chosen by DT Linda are...

#6 Amelia

#59 Marjan

#63 Lucy Patrick

Congratulations ladies, your cards are fantastic! Don't forget to grab your badge for your blogs from the sidebar :)

Now onto this week's challenge :) 

We have the theme of 

DOODLING

So anything that you draw on yourself, be it with a fineliner, gel pens, etc :) 

We're sponsored this week by the lovely

Eureka Stamps, 
who also provided lovely images for our Design Team to use for our cards - thank you!
You can find their blog HERE too :)

The prize being offered is 5 digis of the winner's choice :)

Here's some inspiration from our Design Team to help you on your way :)

Dora

Kelly

Linda

Petra

Shirl

Sylvie

Tanya

Tracey

Wendy

Have fun with the theme, and we look forward to seeing all your doodly work!

Love from Tanya, Diane and the DT ladies xxx

Challenge 7

Hello and Welcome...

Thank you to everyone who entered last weeks challenge, your cards were absolutely gorgeous... the DT ladies really enjoyed visiting your blogs.

The lucky winner of Challenge 6 is...

No14 Sarah JW

Congratulations Sarah - please contact Diane at craftyfriendschallengeblog@yahoo.co.uk
to claim your prize from Stitchy Bear Stamps.
Dont forget to collect your Winners Badge from the side-bar on the left


and now for the Top 3 favourites (in no particular order), as chosen by Diane

Congratulations Ladies.  Please collect your Top3 Winners badge from the side-bar on the left.

No30 Lacey Stephens

No31 Helen

No3 KateT

Now... here we go with details of this weeks challenge...

The theme this week is

INSPIRED BY A SONG

Dont forget to mention in your posting which song you were inspired by...

Here are details of this challenge's wonderful sponsor -
Hello and Welcome to

Melonheadz

One lucky winner will be able to choose one bundle of digi images from their fabulous web-store

If you would like to see some fantastic inspiration from the Melonheadz design team ladies, please click HERE to be taken to their blog

There are a few of us having breaks at the moment, but the remaining Team 3 ladies have made some absolutely gorgeous cards for this challenge.... 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(s) and it will take you straight to their individual blogs.

Angela

Inspiration from the song 'Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail

Diane

Having a break

Julie
Having a break

Karen
Inspiration from the song 'Walking in a Winter Wonderland' by Bing Crosby

Mags
Inspiration from the song 'Frosty The Snowman'

Manderly
Having a break

Melanie
 Card will be added soon

Rachel
Inspiration from the song 'Frosty the Snowman'

Sandra

Inspiration came from Janice Joplin singing 'A Piece of my Heart'

Sonia

Having a break

So what are you waiting for... its over to you ... have fun crafting this week !!

Hugs

Diane, Tanya and the Team 3 Ladies xx

Challenge 6

Good morning everyone and welcome to our latest challenge.

Firstly, I'll announce the winners and Top 3 of our last challenge.

The randomly selected prizewinner, sponsored by

Cedar Chest Designs

who are providing our lucky winner with 

$10  to spend at Cedar Chest Design's web-store is...

No 4 Papersniffer

who made this gorgeous card! Congratulations :)

Please contact Diane at craftyfriendschallengeblog@yahoo.co.uk

And our Top 3, chosen by Tanya is...

No 8 Lucy Patrick - beautiful bright summer card, fantastic layout!

No 15 Caroline H - gorgeous colour combo and I love all those flowers :)

No 69 Valou - gorgeous shaped creation, those soft colours are beautiful and I love the embellies :0

Well done ladies, please take the badge from the sidebar for your blogs :)

So onto our challenge!

We have some picture inspiration for you this time round! 

Feel free to interpret it whatever way you choose - but do remember to tell us what aspect you've chosen to represent on your card, be it the colours, the summer theme, the clouds, birds etc. :) 

We are sponsored for this challenge by the fabulous 

Stitchy Bear Stamps

Challenge blog here

who are providing our lucky winner with

the choice of 3 images up to $10 from the 3 creators that are being highlighted by the design team during this challenge:

Stitchy Stamps, Floppy Latte, Lil Diva.

We would like to say 'Welcome' to Mandy from Stitchy Bears, who is this weeks Guest Designer.
Thanks for making this fantastic Summery card

So here's what our Design Team made, using images from the sponsors.

Blankina using Floppy Latte image

Kelly using Stitchy Stamps image

Linda using Floppy Latte image

Lisa G using Lil Diva image

Lisa W using Stitchy Stamps image

Moshie

On a break

Natalie using Stitchy Stamps image

Shirl using Stitchy Stamps image

Sylvie

On a break

Tanya using Lil Diva image...

...and using Floppy Latte image

Tracey using Stitchy Stamps image

Looking forward to seeing all your creations :)

Love from Tanya, Diane and the Team xxx

Winners of our Grand Opening Candy Draw

If you are looking for this weeks challenge, 

please click (HERE)

Hello everyone....

We would like to say a huge 'thank you' to all our wonderful sponsors who kindly offered the following fantastic prizes for our Grand Opening Prize Draw :o)

So here we go.... are you feeling lucky ??  

Scroll down the posting to see if you are one of our lucky winners

Congratulations to all the winners.... 

Please contact Diane to claim your prize at the following email address...

craftyfriendschallengeblog@yahoo.co.uk

Please put 'Candy Winner and the name of your winning Sponsors name in the subject line.

No 16 Katie Stringer
You have won a pack of Giordano Decoupage Sheets, Forest Friends Two from Joanna Sheen

No44 Elaine
You have won a Thomas KinKade Project Book with CD from Joanna Sheen

No82 Paper Daisies
You have won 5 digis of your choice from Oak Pond Creations web-store

No25 Teresa A
You have won a $10 voucher to spend in Di's Digi Downloads web-store



No100 Elly Boolj
You have won 2 sheets of digi images of your choice fromWhoopsi Daisy web-store



No1 Tina Teasdale
You have won the 2 lovely digis below from Michelle Perkett

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No6 Claire Day
You have won 2 digis of your choice from Milk Coffee web-store

No121 Jacky - Paddington Fan
You have one 1 bundle of images of your choice from Melonheadz web-store

No38 Ellen
You have won a $10 gift certificate to spend at DigiStamp 4 Joy web-store

No138 HeidiD
You have won 2 digis of your choice from Kenny K Downloads web-store

No55 Lindsay
You have won 3 digis of your choice from Jelly Park web-store

No11 Carla Suto
You have won 3 digis of your choice from Pink Cat Studio web-store

No40 Seafield Jo
You have won 5 digis of your choice from Eureka Stamps web-store

No67 Samih
You have won 5 digis of your choice from QKR Stampede web-store

No49 Deanne
You have won a £10.00 gift voucher to spend at Bearly Mine Designs web-store



Well Done Everyone...
Hugs
Diane, Tanya and the Design Team Ladies xx