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

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**


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.

No 14 Sharon G

No 26 Teresa

No 82 Andrea Norris

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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

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.

Diane Louise

Dora


Linda


Lisa G


Petra

Sylvie


Tracey

Have fun crafting this fortnight

Hugs

Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx



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Challenge 19 - One For The Girls

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 :) I love "charmed" cards!

So here are the winners :)

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from Small & Round is...
No 6 - Rutscht
who made this beautiful tag

Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from Beccy's Place is....
No 11 - Claire C
who made this fun tag

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, as chosen by Tanya

Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.

No 7 Tiziana B

No 13 Andrea Norris

No 5 Plony

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The theme of this week's challenge is

One for the girls

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

All Dressed Up

Click HERE for their webstore
Click HERE for their challenge blog

The prize is 2 digis of the winner's choice from the webstore.

Our next wonderful sponsor is...

A Day For Daisies

"A Day For Daisies provides themed categories of over 3000 digital illustrations and a fast growing line of new clear polymer stamp sets, including fairy tales and magical mermaids, cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!"

Prize is a $12 gift certificate to spend in store.

Click HERE to be taken to their web-store
Click HERE to be taken to their challenge blog
Click HERE to be taken to their Etsy page

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

Tanya
Using image from All Dressed Up "Little Summer Girls"

Diane Louise
Using images from A Day For Daisies "Flower Maiden 1 and Flower Maiden 2"

Blankina
Using image from A Day For Daisies "Puffy Flower Fairy"

Julie
Using image from All Dressed Up "Little Autumn Girls"

Lisa W
Taking a break

Melanie

Shirl
Using image from All Dressed Up

Wendy
Using image from A Day For Daisies

Have fun crafting!

Love

Tanya & Team 1 xxx

Challenge 18

Good morning and Welcome, 

We hope you all had a fantastic crafty fortnight.  Thank you so much for your gorgeous entries for last week’s ‘Favourite Colour’ challenge.  It was lovely to see all your entries and I know the DT ladies had a brilliant time visiting your blogs. 

Here are the lucky winners....

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from Digi Stamps 4 Joy is....

Number 34 Paper Whims

Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from Pickled Potpourri Designs is....

Number 67 Teresa


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, as chosen by Tanya

Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.

Challenge Entry Number 29 Rutscht  

Tanya says "I love all the amazing details and textures on this one, and the colouring is just amazing.

Challenge entry number 59 Traceymo

Tanya says "I'm a big fan of purple, so of course this card stood out for me :)  I love the image and gorgeous butterflies too.  Beautiful colouring also!

Challenge entry number 65 Bonni

Tanya says "Again with the purple!  I love purple and pink together and I'm in awe of cards that look this fantastic with no image.  I have yet to make an imageless card that I'm satisfied with!  I love those flowers as well."

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

"To Add a Charm"

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 - add a charm 

and don't forget you can enter up to three times per challenge. 

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

Our first wonderful sponsor is 'Small & Round'

Click (HERE) to be taken to Small & Round's Etsy Store and
for more inspiration, click (HERE) to be taken to the Blog.
One lucky winner will be able to choose 5 digi images from their Etsy Store. 

Our next wonderful sponsor is... 'Beccy's Place'

Click (HERE) to be taken to Beccy's web-store 

and for more inspiration, click (HERE) to be taken to Beccy's blog.

One lucky winner will be able to choose 3 individual digi images or 1 digi set from their web store.

Beccy’s Place Digital Designs by Beccy Muir

My paper obsession began with scrapbooking in the late 1990s and has since evolved into card-making and digital drawing.  There were a few years of decorative painting, teddy bear making and silk ribbon embroidery mixed in there too.  I still dabble in each of those crafts (and many others) from time to time but I generally gravitate toward paper, which I find versatile and forgiving.I started “doodling” little designs for cards back in 2009, which is when I started my blog and began sharing my images with other Cardies.  From there I progressed to my very own online store selling digital drawings for cards and other paper craft projects.  Some of my images have now been made into rubber stamps by the wonderful team over at Sparkle N Sprinkle.  These days you can usually find me “hanging out” over on my blog,www.beccysplace.blogspot.com.

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Here is inspiration from Team 2 and as you can see, their cards are absolutely fabulous.... thank you so much ladies. If you would like 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 a Tree Charm and image from Beccy's Place (Autumn Branch)


Dora
Using a Butterfly Charm and an image from Small & Round (The Great Bow)



Linda
Using a Butterfly Charm and an image from Beccy's Place (Baby Robin)


Lisa G
Using a Christmas Tree Charm and an image from Beccy's Place (Quilt Puddings)


Petra
Using a Bell Charm and an image from Beccy's Place (Poinsettia)
Translation from Dutch to English - 'Seasons Greetings'


Sylvie
Using a Dragonfly charm and an image from Small & Round (Thinking of You)


Tracey
Using an Umbrella charm and an image from Small & Round (Ivy Curls)

Blankina, from Team 1, has joined us for this Challenge
Using a Heart Charm and image from Small & Round (The Great Bow)



Have fun crafting this fortnight
and we are looking forward to seeing what you create!!!

Hugs

Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx



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