Saturday, 26 March 2016

Challenge 28

Good Morning and Welcome  

I hope you all had a fantastic crafty fortnight.  Thank you so much for your gorgeous entries for our last challenge (no 27).  It was lovely to see your wonderful entries and the DT ladies had a brilliant time visiting your blogs. 

Before I let you know about this fortnights challenge,
here are the lucky winners from challenge no 27....

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from
'KennyK Stamps' is Number 225, Nick **CLAIMED**


Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from
'SparkleNSprinkle' is Number 5, Debi B  **CLAIMED**


Our third randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from
'Sherri Baldy, My Besties' is Number 99, Ane Lene  **CLAIMED**



Congratulations to you all, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog@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 27 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.

1st Place - number 32,  Julie Reed


2nd place - number 106, Christy Sugiarto


Number 162,  Heather C




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Now onto our new challenge for this fortnight at Crafty Friends...
The theme of this challenge is a lovely easy one again..

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 sponsors... 



One lucky winner will receive a $12.00 gift certificate
(that's equal to 3 images) 

Click HERE to be taken to their web-store and
Click HERE to be taken to their blog for further inspiration



Our next wonderful sponsor is...


 One lucky winner will receive 2 digi images of their choice.

 Click HERE to be taken to their Etsy store and
Click HERE to be taken to their challenge blog and
Click HERE to be taken to their Facebook Page for further inspiration


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




We are joined this week by a fabulously talented Guest Designer,


We would like to say 'Welcome and Thanks' to the lovely Mags.
Mags used to be on our Design Team and it is so lovely that
she has been able to join us for this challenge.

Mags has made this lovely wall hanging for a child 
Using Little Ballerina from 'Stamps by Julia Spiri'.


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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
Using Floral Girl from Sami Stamps
 

Dora
 Using Little Ballerina from Stamps by Julia Spiri

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Geesje
Using Wild Flower Beauty from Sami Stamps 
  
and using Cow in the Air Balloon from Stamps by Julia Spiri


Leslie
 Using Poinsettia Umbrella from Sami Stamps  


Linda
Using Butterfly Friends from Sami Stamps 


Lisa G
Using Little Sailor from Stamps by Julia Spiri


Petra
Using Butterfly Flower from Sami Stamps


Tracey
Using Cow in the Air Balloon from Stamps by Julia Spiri


Annie (from Team 1)
Using The Bride from Stamps by Julia Spiri


and using Cow in the Air Balloon by Stamps by Julia Spiri




Have fun crafting this fortnight

Hugs
Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx


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Saturday, 12 March 2016

Challenge 27 - Anything Goes

Hello everybody and welcome to our latest challenge!

Before I give you details of this 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 :)

So here are the winners :)

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from A Day for Daisies is....
No 117 Janice  ** CLAIMED **



Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from All Dressed Up is....
Dee's Cards  ** CLAIMED **


Congratulations to you both, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog@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 27 and the name of your Sponsor'

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

and now for the Top 3 4 favourites, as chosen by Dora
Congratulations! 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

Nice and easy!

Here are details of this challenge's wonderful sponsors... 
KennyK-Stamps-BADGE-IRockWITH-aqua

Here is the code if you wish to have this badge for your own blog: <a href="http://www.kennykstamps.com"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5741/23769507619_2c858a944a_m.jpg" width="169" height="169" alt="KennyK-Stamps-BADGE-IRockWITH-aqua"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Rock Your Crafts with KennyK Stamps
Stamp designer Elena Kiernan and illustrator hubby Kenny Kiernan bring a perfect storm of creative energy to the bold and fun digi stamps and clear stamp sets at this rockin’ shop, where it’s always 30% OFF your first purchase with code MYFIRSTPURCHASE. Their hundreds of fun-to-color designs include everything from kids’ stamps to teenage girls with attitude, skateboard boys, goth and steampunk styles, men, sports, superheroes, music… and for those who enjoy a little spice in their crafting, KennyK Stamps is the #1 Shop in the World for Sexy Stamps!   More great deals from KennyK Stamps include a Digital Card Kit license for craft sheet designers on Craftsuprint and similar websites, and a FREE DIGI STAMP every month to their newsletter subscribers. It’s a no-brainer, sign up here to join!  Click to follow KennyK Stamps on Facebook and also join their awesome new Facebook Fan Group, “Club KennyK!

Click HERE for their webstore
Click HERE for their Facebook shop page
Click HERE for Club KennyK Challenge
Click HERE for Twitter
Click HERE for Pinterest
Click HERE for Instagram
Click HERE for Google Plus

Prize is three digi stamps of the winner's choice from the webstore.

KennyK Stamps are offering ALL our followers a bonus... 
50% OFF 2 digis of your followers’ Choice!
for full details, please see the following...  Click HERE to be taken to the posting.


Our next wonderful sponsor is...


Sparkle N Sprinkle

Our products are not only hand-blended, hand-pressed, and hand-packagedin the United Statesbut our glitters, embossing powders, and flockings are also MANUFACTURED in The United States (not imported).  Sparkle N Sprinkle supports local manufacturers who make quality products using healthy, environmentally-safe ingredients and fair labor practices.  We hope that our loyal customers appreciate our efforts.  Your Quality Crafting Time deserves Quality Products. 

Winner can choose any digis up to $15 in value from the store

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


And our third fabulous sponsor is

Sherri Baldy My Besties

Click HERE for their Etsy Store
Click HERE for their webstore
Click HERE for their blog

Prize is three digi stamps of the winner's choice from the webstore.

** EDITED**  -   The prize is not as stated, I typed it incorrectly.
The winner will receive the 3 digital stamps the team have used on their cards below.

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

Tanya
Using KennyK image "Cosy Cocoa"

Using Sherri Baldy My Besties image


Annette
Using Sherri Baldy My Besties image


Blankina
Using KennyK image "Victory Kid"


Diane Louise
Using Sparkle N Sprinkle images from the "Paw Prints" set
Her cards are inspired by her gorgeous pooch Mutley - isn't he so sweet?!


Jennifer
Using Sparkle N Sprinkle image "Easter Bunny and Chicks"


Laura
Using Sherri Baldy My Besties image


Melanie
Using KennyK image "Skate Chick"


Shirl
Using Sherri Baldy My Besties image


Tammy
Using Sparkle N Sprinkle images from the "Hog Heaven" set


Wendy
Using KennyK image "Xmas Shopping"


Lisa W
Taking a break


Have fun crafting! We're really looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations :)

Love
Tanya, Diane Louise & Team 1 xxx



Friday, 11 March 2016

KennyK Bonus for ALL of our followers



KennyK Downloads are sponsoring our Challenge 27 on Saturday 12th March 2016 and they are offering this fabulous bonus for ALL of our followers - 50% OFF 2 digis of our followers' Choice!


KennyK Downloads wants to offer ALL of our followers a 50% discount on your TWO favorite digis! To do this, they would like to run a contest on our blog for the week of the Challenge, as follows:


You can vote for your two choices for the discounted digis by posting a comment on our blog below. Each comment must include the full copied-and-pasted name of the digi stamp and the full copied-and-pasted URL of that digi stamp's page in our shop, to be counted as a valid vote.

For example, a valid vote would appear as:

"Jolly Chap" British Gentleman color paper crafts card making digi stamp by KennyK Stampshttp://www.kennykstamps.com/jolly-chap-british-gentleman-color-paper-crafts-card-making-digi-stamp-by-kennyk-stamps/


"Girl Magazine Reader" Teenage Girl - paper crafts card making digi stamp by KennyK Stampshttp://www.kennykstamps.com/girl-magazine-reader-teenage-girl-paper-crafts-card-making-digi-stamp-by-kennyk-stamps/


We tally the votes after the week, and the 2 items with the most votes get the discount. We will display private links to these items for the week after the challenge, during which our followers are free to purchase (AND use a standard 30% OFF discount for first purchases in the shop).


So pop over to their web-store now and have a look at all the brilliant digital stamps...   looking forward to seeing what you all choose...


Thanks
Diane Louise and Tanya