Crafty Friends Challenge Blog: May 2016

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 fortnight’s ‘No 31’ challenge. It was lovely to see your wonderful entries and the DT ladies had an enjoyable time visiting your blogs, you are all so talented.

Here are the lucky winners....

Our 1st randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from 'Aurora Wings' is....
Number 42, Christy *** CLAIMED ***

Our 2nd randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from 'Lacy Sunshine' is....
Number 71, Linda *** 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 31 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 Blankina

Thank you so much for having joined our challenge, it was my turn to choose the top 3. It has been extremely difficult to narrow all entries down to a top 3 with all talented crafters who have joined..Please do not be upset if your lovely card has not been chosen..if possible I would choose a top 20!

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

Top 3 not in any particular order:

n 42 Christy
A lovely garden scene, pretty colours and colouring...love the flowers and doily too.

n 50 Andrea Norris
Absolutely fab colouring..great CAS design and the distressed edges give that special touch. Don't we all wish a garden with strawberries?

n 16 Tip Top
Dedicated to all great dads of the world!
Great image and design..this garden scene brings back sweet memories.

Big hugs Blankina

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

"SUMMER TIME"

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.

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

Our products are not only hand-blended, hand-pressed, and hand-packaged in the United States, but 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.

One lucky winner will receive $15 worth of digital images of their choice

Click HERE to be taken to their web-store and

click HERE to be taken to their blog

... and for further inspiration click HERE to be taken to their Challenge Blog

Our next wonderful sponsor is...

The East Wind

The artist behind The East Wind digital images is known as Unky LaStrange. Unky makes her home in British Columbia, Canada with her wonderful daughter, Aurora, the love of her life and source of much inspiration. She has been creating art since she was a child always allowing it to reflect her interests, humour, and love of all that is quirky. Her unique images run the gamut from the darkly humourous and sometimes creepy through the world of fashion-forward Lucy Loo to the sweet Aurora and Baby Aurora where life and people are good and beautiful. There are images to suit every taste, occasion, or whim at The East Wind

One lucky winner will receive 3 digital images of their choice

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

Click HERE to be taken to their blog

... and for further inspiration click HERE to be taken to their Challenge Blog

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 Bonnie Taylor

who has made this lovely card for our challenge.

Bonnie

Using Lucy Loo Midnight Mermaid

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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 Aurora Floral Kiss from The East Wind

Annie

Using The White Witch from The East Wind

Dora
Using Aurora Spring Butterfly from The East Wind

Geesje
Using Aurora Vine from The East Wind

Geesje
Using Humming Birds 1 from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Leslie
Using Beach Friends from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Linda
Using Dragonfly from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Lisa G
Using Rusty Waggon from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Petra
Using Humming Birds 1 from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Tracey
Using Berry Sundae from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Have fun crafting this fortnight

Hugs

Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx

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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 so beautiful - we loved looking at them.

So here are the winners :)

Our randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from Di's Digi Stamps is....
No 98 Dewi
With this gorgeous card!

Congratulations, 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 30 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 Linda.
Congratulations, and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.

61. Lucy Patrick

1. Desire Fourie

67. Anet

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The prize from Challenge 29 was not claimed,

so we have re-drawn and the new winner is No 31 Pat K

Congratulations, 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 29 Pink Gem Designs'

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

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The theme of this week's challenge is

In The Garden

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

Aurora Wings

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 challenge blog
Click HERE to be taken to their Facebook

"Mitzi is a Colorado-based fantasy artist. Originally from Japan, her art is influenced by the vintage shojo manga she grew up with, as well as the classic art forms such as tattoo art and woodblock prints of her native country. Her fantasy art subjects range from cute and whimsical to dark and macabre, and everything in between. Majority of her Aurora Wings digital stamps are made from the line art of her fantasy illustrations, giving them a uniquely distinct look of flowing lines with high level of detail. Most are ink & pen traditional drawings, which are either colored free-hand in Corel Painter or traditionally with watercolor. Her Etsy shop, Aurora Wings, offers digital stamps, prints, ACEOs, coloring books, and originals."

Our next wonderful sponsor is...