Crafty Friends Challenge Blog: January 2018

Good morning and welcome,

I hope you all had a fantastic crafty fortnight. Thank you so much for your gorgeous entries for last times challenge. It was lovely to see your wonderful entries.

Please scroll further down this post

for the winners of last times challenge.

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

ANYTHING GOES

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.

Our wonderful sponsor for today's challenge 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!!

If you are our lucky winner of this challenge, you will receive 3 digital stamps of your choice from Toadstool Printable's store

Click here to be taken to Toadstool Printables Etsy store - it is really worth a visit. They sell a large selection of gorgeous digital stamps, clip art and line drawings.

If you would like to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous prize,
please enter your creation using Inlinkz below.

Don't forget you can enter up to 3 times

...and here is inspiration from Team 2... 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.

We would like to say "THANKS" to Joyce from Toadstool Printables

for kindly allowing the DT ladies to pick the image they wanted to play with.

Diane Louise using Cute Gnome Girls with Poppies, Daisies, Ladybugs

Geesje using Singing Birds and Holly

Grietje using Little Girl with Big Poppies

Ine using Big Eyed Girl

Linda

Petra using Bookmark

Here are the lucky winners from Challenge 75 (New Beginnings)....

Our randomly picked winner who will receive a prize
from SheepSki Designs is Number 16 Crafty ** CLAIMED **

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

Number 3 Karten Kram
Such a pretty new baby card. Beautiful colouring of this gorgeous elephant stamp, also love how it has been stamped onto kraft cardstock

Number 25 Paper Beauty
This exploding box card is stunningly beautiful, definitely a card to treasure. So much work has gone into creating this new baby card, pop over to Jana's blog as she has uploaded lots more photographs of her project.

Number 29 Cards by Renate
A gorgeous wedding card love all the heart dies, especially the large border hearts. Great card shape too.

Have fun crafting this fortnight

Crafty Hugs

Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx

An InLinkz Link-up

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 :)

Please scroll further down this post
for the winners of last times challenge.

The theme of this fortnights challenge is

NEW BEGINNINGS

For example... Wedding, Engagement, New Baby, New Home, New Job, etc

Here are details of this challenges wonderful sponsor...

Sheep Ski Designs

Here's a bit about me and my shop

Andrea Norris, unknown artist - Living in Leeds, Yorkshire in the UK, working full time as a Management Accountant and currently working on 4 design teams. I'm a dancer (Argentine Tango and Ceroc) and a competitive badminton player. It's amazing that I've managed to squeeze drawing into my schedule as well as being an obsessive crafter and creator of cards. I have no actual style as yet but do love the unusual and quirky. I may be known for producing cards in soft pastel colours. I love anything arty. I've always drawn stuff, for as long as I can remember. In my younger days I sold a few watercolour paintings. I recently found mixed media which is a joy and love creating canvases with flowers. I've had a battle with digital drawing for about a year and finally found some software I can gel with in January 2016. Recently one of the challenge teams I worked on was short of a designer's images to create with so I drew some. Then people kept asking me for my drawings. So I thought what the heck let's open a shop and give something back to the crafting world, to the lovely ladies who have supported me on my journey. Welcome to my world, we're only at the beginning and I have so much more to offer. Andrea x

If you are our lucky winner of this challenge, you will receive the following fabulous prize... 3 digital stamps of your choice from Sheep Ski Design's Etsy Store.

Click HERE to be taken to their web-store and for more inspiration from Sheep Ski Designs, take a look at their Blog and Facebook page

If you would like to be in with a chance of winning this fabulous prize,

please enter your creation using Inlinkz below.

Don't forget you can enter up to 3 times

GUEST DESIGNER SPOT

We are joined this fortnight by 2 fabulously talented crafters... We would like to say 'Welcome and Thanks' to Andrea and Mary for making their lovely cards for our challenge.

This gorgeous New Home card has been created by Andrea, who is the Owner of Sheep Ski Designs. click HERE to be taken to her Blog - Sheep Ski Designs
Image: Country Cottage

This beautiful Wedding card has been created by Mary, who is a member of Sheep Ski's Design Team. Click HERE to be taken to her Blog - Ameera Crafts.
Image: Wedding Couple

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

We would like to say "THANKS" to Andrea, for kindly supplying the digital stamps used on the DT cards.

Tanya

Having a break

Diane Louise - New Years Resolution Picture, using Slow is Good

Ella - New Years Card, using Head Stand

Helen - Wedding Card, using Daisy

Laura - New Mountain Walk, using Wanderer

Lisa - New Baby Card, using Baby Feet

Wendy - Wedding Card, using Wedding Couple

Melanie using Huddle

So here are the winners of last times challenge number 74 (Theme - For a Lady/Girl). Our randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from 'Sherri Baldy My Besties' is....

No 77 BeeBeeBabs **CLAIMED**

Congratulations, please contact Diane Louise at
craftyfriendschallengeblog8@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 74 , Sherri Baldy

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

and now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Helen... Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.

66 - Deonna B

This is such a sweet image and I love the shape of the card and the little details added to the ribbon.