Challenge 2

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

The lucky winner of our first Challenge is...

No131, Teresa A
 with this beautiful magnolia card

 Congratulations Teresa, please contact Diane at craftyfriendschallengeblog@yahoo.co.uk
to claim your prize of 5 digis of your choice from MilkCoffee's web store.
Please 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

Please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the side-bar on the left.

                    

                No91 Claire C                    

                      No36  Susan Stacey                    

No4 Louise 

Don't forget that our CANDY draw is still open! Lots of fantastic prizes to be won there, so do go and enter :)

Now, on to Challenge No 2!

Our challenge this time for you is...

Bingo!

Use any row from the bingo board, either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. So plenty of choices for you :) 

We are sponsored this time by 

Cupids Clear Stamps

Cupids Clear Stamps are an internet based craft stamp company, Part of Furbanks Ltd.  We are a family run business and have been providing first-rate Pre-press services to the printing industry for over 40 years.  Throughout this time our aims have remained the same – to provide a fast, friendly service at a competitive price.  We have been making rubber stamps all this time. Only now we have started to design for the craft market.  All our stamps are manufactured and designed in the U.K. from hard wearing high grade photo polymer or red natural rubber producing excellent stamping results time after time.

who are providing the Scruffy Present Bear stamp set

AND

a "handmade by" stamp of the winner's choice, such as the example shown here:

Fantastic prizes, so get entering! 

The Design Team from Cupids Clear Stamps have done a spot of Guest Designing for us, and here is the lovely card one of their members made.

Die Cut, Ribbon, Flowers

We also have another lovely Guest Designer with us - Louise Harper. She has used a Cupids Clear Stamps image.

Pink, Ribbon, Buttons

Here's what our fabulous Team 2 made :)

Blankina using Cupids Clear stamp image

die cuts , ribbon, flowers

Kelly using Cupids Clear stamp image

 yellow, die cuts, buttons

Linda using Cupids Clear Stamp image

Buttons, Blue, Flowers

Lisa G using Cupids Clear stamp image

blue, buttons, flowers

Lisa W using Cupids Clear Stamp image

Buttons, Blue, Flowers

Natalie using Cupids Clear stamp image

Pink, Ribbon, Buttons

Pauline using Cupids Clear stamp image

Die Cuts, Yellow, Buttons

Shirl

Pink, Pearls, Flowers

Sylvie using Cupids Clear stamp image

Pink/Pearls/Flowers

Tanya using Cupids Clear stamp image

Pink/Pearls/Flowers

Tracey using Cupids Clear stamp image

Pink, Gems, Die cuts

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations! 

Love from the Crafty Friends Design Team xxx

Challenge 1

Good morning everyone!

Tanya, Myself (Diane) and all the ladies on the design team are delighted to welcome you to our wonderful new weekly challenge blog - CRAFTY FRIENDS

I am so thrilled to finally announce our first challenge; which is a nice easy one to get us going...

'Anything Goes'

 

We are being generously sponsored for our first challenge by MilkCoffee who are offering 5 digis for the winner, who will be picked randomly from all eligible entries. They have also very kindly given the DT some images to work with as well...

 

 Click HERE to be taken to MilkCoffee's web-store 

where you can browse and see all the adorable images on sale 

and for further inspiration from their design team, click HERE to be taken to MilkCoffee's challenge blog.

We are joined this week by two fabulously talented Guest Designers.....

We would like to say 'Welcome and Thanks' to the lovely Jenn Borjeson 

who has made this lovely card for our first challenge using 'Soya and Dandylion' from Milkcoffee

and another 'Welcome and Thanks' to the lovely Mary from MilkCoffee's Design Team 

who has made these beautiful cards for our first challenge too.

 ...and if you need further inspiration - just take a look at the creations from Team 1 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(s) and it will take you straight to their individual blogs.

Angela  (using Tiffany Swimming)

Diane  (using Lisbeth on a Swing)

Julie (using Fionna and Cupcake)

Karen (using Soya and Dandylion)

Kelly (using Tiffany Swimming)

Mags (using Fionna and Cupcake) 

Natalie (using Tiffany Swimming)

Petra (using Dragoo Enjoying Life)

Rachel (using Charlotte and her Love Letter)

Sandra (using Fionna and Cupcake)

Dont forget - we have a fantastic 'Grand Opening Candy Prize Draw' which is running until Sunday 30th June 2013... 

Click HERE to be taken to the posting where you can see the fantastic prizes on offer from 14 of our wonderful sponsors and enter your name into the draw via inlinkz...

Good Luck

So its over to you ... have fun crafting for our very first challenge !!!

Hugs

Diane, Tanya and Team 1 Ladies xx