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.
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.
"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"
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.
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
...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.
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.
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"
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.
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!
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."
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.
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.
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 _________________________________________________________________________________
Challenge 18 starts on Saturday 7th November 2015 at 9.00am (GMT) and ends on Friday 20th November 2015 at 9.00am (GMT)
