Crafty Friends Challenge Blog: Angie's Cards & Digis

Saturday, 10 September 2016

Challenge 40 and Winners of Challenge 39

Hello and Welcome...

Before I give you details of this times challenge,
I would like to say thanks so much for your entries for last times challenge,
it means so much to us that you join us each fortnight.

Here are the lucky winners....

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from
The East Wind is Number 7 Anet **CLAIMED**

Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from
Digi Stamp 4 Joy is Number 29 Andrea Norris **CLAIMED**

Our third randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from
Mari Digi is Number 25 Claire **UNCLAIMED**

Congratulations to you all, 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 39 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 Tanya

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

#7 Anet

I love all the beautiful die-cuts,
and that adorable image is coloured to perfection!

#30 Rainey's Craftroom
Stunning Christmas easel card, I love the glittery snowflakes,

the glittery snow on the image is beautiful!

#38 Aartje

Gorgeous image and I love all the gorgeous details and the colour combo is so beautiful! My favourite colour :)

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

MONOCHROME

Here is the definition of Monochrome...

"An image coloured in black and white

or in varying tones of only one colour"

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 first wonderful sponsor is Angie's Digital Stamps

Hi my name is Angie & I am a married mom of 2 boys ages 14 & 17. I sell digital stamps all hand drawn by me. I drew as a child but quit for many years and just recently started again. I figured since I love to draw & scrapbook might as well turn my drawings into digital stamps. So here we are!

One lucky winner will receive 3 digital images of their choice
from Angie's Digital Stamp Store

Click here to be taken to their web-store and
Click here to be taken to their Facebook Page

Our 2nd wonderful sponsor is Morgan's Art World

Morgan Fitzsimons is a British artist, illustrator and author. Born in the North of England in 1939, she has been drawing and painting since she could hold a brush. Morgan studied at the LJMU, gaining her NDD, A.T.D and BA. Morgan is a traditional artist and works in many mediums and her artwork has been displayed all over the world. Morgan has also been involved in many art related and non art related industries She taught in schools for 20 years and retired as Head of Special Needs. She has also developed and published educational packs and teaching aids as well as fictional work. She has been involved in designing costumes for various opera and theatre companies, and was also a wildlife artist for several charities and organisations.

One lucky winner will receive 3 digital stamps of their choice from
Morgan's Art World Store

Click here to be taken to their web-store and
Click here to be taken to their Facebook page

Our 3rd wonderful sponsor is Beccy's Place

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.

One Lucky Winner will receive 3 individual digital stamps or 1 digital set of their choice from Beccy's Place Store

Click here to be taken to their web-store

Click here to be taken to their 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

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GUEST DESIGNER SPOT

We are joined this fortnight by 8 fabulously talented Guests. We would like to say 'Welcome and Thanks' for making all these lovely cards for our challenge.

From Morgan's Art World we have Traci using Fae No19

From Angie's Digital Stamps, we have 7 DT members

Angie using Cowboy Hat With Boots

Camille using Ballet Shoes

Carol using Box of Crayons

Helen using Little Lila Drinking Cocoa

Isobel using Daisy May With Flower Umbrella

Lisa using Heart Baby Onesie

Maria using Mouse Eating Cheese

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...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.

Diane Louise
Using Gingerbread House from Beccy's Place

Using Fairy Wishes, Sky & Scarlet from Morgan's Art World

Dora
Using Horse and Foal from Angie's Digital Stamps

Geesje
Using Daisy May with Flowers from Angie's Digital Stamps
Translation of the Sentiment...
"Weeding the weeds out of your mind and let it bloom happiness"

Leslie
Using Valentine 1 from Morgan's Art World

Linda
Using Fae 3 from Morgan's Art World

Lisa G

Using Daisy May with Flowers from Angie's Digital Stamps

Petra
Using Milton Catching Snowflakes from Beccy's Place

Tracey
Using an image from the Splish Splash Set from Beccy's Place

Have fun crafting this fortnight

Hugs

Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx

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An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday, 13 February 2016

Challenge 25 - Girly

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 :)

So here are the winners :)

Our first randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from Inky Impressions is....
No 96 CarolG

Our second randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from
Pickled Potpourri Designs is.... No 45 Gale

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 24 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 Tracey.

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

#37 Emma R

#85 Kelly Lloyd

#58 Joanna

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The theme of this week's challenge is

Girly

Here are details of this challenge's wonderful sponsors:

Oddball Art Company

"Lizzy has always loved the stranger, quirkier side of life and that is exactly what she loves to create. Her art described as a perfect combination of sweet and sour that glitters up the grunge! As a lover of all things whimsical, kawaii and creepy cute, she throws in some Pastel Goth with a touch of glam, punk & rockabilly pinup!
She has certainly never been a mainstream type of girl and definitely won't fit into your stereotypical cookie cutter artists role; but rather she finds beauty in the truly unique, big eyed creepy little cuties with a bittersweet sadness. She is never truly happier then when she is in her art studio painting or sewing, creating a whimsical dream world easily recognizable as her signature style of creepy yet cute, all the way from the haunting darkness to the rainbowtastic, Lizzy’s creations are lovingly sprinkled with a heartbreaking sweetness.
Growing up a child of the 80's, pop rocks princess, with an extreme fondness for anything candy coated, Kawaii Kitten & Ziggy Stardust, all of which had a major influence in the work that she is creating today. Lizzy employs many different mediums when she creates, anything from mixed media painting to sewing with many different textiles, the end result always being the same; A whimsical dream world filled with big eyed beauties, creepy little cuties and quirky monsters of all shapes and sizes."

Prize is 3 digis of the winner's choice from their Etsy Store

Click HERE to be taken to their Etsy store and
Click HERE to be taken to their blog

Our next wonderful sponsor is...

Angie's Cards & Digis

"Hi, my name is Angie & I am a married mom of 2 boys, ages 14 & 17. I sell digital stamps all hand drawn by me. I drew as a child but quit for many years and just recently started again. I figured since I love to draw & scrapbook might as well turn my drawings into digital stamps. So here we are!"

Prize is three images from the store (sets excluded)

Click HERE to be taken to their web-store and

Click HERE to be taken to their blog

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

We would like to say 'Welcome and Thanks' to the lovely Julie Odil from Oddball Art Company's Design Team, who has made this beautiful card for our challenge using a gorgeous Oddball Art image called "Sweet Sai the Fairy".