Challenge 56 and Winners of Challenge 55

Good morning and welcome to our latest challenge,

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 and it means so much to us that you join us each fortnight.  The DT ladies had an enjoyable time visiting your blogs.  

 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

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

 CraftySentiments

If you are our lucky winner of this challenge, 

you will receive the following fabulous prize... 

3 digital stamps of your choice from the Crafty Sentiments store

Click HERE to be taken to Crafty Sentiments store - it is really worth a visit.

They sell a large selection of gorgeous digital stamps.

For further inspiration take a look at their 

Blog and Facebook page.

If you would like to be in with a chance of winning these 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.

Diane Louise  using Birdhouse 

Dora using A Gentle Touch

Geesje  using A Gentle Touch

Linda using Emmi Loo Just Me

Petra using A Gentle Touch

 

Here are the lucky winners from our last challenge (number 55)....

Our randomly picked winner who will receive a prize 
from Toadstool Printables is 

Number 46 Karen  ** 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 55, Toadstool Printables

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

and now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Tammy

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

#25- Larissa  

Such a sweet image and her coloring with Polychromos pencils is absolutely gorgeous.

#118- Paperesse

This card is so cute, I love the bright colors and gorgeous papers.

#146- Louise
Stunning Easter Basket with adorable images and gorgeous flowers, 

I love all of the details.

We also have a re-draw from Challenge 52, as no one came forward
to claim the prize from Sherri Baldy, My Besties.
The randomly picked winner who will receive the prize is

No 51 Tracey

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 52, My Besties

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

Have fun crafting this fortnight

Crafty Hugs

Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx

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Challenge 49 and Winners of Challenge 48

Hello everybody 
and welcome to our new challenge.

Before I give you details of todays challenge, I would like to take this opportunity say Goodbye and a big thank you to Leslie, as she is stepping down from the team.  

We would like to wish you all the best for your future Leslie

and we are going to miss you xx

Now onto our lucky winner 
from our last challenge (No 48)...

Our randomly picked winner 
who will receive a prize from Di's Digital Stamps is....
No 192 Betta Scrap

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 48 , Di's Digital Stamps

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

and now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Lisa

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

No:31 Kleido

Completely adorable! Love the elephant image, 

the pretty papers and colours - such a sweetie!

No:139 Sherri

Gorgeous CaS design and the watercolours are so effective!

No: 168 Linda Dekker

Such a gorgeous design and this took me back to when I joined the team when we were still the Forever Friends challenge - so lovely to see an FF bear again!

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The theme of this fortnights challenge is

NEW BEGINNINGS

We would like to see anything to show a New Beginning, for example...
New Year, New Baby, New Start, New Home, New Marriage,
New Friendship, New Job.

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

Crafty Sentiments Designs

Prize... One lucky winner will receive 3 digital stamps of their choice 

from Crafty Sentiments Store

Click here to be taken to their Store and
for more inspiration, please visit their Challenge 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

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

Annette

Using Stanley Happy Days
Happy New Year

Diane Louise

Using Tess Summer Fun
New Day

Laura

Using Stanley Happy Days

Happy New Year Gift

Lisa

Using Patches Done Fishing
New Retirement Life

Melanie
Using Harriet
New year in a little girls life

Tammy
Using Stanley Happy Days
Happy New Year

Have fun crafting

Crafty hugs
Diane Louise and Team 1 Ladies xxx

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Challenge 44 and Winners of Challenge 43

Good morning and welcome...

I hope you all had a fantastic crafty fortnight. WOW we had so many enteries for our last challenge... Thank you so much... it was lovely to see your wonderful entries and we enjoyed visiting your blogs.
  

Here is the lucky winner from Challenge 43....

The randomly picked winner who will receive a prize 
from Pickled Potpourri Designs is... 

Number 193 My Creative Place  **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 43 Pickled Potpourri Designs'

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

and now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Tracey and as you can see, she found it really hard to choose just 3 from all the entries, so she chose her Top 5 favourites... Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.

Number 103 Mi Pequeno Tesoro

Tracey says  - Red and black is one of my favourite colour combo's, such a fab card.

Number 174 Anet

Tracey says - Lovely image and great colouring

Number 203 Aly Spedes

Tracey says - Great colours

Number 220 Rosina

Tracey says - Simple but excellent

Number 5 Dawn S

Tracey says - Love alternative, too cute

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Here is a re-draw for prizes which remain unclaimed... 

Challenge 42 - The new randomly picked winner who will receive a prize 
from  Sherri Baldy is Number 69 Lucy Patrick ** 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 42, Sherri Baldy

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

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

FOR SOMEONE SPECIAL

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... 
Morgan's Art World, Digi Stamps 4 Joy and Crafty Sentiments

Our first wonderful sponsor of our randomly selected winners prize
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.  

Prize...
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 second wonderful sponsor of our randomly selected winners prize
is Digi Stamps 4 Joy

Prize...

One lucky winner will receive $10.00 of digital stamps of their choice
from Digi Stamps 4 Joy's Store

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


Our third wonderful sponsor of our randomly selected winners prize
is Crafty Sentiments

Prize...
One lucky winner will receive 3 digital stamps of their choice
from Crafty Sentiments Store

Click here to be taken to their web-store

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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...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 Vintage Dress 1 from DS4J

and using Ted Rockstar Guitar from Morgan's Art World

and using Stanley Happy Days from Crafty Sentiments

Dora

Using Summer Ice Cream from DS4J

 

Geesje

using Ted Rockstar Guitar from Morgan's Art World

and using Patches Done Fishing from Crafty Sentiments

Leslie

Using Anemone Corner from DS4J

Linda
using Fae3  from Morgan's Art World

Lisa G

Using Poppy and Henry from Crafty Sentiments

Petra

Using Pocket Love from DS4J

Tracey

Using Stanley Loves Balloons from Crafty Sentiments

Have fun crafting this fortnight

Hugs

Diane Louise and Team 2 Ladies xx


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