May

Welcome to our May challenge, we have another mood board for you reflecting the flowers and gemstones of the month DT Pinky celebrates her Birthday.

We hope you will find something to inspire you in the mood board, colours, flowers, birds, fashion, but if not there is always the Anything Goes option, we welcome them all. All we ask you to remember is that there must be at least one stamped element on the front of your entry. You can enter up to three times.

Another bumper collection of three prizes from AALL and Create:

 

Pinky has been part of the Design Team since it's inception in April 2010. She has a fondness for scenic and Nature inspired creations and many have floral elements as focal points. She has a particular love of trees which also feature in her work. Her name gives an indicated of her favourite colour but she also enjoys working with shades of blue. Another aspect of her crafting is creating unique gift and treat boxes and you will find many different styles on her blog with links to tutorials with instructions.

So now onto some inspiration and we start with extending a warm welcome to Helen, she was last months Guest Designer and is now joining us as a permanent DT, happy to have you with us Helen. The team have picked out so many different elements from the mood board starting with Pinky's pretty Spring creation....

Pinky

Flowers, colours and bird from the mood board

We also welcome this months Guest Designer Karin, thank you for joining us, here is her pretty card using Flowers and colours from the mood board....

Anesha

Using AALL & Create Windows (342), Fly (357) and  Bunny & Bunnies (357)

Colour, birds and Flowers from mood board

Avril

Using AALL & Create In the Bucket (451)

Colours and flowers from mood board

Brenda

Using AALL and Create Follow your own Path (563), Hexapetalistic (958) and Watering Can (437)

Colours, Bird, Flowers from the mood board

Carol

Using AALL and Create See you Soon (898)

Colours and flowers from mood board.

Chris

Using AAll and Create Heliotropic (915)

Colours and flowers from the mood board

Dora

Colour, flowers, sunset and bird from mood board

Helen

Lynn

Bird and colours from mood board

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

April winner and Top 3

Good morning and welcome to our April winners post and our thanks for all your beautiful entries.

The winner of the £25 store voucher from Crafty Individuals as selected by Random Org., is entry no 41 Val....

Well done Val, please mail me with your full name and postal address so I can arrange for you to choose your prize.

Our Top 3 as voted for by the Design Team are....

No 14 Lia

No 13 Emma

No 1 Alice

Congratulations, please collect your badge to display on your own blogs. 

We hope you will all pop back on Sunday for our new challenge. 

Mid month inspitation

Morning everyone, time for some mid month inspiration and a reminder of our April Anything Goes challenge, where we also have a Spring optional mood board to follow. You have until Wednesday 1st May to enter up to three different creations. 

This monthly lucky winner will receive a super £25 store voucher from Crafty Individuals.

Here's the inspiration form the Design Team and Helen this months Guest Designer....

Guest Designer Helen

Anesha

Colour and Flowers from the mood board

Avril

Birds and daisies from Moodboard

Brenda

Colours, Birds and Flowers from the mood board

Carol

Bird, colours and Daisy from the mood board

Chris

Flowers, birds colours from mood board

Dora

CI-648 Blue Tit

Colours and bird from the mood board

Lynn

Daisies from the mood board

Pinky

Colours, flowers and bird from mood board

April challenge

Welcome to our April challenge, this month our theme is Anything Goes but we also have a 🐥Spring🌹Mood Board to inspire which is what the Design Team have all followed.

With the beautiful signs of Spring all around us we hope you will be inspired by our mood board, all we ask is that there is at least one stamped element on the front of your entry, remember you can enter up to three times.

Before we move on, we would like to extend a thank thank you to Gerrina who has recently left the team, she is juggling a busy life and we wish her well. But on a happy note Anesha is back with us, she's had a year or so away and we are so pleased to see her return.

This year we are featuring Design Team members during their Birthday month with mood boards to reflect the birthstones and flowers. As we have several DT Birthdays falling in June, I (Brenda) selected April as an alternative as it's my favourite season.

We are happy to welcome back Crafty Individuals with a super £25 voucher for one lucky winner to spend in their store. And there may even be a second prize at the end of the month!

A bit about this months featured DT Brenda:

"I've always enjoyed crafting in one form or another since childhood. As the craft industry expanded I discovered stamping, this remains my firm favourite with a bias towards a bit of inky grunge usually featuring Flowers, Nature or Fairies, very rarely anything cute which is way outside my comfort zone. Working with dies is another aspect of crafting I enjoy as they add so much diversity to projects.

For many years I demonstrated at craft shows and ran classes meeting like minded crafters and sharing our joint passion of creating and some of those I met around the Country remain close friends. Health prevents me doing this anymore but I am fortunate to be able to carry on crafting and design for some wonderful companies and TV with many types of crafting products as they enter the market.

Being on several design teams and also running three challenges for the last fifteen years has allowed me to work alongside many talented crafters and enables me to visit blogs around the World to be constantly inspired by the diversity of styles. I always believe crafting is an ongoing learning curve and we are never expert in any one style or technique".

Here's the inspiration from the Design Team....

Brenda

Colours, Blossoms, Bird and Eiffel Tower from the mood board

Daisy, Bird and colour from the mood board

We welcome Helen as our Guest Designer this month, she had made this pretty card for us, thank you Helen....

Fence, colour and Daisies from the mood board

Anesha

Colours and flowers from the mood board

Avril

Using Crafty Individuals CI-260 &CI-156

Colours and Blossoms from the mood board

Carol

Colour and Flowers from the mood board

Chris

Daisy from the mood board

Dora

CI-516 Happy horse, CI- 506 little bluebird

the horse, pink flowers, fence, clouds, using colours.

Lynn

Eiffel Tower, Tulips and pink from the mood board

Pinky

Colours and flowers from the mood board

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

March winners and Top 3

Hello everyone, it's been another super busy month with all your beautiful Spring creations, we really appreciate so many of you joining us.

So without further ado lets get straight to the winners of the fabulous prizes from AALL and Create selected by Random Org., who are no 24 Irene (re-drawn 14/4), no 107 Christine and no 105 Katrina

 

Congratulations to you all, please mail me by Thursday 11th April to claim your prize. Overseas prizes are always marked as gifts, but Customs fees may be added so please confirm when claiming you accept that risk as I am unable to assist once prizes leave the UK (if you do not make that clear, your prize will not be sent).

Now for our Top 3 as selected by the Design Team and as you can imagine it was a difficult task with all the lovely Spring entries and voting was very close......

Entry no 110 Vicky

Entry 67 Rosi

And sharing third spot Lia entry no 120 and Margreet entry no 38

 

Well done to you all, please collect your Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

We look forward to seeing you all back for our new challenge which starts on Sunday.

Spring is in the air

Our Spring theme has attracted some beautiful creations, thanks to all, but still plenty of time to join in, the challenge runs until 3rd April for the chance of winning one of three super prizes from AALL and Create. Don't forget there is always the Anything Goes option if Spring is not your season.

It's a theme the DT clearly enjoy, here is the lovely inspiration from them all....

Brenda

Using AALL and Create Elegant Spring Florals (623) and Containers (401)

Carol

Chris

Dora

Gerrina

Lynn

Pinky