Saturday Spotlight #10

Hello Everyone!

It is that time of the week again!

 

Congratulations to all of you who entered the

Mixed Media Challenge!

 

We had a quiet week with only 15 fabulous entries.

Thank you to you all of you who entered!.

What a lovely selection of original projects using different media!

You all deserve to be in the spotlight!

 

As always, it was so much fun to visit all your blogs!

 



The runner-ups, in no particular order:

 

#12 Irit - Your project has a lovely Victorian feel with the pretty flowers and vintage colours.

So much interesting detail here!

#6 Kaija - This is such a gorgeous project with all the lace and other detail!

#3 Wiola - What a clever idea to use nail polish to colour your image.

Your little fairies are so cute and happy!

#8 Crafting Vicky - My pick this week - I love the sassy steampunk and the way you combined all your elements.

#2 Ike - Oh wow, this is a project with so much detail. You did an excellent job -

you could have used your canvas.

The raven is amazing, almost coming alive! Love the chicken feathers!

#13 Zehra - Your blended background with the paste detail is so striking, a great idea!

The card is really delightful!

 

 

The spotlight this week falls on #5 Roberta

All of us loved your stunning creation, combining so many elements and layers, 

creating a very striking and interesting project.

The colours you used are beautiful, and that crown is to die for! 

 

Congratulations to all of you!!!

Thank you for the high quality and creativity of entries every week!

 

Please make sure that you link only your blog post, not your blog, as well as linking back to the challenge! 

We can only spotlight you if you link back to us in your post.

 

 

Take some time to visit the blogs of everyone in the spotlight! You will be inspired!

 

 

If you are one of our favourites, grab your badge here:

 

 

 

Don't forget about our current challenge:

Anything Goes! 

We always love to see all kinds of creative projects!

 

And you never know, the Spotlight might be on you next week!

 

We also have a DT Call HERE! (All the details in the post).

 

Hugs

Rene

 

Please Note: 

Saturday Spotlight is a Just for Fun way of giving recognition to our loyal entrants/followers.

Mixed Media Winner!

Hi everyone, Doris here with our winner of Mixed Media challenge. 

First, thanks very much to our sponsor Tammy Smith from our sister blog

Cuttin' and Stampin for a Bazzill Basic Paper Mac Bundle for our winner!

True Random Number Generator

Min:Max:

Result:7

Here's the project from our winner

Juliet at Ballpoint Bliss

Congratulations Juliet, I just sent you an email regarding your prize, and thanks everyone for playing along with us!

Anything Goes with Sweet Pea Stamps!

Hello everyone!

Welcome back for a fun and inspiring challenge.

Our theme for this weeks challenge is

Anything Goes

We are so excited to welcome , our generous sponsor

or this challenge

Sweet Pea Stamps

Sweet Pea Stamps is giving our winner a $10.00 Gift Card to their store!

Our Design Team had so much fun creating with the amazing images provided by our sponsor, just take a look:

Doris using So In Love by Concetta Kilmer

Sharon using ©Concetta Kilmer's Jack-o-lantern Wooty

Rene using Summer

Tammy using Connie Fong's First Kiss
 

Julia using Summer

Sweet Pea Stamps are available as rubber stamps and digital images an can be found at their Store.

Please visit the Design Team and leave some love
for this talented group of ladies.

Do not forget to upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below.

This challenge will be open until September 3, 2013.
We will select a winner from all the entries.
Important reminder: Please read our rules as they have changed.
Remember to have fun!
I can't wait to see what everyone creates!
Hugs,
Julia

Saturday Spotlight #9

Hello Everyone!

It is that time of the week again!

Congratulations to all of you who entered the

Anything Goes with a Day for Daisies!

We had a real tough time deciding on our favourites!

 

Can you believe we had 238 entries. Thank you to you all.

What a lovely selection of  projects!

There was an amazing collection of entries.

 We picked a few extra to highlight; 

it was just impossible to pare it down to a few.
Thanks to all the regulars, we appreciate your support! It is great to see new faces!  

As always, it was so much fun to visit all your blogs!

 

A special shout-out to #146 Matthew who joined us again this week! Matthew is only 12 years old! Your card for your auntie is so sweet and I'm sure she'll love it!

If you have a son or daughter that makes lovely cards or other creations, do feel free to link up, indicating their age. We can start a mini spotlight!

 



The runner-ups, in no particular order:

 

#170 - Angeline Choo - What a super back-to-school idea!!!

#79 Darlene Pavlick - This is such an elegant card, wonderful design!

#230 A - interesting CAS take on a colour challenge, love the bags & sentiment!

#8 Sanja Grdinic - There is so much detail in this whimsical card!

#147 Kathy Jo - Your card is really unusual. Interesting colour combo with loads of detail!

#56 Bev Henwood - My personal pick - I love B&W, CAS as well as saxophone music...say no more!

#150 Elena de Vicente - Your pretty colours compliment the sweet image. Clever idea!

#16 Crafty Lawyer - The clean lines and strong colours combines to make a fabulous creation! 

#67 Carol Gill - Really pretty vintage baby card!

#34 Julie P - Wow, your creation is quite spectacular, so delicate!

#161 Olesia - Very striking CAS card!

#151 - Sonia Kertznus - This card brought a smile to our faces! Fabulous colours!!

 

Now for the spotlights, after much deliberation: 

 

The first spotlight falls on #117 Rina Meyers who created a wonderful chunky book:

 

 

Your chunky book is just marvelous, with so much interesting details. It was pure pleasure looking at all the pages. Thanks for the inspiration, I feel like making a book now!

 

 

The second spotlight falls on #147 Kim T's vintage card.

 

We all loved your creation, the colours are so beautiful, the image quite fabulous!

 

 

The third spotlight falls on #177 Lisa Sumpter who made a lovely shadow box of her family:

 

 

 

The simplicity of this project is really striking. There is so much detail, yet is looks so CAS. Love it! 

 

 

The fourth spotlight falls on #199 Pauline who made a lovely monotone card:

 

 

 

Isn't this card just so sweet, almost delicate!

 

 

Congratulations to all of you!!!

Thank you for the high quality and creativity of entries every week!

 

Please make sure that you link only your blog post, not your blog, as well as linking back to the challenge! 

We can only spotlight you if you link back to us in your post.

 

 

Take some time to visit the blogs of everyone in the spotlight! You will be inspired!

 

 

If you are one of our favourites, grab your badge here:

 

 

 

Don't forget about our current challenge:

Mixed Media Challenge.

We always love to see all kinds of creative projects!

 

And you never know, the Spotlight might be on you next week!

 

We also have a DT Call HERE! (All the details in the post).

 

Hugs

Rene

 

Please Note: 

Saturday Spotlight is a Just for Fun way of giving recognition to our loyal entrants/followers.

 

Winner - Anything Goes!

Hi everyone, Doris here with our winner from last week's Anything Goes challenge.  We'd like to thank our great sponsor A Day for Daisies and everyone who submitted a project.  We just LOVE seeing all the creative projects from everyone and love visiting your blogs.  It's torture to pick just a handful of favorites for the Saturday Spotlight and impossible to pick a winner, so random.org did that for us.

 

True Random Number Generator

Min:Max:

Result:190

 

And here's our winner

Gerlinde from My Creative Corner

 

 

How gorgeous is this card - very creative Gerlinde! 

You've won a $12 gift card to A Day for Daisies.  I just sent you an

email about claiming your prize.

 

Be sure to stop back on Saturday to see who's this week's

Spotlight favorites are!

Crafting by Designs is having a Design Team Call

Hi everyone, Doris here. Crafting by Designs is looking to add a few creative people to our Design Team. We're looking for people who like to be creative, have fun, and sometimes create outside of their comfort zone - is that you?  

 

We don't have many requirements but as a member of the

Crafting by Designs team you'd be required to:



• Prepare a project for at least two weekly challenges per month and follow the theme of each, but you can play along with every one if you like
• Meet our weekly deadlines for posting challenges and comments
• Use a digital image if supplied by a sponsor, and link back to their store or blog
• Host at least one challenge, theme of your choice, every 10 weeks
• Be willing to jump in when necessary to help out a fellow DT member
• Comment on assigned number entries every week
• Have an active blog and be willing to promote Crafting by Designs and our weekly sponsors by displaying a DT badge and links back to CBD and the sponsor
• We have a DT group on Facebook and Yahoo, so you'd need access to both
• Not be afraid to try something new and outside your comfort zone
• Love to have fun with a very friendly and talented group for at least a 6 month period beginning September 2013.

If this sounds like fun to you, please drop us an email at craftingbydesigns@gmail.com that includes a little bio about yourself, a link to your blog as well as a link to 3 of your favorite recent projects.  Prior DT experience isn't necessary, we all have to start somewhere :)  The deadline to submit applications is August 31 and those selected will be notified by September 1.  We look forward to hearing from you!!

Mixed Media Challenge

Hi!
Chrissie here, to share a little Mixed Media project with you!

I used some Faber-Castell Gelatos for the background of the tag and then mixed it with two different Memento/Tuskineko inks (Tuxedo Black and Delicata Golden Glitz).  And just in case you're wondering, the stamps are from Crafter's Companion!

I'd like to challenge you to create a Mixed Media project.  That means mixing at least two types of mediums (ink, paint, gelatos, crayons, whatever!) and play along with us.

You have until August 27th to play along for a nice little prize pack we are giving away.

It's a Bazzill Basic Paper Mac Bundle.

 It includes a 6x6 pack of Mac Mini-prints, a 4x6 pack of coordinating Two Scoops paper, a pack of 4x6 Mac Journaling cards and 5.5x12 sticker sheet. 

 You can purchase these products on the Weekly Deal page at Cuttin' and Stampin'

 Just link up below.  Good luck and we can't wait to see what you've come up with!

Our Winner - Celebrating Women!

Hi everyone, Doris here today with our winner of last week's

Celebrate Women Challenge!

 

First, we'd like to thank our sponsor again for their generous prize and DT images which we had so much fun working with

Digistamps4Joy

 

Next, thanks to everyone for sharing your beautiful projects for this challenge!  And finally, here's our winner from Jennifer Scull at

Just Coffee Please & Stamps and Ribbon and Paper:

 

Beautiful card Jennifer!  I just sent you an email about your prize and hope you join us again for our weekly challenges!

 

Saturday Spotlight #8

 

Hello Everyone!

It is that time of the week again!

Thank you to all of you who entered the

Celebrate Women challenge!

What a joy to visit all your blogs and 'ooh & aah' over your fabulous creations!

It was great to see a few new faces, and I missed a few of our regulars.

 

We had 43 entries, and each of them a winner, really!

Each and every entry celebrated women in a special way.

 There was a lovely selection of pink cards, some funky creations, a few CAS cards,

some very feminine creations.

A few of you were inspired by the optional challenge.

Selecting the creations to spotlight was fun, but not easy.

 

The runner-ups, in no particular order:

#43 Paper Whims - all your creations were striking, but we like this one the most!

#30 Pam Ramesh - Cool Bond Girl card - very striking frame you used.

#5 taniaj - Love that you used the optional challenge colours on this lovely card

#14 Stephanie S - This is just the sweetest image. I'm sure it will melt any mom's heart

#7 Amanda A - I really like this sexy blue card, very eye-catching!

#42 Claire's Crafty Creations - The muted colours and beautiful silhouette combines in a very feminine creation.

#33 KalySto - Your creation is so soft & pretty with interesting detail, a cute girly creation! 

 

 

This week we have 3 spotlights again.

The first spotlight falls on #25 ellapu

 

 

This is creation reminds me of days gone by when ladies really dressed up in laces and pearls. 

 

 

 The second spotlight falls on #20 Sari

 

 

What an excellent interpretation of the optional challenge!

 Not only did you use the colours, the whole feel and look is evident in your card! Love it!

 

  The third spotlight falls on #11 Donna Mundinger

 

 

Your fabulous vintage tag was a team favourite! Really beautiful, great colouring!

 

 

Congratulations to all of you!!!

As you can see, it was really not easy to make our final decision!

 

 

Take some time to visit the blogs of everyone who entered this challenge,

each and every entry was outstanding.

 

 

If you are one of our favourites, grab your badge here:

 

 

 

Don't forget about our current challenge:

Anything Goes with a Day for Daisies!

We always love to see all kinds of creative projects!

 

 

And you never know, the Spotlight might be on you next week!

 

 

Hugs

Rene

 

Please Note: 

Saturday Spotlight is a Just for Fun way of giving recognition to our loyal entrants/followers.

 

 

Anything Goes with A Day for Daisies!

Hi everyone, Doris here today with another of our favorite weekly challenges -

 Anything Goes! 
 

We don't have the Anything Goes challenges just because we can't come up with a theme, we just LOVE to see the creativity you all come up with!

This week we're so happy to welcome back one of our favorite sponsors

A Day for Daisies!  They were so generous and gave the DT our choice of digi images to work with to get you inspired.  Be sure to sit in a comfy chair then stop over at their store HERE, because you'll be having a hard time deciding which images you want:)  One lucky winner will receive a $12 gift card to their store, so let's see what your creative juices come up with! 

Enter your project below using the inlinkz tool and please be sure to link your blog post back to us.  If you don't have a blog you can add your project to our flickr group in the sidebar on the left.  If you're not already a follower, please become one and stop by every week to join us.  This challenge will be open until August 20.  Ready?  Here we go!

Doris using Wedding Bells

Sharon using Just Fishing

Tammy using My Lucky Shoe

Julia using Ballet Slippers

 

Rene using Music for Me

 

 

 

Saturday Spotlight #7

Hello Everyone!

It is that time of the week again!

Congratulations to all of you who entered the

Anything Goes with Rick St Denis MFA Challenge!

We had a real tough time deciding on our favourites!

Can you believe we had 199 entries. Thank you to you all.

What a lovely selection of  projects!

There was some jewelry, a few boxes, a lovely album, a layout or 2 and even a pretty dress for a doll with matching hat! Some of you entered more than once!

 It was so much fun to visit all your blogs!

 



The runner-ups, in no particular order:

 

#23 HeidiB - Your tag is really so pretty & feminine.

#89 Rachelle - We loved your sewing machine...excellent detail!

#163 Renata - This is creation is so well put together, love the Egyptian theme!

#142 Zora - Very pretty candle holder - fabulous idea!
#82 Karin - The background you used makes this card stand out. Your colouring is great and contributes to the historical feel!

#91 Deonna B - You get the vote for funniest card...brought smiles to our faces!
#198 Cheryl - Your use of DP is really great. It forms the perfect backdrop for your summery image.

#64 Glenda Atkins - What a striking combination of greens & blues!! Beautiful card.

#112 Laila aka Koneko - Eye-catching, your colours are just great, your colouring makes this card really fabulous!

#17 Mian Hahne - This is such a cute gift idea. Your 'rocker' card is cool & funny too! 

 

This week we have 3 spotlights.

The first spotlight falls on a very happy & bright creation creation:

#48 Katie Tate

 

Your fun card will brighten anyone's day!

 

The second spotlight falls on a lovely gift box with matching cards.

#68 Mags

 

 

 

This is really such a great gift idea, very striking!

 

The third spotlight falls on a pretty Vintage Calendar Page:

#107 B

 

We really liked your idea and all the detail you used to create your Vintage page!

 

 

  

Congratulations to all of you!!!

As you can see, it was really not easy to make our final decision!

 

 

Take some time to visit the blogs of everyone in the spotlight! You will be inspired!

 

 

If you are one of our favourites, grab your badge here:

 

 

 

Don't forget about our current challenge:

Celebrate Women!

We always love to see all kinds of creative projects!

 

 

And you never know, the Spotlight might be on you next week!

 

 

Hugs

Rene

Please Note: 

Saturday Spotlight is a Just for Fun way of giving recognition to our loyal entrants/followers.

 

 

Winner - Anything Goes with Rick St. Dennis MFA!!!

Thanks to everyone that entered the Anything Goes Challenge sponsored by Rick St. Dennis MFA, the entries are so beautiful. No way we could make the decision on the winner, so Mr. Random did the job for us. 
The winner is:

Jessie L.

Congratulations Jessie L, you are the winner of  the prize from Rick St. Dennis.
I'm sending you an email now with the instructions on how to claim your prize.
The Design Team and I would like to take a moment to say Thank You to our wonderful sponsor Rick St. Dennis MFA:

Can't wait to see you in our newest challenge, I am sure you're going to have so much fun!

Remember to check Saturday's post, you're wonderful creation could be on the Spotlight.
Thanks again for playing with us.

Hugs,

Julia and the Crafting By Designs DT

Celebrate Women!

Hello Everyone!

Time for a new challenge!

I live in South Africa and on the 9th of August we celebrate National Women's Day.

This day has historical value for us, but essentially it recognizes the role women played and still play in society.This week our theme is: Anything Goes with a Twist: Celebrate Women!

I'm also throwing in an optional inspiration via Pinterest.

The optional challenge:

This cake really screams celebrate. Remember, it is totally optional!

You can use any colour, any style! BUT...if you need a little inspiration, then I'm sure you will find something in this photo!

We have a new sponsor this week! Digistamps4Joy is giving 5 images (own choice) to the winner of the challenge!

Another first is that we have a Guest Designer from the DT of our sponsor! I'm delighted to present to you the talented Desire Fourie:

{Doing Life} in beautiful sunny South Africa. Loving wife for 28+ years. Keen Photographer. Avid Gardener. Energetic Hiker. Ad hoc Race Walker. Addicted to Spinning. Scrapaholic. Committed Scrapbook Teacher. Founder/Manager Doing Life Online Shoppe. Bedazzled Beader. Card creator. Mosaic Enthusiast. PA/Secretary/Bookkeeper. Chocoholic. Right now I would love to be outdoors blending with nature.

Now onto the wonderful inspiration pieces from the designers using Digistamps4Joy images: 

Desire Fourie using Misteri My Hair,  Misteri's Mystery & Misteri Thinking 

Doris using Celebrate Celia

Julia using Celebrate Celia

Sharon using Celebrate Celia

Tammy using  Corset and Frills

Tammy using Celebrate Celia

Rene using Celebrate Celia

Rene using Corset and Frills

Rene using Corset and Frills

Rene using Tulip Basket

Take some time to visit the blogs of the Design Team & our Guest Designer, and do leave some love!

A little bit more about our sponsor:

Digistamps4Joy

South African crafters are new to the digital stamping world, with the first South African online digital image store launched in 2010 – Digistamps4Joy (or DS4J) http://www.digistamps4joy.co.za/eshop .  In May 2012, Margy Kieser took over ownership of DS4J, and there are now two South African artists who contribute to the more than 600 images available. Margy has taken the store to new heights and the store now stocks digis that are cute, whimsical, artistic, sometimes serious, and sometimes humorous. In addition, one of our own South African rubber stamp companies granted us permission for one range of rubber stamps to be converted into digistamp images. The store has PAYPAL, PAYFAST (South African) and EFT (South African) facilities.  Digistamps4Joy offers a monthly freebie on the first Friday of every month, and holds regular bi-weekly card challenges on our Blog (http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com ) that draw entries from many international card makers.

We (DS4J) are also active on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/DS4Joy) and Paper Craft Planet (http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/digistamps4joy). We’d love it if you joined us!

Now it is your turn to come up with lovely creation! Remember, your creation must celebrate women! It can be feminine, fun or just something special for a female friend. And if you get stuck, there is still some inspiration from Pinterest! Once you are done, make sure to link up your blogpost here!  You'll have until August 13th to add your project and if you don't have your own blog, you can add your project to our flickr group by clicking the link in the left sidebar.

I'm so excited to see what you are going to make!

Hugs

Rene