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Monday 28 February 2011

Challenge No. 5 - Water

Yet another month has whizzed by!  It's March tomorrow, I'm amazed.  Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Recipe challenge.  We'll be back later on with the winner and top 3.

Our challenge theme this time is WATER.  You could have boats, seascapes, fish, sea animals or anything else that is water inspired.  Our sponsor is the wonderful, Hope Jacare, and the prize for this challenge winner is 3 digi stamps of choice.


"I'm a SAHM with three young children. I trained in Textile Design at the Glasgw School of Art and I love all things handmade, but especially papercrafts. I love to doodle ... and my doodles are available to purchase as digital images through Stitchy Bear Stamps."


Please pop along and take a look at Claire's wonderful images.  The design team were given a selection of images to work with and I'm sure you'll agree that they did a fab job:











My Journey imagine


















So if you're itching to join in, here's the rules:

1. Your card must be for a man/boy
2. It must follow the theme/sketch set
3. It must be a new card for our challenge.

The challenge will close at 12 Midnight (GMT) on 13th March 2011.  Leave your name and a direct link to your project (not just your blog) in the link tool below.  If the link tool is not there for some reason, then please leave details in the comments and I'll add you in before I do the draw.










Wednesday 16 February 2011

Challenge 3 - Winner & Top 3

Phew, the weeks are whizzing by.  We had a wonderful turnout for our Valentines challenge with 166 entries.  I must apologise to anyone who didn't get a visit.  We are a little down on our Design Team of late (look out for a DT call coming soon) and I, personally, found it really hard to keep up this time.

The winner chosen by Random.org was


which is Bev.  Congratulations,Bev, please take a look at Prairie Fairy and let me know your choice of 5 digis by emailing cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk

Our top 3 were




Congratulations to you all.  Grab the top 3 banner from our sidebar and add it to your own.

Monday 14 February 2011

Challenge No. 4 - A Recipe For You

I knew we'd get a lot for our Valentine's challenge, but even I was surprised by the 150+ we got.  Our challenge this time is a recipe to follow.  Your card/project must have:

1 Image
2 Design Papers
3 Embellishments (either 3 the same or 3 different)

Our sponsor for this challenge is One Stop Card Crafts, a fab shop selling a wide range of crafting goods from the major brands such as Papermania, Fiskars, Sizzix, etc.  Please pop over and have a look around.


Here's a bit about our sponsor, from the owner, Shelley,


At One Stop Card Crafts we have a big range of ever changing discount card making and cardmaking craft supplies.We are always adding to our range of craft supplies which are ideal for making handmade greeting cards, do-it-yourself invitations scrapbook pages, altered items and much more.
Our card making craft supplies include free UK postage* and our popular discount scheme and quick service means our customers keep coming back for more.


Our prices are very competitive and this makes us an ideal place to buy your cardmaking supplies online.

The prize up for grabs is a £10 voucher to spend at One Stop Card Crafts.  So what are you waiting for?  I suppose I should give you the rules:

1. Your card must be for a man/boy
2. It must follow the theme/sketch set
3. It must be a new card for our challenge.

The challenge will close at 12 Midnight (GMT) on 27th February 2011.  Leave your name and a direct link to your project (not just your blog) in the link tool below.  If the link tool is not there for some reason, then please leave details in the comments and I'll add you in before I do the draw.

Finally, some inspiration.  Here's what the Design Team came up with:







you look great today











Thursday 3 February 2011

Challenge 2 - Winner & Top 3

Sorry, I'm a bit late this week with the results of challenge 2.  Life has a bad habit of getting in the way sometimes, lol.

Without further ado, the winner chosen by random.org is


Clare.  Congratulations, Clare, please take a look at Meljen's Designs and let me know your choices (4 images) on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk.

Our top 3 this week,




Well done to you all.  Please grab our top 3 badge from the sidebar and add it to your own.

Don't forget there's still plenty of time to enter our current challenge with a 'luuuurv' theme.