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:

Shirley

Sarah

Patricia

Alison

Kitty

Mandy

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.

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

18 - Janey

26 Cheryl (shestamps)

54 - The Crafty Den

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

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:

Shirley

Kitty

Patricia

Sarah

Alison

Donna

Mandy

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,

1 - Lorraine

67 - Dora

71 - Renata

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.

Challenge No. 3 - Valentine/Love

Wow, how well did we do in the last challenge?  100+ entries is wonderful.  I would imagine this weeks challenge will be just as popular given our theme of Valentine/Love.  This week we're sponsored by the wonderful Prairie Fairy,

Hello! I am Roberta from Prairie Fairy Designs. I am a new digital stamp company featuring artwork not only created by me but also my two kids, ages 9 and 12. They are featured on the site as the Fairy Princess and the Prairie Prince.

I have been an artist for as long as I can remember and have always loved to create. Two years ago my sister-in-law invited me to a rubber stamp party. I laughed and said "Maybe I will buy something if I can use it to stamp on canvases.". Needless to say, I was hooked! Two years later and a lot of learning about computers, I have finally accomplished my goal. 

While digital stamping is relatively new in the papercrafting scene, it is what I believe to be such an amazing tool. Printed images have such clarity and vibrancy and gone is the need to re stamp an image because you didn't press hard enough or maybe you pressed too hard! They are also a lot easier to store and they can be reprinted over and over again. The fact that you can rotate and flip files, print them off the size of a postage stamp or as large as a scrapbook page makes them such a versatile medium. It is my sincere hope that I can help anyone who has hesitations about using digital images to embrace these amazing creative tools. If you have any questions about going digital, check out the site and the blog for more information. So head on over to http://www.prairiefairydesigns.com/ and check it out!

Please take the time to have a look at what's on offer at Prairie Fairy because the images are wonderful.  The prize for our random winner will be 5 digi images of your choice.

We got the chance to work with some of Roberta's images and here's what we made:

Shirley

Patricia

Mandy

Sarah

Donna

Alison

Aren't they wonderful?  Hopefully you've got some ideas for us because we can't wait to see.  You may have noticed we are a couple of members down.  Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to both Amy and Kym.  You've both been great team members and contributed lots to our challenge.  We'll miss you tons!

Finally some 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 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.

Challenge 1 - Winner and Top 3

What a great start to the New Year.  Thanks to everyone who joined us with our sketch challenge and thanks again to our wonderful sponsors, The Stamping Boutique.  The winner of our prize (5 digi images) was chosen using Random.org:

Congratulations Sheena, please email me on cardsformen@donnasden.co.uk with your choice of 5 digistamps from The Stamping Boutique.

The top 3 cards were:

1 - Linda H

21 - Wenche P

29 - Brook

Congratulations girls.  Please grab our Top 3 badge from the sidebar and add it to your own.

Challenge No. 2 - Let's Party

First challenge over, it was lovely to see so many of you trying our sketch out.  It's amazing how many different interpretations can be seen.

Our second challenge has the theme 'Let's Party' so let's see all your celebration cards.  We're sponsored by the wonderful, Meljens Designs, who kindly provided us with some images to use.

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Take a look at the ideas our DT came up with:

Shirley

Sarah

Amy

Alison

Patricia

Mandy

Donna

Kym 

Haven't they done a wonderful job?  Our prize from Meljen's Designs is 4 digi images of your choice.  Finally some 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 the 30th January 2011.  Leave your name and a direct link to your entry (not just to your blog) 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.