CRAFT Challenge 154, Celebration and *Blogaversary Blog Hop*

Morning all,

This week is a special week. We are 3 years old this week! So, Happy Birthday to us!!

Our challenge this week is 'Celebration'. So, any project fitting this subject will be eligible for a prize.


We also have our blog hop this week and you can choose to do one or more of the following this week:

1. Take part in our challenge
2. Add your name to Inlinkz on the DT and GDT blogs to be in with winning a prize on their blogs.
3. Complete the blog hop (adding your name to Inlinkz on your way), collect all letters and form the sentence it forms and leave a comment at the end of our challenge post with your answer.

We have a lot of sponsors this week, with lost of prizes to be won.

• A prize for the winner of our 'Celebration' challenge this week.
• A prize for the randomly chosen winner on each (G)DT member's blog.
• A prize for the randomly chosen comment with the correctly formed sentence from the collected letters along the way.

To ensure all is done fairly, we will enable comment moderation this week to keep all answers behind, so there can be no cheating. 


Our blog hop finishes at 6pm GMT on Wednesday the 16th of May 2012! All winners from the blog hop will be announced in the weekend of the 19th.


Our sponsors this week for the challenge:

Sponsor 1: The Stamping Boutique

The Prize for winner 1 is 5 images of choice

Sponsor 2: Stitchy Bear Stamps

The prize for winner 2 is a $10 USD Gift Voucher good on the three creators below within the StitchyBear Digital Stamps Shop.

Sponsor 3: Trimgym's Digital Stamps and Images 

 

The prize for winner 3 is 3 digistamps or 1 paper pack of the winners choice from my blog.

Our sponsor for the overall winner of the blog hop is:

Pink Gem Designs

The prize for our overall blog hop winner is: 

3 single digis or 1 digistampset of choice

Our blog hop route:

Elke

Sue

Nikki

Tigerlover

Liam and Owen

Jenny

Coops 

Carol

Sylvia

Sharon

Sheryl

Jeanette

Alison

Jo

CRAFT Challenge

So, now it is time to get you some inspiration for this challenge. This is your first and last stop on the blog hop. Your second stop will be Elke, if you get lost along the way, just come back here to find your way again.

Here are the creations by our Guest Designers this week:

Alison

(using 'Party Hardy' from Saturated Canary)

Coops:

Jenny

 

Mel from Crimson Cloud:

And from our Design Team:

Aunty Sue:

(using a diecut from Crimson Cloud and 'Ellies Birthday' by Saturated Canary) 

Carol:

(using 'Patriotic Bear' from Meljen's Designs)

Elke:
(using 'Silhoute Butterfly' by Bugaboo Digi Stamps)

Jeanette:

(using 'Beach Hut' by The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs)

Jo – (me):

(using 'Ice Cream Cutie' by My Heart Pieces)

(using 'Santa and his Reindeer' by The Stamping Boutique)

(using 'Baptism and sentiment' by Trimgym's Digital Stamps and Images 

and 'Heaven Sent' by Designed to Delight)

Liam:
(using 'Mothers' Day Ryan' by eyeCandie Creations)

Nikki:

(using 'Sleeping Baby' by Digi Doodle Shop)





Owen:
(using 'Flower Pot Treat' by eyeCandie Creations)

Sharon S:

(using 'Holiday Aurora Honey' by Sassy Studio Designs)

Sheryl:

(using 'Party Hardy' from Saturated Canary)


(using 'Lady Jane' by Stitchy Bear Stamps)

Sylvia:

(using 'Keep Calm Owl' by Pink Gem Designs)

Tigerlover:

(using 'Cross with Rose' by Trimgym's Digital Stamps and Images)

So, now it's up to you again, we would love to come and visit your creations again. If you are 15 or younger, please include your age again in your name, collect a special badge here and contact us for a little prize from Jo (2 digistamps, 1 easel card sheet or a paperpack).

Don't forget to contact us to claim your prize if you have won one of our challenges or to collect your badge if you made our Top 3 here! We only will respond to people who get in touch with us and will not go looking for you! (Sorry, a bit too busy to do that). If prizes have not been claimed by 8pm GMT the day prior to the next challenge going life (so for our current winners, see post below, next week).

Have fun with our challenge and good luck!

If you don't see Inlinkz below, please refresh your page, your browser may not have fully loaded this page.

Now you have been here for the second time, here are your last 2 letters

and

(I know, officially not a letter, lol)

Don't forget to enter your sentence in our comment section, to be in with a chance to win our overall blog hop prize from Pink Gem Designs

3 single digis or 1 digistampset of choice

We do hope you will be able to join us for our birthday celebrations, have fun!

NB. Our blog hop is now closed. No further entries will be counted for the draw which will be done this weekend, keep your eyes peeled for this.

Jo and the CRAFT Team.

CRAFT Challenge 137, Celebrations.

Morning all,



Another Thursday brings another challenge here today at CRAFT Challenge again, this time our challenge is 'Celebration'. So, any project with this subject will be eligible for a prize. There is a maximum of 5 entries per person each challenge, so please don't enter any more than that or they will not be counted.



We hope you will enjoy playing along with this one again. Thank you for everyone who joined us again last week for our Thank You! challenge and thank you again to Just Tracy , In2Stamps and Karen's Doodles for sponsoring us last week. Please scroll down to find the winners of last week's challenge, our Top3 and our Star of the Month, or click on the links at the top of this blog. If you were one of them, please to claim your prize and/or badge.

This week we have 3 sponsors, so there will be 3 chances to win in this challenge. Just for clarification, there are no first, second or other places in our winners, but our first winner drawn will win the prize from our first sponsor, the second drawn the prize from the second sponsor, etc.


So, here are our sponsors for this week:


Sponsor 1: Eiglas


The prize for winner 1 is any download from her site to a value of £6.50.






Sponsor 2: Crimson Cloud


The prize for winner 2 is 3 diecut packs of choice from their shop.




Sponsor 3: Trimgym's Digital Stamps and More



The prize for winner 3 is 3 digistamps or 1 paperpack of the winners choice from my digistamp blog.










Here are the creations by our Guest Designers this week:

Doreen:

Elisa:

(using 'Bride and Groom 1' from Eiglas)

Mel from Crimson Cloud:

And from our sponsor Eiglas

using Eiglas' 'Bobby' digistamp.




and our Design Team:

Aunty Sue:

(using 'Baby Michael' from Eiglas)

(using 'Bride and Groom 1' from Eiglas)

Carol:

(using 'Bride and Groom 1' from Eiglas)

Jacky:

Jeanette:
(using 'Bride and Groom 1' from Eiglas)

Jo – (me):

(using 'Un Bon Repast A Deux' from Eiglas)

(using 'Bride and Groom 1' from Eiglas)

(using 'Polar Bear Love' from Eiglas)

(using 'Bride and Groom 2' from Eiglas)

(using 'Herbert Christmas' from Karen's Doodles)

(using 'Puppy and her Bone' from Karen's Doodles)

Kim:

Nikki:

(using 'Bride and Groom 1' from Eiglas)

Sharon S:

(using 'Bride and Groom 1' from Eiglas)

Sheryl:

(using 'Baby Michael' from Eiglas)

Sylvia:

(using 'Baby Michael' from Eiglas)

So, now it's up to you again, we would love to come and visit your creations again. If you are 15 or younger, please include your age again in your name, collect a special badge here and contact us for a little prize from Jo (2 digistamps or a paperpack).

Don't forget to contact us to claim your prize if you have won one of our challenges or to collect your badge if you made our Top 3 here! We only will respond to people who get in touch with us and will not go looking for you! (Sorry, a bit too busy to do that). If prizes have not been claimed by 8pm GMT the day prior to the next challenge going life (so for our current winners, see post below, next week), we will do another draw and you will forfeit your chance for the prize advertised. You will now be able to follow us by e-mail (see our side banner), so there is no need to miss out.

Have fun with our challenge and good luck!

If you don't see Inlinkz below, please refresh your page, your browser may not have fully loaded this page.

Jo and the CRAFT Team.