Challenge 258 - 8th of May - Birthday - OUR ANNUAL BLOGHOP

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday Dear CRAFT Challenge

Happy Birthday To Us!

(Sorry, this is a rather very long post!)

Can you believe it? We are already 5 years old. Originally started by Tracy from Just Tracy Crafts and with a DT mostly recruited from Trimcraft forum members (Hence the term CRAFT Challenge, which stood for Crafters Residing Are Friendly Trimmies. Or if you wished alternative meaning of Can't Remember A Flipping Thing) on the 4^th of May 2009.

We have now grown to be a large team of Design Team Members from all around the world, supplemented with lots of Guest Designers who join us for a month at a time. I am the only one still left from the original team (Jo) and have been lucky to have such a lot of very talented (G)DT members help me keep this challenge blog going. Our main aim has continually been to HAVE FUN!

We have always welcomed all kinds of craft, not just paper craft (unless specifically stated so in the challenge at the time) and are happy to have such a large group of faithful followers.

So, how are we going to celebrate this milestone?

Well, how else can we celebrate than to have our yearly Blogaversary Blog Hop?

And this year we have these fabulous sponsors who are supplying the prizes for our winners on the blog hop:

Bugaboo Stamps

HopeJacare

Inky Impressions

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

QKR Stampede

Rick St Dennis MFA

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More

Sassy Studio Designs

Scrappers Delight

Spyder's Other Corner

Stitchy Bear Stamps

Sweet n Sassy

The Cutting Cafe

The Stamping Chef

Yours and Mine Papercrafts

Now, how is that for a set up? We are very happy and grateful that these fabulous sponsors have agreed to sponsor our Blog Hop.

Now, how can you get to win any of the prizes provided by our sponsors?

That is easy! Just follow the route on our blog hop (you can also find that in our side banner), Our Blog Hop lasts for the duration of this challenge, which means a closing time of Wednesday 6pm GMT on the 14^th of May 2014.

And here are our little rules for this challenge/blog hop:

• Our challenge this week is Birthday
• Create something with this in mind
• Add your project to our Inlinkz below to be in with a chance of 3 digital stamps from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More
• Follow the route of the Blog Hop
• Add your project to the Inlinkz at each of these stops to be in with a chance of winning the prize advertised on that blog
• Collect the words on this and the blogs on the blog hop
• Form a sentence with these words
• Return to our challenge blog and put your winning sentence in our comments under the post.
• We will choose a winner randomly from the correct answers entered, who will win a special Blog Hop pack by Trimgym's Digistamps and Images
• We will enable comment moderation for the duration of this challenge/blog hop to ensure there is no cheating, lol.
• And the main rule: HAVE FUN!

What can you win on our challenge blog?

1. The winner of the winning sentence wins

So, let's get you started on this challenge with some inspiration from our Designers and Guest Designers.

Abby - junior DT

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

Aunty Sue

(using 'Daisy Delite Sunshine Girl Pin Up' by Lacy Sunshine Stamps)



Carol

(using 'Gus Golf' by Bugaboo Stamps)



Cass for Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More

 



Deborah

 

 

Edwina for Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More

 

 



Elisa

(using 'Alice Zombie' by Rick St Dennis MFA)

Helen

(using 'Birthday Lily' by Inky Impressions)

Helen (Croms) for Rick St Dennis MFA

 

Jeanette

(using 'Boat at Sea' by Hope Jacare)

Jo

(using 'Betty Butterfingers' by The Stamping Chef)




Karen for Rick St Dennis MFA

 

 

Lyn for Spyder's Other Corner

 

Marlene

(using 'Cookie Cake Kitty' by Spyder's Other Corner)

Monica

(using 'Remembered Birthday' by QKR Stampede)

Saskia

(using 'Summer Breeze' by Scrappers Delight)

Silvi

(using 'ephesians 5: 1-2 verse' by The Cutting Café)

Sujin

(using 'Super Dad' by Sweet n Sassy)
(we wish Sujin a great recovery after a car accident)

Susan for Rick St Dennis MFA

 

And now for our Blog Hop route:

CRAFT Challenge Blog (you are here at the start of the hop)

Abby

Aunty Sue
Carol

Deborah

Elisa

Helen

Jeanette

Jo
Marlene

Monica
Saskia

Silvi

Sujin

CRAFT Challenge Blog (you are here at the end of the hop)

And here is the words to be collected on this blog:

So, in summary:

• Create something with the brief Birthday
• Link your project to Inlinkz for a chance to be a random winner in the challenge
• Complete the Blog Hop
• Leave some Love, link to Inlinkz at each stop
• Collect all the words
• Make a sentence with your words and place in a comment at the end of this post.
• Check back next week or soon after to see if you are a winner on one of the blogs
• Have Fun!

Thank you for joining us in our Celebrations, have fun on our Blog Hop and Good Luck! Don't forget to add your entry to Inlinkz or to check back to see if you are a winner.

Love,

Jo and The CRAFT Team.

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CRAFT Challenge 103, Happy Birthday to Us! and Blogaversary Blog Hop.

Morning all and a Very Happy Birthday to us All! CRAFT Challenge is having its second Blogaversary today and we are going to celebrate that in a special way. We have loads of presents to give away thanks to many of our very lovely sponsors. Thank you so much to all of you, our loyal followers and our fabulous sponsors! Without all of you we would not be able to do this!

We have a few things happening this week to celebrate our birthday in style. We hope you will all join us to make this a birthday to remember.

First, we are having our normal challenge and sponsoring that this week will be 2 Cute Rubber Stamps, who are offering the winner of the challenge a choice of 2 rubber stamps or 3 digistamps of his or her choice from their shop. Link your creation to Inlinkz below as per usual to be in with a chance of winning this prize. Our challenge this week is a very simple 'Happy Birthday!' to Us.

Second, we will be having a blog hop with a prize on offer on each of the many stops we have (all our DT's and even our GDT's). For this we have a few little rules to follow. Here is our Route to follow:

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by a last minute change in our blog route. Our lovely DT Annette has unfortunately not been able to join us this week after all and you will therefore need to go to Jo's digistamps blog instead. We would not want you to miss out on any chances to win a lovely prize now, would we? We are really very sorry for this inconvenience as Annette's blog may still feature in the route on some of our (G)DT's blogs.

If any of the blog posts were not up yet at the time you visited or a word was missing, please visit them again. (we are trying to rectify any blips that have occurred when made aware of them) We apologise for any blips in the hop, there may also have been some time zone differences accounting for late posts. Have fun!

CRAFT Challenge (you're here at the start!) Your word here is Flowers
Jo's digistamp blog (last minute change, we do apologise!)
Carol
Claire (GDT)
Gemma
Jacky 
Jo
Karen
Kerry
Kevin
Kim (I believe Kim has had some difficulty in getting the details up on this blog hop so far. If you have visited her and not been able to find the details you needed, please go here for a copy of her details, but leave your comments on Kim's blog, thank you)
Nikki (GDT)
Sharon
Tigerlover (junior DT)
CRAFT Challenge (you're hereat the end!) Your word here is and

If you get lost along the way, please come back here and you will be able to find your way again. We will also have this list on each of the stops to let you know where is next.

Third, while on this blog hop, we would like you to collect a word from every DT blog and form a sentence with this. Leave your answer in a comment and we will choose a random winner from the correct answers. The winner of this will win a mega prize from our sponsor Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More. We will obviously not allow comments to get posted to the blog during this week to stop any cheating, lol.

We hope you will enjoy playing along with this challenge again and will all be helping us to celebrate our Blogaversary in style. Thank you for everyone who joined us again last week for our Alien/Space challenge and thank you again to Truly Madly Crafty 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.  If you were one of them, please contact us to claim your prize and/or badge.

So, down to the creations by our Guest Designers:

Claire
(using 'A little Birdie told me' by Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More)

Nikki

(using 'Hippo Birthday' by Glitterbabe)

And joining us from our sponsors this week are:

The Navy Wife for The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs , who has used 'Butterflies and Verse set' and 'Happy Birthday Ticket Sentiment' for her card.

And from our Design Team:

Annette

(using 'Catmail' by LiaStampz)
Unfortunately she is unable to join us this week after all, therefore we will show you this card made by Jo again showing this stamp.

Carol

(using 'Hippy Chick' from Digi's With Attitude)

Gemma

(using 'Martini Pin Up' from Sassy Studio Designs)

Jacky
(using 'Birthday Cake Mouse' by Meljen's Designs)

Jo - (me)

(using 'Black n Whatever Celebrations Digi Papers' by Toucan Scraps)



Karen (she has made 2 cards this week)
(using 'A Little Birdie Told Me' from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More)

(and using "Tiny Bubbles Tia" from Some Odd Girl)

Kerry

(using 'Lily Pad Fairy' from Glitterbabe)

Kevin

(using 'Miki hanging from Tree' from Sew Many Digital Stamps)

Kim
(using 'Baby in Pram' by AiFactory)

Sharon

(using 'Fairy Chloe on Mushroom' and 'Fairy Bling Happy Birthday Circle'
from The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs)

Tigerlover - junior DT
(using 'Cecil Wrapped Up' by Digi Doodle Shop) 

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, so we can ask you to get in touch for a special badge and a little prize.

Don't forget to get in touch with us to claim your prize if you have won one of our challenges or to claim your badge if you made our Top 3! 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.

Have fun with our challenge this week, our blog hop and our competition and good luck! Your next stop on the hop is Jo's digistamp blog. If this is the end of your blog hop, you should have come from Tigerlover's blog.

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.