The Challenge #56 {A Colour Challenge}

Hello and Welcome to Week Two at The Challenge! Wow! Such a great week last week! Thank you to everyone who joined us and played along with the sketch! This week we have a colour combo for you and I really wanted something NON-Christmas! Ha! SO I went with a bright and happy colour combo to wake up my creativity! I hope it does the same for you!

Are you looking for last week's winner? Please CLICK HERE.

I am so happy because my pal, Laurel Seabrook is coming on board as a designer! I love Laurel's work and she lives an hour away from me! It is so great she agreed to join us!!! I asked Laurel to share a bit about herself!

Hi everyone, I am Laurel Seabrook and am so happy to be here on The Challenge Team.  I took a bit of a hiatus from crafting, only doing a few projects here and there and am looking forward to jumping back in!  I love to create anything with paper but tend to do mostly cards and I look at them as little pieces of art, so that the receiver can tuck them in somewhere on display should they choose.  My favourite cards to create are inspiration/just because ones so I am sure you will be seeing many of those!

Welcome, Laurel!!

For my card, I decided to keep things SIMPLE! That is my new card making motto this year! I used a new set from WPLUS9 called Watercolored Anemones Stamp Set and the Grateful Greetings Stamp Set. I used a sponge to apply the ink to the floral image and "huffed" it...

The design team have created some inspiration to get you in the crafting mood! Come and join us! Our weekly winner will be our next Guest Designer! So come and join the fun!

Featured Designer -Bev from Happy Dance

Guest Designer - Mary Valente

Anita Madden

Broni Holcombe

Claire Broadwater

Diane Jaquay

Jinny Newlin

Kim Heggins

Kimberly Wiener

Laurel Seabrook

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

An InLinkz Link-up

Butterfly Reflections Ink {November Guest Designer}

Good morning stamping friends! Today I am happy to be the November Guest at Butterfly Reflections Ink! Butterfly Reflections Ink is an online stamp store! The owner is Vanessa. She is an inspiration to me! She has such passion for what she does and I love how consistent her service has been! I am pleasantly surprised when my order arrives in less than a week! SO great! Thanks, Vanessa!

I started ordering items from Vanessa when I found out how many stamp companies she carries!!! MFT, Avery Elle, Paper Smooches, WPLUS9, Winnie & Walter and SO on! I ordered these sets from her a while ago and I was inspired to make this card!

Winnie & Walter set called “In Bloom” Addie’sGarden

WPLUS9 set called Grateful Greetings 

I used just some leaf images from the one set and watercoloured them with distress inks onto 140lb watercolour paper. I used my water pen. I kept the design simple and "skewed" the main panel. A couple of the leaves on the left were fussy cut and popped up with dimensionals.

Viva la Verve & Simon Says Stamp {Thank You}

So happy to have the chance to craft tonight! I loved the sketch at Viva la Verve and went to work with some gold embossing and die cutting! I used the new Avery Elle Christmas Florals set in a non-holiday way. I love this sweet set and I can see myself using it a lot!!!

 

I also wanted to play along with Simon Says Stamp "Anything Goes Challenge".

I gold heat embossed the sentiment from WPlus9. Kind of wishes I had used a different ribbon in the background, rather than the gold. But I was feeling "goldish" tonight! Ha!

The Challenge #37 {A Sketch and a new Featured Designer!}

It is is the start of a brand new month and we a sketch for you to try! Feel free to change the shapes and make the sketch your own! I sure did, using only three "flags" out of the side of my oval. I also changed the orientation of my oval...so feel free to have fun with the sketch! I used a floral stamp set from Paper Smooches and the sentiment comes from WPlus9 both sets were bought at Butterfly Relfections Ink.

This month we are thrilled to have Karolyn Loncon as our Featured Designer!

Hello! My name is Karolyn Loncon.  I'm a retired Legal Assistant, married to Garry since 1980, and mom to Amy (married to Joe) and Ashley (married to Blake and the mother to Brecken, Brenner and Brynley.)  I’m blessed to live in Issaquah, Washington in the summer, and Chandler, Arizona in the winter. I love most paper crafts, but especially stamping and card-making.  The name of my blog is Paper Therapy.  I love to laugh, travel and play BINGO (don’t judge - LOL)! I started paper crafting in 2002 when my older daughter “abandoned” me to go to college.  I scrapbooked as my therapy.  Shortly thereafter, a friend invited me to a Stampin’ Up! party, and the rest is history.  Once I discovered stamping and card making, my need for instant gratification took over.  I haven’t touched a scrapbook since!  Ha!  I would say that my style is mostly clean and simple, although I throw in some fun and cute every now and then.  I’ve been fortunate to have many of my projects published in paper crafting magazines.  I also currently design projects for Avery Elle Stamps and My Favorite Things, and have recently enjoyed participating as one of the Guest Artists for the Online Card Classes.  So much fun!!

Welcome, Karolyn!

The design team have created some inspiration to get you in the crafting mood! Come and join us! Our weekly winner will be our next Guest Designer! So come and join the fun!

 Karolyn Loncon-Featured Designer

Kim Heggins	Anita Madden	Kimberly Wiener
Lee Ann Barrett	Claire Broadwater	Nance Salkeld
Lori Tecler	Joyce Mehrberg - GD	Michele Ferguson

The Challenge #33 {A Sketch}

Welcome to The Challenge! This week we have another sketch for you to try! We are so excited because we have so many fabulous guests joining us this week! Let's get to this week's challenge!

This month we are thrilled to have designer Sandie Munro as our Featured Designer! I met Sandie through the Time Out Challenge and I think she is talented and so organized!! I asked her to share some information about herself.

Sandie Munro

"Hi there! I'm Sandie and I am passionate about making cards. I started crafting a few years ago and once I started I couldn't stop! My style is Clean and Simple. I am happiest when I have created a card with just stamps and inks and lots of white space! When I am not crafting, I like to walk, grow my own vegetable, and watch movies. I live in London and I love to explore all that it has to offer!. I am thrilled to be asked to design for 'The Challenge' and hope I can inspire you to join in.

Welcome, Sandie!

We are also excited to welcome a new designer to the team! Claire Broadwater is joining us and I am so happy she is! I love her work and she is such a positive and upbeat person! Welcome to the team, Claire. I asked Claire to tell us a bit about herself.


Claire Broadwater

Hi Everyone!  I'm Claire Broadwater.  I live in Greensboro, Georgia.  I am a wife, Mom, Grammy, retired Elementary teacher (27 years), tennis player, reader, and avid card maker.  I have always loved paper, crayons and coloring.  I started scrapbooking years ago and became a card maker about 3 years ago.  I love entering challenges and being on Design Teams. I have met so many amazing people through blogging/crafting.   I am very thankful and honored to join “The Challenge” Design Team!  

Welcome to the team, Claire!

For my card this week, I wanted to use the pretty WPlus9 stamp set called "Botanical Blooms". I love it! I coloured it with my Copic markers and added some designer paper. I wanted to keep my design simple and clean. I am playing along with the current Mama Elephant Challenge-"Make Me Say OOh that's Pretty!".

The design team have created some inspiration to get you in the crafting mood! Come and join us! Our weekly winner will be our next Guest Designer! So come and join the fun! We also have THREE Guests with us this week! Welcome to Jen, Jinny and Sarah!

Sandie Munro

(May's Featured Designer)

Jinny Newlin - Guest Designer

Jen Wills - Guest Designer

Sarah Platt - Guest Designer

Anita Madden

Claire Broadwater

Kim Heggins

Kimberly Wiener       

Lee Ann Barrett

Lori Tecler

Michele Ferguson

Nance Salkeld

(on a break)