Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenges: February 2017

Monday, February 20, 2017

Winner and DT Favorites -- Monthly Challenge #13 {Jet-Setting In January}

Happy Day! Today we are going to announce the winner and DT Favorites from Monthly Challenge #13 -- Jet-Setting In January (Vehicles, Travel, Holiday/Vacation, Etc). You all are amazing. We loved seeing what everyone did with this theme!! Thank you all so much for playing along with us into the new year!

We would like to extend a HUGE Thank you to our wonderful and generous sponsor for our January 2017 Challenge. You really help to make the Challenges that much better by providing prizes to give to our winners. Please help us thank our wonderful sponsor by dropping by their shop!!

HERE IS YOUR RANDOM DRAWN WINNER:

The Paper Shelter
Prize: $15 Gift Certificate
And Our Random.Org Winner is:

No. 13 - Mel C.

NOW FOR OUR DT FAVORITES FOR MONTHLY CHALLENGE #13 {Jet-Setting In January (Vehicles, Travel, Holiday/Vacation, Etc.)}:

Berni's

No. 13 - Mel C.
Berni's Thoughts: OMG! This is such a fun and cute beauty. Just love the image and composition. Nicely done!!!

Joanna's and Susan's Pick:

No. 5 - Toothless Knitter
Joanna's Thoughts: Perfect idea. This little footprint ...

Susan's Thoughts: This is gorgeous! I absolutely love the use of the footprint. That just makes this so special! Brilliant idea and I love how it all went together so perfectly!

Lynda's Pick:

No. 7 - AJ
Lynda's Thoughts: Your card made me smile, it’s so cute. Your colouring is beautiful and I love the die cut borders.

Lynnpenguin's and Sandy's Pick:

No. 4 - Carol Gill
Lynnpenguin's Thoughts: I love the travel feel this card hads and the post card is a wonderful addition to the sandcastle image.

Sandy's Thoughts: Love the sandcastle on this little ATC and the postcard ties it all in with the travel theme.

Rebecca's Pick:

No. 3 - Majda
Rebecca's Thoughts: I love the layers on her card and each details she added in her card, just match perfectly. Awesome.

Traceymo's Pick:

No. 2 - Lucy Patrick
Traceymo's Thoughts: What a sweet iamge & gorguss colouring to!

Friday, February 10, 2017

Monthly Challenge #14 - Flowering In February (Flowers In, On, Stitched, Somewhere, Where Ever!)

Good morning crafters community!! We hope you had a wonderful January and start of 2017! Thank you to everyone who played along with our Jet-Setting in January Theme. We always love to see what everyone is up to and the new things you are learning. And you all are so very talented! You keep us on our toes and wanting to learn new things! Keep It Up!

We are still looking for one or two new members to add to our team for 2017. If you are interested in joining us, please send an email to openmindedcrafting at gmail dot com. Include a little bit about yourself and your blog address. We would love to have you join us!

Monthly Challenge #14 is Flowering In February!! For this challenge we want to see flowers on your project, in your project, in the image, stitched onto your project; whatever or however you feel like adding flowers. You show us what Flowering In February means to you. We are hoping to see a variety of ideas from you! And most importantly, HAVE FUN!

Please click on the Rules Tab at the Top to read up on the rules!
Deadline: The deadline for this challenge will be midnight on Thursday, March 9th, 2017. Please make sure to link up before then.

Prize and DT Favorite Information: We will randomly draw the winner for our sponsor. These winners will be posted on Monday, March 20th, 2017. We will also post the DT Favorites at the same time.

All Dressed Up
Prize: 2 Images
All Dressed Up full of Wendy's whimsical and wonderful images. It is so fun to see the fantastic creations created with her images. All Dressed Up also has a Challenge Blog where she offers up a few freebies to help you get started. Wendy studied in Loughborough for 3 years and then after spending time in London, settle down in the East Midlands where she has been lucky enough to run her business and work from home. We sure are thankful that she has found her way into the crafting world!! We are lucky to have her in our community and lucky to have her as a sponsor. Thank you so much Wendy and All Dressed Up Digital Stamps!!