Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenges: June 2016

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Winners and DT Favorites -- Monthly Challenge #6 {Seasons/Holidays}

Happy Day! Today we are going to announce our DT Favorites from Monthly Challenge #6 -- Seasons/Holidays. Everyone's projects were fantastic!! Thank you so much for playing along!! You all make it very hard to choose favorites! Thank goodness Random.org picks the prize winners!!

We would like to extend a HUGE Thank you to our wonderful and generous sponsors for our June 2016 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 sponsors by dropping by their shops!!

HERE ARE YOUR RANDOM DRAWN WINNERS:

AMB Illustrations
Prize: 1 Image or Clipart Set And Our Random.Org Winner is:

No. 56 - Stephanie S.

DigiStamps4Joy
Prize: $10 Gift Certificate
And Our Random.Org Winner is:

No. 20 - Heather Mills

Star Stampz
Prize: 3 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:

No. 6 - Repolainen

NOW FOR OUR DT FAVORITES FOR MONTHLY CHALLENGE #6 {SEASONS/HOLIDAYS}:

Ana Isabel's Pick:

No. 49 - Cicci Vid Pennan
Ana Isabel's Thoughts: I love the coluring!! Wowww the background is great! Simply brilliant!

BBsButterfly's Pick:

No. 36 - Elena F.
BBsButterfly's Thoughts: There is a ton of detail and beautiful layering. I love all of the die cuts. This is a beautiful, sunshiny card.

Berni's Pick:

No. 3 - Plony
Berni's Thoughts: This is absolutely gorgeous, love all of the details on this beauty. The pastels are so soft and delicate that brings out the focus of the image.

Hanne's Pick:

No. 6 - Repolainen
Hanne's Thoughts: This is such a good-mood card, I just love it! The image is so fun and I love the scenery Repolainen has created in her card. And those flipflops are simply awesome!

Joanna's Pick:

No. 1 - Lucy Patrick
Joanna's Thoughts: Absolutely lovely shaker card. I like layout, colors and idea :)

Monica's Pick:

No. 27 - Treebug
Monica's Thoughts: I love the use of the doiley and coloring on the cute image!

Rebecca's Pick:

No. 15 - Teresa
Rebecca's Thoughts: I love the beautiful summer beach mixed media cube that she decorated. By looking at her cube, you can feel the breeze of the summer beach, the sand and the wind. Lovely project.

Sandy's Pick:

No. 53 - Crea Astrid
Sandy's Thoughts: Gorgeous card. Love all the fab sea themed diecuts and the use of the Octagon diecuts to showcase the beautifully coloured image.

Shirley-Anne's Pick:

No. 33 - Carol
Shirley-Anne's Thoughts: Fabulous Embellishing and beautiful paper along with a sweet image for this stepper card.

Traceymo's Pick:

No. 66 - Lucy Patrick
Traceymo's Thoughts: What a cute card, that girl is so cheeky & fab layout to.

Susan's Pick:

No. 29 - Nicola Gold
Susan's Thoughts: I just LOVE this Christmas decoration! It's fantastic! I love all the different levels. Love they are all shakers! Way cute! Love the twine around the edge too! And the bells at the bottom! Fantastic! Absolutely adore this wonderful creation!

Friday, June 10, 2016

Monthly Challenge #6 -- Seasons / Holidays

Good morning fellow crafters!! And welcome to the Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenge Blog and our next challenge!

Monthly Challenge #6 is all about Seasons/Holidays!! You can create anything that focuses on that theme or should I say that many themes. We are looking forward to seeing all of the wonderful creations from everyone! And we do mean any... Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Valentine's, St. Patrick's, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Christmas, etc. You pick your season or holiday and show us what you come up with! Okay... get busy!

Our wonderful sponsors for June are:

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 Wednesday, July 9th, 2015. Please make sure to link up before then.

Prize and DT Favorite Information: We will randomly draw the winner for each of the sponsors. These winners will be posted on Wednesday, July 20th, 2015. We will also post the DT Favorites at the same time.

AMB Illustrations
Prize: 1 Image or Clipart Set
Anne-Marie has been drawing and crafting all her life. She is an illustrator and Graphic Designer. She has a background in product design and packaging, but her passion is drawing. She offers us high quality images and clip art that she creates from that passion and we absolutely adore them! Be sure to check out all she has to offer in the shop!

Joanna using Girl Pool Party

Kraftykoolkat using Christmas Stamp

Lynda using Christmas Stamp

Rebecca using BBQ

Shirley-Anne using BBQ

DigiStamps4Joy
Prize: $10 Gift Certificate
DigiStamps4Joy was started in 2010 by Melanie Morgan. This was the first South African website to sell digital images. She has taken DigiStamps4Joy far beyond just South Africa. In 2012, Melanie sold DigiStamps4Joy to Margaret Kieser, who continues to run the shop today! Margaret has continued to grow DigiStamps4Joy and you can find her and her Design Team creating some amazing projects! You can find these images being used all over the world. Be sure to drop by and see all of the fantastic images that are there for us to create with!

Hanne using Going Somewhere

Lynnpenguin using I Love You

Sandy using Spring Time

Susan using Nativity Globe

Star Stampz
Prize: 3 Images
Sarah is the artist and owner behind Star Stampz. Art has been a huge influence in her life and in who she is. She discovered Japanese Anime. It is this style that has renewed her vigor to draw and you can reap the benefits of this with her amazing art! I fell in love with her digital stamps the first time I set eyes on them. And now to see her grow and expand is truly magnificent! Be sure to go by and share the love at her Etsy shop!