Winners and DT Favorites - Monthly Challenge #17 - Mighty Men in May {boys, men, manly, masculine}

Happy 20th of June everyone! Today we are going to announce the winner and DT Favorites from Monthly Challenge #17 -- Mighty Men of May (boys, men, manly, masculine). And your creations were fantastic as usual! Thank you so much for sharing! Thank you for sharing such beautiful and heartfelt creations with us! Our current challenge, Challenge #18 - Just About Time June will be running for two months, June and July, ending on July 9th. The winners for Challenge #18 will be announced on July 20th.

We would like to extend a HUGE Thank you to our wonderful and generous sponsor for our May 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:



KennyK Stamps
Prize: 3 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:
No. 64 - Darlene Pavlick




NOW FOR OUR DT FAVORITES FOR MONTHLY CHALLENGE #17: {Mighty Men In May (boys, men, manly, masculine)}:

Berni's Pick:

No. 20 - AJ
Berni's Thoughts: The background and coloring of this beauty is superb. Fabulous image and composition. Love everything about this beauty. Nicely done.


Hanne's Pick:

No. 18 - tmd
Hanne's Thoughts: This card is just fabulous! The image is perfect for a male card and I love the colouring. The background papers go perfectly with this image. And I love the finishing touch inside the card!


Joanna's's Pick:

No. 3 - Katrina Bufton
Joanna's Thoughts: All her cards are perfect but my choice is #3. Super male inspiration for students. Great coloring and fabulous background.


Karen's Pick:

No. 59 - Jodie H.
Karen's Thoughts: I love your card. The simple layout brings your focus to the adorable image. The coloring is great. I always have difficulty with masculine cards but you have a winner. Great job!


Kerri's Pick:

No. 40 - Forgotten Scraps
Kerri's Thoughts: I found it so hard to pick a favourite for this challenge as there were so many amazing entries. I have chosen #40 forgotten scraps - I love everything about this card! The layout is great, the choices of paper used are soft but manly and don't overpower the digi used. The colouring on the digi is also superb! A very beautifully put together card. Well done!!


Rebecca's Pick:

No. 2 - Margaret A.
Rebecca's Thoughts: Love the Music theme for the card and the total layout for her card. Although she is using the pre-colored image, but her card just fabulous for our theme this month.


Sandy's Pick:

No. 21 - CarolG
Sandy's Thoughts: Love the fact that you’ve used a partial image. It looks great and shows that you don’t need to have the whole image to make your card pop! Love the use of the star diecuts and the staples on your sentiment. A wonderful “male” card!


Traceymo's Pick:

No. 14 - Janice
Traceymo's Thoughts: A very cool tie card! Great CAS card.


Susan's Pick:

No. 66 - Lovely Linda
Susan's Thoughts: I had such a hard time picking from all of these fantastic creations. I finally decided on Linda's fantastic creation. I love the texture and the coloring. I love that image and how you detailed it. This is so perfect, funny and I just LOVE it!!

Monthly Challenge #17 - Mighty Men In May {boys, men, manly, masculine}

Good morning to all of you! Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Angels of April themed challenge. We always enjoy seeing everyone's amazing creations!! If you were not able to join us in April, we hope you will join us for May.

Monthly Challenge #17 is Mighty Men of May!! Today we are beginning our May Challenge and the theme this month is Mighty Men of May. We want to see some masculine creations. Show us some men, boys, masculine/manly type creations. It's the perfect time to be ready for Father's Day too! Show us what you think of our Mighty Men of May theme!

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 Friday, June 9th, 2017. Please make sure to link up before then.

Prize and DT Favorite Information: We will randomly draw the winner for our sponsor. The winner will be posted on Saturday, May 20th, 2017 when we will also post the DT Favorites.




KennyK Stamps
Prize: 3 Images
With KennyK Stamps you get fun, edgy and attitude filled stamps! Kenny has a very urban-influenced style which we love! The woman behind the man, ElenaK, brings just the right feminine touch to KennyK that brings out the crafter in all of us. You can't go wrong at KennyK. With amazing images and fantastic customer service, you will find something that excites your bones! We are always excited to work with ElenaK and KennyK. Thank you for everything you do!


Berni using Martial Arts Boy


Hanne using Inner Tube Boy


Joanna using Extreme Boarder


Karen using Valet - English Butler


Kerri using Martial Arts Boy


Lynda using Valet - English Butler


Lynnpenguin using Martial Arts Boy


Rebecca using Valet - English Butler


Sandy using Need For Speed Racer


Traceymo using Karaoke Guy

An InLinkz Link-up

Winners and DT Favorites -- Monthly Challenge #3 {Luck/St. Patrick's Day}

Happy Day! Today we are going to announce our DT Favorites from Monthly Challenge #3 -- Luck/St. Patrick's Day. 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 March 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:



A Day For Daisies
Prize: $12 Gift Certificate And Our Random.Org Winner is:

No. 18 - Kat's Tales (Claimed)


Bugaboo Digi Stamps
Prize: 7 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:

No. 7 - Donna Mundinger (Claimed)


KennyK
Prize: 2 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:

No. 14 - Jessi Fogan (Claimed)


Sassy Studios Designs
Prize: 4 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:

No. 12 - Jessi (Claimed)




NOW FOR OUR DT FAVORITES FOR MONTHLY CHALLENGE #3 {LUCK/ST. PATRICKS DAY}:

Adele's and Hanne's Pick:

No. 11 - Maryvonne
Adele's Thoughts: I love the creative use of the heart dies to create the shamrocks on this card. The dies alone are fabulous but to be so imaginative as to use them for the other purpose is just genius. I also love the other dies that have been used to create this stunning display.

Hanne's Thoughts: Maryvonne's card is stunning. The use of various dies create really adorable design and I love how the dies are used to create clover leaf. Really beautiful, I love this!


Ana Isabel's Pick:

No. 1 - Pippa
Ana Isabel's Thoughts: I loved her card because the colouring is amazing! I love the design, too.


Annette's, Joanna's and LynnPenguin's Pick:

No. 27 - Donna Mundinger
Annette's Thoughts: I loved this St Patricks Card, great fun Image and wonderful little sentiment. Put a smile on my face. Nicely coloured Image and loved the background designer paper used . Just a super fun fantastic card and perfect for this Challenge.

Joanna's Thoughts: Very funny card. The gang of cats is adorable and sentiment is perfect :)

Lynnpenguin's Thoughts: I love the kitties and the fun sentiment here. The image is coloured so nicely too. The green burlap and the little bow/shamrock is such a great addition too. What a wonderfully fun card.


BBsButterfly's Pick:

No. 19 - Paper Whims
BBsButterfly's Thoughts: The fairy is the perfect shade of green to compliment the background paper. The colors are very smooth and beautiful.


Berni's, Kerri's and Monica's Pick:

No. 10 - Jean Chaney
Berni's Thoughts: Just love the image and composition of this beauty.. Fun and refreshing. Love it. Simply fantasic.

Kerri's Thoughts: I think the colouring on this card is fantastic and I’ve fallen in love with all the extra Irish embellishments.

Monica's Thoughts: I absolutely adore her beautifully colored lucky cat and the side step is fantastic!


Kel's Pick:

No. 24 - Katrina Bufton
Kel's Thoughts: Love the colors she used on her card and the layout. Just beautifully put together!!


Kraftykoolkat's Pick:

No. 2 - Cathy The Crafty Nurse
Kraftykoolkat's Thoughts: This really made smile, I kept returning to it over the month and each time it made me smile. We all need a smile a day. Beautifully coloured and laid out too.


Lynda's Pick:

No. 8 - Donna Mundinger
Lynda's Thoughts: Donna’s card made me smile, I love the inked background and the drunk looking ginger fairy lol I also love Donna’s coloring of her.


NanaConnie's Pick:

No. 13 - DebiB
NanaConnie's Thoughts: I adore the cute image, her fab coloring, and those delightful, sheer, polka dot bows, especially the way she made one of them into a bow-tie for the bear! Great work on the overall design and that embossed background dp is a wonderful touch.


Rebecca's Pick:

No. 7 - Donna Mundinger
Rebecca's Thoughts: Love the creepy card she make with a shade of Gold and Green for St.Patrick Day. Admire how she colored the image, fantastic piece of artwork.


Shirley-Anne's Pick:

No. 3 - Jean Chaney
Shirley-Anne's Thoughts: I just loved the card shape and her colouring of sweet image.


Traceymo's Pick:

No. 14 - Jessi Fogan
Traceymo's Thoughts: Just love the simplicity of the shaker card. Having the sentiment has the main point.


Susan's Pick:

No. 18 - Kat's Tales
Susan's Thoughts: This little piece of art just made me smile! I LOVE that little guy.. he is so cute! And Kat really made the cutest little scene with those amazing hills and clouds! I love all the added lucky stuff too... the rainbow, the pot of gold and the clover! Absolutely fantastic!! Love it all! Great card Kat! :D