Final Winners and DT Favorites - Monthly Challenge #19 - Airy In August {weather related}

Happy 20th of September everyone! Today we are going to announce our final winners and DT Favorites from Monthly Challenge #19 -- Airy In August (weather related). And your creations were fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing! Thank you for sharing such beautiful and heartfelt creations with us! This was our very last challenge and we have enjoyed all of your creations over the time we have spent together. And I'm sure we will all see you around blog land.

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



Bugaboo Stamps
Prize: 5 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:
No. 11 - Heather Mills




NOW FOR OUR DT FAVORITES FOR MONTHLY CHALLENGE #19: {Airy In August (weather related)}:

Hanne's and Traceymo's Pick:

No. 8 - Lucy Patrick
Hanne's Thoughts: I love the bright colours and the landscape Lucy has created with various dies! And the image is super cute! Perfect card for a 4-year old and with the clouds and the sun this is also perfect for our Airy in August challenge!

Traceymo's Thoughts: Love the bright colours with the cloud background. A very sweet card.


Karen's Pick:

No. 12 - Carol Gill
Karen's Thoughts: You can never go wrong with a Mo image and I love her children images...doing what children do! Your card is beautiful and I love how you used different paper to give texture and color. Your coloring is great! This is exactly what I would be doing in the heat of August! Thanks for joining our challenge!


Susan's Pick:

No. 3 - Irena's Art
Susan's Thoughts: The image is fantastic... she is one of my favorite artists to use. I love how you have colored her too. Absolutely gorgeous. I love that front balloon popped. Beautiful creation!

Winners and DT Favorites - Monthly Challenge #18 - Just About Time June/July {time pieces, time, clock faces, etc.)

Happy 20th of August everyone! Today we are going to announce the winner and DT Favorites from Monthly Challenge #18 -- Just About Time June/July (time, time pieces, clock faces, etc). And your creations were fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing! Thank you for sharing such beautiful and heartfelt creations with us! It is fantastic! Our current challenge, Challenge #19 - Airy In August will end on September 9th. This is our very last challenge. The winners for Challenge #19 will be announced on September 20th.

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



Star Stampz
Prize: 3 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:
No. 2 - Red Obsession Cards




NOW FOR OUR DT FAVORITES FOR MONTHLY CHALLENGE #18: {About Time In August (time, time pieces, clock faces, etc.)}:

Berni's and Karen's Pick:

No. 3 - Pippa
Berni's Thoughts: The composition and background of this beauty is simply amazing and fabulous. The coloring brings this beauty to life. One of my faves.

Karen's Thoughts: Your coloring is beautiful--boy you have those pleats perfected! I love the composition and you stayed true to the challenge theme of Just About Time. Awesome job!


Hanne's Pick:

No. 8 - Carol Gill
Hanne's Thoughts: Carol's canvas has great colours and I love the little bit chaotic look and feel in her project. That's what it often feels like with time. :) The sentiment is also soooo true and it really spoke to me. This was just a perfect project for our time challenge.


Susan's Pick:

No. 13 - Creative Journey
Susan's Thoughts: I love that this is something different! It is a beautifully altered jar! I love the time piece that has been added to it. Yellow is not my favorite color, but I think this is a great color on this jar! Absolutely beautifully done!!

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!!

Winners and DT Favorites - Monthly Challenge #16 - Angels In April {angels, faith based or inspirational}

Happy 20th of May everyone! Today we are going to announce the winner and DT Favorites from Monthly Challenge #16 -- Angels In April (angels, faith based or inspirational). And your creations were absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing! Thank you for sharing such beautiful and heartfelt creations with us!

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



Sweet Stamps.com
Prize: 3 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:
No. 7 - Treebug




NOW FOR OUR DT FAVORITES FOR MONTHLY CHALLENGE #16: {Angels In April (angels, faith based or inspirational)}:

Berni's, Kerri's, Sandy's and Traceymo's Pick:

No. 12 - Stampin with Meighan
Berni's Thoughts: This is so beautiful and delicate, just love how she is embraced in prayer. Softly colored brings out the elegance of this beauty.

Kerri's Thoughts: Meighan your card stood out to me. It is beautifully coloured, paired with a simple layout and my favourite colour! Beautiful!!

Sandy's Thoughts: Gorgeous image beautifully coloured in my favourite colour. A simple card design enhanced with punches. Wonderful!

Traceymo's Thoughts: Meighan such a pretty card love the colour combo.


Hanne's and Karen's Pick:

No. 4 - Emily Shroom
Hanne's Thoughts: Emily’s card is absolutely stunning. I love the flying dove and the colours of the card - and the flower flames Emily has created are just fabulous. It must have taken ages to colour all those roses - wow! The sentiment is a perfect finishing touch for this card.

Karen's Thoughts: You have beautiful symbolism in your card...the flowers representing the fire and the intricate dove. It follows our theme of faith based and I am sure will be a treasure for your colleague’s niece. I love the uniqueness of the twisted easel. I am a flower girl myself and your lovely flowers attracted me immediately. Great job Emily!!!


Joanna's's Pick:

No. 1 - Irena's Art
Joanna's Thoughts: I like it very much.I love masking background, fishtail banner with stitching, stamps : sentiment and pear. I like color combo, too.


Lynda's Pick:

No. 5 - Jackie Cornfield
Lynda's Thoughts: How could I not pick your card, I have never seen such stunning coloring, such a rich, classy card.. Simply amazing well done.


Rebecca's Pick:

No. 7 - Treebug
Rebecca's Thoughts: Love the layers that she added on her card and specially love the angel image, so classic and adorable.


Susan's Pick:

No. 11 - Ma-Mi
Susan's Thoughts: These cards are absolutely beautiful. I love the cross and then I LOVE how you used the negatives from the die cut to make the 2nd cross. Brilliant and Beautiful!! I love it! I love the colors you used and the technique is just wonderful! Absolutely stunning creations. I love them!! Thank you so much for sharing them with us!

Winners and DT Favorites - Monthly Challenge #15 {Movement In March}

Good day to everyone! Today we are going to announce the winner and DT Favorites from Monthly Challenge #15 -- Movement In March (Wobbles, Shakers, Sliders, Dancing, etc.). This could be anything with movement; an image with movement depicted or something that actually moves on your creation. How fun is that! And you all definitely made it fun! We love seeing what everyone did this time around!! It's great to see how all of our minds work! We love it! Thank you all so much for playing along with us in 2017!

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



Aliciabel
Prize: 3 Images
And Our Random.Org Winner is:
No. 11 - Treebug




NOW FOR OUR DT FAVORITES FOR MONTHLY CHALLENGE #15 {Movement In March (Wobbles, Shakers, Sliders, Dancing, Driving, Etc.)}:

Berni's Pick:

No. 22 - Lucy Patrick
Berni's Thoughts: The images are appearing to be floating underwater. Sweet and so charming having fun.


Hanne's and Joanna's Pick:

No. 18 - Donna Mundinger
Hanne's Thoughts: I just love everything in Donna's card! Great colours - the black-and-yellow colour theme goes perfectly with the cute image. The shape of the card is extraordinary and it really caught my eye. And the coffee cups are just a perfect finishing touch for the buzz.

Joanna's Thoughts: I love her project. This is just fabulous, fun & so creative.


Karen's's and Sandy's Pick:

No. 2 - MaxiBelle Studio
Karen's Thoughts: I love Alicia’s card although choosing just one is so hard. The image is just precious and although I don’t have any sons, I can imagine how much little boys want to help their dads on the workbench. I especially love the pop-up bench inside. I’m sure your dad loved his card!

Sandy's Thoughts: Just love the pop up bench when you open up this card, A delightful image on the front and the papers from Kaisercraft meld it all together to make a wonderful card.


Lynda's and Susan's Pick:

No. 4 - Amelia B.
Lynda's Thoughts: I love your card, the bold colours are so beautiful and I adore the big bow and layout.

Susan's Thoughts: A kite! Brilliant use of movement... and this card helps me imagine a kite flying in the sky. Don't you love that? I do! This is a gorgeous card! The kite is gorgeous. I love that die! And I love the use of those two roses on the kite. That was such a great idea. I love the added clouds to give you that up in the air flying feeling! And that gorgeous big bow at the bottom just tops it off! Beautiful! I love your choice of colors, love the papers you used and the added inking is a fantastic addition to top this amazing card off. Thank you so much for sharing with us in the March Challenge. I'm really glad you did and your card is outstanding!


Lynnpenguin's and Rebecca's Pick:

No. 17 - Lucy Patrick
Lynnpenguin's Thoughts: Cute little fairy shaker card filled with sparkles and love...just lovely!!!

Rebecca's Thoughts: I always love shaker card and i love the total layout of her card. Love the stars stickers and the beads, and she complete her card perfectly with the beautiful sentiment.


Traceymo's Pick:

No. 16 - ~Ginny
Traceymo's Thoughts: Just a lovely fun card, bright colours.