Winners and Top Picks - Challenge 115 - Winter Wonderland

Thank you all sooo much for the GORGEOUS creations you've entered into our month-long Winter Wonderland bumper challenge.  It's unfortunate that some of you who entered this challenge more than three times had your extra entries deleted.

A very special Thank You goes out to all of our sponsors for their support as well as their wonderful and very generous prizes.

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The following TOP Picks include some of the incredible wintertime projects entered.

#53 - KalySto shows us a Frosty Fairy on this pretty blue and purple wintery card with a matching gift box.

#157 - Mila uses paint over her poinsettias and holly to add to her winter-themed card.

#216 - Pat K entered her wonderfully colored Snowy Post Box wintery scene on this sparkling card.

#239 - Delphine entered her beautifully colored Kraftin' Kimmie's ice skating Antoinette, with no lines!  You can find Antoinette at the Crafts and Me Stamps online store here.

#250 - Ann Marie Governale uses Snowy Tilda on this fabulously sparkling and wonderfully layered snow-themed card.

 

 

Congratulations and don't forget to pick up your Top 3 flashing blinky from the sidebar.

 

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Now for the winners of the generous prizes from our wonderful sponsors . . .

 

The VERY LUCKY and randomly selected entry for . . .

 

PRIZE 1 - the Crafts and Me Stamps voucher goes to . . . Chris S . . .

 

 

PRIZE 2 - these fabulous Crafty Ribbons' owl ribbons go to . . . Norma . . .

 

 

 

PRIZE 3 - this Marianne Designs' die set and clear stamp goes to . . . Paper Whims . . .

 

PRIZE 4 - the Sweet Pea Stamps $15 Gift Certificate goes to . . . Lorraine B . . .
 

 

 

PRIZE 5 - this Stix Goodie Package goes to . . . Sue bearhouse . . .
 

 

 

PRIZE 6 - this Stix Goodie Package goes to . . . Guild Master Crystal . . .
 

 

PRIZE 7 - ProMarkers go to . . . Lindsay . . .
 

 

Congratulations to our prize winners!  Please contact Rose (details in the sidebar) to arrange for delivery of your fabulous prizes.

 

Check back soon for the new Rockin' Rubbah design team challenge . . .

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugz to you from the Crafts and Me Stamps Design Teams





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Craft Tutorial: Butterfly and Bunting Nursery Art

With only 6 weeks left before #3's due date, I've been trying to get busy!  I made this to match her mobile, which has hanging butterflies and flowers, with bunting around the four "sticks."  This piece (a little smaller than a piece of printer paper) will hang on the wall with the ribbon flower and some other art.

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Craft Tutorial: Large Ribbon Flower

This flower is for the nursery wall of the on-the-way girl #3. I also made a crochet one and a felt one using other people's tutorials. Though I looked, I couldn't find instructions for large flowers made of ribbon, so I winged it. It turned out about the size of my hand.

Supplies:
Three types of ribbon, preferably all the same thickness. Mine were three quarters of an inch and the sparkly one was an inch.
Small piece of cardboard
Hot glue
Button, bead, or small flower for center

Instructions:
Cut a small circle out of the cardboard. I traced the top of a solo cup for my circle. Then I punched a hole in it in order to hang it on the wall.

Next cut 17 or so 6" pieces of the bottom color of ribbon. Fold them over and glue the bottom together to make a loop.

Start glueing the loops to the outer edge of the circle, being sure to put them close enough together to cover up the cardboard.

Fill in the circle, cutting more loops if necessary.

Cut 12 6" pieces of the middle color of ribbon, fold them over and glue. Start glueing the second layer. Mine covered the cardboard completely at this point.

Again, cut more loops if you don't have enough, and fill the circle.

Cut six or so pieces of the center color of ribbon. If yours is the smaller size you may need more than I did. Fold and glue into loops.

Glue onto center, close enough together to cover the tails of the last layer of ribbon.

Then glue the embellishment onto the center of that layer of ribbon, covering the tails and glue.

To make my double layer button, I glued a small flower button's attachment loop to the center of a larger white button.

And there you have it! Using a thinner ribbon in the center would make our look less like a Christmas bow, but I think it turned put pretty cute anyway. :)

And apologies for the crummy phone pictures. When I get my laptop back from the Nerd Herd I will post the better ones, and of course stay tuned for an early February post of the completed nursery with all its crafty goodness.


©2012 Alli Hyer, all rights reserved.  You may sell items you make with this tutorial, but if you sell them online, you must link to this tutorial.  You may not sell this tutorial or claim it as your own.  You may publish or post a link to it, but you may not publish or post it in whole or in part.

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Winter Wonderland Bumper Christmas Challenge - Part two

Welcome to our last challenge for 2012 and our month-long Winter Wonderland Christmas Bumper Challenge part two - this part is hosted by our digi team and its my privilege to not only show you some wonderful makes by our Dynamite digi team but to Wish you all a wonderfully

HAPPY NEW YEAR

wow your entries are amazing so far but don't forget your still have a chance to enter our fab month long challenge as it doesn't end until the 15th January

please scroll down to view today's earlier posts showing the winners and top 3 projects of our last digi challenge as well as the rubbah team's Anything Goes Optional Ornament challenge.

We have some fabulous prizes from Crafts and Me and our regular sponsors.  PRIZES will be randomly selected from all entries so everyone has a chance of winning.

 

 

PRIZE 1 has been donated by . . .
Crafts and Me Stamps!
One very lucky randomly selected entry will win . . .

PRIZE 2 - Crafty Ribbons

offers these fabulous owl ribbons!

 

 

PRIZE 3 - Marianne Designs
offers this great die set and clear stamp!

PRIZE 4 - Sweet Pea Stamps
offers a $15 Gift Certificate!

 

 

PRIZE 5 - Stix
Goodie Package

 

 

PRIZE 6 - Stix
Goodie Package

PRIZE 7 - ProMarkers

 

 

 

Now for the fabulous inspiration from our amazing Dynamite Digi design team . . .
 

Mina using Daffodil

Nic using Whimsical Winter

Sara

using Lady Of Amethyst

♥ ROSE ♥

using

Art Deco Beatrice and Art Deco Words Digital Stamps

We hope that you'll join us for our month long challenge, there is still lots of time to enter

Add your creations to Mr Linky below. You may enter the challenge up to 3 times as this will give everyone a fair chance of winning a prize.  Extra entries will be deleted.


 

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Winner and Top Three - Challenge 114 - Why So Blue? = NO BLUES ALLOWED!

Thanks sooo much to all of you for sharing your AMAZING cards and projects with us for our digi team's Why So Blue? = NO BLUES ALLOWED! challenge.  Whew!  After seeing all of your absolutely stunning entries, it seems to me that you all deserve a top pick for the most creative and inspiring blue-less creations EVER!  I did my best to narrow it down but please don't be discouraged if your entry isn't shown here.  I loved them ALL!

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The randomly selected and VERY LUCKY winner of the generous prize of THREE Crafts and Me Stamps digital images, of your choice, is . . .

 

Congratulations Karen C!  Please contact Rose (details in the sidebar) to arrange for delivery of your fabulous prize of three Crafts and Me Digis.

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As shown in the following TOP 3 entries, colors other than blue can make an incredible WOW impact when used on our wintertime projects.

15 - KalySto used shades of purple to decorate her beautiful round Christmas box.  I think that her cameo-shaped image, lace and paper roses make this a stunning handmade heirloom piece.

 

81 - Birgit worked some magic with vintage papers and red and white roses to repurpose an unsightly bag into an amazing work of art that also holds gifts.

101 - Eileen's use of pink with white and black adds a wonderfully delicate touch to this fabulous Christmas card.

 

 

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

(I just HAVE to include these beauties!!!)

114 - Sue W's addition of gorgeous lace and pearls with her ornate corner element turns this simple owl image into a delicate and beautiful card for sharing Christmas wishes.

158 - Fiona L created this stunning snow scene without a stitch of blue!  Isn't it great to see this loving snow couple sharing their happy Christmas wishes on this warm card?!?!?!

 

 

 

Thank you all for sharing your AMAZING creations.  Congratulations and don't forget to pick up your Top 3 flashing blinky from the sidebar.

~ Rose

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Challenge 113 - Anything Goes - Winner & Top 3

Hello everyone Vicky here, hope you have all had a wonderful christmas & New Year with your loved ones, we certainly did.

Now I am here with the winner & the Top 3 to the 'Anything Goes with Optional Ornament' challenge, I really am so sorry this is late, with all the rush up to christmas I barely remembered what day we were on lol.

I have to say you certainly did not make my job easy & my original top 3.........well it was no-where near 3, it was more like 33...........I think I may have got told off for that lol.

Anyhoo's lets do the winner first which is the easy one as Mr Random.Org does that job for me.

The winner is..................drum roll..................

100. Jen Leeflang & here is her stunning card.

Isn't this so beautiful!!!

Congratulations sweetie could you please email Rose regarding your prize & also dont forget your Winner badge hun.

Ok so now onto the hard task of choosing a Top 3..........no easy feat let me tell you!! Finally though I did choose these 3 stunners!!!!

17. Fiona

This is soooooo beautiful, although I think it would look fantastic in my home Fiona hun ;0)

82. Iulia

This is just stunning, I love the whole design of this & the image is perfect!!!

129. Scrappellen

These are all totally amazing, I love the scene on the gorgeous card, this whole set is stunning in every way!!

Congratulations ladies your creations are totally awesome!!!

Phew thank goodness for that, let me say though that each & every entry was gorgeous & made my job so so hard. You are all so talented.

So ladies if you would like to grab your well earned Top 3 badge from the sidebar, we would be honoured if you would display it on your blog.

Tatty bye peeps xxxxxxxxxxx

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