Spring Break Vacation Destination

Happy Spring Saturday everyone crafty! This is Anita Houston, and your hostess again for this week's challenge. First, I would like to say "WOW!" The entries from last week's "Bingo" challenge were fantastic, and it will be hard for me to choose a winner. Thank you so much for participating!

Spring has sprung yet again! It's time to take that annual well deserved Spring Break vacation. Where would your postcard come from? Make whatever paper craft you like and show us your "spring break vacation destination". Remember to include the name of your destination somewhere on your project. Please take inspiration from our fabulous and talented Design Team and gracious Guest Designer, Carla Suto for this week. Everyone has truly outdone themselves! 

Here's hoping you have a wonderful creative weekend with beautiful Spring weather!

Guest Designer - Carla Suto 

Carla's Stamping Spot

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Irena Kowalczyk -love, life and craft Rudlis

Kristin Tierney - LilyBeth Boutique

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Vicki Burdick~It's a Stamp Thing

Holly Kean - Kean on Paper

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge Winner

Hi Friends! Holly here to bring you last week's challenge winner.

I hope you're having fun this week with Anita's Bingo! challenge. If you haven't made a card with a bingo card mixed in with some green, there's still plenty of time. Jump in and have some fun!

I was so inspired by all of the different takes on the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge! There were so many wonderful cards to pick from. The challenge winner for this challenge based on the "three-in-a-row" game is Lea. Her sweet card brought together brads, pink and flowers with a vintage feel.

I love the stamped sentiment on the little tag, the sweet pink bow and the the angel image inside the frame. Congratulations, Lea! Thanks for playing along with us for this Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. Your work is inspired and adorable. Don't forget to pick up your badge and display it proudly on your blog!

BINGO!!!

     Happy Saturday everyone! This is Anita Houston, and your hostess for this week's challenge. For all of you who participated in last week's challenge, thank you so much! So many of you really outdid yourselves and followed the challenge to the letter. We really appreciate that, and choosing a winner will be difficult.

     As luck would have it today's challenge falls on St. Patrick's Day! Ah, the luck of the Irish, or so some say.  For this weeks challenge make a card or tag with some sort of bingo card on it, and use the color green somewhere on the project. With some luck, you just might have the winning one! Please take inspiration from our fabulous Design Team and gracious Guest Designer, Amy Lazzell, for this week. Everyone has come up with wonderful designs.

     I hope you have a happy St. Pat's and a very creative day as well!!!

 

Guest Designer: Amy Lazzell

Just a Thought...Cards by Amy

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Anita Houston

Meihsia Liu

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time


Kristin Tierney - LilyBeth Boutique

Vicki Burdick~~It's a Stamp Thing

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts Rudlis

Holly Kean Kean On Paper

Making Melody Challenge Winner

Well hello and happy Wednesday, friends!

I hope you're enjoying this week's Tic Tac Toe challenge. Its been fun to see all the different cards, colors and styles you've been sharing with us.

I was so delighted to see the different cards for our Making Melody challenge. Your songs of inspiration ranged the gamut from Tom Petty's "Wildflowers" to Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" to Deanne Carter's "Strawberry Wine", it was really hard to find just one that I liked. But when it comes down to it, that's what I had to do so this week's winner is Birgit/Biggan and her CAS butterfly card inspired by Mariah Carey's "Butterfly".

I love the wonderful simplicity and the coloring on the butterfly is simply amazing. I love the detail but I especially like the rhinestone body right down the middle. And the raised emboss around the frame is just a great added touch that really makes this card shine.

Congratulations, Birgit! Don't forget to pick up your badge and display it proudly on your blog!

Papercraft Tic Tac Toe

Hello paper crafting friends! Holly here again for another fun week in papercrafting.

What a great turnout of projects we've seen come through the "Making Melody" challenge. Its fun to see how each of you took the theme to heart and made some really great projects. If you didn't get a chance to enter your project, hop on board for this week's "Tic Tac Toe" challenge.

Sometimes childhood games are just plain fun, aren't they? One of my four-year-old's favorites is Tic-Tac-Toe (although he's not very good at it but don't let him know that!). This week, I thought it'd be fun to take a little inspiration from this simple concept of "three in a row". Play along with us in a game of papercrafting tic-tac-toe. Choose "three in a row" on the Tic-Tac-Toe board and make sure you work those elements into your papercraft project. When you post your project, include the "three in a row" on your blog.

Take a look at what our designers have put together this week for this creative challenge to get you on a roll. Make sure you make your way to our Guest Designer Tracey Vidal's blog and drop a little thank you to her for being our guest this week.

Guest Designer - 

Tracey Vidal from My Creative Side

Tic Tac Toe - Brads, Pink, Flowers

Holly Kean - Kean On Paper

Pink, Stickers, Ribbon

Anita Houston

Brads, Buttons, Blue

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

brad, pink, flower

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Blue-Ribbon-Glitter

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Brads - Buttons - Blue

Vicki Burdick~~It's a Stamp Thing

Brads, Pink, Flowers

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Brads, Pink, Flowers

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Brads, Pink, Flowers

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Brads, Pink, Flowers

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Blue, Ribbon, Glitter

Irena Kowalczyk / Rudlis

 Blue, brads, buttons,

Over the Edge Winner

A big “thank you” to everyone that graced our gallery with your beautiful entries for our “Over the Edge” challenge. We had a total of 86 entries and boy .... was it tough to narrow it down to just one winner, but we did … and I am proud to announce that our Top Talent for this week is: Wendy Bickford of Mrs B's Spot.

We just loved this gorgeous easel card that Wendy created for her grandson, the image is so adorable and her colouring skills are outstanding! Take a look at the shaded/dotty background it works so perfectly with the elements on this card from the dotty background papers to the super cute buttons, love the texture of the twine and the orange ribbon and of course his name is written in buttons! A fabulous boy card and so well deserving, Congratulations Wendy on being our choice for Top Talent!

Feel free to take our badge to display on your blog!

It's not too late to still play along with this weeks challenge, "Making Melody", have you got yours in the gallery? We'll be back on Saturday with a new challenge and some new inspiration!