Challenges for Thurs. Jan.10, 2013

Here are some challenges for today.  Happy crafting!
 
Christmas:
Crimbo Crackers: bi-weekly, multiple entries
#32 Decoupage  week 2

In The Pink:  bi-weekly, maximum of 3 entries with different cards per challenge
#11 Luscious Lace  week 1

Aud Sentiments Challenge:  bi-weekly, use sentiment given
 use any sentiment as long as it is about winter - so you could pick "Thanks snow much" or "Have a n-ice day" or some other creative wonder!  Just don't forget an applicable sentiment! ends Tue. Jan.15
 
Craft Us Crazy:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
#34 challenge theme is something new and/or work with their inspiration photo, week 2

 Crafty Ribbons Challenge:  bi-weekly, unlimited entries
#36 'New Beginnings'  ends Jan.16
 
It's All About The Vintage:  bi-weekly, 3 entries 
#34 Lace Dreams,  this challenge will run till Jan. 16 when regular schedule will resume 

MilkCoffee:  bi-weekly, 3 entries per person
New Beginnings week 2

Paper Crafting Journey:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
Anything goes, week 1

Shelly's Images:   5 entries 
Anything goes, ends Jan. 16 
 
Charisma Cardz:  weekly, 3 entries per person, 10 challenges
#1 Happy Birthday

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge:  weekly,  5 entries
#189 color combo, blues
 
Cute Card Thursday:  weekly 
#251 Beat the Blues

Dutch Dare Card Challenges:  weekly, 2 entries, 8 challenges
#199 sketch

Joan's Gardens:  weekly, multiple entries
Create a blue and white card, use 4 corner dies, thank you card

Mo's Digital Pencil:  weekly, 1 entry 
#168 Something New w/Mo Image
 
Moving Along With The Times: weekly, 3 entries
Floral Delights, main image, not just embellishment
 
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries 

 
Sassy Studio Designs:  weekly
#159 Let it Snow

The Play Date Cafe:  color challenge, weekly
#164  Cadet Blue...Chartreuse...Leather
 
4 Crafty Chicks:  weekly 
#124 Tangerine Tango..Early Espresso..Soft Sky..Blue Bayou

Wishing you a very blessed New Year!

Thank you

Today I have a 'Thank You' card colored entirely with Broken China Distress Ink.  After I stamped the image, which is my new item, I couldn't find any paper in my stash that I liked so I inked some white paper and then colored the ribbon, as well.  The background has been embossed, there is some lace along the edge and then I applied a few Liquid Pearls.  What looks like a quick and simple card actually took me several hours; it just refused to come together.  I'm afraid I found some holes in my stash and will have to go shopping!  Don't you just hate when that happens, LOL!?

challenges I would like to enter

Stampin' For The Weekend:  Anything Goes   
Stamping With The Dragon: Anything goes 
 Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge: #105 Something New
Crafty Catz:  #164 Anything goes  
Totally Papercrafts: #148 Something new 
Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog:  White + One Other 
OWH_ODBD January Challenge Dry embossing
Glitter and Sparkle:  #14 Anything Goes 
613 Avenue Create:  Anything goes  
Dream Valley Challenges:  #48 Anything goes  
Our Daily Bread Designs:  ODBDSLC137 Something Old and Something New  (Old, lace; New, stamp (for me))

Thank you for visiting and have a blessed day! 

Wednesday, Jan.9,2012 Challenges

Here are some Wednesday challenges.  Happy crafting!

Sketch
Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Bi-weekly
ABC Challenge:  1st and 15th of every month
E for Embossing

Belli Challenge:  bi-weekly, 1 entry, week 2, use old, forgotten embellishments
#160 Winter/Snowmen

Crafting for all Seasons:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
#43 Something New

Creative Moments:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
Monochrome/Anything goes

Nutcrafters:  bi-weekly, 1 entry
#34 Flowers and lots of them!

Stampavie and More:  bi-weekly
Blue and White week 2

Weekly
365 Cards:

Color Throwdown:  weekly
CTD224  Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, So Saffron

Crafty Creations Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries
Something new

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge:  weekly, 1 entry
#153 Winter

Flutterby Wednesday:  weekly, 1 entry
#222 Anything goes with butterfly or fairy

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge:  weekly
PWC240 Brads

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries
#109 Anything goes

Perfect Sentiments Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries, must use sentiment
PSC61: Winter Wonderland, 'wintery' images, winter sentiment

Simon Says Stamp:  weekly, multiple entries
Black/White+Splash of Color

Stamp 'n' Doodle Challenge:  weekly
Something Neglected

Stars and Stamps (OWH) weekly
Sentiment Free

Word Art Wednesday:  weekly, free digi verse or any uplifting sentiment
#62 Hearts/Anything Goes

Have a blessed day!

Tuesday Jan.8, 2013 Challenges

Here are some Tuesday challenges with themes.  Happy crafting!

sketches
Tuesday Morning Sketches

365 Cards, new challenge each day
LOUD: using bold colors and PROUD: sentiment of congratulations
 
Clear It Out Challenge:  bi-weekly
Theme: Warm Fuzzies; Stash: textured items (papers, embellishments, etc)  week 2

Craft Room Challenges:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
Valentines

My Time to Craft Challenge:  bi-weekly 
#203 All About the New (but not new stash)
 
Oldie But a Goodie Challenge:  bi-weekly, 3 entries, use something that is at least 6 months old
Lace, pins and pearls 
 
Tuesday Alchemy Challenge:  bi-weekly, multiple entries
#47 Hopes, Dreams &/Or Resolutions  (week 2)

Tuesday Taggers:  bi-weekly, multiple entries, 5 challenges
New Stash 

Bearly Mine Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries 
#68 Sketch

Celebrate The Occasion:  weekly, 1 entry
#94 Boys birthday (must use blue) 

City Crafter Challenge:  weekly, multiple entries
#141 Use Book Paper 

Loves Rubber Stamps:  weekly, multiple entries
#34 Use dies or punchies
 
Our Daily Bread Designs:  weekly, use ODBD stamp
ODBDSLC137 Something Old and Something New

Papertake Weekly Challenge:  weekly  
Happy New... 

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries
#129 Shiny and New  

Twist of Faith Card Challenge:  weekly
#19 Sketch  

Have a blessed day! 

Monday Jan. 7, 2013 Challenges

Here are some of todays challenges with themes.  Happy crafting!

Crafty Cardmakers:  multiple entries
create a fairytale scene

The Crazy Challenge:  bi-weekly, 4 entries
#136 without design paper 

Creative Stamp Friends:  bi-weekly
#68 Snowflakes  week 1

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge:  bi-weekly, 2 entries, must use digital image 
#75 Fresh and Simple, bright colors and simple design

Lexi's Creations: bi-weekly, multiple entries
#81 Anything goes 

The Pink Elephant:  weekly
#181 Celebrate 

365 Cards:   a new card challenge each day
Rounding the Corner; "round" a minimum of ONE but a maximum of THREE corners on your card 

Card Mania Challenges:  bi-weekly, 3 entries (2nd week)
#11 Winter Wonderland 

Card Makin Mamas:  weekly, must be card, 2 entries 
Anything goes

Cards for Men:  bi-weekly
#1 Men at Work

Ooh La La Creations:  bi-weekly
#121 Happy Birthday

Paper Playtime:  bi-weekly, multiple entries
#1 Pets 

Songbird Challenge:  bi-weekly, cards only
#11 Paint it Black, use black and one other color
 
Craft Your Passion Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries
#144 Vintage/Shabby Chic 

Cupcake Craft Challenge:  weekly
#224 January Blues 

Eureka Stamps:  weekly, 3 entries 
#21 Make it Sparkle 

Incy Wincy Designs:  weekly, 5 entries
Something new 

Kaboodle Doodles:  weekly, 3 entries 
#153 Vintage 

The Kraft Journal:  weekly, use either Kraft cardstock or products purchased from Kraft Outlet
Crimp or Fold

Tammy's Scrapin Corner:  weekly, 2 entries
#44 Manly Cards 

The Shabby Tea Room:  weekly, multiple entries
#148 Elegance, use inspiration photo, blue and white, ribbon and flower

Have a blessed day!  

Love You, Princess

Yay!  My top priority for the beginning of the new year is almost finished!  My craft room was such a disaster after Christmas crafting that I could hardly get to my desk.  So I enlisted the help of my amazing, talented hubby, (I'll share some of his work later) and I am so happy to report that we are about 3/4th finished.  In fact, I was able to get a little crafting done today. 
I love doing card challenges but I'm accumulating too many cards so I've decided to make my cards suitable for OWH (Operation Write Home).  Which means my cards will be simpler and the embellishments will be smaller.  Now I can indulge my addiction and do something good at the same time.
Today I made a card for a little princess.  I hope there's a little girl somewhere that loves blue!   After I was finished, I wondered why I didn't make it pink.  Maybe a senior moment?  Think I'll go make a pink one!
For this card, I made my own design paper.  I've been wanting to try this faux ghosting technique with Distress Inks (something new).  I used 2 shades of blue and then spritzed water through a doily for the design. 

I then stamped and embossed the hearts (old stamp from Hero Arts) and colored them with the same Distress Inks.  The wonderful image is a freebie from MilkCoffee, which I colored with Prismacolor Pencils.  I used a Clear Star Gelly Roll pen around the edges for a little sparkle.  The sentiment was printed and punched with a Fiskers heart punch.  Some sheer ribbon and a heart button with a yarn bow finish the card.

challenges I would like to enter

Crafty Ribbons Challenge:  #36 New Beginnings
MilkCoffee:  New Beginnings
Shelly's Images: Anything goes
Charisma Cardz:  #52 Monochrome
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge:  #188 Make your own backing paper
Cute Card Thursday:  #250 Something new
Paper Crafting Journey:  Anything goes
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge:  It's all new to me
Sassy Studio Designs:  #158 Something old and something new (new technique, old stamp)

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Sunday Jan. 6,2013 Challenges

Here are the Sunday challenges with their themes.  Have fun creating!

Christmas
Christmas Card Challenges:  weekly
#6 Rip It/Sand It/Tear It

Sketch
CLP Challenge:  once a month
365 Cards:  Sunday sketch
OWH (Operation Write Home)
Sketchy Colors:  weekly

Challenges 4 Everybody:  bi-weekly
always anything goes

Crafting When We Can:  bi-weekly, 2 entries, 5 challenges 
#35 Favourite things
 
Dream Valley Challenges:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
#48 Anything goes 

Quirky Crafts:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
Something new... with pink

The Squirrel and the Fox:  bi-weekly
#34 Party Time

  613 Avenue Create:  weekly
Anything goes 

Come and Get It Challenges:  weekly, 2 entries
color challenge, pink, yellow, blue
  
Creative Inspirations Paint:  weekly
Inspired By: Case It; case a project by someone else or yourself
 
Cupcake Inspiration:  weekly
use cupcake inspiration picture 

Gingerloft Challenge:  regular schedule will resume Jan.13
Christmas or winter

Glitter and Sparkle:  weekly
#14 Anything Goes
 
Pile It On Challenge:  weekly
PIO #1 Black, White and Another Color 

Sentimental Sundays:  weekly, 3 entries 
link up a PAST favorite Sentimental Sundays submission, ONLY 1 ENTRY PER PERSON 

Stamptacular Sundays:  weekly 
#197 Don't Be SQUARE; and don't forget to STAMP
 
Have a blessed day!

Saturday Jan 5, 2013 Challenges

Here are today's challenges with themes. 

Christmas
52 Christmas Card Throwdown:  weekly, 10 challenges 
sketch
 
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge:  weekly 
#106 Santa has gone into hiding 

sketch
Sketch Saturday:  weekly, 3 entries
Sweet 'n' Sassy Sketch Challenge

Monthly
OWH_ODBD January Challenge
Dry embossing

A Gem of A Challenge:  bi-weekly
#62 New Beginnings 

Di's DigiDesigns Challenges:  bi-weekly
Try something new

My Sheri Crafts Challenge:  bi-weekly 
 #101 All Sports 

Send A Smile 4 Kids:  1st and 3rd Saturday of each month, must be for a child, 3 entries
Valentines 4 Kids Challenge

2 Sisters Challenge Blog:  weekly, multiple entries,
#125 Anything goes w/optional extra of using an image from Doodle Dragon Studios 

Allsorts Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries
#188 CAS (clean and simple)

Crazy 4 Challenges:  weekly
C4C167 Ribbons and Bows 

Hiding in My Craft Room: weekly, 3 entries, winners are posted on the 8th of the following month
HIMCR #79 Black & White + 1

Just Us Girls Challenge:  weekly
#170 sketch

Less Is More:  weekly, 5 challenges, multiple entries, CAS cards
#101 Black and White with a touch of color

Mark's Finest Paper:  weekly
#141 take a Christmas card you received and use part of it to make your card

One Stop Craft Challenge:  weekly, 2 entries, will be back Jan.12

Our Creative Corner: weekly 
Aqua and Pink + flower

Sugar Creek Hollow:  weekly, 3entries, must be vintge, shabby chic, or primitive inspired style 
#43 Celebrate Something New

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog:  weekly, 2 entries, MUST stamp, (rubber or digi)
White + One Other 

Totally Gorjuss Challenge
Anything goes with ribbon
  Have a blessed day!

Friday, Jan 4, 2012 Challenges

Here is a list of Friday challenges with their themes.  If you would like a challenge added, leave me a comment and I'll add it.

Annabelle Stamps: bi-weekly
sketch 

Fussy and Fancy:  bi-weekly
Furry Friends 

Stampin' For The Weekend:  bi-weekly, 1 entry
Anything Goes 

Stamping With The Dragon:  bi-weekly
Anything goes 

 A Day For Daisies:  must use Tammy's images, she always includes a free image
#61 Something shiny

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries
#105 Something New

Crafty Catz:  weekly
#164 Anything goes
 
Daring Cardmakers: 
color challenge: blue and brown 

Delicious Doodles:  weekly 
#17 Sparkle and Shine 

Frosted Designs:  1 entry
pick at least 4 things from list:  rubons, transparency, brads, eyelets, misting/masking, punches, stamping, stickers
 
Raise The Bar:
#125 sketch 

Sweet 'n' Sassy Digi Challenge:  must use digital images only
Something new 

Totally Papercrafts:
#148 Something new 

Have a blessed day!

Thursday Jan. 3, 2012 Challenges

Here is a list of Thursday challenges with their themes.  I'm going to try to keep this updated each day.  If there is a challenge you would like added to this list, leave me a comment and I will add it.

Christmas:
Crimbo Crackers: 
#32 Decoupage  

In The Pink:  once a month, maximum of 3 entries with different cards per challenge
#10 Pink and Pearly ends Jan. 9

Aud Sentiments Challenge:  bi-weekly, use sentiment given
 use any sentiment as long as it is about winter - so you could pick "Thanks snow much" or "Have a n-ice day" or some other creative wonder!  Just don't forget an applicable sentiment! ends Tue. Jan.15
 
Craft Us Crazy:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
#34 challenge theme is something new and/or work with their inspiration photo 

 Crafty Ribbons Challenge:  bi-weekly, unlimited entries
#36 'New Beginnings'  ends Jan.16
 
It's All About The Vintage:  bi-weekly, 3 entries 
Lace Dreams,  this challenge will run till Jan. 16 when regular schedule will resume 

MilkCoffee:  bi-weekly, 3 entries per person
New Beginnings 

Shelly's Images:   5 entries 
Anything goes, ends Jan. 16 
 
Charisma Cardz:  weekly, 3 entries per person
#52 Monochrome 

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge:  weekly,  5 entries
#188 Make your own backing paper 
 
Cute Card Thursday:  weekly 
#250 Something new 

Dutch Dare Card Challenges:  weekly, 2 entries 
#198  a Recipe for you.  Please use the following items on your card: 1 image, 2 fibers (ribbons, lace, cord, twine, etc) 3 pattern papers, 4 corners (no round cards) 5 embellies ( a row of 5 rhinestones, etc)

Joan's Gardens:  weekly, multiple entries

Mo's Digital Pencil:  weekly, 1 entry 
#167 Anything goes w/Mo Image 
 
Moving Along With The Times: weekly, 3 entries
Thank You, ends Jan. 9 
 
Paper Crafting Journey:  bi-weekly, 3 entries
Anything goes, ends Jan.9 
 
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge:  weekly, 3 entries 
It's all new to me
 
Sassy Studio Designs:  weekly
#158 Something old and something new 

The Play Date Cafe:  color challenge, weekly
#163 Champagne...Sky Blue...Tangerine
 
4 Crafty Chicks:  weekly 
#123 Ribbon and Bows 

Wishing you a very blessed New Year!