DDCC #106-Mar 31 Distressing

What a fabulous time we had on the Blog Hop! Thanks so much for celebrating with us and playing along with our Celebration challenge. I will be back later this morning with the winners, so be sure to check back to see if you're one of our lucky ones!
***ETA: Our Winners are:
#79-dj1952-Debra-Sassy Studios prize
#96-Lori- Whimsie Doodles prize
#14 Sandi D-Crafty Sentiments prize
#10-Kathleen MC- Robin's Fetish prize
Papertrails leaver-Amy- Stamping Dragon Designs Prize
Marit MM Designs- Di's Digis prize
#53 The Navy Wife- The Stamping Boutique prize
#28-Jan Hunnicutt- Chi Chi Memories prize
Thanks to everyone for making this celebration hop so much fun! Please contact me if you are one of the winners and I will get your prize arranged!***

Onto a new challenge this week and that is distressing...so let's see your favorite way of distressing...whether it be with ink or distressed edges or what have you, show us your stuff!!

Our fabulous sponsor this week is none other than the adorable Meljen Designs!

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Here is some fabulous inspiration from our DT to get you started, they have done a wonderful job yet again this week!

Dorcas

Ang

Stacey

Yenni Natalia

Cathy

Anette

Kelly

Monica:



So there you have it, I hope that has sparked some mojo and you will join us this week!

If Linky Tools decides to go for a stroll, please leave a comment with a direct link to your creation so we can come and visit.

DDCC #105- Mar 24 CELEBRATION Blog Hop

*** Our  challenge #1 40 winner is #16-Deonna B!  Congrats Deonna, you win digis from Pattie's Creations.  Please contact me prior to March 30, 2011 at 11:59pm to claim your prize***

Welcome to our our 105th Celebration Blog Hop!  We are celebrating our 105th challenge here at DDCC and hope you hop along with us for some fabulous prizes and of course great inspiration along the way as well! Our fabulous line up of companies that have sponsored our Celebration challenge is as follows:

Whimsie Doodles

Whimsie Doodles (http://www.whimsiedoodles.com) is so excited to be sponsoring the challenge! In March of 2009 Melyssa Connolly, artist and owner, began turning her whimsical hand-drawn images into digital files for sale online. Whimsie Doodles' digital stamp line features images that range from cute little boys and girls, to punny stuff, and everything in-between. We enjoy sharing lots of samples on our company blog (http://whimsiedoodles.blogspot.com), where we also post weekly challenges and tutorials.

Also as a special bonus, we have a special offer for Dutch Dare Card Challenge Fans - use the discount code Dare10 at the Whimsie Doodles online store and receive 10% off your next order! Code expires 30 days from today.

Crafty Sentiments

 Di's Digi Downloads

Robin's Fetish

Sassy Studio Designs 

The Stamping Boutique

Chi Chi Memories

Stamping Dragon Designs

So our challenge for you this week is to create a project using the Celebration theme...there are so many varieties of celebrations out there, so really this one is wide open.  New baby, new house, new job, celebrating friendship, engagement, birthday, anniversary, etc.  

So to be entered for some fabulous prizes (we will have multiple winners this week) you must play along with our challenge this week and comment on each of the blogs included in the hop.  

Here is the master hop list, so if you loose your way, pop on back here and you will be turned in the right direction!!

Dutch Dare 105th Celebration Challenge

Kelly

Celine

Anette

Pattie

Ang

Dorcas

Stacey

Kelly S
Monica 
Tamara

Dutch Dare 105th Celebration Challenge (the hop ends here, so you can enter your project)

Have fun everyone, I can't wait to see your creations!  A huge thank you goes out to our wonderful sponsors for making this hop happen!!  Please visit each one of them as they all offer such a huge variety of digi images...and papers too!

So to get you started, pleas hop on over and visit Kelly!
(Please be patient with us as some of our members are taking part in their very first blog hop...not to mention we all live in different time zones)  Thank you kindly:-)

Happy Crafting!

*NOTE*

We're having some intermittent trouble with Mr Linky .  If he has decided to go walking, please leave a direct  link to your post in the comment section.  That way, we can all come and say hi and you can be entered into the challenge. Thanks! And sorry for the inconvenience. :-)

DDCC #104-Mar 17-Sketch

We seem to have a problem with folks not claiming their prizes...not sure how to rectify this, but it most definitely is imperative that you check back to the blog to see if you've won.

What a fabulous challenge from last week, love those colors. Our lucky winner chosen by my handy random app on my ipod is....
#34-Veronica Z!
Congratulations Veronica, you win a $10 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp! Contact me and I will get your prize arranged!

Onto this week's challenge..what do we have for you this week you ask...a fabulous sketch by our very own Dorcas. To add to that, a fantastic new sponsor is with us this week as well. I would like to welcome Pattie from Pattie's Creations to our Dutch Dare sponsorship roster.

You may think the name sounds familiar and that's because Pattie is one of our own, she's one of the DT members here at DDCC and we couldn't be happier that she's joined us as a sponsor as well.  Here's alittle bit about her company in her own words:
"I am an Internet Technology Professional and an Artist. I always dreamed of being an artist, but I found out quickly that I needed another field to support my family so I pursued a Degree in Information Technology. I love to use Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks to enhance my work. I just recently started selling my very own digital images and I am so excited to be here sponsoring Glitterbabe’s Challenge.

I created a character called Pattieboop and her cat named Allie. I have had so much fun coming up with different images so I also created a site to sell them. You can go to my store to find out more about Pattieboop & Allie. I know you will just love them when you see them.

My store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/pattiescreations"

So here's the sketch for you to play along with:

and here is some inspiration to get you started!!

Dorcas

Stacey

Cathy

Anette

Kelly

Yenni Natalia

Ang

Please use Dorcas sketch and play along with us this week! You could win a digi or two from Pattie's Creations! Feel free to interpret the sketch as you will, just make sure we can see the basic layout there somewhere!

*NOTE*

We're having some intermittent trouble with Mr Linky .  If he has decided to go walking, please leave a direct  link to your post in the comment section.  That way, we can all come and say hi and you can be entered into the challenge. Thanks! And sorry for the inconvenience. :-)

DDCC #103- Mar 10-Photo Inspiration

***ETA: Our winner bar has been updated, the Who's Who In The Zoo winner is:
not claimed ***

We are back again folks with another fun challenge!  This time I found a super fun inspiration picture online (I forget where now) but I just love these colors together and thought it would be fun to see how you interpret it.

Our fabulous sponsor this week is none other than Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner will get a $10 gift certificate for some goodies!!

Simon Says Stamp has over 100,000 items in stock.   They have all of the latest releases from Magnolia, Whiff of Joy, Tim Holtz, Spellbinders, Copic and so much more!  With great deals on shipping, it’s a great time to shop with Simon Says Stamp. 

So here's our inspiration picture:

See, told you , it's fabulous..and here is our DT creations...fabulous work ladies, I must say, every single card is awesome!

Pattie

Céline

Dorcas

Lena

Kelly

I am excited to see what inspiration you take from this fabulous collage!  Whether you use colors, or a specific theme, it doesn't really matter, just make sure it's obvious your inspiration came from this fabby pict!

Happy Crafting!

Winners

Just wanted to add a note to let everyone know that I have now added a box on the top left hand side of the blog with the current winners...please check that box to see if you are either one of our last 2 winners.  One is a re-draw and will not be drawn again.

Please "follow" our blog so that you don't miss out!  I edit the current post with last weeks winner and that remains at the top for a whole week, so there really should not be any need for all the re-draws that have been happening lately.

Thanks for playing along with us at DDCC!!

Kelly

DDCC #102- March 3-Who's Who In The Zoo

First off, last week's winner did not contact me, so I have re-drawn and our new winner is:

 #115 which is Margreet!

Congratulations Margreet, please contact me so I can get your prize off to you!

***ETA:  Challenge #101's winner is entry not claimed!Contact me and I will send off your CTMH goodies!***

We have a fabulous new sponsor this week and that is Sweet N Sassy Stamps! 

Korin has such cute images and a wonderful array of both digital and rubber stamps as well as that super fun Echo Park paper!  Here's some info from Korin:

"Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is a Christian clear stamp and digi stamp company offering a wide variety of hand drawn designs and sentiments, perfect for any stamper or scrapbooker. Our images are from the hart and we they will inspire you to create beautiful projects from your heart. Check us out at: www.http://sweetnsassystamps.com"

So our fun challenge this week to go along with a fun new sponsor is:

Who's Who In The Zoo

Here is some fabulous artwork to get you started!

Monica:

Yenni Natalia 

Stacey Gibby

Ang

Anette

Dorcas

There we have it, super fun cards from our lovely DT!  Go ahead and grab your supplies and play along with us this week!  You could even win a super prize from Sweet N Sassy Stamps!  Just be sure you have a furry friend on there whether it be a zoo animal or not, any animal will do!

Please be sure to follow our blog to make sure you don't miss out if you are the winner, I have had to do several re-draws lately.

Have fun getting crafty!