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Welcome to our challenge blog. We will post a new challenge every Thursday. You can create any card, scrapbook layout, altered item with any stamp or technique as long as it is a new project, no backlinks please. To join in please post your card on your blog and then enter via the Linky Tools button at the bottom of every challenge post. You must leave a direct link to your creation as well as a link back here to the challenge post.

Entries close at 8:00PM MST/MDT the Wednesday before the new challenge is posted and winners will be announced at the close of the challenge (on the sidebar) as well as on the new challenge post.

Please make sure to follow our blog in case you are the lucky winner...winners will be chosen by random and posted and they have until the next challenge is posted to contact me and claim the prize or there will be a re-draw! You may enter 2 (two) times per challenge as long as the creation is new and follows the challenge guidelines, have fun! You may combine challenge to a maximum of 8.

We hope you will join in the fun!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

#193-Winter Wonderland-Meljen Designs

Wonderful fancy fold creations!  Love all the wonderful creations!! 

So last week's Fancy Fold challenge was sponsored by Crafty Sentiments!


Our lucky winner is
Alethea!!
 Congratulations Alethea!  Please contact me to claim your Crafty Sentiments 3 digis prize!
 ____________________________________
 
 This week's challenge is sponsored by Meljen's Designs!  Here is a wee bit about this wonderful company:
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 a new challenge every Thursday, and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the adorable line of Meljen's Designs stamps at our store HERE to browse all of Melissa's lovely designs! You can also see Melissa's exclusive rubber stamps at her corner of Whimsy Stamps, too!  Don't forget to join Meljen's Designs on Facebook HERE to take advantage of special sales and promotions that are just for her facebook fans!
 
Our design team was lucky enough to get to play with an array of these fun stamps an here's what we have to share with you this week!

Our challenge is Winter Wonderland!  It's a snowy winter wonderland here in Alberta right now and I hope you can use these wonderful creations below to get your mojo flowing:-)

A huge thank you to Janet for being our lovely Guest Designer this month, it was a pleasure heaving you!!




Lisa 



 What lovely creations, love those super cute Meljen Designs images!! Have fun with this challenge and I can't wait to see your card!!
***Please remember to read our rules below before entering our challenges, if you cannot be bothered to read and follow the rules, please do not waste our time by entering as you will not be considered for the prize-sorry for being so blunt, but week after week, my team takes their time and effort to comment on the entries and find people that have entered with way over 8 combined challenges, not even bothering to follow the challenge, to linking back to the blog, etc.***
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!


Thursday, November 22, 2012

#192-Fancy Fold-Crafty Sentiments

Lovely creations everyone for last week's Diamonds and Pearls challenge!  Thank you to everyone for playing along!!  
Our ever-so-wonderful sponsor was The Stamping Boutique and one lucky winner will get to choose 3 digis!
Our lucky winner is entry
Forfeighted
Congratulations Vicki, please contact me to claim your prize from The Stamping Boutique!!
__________________________________
this week, we have Crafty Sentiments back with us!  One lucky winner will receive 3 digis of their choice just for playing along.  

Our challenge this week is Fancy Fold Creations, so show us your cards or projects for that matter that showcase a different fold than just in half- Joy FoldDouble Dutch, Napkin Fold, Double Z Fold, Diamond Fold, or Side Step just to name a few.  I have even linked to the tutorials on Splitcoast for you if you would like to try a new fold and join us this week!

Our team was lucky enough to work with some fabulous digis from Crafty Sentiments!
Take a look....starting with our lovely Guest Designer for the month-Janet!


Using Crafty sentiments Primrose and snowman

 Using Crafty Sentiment Snowman Birdhouse
 

using Hootie- Christmas Coral by Crafty sentiments

Chantal
 using Hootie - Christmas Carol by Crafty Sentiments

Lilia
using Winter Wishes Stamp and Warm Wishes Sentiments Stamps
Loving the fun creations from our DT and hoping that you too will play along with us this week! You can win 3 digis from Crafty Sentiments, so why not! I have linked to all the of the folds mentioned above, but there are so many more out there!
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

#191-Diamonds an Pearls-The Stamping Boutique

I love seeing everyone's favorite things!!  Mine change all the time, but so nice to see your creations and thank you as always for playing along with us! 

Our wonderful sponsor was none other than Saturated Canary!!  One lucky player will receive 2 images of their choice from Saturated Canary!  
 Our lucky winner is entry
#11-Mixamatoasties
Congratulations, please contact me to claim your Saturated Canary prize!
 -----------------------------------------------------------
This week we are happy to have The Stamping Boutique back with us as our sponsor!!

  Our challenge this week is Diamonds & Pearls!!  Pretty easy really:-) Let's see your creations and be sure to include Diamonds (sparkle) and Pearls!

Our DT was lucky enough to work with some gorgeous images from The Stamping Boutique, have a look see...

Our lovely November Guest Designer Janet....
 


Janet's card using Fairy Serenity image


 



Céline using Love Birds

Shanna 



Ang
 
Lovely work from our DT as per usual:-)  So now, it's your turn to share your creations with us.  You could win 3 digis from The Stamping Boutique just for playing along...and how easy it is to add some Diamonds (sparkle) and Pearls!!
 
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!


Thursday, November 08, 2012

#190-My Favorite Things-Saturated Canary


Wonderful Thankful creations from everyone, loved them all!!  Thank you to Robyn's Fetish for sponsoring our Thankful challenge!  1 lucky winner has won 5 digis of their choice from Robyn's Fetish just for playing along with us last week!  
 Our lucky winner is entry 
# 5- Tammy L
Congratulations Tammy!  Please contact me to claim your Robyn's Fetish prize pack!!
 
So this week, we have the ever fabulous Saturated Canary back with us.  Everyone just loves Krista's images and
using Snow Blower from Saturated Canary
Favourite things - micro glass beads -promarkers

Janet
using Butterfly Princess from Saturated Canary
My favourite things  Promarkers & Spellbinder Dies
using Queenie & Princess from Saturated Canary
My favorite thing - girly card, easel card, distress markers, pearls and flowers
using Ugly Christmas Sweater from Saturated Canary
My favorite things are: coloured with copics, a Christmascard and my favorite colour Blue.
using Molly from Saturated Canary
My favorite things are:  Saturated Canary, copics coloring, dies, Ribbon, Charm and Robin's Nest Dew Drops
using Butterfly Baby from Saturated Canary
Favourite things, Sat Can image, promarkers, dies. And colour pink.

using Jules from Saturated Canary
Favourite Things: cats, cute images, pink, roses, flexmarkers
using Stockings from Saturated Canary
  My favorites: die cuts , punches , copics, glamour dust, sparkle fluff
AND CHRISTMAS

Sandra
using GreyTie by Saturated Canary
My fave things are stickles/promarkers/ribbons/gems, and in a non crafty way i love reading books can ya tell what my faves are at the moment lol

using Belle from Saturated Canary

using Sleepy Beauty from Saturated Canary
My favorite things: the colors combo, the paper pack from CTMH, and the Candi paper dots

 Now I know I may be a bit biased, but my goodness these creations are wonderful.  There are still a couple more to come as well, so be sure to pop back.  
So there we have it, please join along the fun with us this week and make a card featuring any image you like and any theme as long as you showcase your favorite things-make sure they are mentioned in the post as well.  Just for joining us, you could win your choice of 2 digis from Saturated Canary!! 
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!



Thursday, November 01, 2012

#189-Thankful-Robyn's Fetish

Loved all the pretty creations from our Ribbons and Lace challenge!  Thank you to Di's Digis for sponsoring our challenge and one lucky person wins their choice of 5 digis from Di's store.  

Our lucky winner is entry #15- Arty Andrea! 
 
Congratulations Andrea!  Please contact me to claim your Di's Digis prize pack!

Please welcome back Robyn's Fetish as our sponsor this week!
 
 One lucky player will receive their choice of 5 digis just for playing along with us!

Here is a wee bit about Robyn's Fetish...
 
Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.
Robyn's Fetish  Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, 
was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib.  Robyn offers a wonderful 
variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all 
digital paper crafting addicts for every  occasion.
 Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to award  the winner her choice of  5 digital
stamps.
 
Also our DT was lucky enough to use some images from Robyn's Fetish as well!!
 
Our challenge this time around is Thankful, so that can be a Thank You card or Thanksgiving related.  Here in Canada we had Thanksgiving a couple weeks ago, but I know it is coming up in the US, so that or a Thank You card works as well, just as long as we can tell it's one or the other...being Thankful!!
 
 
 Over the next few months I have added a Guest Designer to our challenges!  Please help me in welcoming Janet Babar to our team for the month of November. 

Janet- November Guest Designer


 

 
Ang 
Céline


Such fantastic cards to hopefully get you started for this week's challenge.  Be sure to play along for your chance to win 5 digis from Robyn's Fetish.
 
Have fun and happy crafting!
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!


Thursday, November 29, 2012

#193-Winter Wonderland-Meljen Designs

Wonderful fancy fold creations!  Love all the wonderful creations!! 

So last week's Fancy Fold challenge was sponsored by Crafty Sentiments!


Our lucky winner is
Alethea!!
 Congratulations Alethea!  Please contact me to claim your Crafty Sentiments 3 digis prize!
 ____________________________________
 
 This week's challenge is sponsored by Meljen's Designs!  Here is a wee bit about this wonderful company:
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 a new challenge every Thursday, and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the adorable line of Meljen's Designs stamps at our store HERE to browse all of Melissa's lovely designs! You can also see Melissa's exclusive rubber stamps at her corner of Whimsy Stamps, too!  Don't forget to join Meljen's Designs on Facebook HERE to take advantage of special sales and promotions that are just for her facebook fans!
 
Our design team was lucky enough to get to play with an array of these fun stamps an here's what we have to share with you this week!

Our challenge is Winter Wonderland!  It's a snowy winter wonderland here in Alberta right now and I hope you can use these wonderful creations below to get your mojo flowing:-)

A huge thank you to Janet for being our lovely Guest Designer this month, it was a pleasure heaving you!!




Lisa 



 What lovely creations, love those super cute Meljen Designs images!! Have fun with this challenge and I can't wait to see your card!!
***Please remember to read our rules below before entering our challenges, if you cannot be bothered to read and follow the rules, please do not waste our time by entering as you will not be considered for the prize-sorry for being so blunt, but week after week, my team takes their time and effort to comment on the entries and find people that have entered with way over 8 combined challenges, not even bothering to follow the challenge, to linking back to the blog, etc.***
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!


Thursday, November 22, 2012

#192-Fancy Fold-Crafty Sentiments

Lovely creations everyone for last week's Diamonds and Pearls challenge!  Thank you to everyone for playing along!!  
Our ever-so-wonderful sponsor was The Stamping Boutique and one lucky winner will get to choose 3 digis!
Our lucky winner is entry
Forfeighted
Congratulations Vicki, please contact me to claim your prize from The Stamping Boutique!!
__________________________________
this week, we have Crafty Sentiments back with us!  One lucky winner will receive 3 digis of their choice just for playing along.  

Our challenge this week is Fancy Fold Creations, so show us your cards or projects for that matter that showcase a different fold than just in half- Joy FoldDouble Dutch, Napkin Fold, Double Z Fold, Diamond Fold, or Side Step just to name a few.  I have even linked to the tutorials on Splitcoast for you if you would like to try a new fold and join us this week!

Our team was lucky enough to work with some fabulous digis from Crafty Sentiments!
Take a look....starting with our lovely Guest Designer for the month-Janet!


Using Crafty sentiments Primrose and snowman

 Using Crafty Sentiment Snowman Birdhouse
 

using Hootie- Christmas Coral by Crafty sentiments

Chantal
 using Hootie - Christmas Carol by Crafty Sentiments

Lilia
using Winter Wishes Stamp and Warm Wishes Sentiments Stamps
Loving the fun creations from our DT and hoping that you too will play along with us this week! You can win 3 digis from Crafty Sentiments, so why not! I have linked to all the of the folds mentioned above, but there are so many more out there!
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

#191-Diamonds an Pearls-The Stamping Boutique

I love seeing everyone's favorite things!!  Mine change all the time, but so nice to see your creations and thank you as always for playing along with us! 

Our wonderful sponsor was none other than Saturated Canary!!  One lucky player will receive 2 images of their choice from Saturated Canary!  
 Our lucky winner is entry
#11-Mixamatoasties
Congratulations, please contact me to claim your Saturated Canary prize!
 -----------------------------------------------------------
This week we are happy to have The Stamping Boutique back with us as our sponsor!!

  Our challenge this week is Diamonds & Pearls!!  Pretty easy really:-) Let's see your creations and be sure to include Diamonds (sparkle) and Pearls!

Our DT was lucky enough to work with some gorgeous images from The Stamping Boutique, have a look see...

Our lovely November Guest Designer Janet....
 


Janet's card using Fairy Serenity image


 



Céline using Love Birds

Shanna 



Ang
 
Lovely work from our DT as per usual:-)  So now, it's your turn to share your creations with us.  You could win 3 digis from The Stamping Boutique just for playing along...and how easy it is to add some Diamonds (sparkle) and Pearls!!
 
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!


Thursday, November 08, 2012

#190-My Favorite Things-Saturated Canary


Wonderful Thankful creations from everyone, loved them all!!  Thank you to Robyn's Fetish for sponsoring our Thankful challenge!  1 lucky winner has won 5 digis of their choice from Robyn's Fetish just for playing along with us last week!  
 Our lucky winner is entry 
# 5- Tammy L
Congratulations Tammy!  Please contact me to claim your Robyn's Fetish prize pack!!
 
So this week, we have the ever fabulous Saturated Canary back with us.  Everyone just loves Krista's images and
using Snow Blower from Saturated Canary
Favourite things - micro glass beads -promarkers

Janet
using Butterfly Princess from Saturated Canary
My favourite things  Promarkers & Spellbinder Dies
using Queenie & Princess from Saturated Canary
My favorite thing - girly card, easel card, distress markers, pearls and flowers
using Ugly Christmas Sweater from Saturated Canary
My favorite things are: coloured with copics, a Christmascard and my favorite colour Blue.
using Molly from Saturated Canary
My favorite things are:  Saturated Canary, copics coloring, dies, Ribbon, Charm and Robin's Nest Dew Drops
using Butterfly Baby from Saturated Canary
Favourite things, Sat Can image, promarkers, dies. And colour pink.

using Jules from Saturated Canary
Favourite Things: cats, cute images, pink, roses, flexmarkers
using Stockings from Saturated Canary
  My favorites: die cuts , punches , copics, glamour dust, sparkle fluff
AND CHRISTMAS

Sandra
using GreyTie by Saturated Canary
My fave things are stickles/promarkers/ribbons/gems, and in a non crafty way i love reading books can ya tell what my faves are at the moment lol

using Belle from Saturated Canary

using Sleepy Beauty from Saturated Canary
My favorite things: the colors combo, the paper pack from CTMH, and the Candi paper dots

 Now I know I may be a bit biased, but my goodness these creations are wonderful.  There are still a couple more to come as well, so be sure to pop back.  
So there we have it, please join along the fun with us this week and make a card featuring any image you like and any theme as long as you showcase your favorite things-make sure they are mentioned in the post as well.  Just for joining us, you could win your choice of 2 digis from Saturated Canary!! 
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!



Thursday, November 01, 2012

#189-Thankful-Robyn's Fetish

Loved all the pretty creations from our Ribbons and Lace challenge!  Thank you to Di's Digis for sponsoring our challenge and one lucky person wins their choice of 5 digis from Di's store.  

Our lucky winner is entry #15- Arty Andrea! 
 
Congratulations Andrea!  Please contact me to claim your Di's Digis prize pack!

Please welcome back Robyn's Fetish as our sponsor this week!
 
 One lucky player will receive their choice of 5 digis just for playing along with us!

Here is a wee bit about Robyn's Fetish...
 
Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.
Robyn's Fetish  Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, 
was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib.  Robyn offers a wonderful 
variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all 
digital paper crafting addicts for every  occasion.
 Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to award  the winner her choice of  5 digital
stamps.
 
Also our DT was lucky enough to use some images from Robyn's Fetish as well!!
 
Our challenge this time around is Thankful, so that can be a Thank You card or Thanksgiving related.  Here in Canada we had Thanksgiving a couple weeks ago, but I know it is coming up in the US, so that or a Thank You card works as well, just as long as we can tell it's one or the other...being Thankful!!
 
 
 Over the next few months I have added a Guest Designer to our challenges!  Please help me in welcoming Janet Babar to our team for the month of November. 

Janet- November Guest Designer


 

 
Ang 
Céline


Such fantastic cards to hopefully get you started for this week's challenge.  Be sure to play along for your chance to win 5 digis from Robyn's Fetish.
 
Have fun and happy crafting!
Please remember our rules before you enter your link. If any of the listed rules are broken, your creation will not be eligible for the weekly prize. 
~please link directly to the blog post corresponding to the challenge not just directly to your blog  
 ~must be a new creation as of the date stamp in this blog 
~post to your blog with a link back to the DDCC blog 
 ~you may combine challenges to a maximum of 8 
 ~you may enter 2 times per challenge if you like as long as the above rules are followed 
~any entries not following the above mentioned rules will not be eligible to win our weekly prize. 
Thank you!