Week 2 ~ Easel Card

Hi all, thanks for visiting City Crafter Challenge Blog again.
Thanks to everyone who took part last week, we had an amazing week looking at your creations.
Now, are you ready for another challenge?

Here's our hostess for week # 2 - Linda.

Linda: Hello I am Linda and I am hosting this week's challenge! This week challenge is going to be an Easel Card! I have never done one before and wanted to try something new! So come join us in making an easel card. You can use any theme or color you want as long as it is an easel card!

CCCB week # 2 - Easel Card

Beautiful Easel, don't we all want to have one?
Photo: courtesy of Sweet Silver - Vintage Silverware Creations
Thanks to Brenda Ackley for this beautiful picture
http://www.sweetsilver.com/

For this week challenge, we are hoping to try something NEW.

If an Easel Card is a NEW thing to you (like it is to us), there are a few links that you might want to check out

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldhKxcFkIjo

http://flowerbug.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/november-card-club-.html

Guest Designer

I am pleased to introduce our week # 2 Guest Designer that will play along with us.

If you love colors and enjoy color challenges, you will love our GD Arielle Gordon.

Arielle is known for her color challenge blog http://www.colourq.blogspot.com/

You'll find awesome color challenge weekly at Colourq

Arielle:I'm Arielle Gordon and I live in Alabama with my hubby of 3 years, Jeff. We have 2 children, Alex who'll be 2 in June and Maisie Grace who is 3 1/2 months. Obviously I stamp when I can - usually late into the night while everyone sleeps! I started stamping a few years ago, although I've always 'done' art! I went to college on both an art & music scholarship, and I have a degree in graphic design. When I'm not busy crafting, you can usually find me in the kitchen... I cook a lot of ethnic foods, and even though I live in the South, you'd never catch me frying anything - lol! I feel really blessed to share such an awesome hobby with so many talented people; I live for challenges each week, not only to push my own creative boundaries, but to also gather inspiration from everyone else! Happy stamping!

Wow! Is this card a stunner!
Thanks Arielle, for taking your precious time out and be our Guest Designer this week!
Do pop over to Arielle's personal blog Snappy Stamper for more of her gorgeous creations

Arielle Gordon

Snappy Stamper

Design Team

Take a look at what our DT have made to inspire you.
Please do go and visit their blog to see the details of their creations and their lovely works.

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

June Lanum

Lina Beas

Heather Jensen

Simply Handmade by Heather

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Take Note
You are welcome to submit any type of project based on the theme and combine challenges, but we do hope that the creation is new and original. Please do not link creations that have been posted prior to the day of the current challenge.


You must mention our challenge on your blog to be eligible to win the prize.
Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have fun! 

Prize

Here is what's up for grab for our week 2 challenge

Sponsor for this week's challenge is Kirsty Vittetoe
Here's a little Blue and Green set for you to enjoy.
Click HERE to have a closer look at what you'll be winning

To Play Along

Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (if you add your photo to an online gallery, please use code CCCB#2 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog) with our linking system (at the end of each challenge). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun!

Submit
Challenge ends May 3rd, 2010 at 11:59 PM (EST)
The design team are really looking forward to visit you over the coming week to see your wonderful creations for this challenge, so please send in your entries.

If you have difficulties using inlinkz, please feel free to email citycrafter@gmail.com, we will try our best to help you with your questions.

Winners 
Winner for CCCB # 1 - Cupcake

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Pop over to Debbie's blog Simple Treasures to look at her wonderful Cupcake card

There are more lovely creations that you should not miss
So our city spotlight is shinning on

Lizzidroege
Julie Ranae
Bethie J
Emily
Simply click on their names to view the yummy cupcake cards they have created

Now to our 3 lucky winners
(These names are drawn from entries submiited, and for becoming a follower of CCCB, lucky draw prizes kindly sponsored by our DT June Lanum)

Lynn da Hosni
Greta
Julie Ranae

Debbie, Lynn, Greta and Julie, please send me an email to claim your prize
citycrafter@gmail.com
(Prizes must be claimed before May 4th)

Welcome

Welcome to City Crafter Challenge Blog, we hope to bring you exciting inspiration on a weekly base. 

Here's our hostess Kirsty to kick off our very FIRST challenge!

Kirsty: I live in New York City for 8 years, there are tons of things I love about the city, the four seasons in central park, the Manhattan skyline, broadway shows, concert halls, the constance changes in every corner, the city is just so vibrant. There are many restaurants I would miss after my move to Las Vegas, one of them is Crumbs Cupcakes. Oops, I am suppose to talk about our challenge, "tink!!!!" Let's start off our challenge with CUPCAKE! 

CCCB week # 1 - Cupcake

For this week's challenge you will create a card or project based on our theme - CUPCAKE.

You could use pattern paper, stamps, embellishment etc, as long as you have CUPCAKE in your creation.

Guest Designer

I am thrilled to introduce this week Guest Designer that will play along with us. 

Let's meet our very first GD Mona Pendleton.

Mona's work is beautiful and I love her color sense and embellishment choices on every piece of artwork she created. You can see more of Mona's fantastic artwork at her blog Cupcakes Creations and check out all the inspiration and creativity she has to offer.

Thank you once again Mona, for taking time out of your busy schedule to be our Guest Designer.

Here's Mona's lovely cupcake card, enjoy!

                                                

Mona Pendleton

Cupcakes Creations

Design Team

Next, I'd would like to take a moment to welcome our DT members

Heather Jensen, Linda Robinson and June Lanum

Be sure to see visit their individual blog to see the fabulous creations of our talented DT members

                                              

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Heather Jensen

Simply Handmade by Heather

                                         

Linda Robsinson

My Happy Place

                                        

                                      

                                      

June Lanum

Lina Beas


Take Note
You are welcome to submit any type of project based on the theme and combine challenges, but we do hope that the creation is new and original. Please do not link creations that have been posted prior to the day of the current challenge.
You must mention our challenge on your blog to be eligible to win the prize.
Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have fun!


Prize

Sponsor for this week's prize is Kirsty Vittetoe
HERE is where you could take a closer look at the prize
Winner of the challenge will be invited to be our guest designer for future challenges.

Extra, extra!!!!!

Since it is CCCB debut, we are pleased to announce that there will be a few extra prizes here.

We would like to THANK our DT June Lanum for sponsoring the extra prizes this week.

We will have 3 sets of this (see picture above) for our 3 lucky entries/followers

To qualify for our extra prizes, simply submit your entry to this week's challenge, you will get 1 chance for the draw, if you become a CCCB follower, you will get 1 chance too, so to say, you will get 2 chances for winning this extra prize if you play along this week and become a follower.

We will put your name/names in a box and draw 3 lucky winners.

Good luck and have fun!

To Play Along

Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (if you add your photo to an online gallery, please use code CCCB#1 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog) with our linking system (at the end of each challenge). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun.

Submit
Challenge ends April 26th, 2010 at 11:59 PM (EST)
We are looking forward to see all your entries.



If you have difficulties using inlinkz, please feel free to emailcitycrafter@gmail.com, we will try our best to help you with your questions.