CCCB week 15 ~ Garden Mail ...

Hello everyone! 

I'm Ros and I am absolutely delighted to be part of the DT here at City Crafters and thrilled to be setting my very first challenge...

I have chosen a beautiful photograph for you, courtesy of Leslie at ACreativeMint ... 

I absolutely love her work! 

The photo is called "Inspired by the Garden" so this is your challenge.....

Create a project/card using any colour from the photo 

And your creation must include something to do with Mail .. e.g. stamp, text, envelope etc.,

Simple! So please join in the fun with us here ...  We love to see your beautiful creations

... Ros Crawford...


CCCB week 15 ~ Garden Mail

Once again, we are delighted that Leslie from A Creative Mint allowed us to use one of her beautiful artwork again. Leslie's work are simple beautiful, I am sure you will fall in love with A Creative Mint just like we do.


Guest Designer
This week we have the very talented Tante Kathe joining us as our Guest Designer, thanks for the beautiful card Tante!


Tante Kathe: My name is Majo (a shortcut for Marion). Around the net I am known as "Tante Kathe".
My husband and I live near Frankfurt/Germany with our two lovely cats, also pretty much know around the crop community, as Emma and Cookie are my favorite objects on my Layouts.
I started paper crafting in the winter 2007/2008 when a friend introduced me to the fun of scrapbooking, card making and stamping! I found it was the perfect way to play with all the ideas that kept running through my mind.
I am very lucky to have a supportive husband who knows that I love crafting. I started blogging 4 months ago, just because I wanted to participate in challenges, and since then I have met a bunch of wonderful crafters and had a lot of fun. You are very welcome to visit my blog (www.majos-art.blogspot.com)

Tante Kathe
Majos Art


Design Team
We are glad that June Lanum is able to join us at CCCB again after taking a good break. Welcome back June!


Here are our DT samples for your inspiration. Click on their blog addresses, and it will take you to their personal blog to see how they made their projects.

Ros Crawford
Mikey's Mom

June Lanum

Lina Beas

Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl

Kirsty Vittetoe
Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson
My Happy Place


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 no link creation 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, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!


Prize

This week's prize is a 6 x 6 Scrapbook Paper Pad by K & Company, kindly sponsored by Kirsty Vittetoe


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#15 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog). Don't forget to link back to our blog so more people can join in the fun!


Submit
Challenge ends August 2nd, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)
The design team 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.


Winner
Thank you for all your wonderful creations and thanks for sharing it with us. The winner for our very first sketch challenge is


Karolyn Loncon


and here's our Spotlight Artists for week 14


Lori Hairston
Deb Marcinkiewicz
Lisa G
Stella
Deb Hickman
Chriss Blagrave


Congratulations to all and thanks for sending in your beautiful creations. Please feel free to grab your badge and display it on your sidebar.
Karolyn, please drop me (Kirsty) an email at citycrafter@gmail.com with your mailing info, and I will get your prize out your way as soon as possible. You have till August 2nd, 2010 to claim your prize.


Extra......
Hey, City Crafter now has a place to party, hop over to City Crafter Party Blog to find out how to join in our very first "Pretty Things Jar Swap"

CCCB week 14 ~ Sketch Challenge

Hello and welcome to week # 14. It's me, Linda and I am your host again for another fun challenge.

This week I have come up with a Sketch Challenge.

You can use any colors you want and any theme, as long as you follow the sketch provided......

Hope you have fun playing along. And I can't wait to see what wonderful creations you come up with!

~ Linda Robinson

CCCB # 14 ~ Sketch Challenge

Guest Designer
This week we are thrilled to have Courtney Baker as our Guest Designer. Courtney is such a fabulous designer, her blog Practicing Creativity display lots of beautiful artwork, I am sure you will be inspired to create after visiting her blog. Courtney also has a store that carries beautiful ribbons and stamps. Do pop over to Practicing Creativity Designs, you'll find yourself some lovely stamp set and ribbons to play with. Practicing Creativity was our sponsor for week 11, you could find the lovely stamp set that she sponsored "Barefoot Summer" HERE!


Now to her beautiful card created for City Crafter Challenge Blog

Courtney Baker
Practicing Creativity
Courtney is using her July released stamp set "My Beach House", you can find it at her store.


Design Team
Check out the amazing creations of the DT, remember to go visit their blogs to see how they make their wonderful creations.

Linda Robinson
My Happy Place

Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford
Mikey's Mom

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 creation 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, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!


Prize

This lovely Cosmo Cricket "DeLovely" 6 x 6 Mini Deck is sponsored by Kirsty Vittetoe


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#14 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog). Don't forget to link back to our blog so more people can join in the fun!


Submit
Challenge ends July 26th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)
The design team 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.


Winner
Thank you for all your wonderful creations and thanks for sharing it with us. This week our winner is


Clare Buswell


And our spotlight artists are


Anthea
Lori Hairston
Deb Hickman
Deb Neerman
Rosemary D


Congratulations ladies, please feel free to display your winner/spotlight artist badge on your sidebar.
Clare, please contact me (Kirsty) at citycrafter@gmail.com with your mailing info, so I could get the prize out to you.
Thanks for everyone that played last week! Please join us again for our very first sketch challenge at City Crafter!

CCCB week 13 ~ English Rose

Hey all, it is week 13 at City Crafter Challenge Blog, it is my (Kirsty) turn to host again, as you all know, I love traveling and been to couple of great cities in the world. This week, we are going to LONDON! 

My 2 girls are great Beatles fan and also crazy over Harry Potter, so you could imagine our trip to London summer in 2008...... Abbey road, Diagon Alley (Leadenhall Market)...... my list could go on and on, well, I am going to keep it short here.

Our challenge this week is English Rose/England Rose,  inspired by a well known Elton John's piece "Goodbye England Rose" dedicated to Princess Diana, the people's princess!

~kirsty vittetoe

CCCB # 13 ~ English Rose

A color challenge (Red, Blue and white) + Rose (optional)

This beautiful picture is a creation of Happy Harris from Happy Loves Rosie, a beautiful and fun blog filled with beautiful photographs and products sourced and handmade by Happy Harris, designed and created in England. Please pay a visit to Happy Loves Rosie, I promise you lots of eye candies, and when you are there, don't forget to visit that Vintage Caravan, lots of fun stuff in there!

Thank You Happy, for going through the old folder to search for this picture for me!

Guest Designer
We are pleased to have our challenge winner (week 5) Dana Gustafson as our Guest Designer this week. I first noticed Dana's work from Just Us Girls Challenge Blog, that was not long after I started taking part in blog challenges, like many of you, I admire Dana's beautiful creations, it could be shabby vintage, or pretty girly, or modern and refreshing, she is just a great inspiration to me, and I believe many of you would agree. We are honored to have Dada created this card for City Crafter Challenge Blog this week, for more of Dana's work, please visit her blog - Paper Daydream. Thanks Dana, for another beautiful piece!

Dana Gustafson
Paper Daydream


Design Team
Now for the Design Team's work

Kirsty Vittetoe
Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson
My Happy Place

Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford
Mikey's Mom


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 creation 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, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!


Prize

Our sponsor this week is Kirsty, you can take a closer look at the prizes HERE!


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#13 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun!


Submit
Challenge ends July 19th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)
The design team 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.


Winner

Thank You for all your wonderful creations and thanks for sharing it with us. Here's our winner for week 12 "Some like it HOT" challenge


Lori Hairston


Congratulations Lori, please drop me (Kirsty) an email at citycrafter@gmail.com so I could get your prize out to you.

Now to the other entries that caught our eyes, our city spotlight is shinning on -

Lumber Jack Jan
LeAnne
Tante Kathe
Deb Hickman
Chriss Blagrave
Stella

Congratulations ladies, your creations are simply lovely!

Thank you everyone for playing, please go grab our Winner and Spotlight Artist badge and display in on your blog.

CCCB week 12 ~ Some Like It HOT!!

Hi all!! It's me, Cheryl, back as your hostess this week here at City Crafter Challenge Blog. Here we are in the thick of summer and I LOVE IT! Do you adore these fabulous lazy days of summer as much as I do? Well, I decided to celebrate it with our theme this week...Some Like It HOT (like I do)! Your challenge is to create a summer themed project...card, layout, altered item, you name it...AND to use the color RED! Are you up for this challenge?! I can't wait to see what you all create! On your marks, get set....GO!

~ Cheryl 

CCCB # 12 ~ Some like it HOT!

Here is your inspiration photo found HERE!

Guest Desinger

  I'm so thrilled to announce that our Guest Designer this week is our challenge winner from week 10-----Sylvia Nelson. She is ULTRA talented and I started recognizing her work EVERYWHERE as a WINNER of multiple challenges this year. I'm so thrilled that she agreed to be our guest designer this week and we can all revel in her talent. You can find more of her fabulous creations on her blog: Sylvia's Stamp Corner 

Here's Sylvia's beautiful creation for City Crafter Challenge Blog

Sylvia Nelson

Sylvia's Stamp Corner

Design Team
***Sad News***
Our DT June Lanum is not feeling well, she is not able to participate until she is fully recovered, she is in the hospital right now, if you know June, I hope you could just stop by her blog to send her some love and let her know that we all care about her, she might not be able to reply now, but I bet she would be happy when she return home and find out that there are so many friends in blogland that care and think of her during her absence. Here's the link to June's blog - Lina Beas
June, we hope that you get better soon!!!


***Happy News***
We have the pleasure to bring in Ros Crawford as our newest DT on board. Ros has been participating in our challenges since week # 1, her creations are not only beautiful, but also recognized among various challenge blogs. We are blessed to be able to showcase her artwork with you on a weekly basis now that she is officially our DT of City Crafter Challenge Blog. Here's the link to Ros's blog - Mikey's mom, please stop by and send her a welcome note.
Welcome aboard Ros!!!


Our wonderful design team have provided some amazing inspiration..... you can find out how they made their cards by clicking on the name of their blog (under their names), it will take you directly to their individual blogs.

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford
Mikey's mom

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

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 creation 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, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!

Prize

City Crafter Challenge Blog week 12 is kindly sponsored by Linda Robinson
Thanks Linda!!!

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#12 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun!

Submit

Challenge ends July 13th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)

The design team 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.

Winner

I just wanted to say thank you to all of you that joined in with our last weeks "Shades of Green" challenge, there were some stunning creations out there in blogland, we hope you know that your support is hugely appreciated. Here's the winner for week 11 


Stampersuzz


Congratulations! Please send me (Kirsty) an email at citycrafter@gmail.com with your mailing info, so I could get the prize out to you! (*Prize must be claimed on or before July 12th, 2010).


Now, with that many entries, it certainly keep us busy, there are a few creations here, that we would like to highlight as well, so here's our Spotlight Artisits for week 12


Peri
Chriss Blagrave
Lori Hairston
Laurel S
Stella
Sue C


Congratulations to all, you gals did a fabulous job! Feel free to grab and display your winner and spotlight artist's badges on your sidebar.