CCCB Week 20 - Let Your Light Shine

Hi all!! It is Cheryl back as your hostess this week! I'm so excited to present this week's theme "Let Your Light Shine". Your challenge is to create a project with either the word "light" in it or has an image of something that gives light on it (sun, moon, lamp, light bulb, lighthouse, etc.). I am blown away every week here at City Crafter Challenge Blog by all your entries and the amazing talent that each of you share. I can't wait to see what this week brings as you let your light shine!

~ Cheryl Nelson

CCCB week 20 ~ Let Your Light Shine

Here is your inspiration photo:

Guest Designer

I am sooooooo ecstatic to introduce our Guest Designer this week....Amy Tsuruta!

Each and every one of her creations puts a smile on my face. I LOOOOOVE visiting her blog and I am quite sure you will become one of her followers, too, if you aren't already. You can find her blog here: http://tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/

Amy is on several design teams and you will be able to view her work in July/Aug

Paper Crafts Magazine as well as the Sept/Oct Paper Crafts Magazine. So let's all give a very warm welcome to the AMAZINGLY Talented Miss Amy Tsuruta!!!

Amy Tsuruta
Tsuruta Designs

Design Team

I am so lucky to have such a fabulous team, they are so awesome! Recently, I have been getting nice comments, emails and even handmade project sent to me, to tell me how great my design team members are, thank you to my dear DT, Linda, June, Cheryl and Ros, for your time and effort, to make City Crafter Challenge Blog a fun place for everyone! 
~kirsty


Here are go... the wonderful work from my wonderful team 

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford

Mikey's Mom

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

June Lanum

Lina Beas

Take Note

You are welcome to submit any type of project based on the theme and enter as many times as you wish, 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 challenges. As a respect to our wonderful sponsors, and to be fair to all participants, to be eligible for the prize, do take note of the following -

• Please mention City Crafter Challenge Blog and provide a link back to us
• Please do not cross-promote event unrelated to City Crafter Challenge Blog
• Link your direct post for the challenge and not your entire blog

Prize

We are super excited to have Lawn Fawn as our sponsor this week.  The winner will receive this cute stamp set "Critters in the Sea" from Lawn Fawn.


Here's a word from our wonderful sponsor.


"Lawn Fawn is a crafting supply company that specializes in high-quality photopolymer clear stamps. Our stamps are cute, fun, and sometimes a little quirky! At Lawn Fawn, our goal is to inspire smiles and creativity in you (http:lanwfawn.com)"


Please visit their website to check out all the lovely goodies 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#20 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 September 6th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)

We would love you to play along, so come on and join us!

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

A big THANK YOU to those of you that played along last week - beautiful entries from all of you, and we were seeing stars all over at City Crafter, here's our winner -


Sylvia Nelson


and the "stars" spotlight artists are


Sylvia / little treasures
Stella
Lauren
Lori Hairston
Michelle Singer
Angela
Dana Gustafson
Laurel S
Pastila
Jan

Congrats to all, and thanks for another great week, without your starlight, City Crafter won't be able to shine! Please feel free to grab the winner/spotlight artist badge and display it proudly on your blog. Sylvia, please send your mailing info to citycrafter@gmail.com so I could get the prize out to you. Thanks and do join us this week and "Let your light shine"!

CCCB week 19 ~ I See Stars

Hi, hope this finds everyone well, It's June here with this weeks challenge. " I See Stars"  your card or project should include stars or a star or in the shape of a star or anything else you can come up with that has a star incorporated in it.  Everyone or at least the Mothers that have kids in school should have extra free time now that the kids are back in school, so relax and spend a little of that free time {ha ha} creating and give us some of your best work.  Think outside the box and show us what you can come up with.  Have fun and good luck to all.

~ June Lanum

CCCB week 19 ~ I See Stars

Vincent van Gogh is famous for his "Starry Night", but I love some of his other paintings that has the same starry night sky too, such as: "Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night", "Starry Night over the Rhone", and "Road with Cypress and Star", here's a collage picked by Kirsty and put together by Ros, enjoy.....


Guest Designer
We are pleased to share with you the talent of another wonderful crafter, Emeline Seet.


In her words: I am from Singapore.... almost 6 years ago I got hooked on this craft after the birth of our first born. I love to express myself with papers, using eclectic, vintage chic elements. I count myself fortunate to have my works in print in various US scrapbooking/papercraft magazines and UK/French/Australian's scrapbooking magazines and idea books. I design for Melissa Frances, Glitz Designs and GCD Studios. You can catch more of my work at www.scrapvilla.blogspot.com Thanks for having me!!! : )


Here's the lovely work from Emeline Seet, be sure to stop by Emeline's blog to look at her other wonderful creations.

Emeline Seet
Scrapvilla


Design Team
Here are the lovely work from City Crafter Challenge Blog's Design Team

June Lanum
Lina Beas

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 enter as many times as you wish, 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 challenges. As a respect to our wonderful sponsors, and to be fair to all participants, to be eligible for the prize, do take note of the following -

• Please mention City Crafter Challenge Blog and provide a link back to us
• Please do not cross-promote event unrelated to City Crafter Challenge Blog
• Link your direct post for the challenge and not your entire blog

Prize

The prize for week # 19 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#19 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 30th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)

We would love you to play along, so come on and join us!

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

A big thank you to those of you that played along last week - beautiful entries from all of you, it was hard for us to pick just ONE winner from 122 great entries....
Here's our winner for "Isn't She Lovely" challenge


Simply Shaz


and our spotlight artists are


Lenet
Tracy MacDonald
Deb Marcinkiewicz
Pinky
Deb Hickman
Pastila
Lori Hairston
Michelle Singer
Mina


Congratulations ladies, you gals rock! Please feel free to grab the CCCB winner/spotlight artist's badge and display it proudly on your sidebar. Simply Shaz, please send me (kirsty) an email at citycrafter@gmail.com and I will get your prize out, you have till Aug 31 to claimed your prize.
Thanks to everyone who participated last week, we hope you'll join us in our new challenge this week hosted by June Lanum "I See Stars"!

CCCB week 18 ~ Isn't She Lovely?"

Hello Girls! It's me Linda and it's my turn to be your hostess again. This week's theme as you can see is called "Isn't She Lovely". Your project this week is to put a stamp image, picture or clipart image of a girl or a lovely lady, on your project..... maybe a scrapbook page of a daughter, or you can pull out your Magnolia stamps or something similar and show us what you got! I am so excited to see what you come up with this week! Hope you have fun with it!

~Linda Robinson

CCCB week 18 ~ Isn't She Lovely

Photo Source - Pea Tree Photography 

Guest Designer

I am pleased to introduce you to our guest designer this week. Jessy Christopher is a paper crafter/blogger I found while looking for a overseas DT, I love her beautiful work and thought that I should share her talent with you, here you go, from Malaysia, Jessy Christopher.

In her words - Hello! My name is Jessy Christopher. I am a 29-year old preschool teacher & a photographer in Malaysia. I have been scrapping since 2007. I started off with digital & hybrid scrapbooking and finally ventured into paper scrapbooking in the early of 2008.
What I love the most about scrapbooking is the freedom to express myself. There are no boundaries, I can do whatever I want on my creations. Scrapbooking has become quite a passion and when I have any free time, it's the first thing to do in my list! Basically I sleep, eat & dream scrapbook! I always enjoy doing cards, layouts & also altered projects.
My creations have been featured in Creating Keepsakes & Scrapbook Trends.
I am always gear up to try out different techniques & enjoy playing with different medium. I am a BIG fan of mist & paint. Just love getting my hands dirty : )!
Do drop by my blog: Teacher Jessy's Blog, simply because I'd love to hear from you!!

Jessy Christopher

Teacher Jessy's Blog

Jessy not only make one, but two project for us this week, thanks Jessy!

Design Team

Here are our DT samples for your inspiration. Be sure to visit their individual blog to find out what is the story behind these images!

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

June Lanum

Lina Beas

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 enter as many times as you wish, 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. As a respect to our wonderful sponsors and to be fair to all participants, to be eligible for the prize, do take note of the following -

• Please mention City Crafter Challenge Blog and provide a link back to us
• Please do not cross-promote event unrelated to City Crafter Challenge Blog
• Link your direct post for the challenge and not your entire blog

Prize

This week prize is Melissa Frances 6x6 paper pad "Kitchy Kitchen" sponsored by Krafty Kirsty

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#18 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 23rd, 2010 at 11.59 PM(EST)

So send in your project, we love to see your wonderful creations!

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

A big thank you to those of you that played along last week - beautiful entries from all of you, it was hard for us to pick just ONE winner for last week challenge "I left my HEART in San Francisco" as there were so many beautiful creations, but well, we still have to do it even it was tough, so here's your winner 


Sylvia Nelson


and our spotlight artists are 


Clare Buswell
Betty
Tina G
Jan
Christine Craig
Lauren
Erin T
Susan Zuzarte
Pinky


Congratulations and thank you all for sending in those beautiful projects. Please feel free to grab the winner/spotlight artist badge and display it proudly on your side bar. Sylvia, please drop me (kirsty) an email at citycrafter@gmail.com and I will line you up with the sponsor.


We also like to take some time to thank our lovely sponsor The Chip Chop Shop for her generous sponsorship, not forgetting our Guest Designer Lori Hairston for her beautiful creation for CCCB!

CCCB week 17 ~ I left my HEART in San Francisco...

Hi all, can't believe that it is week 17 for City Crafter Challenge Blog, how time flies. Did you all have a great summer so far?

Now this week, I am taking you to a city in America that I love so dearly, I've been there many times but still, I want to visit again and again.

There's a song from Tony Bennett, written in 1954, not only best known as his signature song, but also best described my feeling for this lovely city...... guess you know by now where I am taking you to?

Yes, it is San Francisco

What's in San Francisco that I love so much? Oh plenty... Fisherman's Wharf, Cow Hollow, Nob Hill, Bay Bridge and of course the Golden Gate Bridge, not forgetting my favorite Seafood Pasta in the whole wide world is there at Scoma. So ya, off we go.......

~Kirsty Vittetoe

CCCB week 17 ~ I left my HEART in San Francisco

This week challenge, is to create a card/layout/project that has a HEART (or hearts) in it, it can be paper with hearts, stamp, images, charm, anything, it is not a requirement to follow the colors from this picture as it is purely for eye candy only.

This sweet image above is from the very talented Koralee (Bluebird Notes), I am sure many of you will agree with me that Koralee has a very pretty and interesting blog, she often display beautiful images and words that make your mind wonders, if you haven't yet visit Bluebird Notes, do pop over, you will know what I mean.

Thanks Koralee, for letting us use your beautiful artwork!

Guest Designer

We are thrilled to have Lori Hairston as our Guest Designer this week. Lori has been participating in City Crafter challenges and won not just once, but twice (week 12 and 15) for our challenge. Her works are filled with shabby vintage beauties and you can see lots of effort she puts into it.

In her words - I've been married for 28 years to my husband, Dennis and our daughter, Lauren is already 24! We have had an empty nest for several years now and that was the catalyst for all this papercrafting. I suddenly needed something to do. Creating is so satisfying and I love it when I feel challenged. That is one reason I've been so thrilled with the City Crafter Challenge Blog. The challenges are inspiring. Thank you, Kirsty, for inviting me to be the guest designer this week. I love the challenge (who doesn't like hearts) and really like the inspiration photo as well. Happy creating everyone!

Lori Hairston

Choux Choux

Design Team

Here are our DT samples for your inspiration. Be sure to visit their individual blog to see more creative ideas!

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

(This is a post-it holder, to see the front view, please visit "Handmade Little Things"

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

June Lanum

Lina Beas

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

We are delighted to have The Chip Chop Shop sponsoring our challnege this week. The Chip Chop Shop is an Etsy Store that carries all the lovely embellishments for your crafting needs, the chipboard and acrylic embellishments are all free hand designed by LeeAnn, the owner of the shop, she has the loveliest crepe paper rosettes ever, do stop by and browse through all the loveliness LeeAnn created, she is generously sponsoring our challenge with a $20 store money to spent at her chop - THE CHIP CHOP SHOP, here's the link to The Chip Chop Shop, and please stop by LeeAnn's blog to send a little Thank You note or just say Hello!

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#17 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 16th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)

So send in your project, we love to see your wonderful creations!

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

A big thank you to those of you that played along last week - beautiful entries from all of you. I am terribly sorry if this announcement come too late as I am having my vacation with family in San Diego right now.... anyway, here's what we are waiting for, the winner for week 16 "YUM" is

Milagros

And our spotlight artists are

Mona Pendleton

Lori Hairston

Jenniful Scull

Maria Matter

Julia Hall

Miria

Lynnda Hosni

Susan Zuzarte

Tracy MacDonald

Sylvia Nelson (#28)

Congratulations to all, please feel free to grab you winner/spotlight artisit badge and display it on your side bar! Milagros, please send me (kirsty) and email at citycrafter@gmail.com so I could line you up with Digital Delights for your prize, you have till August 16th to claimed your prize. Thanks to all the entires last week, we truly enjoyed viewing every single one, you gals rock!

CCCB week 16 ~ YUM......

Hi all!! It is Cheryl back with a new challenge for you. I'm hungry for some great projects from y'all so our theme this week is YUM! You are to create any food inspired project. It can be a card or a lo as long as it has something food related on it (food itself, apron, stove, etc.) or it can even be a recipe card, an altered recipe file...anything. Are you hungry now, too?!! I can't wait to see your scrumptious projects! 

~ Cheryl Nelson

CCCB week # 16 ~ YUM........

Just to get you in the mood here is an inspiration photo

Guest Designer

I am sooooooo excited and happy to introduce our Guest Designer this week...Lauren Bergold! She is a true artist in every sense of the word. Every time I visit her blog I find myself saying...GENIUS...she is PURE GENIUS!!! She is one of those people that I would love to crawl inside her brain and peek at her creativity and figure out how she comes up with all her brilliance. I have a feeling you are all REALLY going to enjoy her blog "All The Good Blog Names Were Taken" (I looooooove the name of her blog!) Enjoy!

Lauren Bergold

All The Good Blog Names Were Taken

Lauren is using the "Ice Cream Cone"

Design Team

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.

Digital Delights is our sponsor this week, please scroll down to read more about this wonderful store.

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Cheryl is using the "Ice Cream Cart" for her card

Ros Crawford

Mikey's Mom

Ros is using "Teapot Pinpin"

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Kirsty is using "Ginger Freebie"

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

Linda is using "Sitting Honey Pot Henry"

June is using "Ginger Freebie" too.

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 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

Digital Delights is giving away a $10 Gift Certificate to spend at their store.


From our sponsor: Welcome to Digital Delights, a magical place filled with digital stamps from all work of life. We have a wide range of digital stamps which are delivered straight to your email 24/7!! Don't forget about our custom blog design and custom watermarks, all of which are fantastically priced. Looking forward to seeing you!!


***
Wendy is the owner and illustrator of Digital Delights, just look at the yummy digital stamps she sponsored this week, you know where to find your next best stamp! Thanks Wendy for your sponsorship!
You might want to check out the following site
Digital Delights
Digital Delights by Louby Loo (blog)
Delightful Sketches (challenge blog)

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#16 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 9th, 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, there were way too many beautiful projects and it was so tough for us to just pick one winner. 
Now, here's our winner for week 15 "Garden Mail"


Lori Hairston


CCCB Spotlight Artist are


Jessy Christopher
Clare Buswell
Laurel S
Jan
Steph
Elena_SS
Deb Hickman


Please stop by their blog and see those amazing projects yourself, congratulations to all the winners, and the rest of the entries sent in last week, you ladies are just wonderful, thanks for supporting City Crafter Challenge Blog, we truly enjoyed having you here!


Lori, please send me (Kirsty) an email at citycrafter@gmail.com with your mailing info, so I could get your prize out to you. And to all winners, please feel free to grab the winner or spotlight artists badge and display it proudly on your side bar! Looking forward to see your entry again for our new challenge hosted by Cheryl "YUM"!