CCCB week 24 ~ Flowers and Frills

Hello ... It's Ros here ready to set a brand new challenge for you ...

Flowers and Frills

There is no colour requirement this week ... and no theme

My picture is purely for inspiration

Your Challenge is to create a card or project that must include

at least one Flower and either some Lace or Doily

I hope you have fun with it and look forward to seeing your 

fabulous creations

~ Ros


CCCB week # 24 ~ Flowers and Frills

Guest Designer
We are so thrilled to introduce to you our Guest Designer this week, Karli (http://www.CraftingwithClass.blogspot.com)


Here's what Karli has to say: My day job (which fully funds my hobby) is as a High School Spanish Teacher. When my work at school & at home are done, I spend my nights in my craft room playing with my toys - and I have lots of them! I am thrilled to currently design for YMH Store & Cardabilities. I papercraft purely for fun & as therapy - not cheaper therapy - but waaay more fun : ) Thanks so much for inviting me to play along with you on this great challenge!


Here's the beautiful creation by Karli

Karli 
Crafting with Class


Design Team
Here are some beautiful inspiration from our team

Ros Crawford
Mikey's Mom

Kirsty Vittetoe
Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson
My Happy Place

Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl


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 orginal, please do not link creation that have been posted prior to the day of the current challenges. To respect 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 winner will get $20 gift certificate to shop at Pixie Dust Paperie


Pixie Dust Paperie is a place where you find pretty paper crafting supplies and lots of inspiration, we are previewing our Debut on September 28th, be sure to follow Pixie Dust Paperie's Blog, there are more than $100 worth of prizes to be won during our Debut Specials. There will also be challenges and more chances to win fabulous prizes!!!


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#24 so we could easily find your creation, then link 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 Oct 4th, 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
Thanks to all the beautiful entries we had last week for our Sketch Challenge, we hope you know that your support is hugely appreciated. Our DT had so much fun visiting each and every one of your fabulous blogs, and here's the winner for last week challenge 


Sharm


and our spotlight artists are


Terrie Bailey
Jan
Johanna
Pastila
Joanna K
Lori Hairston
Cathy


Congratulations gals!!! Please feel free to grab your winner/spotlight artists badge and display it proudly on your blog. Sharm, please send me (Kirsty) an email at citycrafter@gmail.com and I will get your prize out to you soon! Thanks once again to Sylvia Nelson for her wonderful sponsorship last week.
**Prizes must be claimed no later than Oct 4, 2010


Thank you everyone for your wonderful entries, we hope that you have as much fun as we do here at CCCB! Please join us again this week for the "Flowers and Frills" challenge.

CCCB week 23 ~ Sketch Challenge

Hello everyone, it's me Linda and I am back as your hostess for this week. Can you believe we are already in week #23. Time flies when you are having fun.
Well, this week I have come up with a sketch. You can use any theme or any colors you would like, as long as you follow the sketch. So let's see what you gals have for us. I really love seeing how creative you all are!


~Linda


CCCB week # 23 ~ Sketch Challenge

Guest Designer

We are so thrilled to introduce to you our Guest Designer this week, Karola Witczak!

Karola has such feminine touches in her creations, I simply adore her soft and romantic style. We feel extremely honored to have Karola's beautiful creation here this week!

Here's a little about Karola -
My name is Karola Witczak, totally addicted to scrapbooking! I'm from Poland, live in west side of the country with my wonderful husband Marcin and our sweet daughter Rose, who is my biggest inspiration. 
Since this year I decided to work as a freelance designer and this make me happy. Really!
It is hard to define my style, mostly my friends call it "Karola's style," and often hear that this is a soft, romantic, feminine, eclectic. I love shabby chic but with something modern. In most of my work you can usually see portraits of my daughter - I am absolutely in love with her face, and such pictures usually go to my Lo's and albums. Definitely I like all feminine, romantic themes, delicate, soft colors, I', also dependent on the sewing machine, especially when I make cards. I love to add new things to my projects, but usually I have a big inspirations from patterned papers, flowers and interesting color palettes - I believe when I have a piece of paper I create everything!
I proudly design for Polish and International companies, stores, manufacturers, like : Prima Marketing, Pink Paislee, Webster's Pages, Twiddleybitz. Melissa Frances and challenges blogs: Pencil Lines, Creative Therapy, The Color Room, and Polish scrapbooking stores and communities. I am so proud of being a part of these places, teams - this way I can realized my dreams about scrapbooking challenges, goals, products and fantastic people, which I always getting to know better.

Karola Witczak

Karola Witczak Handmade

Design Team

Here are some beautiful inspiration from our team

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 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

Look who is sponsoring City Crafter Challenge Blog this week! The very talented Sylvia Nelson! 
Sylvia has been a regular at CCCB, her creations are so beautiful that always caught our eyes, she has been a winner at our challenge blog many times, and she is so kind to offer our winner this week with this wonderful prize, a full list of the prize could be found HERE!


Sylvia has a little Etsy Store, you might want to pop by and take a look, she has lots of handmade cards, stamps, and even fabric fat quarters if you are into quilting as well, do stop by http://sylviascorner.etsy.com and shop around, perhaps say THANK YOU to Sylvia for sponsoring this wonderful set of prize at her blog Sylvia's Stamp Corner.

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#23 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 27th, 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

Thanks to all the beautiful entries we had last week for our "Tree of Books" Challenge, we hope you know that your support is hugely appreciated. And here is the winner for week # 22


Tracy


And our spotlight artists are


K-eine
Angela Brennan
Stella
Tante Kathe
Emily Keaton
Susan Zuzarte
Kelly B


Congratulations to all, we hope you enjoy the challenge as much as us viewing them. Please feel free to grab your winner/spotlight artists badge and display it proudly on your side bar. Tracy, please drop me (Kirsty) a line at citycrafter@gmail.com, so I could link you up with our sponsor The Stamping Boutique.


Thanks once again to all who sent in your entry last week, and thanks to our great sponsor "The Stamping Boutique", please come join us this week for our sketch challenge.

CCCB week 22 ~ Tree of Books (My home, my country, Singapore)

Hello all, it is week 22 at City Crafter, more than 1/3 of a year already!!!

Well, as you all know, I like to set my theme based on a city, this time, is not just a city, it is my home, my country, Singapore. Singapore is such a small place, it is a city country, the size? 3.5 times of Washington D.C, tiny huh? but mind you, being a Singaporean, we are so proud of Singapore being top of the list in many ways, one of the wealthiest country in the world, ranking 3rd in terms of economies, our airport, airline and seaport was ranked number one for many years. President Obama mentioned our education system, Mayor Bloomberg visited Singapore to learn how the traffic system work in Singapore, oh yes, I am so proud being a Singaporean.

Since I grew up in Singapore, that is where I went to school too, my childhood, school days..... that brought us to this week challenge "Tree of Books" and by coincident, my all time favorite book is "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein, it is such a great book, the meaning behind is way beyond a children book, you gotta read it!

~ kirsty 

CCCB week 22 ~ Tree of Books (my home, my country, Singapore)

Here's the inspiration picture

Photo source: wall paper from fanpop.com

Here's what you need to do for the challenge: create a card/project that include the image of a tree/trees  or a book/books. You could also make a bookmark, a book cover, a notebook, coffee table brag book etc. This is not a color challenge, so it is NOT required to use the colors from the inspiration photo.

Here you go, some inspiration from our Guest Designer and Design Team

Guest Designer

I am so thrilled to have Lenet Mos guest designed for us this week, here's a little about Lenet

Hi, my name is Lenet Mos. I'm living with my husband, two kids and two ginger tomcats in Enkhuizen, a middle sized town in the Netherlands near by the IJsselmeer. 

I'm a stay at home mom and just love it, now I have a lot of time for my crafting when the kids are at school. I love working with little kids and used to be a pre-school teacher. (2 to 4 years old) Now I'm a volunteer at a pre-school for one morning a week. Maybe I'm going back to teaching if there is a job opening there. I love crafting as long as I can remember. I discovered scrapbooking about 5 years ago, and love it since then, although I'm not really into making layout at the moment. I'm too busy making cards. For a year now, I'm totally hooked on cardmaking and love to play at challenge blogs. I love to use sewing, soft colors, and spellbinder nestabilities on my cards.

I'm very honoured to be choosen as the guest designer at CCCB for this week.

Lenet Mos

Scrap Lenet

Lenet make a bookmark with "Hidden" from the Enchantment Line.

Design Team

Before I go on with the DT's sample, I have a little announcement to make. Our dearest DT June Lanum  had decided to step down from the team, she has not been feeling too well lately and thought that she needs more time to rest, we respect her decision and could only wish her well, hope she takes good care of herself and recover soon. June has been a great help here at CCCB, I can't thank her enough for her contribution weekly since we started the challenge blog 21 weeks ago. Thank you June, please visit us when you have time and we will surely be in touch.  If you know June, please stop by her blog and leave her some love.


Here you go, our DT's sample for this week challenge

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things
Kirsty is getting ready for christmas gift with this card made with the image "snowflakes tree" from the seasonal and holiday line.

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place
Linda's beautiful card is also using "snowflakes tree" from the seasonal and holiday line.

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Cheryl used "Back to school background paper" for her layout.

Ros Crawford

Mikey's mom

Ros make a notebook with "Audreys Books".

All digital images used by our Guest Designer and Design Team are kindly sponsored by The Stamping Boutique.

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 no cross-promote event unrelated to City Crafter Challenge Blog
• Link your direct post for the challenge and not your entire blog

Prize

**Please read our rules for the challenge under the section "Take Note", as we have a wonderful digital stamp sponsor "The Stamping Boutique" this week sponsoring the digital image for our Guest Designer as well as the Design Team, and generously sponsored the prize for the winner, it is really NOT nice to promote other digital stamp here, it is ok to use it on your project but no promotion of any kind please, thanks!

We are being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique this week, who is offering 5 beautiful digital stamps to the winner of this week's challenge. Here's a little about our sponsor - The Stamping Boutique.


"I'm Tracey Malnofski, the artist and owner of The Stamping Boutique. My team and I are very happy to sponsor City Crafter Challenge Blog. My store has been open since September 2009. I've worked for InStyleStamps, Squigglefly, and TheDigiShack. I'm a professional artist and an active member of the Artist' Guild in m my community. I have quite a busy household with a husband, 3 teenagers, 5 mini-dashshunds and an Appaloosa mare. It's noisy, but I love them all. I'm truly blessed.
The Stamping Boutique is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. We not only provide wonderful digital images in our store, but also several lines of red rubber images. Our designers are chosen from their charater and personality, as well as, their beautiful designs. We work hard to give you our very best. Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor this week."


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#22 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 20th, 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, and sorry for the delay as Kirsty is on the road this week. Here you go, our winner for last week "One for the boys" challenge is

Stella

And of course we can't go without spotlighting these beautiful entries as well
Our spotlight artists are

Sylvia Nelson
Jan
Lori Hairston
Joyce
Steph
A 4 Andie
Linda, the funkie, junkie
Lisa C

Congrats to all, please feel free to grab your winner/spotlight artists' badge and display it proudly on your sidebar. Stella, please drop me an email at citycrafter@gmail.com and I will get your prize out to you.


Something fun for everyone
If you are new here at City Crafter Challenge Blog, I want to let you know that we have a little fun place for everyone - City Crafter Party Blog, we organized swap once in a while, the last one was a "pretty things jar swap" and now, our 2nd swap is open for registration, please join us HERE for the "Lace and Doily Swap"! See you there!

CCCB week 21 ~ One For The Boys!

Hi everyone .. I'm Ros and I'm so happy to be back setting this week's challenge .. 

"One For The Boys" I know we all love to make pretty girlie things and sometimes the guys get left behind, so I thought this week we should tap into our masculine side and see what  we can come up with for the men or boys in our lives. 

Leslie from A Creative Mint  has kindly allowed me to use one of her beautiful photographs for our colour inspiration ... all you have to do is use any or all of the colours to make a masculine card or project ..

Are you up to the challenge? I really hope so .. Please come and join me and our Fabulous Guest Designer this week ... look forward to seeing you.

~ Ros


CCCB week 21 ~ One for the Boys

Once again, we are thrilled that Leslie from A Creative Mint let us used another of her lovely picture, thanks Leslie. Do pop by A Creative Mint and leave some love.


Guest Designer
We are so thrilled to have Beatriz Jennings guest designed for us this week, here's a little about Beatriz:

Hi, my name is Beatriz Jennings, I fell in love with scrapbooking when I was looking through a magazine and saw all of the beautiful things that you can do with paper. Right now I'm in love with card making and altered art. I have been scrapbooking for 4 1/2 years and I love to use ribbon, buttons, and flowers on most of my creations. I don't know how to describe my style, but some people say that is a little big romantic, feminine, and even shabby. Some of my work has been published in magazines like Handmade (formerly Paper Trends), Scrapbook Trends, Cards, Paper Crafts, Scrapbook and Cards Today and Cardmaker magazine to list a few. I have also had projects published in idea books and had tutorials and projects published online on scrapbooking/papercrafting sites and some e-zines.

Beatriz
Iralamija


Design Team
The wonderful work from the Design Team

Ros Crawford
Mikey's Mom

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

June Lanum

Lina Beas

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

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

Look at this beautiful creation!!! Our winner gets to be the proud owner of this fabulous creation made and contributed by our talented DT Ros Crawford, thanks Ros!

                   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#21 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 13th, 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, here's our winner for "Let your light shine"!

Lauren

There were so many great entries, so we can't go without having our spotlight shine on these artists

Jennifer Scull
Stella
Boryana
Lisa C
Lori Hairston
Amy Duff
Lisa Somerville
Erin t
Belz
Sandy
Klee Blatt
Tante Kathe

Congratulations all, please feel free to grab your city crafter's badges and display it proudly on your sidebar. Lauren, please drop me an email with your mailing info - citycrafter@gmail.com, so I could get your prize out to you, you have till September 13 to claimed your prize.

Thanks for all who sent in your entries last week, please join us for this week challenge hosted by Ros Crawford - "One for the Boys!"

Thanks once again to Lawn Fawn for their sponsorship last week! And thanks to our Guest Designer Amy Tsuruta!!! : )