City Crafter Challenge Blog: March 2011

Ros Crawford

Kirsty Vittetoe

Linda Robinson

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. We are looking after our wonderful sponsors who donate time, prizes, and effort with full focus on them, to be eligible for the prize -

No direct selling links are allowed here

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 of the challenge and not your entire blog

Prize

Pixie Dust Paperie is a monthly kit club dedicate to bringing you the newest products available in the paper crafting industry. Each month, you will received a beautifully designed kit with the latest papers and embellishment, all designed to coordinate perfectly and ready for you to create. At The Pixie Blog, you will find lots of inspiration and new ideas on a daily basis.

The winner for this week's challenge will get a $15 gift certificate to shop at Pixie Dust Paperie

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#50 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 April 4th, 2011 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 "Babies, Buttons and Bows" 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 blog, here's the winner -

Dru

and our spotlight artists are

Congratulations to all, feel free to grab your winner/spotlight artists badge and display it proudly on your side bar.

Dru, please send an email to citycrafter@gmail.com so we could link you up with the sponsor.

Thanks to all who joined us last week, hope to see you all again this week!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #49 ~ Babies, Buttons and Bows

Hello everyone, it is me Linda and I am back hosting again this week.... I don't know if you have heard the good news but I am going to be a grandma soon..... Just one more month to go....
So that is how I came up with this week's challenge. All you have to do is create a Baby card or projects that have buttons and bows on it.... Babies, Buttons and Bows.... that shouldn't be too hard right? I can't wait to see what you come up with....

~ Linda Robinson

Week 49 ~ Babies, Buttons, and Bows

photo credit - Linda Robinson

Guest Designer
I am happy to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, all the way from the Sunny Island Singapore - Sandy Ang!!!

Here's Sandy and her project:
Thank you Kirsty for having me (Sandy Ang) as your guest designer. I've been a fan of CCCB since it started, so I'm thrilled to create something for week 49. This whimsical decorative item is actually an altered paperclip. Like many of my projects, this is a play on shapes - from the length of the giraffe's neck, to the swirling stems and the circular florals. It's pure serendipity to have a Junkitz acrylic button in my stash that fits in the 'belly' of Mama giraffe. Hope you have lots of un with this week's challenge!

Sandy Ang
Sandy's Space
To see more of Sandy's beautiful work, please hop over to her blog

Design Team
Here are the beautiful projects of the DT, go hop on over to each design team member's blog to see more photos of the projects they created just for you!

Linda Robinson
My Happy Place

Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford

Kirsty Vittetoe

Get yours now at The Pixie Shop

Take Note

No direct selling links are allowed here

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 of the challenge and not your entire blog

Prize

You might want to check out this Pixie Value Pack

3 items for just one great price

Value $19.97 - Pixie Value Pack Price - $10.99

The winner for this week's challenge will get a $15 gift certificate to shop at Pixie Dust Paperie

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#49 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 March 28th, 2011 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 "The King and I" 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 blog, here's our winners!!!!

Winner

Spotlight Artists

Congratulations to all, please feel free to grab your winner/spotlight artists badge and display it proudly on your side bar.

Michelle, please send your mailing info to citycrafter@gmail.com so we could get your prize out to you soon. You have till March 28th to do that.

Thanks to all who joined us last week, hope to see you all again this week!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #48 ~ The King and I (city - Monte Carlo)

Hey crafters, this week we are going to Monte Carlo - a city-state (independent sovereign state located between the foot of the Southern Alps and the Mediterranean). Monte Carlo is widely known for its casino and Formula One Grand Prix. If you have been to the Le Grand Casino, the amount of expensive sport cars parked right outside is quite a scene. I personally think that Glamorous Monte Carlo is a place fit for a King, or Queen, or Prince and Princess, so here you go, our challenge this week is "The King and I", we want to see crown(s) in your project, it could be embellishment, charm or paper, so get going......

~ kirsty vittetoe

Week 48 ~ The King and I

image from - www.clipartOf.com

Guest Designer

I am happy to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer - Carol Quance

Here's a little about Carol in her own words: Hi, my name is Carol. I live in the Cotswolds in the UK and work in the local hospital as an administrator. I've been making things ever since I was a child. One of my favorite things to do was making clothes for my troll (remember those?) If I don't make something regularly I start to feel twitchy lol! I love to try different techniques and different styles. Currently I nearly always end up with lace somewhere on my creations. More recently and as a complete contrast, I've been experimenting with journaling and love the free and easy way you can splash around with paints and create wonderful bright backgrounds. I find crafting is a great way to relax after a busy day and it really switches your mind off from the daily grind.

Carol Quance

Alcoholinky

To see more of Carol's beautiful work, please hop over to her blog

Design Team

Here are the beautiful projects of the DT, go hop on over to each design team member's blog to see more photos of the project they created just for you!

Kirsty Vittetoe

Linda Robinson

Cheryl Nelson

Ros Crawford

Take Note

No direct selling links are allowed here

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 of the challenge and not your entire blog

Prize

The lovely prize package for this week's winner is kindly sponsored by our DT Cheryl Nelson, thanks Cheryl!!!

To Play Along

Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (if you add your photo to an online gallery, lease use code CCCB#48 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 March 21, 2011 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 "In My Pocket" 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 blog, here's our winner for week 47

Spotlight Artists

Congratulations to all, please feel free to grab your winner/spotlight artists badge and display it proudly on your side bar.

Dana, please send your mailing into to citycrafter@gmail.com so we could get your prize out to you soon. You have till Macrh 21st to do that.

Thanks to all who joined us last week, hope to see you all again this week!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #47 ~ In My Pocket!!!

Good morning ... It's Ros here hosting for you this week with a brand new challenge

You know I love projects and I have been seeing lots of pretty pockets lately ... I adore the whole concept of them

And you can see from the beautiful inspirational photo just how pretty they can be ...

These beauties were made by Karen Besom aka recycledrita

So my challenge to you this week is to create

either a CARD, TAG or PROJECT with a pocket!

I can't wait to see what you come up with

Enjoy!

~ Ros Crawford

Week 47 ~ In My Pocket

Guest Designer

I am happy to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer - Monica Skadsem

Here's a little about Monica in her own words: Hi, I'm Monica from Norway! I have three fantastic children and I am married to the man of my dream. I have been crafting my whole life, and about 12 years ago I discovered stamping and cardmaking - and I was lost!! Some years later a colleague invited me to a scrapbook class, and guess what.... I was lost again! Oh my.... these papercrafting hobbies have really changed my life. It's lifestyle, passion and therapy in one, and I could not imagine life without papercrafting.

I was so happy and honoured when Kirsty asked me to be a guest designer - and i just had to say yes! I am not share that I have a certain style, but I do love the French Country Style, and i guess I am quite influenced by that. I love to use soft colors, flowers, paint and sewing on my projects - and I always have to distress the edges both with distresser and ink to get the "right look". I love it when it looks a bit crackled and old. I am lucky to be a designer for a Norwegian producer Papidesign - and I just love their papers and stamps! I am also a designer for Norwegian company called Scrapbookengros - which is a papercraft wholesaler here in Norway.

This weeks challenge was so inspiring and I immediately knew that I had to make a mini album from scratch with brown paper bags. I have used my sewing machine a lot here - and I have spent a lot of time waiting for paint to dry *lol*. The theme of the mini album is friendship, gratitute and encouragement, and I have made pockets to put pictures and "secret tags", I have used a lot of Melissa Frances rub-ons that I think was perfect for both the theme and the style.

I hope you will enjoy this week's challenge, and that you will be as inspired as I was! Can't wait to see your creations! So Kirsty, thank you again for asking me to be this week's guest designer, it has been so much fun!!

Monica Skadsem

Mo9cas Minnebok

To see more of Monica's mini album, please hop over to her blog

Design Team

Here are the beautiful projects of the DT, go hop on over to each design team members blog to see more photos of the project they created just for you!

Ros Crawford

Kirsty Vittetoe

Linda Robinson

Cheryl Nelson

Take Note

No direct selling links are allowed here

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 of the challenge and not your entire blog

Prize

This week's prize package is kindly sponsored by American Crafts

Here's a little about American Crafts - Steve and Alma Mitchell founded American Crafts in 1994 with their sons. Together, they quickly built the company into a business catering to the general crafting market. Initially specializing in pen manufacturing, American Crafts produced a variety of gel and ink pens and markers - customer favorites that are still part of the company's lineup today.

In the late 1990s, the company transitioned to focus on creating innovative, well-designed products fro the emerging scrapbooking industry. Since then, American Crafts has steadily expanded its product offering, becoming a trendsetter along the way. In 2009, American Crafts acquired the Pebbles brand to offer an even wider variety of products to scrapboookers.

American Crafts is known for fresh, clean product design and friendly, personalized customer service. Products feature bright, vibrant colors and a contemporary feel, inspiring crafters to record their memories in a fun, sophisticated, and stylish way.

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#47 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 March 14, 2011 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 "Spring Fling" 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 blog, here's our winners for week 46

Dru

and our spotlight artists are

Rebekah F

Congratulations to all, feel free to grab your winner/spotlight artists badge and display it proudly on your side bar.

Dru, please send an email to citycrafter@gmail.com so we could link you up with our sponsor.

Thanks to all who joined us last week, hope to see you all again this week!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #46 ~ Spring Fling

Hi all! It is Cheryl back again this week as your hostess! Do you know what today is?! March 1st! Do you know what March means?!! SPRING!! Wooohooo! Is anyone else soooooo beyond ready for Spring?! So our theme this week is "Spring Fling" and I bring to you a color challenge. Even if your part of the world is a little dreary you can bring out the colors of spring! To me the colors of spring are blue, pink, green and cream. They are so fresh and lovely! So your challenge is to use these colors in your projects this week! We all can't wait to see the breath of fresh air and loveliness we KNOW your projects will provide this week! So come and join us for our Spring Fling!!!

~ Cheryl Nelson

Week 46 ~ Spring Fling

Guest Designer

I am happy to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer - Deb Hickman!

Deb has been a regular here at City Crafter Challenge Blog, she never failed to amazed everyone with many of her wonderful work, just look at this week's Guest Designer sample and you will know what I mean. Let's welcome Deb Hickman!!!

Here's a little about Deb in her own words: Hi Everyone, my name is Deb and I'm absolutely thrilled to be guest designer for CCCB. I live in the U.K. with my husband of 23 years and my two daughters. I still call myself a SAHM even though my children are 21 &15 years old, LOL!

I started card making about 12 years ago which then led to scrapbooking in 2006 and I'm now enjoying altered art though card making is still my first love. I tend to be more of a shabby chic girl as I love all the pretty papers, ribbons, lace and flowers but I do like to try new things too. This week's challenge was perfect for me as I got to use all my favourite colours so thank you Kirsty for inviting me to be your guest designer this week.

Deb Hickman

A World of Imagination

Be sure to stop by Deb's blog and soak up some of her spectacular works of art.

Design Team

Here are the beautiful projects of the DT

Cheryl Nelson

Ros Crawford

Kirsty Vittetoe

Linda Robinson