City Crafter Challenge Blog: April 2011

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #54 ~ Mother May I?

Hi all!! This is Cheryl back with this week's theme of "Mother May I?" The answer is...YES, YOU MAY...create a fabulous project using the word Mom (Madre, Mother, Mommy, Mum, or other equivalent of the word)on it. Yep, that is all there is to our challenge this week. Here in the U.S., Mother's Day is coming up in a couple of weeks so this week we are celebrating mothers! As always, we can't wait to see what FANTABULOUS creations you all will come up with! We sure hope you will play along with us this week!!

~ Cheryl Nelson

Week 54 ~ Mother May I?

photo credit: www.71palm.com

Guest Designer

I am happy to introduce you to our Guest Designer this week - Marie Therese from Noway!

I love her wonderful mixture of clean lines and shabby chicness, we are so fortunate to have her this week.

Here's a little about Marie in her own words:

Hello I', Maria Theresa, I live in Norway with my two sweet girls and husband. I have been scrapbooking for 6 years since around my older princess was born.

I have been making cards along side my scrapbooking but around two years ago before my second princess was born. I got more and more into cardmaking. Now I try to even out with a scrapbook page every now and then as I still love that too!

You find my blog here: http://mscrapping.blogspot.com

Marie Therese

Me, Myself and Scrapping

Please stop by Marie's blog and leave her some love!

Design Team

Here are the beautiful project of the DT! Please hop over to their individual blog to see more photos of their project!

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. 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

This week's fabulous sponsor is Cindy Leek, thanks Cindy for your generosity!

Here's a little about Cindy -

I have been a crafter since childhood. I am in my second career as a full time instructor of scrapbooking and cardmaking and an independent CLOSE TO MY HEART consultant. In my first career I was (and always will be) a Geriatric Social Worker and Licensed Nursing Home Administrator. In addition to my blog, www.paperspadsadpictures.blogspot.com, I have an Artfire Studio at www.artfire.com/users/PapersPadsAndPictures. I love teaching and sharing the joy of paper crafting with others.

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#54 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 May 2, 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 "Gate Card" 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 for week 53

Linda B

and our spotlight artists are

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

Linda, please send an email with your mailing info to citycrafter@gmail.com, so we could get your prize out to you, you have till May 2 to do that.

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

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #53 ~ Gate Card

Hello my sweets. It is my Linda and I am hosting this week...

I just want to start by saying Thanks to everyone that hopped along with us last week... It was a lot of fun... And a lot of great prizes are going to be given out... YEA!!!!!

So now onto this week's challenge. Boy do I have something a little different this week... I hope you have fun with it. It is a GATE CARD. Your card will open up just like a gate. Below is a link to let you know how to make it. You can use any color scheme or theme that you want as long as it is a GATE CARD.

I can't wait to see what you all come up with.... so go get creative my friends!!!!

Link - How to make a GATE CARD

~ Linda Robinson

Week 53 ~ GATE CARD

photo credit - www.art.com

Guest Designer

I am happy to introduce you to our Guest Designer this week - Melissa Bove! I just love her shabby chic style, she would go all out to make every one of her creation as pretty as it could be, trust me, you will see it for yourself in her GD sample next!

Here's a little about Melissa in her own words:

My name is Melissa Bove. I love to do all kinds of paper crafting but especially card making and altered gift items. I live in southern NJ with my hubby and 2 children. Any free time I have, you can always find me in my craft studio. Crafting for family, friends, 1 of my DT's or just because! I am thrilled to be a Guest Designer for The City Crafter Challenge Blog! Have fun making those "Gate Gards" I did.

Melissa Bove

Creating from the Heart

Please stop by Melissa's blog and leave her some love!

Design Team

Here are the beautiful projects of the DT! Please hop over to their individual blog to see more photos of the project!

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford

Mikey's Mom

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

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 from the emerging scrapbooking industry. Since then, American Crafts acquired the Pebbles brand to offer an even wider variety of products to scrapbookers.

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#53 so we could easily find your creation, then link there 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 25, 2011 at 11.59PM (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 "CCCB Birthday" 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(s) for week 52

Jani

and our Spotlight Artists are

Congratulations to all, we have NEW winner/spotlight badge for you, feel free to display it proudly on your side bar.

Jani, please send an email to citycrafter@gmail.com, so we could link you up with our wonderful sponsor for your prize.

As promised, here's the announcement for our

Birthday Blog Hop winners

from Kirsty's blog - Amelia Khalik

from Linda's blog - Jacira

from Cheryl's blog - Stella

from Ros's blog - Cindy

from Sylvia's blog - June Houck

Congratulations to all our Blog hop winners, please email citycrafter@gmail.com to claim your $10 gift certificate sponsored by Pixie Dust Paperie

Thanks to all, we had a fabulous birthday week and we hope to see you here again when we step into our year two at City Crafter Challenge Blog!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Happy Birthday City Crafter Challenge Blog!!!! (week #52)

Today is a special day for City Crafter Challenge Blog, we are turning ONE!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday City Crafter Challenge Blog!!!!!

Being ONE today, we have gone through 51 fun challenges, I would like to express my gratitude to my fellow team mates - Linda Robinson, Cheryl Nelson and Ros Crawford, they have been wonderful team mate throughout the year, week after week, they helped to host the challenges, write their blog post, created beautiful samples for our challenges as well as going around leaving comments for hundreds of entries, they cast their votes to pick the winner every week, not just that, they even contributed to lots of lovely prize packages for our winners! THANK YOU ladies, for walking along with me and help make CCCB a fun place to be!
Next, I would like to THANK our past DT and GD for their contribution to CCCB, last but not least, THANK YOU to all who participated in our past and present challenges, send in your entries and make this challenge blog as fun as it could be, THANK YOU ALL!!!!!

Now let the celebrations begin......

This week, we are not just having ONE prize, but 6 prizes!!! How's that for a celebration!!!!!

Each design team member and our Special Guest is giving away a $10 gift certificate for Pixie Dust Paperie. So come blog hopping with us

City Crafter 1st Blog Hop starts here
Please hop from one blog to the next following the list below, leave a comment and hop onto the next blog, return to CCCB blog, leave a comment that you have completed the Hop. You will have one week to complete the Hop. We will pick one winner from each blog (DT and GD). Winner(s) announcement will be made here next week (# 53 at our winner section)

Starts here--- > City Crafter Challenge Blog
Kirsty Vittetoe - Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson - My Happy Place

Cheryl Nelson - Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford - Mikey's Mom

Guest Designer Sylvia Nelson - Sylvia's Stamp Corner

City Crafter Challenge Blog

Now that you are back to City Crafter Challenge Blog, how about playing along with us?

Week 52 ~ Happy Birthday!!!!!

Our challenge this week is to case this lovely Birthday Card created by our Special Guest Sylvia Nelson. And don't forget, it has to be a BIRTHDAY CARD!

You can pick up the colors, the shape, the embellishment of this card, or anything you can pick up from Sylvia's creation shown above, remember it has to be a birthday theme too!

So come on and help us celebrate our 1st birthday at City Crafter Challenge Blog

~ Kirsty Vittetoe

Guest Designer

I am happy to introduce you all to our Guest Designer this week - Sylvia Nelson!

Sylvia has been a special guest here at CCCB, I don't remember she miss any of our challenges, she has been a CCCB winner more than once, not just here, her work has been mentioned and awarded at numerous challenge blogs, I am sure you would agree with me. I would like to say a big THANK YOU to Sylvia, for helping us celebrate this special occasion at CCCB, she not only made a beautiful card for us to case this week, she also cased her own card and have a GD sample card, thanks Sylvia,

Sylvia Nelson

Sylvia's Stamp Corner

Design Team

Here are the beautiful projects of the DT!

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford

Mikey's Mom

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

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

For card makers and those who do not need a huge kit. Pixie Dust Paperie has a few mini kits on sale at The Pixie Blog this month.

Pixie Mini Kit - Poppy ($12.95)

includes 4 DP (12x12), Tim Holtz fanciful buttons and 4 yards of Pixie Crinkled Ribbons

Pixie Mini Kit - Garden Plum ($16.95)

includes 4 DP (12x12), Tim Holtz fanciful buttons and Lavish trimmings, 25 yards of Baker's Twine

Hop over to The Pixie Shop to see more....

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#52 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 18th, 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 "Cheer Up" 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(s) for week 51

Jan

CCCB Spotlight Artists

Congratulations to all, we have NEW winner/spotlight artist badge for you, feel free to display it proudly on your side bar.

Jan, please send an email to citycrafter@gmail.com, so we could link you up with our wonderful sponsor Digital Delights for your prize.

Thanks to al who joined us last week, hope to see you all again this week, I do want to make a note regarding our theme this week, what we want is not just any birthday card, you will have to CASE our Guest Designer Sylvia's card.

Thanks and have fun!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #51 ~ Cheer Up!!!!

Hi there!

It's Ros back with you this week ...

I know that lots of you lovely people out there have not been feeling too well lately (myself included) and a handmade card can really cheer you up ...

So the challenge I have set you is to

make a card/project with a

Get well / Thinking of You theme

and as we have Digital Delights as our sponsor ... I am asking that you Include something digital in your creation

I hope you will join us this week

I'll look forward to seeing you

~ Ros ~

Note: Please read the theme of the week carefully, we had a lot of entries last week that do not have "banner" or the word "party" on their projects, what a pity to see those beautiful creations being disqualified for the vote.

Week 51 ~ Cheer Up!!!

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!

Ros Crawford

Mikey's Mom

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

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

We have a fabulous sponsor this week. Digital Delights has very generously sponsored all the images used by our DT for their sample work this week, and also offered 3 digital stamps to our winner. Here's a little about Digital Delights

Welcome to Digital Delights, a magical place filled with little digi creations from all walks of life. We have a wide range of digital stamps which are delivered straight to your email 24/7!

In addition we also paper pieced files designed to be used with your cutting machines or for hand cutting. Fancy a new blog makeover, header or new watermark, then stop by our sister site Delightful Custom blogs.

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#51 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 11, 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 beset to help you with your questions.

Winner

Thanks to all the beautiful entries we had last week for our "Celebrate Good Times" 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 for week #50

Rebekah F

and the spotlight artists are

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

Rebekah, 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!