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

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

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

Dru

Farrah

Linda B

Stella

Cindy

Kasey in Oz

Sylvia Nelson

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!