City Crafter Challenge Blog: April 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #106 ~ A Little Rough Around the Edges

Hi ALL! It is Cheryl back this week as hostess and I have picked for a theme "A Little Rough Around the Edges". Sometimes a little roughness adds interest and beauty to someone or something. With that in mind...our challenge to you is this...add a little burlap on your project somewhere. I just love the look of burlap...that little bit of roughness...of texture it can add to a project. Sooooo don't be scared to be a little rough around the edges and grab ahold of some burlap and get going. I can't wait to view your projects this week!

~ Cheryl Nelson

Week 106 ~ A Little Rough Around the Edges

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Guest Designer

Get to know Michelle......

Hello everyone! It's such a pleasure to be here at City Crafter Challenge Blog!!! I'm Michelle, wife of 12 years to my awesome husband Chris, mom to 3 super kids, Emma, Natalie and Christopher, and lover of all crafts!!! I've been crafting since I was little, because of my mom, who loves to craft! I started my first blog post in October of 2010 and have loved every second of it! Cards are my favorite but I am beginning to love creating home decor and gifts. There is nothing better than reading comments from wonderful people like you, who too, have a passion for crafting!! Thank you, Kirsty!

Michelle Bala

My Passion for Crafting

Please stop by Michelle's blog to see more picture of her lovely creation

Design Team

Now let's see what creativity has poured forth from our design team

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Ros Crawford

Mikey's Mom

Kirsty Vitteote

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, we are proud and very excited to have Little Things for Cute Creations as our sponsor.

The winner will get a $15 gift certificate to shop at

Little Things for Cute Creations

Here's what Evgenia, the owner of Little Things for Cute Creations said about her Etsy shop:

In my little etsy shop you can find some lovely die-cuts, lots of different ribbon, some of which is quite unique, nice flowers, baker twine...
We are in South Africa, but ship all over the world.

If I were you, I will hop right on to Evgenia's Etsy shop to take a look, you are not going to be disappointed for sure, lots of lovely stuff there

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#106 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 30th, 2012 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 email citycrafter@gmail.com. We will try our best to help you with your questions.

Winner

Thanks for playing along, we had so much fun with last week's "Just a hint of PINK" challenge, here's our winners for week 105

Tammy

and our Spotlight Artists are

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

Tammy, please send an email with to citycrafter@gmail.com so we could get you set up for the Guest Designer Spot. You have till May 1st to do that.

Thanks to all who sent in your entry for our week 105 challenge, hope to see you play along with our current challenge "A Little Rough Around the Edges"

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #105 - Just a hint of PINK!

Hello sweet friends. It's me Linda back with another challenge.

This week I am thinking pink....not a lot of pink.

"Just a hint of pink"

I would like to see you make a project using Black, White or Grey, with a hint of pink. The color of your project could be all black, all white or all grey, or you could use 2 or 3 of these colors together, but don't forget the hint of pink!

Have fun creating my friends......

~ Linda Robinson

Week 105 ~ Just a hint of PINK!

Guest Designer

Get to know Sheila....

Hi! I am a mom, a wife, a teacher, a crafter, a reader, and a pinner (in that order, I think!) I am fairly new to the world of blogging and online scrapping challenges and such, but I love every minute of it! I am inspired by almost everything I see---colors, patterns, and clothing. In addition to scrapbooking, I enjoy sewing, using my glue gun on anything that doesn’t move, and making flowers. What an honor to be asked to be a guest designer on the City Crafter Challenge Blog! I ADORE online challenges! Thanks Kirsty!

Sheila Burns

Part-Time Pretties

Design Team

We hope to get you inspired with the beautiful projects of our DT, please stop by to see more photos of their wonderful work!

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

The winner for this week's challenge will win a Guest Designer Spot here at City Crafter 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#105 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 23rd, 2012 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 email citycrafter@gmail.com. We will try our best to help you with your questions.

Winner

Thanks for playing along, we had so much fun with last week's "Case me if you can" challenge, here's our winners for week 104

Jenny Martin

and our Spotlight Artists are

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

Jenny, please send an email with to citycrafter@gmail.com so we could link you up with our wonderful sponsor. You have till April 24th to do that.

Thanks to all who sent in your entry for our week 104 challenge, hope to see you play along with our current challenge "Just a hint of PINK"

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Happy Birthday City Crafter Challenge Blog!!!!! (week 104)

My oh my, can't you believe it, we have been here for 104 weeks!

City Crafter Challenge Blog

is 2 today!!!!!

Happy Birthday
City Crafter Challenge Blog

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First I would like to express my gratitude to my fellow team mates - Linda Robinson, Cheryl Nelson and Ros Crawford. These girls are THE BEST!!! They have been wonderful team mate for 2 long years, not only they helped to come up with our weekly theme, go around and leave comments for our entries each week, they cast their votes to pick the winners and make lovely project for the blog, they even contributed lots of lovely prize packages for our winners! THANK YOU ladies, for making CCCB a fun place to be for all.

I am not forgetting YOU, the talented ladies who play along with us weeks after weeks, many of which became our blog buddies, guest designed for many of our challenges, even sponsored a few lovely prize packages, THANK YOU to all, who supported CCCB for the past 2 years, without YOU, our challenge blog cannot be as much fun!

Now let's move on to our Birthday Challenge

Week 104 ~ Case me if you can

This week, we want you to go through challenge #1 to #103, pick a project created by our current DT and case it!

To be eligible for the prize, please remember to tell us who's project you chose to case, show the original project and link back to the original post

So let's get crafty!!!!

~ kirsty vittetoe

Guest Designer

Get to know Lauren.....

lauren bergold is has been crafty all her life, a blogger since 2006, a pixie since 2010, an etsy shop owner since last fall, and a fan of the city crafter challenge blog for two years! she can most often be found in her natural habitat of new jersey, surrounded by art supplies, vintage ephemera, and the world's most patient husband. there is usually a bit of paint, ink, glue or glitter stuck to her somewhere... and she wouldn't have it any other way!

Here's what Lauren said about her project this week

i am SO EXCITED to be here wishing CCCB the very happiest of birthdays, and thrilled with my assignment to "CASE you if i can!"! for inspiration, i chose this gorgeous card of kirsty's from CCCB week #63:

not only is it lovely, and completely lift-worthy in its own right, but also, the challenge that week was to create a project using this very lovely sketch by miss ros... so i felt like i was sneaking in a tribute to two CCCB designers... which obviously makes any project TWICE as nice, right?! then i started wondering if i even could work in a bit MORE inspiration from my favorite design team, and it turns out i could: i love the fairy element on this card of miss linda's, and also the way she has mounted it atop a verrrrrry skinny scalloped frame... and these music paper butterflies of miss cheryl's really rock my world, particularly the way she has used them alongside text paper! so i put alllllllllllllllll of that amazing inspiration together and here is what i came up with:

you can see i've used a lot of elements from kirsty's card: the soft colors paired with neutrals, pretty floral elements, loads of stitching, and the big crinkled ribbon bow anchored with a vintage button; then i've followed ros' sketch quite faithfully; plus i've incorporated the fairies and butterflies from linda and cheryl, respectively! then i added one more little twist of my own to honor the occasion of this challenge:

yes, it's a BIRTHDAY BOOK! i made a template for each month in my favorite graphics program and them printed out on clear labels which i affixed to pieces of coordinating patterned paper which make up the pages of my book. and now all that remains is a reminder to you to mark the words

"HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CCCB...

...and many more!"

into YOUR birthday book for this week, then go off and create your own tribute to any one (or more?!) of our these talented designers!!!

Lauren Bergold

All the good blog names were taken

Please stop by and take a look at Lauren's happy blog

Design Team

We hope to get you inspire with the beautiful projects of our DT, please stop by to see more photos of their wonderful work!

This is a card created by Linda Robinson for CCCB week #91 challenge "Back to Black"

see original post HERE

The following is Kirsty's version

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

This is a card created by Kirsty Vitteote for CCCB week #97 challenge "It's all Natural"

See original post HERE

The following is Linda's version

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

This is a card created by Kirsty Vittetoe for CCCB week #27 challenge "Rome, the Eternal City"

See original post HERE

The following is Cheryls' Version

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

This is a card created by Kirsty Vittetoe for CCCB week #71 challenge "Easy as 123"

See original post HERE

The following is Ros's version

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 dedicated to bringing you the newest products 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 $10 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#104 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 16th, 2012 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 email citycrafter@gmail.com. We will try our best to help you with your questions.

Winner

Thanks for playing along, we had so much fun with last week's "Hats off to you" challenge, here's our winners for week 103

Wendy AppleApricot

and our Spotlight Artists are

Linda B
Jacira
Scatty Jan
Skye
Danielle Vincent
Merethe
Jenny Martin
Sylvia Nelson
Lucille K

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

Wendy, please send an email with your mailing address to citycrafter@gmail.com so we could get your prize out to you. You have till April 17th to do that.

Thanks to all who sent in your entry for our week 103 challenge, hope to see you play along with our current challenge "Case me if you can"

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week#103 - Hats Off To You!

Hi there!

It's Ros with you this week ...

We are getting nearer to Easter and Easter always reminds me of Easter Bonnets

so the challenge I have set for you this week is to

Create a card or project with either a Hat on it ... Or the word Hat Or Both

It doesn't have to be Easter related ... But I would like to clearly see the Hat

I hope you'll join us this week

Enjoy!

~ Ros

Week 103 ~ Hats Off To You!!!

Guest Designer

Get to know Sheila....

Sheila Burns

Part-Time Pretties

Please stop by Sheila's blog to say hello!

Design Team

We hope to get you inspired with the beautiful projects of our DT, please stop by to see more photos of their wonderful work!

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

This week's prize package is sponsored by our lovely DT member 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#103 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 9th, 2012 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 email citycrafter@gmail.com. We will try our best to help you with your questions.

Winner

Thanks for playing along, we had so much fun with last week's "Spring Fling Color Challenge",

here's our winners for week 102

Moloda Kobieta

and our Spotlight Artists are

Lea L

Michelle

Nancy Lempinen