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

photo credit

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

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 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"