City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 206 ~ Happy Birthday CCCB!!!!

Can you believe it?

We are turning 4 

in just a few days!!!! 

How time flies......

 I started CCCB when I was still living in New York City, 

and comes April 15, CCCB will be 4 years old.

These four years, I worked with a few DTs, get to know them by the weeks....

it's 206 weeks

that is a long time. 

I met some in real life, and have plan to meet some in the future

it has been a blessed journey.....

thanks for walking with me friends!

Linda

June

Ros

Cheryl

Charlene

Wendy

Anna

Thanks for your contribution, your time, your wonderful projects

but most of all,

THANK YOU 

for being part of CCCB!

I am not forgetting you, friends of CCCB, our special guest stars as well as many of our guest designers...

THANK YOU

for your love and support

CCCB can't be the way we are today without anyone of you!

So...... should we all say

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CCCB!!!!!!

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Week 206 ~ Happy Birthday CCCB, blog hop, quiz and challenge

Since this week is a special week, we have a lot of prizes to be won.

Prize # 1

The winner of our challenge this week will win this prize package sponsored by Kirsty

and the challenge this week is....

To case ONE of the following project

Project #1

Project #2

Project #3

Project #4

You just need to case ONE project of the above and then link up with the linking system at the bottom of this post, you can submit more than one entry by choosing a different project to case, it is all up to you, the more you play, the more chances you get to win the prize.

Don't forget to tell us which project you cased, project #1, #2, #3 or #4.

Prize # 2

This prize package sponsored by Kirsty is for the winner of our quiz this week.

The quiz question is to tell us who created the above projects (project #1, 2, 3, and 4)

Send an email to citycrafter@gmail.com with your answer, e.g project #1 kirsty, project #2 Charlene etc etc....

We will pick ONE winner from all the correct answer and received the above prize package.

Prize #3

You will have to hop over to Kirsty's blog to check out Prize #3, while you are there, leave a comment and then you'll get a chance to win Prize #3

Prize #4

Hop over to Ros' blog to see what prize package she is offering, and then leave a comment for a chance to win Prize #4

Prize #5

Same thing, hop over to Charlene's blog and check out the prize she sponsored, and leave a comment to win, that is Prize #5

Prize #6

Anna is also sponsoring a prize at her blog, check it out, leave a comment, and then you are all good for a chance to win Prize #6

On top of all that (6 Prizes), all the spotlight artists this week will also be invited to be our guest designer, isn't that awesome, so don't wait any longer, join in our Birthday Fun!

Now wait a minute, we are not forgetting the projects of our fabulous CCCB Designers

Be Inspired by the CCCB Designers

Kirsty cased project # 1

Ros cased project #2

Charlene cased project #3

Anna cased project #4

....................

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

Not only we have 6 prizes up for grab this week, all the our Spotlight Artists for week 206 challenge will be invited to be our Guest designer for one of our future challenge.

Submit

Challenge ends April 14, 2014 at 11.55 pm (EST)

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

If you have difficulties using Inlinkz, please email citycrafter@gmail.com, we will try our best to help you with your question.

Winner

Thanks to all who played along with us last week.

And the winner for week 205 is....

Maciejkowe zacisze

Congratulations!!!! What a wonderful project!

Please grab the winner's badge from our side bar and also drop an email to Kirsty (citycrafter@gmail.com) so we could set up a date for your Guest Designer Spot, you'll have till April 16th, 2014 to do that!

Spotlight Artists Award

Time to Play

Filharmonica's creative verden

Ellapu

Lorby's world

Karasiowa

Bisse from Finland

A Cards delight

Congratulations to all, do feel free to grab your spotlight artist badge and display it proudly on your side bar! Thanks for playing along!

Please join us for our Birthday Fun week, lots of prizes to be won, don't miss out the fun!

Happy Birthday City Crafter Challenge Blog!!!! (Week 154) and Blog Hop

For the past 3 years, this little space has filled with lots of 

fun, 

creativities 

and joy 

for me and my amazing team.

City Crafter Challenge Blog is turning 3 this week

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Somewhere along the way, you (our dear crafty followers of CCCB) joined us in this fun journey and I am really glad you all did. Today, I am so thankful for the help and my dear team mates, past and present, for all their hard work and beautiful work, the generosity and kindness, and for all of you, our great supporters of the challenge blog, many of you have become blog friends, and visit our personal blog on a regular basis, I can't have enough words to express my gratitude......

THANK YOU, THANK YOU

to all

from the bottom of my heart

~ Kirsty

As usual, we hope to inspired you with the lovely work from our 

Design Team

Kirsty Vittetoe

Linda Robinson

Ros Crawford

Charlene Cundy

Wendy Sylvestre

more......

Today is a not only our big day for this challenge blog, we really have a lot going on, first is a little announcement

Sad news

Our dear team mate - Linda, is leaving us after today, this will be her last challenge here. Linda has been with us since day one when CCCB started, she has also become a dear friend of mine after I moved close to where she live, we hang out regularly and had lots of fun together, it is sad to see Linda go but I am wishing her all the best on her new journey.

stop by Linda's blog to leave her a farewell note

Happy news

We have a new team mate joining us starting this week, if you are with us the past few weeks, you should also be stunned by her talent, let's welcome

Wendy

send Wendy a welcome note

........

Ok, I should really keep it short as it will be a super long post with so many things going on here

Since it is our birthday, not only we have a blog hop, we also have 7 prizes up for grab this week

Prize # 1 - Pick your prize

Challenge winner

Create a birthday card this week, and link it up here with our linking system at the end of the post, one winner will win Prize #1, sponsored by KraftyKirsty@etsy

Prize #2 - Surprise box

CCCB Blog Hop winner

Complete the blog hop in the following order, and email us at citycrafter@gmail.com with your correct answer, a lucky randomly picked winner will win a surprise box filled with crafting goodies

Blog hop starts here - City Crafter Challenge Blog

Next stop - Kirsty

Linda

Ros

Charlene

Wendy

last stop - City Crafter Challenge Blog

At each DT's blog, you should find one word in BOLD, that is the word to pick up, complete the hop (5 DTs), and you should have a sentence, come back to the challenge blog and send an email (email address above) to us with your answer, we will pick a lucky winner randomly that has the correct answer for prize # 2

Prize # 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7

As you hop along, do leave a comment at each DT's blog, we all have a prize up for grab there, start hoping now and check out what you could win

If you have difficulties using Inlinkz, please email citycrafter@gmail.com, we will try our best to help you with your question

Winner

A big THANK YOU to all who joined us last week, fabulous work!!!!

Here's our winners for week 153

Tracy MacDonald

and our Spotlight Artists are

SabLank

ScrapMan

Anreda

Teresa Kline

Alenka

Sue Lelli

Ulina

Ellen Taylor

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

Tracy, please send an email to citycrafter@gmail.com with your mailing address, so we could mail your prize out to you.

You have till April 17th to do that.

Thanks to all who sent in your entry for our week 153 challenge, hope to see you play along with our current challenge "Happy Birthday CCCB" and join in our blog hop, lots of prizes to win this week!

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!