CCCB week 11 ~ Shades of Green

Hello Friends, its ME Linda and I will be your hostess this week at City Crafter Challenge Blog!

If you know me at all, you know how much I love camping and the outdoors....

So this week I decided to do a Color Challenge that reminds me of just that

~ SHADES OF GREEN~

It is one of my favorite colors, I just love how cool that color makes me feel, I wish I could have a little of that green grass here in the desert.

So your color challenge is to make a card/layout/project using the color GREEN!

So let's see what you come up with..... I can't wait to see all your lovely creations!

~ Linda

CCCB # 11 ~ Shades of Green

Thanks to Becca for our inspirational photos. You can check them out for yourself at patinamoon.blogspot.com

Guest Designer

This week we are so pleased and honored to have Anabelle O'Malley as our guest designer. Anabelle is a wonderful and talented designer. Anabelle's work can be seen in several publications including Memory Makers, Scrapbooks Etc., Paper Crafts, CARDS, Scrapbook Trends and Scrapbook & Cards Today. Please pay Anabelle a visit at her blog, Bits and Pieces, and see all of her wonderfully inspirational work! Thanks for joining us this week Anabelle!!!




Here's Anabelle's beautiful Shades of Green card !

Anabelle O'Malley
Bits and Pieces




The design team has created some fantastic inspiration for you this week, Check them out!

June Lanum
Lina Beas

Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl

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 combine challenges, 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 challenge. You must mention our challenge on your blog to be eligible to win the prize, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!


Prize

We are delighted to have Courtney Baker from Practicing Creativity Designs sponsoring us this fun summer stamp set "Barefoot Summer" this week. Practicing Creativity Designs carries not only stamp sets, the store has the prettiest ribbons in stock as well. 
Practicing Creativity Designs next release starts July 1st, 2010. Be sure to check it out!
Please stop by Courtney's blog Practicing Creativity by Courtney and leave a little note to help us show our appreciation for her sponsorship this week.


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#11 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun!


Submit
Challenge ends July 5th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)
The design team really looking forward to visit you over the coming week to see your wonderful creations for this challenge, so please send in your entries.





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 the huge amount of entries we had last week for our Pink, Purple and Pearls Challenge, we hope you know that your support is hugely appreciated. Now for the best part, are you ready?
Here's our winners for week 10 Challenge


Sylvia Nelson


and our spotlight artists are


Peri
Denise from NZ
Carolyn
Jen
Arielle
Tracy MacDonald
Chriss Blagrave
Debbie Marcinkiewicz


Congrats to all, feel free to display your winner or spotlight artist badge on your blog!


Bonus Prizes
Our 3 lucky winners picked randomly from our followers and entries are


Diana Simova
Padster
Adela


Congratulations to all!
Click on their names and it will take you to their beautiful winning entries!




Sylvia, Diana, Padster and Adela, please drop me (Kirsty) at Citycrafter@gmail.com with your mailing info, so I could get the prizes out to you.
**prizes must be claimed before July 6, 2010

CCCB week 10 ~ Pink, Purple, and Pearls

It's me again, June,,, (lina beas) this weeks challenge is pink, purple, and pearls.  I don't think this is going to be a hard challenge because I think everyone loves that combonation, so I guess where the real challenge comes in is what unusual way or different way to use them together.  With all the gorgeous and clever entries we have been getting on our previous challenges I just know we're all in for a big treat, so get out those flowers, ribbons, laces, papers, pearls and anything else you can think of and give us your best shot.  There just might be a little bonus prize in there so enter as many times as you like and make them unique.  Can't wait and good luck to everyone.

~ June Lanum

CCCB # 10 ~ Pink, Purple and Pearls

Once again, we are delighted that Leslie from A Creative Mint allowed us to use one of her beautiful artwork again. Leslie's work are simply beautiful, I am sure you will fall in love with A Creative Mint just like we do.

Guest Designer

This week we have the very talented Mindy Baxter joining us as our Guest Designer, thanks for the beautiful card Mindy!


Mindy: My name is Mindy, I'm a SAHM of 3 kiddos, and I've been stamping for almost 4 years now. I love that I have a hobby and place to "escape". I'm on the Magnolia-licious, Just Magnolia, Wild Orchard Crafts, Whiff of Joy Challenges, Fussy and Fancy, Really Reasonable Ribbon GDT, Belles n Whiilsltes GDT. I just LOVE my design teams! My favorite products are Magnolia Stamps, Wild Orchard Flowers, Copics, pearls and crystal swirls and lace/ribbon..... ok, my list can go on and on. I just love making Girly cards and I'm always looking for that extra embellishment to put on my card!

Mindy Baxter
Stampin' Mindy


Design Team
Here we present you the work from the DT. You can visit their blogs but just one click!

Linda Robinson
My Happy Place

June Lanum
Lina Beas

Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl

Kirsty Vittetoe
Handmade Little Things




Take Note
You are welcome to submit any type of project based on the theme and combine challenges, 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 challenge. You must mention our challenge on your blog to be eligible to win the prize, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!


Prize

We are pleased to welcome A LITTLE SCRAPPY as our sponsor this week... A Little Scrappy has fantastic selection of french ribbons, fabrics, feathers, die cuts, tags, odds and ends for your crafting need. Pop over and take a peek, there's something for everyone!


Thank You Sally (A Little Scrappy) for sponsoring City Crafter Challenge Blog this week, a description of the goodies from A Little Scrappy could be found HERE!


Here's the link to A Little Scrappy and Sally's blog "Jammertail Design", we hope that you could take a little time to stop by A Little Scrappy Shop and Sally's blog to leave her a little note to help us show our appreciation for her sponsorship!




Extra........

It is our BONUS week again, for this week, not only we have the crafting supplies from A Little Scrappy, we also going to give away 3 extra bonus prizes for 3 lucky winners (randomly picked). It is a set of handmade pins kindly sponsored by our DT member June Lanum.
To quality for the 3 extra prizes, simply submit your entry to this week challenge, you will get 1 chance for the draw, if you become a CCCB follower, you will get another chance for the draw (if you already are, you will get one chance too), so to say, you will get 2 chances for the draw if you play along this week and becoming a follower (or already are a CCCB follower)
Good luck and have FUN!
**note: Pins are handmade, so colors and beads might vary




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#10 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun!




Submit
Challenge ends June 28th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)
The design team really looking forward to visit you over the coming week to see your wonderful creations for this challenge, so please send in your entries.





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
We want to thank all those that stopped by and played along with us last week, your projects were so creative, we just love seeing your projects! As always it was a difficult decision trying to choose just ONE winner from all the great work that was submitted, we are happy to announce our winner and spotlight artists for week 9 are


Winner
Deb Hickman


Spotlight Artists
Sylvia Nelson
Lisa C
Ros Crawford
Claire C
Jan Hunnicutt
Irit
Sandy
Tante Kathe


Congratulations Deb, please email me (Kirsty) at cityrafter@gmail.com to claim your prize 
(prize must be claimed not later than June 28, 2010)


Congratulations girls, please grab your badge and proudly display it on your blog!
I hope everyone had FUN and please visit the blog of our winners and leave them sweet comment, thank you all once again for sending in those lovely entries, hope to see your creation at this week challenge hosted by June Lanum, Pink, Purple and Pearls!

CCCB # 9 ~ Venice, beyond Gondola

Can you believe it is another round, and my (Kirsty) turn to host again!

I've done New York City, Paris for City Crafter's week 1 and 5, and now, I am revisiting another of my favorite city - Venice!

Venice is Italy's city on water, when you talk about Venice, you talk about the beautiful Piazza San Marco and pausing atop Rialto Bridge to watch gondolas glide along the Grand Canal. What amazed me most is browsing through the narrow, hundred year old streets, admiring at thousands of eye-catching Venice Masks, this picture captured one of Venice well-known craft.

~Kirsty Vittetoe

CCCB # 9 ~ Venice, beyond Gondola

You can create a card/project/layout based on the following

1. Venice theme (e.g. your Venice vacation photo, mini album, Venice landmark etc)

2. Pick the colors you see in this picture (no Venice theme required)

3. Music score/music notes (use old music score sheets, paper with music score, music note charm etc)

You can do 1, 2 or 3, or combine both, or do all 3, the choice is yours, have FUN!

photo: courtesy of Nick Carlson (www.truelifeimages.com)

Thank you Nick, for letting us use your beautiful artwork

Guest Designer

Once again, we are very honored to have Debbie Marcinkiewicz as our Guest Designer again. Debbie is known for her shabby vintage creations. Her blog Simple Treasures has thousands of lovely artwork to look at. Debbie is also the wonderful hostess of The Shabby Tea Room, she is also in the DT for many challenge blogs. Here's what Debbie has to say.

Hi to all my stampy friends! My name is Debbie and I am a paper and glue junkie!! I've been a crafter almost all my life - dabbled with sewing, knitting, crocheting, quilting..... but I always seem to gravitate back to the paper crafts. I used to scrap book when my kids were young, but now that they are grown and in college, I just make cards and gifts! I've been serious about my paper crafting hobby for approximately 4 years and have been blogging for 2 years. My style is shabby vintage - I {heart} all things old, antique, shabby, tattered and well-loved! I love embellishments and I adore glitter - the more the better! Whenever I have free time, you'll find me up in my design studio stamping and gluing away. I am very honored to be joining the City Crafter Girlies again this week as their Guest Designer - its always so much fun to hang out here and be inspired by the lovely work from both the design team and participants. The 'Venice' theme this week was fun to work with - great inspiration colors and OMG.... sheet music paper!! One of my favorites!! As you can see here, I love to make these fluffy, ruffly, tattered flowers with sheet music papers! You can visit me on my blog at http://debsimpletreasures.blogspot.com and http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.com. I also host an Etsy Shop here.

~ Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Simple Treasures

Debbie used sheet music paper to make the tattered flower

Design Team

And now for some more inspiration from our fabulous design team members. 

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Kirsty used DP with music notes, and also pick up a few colors from the inspiration photo of Venice

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

Linda used DP with music score as her background

June Lanum

Lina Beas

June used embossed music score paper, green music score DP and also musical note charm

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Cheryl used music score paper as well

To see the details of the designer's work, please visit their individual blog

Take Note

You are welcome to submit any type of project based on the theme and combine challenges, 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 challenge. You must mention our challenge on your blog to be eligible to win the prize, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!

Prize

City Crafter Challenge Blog week 9 is sponsored by 

Krafty Kirsty

You can click HERE to see the description of the prize

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#9 so we could easily find  your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog) with our linking system (at the end of each challenge). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun!

Submit

Challenge ends June 21st, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)

The design team really looking forward to visit you over the coming week to see your wonderful creations for this challenge, so please send in your entries.

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

Did you all enjoy last week's challenge hosted by Cheryl? We certainly enjoyed viewing every single entry. As always, it was a difficult decision trying to choose just ONE winner from the great work that was submitted, and here's our winner for week 8 challenge!

Ros Crawford

Her little vintage horseshoe is filled with tulle, flowers, ribbons, is so beautiful, and her blog "Mikey's mom" is full of wonderful surprises too, do find some time to visit her blog and leave some sweet notes!

How could we not showcase our Spotlight Artists, these gals' artwork were just too good to be missed, here you go.......

Sylvia Nelson

Meretekj

Danka

Irit

Lumberjack Jan

Anne H

Lisa V

Congratulations to everyone, thanks for sending in your wonderful artwork, without you, City Crafter won't be this much FUN!!! Please grab your Winner badge and Spotlight Artisit Badge and display it proudly on your sidebar, thanks once again and hope to see your entry here on our week 9 challenge!

Week 8 ~ Here Comes the Bride

Hi all!! Cheryl here and I am soooooooo excited to be hosting my first ever challenge for City Crafter Challenge Blog!!! Are you ready for your challenge?! When I think of June, I think of weddings and so our theme this week is "here comes the bride". Your challenge is to create anything wedding related. It can be a wedding card, a wedding invitation, a bridal shower card, a layout, a homemade wedding present. I can't wait to see all of your creations!!

                                                    ~ Cheryl Nelson

CCCB week 8 ~ Here Comes the Bride

Here is a photo for your inspiration (*it is one of my daughter's bridal photos), no color requirement for this week's challenge, just create anything wedding related

Guest Designer

Now I am soooooooo very pleased to introduce you to one of my favorite designers EVER....the ohhhhhhh so sweet and talented Kay Sibley! She is currently the member of not only one, not only two, but three designs team. You are so going to fall in love with her fabulous blog: Robin Egg Ribbon

Kay Sibley

Robin Egg Ribbon

Design Team

Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl June Girl

Kirsty Vittetoe

Handmade Little Things

Linda Robinson

My Happy Place

June Lanum

Lina Beas
For details of cards, please visit the individual DT blogs


Take Note
You are welcome to submit any type of project based on the theme and combine challenges, 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 challenge. You must mention our challenge on your blog to be eligible to win the prize, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!


Prize
City Crafter Challenge Blog week 8 is sponsored by Krafty Kirsty
The winner will receive the "wedding" goodies you see HERE.

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#8 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog) with our linking system (at the end of each challenge). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun!

Submit
Challenge ends June 14th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST)
The design team are really looking forward to visit you over the coming week to see your wonderful creations for this challenge, so please send in your entries.





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
A big THANK YOU to all who joined in last week's challenge. There were so many fabulous entries and all were a pleasure to see. And the winner of City Crafter's week 7 "Button and Bow" is


Tracy MacDonald


Congratulations Tracy! Please could you email me (Kirsty) at CityCrafter@gmail.com so I could arrange to get your prize out! Prize must be claimed no later than 14th June, 2010
You can see Tracy's winning entry HERE!


As always, we had so many amazing entries, that deserved the City Spotlight Artist Award, the following entries are simply too pretty, please click on their names to view these beautiful artwork!


Lisa G
Ros Crawford
Lisa V
Deb Neerman
Dana Gustafson
Anthea
Karolyn Loncon
Irit

Congratulations to all! Don't forget to grab your badge and display it proudly on your blog, you've earned them!


Thank you once again to all the entries we received on week 7, and to those who left lovely comments, without all of you, City Crafter Challenge blog won't be this much FUN!

Week 7 ~ Button and Bow

Welcome to another challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog.  It's June here and this week our challenge is BUTTON and BOW.  Also, all our DT and GD will be using digital stamp for our sample this week. This is my first experience with digital stamps, so if you've never done one thats o.k. it's really easy because the subject is your choice, the colors are your choice  and all the embellishments are your choice. Good luck and have fun.

                                                              ~June Lanum       
                                                                 

CCCB week # 7 
~ Button and Bow

Photo: courtesy of Crazy for Collars (www.crazyforcollars.etsy.com)


Create a card/project using Button and Bow is all you need


Guest Designer
We are very happy to have an opportunity this week to introduce you to a talented crafter who has come to our attention recently. Linda Coughlin from the Funkie Junkie blog has been playing in our City Crafter Challenges and was the winner of the Week 2 Easel Card Challenge. Linda has been a serious card-maker for the past two years and serves on a number of design teams. Her favorite style is vintage/shabby chic. Linda really enjoys making collage style cards and says she loves taking something new and making it looks old. Here is her take on this week's challenge using our sponsor Digi Doodle Shop's Perfume from Paris Set.

Linda Coughlin
The Funkie Junkie


Design Team
Sad News
We are saying sad farewell to the amazingly talented Heather Jensen today. Because of her other commitment and priority in life, Heather has to leave us after week 7. She has been an amazing team member and will be missed so much by all of us on the DT. Thank you so much for all the fantastic work that you gave us Heather. We wish you all the very best for the future, and when things settled down for you a bit we hope to see you visiting us and joining in the challenges from time to time.


As always, our DT have some wonderful samples for you, this week we are all using digital stamp sponsored by Digi Doodle Shop. All of these images are available at www.digidoodleshop.com

June Lanum
Lina Beas

Heather Jensen
Simply Handmade by Heather

Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl

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 combine challenges, 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 challenge.
You must mention our challenge on your blog to be eligible to win the prize, and please link back to City Crafter Challenge Blog. Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!


Prize
Our sponsor for this week is Digi Doodle Shop
Digi Doodle Shop  kindly donated a $10 gift certificate to one lucky winner entering this weeks challenge

Digi Doodle Shop started over three years ago with digital scrapbook kits. Digital stamps were introduced not long after that. Their hope is that the stamps they make would inspire the creativity in you, and bring joy to all who create with the digital stamps from Digi Doodle Shop.
Digi Doodle Shop is a magical place filled with little digi creations, a wide range of digital stamps will be available to download directly from the store 24/7. If you like the digital images shown here from our samples, do visit Digi Doodle Shop to grab one for yourself.
If you would like to win some lovely digital stamps from Digi Doodle Shop, all you have to do is play along this week and you'll stand a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to spend at Digi Doodle Shop


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#7 so we could easily find your creation), then link it here with the direct link (not your entire blog) with our linking system (at the end of each challenge). Don't forget to link back to our challenge blog so more people can join in the fun!


Submit
Challenge ends June 7th, 2010 at 11.59 PM (EST) 
The design team are really looking forward to visit you over the coming week to see your wonderful creations for this challenge, so please send in your entries.





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
Wow! What an amazing challenge week we had last week! Thank you all so much for your participation! Here's our winner for week 6 


Sandy


Congratulations Sandy, please email me (Kirsty) at citycrafter@gmail.com, so I could line you up with our sponsor The Scrapbooking Cottage for your prize. Don't forget to grab your winner badge!
Prize must be claimed before June 7th, 2010
You can click HERE to look at Sandy's fabulous creation


How could we do without having our City Spotlight shines on these lovely creations
Please visit all the winners and leave them sweet comments!


Melissa Bove
Deb Hickman
LeAnne
Linda, the funkie junkie
Dana Gustafson
Joanna K
Kim E
Steph


Congratulations girls, take the badge from the sidebar and wear it with pride.