Challenge #16 - Clean & Simple

Welcome to this week's Phindy's Place Challenge and welcome to Friday!  We have a fun  challenge for you this week - which is to make a "clean and simple" card.  OK so what is a clean and simple card?!  I've gone to Splitcoaststampers for their definition:

"1. Clean: the design is uncluttered with lots of white or open space. Simple: having a clear focal point without a lot going on to detract from it.
OR
2. simple in design regardless of the number of embellishments or how long it takes to color, stitch or to use a special technique
OR
3. can be copied and mass produced fairly quickly… usually without a lot of coloring, layers, embellishments, tools and/or techniques
OR
4. any combination of the above"

As ever, you need to use one of Phindy's fabulous digis in your project, have fun and I can't wait to see your cards! 

The winner of the Challenge will be chosen by Random.org and will receive an $8 Gift Certificate to the Phindy's Place store. The Pick of the Week wins a 20% off voucher for the Phindy's Place store. Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!

Now over to the ultra talented Design Team for some inspiration:


Tammy Maynard



  

Ann English 

Annika Ryan

Linda Payne

Anne-Marije Poppen

Lynda Nielsen

We have two adorable cards from Sylvia this week:
Sylvia Blum

 

 Mary B. Giemza

Anne Ray 

Winners for Challenge #14 - Got the Blues?

Eek!!!  I totally forgot about posting our winners on Monday.  So sorry!!  Hope that you will all forgive me!  First I have to say that the cards for this challenge were over the top, dripping with awesomeness!!!!  Without further ado....

Our random winner for our Got the Blues? challenge and the recipient of an $8 gift certificate to the Phindy's Place store is.....

#2 Mary Ski with this darling little card.

And our Card of the Week winner for the Got the Blues? challenge who will receive a 20% off voucher to the Phindy's Place store is..........

Jackie Mooney with this absolutely stunning card.

Jackie will be added to our list for a chance to be our next guest designer!!

Congratulations ladies!!  Thank you to all who participated in this challenge!!!

Have a good one!

Challenge #15 - Stitched Up

 Good Morning everyone and Happy Friday!  What a stunning set of entries we had for the Blues Challenge - real eye candy, thank you to all who entered and stay tuned for the winners at the end of the weekend.  Now, there are two good things about Fridays:  it's time for a new Phindy's Place Challenge - oh and of course it's nearly the weekend:)! This week your challenge is to add some stitching - real or faux - to your project.  So it's time to dust off your sewing machine, look out that needle and thread or at least your trusty marker pen that you use for "stitching".  Of course you also need to use a Phindy's Place image and do check out the rules in the sidebar.

The winner of the Challenge will be chosen by Random.org and will receive an $8 Gift Certificate to the Phindy's Place store. The Pick of the Week wins a 20% off voucher for the Phindy's Place store. Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!

We have some real sewing superstars in the Design Team, so without more ado here is some inspiration and some eye candy for you: 

Sylvia Blum

Anne-Marije Poppen

Ann English

Tammy Maynard

Jane Wetzel

Annika Ryan

Linda Payne

Lynda Nielsen

Mary B. Giemza

Anne Ray

Emma Lockley

Our Very First Guest Designer Winner

So.....for all of you that have been waiting patiently (or maybe not so patiently) it is time to announce the winner of the very first Guest Designer here at Phindy's Place.  It was quit a close race but alas...one has come out on top.  Here are the winners of our Card of the Week challenges for the last 4 weeks................

Gail Moore

Cec

Astrid and Larissa

Tera (Stamp Queen)

And the winner of our first Guest Designer position is...............................................

Cec!!!!!  WooHoo!!!

Congratulations Cec.  WOW....we had a hard time picking out of all of these fabulous cards.  Thank you to all of you who qualified through our Card of the Week.  Your cards were all FABULOUS!!!!

Watch for Cec to join us for our challenge on August 6th.  Hope to see you all there!!!  It's going to be an awesome one!

Hope you all have a great day!!

Winners for Challenge #13 - Embossing

Good morning!!  It's time to pick our winners from challenge #13.  You all did an amazing job with you embossing and I want to thank you all for joining us!!  You're all winners to me but alas, I can only let Random. org pick one!  :)

Our Random winner of the $8 gift certificate for this week is..........................

Sue Drees with this awesome Mrs. Comfy card!!!

And our Card of the Week Winner is...........................

Lynne with this absolutely gorgeous card!!!

Congratulations ladies and be on the lookout here really soon for our Card of the Week overall winner that will get to be a guest with us for one week!!!  The anticipation mounts!!!  :)

Hope you all have a FABULOUS week!!!!

Challenge #14 - got the blues?

Hi everyone, it's Friday again and it's time to join in the Phindy Challenge.  Thanks to Tammy for taking care of the last couple of challenges and thank you to everyone for all those wonderful entries!  This week we've got the blues - well not altogether - you need to use some blue on your card; doesn't need to be all blue, just some blue - and a Phindy image - will do fine!

Please remember to check out the rules in the sidebar, but the important one is to use a Phindy's Place image!

The winner of the Challenge will be chosen by Random.org and will receive an $8 Gift Certificate to the Phindy's Place store. The Pick of the Week wins a 20% off voucher for the Phindy's Place store. Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!

Pick of the Week has been running for a month now, so if you are a Pick of the Week winner, be sure to watch out for the announcement - you could be the overall winner!

Enough chat, it's time to show you some wonderful inspiration from Phindy's Fantastic Design Team:

Tammy Maynard

Anne Ray

Mary B. Giemza

Jane Wetzel

Ann English

Annika Ryan

Anne-Marije Poppen

Linda Payne

Lynda Nielsen

Challenge #12 - Winners

WooHoo!!!  The results are in and I'm sure that you are all dying to know if you are a lucky winner this week.  The competition was a tough one this week so thank you to all of you who played along with us!!  You all are wonderful!!!!

Our random winner this week picked my Random.org is.......................

Mari Harpham with this fabulous card.

And our Card of the week winner is.................

Tera (Stamp Queen) with this stunning card.

 Congratulations gals!!!  Be on the lookout for your blog blinkys!!!

Thank you again to all of you who joined us this last week and we hope to see you for our latest challenge located below!!!

Have a good one!!

Challenge #13 - Lets Do Some Embossing

Hi everyone!!  Can you believe that it's time for a new challenge already!?!  You have Tammy with you again this week as Anne is enjoying some quality down time!!  She should be back with us next week so bear with me for just one more week!  :)

Our challenge for this week is, you guessed it.....EMBOSSING!!!  We don't care if you dry emboss or heat emboss, we just want to see some!!

Okay, time for a little rundown!!  I know, I know but it is important to stress them every week for all of our newcomers!!!  You must use a Phindy's Place image .   We just love seeing Phindy's art brought to life by y'all!!!  :)  If you don't have a Phindy's Place image pop on over to our group at Paper Craft Planet and grab the adorable freebie that we have right now.

The winner of the Challenge will be chosen by Random.org and will receive an $8 Gift Certificate to the Phindy's Place store. The Pick of the Week wins a 20% off voucher for the Phindy's Place store. Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!

Ready for some inspiration!?!

Anne Ray (DT leader) 

Emma Lockley 

Annika Ryan

Lynda Nielsen 

Linda Payne

Ann English 

Ann has graced us with two cards this week!

Mary B. Giemza

Anne-Marije Poppen 

Jane Wetzel

Sylvia Blum

Tammy Maynard

Thank you for stopping by today and we can't wait to see your take on our challenge!!

Have a good one!!!