Saturday, November 28, 2009

Crazy for Challenges Week 13 - Punch Happy


Hi everyone.

First off thanks to everyone who participated in our Crazy 4 Challenges sketch challenge last week, your creations were all amazing!!!!!

This week we have another fun challenge ready for you, so I hope you will have time to play along. Let's get Punch Happy ..... get those punches out .... borders, shapes or decorative .... let's have some punch fun when we are creating our cards this week! As long as you use at least one punch on your card this week you are fine ... of course you can use as many punches as you wish ... the more the merrier!

If you would like to play along all you have to do is create a card using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C13. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see your card too.

And now to see what the design team has to share with us today:

Jessie Rone- Can You Say Addicted To Stamps?

Vicki Garrett-Summerthyme Studio


Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



Joycelyn Turner - Stamps 'n' Coffee



Lynda Benden ~ Stamp Act



Joanne Grzelak -- Inky Ocean Gazer



Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio



Mercy Kerin - Lord Have Mercy!



Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits



Robin Willis - Robin's Artful Musings







Lori Boyd - By LORi Designs




Saturday, November 21, 2009

Crazy for Challenges Week 12 - Sketch

Happy Saturday folks! Are you ready for another Crazy for Challenges challenge .... I know we all are over here!!

This week our challenge is a sketch challenge, we would love to see what you come up with using this layout.

If you would like to play along all you have to do is create a card using the above sketch and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C12. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see your card too.

Let's see what the team has in store for us today:


Frances Byrne -StampOwl's Studio


Robin Willis - Robin's Artful Musings





Vicki Garrett-Summerthyme Studio


Joycelyn Turner - Stamps 'n' Coffee


Lynda Benden ~ Stamp Act




Mercy Kerin - Lord Have Mercy!


Lori Boyd - By LORi Designs


Saturday, November 14, 2009

Crazy for Challenges Week 11 - Acetate

Hi Everyone,

Welcome back to our Crazy for Challenges blog. We enjoyed seeing all your marvelous Easel cards you created for our challenge last week, so many of you said it was the first time you had made one and that you would be making more :)

Before we get onto this week's challenge we need to announce the winner of the 3 stamps donated by this month's sponsor Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. Congratulations to #52. Renata . Please email Vicki at vickig@kos.net so that she can let you know how to claim your prize.

Ok now let's get onto this week's challenge, Frances has challenged us to create a card or project using acetate. There are many ways that you can incorporate acetate into your cards and projects, here are just a few ideas:
  • Acetate or Transparent card, see tutorial here.
  • Acetate or Transparent box, see tutorial here.
  • Stamping on Acetate to create a background
  • Using Embossing Folders to create a background
  • Using Alcohol Inks to create a background
  • Embellishments
  • Window Cards
  • Shaker Cards, see tutorial here.
  • Die Cut Acetate Shapes
  • Acetate & Tissue, see tutorial here.
  • Smackin' Acetate, see tutorial here.
  • Snowglobe Cards, see tutorial here.
  • Stained Glass
  • Acetate & Glitter, see tutorial here.
  • Glitter & Acetate, see tutorial here.
Hopefully that will give you a few ideas to get you started, but you may have another idea which I haven't listed. This is just what I came up with when I was thinking about this for a challenge.

If you would like to play along all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C11. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see your card too.

First up we have a card from Kim Reid the owner of Kraftin' Kimmes Stamps, this months sponsor.





Now let's see what acetate creations the C4C team came up with this week.


Joanne Grzelak - Inky Ocean Gazer





Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits


Joycelyn Turner - Stamps 'n' Coffee



Mercy Kerin - Lord Have Mercy!



Lynda Benden ~ Stamp Act









Robin Willis ~ Robin's Artful Musings



Vicki Garrett~Summerthyme Studio

Lori Boyd - By LORi Designs








Saturday, November 7, 2009

Crazy for Challenges Week 10 - Easel Card


Hi everyone and welcome to our Crazy 4 Challenges blog.

It is a new month which means a new hostess bringing us all the challenges throughout the month. Our November challenge hostess is Me ..... Frances Byrne. I hope you enjoy this months challenges as much as you have the past couple of months challenges.

Our Sponsor for the month of November is Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. This is a fairly new stamp company and their stamps are amazing. If you haven't seen this company before you might want to check them out.


Being the first Challenge of the Month, this is our Prize Challenge. One lucky person will win their choice of three images from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. The winner will be announced next week when we post our new challenge.

OK now for this week's challenge. Our challenge this week is to create an Easel Card. If you haven’t seen these before you can find the directions on how to create one of these here and here. These are really so easy and lots of fun and I love being able to show off the front and inside of my card at the same time. Can't wait to see all your creations.

If you would like to play along all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C10. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

Our Generous Sponsor, Kim Reid played right along with us this week!



Now it is time to see what our design team have created for you all this week! Don't forget to hop over to their blogs and show them some love!


Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits