The Flower Challenge #15 Reminder

                                                   Welcome back to The Flower Challenge. 
                        It's the midway point in our current challenge and here is a reminder

                                                                     

      

                      
                           It would be great if you could add our cue card above when

                                                              entering our challenge.

                                                     Of course most of all....have fun!
                          

   As the name suggests 'Anything but a Card' is just that.

    I can think of a few things you could make, boxes ,bags,

 calendars, ATC's, stationery, journals etc .etc. but if you

 get stuck what about making a tag!

                                   Also please remember to use your Florals and they must be
                                                       the MAIN image on your card.
                                                                     

and here is some more wonderful inspiration from our design team.

Aileen

Cara

Karen

Maria

Ruth

TaeEun

Vivien

You still have time to add your card. 
Click here to submit an entry to our challenge. 
The challenge closes on 25th December

For exact time that the challenge closes in your
country please go to the link and see
the time there as it varies country to country.

We are looking forward to seeing all your entries.

                                                     

The Flower Challenge #15 'Anything but a Card'

   Welcome to The Flower Challenge!

  This is the challenge that celebrates cards using floral images.
Can't believe it's December already and the end of another year 
once again. 

We would like to thank all our lovely followers and everyone who
 has entered our challenges this year. May next year be a good 
one for all of us.

We all wish you a very Happy Christmas and a very
 Happy and Healthy New Year.


 Our challenge for December is .....

                                                                     

                                                                   

      It would be great if you could add our cue card above when

   entering our challenge.

Of course most of all....have fun!

                          

    As the name suggests 'Anything but a Card' is just that.

                                I can think of a few things you could make,boxes,bags,

   calendars, ATC's, stationery, journals, scrapbook pages
 etc.etc.  but if you get stuck what about making a tag!

            

 Please remember to use your Floral images and they must be

                                                         the MAIN feature of your card.

     

We are lucky to have the very talented Michelle Short from 

'The Card Grotto' as our Guest Designer this month. Make sure

 to check out her blog (and leave her some comment love) as
she has some amazing cards there. I also envy her craft
room organization, if only I could be more like that!

Guest Designer

Michelle

Such a beautiful tag Michelle has made, just love those
pretty Sunflowers too.

                                 And here is some inspiration from the Design Team.
                                (Be sure to click on the links to their blogs and leave

 them some comment love :)

                                                                      

                                                                      
Aileen

Cara

Karen




Maria

Ruth

Shona




TaeEun

Vivien

The challenge closes on the 25th of the month at 5pm, but we'll be back on the 15th with some more inspiration!    We will announce our challenge winners the day before the start of the next Challenge.  Have fun crafting!

The Flower Challenge 'Picks for the Month of November'

  Now comes the hardest part of the Challenge. 

                          

    We decided we didn't want to use the Random Picker as it was felt

        that cards should be chosen for a number of reasons not 'luck of the draw'.

        When we look at the cards entered we are each drawn to different styles,

        techniques and designs. So all the design team have input, each has been

          asked to pick out three cards that stand out to them and why.

      The cards getting the most votes will then be posted on our Winners post

         and the other cards will be listed under Top Pick and Honourable Mention.

It was very difficult to choose a winner this time! We all had four 
 clear favourite cards we liked. In the end one just pipped the post
as a winner I am pleased to say. So without further ado.....

 The  Winner for this month is 


Bharati

Such a beautiful CAS card and just love that pretty flower
and the amazing colouring too.

Congratulations and don't forget to grab your badge below.

The Top Picks chosen by the Design Team are

( In alphabetical order)

Darnell

This is such a happy and bright CAS card, love the pretty

 flowers and how one is raised up to add interest also.

Rosali 

Love how you kept the stamped image B&W and then

added the soft splash of water colour just underneath it.

Susan B 
 

Such an elegant  CAS card, white on white is always so

 stunning. Just love that delicate vellum Poinsettia too.

Congratulations and don't forget to grab your badge below.

There were no Honourable Mentions this month.

Congratulations to all of you and don't forget to grab your badge.

Thank you for joining us and helping to create a stunning gallery 

that celebrates floral stamps.

Vivien has made this wonderful badge for anyone who would 

like to display it on the sidebar on their blog.

Winners post coming soon!

  The Winners post is coming soon....    Come visit us to find out who the Winner, Top Picks  and Honourable Mentions were for our November challenge. Was it you?   We will be back to let you know on the 3rd December   The next challenge will start on the 4th December.       

 

The Flower Challenge #14 Reminder

 Welcome back to The Flower Challenge. 

 It's the midway point in our current  challenge:

                                                                     

     

  It would be great if you could add our cue card above when

    entering our challenge.

   Of course most of all....have fun!
                         

  This month we would like you to make a CAS (Clean & Simple)

card. So minimal layers/embellishments  and lots of 'white space'

See examples below from our talented Design Team if you are

 unsure what to make.

Also please remember to use your Florals and they must be

   the MAIN image on your card.

(Just adding here that I quite forgot to tell the winners of
our Birthday prizes to claim an 'I've Won' badge, so sorry!
Please can all winners look in 'badges' tab above to claim
 them, thank you.)

                                                                       

and here is some more wonderful inspiration
 from our design team.

Aileen

 Cara

Karen

Maria

Ruth

Shona




TaeEun

Vivien

You still have time to add your card. 
Click here to submit an entry to our challenge. 
The challenge closes on 25th November.

For exact time that the challenge closes in your
country please go to the link and see
the time there as it varies country to country.

We are looking forward to seeing all your entries.

                                                                     

The Flower Challenge #14 CAS

   Welcome to The Flower Challenge!

     This is the challenge that celebrates cards using floral images. 

      Our challenge for November is ........

 

It would be great if you could add our cue card above when 

entering our challenge

  Of course most of all....have fun!

                         

    This month we would like to see you make a CAS (Clean and Simple)

 card. So minimal layers/embellishments, and also lots of 'white space'.

       See what our Design Team have made below if you want examples

 to guide you.

    Please don't forget to use your Florals as always as the MAIN feature.

(See earlier post to find out who won the prizes for our
Anniversary challenge!)

        And here is some inspiration from the Design Team.
       (Be sure to click on the links to their blogs and leave

 them some comment love :)
         
     

      

Aileen

Cara

Karen

      

     

Maria

 

Ruth

Shona 

 

TaeEun 

 

Vivien

 

The challenge closes on the 25th of the month at 5pm, but we'll be back on the 15th with some more inspiration!   

 We will announce our challenge winners the day before the start of the next Challenge.  Have fun crafting!

 

The Flower Challenge #13 'Prize Winners for the Month of October'

          Hi everyone, welcome back to The Flower Challenge.

          The challenge which celebrates floral images on your cards.

           We were so thrilled to see such an amazing amount of entries to our

            1st Anniversary challenge. Also a very big thank you to all the

             companies who have sponsored us too. So very generous of them all.
 
              We were also very touched by all your lovely comments and 

            best wishes for us all here and our challenge. So happy you are loving

            our Flower Challenge as much as we are and we are looking forward
 to seeing all your amazing creations here again for another year
of floral beauty.

             Now of course I am sure you are all waiting to hear who won

            the prizes! This time we have used Mr Random picker to choose

                all our winners to make it fair and also comply with rules etc.

              Please note all prize winners have been allocated their first

             choice of prizes where possible. Winners choosing the same prize

            have been allocated the next prize on the list in order of 

              winners chosen.

          So without further ado here our the lucky winners for

           our Anniversary challenge.

       IMPORTANT

         (Please remember to claim your prize within seven days or the

         prizes will then be redrawn as stated in our rules.)

       Please can all winners email us with your name and full address

      so we can give you details of how to claim your prize.

Our email address is below

theflowerchallenge@gmail.com

The order of winners chosen was 48,24,33,80,1,112,19,93,45

hence some winners not getting their first choice of prize.

Glad to say Mr Random picker was kind to us and six

 winners luckily did win their first choice of prize !

Prize 1

     Concord & 9th 'Flower Turnabout' stamp set

          from Tara at SevenHillsCrafts

 No 19 Julye

   

  Prize 2
  £10 Voucher
     from Tracy at Dies to Die For

No 93 Bobby

         

    Prize 3 £10 voucher
  from Tracy at Dies to Die For
   No 45 Kath      

                                                         Prize 4
   $25 Gift Certificate
     from Effie at The Ton  No 24 Ericka     

         

   Prize 5
     $30 Gift Code
        from Marcella at Power Poppy
 No 48 Marianne  

                               Prize 6                       
       $15 'Bloom' stamp set
      & matching stamp dies $12
    from Danielle at Neat & Tangled
   No 112 Betty

Prize 7

  $25 Voucher
   from Michelle at  CAS-UAL Fridays Stamps 
   No 80  Mary (FranSimply)      

   
Prize 8 $35 Canadian Dollars Voucher from Studio Katia

No 33 Michelle Bylaw

  

Prize 9

$16 Four Floral Digistamps 

from DotBstamp

                                  No 1 Susan Joyce                                   

     Many congratulations to all of our lucky prize winners!
    Please email us at theflowerchallenge@gmail.com with your name
 and full address within seven days to claim your prize.
 If winners don't claim their prize within seven
            days the prize will be redrawn.

  We look forward to seeing all your beautiful floral cards in
  our next challenge starting on the 4th Nov.