Saturday 27 April 2019

Winners post coming soon !

The Winners post is coming soon....
 
Come visit us to find out who the Winners, Top Picks
 and Honourable Mentions were for our April challenge.
 
Was it you? 
 
(We are also on Facebook and Instagram too, see link in side bar.)
 
We will be back to let you know on the 3rd May
  The next challenge will start on the 4th May
Do come and join us !
  
...pssst! there is PRIZE next time too ;)
 
 
 

Tuesday 16 April 2019

The Flower Challenge #31 Reminder

Welcome back to The Flower Challenge. It's the midway point in our current challenge and here is a reminder. This month we want you to use our 'sketch' as inspiration on your cards.







Sketch #2


It would be great if you could add our cue card above when entering our challenge. Of course most of all......have fun !

So for this challenge we want you to use this sketch as inspiration on your card. Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch when creating your card.But we would like to see the sketch recognizable on your cards. If in doubt as always see our DT's examples below.

We notice there are not as many entries this time, so if you are struggling with this sketch.
Can I just suggest you just take two spare pieces of card (left over from other projects,patterned, embossed or just plain) and then add three flowers....simples ;)


Please don't forget to use your Florals as always and as the MAIN feature on your card.
Only 6 other challenges allowed as well as our own.
Also please take a few minutes to read our rules in the tab above as you may lose out on winning a prize sometimes too.

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













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

Friday 5 April 2019

The Flower Challenge #31 'Sketch'.

Welcome to The Flower Challenge! This is the challenge that celebrates cards using floral images. Our challenge for  April  is .....



Here is our sketch below.



It would be great if you could add our cue card above when entering our challenge.
Of course most of all....have fun!

The winner will be announced in the usual manner, the day before the next challenge. 

So for this challenge we want you to use this sketch as inspiration on your card. Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch when creating your card. But we would like to see the sketch recognizable on your cards. If in doubt as always see our DT's examples below.


Please don't forget to use your Florals as always and as the MAIN feature on your card.
Only 6 other challenges allowed as well as our own.
Also please take a few minutes to read our rules in the tab above as you may lose out on winning a prize sometimes too.

Just adding here that we were quite overwhelmed by the sheer amount of amazing cards we had entered last month....183 wow! It makes us so happy to see our blog becoming so popular with everyone. 

What makes us sad though is having to exclude certain cards for not following our simple rules. We had 14 cards who entered too many challenges, so PLEASE do check you are not linking more than 6 others as well as our own.

  
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 :) 



Bobby 







Vivien


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


Thursday 4 April 2019

The Flower Challenge 'Picks for the Month of March 2019, challenge #30'

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.
 
Wow!...so many entries this time...183 in fact. All fabulous too, so 
much talent and gorgeous cards it was almost impossible to choose
 winners this time.

 A few really did stand out to us all, although to be
honest any one of the cards entered could have been chosen as
  winners. Well done everyone ;)



The Winner for our March challenge was


Nancy Penir
This was a very popular choice with us all I am happy to say.
Such beautiful flowers and amazing colouring too, excellent card!
Congratulations and don't forget to grab your badge below.




The Top Pick chosen by the Design team was


This was loved by us all also, a very worthy runner up.
Gorgeous flowers and the depth you achieve with your colouring
 is just amazing.

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



The Honourable Mention for this month was


Such an elegant CAS card, another one which really
 stood out to us. Love the delicate colouring and pretty dies too.


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



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.



 We hope you enjoyed playing along and that you'll come join us
 again for a new challenge starting 4th April.