Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Week 6 ~ Recipe Card

Good morning, It's me Linda and I am so happy to be your hostess again this week. This week I came up with a Recipe Challenge.. Are you up for it. Here is your recipe:


1 ribbon
2 papers ~ you can use card stock or design paper
3 flowers


That's it. That's your recipe. You are not limited to these three items, but these three item
 must be on your creation. 
So let's see what you can make up with this recipe.




~ Linda Robinson


CCCB week # 6 ~ Recipe Card 


1 ribbon, 2 papers, 
3 flowers



We are delighted that Leslie from A Creative Mint allowed us to use one of her beautiful artwork once again. If you adore Leslie's photography, I am sure you will love A Creative Mint, if you have not, please visit her, I bet you will fall in love with her beautiful work.
This photo is simply eye candy, and for inspiration only, no color requirement in this week's challenge, just make sure you follow the recipe!



Guest Designer

I am excited to introduce Jane Wetzel as our Guest Designer for week #6

I must say that Jane is the Queen with Copic Markers. She can color with the best of them.  If you get a chance you should hop on over and take a look at her wonderful creations at Anything but....Plain Jane

Jane also is on a couple of Design teams including the copic markers design team.



Design Team


We have a new DT to introduce to you this week, from week 6, Cheryl Nelson will be joining us here at City Crafter Challenge Blog, and showcase her talent weekly as Design Team member.
You can get to know Cheryl by visiting her blog cheryl june girl and leave her a welcome note




As  usual, our DT have produced their brilliant inspiration



Linda Robinson













June Lanum







Heather Jensen


Cheryl Nelson
Cheryl June Girl







Kirsty Vittetoe


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 this week is The Scrapbooking Cottage, Stacy from The Scrapbooking Cottage is kindly giving the winner of week # 6 a $25 gift certificate to spend at her online sore.






The Scrapbooking Cottage offers the best selection of paper crafting products from stamps, papers, ribbons, tools to ink, punches and stickers etc. They carries brands like Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, My Minds Eye, Martha Stewart Craft and so many more, it is truly a one stop shop!
With a variety of products in stock, The Scrapbooking Cottage is known for their outstanding customer service and fast shipping. "Customer service is our #1 priorty" said Stacy from The Scrapbooking Cottage.


Stacy is also the Design Team member of The Scrapbooking Cottage Blog, I hope you stop by Stacy's blog and leave her a sweet comment to show some appreciation for her sponsorship with CCCB this week.


Please pay a visit to The Scrapbooking Cottage because you won't be disappointed, I promise!





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#6 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 May 31st, 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


"NEW - JUST IN"
We have our WINNER badge and SPOTLIGHT ARTIST badge for you to display now. If you are a winner or spotlight artist of City Crafter Challenge Blog, feel free to display the WINNER badge or SPOTLIGHT ARTIST badge on your blog or side bar and let the world know that you are a winner!


If you are one of our winner or spotlight artist from CCCB week 1 - week 4, please do so too, and sorry for not having it much earlier


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We would like to thank everyone who played along last week, we had so much fun visiting your blog, especially reading how you feel about Paris, whether you have been there before or not. 


And the winner for the "I love Paris" card is


Dana Gustafson
Check out her lovely Paris card HERE


Congratulations Dana, please send me (Kirsty) an email at Citycrafter@gmail.com 
so I could ship the prize to you.


Prize must be claimed by May 31st, 2010




There were just way too many lovely Paris card/project for our week 5 challenge
Now let's see who are our SPOTLIGHT ARTIST 


Rebekah
Mona Pendleton
Lumberjack Jan
Christine N
Ros Crawford
Julie Ranae


Click on their name to see their beautiful creations, and not forgetting to leave a little sweet comment!
Congratulations to all, you gals rocked Paris!



Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Week 5 ~ I love Paris!

Can't believe this is week 5 for City Crafter Challenge Blog already! It is my turn to host the challenge again. Well, I am a city girl, move from one city to another, this week, I am choosing a picture of one of my favorite city - Paris
Paris is romantic, Eiffel Towel is beautiful day or night, River Seine makes the most romantic backdrop for photographs, French Crepe is yummy, The Louvre, Norte Dame, Moulin Rouge...... my list is endless when I talked about why I love Paris!


~ Kirsty Vitteote



CCCB # 5 ~ J'aime Paris 
(I love Paris)

Use this picture as inspiration, create a card/project, no color or Paris image is required.


Photo source: http://my247.com.au/brisbane/Kookaburra-River-Queens/whats-on/Bastille-Day-in-Brisbane--Kooka-goes-French.162188




Guest Designer
I am delighted to introduce our Guest Designer for week # 5 Melissa Phillips.
I completely fall in love with Melissa's creation since the day I found LilyBean's Paperie, I have been following her blog on a daily basis since then, her artwork is lovely and romantic, every single tiny piece of embellie she added on her creation is so filled with love. 
We here at City Crafter feel extremely honored to have Melissa's beautiful creation here this week!


Melissa Phillips






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







Do hop over to their blog to see the details of their card and also other fabulous creations!
Kirsty Vittetoe

Linda Robinson


June Lanum



Heather Jensen




















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 creations 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.
Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!



Prize




City Crafter Challenge Blog week 5 
is sponsored by Krafty Kirsty
The winner will receive the vintage goodies you see HERE.
Do stop by Krafty Kirsty Etsy Shop for vintage supplies for your paper crafting projects





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#5 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 May 24th, 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


We really enjoy viewing everyone's card the past week, and thrilled to see a good number of repeat visitors, it is really encouraging, Thank You all so much!


After going through some difficult time - pick just ONE winner, we've decided that the winner of our week 4 challenge - Pretty in Pink goes to


Ros Crawford
You can see her amazing Pretty in Pink card HERE!


And I am please to present to you our City Spotlight entries, please stop by their blogs (by clicking on the names) to see their fabulous Pretty in Pink card, and maybe say "Hello"?


Cathy / Papier Girl
Mona Pendleton
Tracy MacD
Linda, the funkie junkie
Lisa G
Tracy Payne


Congratulations girls!


And the winner (randomly pick from the correct answer sent to citycrafter) of the Mystery Prize goes to
Joanne Leddy


Congratulations to each one of you, you girls here did a fabulous job on the Pretty in Pink card.


Ros and Joanne, please email me (kirsty) at citycrafter@gmail.com with your postal details, so I could get the prize sent out to you.
Prizes must be claimed by May 24th






Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Week 4 ~ Colors Challenge

Thank you all who participated in our last challenge Terrific Tag! We really enjoyed looking at all of your gorgeous creations! Now on to our next Challenge!

Our hostess for week 4 is Heather Jensen

Hello everyone. I am Heather and I will be your hostess this week.  Your challenge is to make a card using the colors in the inspiration photo.  Pink is my favorite color.  Everything is beautiful in pink.  Guess what my favorite movie is also?  Pretty in Pink!  Seriously.  Notice the hint of green?  Would love to see that too.  Not required but it is a perfect accent color.


CCCB week # 4 - Colors Challenge

I am honored to bring you all a wonderful inspirational photograph from A Creative Mint.  Leslie was so kind to let us use her lovely picture for this weeks challenge.  You must stop by and take a  look at her blog.  You will be blown away.  I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations.  What are you waiting for?  Hurry...craft away.

Guest Designer

Melissa Sauls
In Stamping Mode
I am honored to have Melissa as our guest designer.  She has a lovely shabby style with alot of feminine touches.  I have followed her blog for quite some time now.  She seems to be able to make anything look good on a card.  And she is the sweetest person too.  It doesn't get much better than that.  Thanks Melissa!


Design Team

Heather Jensen



Kirsty Vittetoe



Linda Robinson



June Lanum



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 creations 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.
Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have FUN!


Prize


This week City Crafter is sponsored by Krafty Kirsty.
The winner of week 4 challenge will receive the Pink Goodies you see HERE.
The items could also be purchased at Krafty Kirsty Etsy Shop.




Extra........ (Mystery prize)


There is a Mystery Prize to be won this week, all you have to do is browse through the items at Krafty Kirsty Etsy Shop and find that prize, the clue line is "We are the perfect pair in Paris". Send your answer (name of item) to citycrafter@gmail.com, we will randomly pick a lucky winner with the correct answer by the end of this challenge. (You will need to either submit an entry for week 4 challenge or is one of CCCB's follower to be eligible for the mystery 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#4 so we could easily find your creation), then link it there 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 May 17th, 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


Thanks to all who played along this week, stopped by or left comments.
The winner of the "Terrific Tag" is Mona Pendleton! Congratulations Mona!
Pop over to Mona's blog to see more of her beautiful creations!


It was so tough to decide on just ONE winner this week as there were so many great entries.
Our city spotlight is also shinning on the following entries


Annabelle O'Malley
Cathy
Ros Crawford


Please visit their blog and look at the lovely entries!


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Here is our random winner for the set of tags - entry # 13 Joanne


Mona and Joanne, please contact me (kirsty) at citycrafter@gmail.com
I will arrange the goodies to be sent to you. 
If the prize is not claimed by May 17th, another winner will be chosen.






Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Week 3 ~ Terrific Tag

Wow! Another great week of entries
We had a busy week viewing all the Easel Cards submitted for week 2 challenge

This is week # 3 and our hostess is June Lanum

June: Hi, I am June Lanum and I am from Lafayette, IN. I am this weeks challenge host and I have decided to do tags, I love tags, they are good to have made up and keep on hand for that quick little thank you or for whatever occasion you might need. You can make a card with a matching tag, just a tag, any size, shape, color for theme, it's also a good way to use up scraps. Now get started and show us what you have. Good luck to everyone


CCCB # 3 ~ Terrific Tag




Guest Designer
We are very honored to have Debbie Marcinkiewicz as our Guest Designer for week 3 challenge
 Debbie is well 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, you'll find tons of fun at the tea room every week, if you haven't yet visit The Shabby Tea Room, please do so and you'll know what I mean.


So, here's our Guest Designer, Debbie Marcinkiewicz!

Debbie : I {heart} everything paper and glue! I was introduced to paper crafting approximately 5 years ago at a workshop a friend was hosting and immediately fell in love! I've dabbled with paper crafting for nearly 20 years - I used to scrap when my children were younger. I'm a SAHM to two teen-aged sons and married to my best friend for the past 23 years! Whenever I have a free minute, you'll find me in my craft room designing! I currently have the honor of being a Design Team Member for The Shabby Tea Room and Picture Perfect Creations!



Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Simple Treasures


Design Team
Here are the DT's fantastic creations for this week challenge

For details of cards, please visit the individual DT's blog



June Lanum
Lina Beas




Heather Jensen
Simply Handmade by Heather




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 creations that have been posted prior to the day of the current challenge.

You must mention our challenge on your blog and link back to CCCB to be eligible to win the prize.
Last but not least, the most important thing is that you must have fun!


Prize

We can't be more excited, Debbie Marcinkiewicz, our Guest Designer this week had geneoursly sponsored the prize for our week 3 challenge. Debbie's Etsy shop offer 15 lovely colors of these Shabby Vintage Seam Binding, I am sure all of us would love to have some!
The winner of week 3 will be receiving a bundle of 12 yards (1 yard each of 12 different colors) Hooray!




Do drop by Debbie's Shop to view these lovely seam binding!
Thanks once again Debbie for sponsoring our prize for week 3




Extra.......
Since this week challenge is all about TAG, we are going to give away an extra prize for a lucky winner (draw randomly). It is a set of 50 tags, cardstock and pattern paper (25 of each).
To qualify for this extra prize, 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 become a follower (or already are a CCCB follower).
Good luck and have FUN!



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#3 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 May 10th, 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.


Winners

There were so many creative entries last week, picking our favorite was tough!

Congratulations Linda (the funkie junkie) you are our winner of CCCB week 2 challenge, can you please email me (Kirsty) at citycrafter.gmail.com and I will arrange the goodies to be sent to you. If the prize is not claimed by May 10th, another winner will be chosen.

Click HERE to see Linda, the funkie junkie's lovely Easel Card

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As usual, we would like to have our city spotlight shine on the following creations!

Danka
Lumber Jack Jan
LeAnne
Margaret
Joanna K

Do visit their blog to see those lovely artwork!

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I would also like to take a minute to thank those who leave sweet comments here!
We love reading your comments!