July - Beautiful Blooms (flowers)

Good morning, I hope you are ready for a new challenge. This month we are celebrating our gardens with the theme of........

******Beautiful Blooms (flowers)******

It's as simple as that, we want to see lots of beautiful flowers, so get out those floral stamps and get creating. Your entry can be for any occasion all we ask is that the focal element is stamped (or digital) and has flower/s (not just added non stamped flowers).

Fiki was selected as our next Featured Designer from entries in May, here is a little bio she has written to introduce herself:

"My name is Fikreta but friends call me Fiki. I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but I live in Kalinovac, Croatia I'm married and we have one beautiful 18 year old girl whose name is Paola. I'm a big  animal lover. I LOVE cats ! Love anything crafty. I started crafting 5 years ago and blogging about 4 years ago. If you ask me why I start to craft I think because I don't go insane LOL ! I'm at home, I do not work, wife and mom so I must do something else. I love paper, stamps (digi too) ink and everything else to make my creations. I love to make anything crafty, My inspiration is everywhere. I'm a big dreamer. And I like to take pictures, especially my cat's. Thank you for having me as Guest Designer! I'm very honoured!"

Thank you so much Fiki. Here is a beautiful card she has made to share with us all......

We are thrilled to introduce two new team members, Lorraine, aka Lolo and Anesha, welcome to you both and together with the existing Design Team have been really busy creating a super display of floral creations to inspire you......

Alice

Anesha

Brenda

Hilary

Kath

Lolo

Lynn 

Mervi

Tracy

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June winner and Top 3

Morning everyone, time to announce our June winner and Top 3, a really difficult task with so many lovely entries, our thanks to you all for taking the time to join us, it's really appreciated.

Random Org., has been put to work and the number he has selected is......

Entry no 56 is Kathy, well done, please mail me from the link on the sidebar so I can arrange for you to choose your prize.

Our Top 3 in order of voting by the Design Team......

Entry no 42 Tracy

Entry no 47 Dreja

Entry no 59 Heather

Congratulations to you all, please collect your badge from the sidebar to display on your own blogs.

I will be back on Sunday with our new challenge.

 

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Colourful inspiration

The days roll round and already it's the 18th on the month so time for our mid month inspiration post.

So many beautiful entries so far following our 'Hand Coloured or Paper Pieced' theme, but if you have not joined in yet there is still plenty of time as the challenge runs until Wednesday 30th June for the chance of winning super stamps from.......

Lots of colourful inspiration from the Design Team again......

Alice

Brenda

Hilary

Kath

Lynn

Mervi

Tracy

 

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June - Hand coloured or paper pieced

A warm welcome to our June challenge where this month our theme is......

**Hand coloured or paper pieced image**

The focal image as usual must be hand stamped as our preference (or digital) and can be for any occasion, the choice is yours but we want to see either colouring with your favourite colouring medium or paper piecing. You can enter up to three times to be in with a chance of winning an A4 stamp set or stamps to the same value from......

Our first Featured Designer back in September was Hilary and we are very pleased to tell you she is now joining us as a full time member of the team, please join me in extending a warm welcome to her.

To set you on your way we have a super selection of styles using both colouring and paper piecing from the Design Team......

Alice

Brenda

Hilary

Kath

Lynn

Mervi

Tracy

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May winner, Top 3 and Featured Designer

Good morning everyone, time to announce the winner of our May challenge where we have some really beautiful entries and thank you all for joining us during the month.

Before I tell you about the winner, myself and the team would like to extend a big thank you for all your warm words of support over the Social Media issues mentioned in our post below. It saddens us all that a crafter can be so malicious feeling the need to have a public vituperative outburst in what is usually such a happy crafting community, but thankfully is in the minority.

Moving back to our winner as selected by Random Org., who will be able to choose an A4 stamp sheet or stamps to the same value is......

Well done Maz please mail me by Thursday 10th June from the sidebar with your full name and postal address.

Next our Top 3 and Featured Designer as voted for by the Design Team......

The person we would like to join us as our July Featured Designer is Fiki, entry no 36......

Well done Fiki, please mail me so I can tell you more about our July theme.

And our May Top 3 which are actually a Top 4 as they all scored the same number of votes.....

Entry No 71 Amelia

Entry No 22 Anke

Entry No 106 Christine

Entry No 66 Kath

Please pop back on Sunday for our new challenge.

 

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Regarding our challenge

A difficult post to write but one which is necessary due to certain Social Media comments and accusations which have been made with regard to how the challenge is run. 

The aim of the challenge since June 2010 has always been to provide a forum for crafters to share their artwork along with the opportunity to win prizes provided by generous sponsors. 

The Design Team, many of whom are long standing members give their time on a voluntary basis, do not receive any form of inducement and each month provide artwork as inspiration for our entrants and take time to comment on those entries.

I and in turn my team will not be intimidated by gossip or false claims about how the challenge is run. If any crafter has an issue about how the challenge is run then they are welcome to send me a personal e.mail from the link on the challenge blog sidebar. Social Media and closed formats are not the appropriate place and I on behalf of the challenge, my team and sponsors will report to the appropriate body, taking into account GDPR regulations, any such dialogue of which I/we have or may become aware.

Our aim is to provide a friendly environment for crafters and to this end we will not tolerate inappropriate behaviour or comments and regularly review those and our rules to ensure all remain in the best interest of our entrants as a whole. 

Brenda

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