Challenge 165 - Boxing Day!

In Canada today we celebrate Boxing Day...

Despite its name, Boxing Day, which is celebrated on December 26 in Great Britain, has nothing to do with pugilistic competition. Nor is it a day for people to return unwanted Christmas presents. While the exact origins of the holiday are obscure, it is likely that Boxing Day began in England during the Middle Ages.

Some historians say the holiday developed because servants were required to work on Christmas Day, but took the following day off. As servants prepared to leave to visit their families, their employers would present them with gift boxes.

So I am asking everyone to put a box on your project... or a square!  Just a nice easy challenge for this day of unwinding or crazy shopping as some like to do.

Featured Tags!

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week's tag challenge.

 Here's a couple that caught my eye:

 From Larissa

And from Angi

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Challenge 164 - Christmas Tag

Hey all,this week`s challenge is just in time for Christmas wrapping and that is to make a tag.

 I make tags every year and here is one of this year`s:

We`d love it if you`d play along and link up your tag. We love to see what you create.

featured pink christmas projects

Thanks for all who played along

 

I know its a very BUSY time

 

Here are my picks for this week

 

Pat

 

Lyndal

Chris

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we wish you a pink Christmas

hey there!!

Its Regs here with a festive Challenge

 

Make a pink themed Christmas or Holiday card

 

I used a maya road snowflake, a papertrey stamp and a pink paislee tag

 

lets see what you can come up with..

Featured Home for the Holidays Cards

Thank you to everyone who played along with my challenge to create a Christmas card with a house on it!

Here are a couple of my favorites...

a beautiful step card by Sue

a fun tag by Nana Connie

 a beautiful snowy card by Claire

Such beautiful creations ladies!  Be sure to grab the Featured Button from our sidebar and proudly display it on your blog!

See you tomorrow for another great challenge by Regan!

Challenge #162 - Home for the Holidays

Welcome to this week's challenge!  It is December and we will soon be approaching the holiday season.  So, for our challenge this week, I would like to see a Christmas card with a house on it!

This is the card I made to give you some inspiration:

The inside of my card says, "From our home to yours... Merry Christmas!"

So, now I can't wait to see what you create! Be sure to link up below!

Joanne xo 

Trim the Tree Featured Cards

Lots of great TREE cards this week!!  Thanks for linking up your "tree" cards.
Here are some of my favs!

Yogi--beautiful winter scene grounded with those great snowflake stamps

Anni--I love this CAS style, and those folded trees got me inspired to make my own!

Christine--she had many fab cards, but this was one with trees that I loved

(great colouring, embossing and composition)

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LRW #161--Trim the Tree

Hello, Tammy here this week.  I realized this weekend, as I was putting up our tree and decorating the house, that it's (well now) less than a month before Christmas --yikes!-- I know!! . . . So why not make this week's challenge about trees!!  That's right. . .

 I'm challenging you to use a tree on your project (but I'm not limiting you to a Christmas tree)

I have two little projects for you. They worked as a set I gave as a hostess gift this
 weekend--a card and wine bottle tag.

Here's a close up on the card:

 Here's the tag:

Lots of glitter on both--tis' the season!

Check out what the rest of our tree-rific DT has created,
then please link up your tree-mendous creation below!

Boy Oh Boy Featured Projects

I saw some great masculine cards out there this week.  Here are my two faves....

Chris v - easily amused

Lyndal

Wonderful cards, ladies!  Feel free to snag the "Featured" badge at the right to display on your blog.

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Challenge # 160 - Boy Oh Boy

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  This week, the challenge is "Boy Oh Boy" which means we want to see your masculine cards.

This is what I came up with.....

If you want more inspiration, check out what fantastic-ness the Girlfriends have come up with. And when you're done that, make sure you come on back and add your creation to Mister Linky.

Can't wait to see 'em!

Texturize It! Featured Cards

Wow! There were so many gorgeous projects linked up this week that I had a really hard time picking which ones to feature!  

 Here are just a few that really stood out...

an adorable Krafty snowman from Cec

a sweet little buckaroo from Melissa

 

 a fun thank you card from Lisa

a lovely clean and simple card from Sharon

Thank you to everyone who played along with this challenge!  If you card was featured this week, please grab our Featured Button from our sidebar and proudly display it on your blog - you deserve it!  We hope you stop back tomorrow for another great challenge from Jan :)

Challenge #159 - Texturize It!

Good Morning!  Today's challenge is all about texture!  I love working with embossing folders, so that is my challenge for you.  Pull out your embossing folders and create something with texture.

I decided it was time to get going on my Christmas cards, so I made up this pretty card using an embossing folder and an ornament cut with my Silhouette.

Are you up for the challenge?  Just use an embossing folder on your project and then link up below!  We can't wait to see what you create :)

Joanne xo

Top Coloring Projects!

Wow there are some really amazing copic artists out there!

You know I love clean and simple so how could I not pick this!

http://annikarten.blogspot.ca/2012/11/guest-designer-bei-paper-smooches-6-und.html

This is just wow!

http://kinsalecreations.blogspot.ca/2012/11/dysu-97-leaves-trees.html

The details here are amazing! It would take me 2 days to color this and it wouldn't look half as good!

http://iwannabuildamemory.blogspot.ca/2012/11/a-caroling-we-will-go.html

I suggest you bookmark this copic ladies!

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Challenge # 158 - Coloring!

Dee here...

It is my turn this week and since I had not used my copics to color in a while, I thought it would be a good idea to do that, and make everyone else color with me!

I choose an image from a stamp set a friend designed... she is uber talented!



Hope you can play!

Featured Halloween Treat Project

I'm pleased to feature this project by Sharlene this week:

Aren't those hats cute?

Thanks for playing along Sharlene and grab our blinkie to feature on your blog!

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Challenge #157 -Halloween Treats!

It's Rosanne here with this week's challenge at Little Red Wagon and as today is Halloween, I've picked Halloween Treats as the theme.

 I created a lollipop using Authentique's Halloween line and thought it would be perfect for this challenge:

If you can, please link up your Halloween inspired project, we love to see what you create!


 

colour combo picks

here are my picks for this week!

 

helen

Rosemary

 

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my soul listens

Happy Wednesday!!

 

Its my turn to host the challenge at Little Red wagon today

I chose a colour combo rust, olive, kraft and brown

 

Keepin with the season...LOL

I used a memory box die, chipboard flower and a sentiment from cosmo cricket. I added some mist and bling too

lets see what you can come up with

Bow-dacious Hi-Lites...

We had so many wonderful entries to our Bow-dacious challenge this week. I really enjoyed looking at them all... Here are some of the ones that really stuck out to me...

 

Lena Katrine

 

Julie P



 

Lorianna

 

 

Sharon J

 

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Challenge #155 - Bow-dacious...

Judy here and it is my turn to host this week. I love to use bows on a great deal of my projects. So I thought it would be a great challenge for you all to create something with a bow as well. Enjoy!

 

Remember to share by uploading your project...It might be featured at the end of the week!

 

Fallin' For You--Featured Projects

Wow--great response with our Fall challenge this week.  Lots of great projects linked up.
Here are some that made me go "OOOOoooo--love it!"

LeAnne -- love the red on kraft and the simple leaf images

(she actually has a few great fall cards in her post)

Yogi -- love the distress purple background with that spiderweb--makes the leaves pop!

Jenny -- great combo of patterned papers; love that tree poking out too!

Charmaine -- that glittered panel done with masking is simply beautiful!

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