There are going to be a few changes made to the challenge blog in 2014, but we will come to that a bit further down. ;)
Firstly.... onto our winners from our last challenge of 2013, and oh my word, hundreds of fantastic entries..
The winners of the prizes are given below, please make sure that you email Donna, (details in sidebar), and please also, say in the subject line, which prize it is that you have been lucky enough to win. Well done to all.
Fred She Said Voucher
Bunny Zoe Voucher
Alota Rubber Stamps Voucher
Merly Impressions Voucher
Bearlymine Designs Voucher
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And we have our Top 3 as chosen by the DT
#319 Kiki Foe
#293 Maya
#362 Regan
Congratulations ladies, please grab your well deserved Top 3 badge from the badge page up top
And we have our Top 3 as chosen by the DT
#319 Kiki Foe
#293 Maya
#362 Regan
Congratulations ladies, please grab your well deserved Top 3 badge from the badge page up top
Now onto this first challenge of the year, and as always the DT have done us proud... the theme for this is
a colour inspiraton.
(I thought it would brighten up a dreary January) lol
Our wonderful sponser will be
Prize
About Marianne Design
Marianne Design is a Dutch owned craft manufacturer and wholesale supplier to
craft retailers around the world. The company was established in 1994 by
Marianne Perlot and is based in the Netherlands. For years now, we develop all
our products with much care and quality. We have a practical understanding of
the needs of crafters, we integrate product development, design and customer
service to bring fresh ideas and beautiful products to the craft industry. All
to enable the consumer to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other projects
and enjoy this wonderful hobby. Our products are available in 18 countries around
the world. We produce a wide range of products which represent a complete
concept of paper crafts. There are different lines of stamps and dies with
matching papers and materials to decorate your card or scrap. Products are
chosen carefully for mixing and matching and stimulating creativity.
The history of Marianne Design
Marianne was trained as a craft teacher and in 1989 she started writing
creative books. Her first book was of making ornamental dolls of fabric and
threads. This was a big hit and she sold over 1 million craft books in the
years that followed. At first she started to make books and products for other
companies, but she wanted to do more and started developing her own products. In
1994 she founded Marianne Design B.V. and started developing new crafts and
adequate products to go along with it for the Dutch market. To this day she
still coaches authors who write crafts books. Marianne: “It is fantastic to see
how creative people are and how crafts can excite them!”.
In recent years Marianne Design has grown to a mature production company which
is still on top and in demand. The company has concentrated on supplying
customers and consumers with the highest level of products and inspiration. For
this Marianne still leads the company herself and she has surrounded herself
with a passionate and experienced team. Marianne Design is a much loved brand. Since
2010 Marianne Design started to develop cutting- and embossing stencils to use
in different machines. This turned out to be extremely successful and the Marianne
Design Creatables dies have reached a cult status in the craft world. The
products of Marianne Design are becoming more known and have started settling
in other countries beside the Netherlands. The company continues to make
beautiful designs and products, there are many ideas and inspiration for the
future.
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Cards from the fabby Design Team
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Image: die-cut LOTV topper
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CAROL
both from the must have range
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Using Bearly Mine Designs Summer Roses & Mini Dots
Cuttlebug Die & Embossing folder for hearts
Now onto the news I teased you about :).... From this challenge on, we will be doing a MONTHLY Challenge, and NOT a weekly challenge as before. So this challenge will now run until January 31st.
ALSO, as well as the fabby DT adding their cards/projects as inspiration, following the challenge, on the set dates... which will always be 1st of the Month... throughout the month we will all continue to add inspiration for you, using BearlyMine Designs papers (although these will not follow the set challenge) hope that makes sense lol... sok, I still confused myself, so don't worry if you not getting it either... I am sure we will get the hang of it as the month pans out.. (I hope rofl)... all you need worry about, is playing along with us once a month with your wonderful creations, following the set challenge... (there now, wasn't that written clearer lol).
All papers used are from BearlyMine Designs and are available HERE.
Thank you for joining in on our challenge this month, please enter your cards below and good luck.
hugs Jackie