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Monday, February 1, 2016

Crafter's Cafe Challenge # 142 Monochromatic - 1 February, 2016

The Crafter's Cafe is holding a DT call

We are looking for 4 or 5 people to join our design Team. commencing the 1st April, for a 6 month period, which can be extended . You will be required to complete two projects each month and to comment on a single number sequence e.g. 1, 11, 21, 31 etc. You will be designing with digital images that our wonderful sponsors supply free of charge.

All levels of experience or non experience as the case may be, can apply. Please contact us on craftersccb@cheerful.com, let us know a bit about yourself, leave a link to your blog and your preferred email address so we can contact you with further information regarding the DT. All applications need to be received by 15 February.

What February already! Hello and welcome to another wonderful challenge at the Crafter's Cafe.

Thank you to everyone who joined our blog hop and for all those wonderful projects, check below for all the winners.

Let's get started on all those wonderful winners from last fortnight,
first up the winners of the Blog Hop.

The winner of 1st Prize - Gina K stamp set "Spoon me" is
Elena

The winner of 2nd Prize - Gina K Stamp set "You make me smile" is
Tracey

The winner of 3rd Prize - Stampendous - "Vintage Ladies" is
KT Fit Kitty

The winner of 4th Prize - Stampendous - "Charmed Art" is

Aurora

Congratulations to all our winners. Please email Alex at alexcturner09@yahoo.co.uk to claim your prize. Please put Crafter's Cafe Challenge Winner in the subject, please also mention which prize you have won and advise Alex of your snail mail address, so we can post your stamp set to you..

Now for our wonderful Sponsor prizes

The winner of Moonflower Digital Stamps is
# 9 Veerle

The winner of Angie's Cards and Digis is
#18 Jackie Cornfield

Top 3 in numerical order

#2 Carol Gill

#14 Karen C

#19 Alcia O'Bryant

Congratulations. Please take your Top 3 badge from the side bar.

Onto this fortnight's challenge

Our Sponsors for this fortnight are

https://www.etsy.com/shop/KittyBeeDesign?ref=shopsection_shophome_leftnav

Prize is 1 non coloured image

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Mystitchbackintwine

Prize is 3 Digi Stamps

And the theme for this week is

MONOCHROMATIC

Now for a look at some DT inspiration

Using Kitty BeeDesigns

Alex - Hello There Panda

Barb Hello There Panda

CG: Cow

Fiona Hello There Panda

Gal e - Hello There Panda

Theresa Smelling the Daisy

Using My Stitch in Twine

Alicia Heart Banner

Cass: Garden Darcee

Heather: Dress 1

Rebecca:Hearts

Tina: Dreamy Darcee

Link your Monochromatic Projects here

An InLinkz Link-up

Friday, January 15, 2016

Crafter's Cafe Challenge # 141 - Male Cards. - Special "I Got the January Blues Challenge". 15 January, 2016

Hello and welcome to a very special challenge at The Crafter's Cafe this fortnight.
This Fortnight we are having an "I Got The January Blues" Challenge

After all the hype and excitement of the holidays is long gone, people often feel a bit flat around about now, so we decided to keep the presents/prizes coming. This fortnight you have the chance of winning one of 6 prizes. Scroll down to find out more.

First things first. Wow! so many beautifully crafted square cards, thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, so many wonderful entries and the winners as picked by random.org are

Winner of Alicia Bel Prize is

# 77 Jessi

Winner of Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps is
# 75 Leeann

Congratulations. Please email Alex at alexcturner09@yahoo.co.uk to claim your prize.

Please put Crafter's Cafe Challenge Winner in the subject, please also mention which prize you have won. Don't forget to take your badge from the side bar..

Top 3 in numerical order

# 2 Kaija

# 18 Stacey S

# 71 Stempelomis

Congratulations. Please take your Top 3 badge from the side bar.

Onto this fortnight's challenge

As mentioned above, some extra prizes and a hop for this challenge.

We would love you to leave a comment on each of the Design Teams postings and include the words "January Blues", those leaving comments will go into a special draw. We have four different stamp sets. Four names will be selected, each to receive one set of stamps, one will be posted to each of the 4 names drawn. And yes, this is world wide, we will post to anywhere. (Well, maybe not to mars!)
1st Prize - Gina K stamp set Spoon me
2nd Prize - Gina K Stamp set You make me smile
3rd Prize - Stampendous - Vintage Ladies
4th Prize - Stampendous - Charmed Art

For your Male Cards challenge this fortnight we have two wonderful sponsors.
Please check out their shops, you will find some wonderful images.

http://moonflowerdigistamps.com/home.html

5 th Prize: - $10 USD/€10 Euro worth of digital stamps

https://www.etsy.com/shop/AngiesCardsandDigis

6th Prize of 3 Digital Images

Hop Listing

Alex

Alicia

Barb

Cass

CG
Fiona

Gale

Heather

Rebecca

Theresa

Tina

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog

Please remember to leave a comment including the words January Blues

That is a total of 6 wonderful prizes.

And the theme for this week is

MALE CARDS

Now for a look at some DT inspiration

USING MOONFLOWER DIGI STAMPS

Alicia using Gina Cupcake

Barb using Candy Faery

Cass using Gina Cupcake

Fiona using Gigi Flap Dancer

Heather using Gigi Flap Dancer

Theresa using Gigi Flap Dancer

Tina using Gigi Flap Dancer

Using Angie's Cards and Digis

Alex using Baby Eating

CG using Teddy Bear

CG using You're the Marshmallow

Gale using Bear in a Boat

Rebecca using Wine Bottle with Glass

Cass using Bonkers

Don't forget to leave a comment on each Design Team Member's blog, include the words

"January Blues"

to be in the running for a stamp set.

Now lets see your wonderful male cards.

An InLinkz Link-up

Friday, January 1, 2016

Crafter's Cafe Challenge # 140 Square Cards 1 January, 2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hi everyone, hope you have all had an amazing holiday period,

received lots of goodies to create with and are ready to start creating for 2016.

Our Sponsors for 2015 were amazing and offered wonderful prizes, this year we welcome a number of them back and we also welcome new sponsors, check out the side bars to see this years sponsors. Don't forget to check the sneak peek page, to see what challenges are coming \.

Thank you everyone for the wonderful entries for our last 2015 challenge. The winners as picked by random.org are

The winner of the Rick St Dennis prize is

# 20 Red Obsession Cards

The winner of the Angie's Cards and Digis prize is

# 4 Iwona

The winner of the Melon Headz Illustrations prize is

# 13 Steffi H

Steffi's photo is on Flickr - we are unable to show a copy.

Congratulations. Please email Alex at alexcturner09@yahoo.co.uk to claim your prize.

Please put Crafter's Cafe Challenge Winner in the subject, please also mention which prize you have won. Don't forget to take your badge from the side bar..

Top 3 in numerical order

# 5 Lyn T