ABC16 Challenge Winners

We had gorgeous cards entered in our color challenge last week, thanks so much for playing along with us!  Be sure to join us again this week, we'd love to visit your blogs!  Our winners for this week are-  
 

Click on their names to visit their blogs!

The 'Winner' for our Color challenge is-

#6 Debbie S

Debbie, be sure to grab the 'Winner' badge for your blog.  You will find it on the left hand side bar and please link the badge back to this blog.  Thanks for playing along and congratulations on being chosen our challenge 'Winner'.  You are also invited to join us next week as a guest designer.  I will be sending you an email later with more details about our upcoming challenge. 

And here are our 'Top 3' cards (in numerical order)-

#8 Nana Connie

#9 Kim B

#12 Patricia Hays

Be sure to grab the 'Top 3' badge for your blog.  You will find it on the left hand side bar and please link the badge back to this blog.  Thanks for playing along and congratulations on being chosen within the 'Top 3'.  They were All Beautiful Cards! 

Our Guest Designer ~ Eileen

Good Morning!  This is such a pretty color challenge and I hope you'll join us and play along!  Our Guest designer this week is Eileen and she's created a card for us using the colors from our color challenge.

You can see Eileen's winning card here.  Welcome Eileen and thank you so much for being our guest designer this week! 

Eileen your card is amazing!  I love all the gorgeous details, everything from the beautiful pearls, ribbon, and die cuts to the beautiful flowers.  I especially love how your sentiment is the main focus, so beautifully done!  I hope you'll all take a minute to visit Eileen's blog and leave her some love, just click on her name below to visit her blog.

Eileen

Star's Cards

I started making cards about 5 years ago and was really into decoupage and CD crafting, I even bought a Cricut Expression and about 40 cartridges (most of which have never been used). Last March I found Bev Rochester's blog and my life, and I do mean my life, changed.  I have always been crafty, knitting, crochet, cross stitiching, sewing.... but as a child I loved to colour.  When I discovered stamping it was as if I had found direction again. A few pounds later ( had to have ALL the Pro and Flex markers, and so many Spellbinders , Memory Box, Cheery Lynn, Marriane, Joy... and all the rest as well as enough stamps to keep me colouring for the next year) lots of trial and error and lots of practice I find I can now win competitions, serve on the Design Teams of two respected blogs and have a blog I enjoy. Thanks for taking the time to read this and good luck with your card making and challenges.

Thank you so much, Eileen!  Remember, there's still time to play along with our challenge this week, the linky collection will remain open until Sunday 12 noon EST.  To enter your card in our challenge please see the post below.  Have a great day!

One of our Design Team members also made an extra card for th is week's color challenge and I wanted to share her card with you as well.  Thank you, Ger for making another card for us this week, the butterfly is simply amazing and I like the panel shaped layer behind your butterlfy.

Ger

ABC16 'Color Challenge' Red, Pink, White/Vanilla

We have some exciting news this week, but before I begin, here is this week's challenge.  It's been awhile since we had a color challenge and this week's challenge was created by our design team member, Danielle.  

ABC16 'Color Challenge’

I can already picture the lovely cards this week's color challenge is going to bring!  Simply create a card using primarily the colors:  Real Red, Pretty in Pink, and White or Vanilla.  I will be using Stampin' Up! colors for a reference and we want everyone to play along so if you do not have these colors please use the closest colors you have. 

Don't have a blog?  No problem, we will visit your online gallery; simply use the keywords ABC16 for this challenge.  

Now for some exciting news!  Today we are welcoming two new design team members!  Please give a big welcome to AnnMarie and Jan!

AnnMarie Byrant- AnnMarie's Stamping Adventures!

 Hi! My name is AnnMarie and I am mom to four amazing kids and wife to my very best friend. Hubby and I have been married 22 years. We live in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. I am a long time crafter and dabble in everything from cross stitching to scrapbooking, but my true love has become rubber stamping! I started stamping six years ago and am hooked! I am happiest when my hands are inky and I am surrounded by piles of crafting doo dads! Very nice to meet you all and I look forward to getting to know everyone through all the upcoming ABC challenges!

Jan Forthworth- Tweetybugshouse

 I am the mother of an active 8 year old boy, wife to my wonderful husband James for 12 years. For my job I am in home care provider. You can find me when I am not working my stamp cave creating away, I am very active blogger and I also love to read whenever I get the chance you can find me on goodreads adding to my ever growing collection of books. That me a stamper, reader, wife and mother.

And below are our  design team members' cards to get you inspired!  Be sure to click on their names and visit their blogs!

AnnMarie

Jan

Danielle

Ger

Jackie

Jeanette

Lela

Rosie

 

Patty

A few things to remember-

--Challenges are limited to cards only.
--You may enter up to 3 times, but please make a new card for each entry.
--You may combine this challenge with up to 10 challenges total.

--Please link this challenge within your blog post.
--When uploading please link your blog post entry, not your blog URL/address.
--No back linking, please make a new card for this challenge.--In order to be chosen a 'Winner' or 'Top 3' you must follow the posted challenge and our blog challenge rules posted above.

Be sure to grab our blog challenge badge (at the top left sidebar) and become a follower.

When entering the challenges please be sure to use your correct email address since that is the email I will be using to contact the winner about being a guest designer.

Now it's your turn!  Show us the cards you've created, happy crafting!