ABC20 Challenge Winners

Thank you so much for playing along with us last week!  It was fun seeing so many 'In the Air' cards!  I'm so ready for spring to arrive!  Here are our winners for last week's challenge:
 

Click on their names to visit their blogs!

The 'Winner' for our Spring is 'In the Air' challenge is-

#13 Allisa

Congratulations, Allisa!  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 again 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 listed in numerical order- 

 #6 Emma H


#11 Miria

#16 Debra M

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!

ABC20 Facebook Favorite

I hope you are all having a great week!  It's time again for our weekly Facebook Favorite post.  If you haven't already, come on over to our page and 'like' us.  If you'd like to check it out, yesterday I posted a *hint* on what our next challenge will be.  Our Facebook page can be found here. 

Our Facebook Favorite this week is Zella!  You can click on her name to visit her blog.

#27 Zella

I love the pretty bird image you used and all the layers behind it.  Your bow is just perfect too!  Great job, Zella with our Spring is 'In the Air' challenge this week!  Congratulations on being our Facebook Favorite this week!  Be sure to grab your Facebook Favorite badge from the left hand side bar and please link it back to our challenge blog.

Would you like to be our Facebook Favorite next week?  All you need to do is play along with our challenges and we could feature your card next!

Our Guest Designer~ Patricia

Our guest designer for this week is Patricia and she made this gorgeous Mother's Day card for our 'In the Air' challenge.  Welcome Patricia and thank you so much for being our guest designer this week!  You can see Patricia's winning card here.

Patricia, I think your Mother's Day card is simply perfect!  I love the black and white color combination and the bird and flower image is beautiful and your embossed black layer is perfectly finished off with your ribbon!  Please take a moment to visit her blog, click on her name below.

Patricia Hays

Hi!  I'm Patricia, and I am honored to have been chosen as the guest designer for this week's ABC Challenge!  All my life I've dabbled in some sort of crafts, but I first became addicted to stamping and card making about 12 years ago.  I'm fortunate to be on a couple of design teams and to have several past designer positions on my crafting resumé.  I love playing in challenges that stretch my creative abilities.  However, because most of my cards are donated to Operation Write Home so that our military men and women stationed overseas may write home to their loved ones, I tend to keep my cards in a style I call "clean and layered".  I don't use many big poofy or lumpy embellishments, but I don't mind having several layers of cardstock and/or designer paper on a card. 

I live in Virginia's gorgeous Shenandoah Valley with my husband and two teenage sons.   I work as a substitute teacher at the elementary school my sons attended when they were young. The flexible hours allow me a lot of crafting time on my non-working days. It's a pretty wonderful life!

I blog at Thinking of Inking:  http://www.thinkingofinking.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com

 

Thank you so much, Patricia!  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!

ABC20 ~ 'In the Air'

Good Morning!  I announced yesterday that we will now be having a weekly Facebook Favorite so if you haven't already hop on over to our Facebook page and 'Like' us!  Our new Facebook page can be found here.  I will be announcing our Facebook Favorite on Sundays.  

This week's challenge was created by our design team member, Lela.  Thanks, Lela for a great challenge this week!  

ABC20 Spring is - 'In the Air'

 This week our challenge is to add something to your card that is "in the air" - birds, bugs, clouds, planes, balloons, kites, etc.  

Don't have a blog?  No problem, we will visit your online gallery; simply use the keywords ABC20 for this challenge.  

Below are our design team cards to get you inspired.  Be sure to click on their names and visit their blogs!

Lela

Jan

Jeanette

AnnMarie

Rosie

Ger

Danielle

Jackie

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!