Let's go to the hop

Hi all,

This week is a special week. CRAFT Challenge are 3 years old this week! So, Happy Birthday to us!!

Our challenge this week is 'Celebration'. So, any project fitting this subject will be eligible for a prize.

We also have our blog hop this week and you can choose to do one or more of the following this week:

1. Take part in our challenge


2. Add your name to Inlinkz on the DT and GDT blogs to be in with winning a prize on their blogs.


3. Complete the blog hop (adding your name to Inlinkz on your way), collect all letters and form the sentence it forms and leave a comment at the end of our challenge post with your answer.

We have a lot of sponsors this week, with lots of prizes to be won.

• A prize for the winner of our 'Celebration' challenge this week.


• A prize for the randomly chosen winner on each (G)DT member's blog.


• A prize for the randomly chosen comment with the correctly formed sentence from the collected letters along the way.

To ensure all is done fairly, we will enable comment moderation on the challenge blog this week to keep all answers behind, so there can be no cheating. (Not that you would anyway!)

Our blog hop route:

Elke 

Sue 

Nikki - You're here!

Tigerlover

Liam and Owen

Jenny

Coops 

Carol

Sylvia

Sharon

Sheryl

Jeanette

Alison

Jo

CRAFT Challenge

As you can see you should have come here from Sue's blog. If you have not, please return there or to Elke's blog for the start of our blog hop.

The sponsor on my blog is Digi Doodle Shop

By adding your name/blog to Inlinkz below you can be in with a chance of winning 

 a $10 store voucher

Don't forget to link in and to collect your letter on this stop which is

Hopefully you didn't miss it!

So, now it is time to get you some inspiration for this challenge. Here is my card for this challenge:

One of my friends recently gave birth to a little boy (and so I needed a celebration card, great for this challenge!), and I thought that this fantastic image from Digi Doodle Shop would fit the bill for an easel card.  The papers are a mix of papermania and from a CD which was free with a magazine.  For the sentiment, I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder, inked it and then cut out the sentiment I wanted.  The embellishments are all from my stash.

Your next stop will be Tigerlover. Hope you are having fun! Enjoy the rest of our blog hop!

I'll be back with my normal waffle tomorrow.

Mr Linky was not working, but has decided to make an appearance.  I will include those of you who made a comment and have completed the blog hop in my draw.  If Mr Linky disappears again, please just comment and I will include you too.  Thanks for your understanding.

Incy Wincy's 100th Challenge!

Hi all,

I'm very excited today because it is time for Incy Wincy Designs - 100th Challenge BLOG HOP!
To celebrate this momentous occasion, we are having a blog hop with TONS of prizes!!!
All you need to do is hop to EACH Design Team member’s blogs and leave a comment AND enter into our challenge. That's it, easy eh?? Our challenge this week is.....

We want to see your summertime cards, scrapbook layouts or projects AND we want you to use BLUE as your major colour in your creation!!!!
Here is my creation using Flip Flops from Stitchy Bear Stamps:

I found this fab chipboard album at our local garden centre for £3 and so thought I would use it to show some of our summer photos from Sydney. I used metallic paint in blue and the papers are by do crafts. The embellishments are from my stash. I've not really done scrapbook pages
before, but I really enjoyed this. There are more pages, but I didn't want to overload this post with photos.

You should have arrived here from Nikki's blog......if not, please start at the beginning so you don't miss one of the DT blogs!!!! When you get to the end, don't forget to link up with INLINKZ and leave a comment!!!
Are you ready to start celebrating?!?!? Well, get on your hopping shoes because here is the order of the hop. Don't forget to leave a comment at each blog to be in with a chance of winning!

Annette
Chris
Heather
Janet
Jenny
Katrina
Kelly
Nikki
Nikki F You are here
Renee
Shelley
Thank you so much for hopping with us!!!! Good luck & HAVE FUN!!!! Your next stop is Renee.

CRAFT challenge blog hop

Hi all,

We arrived safely in England yesterday, but I will say more about our trip in my next post, as this one is already quite long. This is my third week of my GDT spot for CRAFT challenge, and this week we have something a bit special for you.

This week at CRAFT Challenge we are celebrating our 2nd Blogaversary in style. Our challenge this week is Happy Birthday! (to Us) to fit in with this celebration. Please link your project to InLinkz as per usual.
To celebrate we will also will be doing a Blogaversary Blog Hop with many sponsors and prizes on the way. To be in with having a chance of winning these prizes, you will need to leave a comment on our (G)DT's blogs, a winner will be chosen randomly at each stop.
We will also leave a word at each stop, with which we would like you to form a sentence. So, don't forget to collect a word on each stop as well! After you have collected all these words, form a sentence with them and enter your sentence in a comment on our CRAFT Challenge blog. We will obviously not allow comments to be posted during this week to stop any cheating, lol!
You should have started at CRAFT Challenge and come from Kim' blog. If you did not, please go back to the stops before you have so far not passed.
My word is: have

My sponsor for the blog hop is Lauretta's Digital Stamps, and the prize you can win on my stop is a choice of 4 images from her shop. My card uses one of her images, called Hippo birthday and I love it. I made an easel as I haven't made one for a while. The DP is quite glittery and so I
thought it would be perfect for a special celebration.

Just as a reminder, here is your route to follow. You should start and end at the CRAFT Challenge blog.
CRAFT Challenge
Annette
Carol
Claire (GDT)
Gemma
Jacky
Jo
Karen
Kerry
Kevin
Kim
Nikki (GDT) (you're here!)
Sharon
Tigerlover (junior DT)
CRAFT Challenge
So, join in with us this week to be in with a chance of many prizes and we hope you enjoy the journey! Your next stop is Sharon. Don't forget to leave a comment if you want to have a chance of winning the prize on my stop!!

What a great start to the week!

This morning, I got the great news that I have won a hero stamp and sentiments in the blog hop and challenge run by Sir Stampalot over on Brenda's blog. I can't believe it and it's a great start to a wet Monday morning. Thank you!