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Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Challenge 4 - Keeping Warm

Hello! Welcome to Challenge 4 of the Crafty Calendar Challenge. We hope you all had a great Christmas, and Happy New Year today! Here's our first challenge of 2010!

We had our biggest amount of entries yet for the 'Winter Sparkle' challenge - we're guessing that bling and sparkle is pretty popular in blogland! :)


OK, here is the randomly chosen winner of Challenge 3. The winner of the £20.00 gift voucher for Quixotic Paperie is...


Mary from 'My Scrap Happy Life'!

Congratulations Mary! Please email me (Georgia) at: gwelch96@googlemail.com and we can sort out your gift voucher!

For the fourth challenge, the theme is 'Keeping Warm'. January is such a cold, bleak month, so for this challenge, we would like to see warm colours used in your cards and projects, and if you like, images that are associated with keeping warm.
There is an optional extra of 'texture'. To show even more warmth on your creatios, you could add texture to your card/project, such as ribbon, fur, raffia, flowers, feathers, you name it!
But please remember that the optional extra is not compulsory.


This month, I (Georgia) am sponsoring the challenge. I am offering the winner of this challenge two Smirk stamps, some alphabet stickers and two ribbon coils!




Finally, our Guest Designer this month is Marianne, at Marianne's Craftroom!

Marianne, makes a range of such beautiful cards and her blog is a great inspiration for crafters! She has also been Guest Designing at Winter Wonderland Challenge, and Moving Along With The Times, so you can also pop over and view her stunning creations there!





Here are our cards for your inspiration:
















Claire






Liz












Jane




Kim






Laura


You have until 8:00pm on Thursday 4th February 2010 - the winner of Tracy's prize will be announced when Challenge 5 goes live on Friday 5th February 2010.


Thank you for entering, Happy New Year from all of us, and best of luck! :)



xxxx

86 comments:

li-bee-ti said...

Oh, I'm the first!
This is a great challenge! and I LOVE the DT's work!
I thing I'll play with you more than once this week... :)
so my first entry is here.
Thank you and Happy New Year!

li-bee-ti said...

and as promised, here is my 2nd entry.

Marianne's Craftroom said...

Thanks so much for inviting me to be your gurst DT this month and for the lovely things you said about me and my work. It was a lovely surprise to be asked to joing such a talented team for the month. Gorgeous DT cards that have warmd me up on this very cold day. I have candy on ofer if anyone wants to hop over. Marianne x

Lorraine A said...

fabulous theme and gorgeous DT cards :-)

happy New Year to all :-)

You can see my card here :-)
Luv
Lols x x

Kimmie said...

Hi everyone;

I've join this challenge to with a pocket card.

Come to visit my blog here

XXX Kim

PS: a Happy New Year to you're all!

Fern said...

Fab challenge girls, gorgeous DT as always.. here's my card!

Fern xx

ribenaruby said...

Happy New Year! Fab theme, My entry is here Thanks for the DT ideas!

Helen said...

Great theme - love the DT cards!
Helen x

Here's my card

Susan said...

Happy new Year to all.
Heres my card
Hugs SuzyX

Chrissie said...

Great Challenge!
My card is here
Chrissie

Sharon said...

Hi Ladies! Here's wishing you all a fantastic 2010. I just had to join in with this challenge. My entry can be found here (I've linked you at the bottom of the post).
Hugs,
Sharon xx

* Üla * said...

fabulous theme and gorgeous DT cards!
Here me card
hugs Ula

Christine said...

Love this theme with all this snow about great DT cards heres mine

Thanks Christine xx

Kathy Rogers said...

OOh a new challenge blog you can see my entry here

Maria Matter said...

great challenge! It's freezing here so it was nice to work with warm colors! I used texture too!
... Joyful Stamper: Cute Daisy May is Loved!

Blessings, Maria

Daniele said...

I've gone for warm and bright colours for this challenge here is my card thanks for looking

Sue C said...

Great challenge and fab DT cards ! Here's mine Sue C x

Tess said...

great challenge
here's mine
http://craftytess.blogspot.com/2010/01/keep-warm.html

happy new Year. Tess x

Catherine said...

As usual the DT's cards are just fab ! Thanks for the inspiration girls ! Here is my card !

JulyeB said...

Fab dt cards and theme inspired by the weather or just appropriate. Fab challenge here's my card thanks. Julye

gina g said...
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gina g said...

Hi Ladies fab cards again and a Happy New Year to you all. luv gina xx

Mary said...

I was so excited to hear that I won last months challenge. Thanks again. I had alot of fun shopping over at Quixotic Paperie. They have some great stuff over there.

I had alot of fun making my card for this month's challenge. Thanks for the great inspiration from the DT.

Here is my card.

hugs
Mary

Chaosmaus said...

My entry is here.
my card
Hugs Kerstin

Peggy said...

Great challenge Theme! I love the DT's cards.

Here is mine

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

What a great challenge. Love the dt creations. You can go here to see my entry!

craft_princess said...

http://craft-princess.blogspot.com/2010/01/warmth.html

Not a card but still a crafty project!!

Shirl said...

Lovely theme that's what we all need at this moment with all the white stuff. Here is my Card

Mandy said...

Gorgeous DT creations
here's my entry
hugs Mandy xx

Mandy said...

I've a second entry here
hugs Mandy xx

Yvonne said...

Beautiful DT cards!

Here is my card at PAPER FLOURISH

pinky said...

Excellent warming cards from the DT. You can see mine here
Happy New Year to you all.
Pinky

Lisa said...

great job DT's here's mine

Fiona said...

You couldn't have chosen a more apt theme!
my card is here

Fern said...

Beautiful work, ladies!!
Here's my scrapbook layout

The Crafty Den said...

Great theme, we could really do with keeping warm at the moment!! You can see my card here. Hugs, Denise x

Katarina said...

I guess I'm too late for this challenge, but here goes anyway:

kamadesign

Made by Mandy said...

I've made a special 'card' using warm colours. Hope you like it.

Mandy's Card

Rica said...

Great theme, and fab Dt cards as usual.
my card is here
hugs Heather xx

Lori said...

Thanks for letting me play. here's my card

beadz said...

Here is my card
hugs,
Gini

tkelli said...

Snuggly challenge!! hehe :P Here is my entry , thanks ladies!

JanJay said...

Great theme and gorgeous DT cards! My entry is here

Thanks

Jan x

Pauline C said...

Great theme and fab DT cards. Here's mine - thanks for looking.
Pauline x

Saskia said...

Great challenge and lovely DT-work! Thanks!

Here is my card! Thanks for looking!

Saskia :)

Vicky said...

Great theme considering the weather lately...
Heres mine
http://peterjdan.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-wallpaper-tutorial.html

Great challenge and fab DT work...

Vicky

Kiki said...

I've created a Birthday set (box and card) using warm colors. here you can see it. Hope, you like it...

Hugs, Kiki

Mary C said...

This was a great challenge and the DT are fantastic!
Here is my card

Julie said...

Great DT work. You'll find my entry HERE
Julie W x

Squirrel x said...

Only just discovered your blog, and it's fab! Hope to be back for more challenges - your DT work is brilliant - but for this month here is my entry Hugs, Squirrel xx

Cherry said...

Had to have a go in order to keep warm! Thanks for the inspiration and theme. My card is here
Thanks for looking and Happy New Year! Hugs Cherry XXX

Tracey said...

Great challenge & DT samples :o)

My Card is here

x

Sheng said...

Love the DT cards.

Here's my card

Sheng said...

Here is my card #2

mgcreative said...

great project!
here's mine
thx for looking :)

having a {me} day said...

Fab DT card and challenge. Here is my entry. Thank you for looking.

Hazel said...

A 'keeping warm' card from me here x

Fern said...

DT did a beautiful job!!
Here's mine

raindropecho said...

Fantastic inspirational creations by the DT! Thanks for the fun challenge :)

Here's my card

- Ann

The Crafty Den said...

Hi girls, here is another entry from me - hope it's ok to enter more than once :) Hugs, Denise x

Steph said...

Gorg cards!

Here's mine!

Sheng said...

Here is card 3

Evelyn C said...

Great challenge - fab Dt cards - mytheory is love keep you all warm inside! ......ooooh how slushY!
here is my card

thanks for the chance x

Katie said...

Great Challenge!
Here's my project

Donna said...
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The Crafty Den said...

Another entry from me (hope that's ok). You can see my card here. Hugs, Denise x

Sandra (BATC) said...

This is my Card

Andrea M said...

Great work, DT! Love it :)
Here's my card

Kate said...

Mine's done here.

KymKreates said...

Keeping warm by snuggling my pups are!

http://kymkreations.blogspot.com/2010/01/pups-in-love.html

Liz said...

Keeping warm by using WARM colours

Loved it!

Here is my card

Liz xx

Fern said...

Here's another one

Louisa said...

here is my card

Thanks for looking at my entry

Loving all of the DT's work some great inspirational ideas here
xx

*Alison* said...

Here is mine ;)

http://stretchnbubbles2.blogspot.com/2010/01/free-digital-stamp-at-greeting-farm.html

carol said...

hi,,fab DT cards
here is mine thanks carol

Nikki said...

Fantastic Challenge :) and your Dt's did a Fab Job
Here's Mine
Thanks for looking
Hugs Nikki

Catherine said...
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Shelley said...

Great challenge and lovely cards from the design team. I'm so glad I found this challenge. Here is my card.
Hugs Shelley xx

Kate said...

Love all the DT examples. Here is my take on warm colors:

http://kd-creations.blogspot.com/2010/01/1-teacher-for-tara.html

KymKreates said...

great challenge
another entry from me. keeping warm from snuggling together!

http://kymkreations.blogspot.com/2010/01/always.html

Lou Lou said...

Here is a link to my card and i have put a link to your blog in my card post.
Thankyou
Here is my link

stamprgrl said...

http://stamprgrl.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/about-new-blog-and-a-few-hybrids/

Thanks for looking

-- dalis

Nikki said...

2nd try :)
Here's Mine
Thanks for looking
Hugs Nikki

Cheryl said...

I just found your challenge blog! Yeah- a whole month to work on projects is great.

My entry is here!

Jodi said...

Here is my entry.

Fiona said...

my card is here