Crafting When We Can: January 2016

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Winner and Top 3 Challenge #109 and #110

Current challenge "Celebrating any occasion" click

Firstly I will announce the Winner and Top 3 for challenge #109.

It was a pleasure to look through the entries and see how people use the buttons they have in their stash. The Winner and

The Winner and Top 3 for Challenge 109 were chosen by our DT member Poppet.

Winner - 109

#6 - CG says

Congratulations CG, please contact Ang at craftingwhenwecan (at) hotmail (dot) com to claim your prize, putting Winner Challenge #109 in the subject line and take the Winners Badge from the sidebar and wear it on your blog with pride.

Top 3

#9 - Repolainen

#7 - Steffi H

#11 - Connie's Bizarre Madness

Congratulations, please take your Top 3 badge from the sidebar and wear it on your blog with pride.

The Winner and Top 3 were chosen by our wonderful DT member Robin.

Winner - 110

#8 - CG's Cards 4 U

Congratulations CG, please contact Ang at craftingwhenwecan (at) hotmail (dot) com to claim your prize, putting Winner Challenge #110 in the subject line and take the Winners Badge from the sidebar and wear it on your blog with pride.

Top 3

#7 - Emily

#24 - Diane W

#55 - Donna T

Congratulations, please take your Top 3 badge from the sidebar and wear it on your blog with pride.

DT CALL!

A new year and we're looking for some new people to join our team!

So if you are interested in being part of our DT please read this post through to check what is required, what benefits you receive and how to apply!

Requirements:

Make a creation every fortnight in line with our challenge calendar and themes. The majority of the time you will receive an image from the challenge sponsor, and are required to use these.

You are required to upload your creation onto the DT facebook page by the Friday before the challenge goes live on the Sunday. Therefore you will need to have a facebook account.

On your blog or website you are required to do a post about each CWWC Challenge. A minimum in the post will include a good, clear photograph of your DT creation, details of the challenge for that fortnight, and name and website link of our challenge sponsor. The post must go live on the challenge Sunday, it can be set for whatever time is best for your time zone.

Comment on participant's entries for every challenge. You will be assigned two numbers, and will have to comment on all entries ending in those two numbers. You may be required to comment on additional entries when DT members are on holiday, etc.

The Winner and Top 3 for each challenge is chosen by the CWWC Design Team, this is on a rota basis. When it is your turn to choose a Winner and Top 3, you need to choose only those who abide by our challenge rules. Then do a post on the DT blog with your choices.

Benefits:

You will gain DT experience with a fun and friendly team! We don't like hassle here, so everything is nice and easy.

The majority of our sponsors are generous and offer free images for the Design Team to work with. Any image you receive as part of you term on the Design Team is yours to keep, as long as you abide by the CWWC terms and conditions and the sponsor's angel policy.

How to apply?
E-mail Ang at craftingwhenwecan(at)hotmail(dot)com with the following:

A little bit about yourself. Please include a bit about your crafting style.
A link to your blog (or wherever you post your creations).
You are welcome to send photos of your creations, please no more than 3.

You have until 31st January 2016 to apply.

Successful applicants will be notified shortly after this date.

Good Luck!

Hugs, Ang x

Sunday, 24 January 2016

Challenge #111 - Celebrating any Occasion

Firstly we've an apology to make, we've completely missed the Winner and Top 3 for Challenge #109 ~ Buttons Galore. We will post these later in the week. Become a follower and you won't miss the post. The Winner and Top 3 for Challenge #110 will be posted next Sunday as usual.

We still have a week left on our DT call nip to the top of the page and have a look how to apply.

Now onto Challenge 111, we have a wonderful sponsor

Art by MiRan

Hello I am Mi Ran artist and owner of Artbymiran, I was born in Seoul, South Korea. I grew up with Korean and Japanese Manga. In my childhood, I loved drawing and making my own little stories. I moved to Canada in my late 20s, where I reside with my husband.

I have worked on a variety of publications, ranging from children's to contemporary adult genres. I have contributed as an artist and colorist. I also worked as a graphic artist and layout designer for non-comic publications. For several years I was able to share my passion through teaching art to elementary school aged children. These experiences have influenced my recent artwork.

I am excited to have been kindly received into the community of digi stampers and crafters.
I love to share my art. I love thinking of new images, and it’s so fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art.

My designer’s creations can be seen on my blog http://artbymiran.blogspot.com/

My Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/artbymiran

The direct link to our shop is : http://www.etsy.com/shop/artbymiran

Prize: 3 image from the store

Theme: Celebrating any occasion

Our wonderful DT have created some fabulous projects with the images from MiRan. You can see these below. As usual to leave them some love click on their name and to go to the store click on the title.

Lynda using All my Heart

Robin using Valentina

Vickie using Babycakes

Jo using Rora and the butterfly

Poppet using Princess colouring page

Now you've seen the fabulous work by our talented DT it's time to show us your Celebratory project. All you have to do is follow the simple rules below.

RULES

*FOLLOW THE THEME OF THE CHALLENGE

*REMEMBER MAXIMUM COMBINATION OF 5 CHALLENGES (INCLUDING THIS ONE).

*MUST BE A NEW POST, NO BACKLINKING.

*MAXIMUM OF 2 ENTRIES PER PERSON.

*PLEASE LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG.

*PLEASE LINK TO CRAFTING WHEN WE CAN CHALLENGES IN YOUR POST

*CLAIM PRIZE NO LONGER THAN 2 WEEKS AFTER WINNER ANNOUNCED

PLEASE LINK UP YOUR CREATION BELOW IF YOU ARE ABIDING BY THESE RULES.

THANK YOU AND ENJOY CREATING! x

An InLinkz Link-up

Sunday, 10 January 2016

Challenge #110 - Something New

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Welcome everyone to 2016, where we have some fabulous challenges for you this year. We have some wonderful sponsors coming up, some who have supported our challenges for a number of years, and others joining us for the first time this year.

We currently have a DT CALL running, so if you fancy joining our team please apply.
Details can be found HERE.

For our first challenge of 2016 we have the wonderful Lizzy Love from Oddball Art Co.

Lizzy has always loved the stranger, quirkier side of life and that is exactly what she loves to create. Her art described as a perfect combination of sweet and sour that glitters up the grunge! As a lover of all things whimsical, kawaii and creepy cute, she throws in some Pastel Goth with a touch of glam, punk & rockabilly pinup!
She has certainly never been a mainstream type of girl and definitely won't fit into your stereotypical cookie cutter artists role; but rather she finds beauty in the truly unique, big eyed creepy little cuties with a bittersweet sadness. She is never truly happier then when she is in her art studio painting or sewing, creating a whimsical dream world easily recognizable as her signature style of creepy yet cute, all the way from the haunting darkness to the rainbowtastic, Lizzy’s creations are lovingly sprinkled with a heartbreaking sweetness.Growing up a child of the 80's, pop rocks princess, with an extreme fondness for anything candy coated, Kawaii Kitten & Ziggy Stardust, all of which had a major influence in the work that she is creating today. Lizzy employs many different mediums when she creates, anything from mixed media painting to sewing with many different textiles, the end result always being the same; A whimsical dream world filled with big eyed beauties, creepy little cuties and quirky monsters of all shapes and sizes.

Check out the Oddball Art Co. Shop
For 10% off in the Etsy shop add the coupon code DTANG10 to the checkout

The prize for this challenge is 3 images from the Etsy Store

Theme: Something New

you must use something new to you, this can be a technique, occasion (baby), project, stamp, embellishment, papers etc.

Here is some fabulous inspiration from our marvellous DT. Hop over and leave them some seasonal love, just click on their name. They have such wonderful projects to see.

Lynda: using No. 169 Vegan Chilli Bowl

Vickie using No. 169 Vegan Chilli Bowl

Robin using No. 72 Peanut (Panda Girl)

Don't forget if you love the Oddball images get 10% off in the Etsy shop by adding the coupon code DTANG10 to the checkout.

To be in with a chance to win the wonderful prize all you have to do is follow the simple rules below.