Winner - Summertime!

Hi everyone, Doris here with the winner of the

Summertime challenge.

Thank you to our always generous sponsor

Bugaboo Stamps

Our winner this week is #31

Tracy from Tracy's Creative Adventures

Tracy has won her choice of 4 digi images from
Bugaboo Stamps

Congratulations to our winner and thanks to 

everyone who played along with us!

Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose!

Hello! Sharon here and I am hosting the new weekly challenge. Our challenge this week is to Recycle, Reuse or Re-Purpose. It's really not all that hard. Just Recycle, Reuse or Re-Purpose something on your card and let us know what it is. Some ideas are:  Old Greeting Cards, Ribbons, Buttons from old clothing, Tin Foil etc... 

We have a new Sponsor! Scrap 'N Dippity and one lucky winner will receive 
their choice of 3 images.

Scrap 'N Dippity     

And now for a little inspiration:

Sharon - Lil Snowmen
I used an old greeting card as my base.

Carole - Wind in my Hair Fairy

CraftyGirl - Lil Snowmen

Please be sure to show our sponsor a little love.

Please read the challenge rules. No back dating and you can link up your project below.
The challenge runs through July 25th.

Have fun and we cannot wait to see what you Recycle, Reuse or Re-Purpose!

Winner - Get Ready for Christmas, June edition

Hi everyone, Doris here with the winner of the

Get Ready for Christmas, June edition challenge.

Thank you to our generous sponsor

Ike's Art 

Our winner this week is #9

Kathy from Kathi's Creative World 

Kathy has won a $20 gift certificate to
Ike's Art 

Congratulations to our winner and thanks to 

everyone who played along with us!

July Anything Goes!

Hello Everyone

Rene here with our ever popular challenge:

ANYTHING GOES!

Yes, you can really show your creativity with our challenge!

Have fun!


We have a fabulous sponsor for our challenge:

Melonheadz  

Her images are so much fun and there are so many to choose from!

Prize - winner choice of 1 bundle

Welcome :) I'm always happy to share my story! 
Once upon a time, I had 1 big noisy child, and 2 small noisy children, (still noisy, just bigger...lol) and I was in desperate need for quiet book patterns. I couldn't find any that I LOVED, so... I drew my own! Not too successful, as they were way too complicated, but I had HUGE feedback on my art work. 
So, my happy ending began with a blog :) I started out posting free images daily, and within a week, I had over 100 followers! I was thrilled! Slowly as my art work has improved, so have my opportunities! Etsy is just another step in achieving my dream. I have become a successful illustrator! I am so blessed to have had many willing to help me on my path, and am grateful for every single person who has visited my shop, blog, and offered requests and suggestions along the way.
I LOVE this "job"!
xoxo   Nikki

Our magnificent DT had fun using some images from our sponsor:

Isobel  using   Bible bookmarks

Carole using Rain Clip Art Black and White

Julia using 4th of July - 2013 

Mel using Blowing Bubbles 

CraftyGirl using Snowman Clip Art

Dora using Ocean Life 

Rene using Owls Clip Art 

Sharon  Farm Animals Bobble Headz 

We also have some fabulous Guest Designers

Do visit their blogs and leave some love

Ann-Marie from Annemis

I’m 50 years young and live in the south of Sweden with my hubby and 4 teenage boys.

My blogname “Annemi” is from an aunt of mine who used to call me Annemi when I was little and she kept on calling me that her whole life so the blogname is a celebration to her.

I’ve been crafting in one way or another my entire life but I didn’t have a name on it before... lol

Nowdays I’m a color addict delux, I color almost every day of the week and I think I’ve tried almost every medium there is.  Coloring are so relaxing for me and I really enjoy it.

Hope you like my card - Have a great day

Hugs, Ann-Marie/Annemi

Margreet from Margreet's Scrapcards

I'm Margreet from the Netherlands and since I'm retired (last year) you can find my in my craft room nearly every day. I love creating and coloring and at the moment I'm in to mixed media cards. 

You can see more of my work at http://margreets-scrapcards.blogspot.nl/

Tanvi

Hello all, This is Tanvi from Bangalore India. I love trying my hands at different crafts & my current love is decoupage and card making. Thank you Crafting by Designs for the opportunity to Guest Design for them! Here is a shabby chic burlap banner I made for the post.

Winner - Animals

Hi everyone, Doris here with the winner of the

Animals challenge.

Thank you to our always generous sponsor

QKR Stampede 

Our winner this week is 

#59 Emily from Pen and Paperie

Emily has won her choice of 3 digi images from 
QKR Stampede 

Congratulations to our winner and thanks to 

everyone who played along with us!

Winner - Things With Wings

Hi everyone, Doris here with the winner of the

 Things With Wings challenge.

Thank you to our always generous sponsor

Fred She Said 

Our winner this week is 

#29 Darlene from Dar's Crafty Creations

Darlene has won a $10 gift certificate to
Fred She Said

Congratulations to our winner and thanks to 

everyone who played along with us!

Winner - June Anything Goes

Hi everyone, Doris here with the winner of the

June Anything Goes challenge.

Thank you to our always generous sponsor

Beccy's Place

Our winner this week is 

#41 Ann from Ann Chuang Cards

Ann has won her choice of 1 set of images

Congratulations to our winner and thanks to 

everyone who played along with us!

Get Ready For Christmas - June edition!

Good morning to all our lovely crafty friends and followers. Carole here today to launch this months Get Ready For Christmas Challenge. I hope you have all been joining in these challenges this year and  are building up an nice little stock of Christmas cards. Not sure if you know but we are half way through the year and only 26 weeks till Christmas. What happened to those first 26 weeks!!

Our sponsor for this week's challenge is the fabulous

Ike's Art    

Prize = $20 gift certificate to store

This is a very generous prize Thank you for sponsoring us.

Our lovely Design Team ladies have been busy creating some stunning cards to inspire you all. Also joining us this time are some very talented Guest Designers whose cards are just fabulous .

Carole - Christmas Pixie

Dora - Cat

We're super excited to welcome a new Design Team

member to Crafting by Designs!  Please be sure to

stop by Mel's blog and check out her beautiful creations!

Mel Gee's Crafts

Mel - Christmas Pixie

Sharon

Guest Designers

Plony from Phony's blog of Crafting and Frills

Hi, I am Plony ....living in The Netherlands.

November 2011 I started my blog http://plonysbloggie.blogspot.nl/ 

and I still love to show my cards and some other, mostly vintage, things.

I love vintage but coloring stamps and digi's is also one of my favorite hobbies.

Crafting is my life and I would love to thank the Crafting by Designs team for giving me the chance to show my card as a guestdesigner today.

Laney from Laney's Place

​I have been crafting for many years and i like all kinds of crafts,but paper crafting has to be my no 1...pastime.  Its so nice to be chosen to be a Guest Designer  and i have enjoyed the challenge​

Thank you to the Guest Designers your creations are fabulous.

Well I hope we have got you  into the Christmas mood now and you can start making your beautiful Christmas cards and enter our challenge. We always look forward to seeing each and every one.

Please remember to follow our simple rules:
-All projects must be made by you during the time this challenge runs
-you can submit up to 3 projects
-no back dating please
-link your blog post to our challenge

This challenge is open until the 4th July  

Happy Crafting everyone Carole and the Crafting by Designs Team

Animals

Hi everyone, Doris here with our new challenge for the week

Animals

We want to see your projects with

all kinds of animals, from the barn to the sea!

First, a great big THANK YOU to

our very generous sponsor

QKR Stampede  

for gifting some amazing images to our

design team AND 3 digi images to our winner!

Do you have a sense of humor? Are you looking for a cute stamp? Then, we are the company for you! QKR Stampede is the somewhat cute somewhat quirky rubber and digital stamp company. We showcase the artwork of Ken Herrod, who had a unique, somewhat quirky style with lots of humor and character. You are sure to get a chuckle out of our stamps! We have been offering our unique stamps and supplies to the craft industry for over 15 years. At QKR Stampede our images are available as un-mounted, natural red rubber stamps OR as digital stamps! If QKR Stampede Stamps aren't exactly what you are looking for, don’t miss out on the sister companies: Eureka Stamps, Biblical Impressions Rubber Stamps, or the newest addition; Alluring Impressions.

Here are some fabulous projects from our 
Design Team


Isobel using Old Goat 

Carole using  Sleigh Bells

Julia using Party Cat

CraftyGirl using  Christmas Moose

Sharon

And now some  projects from our fabulous Guest Designers

Carol from Crafty Stamper

Hi I'm Carol from Crafty-stamper and I have been crafting for many years,knitting,crotchet,cake decorating and now cardcraft,mixed media  rediscovering my first passion of stamping .I have been married for 48yrd and have three grown children and five grandchildren.

I have decorated a small canvas with various stamps die-cut and paper napkin

Nancy from My Creations

I am Nancy Soetaert, 50 years, I live at the Belgian Coast. I love a lot of crafting work: beading, making beads with polymere clay, flower arranging,… but most of all I make cards: fun to do, fun to send and make someone happy…   Mostly I make scrapcards, but I also love playing with inks and stamps.  I am blogging since end of 2014, you can find my blog at www.creanancy.blogspot.be

Thanks for chance to be guestdesigner at Crafting by Designs.

That's some great inspiration!  Now it's over to you - please
remember to follow our simple rules:

• all projects must be made by you during the time this challenge runs
• you can submit up to 3 projects
• no back dating please
• link your blog post to our challenge

This challenge is open until June 27 and 

we can't wait to see what you make!

Things with Wings

Hello! It's Sharon again and I am hosting this week's new Challenge. 

Things with Wings

Hmmm.... Birds or Insects may come to mind. 
But (Any)Thing with Wings will work. Angels, Fairies, 
Magical Mythical Creatures.... the sky is the limit as long as your project was wings that can fly. Fred She Said is our very 
generous sponsor for the Challenge. A $10 gift certificate 
to their store, (which is awesome by the way), is the fabulous prize!

Fred She Said 

Prize - $10 gift certificate to store

Now a little inspiration from our Design Team:

Carole- Marigolds and Morpho 

The Lid

The Box

Julia - SwallowTail Original Fantasy Colored

Sharon - Daisies and Ladybug

CraftyGirl - Nuthatch

Mel - Daisies and Ladybug

Dora - Humming bird and Petunias

And we are so lucky to have Darlene join us as a Guest Designer this week!

Darlene from Dar's Crafty Creations

I'm Darlene Pavlick from Akron, Ohio and it seems like I have been crafting in some manner all my life!  About 10 years ago I was introduced to papercrafting and well, the rest is history!  I want to thank Crafting by Designs for the opportunity to Guest Design for them ... it's truly my honor!

Please read the challenge rules as they have changed. No dating please. The challenge will be open until June 20th. 
Upload your projects through Mr. Linky below.
Don't forget to visit our sponsor, DT and Guest Designer and show them a little love.
Have fun, show us your wings and soar!