Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge

Sharon

Ali

Jacqui

Please leave the link direct to your card below

February update

2012-02-01T14:33:00.001Z

Wow! Can you believe it's February already?

We will be a few days late in posting February's Challenge and announcing the winners for January due to holidays etc, so please pop back later this week.

Thank you for your understanding.

Challenge 20–Love is in the Air

2012-01-02T14:36:00.007Z

Welcome to Challenge 20, thank you for all the wonderful creations for last months challenge and for taking the time in the busiest month of the year to come and join us.

All of us at Crafters Companion would like to wish you all the very best for 2012 and we hope you continue to join us for the challenges.

Before more ado here is the December Challenge Winner

No35 - Victoria

Please e-mail Jacqui with your Snail Mail Address so we can get your prize off to you.

Before we get down to this weeks challenge there is some exciting Crafters Companion News For you, on 6th January we will be presenting as the new Pick of the Week on Create and Craft a fabulous new Stamp Range and Accompanying CD the release is called “STRAWBERRY KISSES”, and you may have seen some sneak peeks on the Design Team’s blogs. To see some fabulous sneak peeks and join in the Strawberry Kisses Blog Hop just click here and you could even be in with a chance of winning all 12 stamps plus the CD. Toy will be able to spot a few of the new releases amongst out DT cards for this challenge.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 20

The first challenge of 2012 is “LOVE IS IN THE AIR”

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

This Challenge Closes on 31st January.

Here are our Design Team Cards to give you some inspiration

Marcea

Ali

Lynsey

Paula

Sharon

Jane

Jacqui

Some fabulous cards sent in by e-mail:

Sharon

Marg

Angela

Please leave your link in Mr Linky Below

Happy New Year

2011-12-31T09:36:00.000Z

Just like to wish all our lovely followers a wonderful New Year, and thank you all for your support in 2011.

We will be a day late in posting Januarys Challenge and announcing the winners for December due to holidays etc, so please pop back on Monday Afternoon.

Once again have a fabulous 2012.

Challenge 19–NEW BEGININNGS

2011-12-01T09:25:00.002Z

Welcome to Challenge 19, thank you for all the wonderful creations for last months challenge, wow so many entries it must have been the most successful Challenge so far

So Here are our Winner this month

# 123 - Jayne - Tea, Cake & Crafting

Please e-mail Jacqui with your Snail Mail Address so we can get your prizes off to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 19

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it! Our theme this month is

NEW BEGINNINGS, i.e Weddings, New Baby, First Day at School, New Home

This Challenge Closes on 31st December.

Here are our Design Team Cards to give you some inspiration

Ali

Carol

Marcea

Please leave your link in Mr Linky Below

Challenge 18–Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let It Snow

2011-11-01T09:54:00.002Z

Welcome to Challenge 18, thank you for all the wonderful creations for last months challenge,

As half of the entries disappeared from the website with the demise of Mr Linky on our September Challenge it didn’t seem fair to pick a winner from those that were left so for October’s Challenge we have decided to have two Winners both of whom will win a £30 Voucher, kindly donated by Sara, to spend on the Crafters Companion Website. We are really sorry about this but it was out of our control and we hope we have come up with the best solution.

So Here are our Winners this month

Lynn (Delphinoid)

Yvonne - Yvonnes Creative Cards

Please e-mail Jacqui with your Snail Mail Address so we can get your prizes off to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 18

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it! Our them this month is

Let It Snow Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Here are our Design Team Cards to give you some inspiration

Ali

Carol

Sharon

Jacqui

Please leave your link in Mr Linky Below

Challenge 17

2011-10-01T09:29:00.002+01:00

Welcome to Challenge 17, thank you for all the wonderful creations for last months challenge, Can I first of all apologise for Mr Linky going Walkabout, we did try to find him, it appears that it was just not us, he seems to have disappeared from a lot of Challenge Blogs, we are looking into using InLinkz to help stop this problem. So this month we will ask you to leave a link to your card in the comments so we can still visit your blogs.

As half of the entries have disappeared from the website with the demise of Mr Linky it doesn’t seem fair to pick a winner from those that are left so for October’s Challenge we have decided to have two Winners both of whom will win a £30 Voucher, kindly donated by Sara, to spend on the Crafters Companion Website. We are really sorry about this but it was out of our control and we hope we have come up with the best solution.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 17

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on 31st October. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.
This month is BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH to promote this we have chosen

PINK and GREEN

as this Month Theme.

Here are our Design Team Cards to give you some Inspiration

Paula

Sharon

Jane

Linsey

Ali

Carol

Lin

Please leave a link to you card in the comments below:

Challenge 16–Christmas Wishes

2011-09-01T12:00:00.005+01:00

Welcome to Challenge 16, thank you for all the wonderful creations for last months challenge, I think it was a really popular theme, we had a really terrific response from you. This month's number drawn by Random.Org was:

No 152:

Sarah (RainMac)

Kez Harvey

Donna Mosley

Sweetpea

Well done all on your stunning creations. Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 16

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Friday 30th September at 8pm. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.
This month our theme for you is:

CHRISTMAS WISHES

Here are our Design Team Cards to give you some Inspiration

Sharon

Carol

Ali

Wendy Secret Crafter

Lynsey

Marcea

Lin

Andrea has e-mailed her entry, wow I just love these stunning Scrapbook Pages of Cambridge at Xmas

Cathy

Please leave a link in Mr Linky below

Challenge 15–Glitter & Glitz

2011-08-01T12:00:00.001+01:00

Welcome to Challenge 15, thank you for all the wonderful creations for last months challenge, I think it was a really popular theme, we had a really terrific response from you. This month's number drawn by Random.Org was:

No 16:

Carole of Brum

Netty

Mutley

Debbie

Well done all on your stunning creations. Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 15

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Wednesday 31st August at 8pm. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.
This month we have a theme for you

GLITTER AND GLITZ

Here are some ideas by our brilliant DT

Sharon

Ali

Carol

Please leave a link in Mr Linky below

Challenge 14–One For the Boys

2011-07-01T12:00:00.002+01:00

Welcome to Challenge 14, such terrific cards from you all, thank you so much for your support, we had a really terrific response from you. This month's number drawn by Random.Org was:

No 94:

AJ-Amanda Cummings

Pascale

Lolly Dolly

Purple Crazy

Well done all on your stunning creations. Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 14

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Sunday 31st July at 8pm. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.
This month we have a theme for you

ONE FOR THE BOYS

We would like to welcome the lovely Jane Carroll to Our Design Team.

Tracy

Wendy (Secret Crafter)

Carol

E-Mail entry from Lisa

Please leave a link in Mr Linky below

Challenge 13–Here Comes Summer

2011-06-01T09:00:00.004+01:00

Welcome to Challenge 13, such terrific cards from you all, thank you so much for your support. This month's number drawn by Random.Org was:

No 89:

Sharon

Nicky

Ali (No3)

Vanya

Well done all on your stunning creations. Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 13

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Thursday 30th June at 8pm. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.
This month we have a theme for you

HERE COMES SUMMER

We would like to introduce you to 3 new members of our design team all are extremely talented crafters and we feel privileged to have them on the Design Team and am sure you will love their work as much as we do so a big welcome to Katie, WendyF (Secret Crafter), Tracey

Our Design Team have created some fabulous cards to give you inspiration:

Wendy

Carol

e-mail entry from Tracey

Best of luck
Crafters Companion Design Team

Challenge 12–Girls Birthday

2011-05-01T12:00:00.003+01:00

Welcome to Challenge 12, such terrific cards from you all, thank you so much for your support. This month's number drawn by Random.Org was:

No 45:

Crafty Kaz

Elaine L

Yvonne Nash

Teresa

Well done all on your stunning creations. Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 12
Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Thursday 31st May at 8pm. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.
This month we have a theme for you

Girls Birthday

Our Design Team have created some fabulous cards to give you inspiration:

Best of luck
Crafters Companion Design Team

Challenge 11

2011-04-01T09:00:00.003+01:00

Welcome to Challenge 11, such terrific cards from you all, thank you so much for your support. This month's number drawn by Random.Org was:

No 36 Hazel

Sarah

Edna

The Crafty Owl

Well done all on your stunning creations. Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 10
Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Thursday 30th April at 8pm. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.
This month we have a colour theme for you, I must admit all the design Team loved working with these colours.

AQUA and BROWN

We have some sad news due to personal commitments our lovely Lisa has decided to step down, I am sure you will miss her lovely cards as much as we will, it has been a pleasure working with Lisa and the whole team are sad to see her go. Thanks for everything dear.

Marianne

Pat

Lisa

Paula

Carol

Lynsey

Jacqui

Wendy

Thanks for playing

To lovely e-mail entries from Mother and Daughter Pauline and Helen

Challenge 10–Easter

2011-03-01T12:00:00.004Z

Welcome to Challenge 10, Wow we had the most entries ever for last months Challenge and such terrific cards from you all, thank you so much for your support. This month's number drawn by Random.Org was:

No 100 Elaine L

Lorraine
Lynn

Sara has kindly donated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Thursday 31st March at 8pm. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.
This month we have a theme for you.

EASTER

Before I show you the DT Cards I would like to say welcome to our new DT member Paula, welcome aboard dear.

Paula's Cards

Best of luck
Crafters Companion Design Team

Challenge 9 - Romance

2011-02-01T09:00:00.004Z

Welcome to Challenge 9 and thank you for your brilliant entries to Challenge 8! As we say each month, thank goodness we do not have to choose a winner!! This month's number drawn by Random.Org was:

No 49 Angie

Could you please e-mail Jacqui at www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com with your snail mail address so we can arrange to get your Voucher to you.
Our Top 3 also gave us problems but here is the final selection:

PaulineC
Karen
Shirley

Well done all on your stunning creations. Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 9
Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules and everyone then has the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly dontated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random - well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have an "I made the Top Three on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Monday 28th February at 8pm. To enter the challenge, just leave a link to your card for the challenge on Mr Linky below.

This month we have a theme for you. As it is the February Challenge what better theme than

ROMANCE

Here are some beautiful creations from our Design Team to get you started:

Pat

Marianne

Carol

Sara

2 lovely cards sent by e-mail from Linda

Best of luck
Crafters Companion Design Team

xxx

Challenge 8

2011-01-01T12:00:00.005Z

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM US ALL AT CRAFTERS COMPANION HOPE 2011 BRINGS YOU ALL YOU COULD WISH FOR
A New Year and A New Challenge cannot believe we are now up to Challenge 8, your entries for the December Challenge were just awesome, thank you all so much, as we say each month thank goodness we do not have too choose a winner this months Number Drawn by Random.Org was:
No 18 Edna

Could you please e-mail Jacqui at www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com with your snail mail address so we can arrange to get your Voucher to you.
Our Top 3 also gave us problems but the here is the final selection:

Cherie
Pinky
Vicky
Well done all on your stunning creations, Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 7

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules, all will then have the same chance to win.
Sara has kindly dontated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website to one lucky entry chosen at random, Well worth winning isn’t it!
The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have a ”I made the Top Three On Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” Banner to add to their blogs.
This challenge will close on Monday 31st January at 8pm, to enter the challenge just leave a link to your Card for the Challenge on Mr Linky Below.
We have a Sketch by Jacqui for you this month, With the added option of a theme SOMETHING NEW (NEW YEAR< NEW BABY ETC), it’s up to you you can either use the sketch or the Theme or combine both as the DT have

This months sketch

Marianne

Lynsey

Pat

Carol

Jacqui

Sara

Leann

Here is a lovely e-mail entry from Kathy

Anothr card sent by e-mail from Sue

One again hope you have a Brilliant 2011 and we look forward to seeing all your entries

Challenge 7

2010-12-01T12:00:00.004Z

We had such awesome entries for the November Challenge, thank you all so much, as we say each month thank goodness we do not have too choose a winner this months Number Drawn by Random.Org was:

No 22 Lynn

Could you please e-mail Jacqui at www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com with your snail mail address so we can arrange to get your Voucher to you.

Our Top 3 also gave us problems but the here is the final selection:

Vixx

Edna

Kerry

Well done all on your stunning creations, Once again can you e-mail Jacqui at the above e-mail address so we can send your Top 3 Banner Code to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 7

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules, all will then have the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly dontated a £50 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website! as a special Christmas prize this month
Well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have a ”I made the Top Three On Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” Banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Tuesday 31st December at 8pm, to enter the challenge just leave a link to your Card for the Challenge on Mr Linky Below.
We have a Sketch by Leann for you this month, With the added option of a theme CHRISTMAS, it’s up to you you can either use the sketch or the Theme or combine both as the DT have

Here is Leann’s Sketch and some Great Inspiration from the Team the DT

Sara

Wendy

Pat

Carol

Card sent by E-Mail from Helen

Best of Luck everyone

Challenge 6

2010-11-01T08:00:00.014Z

Thanks to everyone who joined in Challenge 5 we really enjoyed looking at all your fabulous creations it is a good job we used Random.Org to choose our Winner this month, as we would never of been able to choose a favourite, and he came up with

The Winner is No `1 – That is Jane

Could you please e-mail Jacqui your snail mail address
Our Top Three Winner are

No 11 Joycelyn
No7 Paula

No23 Donna

Can you please e-mail Jacqui ( www.jacqueline_dennis@btinternet.com ) girls and she will get your banner off to you.

Now a little bit of news for you, first we have to say Goodbye to Bev, due to new commitments she is having to give up some of her Dt posts, she has been a great contributor to our Challenge and I know you will miss seeing her fabulous creations as will the DT, thanks for everything Bev. We also say goodbye to our GD member for the last 3 months Ann thanks for sharing your awesome creations with us Ann, we will miss you.
Now some good news, hope you will join with us in welcoming 4 new Design Team Members, Marcea, Lynsey, Mandy and Marianne

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 6

Please take some time to read our challenge rules in the sidebar. It's so much easier for us to pick a winner when you note the rules, all will then have the same chance to win.

Sara has kindly dontated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website! as a prize this month
Well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have a ”I made the Top Three On Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” Banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Tuesday 3oth November at 8pm, to enter the challenge just leave a link to your Card for the Challenge on Mr Linky Below.
We have a Sketch by Jacqui for you this month, With the added option of a theme “ONE FOR THE GIRLS”, it’s up to you you can either use the sketch or the Theme or combine both as the DT have

Here is Jacqui’s Sketch and some Great Inspiration from the Team the DT

Sara

Marianne

Lynsey

Pat

Carol

Mandy

A lovely Card from Amanda sent by e-mail

Challenge 5

2010-10-01T08:41:00.006+01:00

Thanks to everyone who joined in Challenge 4 we really enjoyed looking at all your fabulous creations it is a good job we used Random.Org to choose our Winner this month, as we would never of been able to choose a favourite, and he came up with
The Winner is No 49 – That is Lorriane from Lorraines Creations
Could you please e-mail Jacqui your snail mail address please Lorraine

Our Top Three Winner are

No 12 Shirley
No 14 Lynsey
No 41 Lelia

Can you please e-mail Jacqui girls and she will get your banner off to you.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 5

First we will get over the boring bit The rules for entry into the challenge are , although the DT will all be using Crafters Companions image you may use any image from any company, so that gives you plenty of scope. All we ask is that, if you have one, you post your entry onto your blog with a link back to this original post on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog. If you do not have a blog you can e-mail a picture of your Card to JACQUI who will uploaded it to the blog for you.
For those of you who do use a Crafters Companion image you will be entered into the Candy Draw twice, so you have two chances of winning, does that sound good!!!
It is even better when you know what this months candy is:
Sara has kindly dontated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website!

Well worth winning isn’t it!
The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have a ”I made the Top Three On Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” Banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Sunday 31st October at 8pm, to enter the challenge just leave a link to your Card for the Challenge on Mr Linky Below.

We have a Sketch by our clever Teamie Bev for you for this challenge with the added option of an Untraditional Christmas, it’s up to you you can either use the sketch or the Theme or combine both as the DT have
Here is Bev Sketch and the Awesome Creations from the DT

Pat

Claire H

Sara

Carol

Jacqui

Ann

Bev

Heather from Heathers Creations

Looking forward to seeing your entries, don’t forget it is not necessary to use a Crafters Companion image, we look forward to seeing all entries.

E-Mail entry from Sue (Thanks Sue its a lovely card)

e-mial entry from Christa

Have a good month .

We Have the winners of our Beatrix Potter Winters Tale Challenge

2010-09-27T12:02:00.001+01:00

Wow you all loved the downloads we supplied for this challenge and what awesome creations you all made with them, the standard of entries was just fantastic, in fact they were all so good we were so pleased we didn’t have to choose the winners, we used Random.Org to arrive at our winners and here they are.

The winner of the Fabulous CD, Stamps and Winters Tale Craftmaking kit was

Wendy from Paper Crazy

and the five Runners up who win charming Winters Tale CD are:

Elaine – Craftetter

Shelia ( Who sent in 2 e-mail entries)

Karen from Krafty Karens

Sam from Bumblebee Crafts

Congratulations to you all, we do hope you enjoy your prizes and would love to see what you create with them. If you could please e-mail Jacqui with your Snail Mail address we will get your prize off to you as soon as possible.

Once again thank you everyone who joined us in our challenge, and if you were not lucky enough to win a prize this time, please do not forget to join us every month for the Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge , we have a marvellous prize every month.

Beatrix Potter Challenge

2010-09-18T13:52:00.006+01:00

To celebrate the launch of ‘A Winter’s Tale’ this Tuesday, we’ve set a cardmaking challenge. The theme of the challenge is “Beatrix Potter”, and you can make a card or other crafting project using any of the range that we’ve launched to date.

Up for grabs, we have the full ‘A Winter’s Tale’ collection, including CD, stamp set and cardmaking kit for the lucky winner, plus an ‘A Winter’s Tale’ CD for five runners-up. Simply upload a photo of your creation onto your blog, Facebook page, Flickr or other social networking page and post a link below using Mr. Linky.

Why not take a look at this month’s Monthly Challenge too? You could create a Beatrix Potter card using the sketch, and enter two challenges with one card, doubling your chances to win! You can enter as many cards as you like - the more times you enter, the more chance you have to win! The closing date for the challenge is Sunday 26th September.

If you do not yet have any Beatrix Potter products, you can still enter the challenge! We have a selection of papers from the brand new ‘A Winter’s Tale’ range available for you to download for FREE from the Members section of the web site! Click here to access your free papers. If you’re struggling for inspiration, check out the Projects section on our web site, where you’ll find a fabulous card and pillow box made using the free papers.

To help give you a bit more inspiration, we've asked our talented Design Team to make some cards using the new range, and have posted them below.

Carol

Jacqui

Bev

Claire

Pat

Wendy

Leann

E-Mail Entries

3 from Diane

Elsie

Joan

Shelia

We’re really looking forward to seeing your creations, so good luck everyone!

Meg x

Challenge 4

2010-09-01T09:00:00.020+01:00

Thanks to everyone who joined in Challenge 3 we had some fabulous entries, we used Random.Org to choose our Winner this month and he came up with

No 9 - That is Carol from Carols World

Congratulations Carol you have Won three of Jayne Nestorenko's Cute Duo Stamp Sheets as below and a pack of Centura Pearl Snow White Card also a Pack of Centura Pearl Snow White paper.

I hope you agree it is a fabulous Prize.

Could you please e-mail your snail mail address to Jacqui carol and she will get this off to you as soon as possible.

NOW FOR CHALLENGE 4

This month we are changing the rules for entry into the challenge, although the DT will all be using Crafters Companions images we have decided to open up the challenge entries, so you may use any image from any company, so that gives you plenty of scope. All we ask is that, if you have one, you post your entry onto your blog with a link back to this original post on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog.

For those of you who do use a Crafters Companion image you will be entered into the Candy Draw twice, so you have two chances of winning, does that sound good!!!

It is even better when you know what this months candy is:

Sara has kindly dontated a £30 Gift Voucher for the Crafters Companion Website!

Well worth winning isn’t it!

The DT will also be choosing our Top 3 Cards each month, and the winners will have a ”I made the Top Three On Crafters Companion Challenge Blog” Banner to add to their blogs.

This challenge will close on Thursday 30th September at 8pm, to enter the challenge just leave a link to your Card for the Challenge on Mr Linky Below.

We have another great Sketch for you this week from our DT Teamie Leann hope you enjoy it as much as the DT have, we would also like you to join us in welcoming 3 new members to the Design Team, Lisa, Pat and Carol.

You will recognise Lisa, and Pat as our GDT for the last 3 months we have all loved their work and have asked them to stay on as Full DT Members as for Carol we have all become fans of hers over the last 3 months as were so pleased when she agreed to join us.

Leann’s Sketch

And here are the DTs Cards to give you inspiration

Carol

Wendy

Pat

Ann

Sara

Leann

Jacqui

Claire H

Bev

Don’t forget it is not necessary to use a Crafters Companion image on your entry, you can use whatever image you would like. We are all looking forward to seeing your creations

Hugs

Crafters Companion DT

Challenge 3

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The Winner of the Candy for Challenge 2 is No 8 That is Shirley (AKA nannieflash). Shirley has won a stamp sheet of her choice from the lovely Patchwork Polly collection by Jayne Nesterenko, could you please e-mail Jacqui your address and your choice of stamp plate Shirley and she will get it off to you asap.

And Now Welcome to Challenge 3 Sara has again donated a wonderful prize this month, which will again be a surprise for the winner. There are not many rules to be followed on the challenge well only one really, that is you must use an Image from the great range of Crafters Companion CD's or any stamps sold on the website (that includes ALL stamps not just Crafters Companion). So you really have a lots to choose from.
Sara and Leann have been off to the CHA exhibition in the US hunting out more brilliant products and Ideas to share with us in the coming year, I cannot wait to see what they have found for us. So we have not got cards from them to show you this challenge but they will be back again next month.
This Month we have a fabulous sketch for you designed by our DT Teamie Bev You can rotate the sketch if you like as long as you keep the elements of the sketch. Finally could you leave a direct link to your creation on Mr Linky at the bottom of the post. That's it quite easy isn't it. We do hope you come and join us for our first challenge. This challenge will close at 10pm the 30th August.
So here is Bevs lovely sketch and to get you started some fabulous cards created by our great DT members

First the cards by 2 off our Guest designers for the next 3 months

Sara

Looking forward to seeing all your fabulous entries this month

Challenge 2

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THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED WE WILL BE BACK WITH A WINNER ON SUNDAY AND ALSO HAVE A NEW CHALLENGE FOR YOU. THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO ENTERED

Thank you everyone who entered our first challenge we were overwhelmed with the response and couldn’t believe the high standard of all the entries.
We have another sketch for you designed by Leann and it is awesome, all the DT loved working with it, thanks Leann Mwah XXXXX.
Sara has again donated a wonderful prize this month, which will again be a surprise for the winner. There are not many rules to be followed on the challenge well only one really, that is you must use an Image from the great range of Crafters Companion CD's or any stamps sold on the website (that includes ALL stamps not just Crafters Companion). So you really have a lots to choose from. You can rotate the sketch if you like as long as you keep the elements of the sketch. Finally could you leave a direct link to your creation on Mr Linky at the bottom of the post. That's it quite easy isn't it. We do hope you come and join us for our first challenge. This challenge will close at 10pm the 30th July.

So here is Leann's lovely sketch and to get you started some fabulous cards created by our great DT members

First the awesome Cards from our Guest Designers

Wendys Card (GD)

Debbies card (GD)

Sara

Leann

Bev's card using Stampavie Image available from the Crafters Companion Website

Jacqui’s card No 1 using Dear Little Popcorn

Jacquis 2nd Card using New Stampavie Image just arrived on Crafters Companion Website

Claire

To find out how our Dt girls made their fabulous cards just click on their names above their card to go to their blogs. Best of luck everyone looking forward to seeing your creations, and don’t forget to scroll down to the post below to see the winner of last months Challenge and find our who will be our GDT members for the next 3 months.

Cards sent in by E-Mail

Suzanne

Elaine

jacqui

Debbie

Hugs
The Crafters Companion Team xxxx

Winners of Challenge 1

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Thank you so much for all the wonderful entries we had to last months challenge, they were of such a high standard that the DT have had a struggle choosing 2 Guest Design Team Members, it has taken us all day !!! Finally we have come to a unanimous decision we have decided to have 3 GDT members joining us for the next 3 challenges they are

Ann from Craftroom Creations

Lisa from Crafty Moments

and

Pat from Pats Craft Making Passion

Thank you girls for such lovely entries and we are all looking forward to working with you from Next Month. Could you please e-mail me (Jacqui) my e-mail address is on the Side Bar, and I will send you more details and your Crafters Companion GDT Banner.
If you would like to see the fabulous creations by the 3 girls just click on their links.

NOW

For the winner of this months wonderful prize donated by Sara, I wrote each individual name, including those sent in by E-Mail and put them in a hat and asked my 87 year old Mum to pick a Name.

The name she picked was

Colleen

one of our E-mail entrants.

Well done Colleen your awesome prize is a Copy of the New Souffle DVD and 2 sets of Souffle Stamps that will be released on Monday at 9pm on Create and Craft

You will be one of the first to get your hands on this fabulous new Crafters Companions Collection. Could yopu please e-mail me (Jacqui) with your address dear so we can get them off to you asap.
Don’t forget our New Challenge will be posted tomorrow morning hope you can all join us again.
Hugs xx

Welcome to our First Crafters Companion Challenge

2010-06-01T08:00:00.014+01:00

Our First Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge is here at last and we have a fab sketch for you created by our very own talented Leann there is also the added option to use the Theme of FLORAL.
Sara has also donated an extra special fabulous prize for the First Challenge and you could be one of the first to have this in your hand.................

We are also looking for 2 extra crafters to join us as Guest designers chosen by the Design Team for the Next 3 challenges so we do hope you will come and join us, we are really looking forward to seeing your creations

There are not many rules to be followed on the challenge well only one really, that is you must use an Image from the great range of Crafters Companion CD's or any stamps sold on the website (that includes ALL stamps not just Crafters Companion). So you really have a lots to choose from. You can rotate the sketch if you like as long as you keep the elements of the sketch. Finally could you leave a direct link to your creation on Mr Linky at the bottom of the post. That's it quite easy isn't it. We do hope you come and join us for our first challenge. This challenge will close at 10pm the 30th June.

So here is Leann's lovely sketch and to get you started some fabulous cards created by our great DT members

First the awesome Cards from our Guest Designers

Wendys Card (GD)

Debbies card (GD)