Love to Create Challenge Blog

Challenge #6 About The Ladies- Sponsored by Sassy Studio

2012-03-12T09:19:00.000-04:00

Happy Monday!

A Big Thank You to Everyone who joined us this past week! We were so excited

to have such a big turn out with over 70 entries!!

A Super Special thanks to our sponsor Bugaboo Digi Stamps!!

for supporting our challenge!

The WINNER for our Monochromatic Challenge

per Random.Org is

#13 Bonnie B

Congratulations!!

Please Email Jackie so we can get

your prize info to you.

Don't forget to grab your winner's badge for your blog from our side bar!

This week's we have 5 Top Picks

in no particular order

# 50 Tracy MacDonald
# 31 Cindy Groh
# 58 Cec
#22 Tine
#9 Craftin Suzie

Congratulations Ladies!!
Please grab the Top 5 badge for your blog from our side bar!

Our Amazing Sponsor this week is
Sassy Studio Designs

Sassy Studio Designs

Sassy Studio Designs is a fresh new company. We have been designing and selling for 2 years now, and we have been kindly received into the community of digi stampers and crafters. I started designing images shortly after I started stamping, reason being...I didn't hardly like anything else out there I was a young adult woman at the time I was engaged, had no kids, I wanted fun sexy images that I would enjoy using and my friends and hubby would enjoy receiving. I designed images for 2 other digi stamp companies when my wonderful hubby kept trying to get me to go out on my own. So in June 2009 thanks to the few faithful followers I had, Sassy Studio Designs was born! It has been a wonderful journey starting my own store. We have just grown so much these past months.I still try to keep

Lindsay Dyer: keep with my original philosophy and reason for designing stamps, make them fun and keep them sassy...and yes sometimes even sexy!

Lindsay

"This One's for the Girls!"

This Week Our Challenge is

ABOUT THE LADIES!

Now, Here are some Fun Creations that the DT has to Share & Inspire You With:

Melissa

Zenita

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously made.

Challenge # 5 Monochromatic with Bugaboo Stamps

2012-03-05T06:00:00.008-05:00

A Big Thank You to Everyone who joined us this past week! We were so excited

to have such a big turn out with over 50 entries!!

A Super Special thanks to our sponsor Robyn's Fetish Designs

for supporting our challenge!

The WINNER for our Add Stitching to your project

per Random.Org is

#4 Hazel

Congratulations!!

Please Email Jackie so we can get

your prize info to you.

Don't forget to grab your winner's badge for your blog from our side bar!

This week's we have 5 Top Picks

in no particular order

#11 Bettina

#15 Samantha

#29 Leah Ann Gast

#37 Mindy Baxter

#49 Julia

Congratulations Ladies - please grab the Top 3 badge for your blog from our side bar!

Our Amazing Sponsor this week is Bugaboo Digi Stamps!!

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

Our links are:

Store : http://www.bugaboostamps.com/

Catch the bug Challenge blog: http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

Bugaboo is offering a Wonderful Prize The Grand Prize winner this week will receive...7 digi stamps that value $21!!!

This week's challenge theme is MONOCHROMATIC

Joining us this week from the Bugaboo Design Team

Jen Leeflang

Sammibug

WOW!!! Fabulous inspiration ladies!!!

Thank you so much for joining us this week!

Now for more inspiration from our design team

Melissa

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge aMAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please doNOT backlink to other cards you have previously made.

Challenge #4 Robyn's Fetish

2012-02-27T06:00:00.010-05:00

A Big Thank You to Everyone who joined us this past week for our Third Challenge!

A Super Special thanks to our sponsor Michelle's Scrapbooking & More

for supporting our challenge!

The WINNER for our Color challenge is

The WINNER for our Color challenge of Navy, Pink and one other color is

#6 Genevieve

Congratulations!!

Please Email Jackie so we can get
your prize info to you.

Don't forget to grab your winner's badge for your blog from our side bar!

This week's Top 3 are
in no particular order

#4 Hazel

#2 Sandie

#7 Gem

Congratulations Ladies - please grab the Top 3 badge for your blog from our side bar!

Congratulations!o to yr your blog from our side bar! Fun Challenge is

Add Stitching to your Project

(Real or Faux)

Our AMAZING Sponsor this week is

http://robynsfetish.com/shop/

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps, winner will receive their choice of 5 dgital stamps

Eve

Tina

Sue

Zenita

Tamara

Ashley

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge aMAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please doNOT backlink to other cards you have previously made.

Challenge #3 The Pixie Cottage

2012-02-20T06:00:00.181-05:00

A Big Thank You to Everyone who joined us this past week for our Second Challenge!

A Super Special thanks to our sponsor Sassy Studio Designs for supporting our challenge!

The WINNER for our Buttons & Bows challenge is
#9 Fiona

Congratulations!!

Please Email Jackie so she can get
your prize info to you.

You have won 4 digis of your
choice from Sassy Studio Designs

Don't forget to grab your winner's badge for your blog from our side bar!

This week's Top 3 are
in no particular order

#25 Tracy Valure

#19 Karina

#32 Genevieve

Congratulations Ladies - please grab the Top 3 badge for your blog from our side bar!

This Week's Super Fun Challenge is a Color Challenge!

Navy, Pink & One Other Color

Our AMAZING Sponsor this week is

Michelle's Scrapbooking & More, Home of:

The Pixie Cottage Stamps

Michelle's Scrapbooking & More is home to The Pixie Cottage stamps. In addition to our stamp line we carry many other popular lines of stamps, Copic Markers, Spellbinders, punches, paper and more.

Stop by and Visit and use Coupon Code: LoveTo and you will receive 20% off your order.

Now onto the DT Cards for this week using Pixie Cottage Digi Stamps!

Eve

Ashley

Tamara

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

Challenge #2 Buttons & Bows

2012-02-13T06:00:00.010-05:00

Thanks to everyone who joined us this past week with our first challenge!

Special thanks to our sponsor Bugaboo Stamps for supporting our challenge

The winner for our first challenge is

#2 Crystal R

Congratulations

Please Email Me so I can get your prize info to you.

You have won 7 digis of your choice from Bugaboo Stamps

Don't forget to grab you winner's badge for your blog!

This week's Top 3 are

in no particular order

#6 Colleen
#11 Celeste
#4 Claire

Congratulations ladies - please grab the Top 3 badge for your blog!

This week's challenge is sponsored by the wonderful and fabulous
Sassy Studio Designs

Sassy Studio Designs

Lindsay Dyer: keep with my original philosophy and reason for designing stamps, make them fun and keep them sassy...and yes sometimes even sexy!

Lindsay

Our challenge theme this week is

Buttons & Bows

Our design team have some fabulous cards

using Sassy Studio images to inspire you.

Chris

Sue

To join in please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link

back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other Challenges with ours as you want. You can only enter our

Challenge a MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please Do not Backlink to other cards you

have made.

Challenge #1 it a Sketch with a optional color theme

2012-02-06T06:00:00.013-05:00

We are so excited, Our First Challenge here at Love to Create!!

We are thrilled to begin this wonderful adventure with all of you and we hope you will enjoy your time each week playing along with us.

Every Monday you will find a new challenge right here with a chance to play along to win some absolutely fabulous prizes from our Wonderful sponsors!!

I am so happy to tell you that our first sponsor is none other than the Fabulous Bugaboo Digi Stamps!! Jodie creates some of the cutest, most adorable and amazing images and there are so many to choose from that you'll want them all!

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

Our links are:

Store : http://www.bugaboostamps.com/

Catch the bug Challenge blog: http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

Bugaboo is offering a Wonderful Prize The Grand Prize winner this week will receive...7 digi stamps that value $21!!!

Are you ready to play?
For our first challenge we are starting off with a fabulous sketch created by our very talented Tina

with a optional color theme of Red, Pink and White

Challenge Guidelines

You can create any project you wish as long as we can see the sketch incorporated into your project.

Winners and Top Three Creations will be randomly chosen!

Links must be in place by 9:59 p.m. EST on the Sunday Feb 12th to be eligible for prizes.

If you would like to be a Guest Designer please add GD after your name.

To Get us started we invited Bugaboo's Design Members join us to get this Party going!!

Billie A

Jackie Rakoski

WOW!!! Fabulous inspiration ladies!!!

Thank you so much for joining us this week!

Now for more fabulous creations from our design team

Clicking on their names will take you directly to their blog

They would love to hear from you!

Melissa

coming soon!

To join in please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link

back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other Challenges with ours as you want. You can only enter our

Challenge a MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please Do not Backlink to other cards you

have made.

PLEASE consider turning off your word verification.

It would be a great help to us if you would consider turning off your word verification if it's active on your blog. To do this is really easy and all you need to do is go to Customise > Settings > Comments > then scroll down to where it says comment moderation and select always (this won't stop anybody leaving you a comment but they won't show on your blog till you approve them). Then scroll down to show word verification for comments? and select No.

We love to visit your blogs and leave comments on all the terrific entries, but the word verification really slows us down. :o)

New Design Team

2012-01-23T10:00:00.002-05:00

INTRODUCING:

THE NEW LOVE TO CREATE DESIGN TEAM

Welcome to Love to Create Challenges!! We are so excited you have joined us for our new adventure! With Great Pleasure & excitement, we are pleased to announce our first Design Team!

(You are able to Click on all the pictures to check out these lovely ladies blogs!)

Hi everyone, first and foremost I am super excited to begin this journey of creating my own challenge blog with Tina, and I'm thrilled you are here visiting. I sure hope you will become a follower and join us each week as we share inspiration, to enrich our creative minds. I am so thrilled and honored to have some very talented ladies join us on this adventure! Be prepared to be WOW'd each week as they each share their incredible talent!

A bit about me!! I am an addict!! Yes I admit I have a serious addiction! My addiction ranges from pretty design papers to beautiful ribbon, fun and exciting tools, to my beloved Copic – not sure I have found something I don’t like J (well okay me and a hot glue gun just don’t get along). I tell you it’s a passion and obsession! That I {heart}! I am married to a wonderful man who puts up with my addiction (not that he has a choice) and we are blessed to be raising one of our grandchildren Hunter who is 12 years old and definitely keeps us young and active. We have 4 full grown children (Nicole, Jenn, Josh and Amanda) and 8 beautiful grandchildren – being blessed with our first 2 little girls just recently and I might add enjoying every minute of buying the frilliest and sweetest cute girl clothes!

Hi!! I'm Tina (aka Crafty and Green)! I'm so excited & happy to be able to co-own Love to Create Challenge Blog & Design Team with my Super Special Crafty Buddy Jackie! We are thrilled to have such a Great Design Team to start off with!! We look forward to all the challenges & all of you playing along with us! We have some AMAZING Sponsors and can't wait to create with all of their images!!

A Little About Me: I'm an energetic SAHM of two active Kiddos. My daughter Lizzy is four and my son, Jimmy is three. I've been married to my Disabled Veteran Hubby for five and half years and we bought a new home in Marlboro Township, Ohio last Winter. I originally started scrapbooking 8 years ago when my hubby and I were just engaged and he was in Iraq. It's something I did with the other moms, wives & Girlfriends to pass the time while the guys were deployed. Once I got married & Pregnant, I stopped crafting since I was so busy. I Just started crafting in June again and that's when I started my blog.I have now fallen in love with Stamping, card making and of course my new found obsession with Copic Markers. When I started back to crafting in June, I started with just Cricut Crafting, but found that I love coloring stamps & digi stamps. Everyday I'm learning! I just love seeing what others make and taking an idea & tweeking it to be my own! I do have a busy life outside of the Crafting world as well. I Organize a Large Mom's Group, I'm involved in a Book Study and also co-chair a Music Ministry. (My other passion besides crafting is SINGING!! Thanks again for joining us! I can't wait to craft with you all!!

Hello everyone. I am so happy to be a part of this wonderful design team! My name is Susan Bermudez and I have been papercrafting for almost 4 years now. I started with rubber stamping for cards and then became a scrapbooker. Although new to papercrafting, I have been crafting since a very young age. I started sewing little felt frogs and then progressed to various types of needlework, then knitting, crocheting and quilting. Digital scrapbooking and Digital stamping have joined the ranks now. I am the wife to my wonderful husband, Alex, who wholeheartedly supports all my creative endeavors. I am also mom to my 3 amazing two legged children (Melissa, Alex Jr and David) and our four legged one (Tina). I am also a grandma to Elijah who is 3. My family gives me the best scrapbooking material and I could not do it without their love and support. I hope you will come by my blog (Susana's Scrappin' Corner) and see what I have made recently. Until next time, I wish you a scrappingly good day :)

Hi! My name is Ashley and I live in Delaware. I'm happily engaged to my best friend and we've been together for 10 years. I've been crafting my entire life in some way shape or form. My most recent focus has been on papercrafting. I like to color with my copics, make cards and alter things. My fiance bought me a Cricut in June of 2010 and I use it every chance I get. When I'm not creating, I enjoy reading, dancing, traveling and spending time with family and friends.

My name is Jo and I'm 31 years old from South Wales UK, I have facial/shoulder dystonia a movement disorder but learning to live with it as everyday is different! I'm crazy about crafting a real passion of mine that keeps me occupied on a good day and I dream of on a bad day.... Been crafting as far back as I can remember, from knitting, crochet, tatting to glass painting, rug work, cross stitch, decoupage & card making!

My name is Melissa Craig and I was born in Denver, CO but I live in Sanford, FL. I am a single mother of 3 amazing children. I have two boys and one girl and they keep me busy but they're a lot of fun. I have been in the papercrafting world for nearly 17 years having first been introduced to scrapbooking when my oldest son was a month old. A few years later when I was expecting my daughter I put a stamp in my hand for the first time and it exploded from there. I don't really have a particular style that I favor, I love trying new things which is why being on a design team for a challenge blog and owning my challenge blog is perfect for me. I look forward to this new journey with Love to Create.

I'm Aj, I live with my husband and our two youngest girls on the UK's most remote inhabited island, Fair Isle up in the Shetland Islands where I work from my own studio as a full time crafter & tutor. I'm addicted to all things paper & ink & seem to spend my days with a bunch of copics in one hand and a bunch of pencils in the other.

Hi my name is Zenita Smith but I'm known around the scrapping world as ScrappinwithZ. I'm a substitute teacher which works great because I have time to do what I love which is Scrapbooking and playing with paper. I started collecting scrapbook products over 10 years ago and then 8 years ago when we received two little boys that we wanted to adopt I started to actually use the products that I had been collecting. Today my 2 older boys plus their wives along with the two boys that we adopted give me plenty of photos to play with. In May we will be getting our first grandchild and I'm sure I will have even more fun there. I'm Copic certified and have fell in love playing with Copic markers and stamps (digital or rubber.)

Hello! My name is Chris & I was thrilled to be asked to be on the Love to Create Design Team!! What fun it will be starting a new challenge blog!!!! I have been scrapbooking for about 12 years, stamping for about 5 years, and started blogging over 2 years ago. You can find my blog at http://cattsscratchingpost.blogspot.com/ I hope you’ll stop by and visit some time!! I have met so many incredible people through the blogging & stamping world, and from all over the world (even places I didn’t know existed!!) I am having the time of my life!!! I am a Catholic school teacher in Canada, and spend my spare time in my craft room, camping, or with my little family. My DH (Tim) and I don’t have any human children but we do have furry 4-legged ones that keep us as busy as if they had only 2 legs! All of our animals are rescues so they each come with their own issues: Brick, is our neurotic 70 lb. lap dog; Minty, our newest addition, is a wild and crazy puppy; Tux, our 14 year old diabetic cat, and our 3 leopard geckos. I am so excited to share my love of stamping and digis with you!!!

Hi! My name is Tamara and I am from Minnesota. I am a former police officer and am now a stay at home mom to two beautiful girls, Kaylynn (3) and Kyra (2). I have a wonderful husband who I have been with for almost 8 years. I have been crafting as long as I can remember...it all started with my mom teaching me how to cross stitch! I love to sew, quilt, crochet, scrapbook, make cards and mostly recently, I love to color with my Prismacolor colored pencils and Promarkers. I also love to use my Cricut Expression and Cricut Imagine to enhance my cards and scrapbook layouts.

I am Amanda Phillips currently living right outside of Charleston , South Carolina with my wonderful husband Rod. We have dedicated our home to nothing but our hobbies . My Blog is named after this coming of age because the children no longer require our financial assistance so therefor we are old enough to play like children and I love every creative possibility out there. That being said, I am excited to have been chosen to be part of the Love to Create Challenge Team and can't wait to see what we all get to share. Happy crafting everyone and live a life of color.

Hi! I'm Eve! I'm 30 years old and married to the love of my life for 2 years now. I am a kindergarten teacher and I just LOVE incorporating my love of crafts into my classroom with the little kiddos ;). I have been creating for close to ten years now! I am absolutely without a doubt completely and utterly addicted to paper crafting! I have had the opportunity to be on a few design teams in the past which have enabled me to take my skill level to a whole new level. I love participating in challenges as this also helps me get my creative "juices" flowing. I recently just started a monthly card making kit club at home and it's been a great success, I also plan on hosting art classes for kids once a week - cannot wait for that!. Lastly, I have had a great number of people ask me to create favours and invites for their events which led to the "birth" of my own little "company" called Give A Hoot Designs! It's been such a blessing to be able to design for my little client base and I hope that I can continue to grow in this!

My name is Kelli Jo and I'm a 43 year old mother of 2, ages 20 & 16. I'm a Correctional Officer by night and a mad stamper by day. I started stamping back in 1992 when I saw gold embossing powder melt for the first time, Yep, hook line and sinker since then! I still feel like a beginner everyday I stamp but that presents a challenge that I welcome! I think this new challenge blog will help me continue to grow! I am thrilled with the opportunity to work with these other fantastic stampers on the team and of course all of you that will be playing with us!

Thank you for joining us! Don't forget to come to our Grand Opening Challenge on February 6th!!

Love to Create DT Call

2012-01-02T10:34:00.001-05:00

Love to Create Challenge DT Call

Love to Create Challenge is a new challenge blog beginning in February 2012

We are looking for a few passionate crafters to join our creative team

Are you a crafter with great enthusiasm who LOVES what they do and puts pride into their craft?

All styles and skill levels are welcome and encouraged to apply!

Are you someone who loves to create using digital images, trying new products, share their projects on an active blog. A crafter who is dedicated and commit to keeping a schedule by turning projects in on time, is flexible and can openly communicate with the DT Coordinator?

Then we would love to have you on our team!

DT Requirements

Submit projects weekly for our blog challenges and commenting on challenge entries

Create projects that help promote our sponsors products

Most of all have fun while being on a Design team

Applying is easy.

Send the following information to designteamlovetocreate@yahoo.com

Name

Link to your blog

Online Galleries you post to (links)

Tell us a little about yourself!

What design teams are you currently on?

Past design teams? (none are required)

Past Publications? (none are required)

Attach pictures of 3 projects that you think best represent you and your style

2 Must have a colored image

This call runs thru January 20th midnight EST

New Challenge Blog - Coming Soon!!

2011-12-29T21:12:00.001-05:00