Love to Create Challenge Blog

Monday, June 17, 2013

Challenge # 70 Paper Piecing

Happy Monday!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week in our
"Always a Diva Vintage or Shabby" challenge!

Once again we had such a fantastic turn out, we enjoy visiting each blog and seeing your creativity in action! Your Creations were all Fabulous!!

A Huge big "thank you" to our Two Fantastic Sponsors Last Week

Fresh Brewed Designs

Winner of 3 Fresh Brewed Designs digital images is :

#10 Nikki

Sassy Studio Designs

Winner of 4 Sassy Studio Designs digital images is

#37 Plony

Congratulations Ladies !!

Please Email Jackie so we can get

your prize info to you.

You have until June 23rd to claim your prize!

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

5 Top Picks

by the Design Team

#19 Bo

#5 Laurie

#13 Laura C

#45 Paula T

#38 Vania Art

Congratulations!!

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

Again, a huge thank you to everyone who played along with us,

You all are winners in our eyes!!!

We have a Fabulous Sponsor

this week

The Stamping Chef

The Stamping Chef was born in November 2012, after I (Tamara) decided to switch from the scrapbook community to the crafter side of designing. Drawing is my passion, and my style is fun, cute and doodlish..I think =D. I love to see images come to life when they're colored by amazing crafters. Creating digital images can be a tedious process, but I love each and every step of it. I have a lovely bunch of ladies standing next to me, creating, giving me advice, and help me everywhere they can. I'm so totally new in this great adventure, but I love it! It's so totally different than I'm used to. I hope I can provide you with loads of cute, happy, funny images you can work with.

The Stamping Chef is offering a prize

of 3 digital images of winner's choice

Our theme this week is

Paper Piecing

Please join me in giving a warm welcome to

Our Guest Designer this week the very talented

Jennifer S

Hello! My name is Jennifer S. and THEY say I am a coffee addict...... I don't think so, but I do love coffee and pink and buttons and shabby/vintage and lace and trims and paper (especially Basic Grey!) and my family and my dogs and papercrafting! :) but really, I have been playing at this hobby/obsession for about 10 years now and loving every minute of it. I re-purpose all kinds of things, so don't be surprised if you find a belt loop from one of my son's shorts or perhaps a button from my hubby's shirt or a tea tag from my morning cuppa somewhere on my creation! it's all about the fun and whimsy!

Jennifer's beautiful card using TSC Polar Bear

You can see more of Jennifer's fabulous creation on her blog

Please take a minute and stop by and say hi to Jennifer and leave some love for her adorable Polar Bear card!!

Now for some FABULOUS "Paper Piecing" INSPIRATION from our Wonderful Team Designers

Susan

Showcasing TSC "Lost Fairy"

Zenita

Showcasing TSC "Shane"

Mei

Showcasing TSC "Sip & Relax"

Ruza

Showcasing TSC "Say Cheese"

Sandra

Showcasing TSC "Unity"

Amanda

Showcasing TSC "Speak No Evil"

Chris

Showcasing TSC "Jenna"

Deanne

Showcasing TSC "Milk Shake Anyone?"

Trudy

Showcasing TSC "Beware of Dog"

Jacki

Showcasing TSC "Auriel"

Fantastic Paper Piecing creations ladies!!!

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 Posted.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Challenge # 69 Always a Diva Vintage or Shabby

Happy Monday!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week in our "Father's Day /Special Guy" challenge!

Once again we had such a fantastic turn out, we enjoy visiting each blog and seeing your creativity in action! Your Creations were all Fabulous!!

Another week of Simply Fabulous Entries!!
Choosing winners each week has become harder and harder, everyone's inspirations are truly Amazing!!

A Huge big thank you to our Fantastic Sponsor Last Week
Stamp Fairy

Winner of Stamp Fairy's $10 Gift Certificate is

#22 Jennifer Scull

Congratulations !!

Please Email Jackie so we can get

your prize info to you.

You have until June 9th to claim your prize!

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

5 Top Picks

by the Design Team

#72 Dips

#77 Plony

#89 Crafty Nat

#40 Sandy How

#31 Anna

Congratulations!!

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

Again, a huge thank you to everyone who played along with us,

You all are winners in our eyes!!!

We have Two Fabulous Sponsor

this week

Hello! I am Heather, the artist and owner of Fresh Brewed Designs . I'm the wife of an amazing husband and mother of two sweet and talented kids. I home school my children. I LOVE coffee, creating and chatting with my friends. Fresh Brewed Designs is an online shop that I opened in November 2010. We sell a wide variety of rubber and digital stamps that grows daily. We have a digi release once (sometimes more) a month as well as our monthly rubber release and blog hops.At Fresh Brewed Designs we always have a fresh pot of creativity brewing. So stop by and join us for a cuppa whenever you want!

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!

Our theme this week is

Vintage or Shabby

Please join me in giving a warm welcome to

Our Guest Designer this week the very talented

Judy Corner

For many years I made cross stitched cards and small projects (one nighters) until late 2007 when I gingerly transferred to card making. It was some time before stamping took hold but once it did WOW there no stopping me, I just love it! I had silently followed the blogs avidly but only plucked up the courage to form my own blog in February 2011! It was so scary hitting ‘publish’for the first time but now I wonder why I did not do this before. I feel I have come such a long way, am now on two Design Teams,and also am enjoying doing commissions for Papercrafts Essentials magazine, the first of which was Published in February 2013.It is a great hobby, and one that is definitely a pleasure to share. Do feel free to drop by and say hello on http://inkypinkydelights.blogspot.com/

Judy's gorgeous card showcasing a very Shabby Sassy Studio image

Now for some FABULOUS INSPIRATION from our Wonderful Team Designers

Deanne

Trudy

Amanda

Sandra

Tina

Chris

Zenita

Jacki

Fantastic creations ladies!!!

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 Posted.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Challenge # 68 Father's Day or Special Guy in Your Life

Happy Monday!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week in our "Read all About It" challenge!

Once again we had such a fantastic turn out, we enjoy visiting each blog and seeing your creativity in action! Your Creations were all Fabulous!!

Another week of Simply Fabulous Entries!!
Choosing winners each week has become harder and harder, everyone's inspirations are truly Amazing!!

A Huge big thank you to our Two Fantastic Sponsors Last Week

Wings & Willows

$15 Gift Certificate to online store winner is

#9 Marina

QKR Stampede

Prize of 5 digital images of winner's choice

#15 Karen H

Congratulations !!

Please Email Jackie so we can get

your prize info to you.

You have until June 9th to claim your prize!

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

5 Top Picks

by the Design Team

#16 Blankina

#10 Vicky

#23 Guild Master Crystal

#21 Judith Hall

#14 Maria

Congratulations!!

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

Again, a huge thank you to everyone who played along with us,

You all are winners in our eyes!!!

We have one Fabulous Sponsor

this week

Stamp Fairy

Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010. Gerda

Burghardt, artist and owner, creates cute and whimsical digital images

for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats. You

will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls, fuzzy little

bunnies and whimsical critters. Please visit the store and browse

StampFairy’s wonderful images. We hope StampFairy’s images inspire

YOUR creativity."

One lucky winner will receive

Our theme this week is

Father's Day or Special Guy in your Life

Please join me in giving a warm welcome to

Our Guest Designer this week the very talented

Bettina

Hi , my name is Bettina and I am from Norway!!. I am truly exited and
honoured to be this week's guest designer at Love to Create. I am a 38 year
old mother of two girls, aged 3 years and almost 5 years. I live with my
hubby and kids in Stavanger, southwest in Norway. I started crafting late
2009 thanks to babyverden.no. It was first in 2010 I really hit it off with
crafting. My favourite thing is to make cards and boxes, but I also make
some LO's. I would say I kinda have no style at the moment, but I really
love vintage and I think my style is quite C&S although I try make my cards
with more flowers and embellies everytime. I love trying new teqniques and
styles. I hope I'll see you stopping by my blog sometime and say hello.

Check out this adorable Center Step card Bettina is sharing using

Stamp Fairy - Barry Best Friends

Gorgeous design and coloring Bettina

Be sure to visit Bettina blog to see all of your amazing creations!!

Leave her some love as our Guest Designer!!

Please join me in Welcoming two of Stamp Fairy's original team designers, as they join us this week sharing their love of Stamp Fairy images as Guest Designers!!

Deanne

Deanne's gorgeous card featuring another sweet image from Barry Best Friends

Larissa

Larissa's fabulous card features an image from Lenny's Father's Day collection

Please take a minute to stop over and leave some love for Deanne and Larissa

Thank you ladies, so much for sharing your fabulous inspirations with the team and our followers!!

Hugs & Love from me to you!!!

Now for some FABULOUS INSPIRATION from our Wonderful Team Designers

Mei

featuring Barry Best Friends

Susan

featuring Barry Best Friends

Tina

featuring Barry Fishing #5

Trudy

featuring Barry Best Friends

Sandra

featuring Barry Fishing #5

Jacki

featuring Lenny's Father's Day #2

Amanda

featuring Lenny's Father's Day #1

Deanne

Featuring Barry Best Friends

Zenita

featuring Barry Fishing #5

Ruza

featuring Lenny's Father's Day #5

Fantastic creations ladies!!!

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 Posted.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Challenge #67 Read All About It! Bookmark, Book or Reading

Happy Monday!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week in our "Something for Kids" challenge!

Once again we had such a fantastic turn out, we enjoy visiting each blog and seeing your creativity in action! Your Creations were all Fabulous!!

Another week of Simply Fabulous Entries!!
Choosing winners each week has become harder and harder, everyone's inspirations are truly Amazing!!

A Huge big thank you to our Two Fantastic Sponsors Last Week

Winner of 3 digital images from her online store

#70 Kim D

Winner of a $10 Gift Certificate to Di's Digi Stamps store

#14 Joey

Congratulations !!

Please Email Jackie so we can get

your prize info to you.

You have until June 2nd to claim your prize!

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

5 Top Picks

by the Design Team

#9 Alexandra

#62 Suzie Mc Floozy

#46 Sanja Grdinic

#6 Gerda

#16 Nat

Congratulations!!

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

Again, a huge thank you to everyone who played along with us,

You all are winners in our eyes!!!

Our Wonderful Sponsors this week are

Wings & Willows

Hello! I'm Rebecca from Wings & Willows. I am a happy wife and mama to 3 sweet girls. The hubby and I live out in the country along with an assortment of animals. In my small amount of spare time, I love to blog about our life and share some new (and free) stamps that I've created. (As well as fill you in on sales in the shop!) My digital stamps definitely are a reflection of the day-to-day things that go on at home. I've been doodling for the past 30-ish years, so it's great to be able to share my art with friends! In addition to that, I paint fingerprint trees. Just think of them as a fun and unique alternative to guest books. I would love for you to take a peek at my shops. (Or drop a line on my blog! I love to hear from you!) Thanks! Becca :)

Offering a $15 Gift Certificate to online store

QKR Stampede

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 unmounted, 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.

Offering a Prize of 5 digital images of winner's choice

Our theme this week is

Read All About It!

shows us a bookmark, a book or something to do with reading

Before I share the design teams creations I want to introduce

to you our newest Team Designer Trudy Harris - Thomas

We are so excited to have Trudy joining the team.

Blog

Hey ya'll - I'm Trudy. I'm somewhat of a newbie at cardmaking and blogging; posting my first creation and blog post just 6 months ago. Prior to that I actually owned a couple of little flower shops. I live in a small agricultural community in South Central Florida with my husband, 2 rescued dogs and one very mean Amazon Parrot I live approximately 125 miles (round trip) to the closest crafts store. I can no longer drive due to a medical condition so, needless to say, I have to improvise often while working on my cards. You know what they say - necessity is the mother of invention. I make and/or create many of my own embellishments and rely on the internet heavily for exceptional companies to get me product quickly and at a good price.

I am primarily a card maker, however I do quite a bit of altered art and some scrapbooking; I am BIG on recycling and natural items in my projects. I don't really have a set "style", although I lean toward Vintage and shabby chic in many of my personal creations where I have "free will".
I have been a GDT on a few sites and I am currently on 2 Design Teams (Tammy's Scrappin Corner and Tsunami Rose Designs) and love the experience I am gaining by teaming with such creative minds. It makes me create projects that I would probably never try, and I just love how it makes me think "outside of the box and gets me out of my comfort zone".

Welcome to the team Trudy, I know you all will love the creativity Trudy will be bringing to the team!!

Please join me in giving a warm welcome to

Our Guest Designer this week the very talented

Jackie Wallace

Hello! My name is Jackie. I am blessed to be a SAHM to five beautiful children and wife to a most loving and patient man. I started out scrapbooking in 2008, when my daughters’ began 4H. Since then, I have become passionate about all kinds of papercrafting. I began teaching a scrapbooking and mixed media class at our local homeschooling co-op two years ago and love every minute of it! I love to learn and pass that knowledge on to others.

Check out this adorable bookmark Jackie created with

Follow Your Dreams by Wings & Willows