Valentine Challenge

Ready for Valentine's Day? You've not got long now to get that card (or those cards ;-)) made. In keeping with the occasion I thought we would have a Valentine challenge. I'll leave it up to you how you want to tackle that, anything goes. You don't have to use one of our downloads, but if you do you can enter yourself TWICE in Mr Linky below.

There's a price again, this time one of the new Magnolia You're so Special Stamps, namely Tilda with Heart. You can get all the stamps from this collection right HERE from Charmed Cards & Crafts.



Please ensure you link to your PROJECT not just your blog, and that you include a link in your post to the challenge here. The winner will be chosen at random.org.

GOOD LUCK! We look forward to seeing your lovely projects.

The challenge will run for TWO WEEKS until 16th Feb.

Challenge - ANYTHING GOES - BLUE

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Hi gang, Karen here with another challenge for you. The anything goes themes are proving popular so lets continue in that vein, this time it's anything goes as long as you have used predominately BLUE. Please link to your project (the project, not just your blog, I am afraid that we cannot go searching for your entry) in Mr Linky.

It's strictly one entry only, but if you use one of our downloads you can enter twice. Remember to link to Dottie's World in your post or you will not be eligible for entry into our prize draw.

So what is the prize? Well the Bo Bunny Noel Collection pack was so popular that we are giving you a second chance to win it:

This gorgeous kit from Bo Bunny comprises 18 12" x 12" sheets of premium quality double-sided designer paper, including journalling card paper, and one 12" x 12" sheet of coordinating cardstock stickers.

This will run until the end of the month. If it is going to be too late to use the pack for this years Christmas cards well then it will be perfect for scrapping all your Christmas photos' :-)

We look forward to seeing your lovely work :-) GOOD LUCK! xx


Here is the last challenge winner

That is RAINBOW DAYS. Please email through your address HERE.

Thanks to all who entered. I apologise for the delay in announcing the winner, it took me some time to go through all entries.

Challenge - ANYTHING GOES - RED

Hi crafters, Karen here with another challenge for you. Again it is an "anything goes" challenge, which means you can use ANYTHING, not just one of our downloads. The only stipulation is that we want to see lots of RED! If you do use a Charmed download well then you can enter your name twice in Mr Linky and be in with twice the chance of winning our random draw prize. Please link to your project in Mr Linky.

Did you know that we now stock Magnolia stamps? We are giving one away for this challenge. This Tilda with Fir Tree is a beaut for your Christmas cards (along with our fabulous downloads of course :-)).

The design team will soon start to create examples for the challenges again :-)

This one will run until the end of the month. GOOD LUCK!

Just popping in to say, we're loving all of the entries but PLEASE link to the project not your main page because some of the entries are difficult to find. Keep 'em coming!

THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED

Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

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Yes this really is anything goes. All we want to see is a Christmas project - card, layout, anything at all, and for a change it does not matter if it doesn't have one of the Charmed downloads on it. Just enter a link to your work in Mr Linky below and link to the challenge on your blog - please also mention the candy in your post. :-) Please do not link to old posts, it must be a new post on your blog.

We are giving away a gorgeous prize with this challenge: a BEAUTIFUL Bo Bunny Noel Collection Pack.

This gorgeous kit from Bo Bunny contains 18 12" x 12" sheets of premium quality double-sided designer paper, including journalling card paper, and one 12" x 12" sheet of coordinating cardstock stickers.

The challenge will end 7th November so you've got plenty of time to create. As always the winner will be drawn at random.org.

We look forward to seeing your lovely work :-) GOOD LUCK! xx

THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED

Charms

Well, I am the hostess of this challenge and it goes like this: This week, I really do it simple. Use two charms and a brad on your card. And of course you have to include a download (or Delectable stamp), that`s the major rule in these challenges.
*Gunn:-)

Gunn

Karen

Adele

Louise

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Hi all, Karen and Louise here. We are putting our challenges on the shelf for a little while as we unfortunately do not get enough entries to make them viable; a huge thank you to our regular visitors. The blog will instead showcase project ideas and include more tips and techniques - with the occasional challenge and blog candy thrown in no doubt :-) We do hope you will continue to visit ♥

Conditional Christmas

This is the time we all make a start on our huge pile of Christmas cards - if it isn't then it should be as you surely don't want that last minute panic :-) To get you started we would like you to create a Christmas card, the condition here is that you must not use traditional Christmas colours, so I don't want to see any reds or greens, anything else is good to go. The only absolute must-have is of course one of the gorgeous Charmed downloads.

Here is some inspiration from the design team:

Karen

Inside:

Louise

Gunn

Adele

The Great Outdoors!

I cannot believe how quickly this year has gone, children going back to school and the thought of Autumn ahead already. Let's make the most of the weather whilst we can!

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Please make a card, project with an outdoor theme. That's the only requirement apart from obviously using one or more of the fabby Charmed Downloads.

XXXX

Gunn

Adele

Karen

Louise

Please leave a link and we'll come looking :-)

On the Beach!

Hello Folks, Louise here. As this challenge goes live I will actually be sunning myself in Turkey! So I think it would be a fitting plan to make a beach/vacation themed card - make it sunny please! Don't forget your Charmed download!

Look at what we came up with....

Louise

Karen

Gunn

We look forward to seeing your wonderful projects :-)

Be Inspired!

Hello Guys and Gals, Louise here,

We haven't had a photo inspiration challenge for blummin ages! So here we go, use this picture as inspiration to make a card (or even something else!)- maybe it will be the colours, maybe the flower, maybe the romantic feel of it - there are no rules with inspiration challenges, it's how the picture effects and inspires you. Oh actually there is one rule! The rule is -and believe me some people still forget this one - USE A CHARMED DOWNLOAD!

Louise

Gunn

Karen

Please enter a link to your card in Mr Linky and we will come looking. Have a great week x

Frame it!

Hi gang :-)

Hope you are enjoying your weekend so far. Been raining cats and dogs here in London, I do hope you manage to catch a glimpse of the sun where you are once in a while!

Good news! From now on we will be giving you *something *on the first Sunday of each month! Strictly speaking this is the second Sunday of the month, but who's counting :-) This month there is a £10 voucher to spend in the Charmed online shop for one lucky participant in this weeks challenge. The draw will be performed at random.org and the result announced next Sunday. GOOD LUCK!

On to the challenge. This week we would like you to frame something on your card. It could be framing an element, an image or indeed the card itself. Along with the frame I would like to see a few dots, how you present them is up to you. Please don't forget the most important part - a Charmed Download, which must feature somewhere on your card :-)

Karen

Louise

Gunn

Adele

Please leave your link in Mr Linky and we will visit your blog and gaze upon your lovely creation :-)

Manly with a twist!

Hi everyone, it's Adele here! Whilst looking through my stock box I noticed I am incredibly short of cards for men so I thought it would be a good idea to get a few in there rather than keep putting myself under the pressure of having to make them at the last minute - cards for men can be tricky enough as it is!

You have loads of images to choose from the Charmed Download collections so lets see what you can come up with........Now for a little twist, I want to see some ribbon on your manly cards!!

Gunn

Karen:

Karen's Inside:

Louise

Adele

Lets Go To The Movies

We are very sorry to announce that Sheila has left the team, in fact Sheila has stepped down from all her design teams to concentrate on living a little more - and who can blame her for that! We have enjoyed having Sheila on the team very much, and thank her for creating for us and sharing her wonderful creative talent. The door is always open Sheila when you feel you have more time on your hands.

Sheila set the challenge for this week before she left us and this is what she said:

I love going to the cinema with my grandsons.. gives me the perfect excuse for seeing all the latest kids Disney/Cartoon movies so with this in mind my theme for the challenge this weeks is....

LETS GO TO THE MOVIES!!

So find your favourite Charmed Crafts download and turn it into a movie/movie character or relate it to a movie/character - simples no? :-).

Here are examples from the team:

Maddy

Karen


Louise

Gunn

Adele

Please leave your link in Mr Linky and we will come looking.