August Guest Designer and Mid Month Inspiration

Hello everyone. It's time to announce our Guest Designer for August. 

 Please welcome Kim. 

 Kim has created some lovely cards following this month's theme - Kid's Christmas.

We're so happy to have Kim join us this month.  She has some gorgeous work over on her blog so please stop by and say hello.

Here is some mid month inspiration from the DT:

Cindy

Teresa

 Tracey

Sue

Thanks for stopping by today.  

Don't forget there's still plenty of time to join this month's challenge.

July Challenge Winners

Hello everyone.  As promised I'm back with the winners of our July challenge.  We had such a large number of participants this month, so a big thank you to all who joined us.

The winner of the stamp set from Platypus Creek Stamps drawn at random is...

 Congratulations Julia Vazquez.  Please contact me at ccayrchallengeblog@hotmail.com to claim your prize.  You may grab the winner badge from the side bar. 

Ok on to our top 3.  We had so many amazing entries this month that it was a really difficult task to narrow it down to just three.

In no particular order the top three this month are;

#81 Lena Katrine

#87 Kirsten

#88 Asha

Congratulations.  You may grab your top 3 badge from the side bar.

Don't forget to check out our current challenge-Kids Christmas

August Challenge - Kids Christmas

Good morning everyone it's time for another challenge, but firstly a big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge "Christmas Flowers" We had a fantastic number of  wonderful entries, so it will take a little time to look through them all once again to choose our winners. I will be back on the 3rd to announce our random winner of the prize as well as our top 3.

This month our challenge is "Kids Christmas"  Create a card suitable to give a child for Christmas.

Our sponsor this month is Platypus Creek Digitals.  

The prize this month is the four new Cute Kids Christmas digis released last week.  The winner will receive the four images uncoloured and minus the watermark.

Here are some samples from the DT to inspire you.

Audrey

Teresa

Cindy

Ciska

Denise

Clare

Carol

Sue

Allisa

Tracey

Beate

July Guest DT & Mid Month Inspiration

Hello everyone.  It's time to reveal this month's guest designer.  Please welcome Helen from Made By Helen.  Helen has some lovely creations over on her blog so be sure to pop by and say hello.

Helen has created two lovely cards for us this month:

Here are some samples from the DT

Teresa

Cindy

Denise 

 Clare

If you haven't joined our challenge this month there is still lots of time to join us here.

July Challenge

Hello everyone and welcome to our July challenge.  Thank you to our participants last month, we had some lovely cards once again.

The winner of the prize donated by Cindy is:

Congratulations Karen C.  Please email me at ccayrchallengeblog@hotmail.com to claim your prize.

Our top three this month in no particular order are:

7 Chrissy

15 Lorraine W

10 Gail L

Congratulations ladies, you can grab your top three badge from the side bar.

Ok on to this month's challenge.  The theme this month is nice and easy:

Christmas Flowers/Holly -Include Holly or Poinsettias somewhere on your card.  This could be in the image, on the paper or embellishment etc.   

Here are some samples from the DT to inspire:

Beate

 Carol

Sue

Teresa

Allisa

 Clare

Cindy

 Denise

Ciska

Audrey

Tracey

The prize this month is donated by Platypus Creek Stamping and Craft and is a cling stamp set from Sunshine Designs.

The set is called Christmas Pots and contains four individual cling mounted rubber stamps.

I hope you will join us this month.  Please add the direct link to your project below. 

New Design Team Members

Hello everyone.  Just popping in today to introduce you to our four new Design Team members.  Our new DT members will be joining us starting with our July challenge.  Do head over to their blogs to say hello and check out their fantastic work.

Introducing...

Allisa

Hello, my name is Allisa Chilton. I live in southwestern Wyoming. I started scrapbooking in 1995. I became a Close To My Heart Consultant shortly after. Scrapbooking soon lead to card making. I think I have now reached paper hoarder, stamping addiction status! I started blogging in 2011, which has lead to my new addiction of entering challenges. I love to make Christmas cards. Creating Christmas cards all year round is so relaxing vs. the holiday rush! I can't wait to see all of your holiday creations!

Beate

My name is Beate – better know as Beacarona in blogland, I’m 35 years old, married and live in Hamar, in Norway. I have been making cards for about 5 years, and this hobby is just great! I’m not sure what to call my style, but I use a lot of roses, ribbon, lace and distressing on my cards and boxes, and I sew on nearly everything I make. When I’m colouring stamped images I prefer Promarkers, and sometimes I use H2O.

Denise

Hello, my name is Denise. I'm from the Bay area of Massachusetts. I'm a Wife, Mother of 2 teenagers, a Visiting Angel, an Alzheimer's Educator, an Administrative Assistant, a Manager, a Retired CTMH Consultant, an Occasional Scrapbooker and a Passionate Cardmaker. My creative area is in my basement and lovingly referred to as the "Craft Cave". I no longer scrapbook for myself but will for others. I relax by making handcrafted cards. I'm very excited to be on the CCAYR DT for the next 6 months.

Sue

Hi, my name is Sue Walker, I work full time as a Stylist in my own salon. I have been married for nearly 24yrs and have two girls aged 21 and 19, two border terriers and a cat I started making cards as a past time with my daughters during school holidays and after the girls grew up I carried on as it became a passion, especially stamping.

Welcome ladies, looking forward to sharing your creations.

June Guest Designer & Mid Month Inspiration

Hello everyone.  Today we have a Guest Designer joining us for our Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Lights Theme.

Our June Guest Designer is Vicky from Stamps, Paper & Stuff 

If you head over to Vicky's blog you will find instructions on how to make this lovely card.

Thanks for joining us this month Vicky!

Now onto our mid month inspiraton from the Design Team.  

Here is a card from Teresa

If you haven't joined our challenge as yet you may do so here.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Design Team

Morning everyone.  Just wanted to pop in and say a big thank you to all who applied to our Design Team call,  there were so many lovely entries.  

The very difficult decision of picking just a few has now been made and invitations have been sent via email (if you had an email link on your blog) or via a comment on your entry card.

I'll be back shortly to announce the new DT members who will be joining us from next month.

Thank you again to all who applied.

May Winners

So sorry for taking so long to announce the winners for the May Challenge.  We had so many lovely entries it was a tough job deciding on the top 3.

So first up our random winner for May is...

Congratulations Chrissy.  Please email me at ccayrchallengeblog@hotmail.com to claim your prize and grab your winner badge from the side bar.

The top three for this month in no particular order are:

14 Allisa

40 Dorte

42 Becarona

Congratulations.  You can grab your Top Three badge from the side bar. 

Make sure you head over and check out the Top 3 creations.