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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

April Challenge

To get underway with our new Design Team, I challenged them to make a card using a Photograph or "Recycled" picture from a magazine or an old store bought Christmas card. NO STAMPED IMAGES were allowed :)

Here is an old 'store bought' card I recycled to make up my card for this months challenge




and my NEW card :)

and this is what we all came up with!

Ceal use a beautiful vintage image for her card.
Sandie used some pictures she had saved from magazines.

Diana Used a great winter photo for her card.
Samantha used some neat photos from a holiday gathering and a winter romp out in the snow.

Tenia recycled an old Christmas card.



Leave a comment if you do our challenge!
*Remember, if you do 5 cards this month following this challenge, your name will go in for a draw for a prize at the end of APRIL! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)


The prize this month was donated by a VERY KIND lady named DENISE. Visit her blog HERE.
~15 sheets (6X12) Flair Rejoice patterned paper PERFECT for making Christmas cards!!!
~1 sheet of Flair Rejoice stickers

Please upload your cards to your blog, a gallery, or photobucket and remember to give us the EXACT links to see them.You can do 5 of the same cards or 5 different ones (as long as they follow the current challenge) If you do 5 of the same, please show us a pic of them altogether. Thanks!
YOU NEED TO LET US KNOW IN THIS POST WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE 5 CARDS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE.

17 comments:

Tenia Nelson said...

Great stuff ladies!!!

barbie391 said...

congrats to the new design team members! I love all these cards. Glad I have saved all my store bought cards from the last few years as these look beautiful after what you guys did with them.

Anonymous said...

This looks like an extra fun one, I can't wait to get started

AUsome mom said...

Beautiful cards ladies!! I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else creates.

thescrapmaster said...

I can't wait to see what everyone creates for this month!!

Hugs,
Samantha

T... said...

love all the work that went into this challenge, and glad I was able to challenge a few of you :)

Can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with....

Deanne, so glad I could help you figure out WHY you kept all your cards and can't wait to see what else you come up with :)

Conniecrafter said...

These are so neat, what a great way to recycle and give new life to old cards!

Wilma said...

This was so much fun i couldn't stop and have done my 5 cards already. Check them out here April Christmas cards
Let me know what you think of them!

Linda said...

Beautiful cards by the DT!!! Great challenge...I really love to use recycled things on my cards. I will see what I can create and be back to post my cards.

T... said...

wow Wilma, you've been busy, great cards and thanks for playing

AUsome mom said...

Great job Wilma!! It's wonderful to see all of the "recycled" cards! Looking forward to seeing more ladies....

Birgit said...

I enjoyed this challenge and I had a hard time choosing which Cards i would redo...and i got to use blue.You can see my cards at http://createdbybb.blogspot.com

Trish said...

I have just come upon this blog and am happy I did. I love what you did with the store bought cards and will be recycling a few of my own. Fabulous work!!

Cheryl said...

Here are my 5: http://neverenoughstamps.blogspot.com/2009/04/christmas-cards-all-year-round.html
So glad that I was able to play with your challenge again.

Linda said...

What a great challenge and so much fun to get to use up some of those old store Christmas cards. Here is the link to my 5 cards for the April challenge.
http://cardchallengesandmore.blogspot.com/2009/04/christmas-cards-all-year-around-april.html

Trudi said...

What a great challenge! Im so glad I kept my cards from this year, I had fun with this challenge. You can see my cards here http://trudiwilbur.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-christmas-cards.html

Katie said...

Thanks for all the amazing eye-candy!! I just posted this link on my blog to all my friends so they could see all the beautiful cards, too! What a good idea to recycle cards! So fun!!

Katie:)