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.

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.

Welcome Carol!

And last, but certainly not least, we'd like to welcome Carol (Granny) to the team!

http://craftingranny.blogspot.com/

Hi, My name is Carol but I'm better known as Craftingranny. I live in the USA and am from a small midwestern town, St. Joseph, MO, known as the place where the notorious outlaw Jesse James was killed and the beginning of the Pony Express. We have quite a historical city that dates way back to the days of trading posts and the movement to the west. I am married to the man of dreams and we have a blended family of 3 boys and 1 girl, 7 grandchildren, and 5 great grandchildren with one due in September. A little over 2 years ago I became hooked on scrapbooking and making cards so decided to start a blog in the hopes I could learn from others. These past few years I've met so many wonderful crafters from all over the world and learned a little something from everyone. Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I love making Christmas cards and projects. I'm so excited to be chosen to be on the wonderful team at CCAYR and can't wait to share and see all of your wonderful creations each month. "Hugs"

Carol has been a Guest Designer for us before and I know she makes amazing cards, so we're looking forward to more of that!  Can't wait to see the fun you get up to with the August challenge - a little bit different kind of challenge, but you're not getting hints from us!

Cheers,

Colleen and Lesley

Welcome Kerri!

Today we'd like to welcome Kerridwen Niner to the team!

http://fotf-constellations.blogspot.com/

Hi I'm Kerri from the UK. I have one child who has just finished his first year in school which I thought would mean I'm back to work but instead I'm chasing my tail finding something that fits round a school day, I have four step children too but their off doing their own thing. To keep me sane I craft. I have been crafting for as long as I can remember and have tried my hand at lots of different crafts including jewellery making, glass painting, cross stitch, drawing, painting, scrapbooking but my favourite which this year has taken up all of my time is card making. I have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the monthly challenges here at CCAYR and am chuffed to be included on the design team so share with you some of my creations and see some of yours :)

Love that Santa on that card Kerri and can't wait to see what else you have in store for us! I know you're busy with the August challenge already!

Please join me us welcoming her to the team!

Cheers,

Colleen and Lesley

Welcome Clare!

Today, I'd like to welcome Clare to the team!!!

miscanthuscrafts.blogspot.com

Hello, I'm Clare from the UK. I live in the beautiful green countryside in a county called Herefordshire. I've been a crafter all my life and was lucky enough to study Art and Design at University. Crafting is a great way of forgetting your worries and it helps me to chill out after a hard day's work as a Primary School teacher. I love all types of crafting including scrapbooking, sewing, knitting and altered art. But cardmaking is my favourite and there is nothing nicer than making Christmas cards so I'm excited to be part of the Design Team at Christmas Cards All Year Round and I look forward to see everyone's wonderful festive creations.

Beautiful card Clare and can't wait to see what else you have in store for us! I know you're busy with the August challenge already!

Please join me in welcoming her to the team!

Cheers,
Colleen and Lesley

New Design Team Members!!!

Well, I'd like to start by thanking everyone that applied for the design team!  I'm always amazed at the talent out there and it makes choosing people difficult for sure!

We've added 4 new people to the team and asked a couple more to be Guest Designers as well.  Please welcome Ciska, Carol, Clare and Kerri to the team and I'll be introducing them over the next week.  You can see links to their blogs on the right and I'll post them again as I introduce them!

For today, I'd like to start by welcoming Ciska to the team!!!

http://craftycardcrafts.blogspot.com/

Hello everyone, my name is Ciska Reilly. I am 34 years old; I live in the south of the Netherlands, together with my husband and several fish. I started paper crafting in 2010 because I just wanted something to do that was both creative and productive. I was literally hooked from the start. In no time at all, I had a whole room full of crafty goodies, I'm sure you know how that goes! I have a special weakness for pretty designer paper (especially glittered or double-sided), the one thing I can never resist buying. I am very exited to be a member of the CCAYR DT team and hope to have a lot of fun! I can't wait to see what kind of challenges there are in store :)

This card is fabulous Ciska and can't wait to see what else you have in store for us!  She's busy with the August challenge already! 

Please join me in welcoming her to the team!

 
Cheers,
Colleen and Lesley
 
PS Keep looking for more new designers over the next few days!

Design Team Call!!!

Yes ladies, it's that time again already!  Time to add a few new people to our design team!!  It sure snuck up on us as well!  I think it might partly be the time if year with the crazniess of the end of the school year creeping up.  Hope the weather has been better where you are than here on the southern coast of BC!

We'll all be into Christmas cards in a serious way before you know it here, so if you're interested in helping us out and showcasing your work every month on the blog, just send a e-mail to me (Colleen) at col12@hotmail.com with "Design Team" as the title.  I'll be forwarding these on to Lesley as well!

Include the following in your application...
Full Name
E-mail
2 Christmas cards of your choice  - new or old!
A direct link to a Christmas card on your blog
A short paragraph about yourself and why you're interested in becoming a CCAYR design team member

The deadline for entries will be June 15th, so that gives you a couple of weeks to get your submission in!  Looking forward to seeing all the amazing creations and welcoming a few new people to the team!

Cheers,
Colleen and Lesley

DT Announcement!!

Merry Christmas everyone! 

Can you believe it's now less than a week away?  Tis the season to be crazily busy and we apologize for the delay in the DT annoucement as a result.  We've had trouble contacting people through their card posts, so we're announcing the team here and I'm asking if you could please contact me (Colleen) at col12@hotmail so that I can send you some details!

We're going to add 2 new team members and 2 Guest Designers every month!  Please know how hard this was!  We were planning on only have one Guest a month, but there were so many great cards that we added an extra every month!  We look forward to having more of you on the team in the next session, so please keep playing! 
So, without further ado...

Our 2 New Team Members are
Tracey - My Creative Place
Julie - A Passion for Paper

Guest Designers
January - Tinemor
              Nina
February - Bea
                Therese
March - Jess
             Christine
April - Carol
          Sonja
May - Paula
          Wendy

Congrats ladies and we look forward to hearing from you and seeing more of your amazing work!  Look for profiles of the two new design team members soon!

Cheers,
Colleen and Lesley

April Challenge

Hi there, everyone!!! Are you getting excited about Christmas yet!!!??? Well, making Christmas cards should get ya excited!!!

Here is the challenge for APRIL...

Since spring is here, make a Christmas card with at least ONE soft pastel color on it. (could be baby blue, soft pink, pale yellow or pale green)

Here are the design team's cards.They are absolutely lovely!!!

~ANDREA WIEBE

~MICHELLE BUSCHUR

~LIZ WEBER

~COLLEEN HEIDRICH

~HELEN HOLLINGER

~And our Guest DT for April is...

Cathy Schellenberg

 

Lesley

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 picture 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.

The prize for this month is another SU stamp set plus a few other goodies I'll throw in:) 

We hope you enjoy creating Christmas cards this month!!! Tell your friends about our blog and have them join in on the fun too!!!

Thanks to Lesley for offering the awesome prize again this month!!!

MARCH Challenge!!!

Wow, I just don't know where February went but I hope you were able to check out all the beautiful creations everyone created!!!  I can't wait to see who is going to win February's prize from Sharing Memories Scrapbooking...stay tuned.

The challenge for the month of March is to use mostly green on your card and one of my favorties...snowmen!

Check out these wonderful creations from the Design Team:

~ANDREA WIEBE

~MICHELLE BUSCHUR

~LIZ WEBER

~COLLEEN HEIDRICH

and mine...

Here is our Guest Designer Tina

Leave a comment if you do our challenge!  Please only enter NEW CARDS that are made in MARCH.

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

This month, the RAK is:

A stamp set from SU, plus I'll throw in a few other goodies for you!

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 picture 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.

We can't wait and see what you create this month!  Have fun!

Deanne and Lesley

FEBRUARY Challenge

I bet you can sorta figure out what this month's challenge will be since it's the month of LOVE!!!

This month's challenge is to create a CHRISTMAS CARD with at least 3 hearts on it!

That's it! Easy enough, isn't it!!

~ANDREA WIEBE

~MICHELLE BUSCHUR

~LIZ WEBER

~COLLEEN HEIDRICH

~HELEN HOLLINGER

~LESLEY FREINER

And here's our Guest DT JEN McGEE's creations:

Leave a comment if you do our challenge! Please only enter NEW CARDS that are made in FEBRUARY.

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

THIS MONTH , the RAK is:

~A prize package from Noreen Smith of  Sharing Memories Scrapbooking in Calgary.
Here's what Noreen writes:
“Sharing Memories Scrapbooking is a small independent scrapbooking company based in Calgary, Alberta. We create our unique, affordable page kits and project kits using fun theme-based products from a variety of our favorite manufacturers. We also design and make our own line of coordinating embellishments. We are happy to sponsor the prize giveaway on the Christmas Cards All Year Long Blog for the month of February. The winner will receive our Valentine’s Collection (some items shown below) as well as a $10.00 gift certificate towards any item in our shop! (A total prize value of $20.00!) Drop by our website at http://www.sharingmemoriesscrapbooking.com/ to see our entire line of products and find lots of inspiration and education!”

Thanks Noreen for sponsoring the wonderful prize this month!!
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.

Enjoy and have a Happy February!
Deanne and Lesley