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 winner is...

SHANNON!!!

 Congrats Shannon! Please email me and I'll pass your address on to Lesley who offered a wonderful set of stamps for March challenge!

Thanks to ALL of you who participated! There were so many participants this month and that made me so happy!!! Thanks to all of you who are using our CCAYR NING site as well!

The WINNER for FEBRUARY is...

JAN of Jan's Things!!!

Congratulations!!! Email me with your address and I'll pass it on to Noreen for her to send out your prize.


Thanks to all the ladies who participated in February!!! Get to work on March now for a chance to win some beautiful stamps that Lesley is offering!!

Have fun!!

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

Ready for JANUARY'S WINNER????

Congrats to Nancy!!!  Email Deanne your address so she can send out your prize.  Woohoo!

I haven't chosen a winner yet...

for January ,but I will in the next few days, I'm hoping. My family is going through a death in the family and we need some time. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

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

JANUARY Challenge!

Welcome everyone to our FIRST challenge of 2010! Are ya ready to get started on those Christmas cards for 2010?? Of course you are!

The challenge this month is simply create ANY Christmas card. That's it...

ANY Christmas card goes!!!

Take a look at what our new design team has created for you as inspiration!

~ANDREA WIEBE

~MICHELLE BUSCHUR

~LIZ WEBER

~COLLEEN S.

~HELEN H.

January Guest DT
Cassandra Cushman

Lesley

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

*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 JANUARY! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do this month.)

THIS MONTH , the RAK is:

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 Happy New Year!

Deanne and Lesley

WINNER for DECEMBER was...

LORETTA!!!

Congrats Loretta! I'll send out a RAK of Christmas embellishments to you!!!