My May card, a little late....

Hi ladies, sorry I haven't been around but my computer decided to take a little break on me, and well it's still not up to 100%

Here is my May card.......



I had fun with the flower challenge and I see the other ladies did a great job as well with the challenge....can't wait to see what others do with the flower challenge.



Happy Carding!
Tamara :)

May Christmas Card Challenge

Wow! May is here!!!!

Here is your challenge for this month!

Use flowers on your Christmas cards.

SANDIEDIANACEALTENIA
SAMANTHA

TAMARA is having major computer issues. :o(


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 MAY! (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.

WINNER for APRIL is...

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LINDA!! Linda, please email me and I will get your paper and stickers out to you ASAP!!!

Thanks to EVERYONE who participated this month!!! If you've been participating since January, you have 20 Christmas cards made already for the holiday season! That is soooooo cool!!!

Be watching for the next challenge being posted in a few minutes!

WINNER for MARCH is...

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WILMA!!! Please email me with your address!!!

*I apologize for not choosing a winner earlier! I totally forgot to choose a winner AGAIN. What is wrong with me??? So sorry, everyone!!

DT call for JULY-DECEMBER

DT CALL for JULY-DECEMBER (closes JUNE 10th)
If you'd like to be considered for our Christmas Card Design Team, please create 2 Christmas cards (No!!!!! Really!!!!!!!!!!!) taking inspiration from the blog header and colors! Easy as that!

I'll choose 4-6 people and they will be our Design Team for a 6 month term. (starting in JULY) There are no kits for you to play with, there are no discounts at a store (because I HAVE no store,sorry! hehe!), there are no other obligations other than create a CHRISTMAS card based on the challenge that Tamara or I send you.

There'll only be one card challenge a month(unless we decide to have a special celebration for some reason, but you will NOT be obligated to participate). So, that's 6 cards a TERM to create for the monthly card reveals.

Oh, but if you'd like to be entered into the monthly draws that I will be having, you will have to complete 5, yep 5, cards each month to qualify. If you prefer NOT to enter the monthly contest, then its ONE card a month for 6 months!

Email me your newly created Christmas cards (done especially for this challenge) if you'd like to try for the DT. Please have your card in by JUNE 10th WEDNESDAY and I will announce the new members on JUNE 13th SATURDAY.

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.

Tomorrow our new Design Team...

reveals the first month's cards!!!

Please join me in welcoming these creative ladies to the team for APRIL, MAY and JUNE...
~DIANA
~SAMANTHA
~CEAL
~TENIA
~SANDIE

Thanks so much ladies for accepting and I'm sure everyone is excited to see your cards, starting TOMORROW!!!!!! Wahoo!!!

Oh my goodness! I didn't pick a FEB winner!

Someone asked who the winner was for FEB and I couldn't believe I FORGOT to post the FEB winner!!!!! Please forgive me ladies!!! I don't know HOW I forgot that!!! Oh dear!

So, here is the winner FINALLY for FEBRUARY..........







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FABRICBUTTERFLY!!! Please email me with your address and I'll get something out to you ASAP

Christmas Card Challenge for MARCH!

Sorry this is late today, ladies!!! I was gone ALL weekend to a crop and it was so much fun!!! It was the first ever crop for me!!! I am certainly going to go again when the opportunity arises!

I haven't had a chance yet to go through all the entries for Feb yet, so the announcement of the winner will come later (in a day or so)

But...In the meantime, let's get going on the MARCH challenge!

Since this is the month of the lucky leprechauns and Spring I thought it would be fun to create an all (or mostly) green Christmas card and include some kind of leaf on it. (for eg. a holly leaf)

Here are the design team creations:

Tamara

Alecia

Betty Ann

Noreen

DeniseLisa

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 MARCH! (this challenge CAN be combined with any other blog or forum challenges that you do 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.

Paper Bag Mini-Album

Today I have a mini-paper bag album for you!

These bags are approx 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches.


I used 4 bags. You can use less. I wouldn't recommend more as it will get too bulky.

Fold the bags in half. Then stack them together. I alternate them, so that the openings are not all together. If you put them together all the same way, then one half of the album will be thicker than the other. All the bottoms will be on one side, and the openings will be on the other. In alternating them, the album is evened out.

Staple the bags together and glue a piece of paper to cover the staples OR you can punch holes and add ribbon and tie them together.


Now the fun really begins! Time to play with the cover and pages inside. Here's what I did...
The places where the bag opens, I made extra spaces to pics or journalling. These are the tags I made: