Challenge #203

Hi everyone!  Our photo this week is the only one I have had time to take.  We have several bird feeders and this shows a group of birds on the niger feeder.  It has been so cold that they are thankful - I am sure- for the food.

Not the best photo this week but I am sure you get the effect.

On to our top three from Challenge #201....here they are in random order.

Diane

Robyn

Regan

Great cards, ladies!  All of our entries were gorgeous and the decision on a top three was really a hard one.  Thanks to all who participated and a big Congrats! to the top three.

Now for this week's sketch.  Once again, we are going without a theme as our designers and you followers seem to like that better (and, frankly, I sometimes run out of themes, LOL)

Here are the great samples from our designers....

Mary Jo

Sarah C.

Barb

Claire

Hillary

Kaylin 

(2 totally different cards)

Awesome cards, designers!  It never ceases to amaze me how creative this team is and I thank my lucky stars you are here!  Now I cannot wait to see the cards all of our followers create.  Have a great week, all!

Challenge #202

Good Tuesday morning to everyone out there.  Once again it is bitter cold here (-25 degrees right now)Brrrrr!  I hope all of you are staying warm.
Since it is still snowy here, I thought I would show you this photo of snow on a pine branch.  Hope you like it!

Now for our top three from sketch #200.  Wow! we had so many entries that we could not just pick three - we have added a special mention.  Congrats to all the following ladies and thank you for the huge response for this challenge!

Top 3:

Michelle

BK

Karen

And special merit to.....

Vicky

All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!

Now for this week's sketch.  Once again, we are not using a theme.  Everyone seems to like Anything Goes so we are going to run with that for awhile.

And here are the inspirations from the team:

Claire

Kathy

Kaylin

Lynda

Nicole

Sara H.

Shell

Double WOW! for our team this week.  The cards they have created are all so amazing and all so different.  I am sure they will spur you on to pick up your supplies and start card making.

Thanks, everyone, and have a great week!

Challenge #201

Good morning, everyone!  I hope it is warm where you live.  Here it is -22 right now ...brrrrrrr.
Our photo today is more snow (of course)since that seems to be all we have around here.

I am hopeful that there is another theme for next week. LOL

Now for our top three from sketch #199 (in no particular order):

Robyn

Karen

Diane

Thanks to all who participated and a big "Hooray" for these three lovely cards!  

Now for this week's challenge.  Our sketch:

We have done away with themes for awhile so each week it will be "anything goes".

Now for the samples from our team:

Claire

Barb

Mary Jo

Hillary

Gorgeous, ladies!  I LOVE how you all have interpreted our sketch and i am sure our followers will be inspired to create some awesome cards of their own.  Cannot wait to see them.

Have a great week, all!

Challenge #200- Anything Goes

Happy New Year, everyone!  I hope you had a great holiday season.  I know I did.  It was quiet and I feel rejuvenated and ready to tackle 2015.  I do not usually do this but I am going to start with some news of my own.....I have received the contract to photograph 700 soccer players for our local indoor league so it looks like my business might just be taking off!  This starts next week so i will be a busy beaver for the next three weeks.  I hope you all have good news as well this year.
 Now for blog news, there will be some really positive changes around here in the next little while...so keep checking back to see what is up.

Our photo this week is one I fell in love with by accident.

I started out just wanting to capture the snow and the lights on our eave but ended up loving the silhouette of the tree behind.  Christmas meets Halloween (LOL)

Thank you for indulging me each week and allowing me to show you some of my photography work.

Now, on with this week's challenge:

Theme: Anything Goes!

And here are the samples from the team:

Kathy

Crystal

Hillary

Kaylin

Lynda

Nicole

Nicole 

very creative - she made two

Sara H.

Amazing, ladies!  These cards are so beautiful.  I know you will inspire our followers to create their own masterpieces.  I cannot wait to see them.

As a quick note, there were not enough entries for a top three from Challenge #198 but please go back and look at the ones we got.  They are both great cards.

See you next week......