Anything Goes

Good Morning.......wow what a response to last week's challenge of Lucky Dip, so I know you're going to love this week's challenge of "Anything Goes" even more.

Well it looks like Summer is trying to arrive, as the temps have been climbing a bit in the last few days, and I do love to sit outside and craft when I can, after being cooped up indoors for so long. I was sitting out on the deck yesterday, painting a few items I am altering and of course getting paint all over my legs.

Winner's of last week's challenge

Paper Shelter $20 Gift Certificate - #24 Jen Leeflang

A&T Digital Designs 3 Emerald Faerie Images - #69 Lucy Patrick

Congratulations ladies, if you would please email me, I can get your prizes sorted for you.

Top 3 Winners

#72 Monica

#45 Jane

#131 Norma

Congratulations ladies, please grab your top 3 badge from the badge page up top, and well done to you for your amazing projects.

This week we have two more generous sponsors

offering a £10 voucher to her shop

offering 4 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. Meljen's Designs has a new challenge every Thursday, and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the adorable line of Meljen's Designs stamps at our store HERE to browse all of Melissa's lovely designs! You can also see Melissa's exclusive rubber stamps at her corner of Whimsy Stamps, too! Don't forget to join Meljen's Designs on Facebook HERE to take advantage of special sales and promotions that are just for her facebook fans!

Finally some gorgeous inspiration from my Design Team using some images supplied by Meljen's

Laney

Meljens designs 'Cloud baby' DP Bearlymine Designs Gingham Paper from the Christmas Light collection

Tracey

Image - Meljen's "Victorian Birdcage"

Paper from "Vintage Fantasy"

Sharon

Image - Meljens Flower Power Car

Paper = Floral Fantasies and Plain and Simple

Julie

Image - Meljens Sunflowers Friend.

Papers - Floral Surprise and Plain and Simple

Pauline

Image:  Meljens - Playful Dino

Papers:  Bearly Mine Designs - The Boys Zone

Natascha

 Papers: Bearly Mine Designs Spring Delights and Mini Dots

Don't forget all the lovely papers used by the Design Team are available in my shop

Challenge #86 Lucky Dip

Good Morning Crafters, it's Tuesday, so that means another new challenge for you all. We had some amazing cards for my sketch challenge last week, so nice to see the different styles of interpretation of the sketch. Wish we could have seen some more entries but perhaps some of you don't like following sketches.
Now onto what everyone wants to see........the winners

TOP 3 as chosen by my Design Team (in no particular order)

# 25 Phi

# 2 Anita

#4 Birgit

Congratulations ladies, you created some fabulous cards, so please grab the Top 3 badge from the badge page and display it on your blogs.....you deserve it.

and the winner's of the prizes are as follows

Marianne Design - #12 Eemeli

KennyK Downloads - #24 Monica

Crafter's Companion - # 6 Tracey

Congratulations to all three of you.....please email me using the bear in the sidebar so I can get your prizes sorted for you.

Now for this week's prizes, we have two sponsors, The Paper Shelter and another new sponsor "Emerald Faeries"......

OFFERING A

and

Prize - 3 Emerald Faerie Digi Stamps of Winner's Choice

This week's challenge is a "LUCKY DIP"

just choose three items from the list and let us know in your post which three you chose.

And now for some fabulous inspiration from TEAM "B"

Carol

using  Paper shelter image...teddy bear picking flowers

papers.....Bearly Mine digi ....spring flight

and simple dots

Lucky dip....pink and blue combo, ribbon,flowers

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Kym

Image:  The Paper Shelter "Gothic and Modern"

Papers:  Bearly Mine Designs The Boys Zone and

Bearly Mine Designs Spring Surprise

Lucky Dip:  Pink/blue colour combo, lace and flowers

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Nela

Image: The Paper Shelter, Cute Dressmaker

Paper: Bearly Mine, Mini Dots

Die cuts, Pearls and faux stitching

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Andreja

Using: Bearly Mine Design Pape - The Boys Zone

Lucky Dip: Lace, Die Cuts, Flowers

Image: The Paper Shelter digi stamp: Sophie in the country

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Lozzy

Using; Bearly-Mine Design Paper - Vintage Fantasy

Lucky Dip; Die Cuts, Flowers, Pearls

Image; The Paper Shelter digi stamp; So Stylish

Jackie

Using Bee Bear by The Paper Shelter

Floral Surprise and Simply Dots by BearlyMine Designs

Lucky Dip - Pearls, ribbon, diecuts.

Jules

Using In the 20's by The Paper Shelter

Paper Lace & Fairy Land Dream Freebie by Bearly Mine Designs

Lucky Dip - Feathers, Pearls, Lace, Dies & Flowers

All of the papers used are available in my shop

Sketch Time Challenge #85

Wow, an amazing amount of entries (289) for last week's challenge of "Anything Goes" I know it's everyone's favorite as you can create whatever you like.

Well I hope you're ready for this week's challenge and the other new ladies that joined the Design Team to show you their creations along with our Senior Designers.

First we have some prizes to hand out......and the lucky ladies are

Alota Rubber Stamps $15 Gift Voucher - # 190 Kate

and the £15 voucher for Merly Impressions goes to # 172 Kelly Lloyd

and finally the winner of the £10 voucher to my shop is # 189 Craftdee Donna

Can you ladies please email me (Donna) using the bear in the sidebar to collect your prizes and don't forget to grab your winner's badge from the badge page up top

Plus we have our TOP 3 as chosen by the Design Team (in no particular order)

#144 Kirsten
#59 Lori A
#171 Norma

This week we have 3 sponsors once again

Marianne Design is a Dutch owned craft manufacturer and wholesale supplier to craft retailers around the world. The company was established in 1994 by Marianne Perlot and is based in the Netherlands. For years now, we develop all our products with much care and quality. We have a practical understanding of the needs of crafters, we integrate product development, design and customer service to bring fresh ideas and beautiful products to the craft industry. All to enable the consumer to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other projects and enjoy this wonderful hobby. Our products are available in 18 countries around the world. We produce a wide range of products which represent a complete concept of paper crafts. There are different lines of stamps and dies with matching papers and materials to decorate your card or scrap. Products are chosen carefully for mixing and matching and stimulating creativity.

Marianne D Designs offering

offering FIVE digi's of the winner's choice (so many to choose from)

offering a £10 voucher for their website

Now for this week's challenge it's our "MONTHLY SKETCH"

Now for some creative inspiration we have "Team A" showing how they've used the sketch on their cards

Laney

Using Boogie Down from KK and Bearlymine 'Floral Surprise'

Julie

Sharon

Using Kenny K 'Cool Kid' and Bearly Mine 'The Boyz Zone'

Tamara

Using Cheery Days

Pauline

Image:  Kenny K - Movie Star
Papers:  Bearly Mine Designs - Cheery Days

Tracey

Using Papers from "Mini Dots" and "Desginer Extreme CD"

Natascha

Image: Kenny K - Diva
Papers: Bearly Mine Designs  - Vintage Fantasy

All of the papers are available in my shop
Sale ends tonight at Midnight

#84 Anything Goes Challenge

Good Morning Crafters, before I get onto the challenge winners and news of the newest challenge, I have some news to announce.

Sadly the six month DT term ended and some members have now left the team

Dianne, Sarah Louise, Marie, Shirley and Gina.

I wish them all well in their future crafting teams and projects and hope they will join in on a challenge or two in the future.

But as you saw last week, we have some new faces joining the team, some of them are on the "A" team and some on the "B" team, so you will see some of their work here today on the challenge.

Lozzy, Andreja, Carol, and Julieanne..........a big welcome girls

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Now onto the winner's of our last challenge "Digi Days" we have

Winner of the $5 Sassy Cheryl voucher - #103 Anya

and the winner of the

£10 Gift Certificate to Bunny Zoe's Crafts we have lucky #12 Jennifer Scull

Congratulations ladies, if you would please email me using the bear in the sidebar, and please put what challenge # it was in the subject line as well as the prize you are claiming. And don't forget to grab your winner's badge from up top.

Now for the Top 3 as chosen by the DT, and in no particular order

# 88 Ellen Taylor

# 80 Cara

#65 Eret

Congratulations to you all, very well deserved, please grab your Top 3 badge from the badge page up top.

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Now onto this week's challenge which is everyone's ALL TIME FAVORITE

"ANYTHING GOES"

We have some fabulous sponsors for you once again

Alota Rubber Stamps is know for "The cutest little bugs in Town"

Search our web site for cute and whimsical rubber stamps. We also feature background scenes in full size and miniature and we have a large selection of tea bag folding stamps. For great inspiration be sure to visit our card gallery!

a new sponsor

Merly Impressions 

offering a £15 voucher

and Bearly Mine Designs

 offering a £10 voucher

So that's THREE fabulous chances for you to win a prize.

Now for the inspiration from "TEAM B"

Kym

Using Bearly Mine Vintage Fantasy Digi Set

Image:  LOTV die-cut image

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Lozzy

Using Bearly-Mine Floral Surprise Digi Set

Image: LOTV rubber stamp

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Carol 

using  Bearly mine simple dots and Spring blossoms

image is Bugaboo...Boo bath 

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Nela

Paper:  Bearly Mine Design Floral Surprise 

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Jules

 

Papers used are Bearly Mine The Boys Zone and Mini Dots

Image by Doctor Digi - Night Nurse Nina

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Andreja

Using: Bearly Mine Design Paper - Spring Surprise

and Bearly Mine Design Paper - Vintage Fantasy

Image: LOTV Rubber Stamp

Don't forget all the lovely papers used by the DT 

are available in my shop

Challenge #83 - "Digi Days"

Good Morning Crafters, It looks as if you thoroughly enjoyed last weeks "Spring Flowers" Challenge as we had over a 150 entries so I'm hoping you are going to equally enjoy this weeks one "Digi Days" and that means that you must use digital images and hopefully digital papers to, but we will accept just the images if you don't have papers. But before I carry on I want let you know that this is my last Challenge post for Bearlymine Designs and that I want to thank you all for your entries and to especially thank my Design Team for all their hard work and support, I am going to miss you all terribly but I'm sure I will pop by occasionally and take part in the Challenges. I also want to wish all the new girls starting next week all the best and enjoy your time with very talented Design Teams.

And now its time to turn myself to the winners of the prizes for last weeks Challenge and the first sponsor was 

I am Roses gives away a gift voucher worth $35 to spend in their on line store.

 and the lucky winner is 

#58 Katie

and our second sponsor was

The Greeting farm is giving away a single stamp of the winner's choice 

and the lucky winner is

#105 Siv-Anja
 

Well done and congratulations, if you click on the Teddy Bear at the top of the right hand side bar it will give you Donna's email address so that you can claim your prizes, and please dont forget to add the prize you are claiming and the Challenge #82 in the subject line. And finally dont forget to pick up your winners badge from the Top Tab and add it to your blog side bar.

And now for the Top Three Cards chosen by the B Team and they are

#23 Linda

#72 Karen

#130 Regina

Well done girls and congratulations, please done forget to collect your Top Three Badge from the Top Tab and add it to your blog side bar and wear it with pride.

And now for this weeks Challenge we have yet another new Sponsor and that is

Sassy Cheryl's Stamps

and they are offering a fabulous prize of $5. Gift Voucher

and our second sponsor is 

Bunny Zoe's

and Nikki is offering a fabulous prize of

Well now time to show you what my Design Team have been creating for you.

Laney

Sassy Cheryl image - Bearlymine Designs "Simply Dots" and "Summer Breeze" Digi Papers

Pauline

Sassy Cheryl image - Bearlymine Designs - "Floral Surprise" and Mini Dots" Digi Papers

Tracey

Sassy Cheryl image - Bearlymine Designs "Mini Dots" and "Spring Surprise" Digi Papers

Shirley

Sassy Cheryl image - Bearlymine Designs "Spring Mist" Digi Papers

Natascha

Image - Sassy Cheryl  "Thick as Thieves"
Papers - Bearly Mine "Floral Surprise"

All these beautiful digital papers are available from

Donna's Bearlymine Designs Website here

And wow what stunning cards yet again the Design Team have created for your inspiration and I do hope that you will now want to take part in this "Digi Days" Challenge.