Challenge Number 8 - Animals!

Hello and welcome to challenge number 8 here at Charisma Cardz Challenges.

Firstly, us ladies at Charisma would love to thank you all for the outstanding work that you all produced for our Cuddles & Hugs challenge last week - it was amazing visiting all your blogs and seeing your creations.

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Secondly, we would like to express our warmest welcome to the newest member of the team, Claire. Claire has a fantastic blog with wonderful creations on there, so go stop by and have a look!

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The challenge this week was set by me, Leanne and I have chosen the theme of

ANIMALS

This can be interpreted in any way, shape or form!

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Our sponsor this week is...

Fingertip Crafts is a lovely store both online and in real life! They're currently offering FREE p&p on all orders over £10! so hop on over there!

They've very kindly donated a special stamp which the collection is ONLY avalible at Fingertips!

Diminty Mouse 'Celebrations' RRP: £5.99

To be in with a chance to win, just leave us a comment with a link to your work and we will randomly pick 1 winner next Thursday.

Don't forget you can make anything!! We hope you will join in this week and we look forward to seeing your creations. If you don't have a blog please email us at charismachallenges@live.co.uk and we'll will post it on this blog for you.
You have till Wednesday 10pm GMT London to get your entry's in!

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Here is some inspiration from the Design Team

Leanne

Carly

Vee

Joanne

Sharon

Claire

Guest DT - Lyndsey

Guest DT - Joy

For last weeks winner, please see the post below!

Happy crafting!

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Winner Of Challenge 7 Hugs & Cuddles...

Good Morning Crafters!

What a lovely week we've had here at Charisma looking at all your gorjuss entry's to the Hugs & Cuddles Challenge!

Such a great variety of items, styles and the standards were exceptional! Those who put GDT we'll be in touch shortly!

Thank you to everyone who took part but sadly there can only be one winner.....

With 42 entrys this week (taken out comments with no links) the winner is...

Random.Org Generator:

20!

Timestamp: 2009-02-26 08:03:38 UTC

Congratulations to...

Lucinda Green!

Our first e-mail entry winner!

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Please e-mail your details to charismachallenges@live.co.uk and we'll get your lovely prizes out to you as soon as possible! Please contact us by Sunday 6pm GMT or we will redraw!
This weeks challenge is being set by the owner of Charisma Cardz Challenge - the lovely Leanne!So check back later this morning for a brand new challenge.

Thanks for playing and we all hope you'll play again this week.

Carlz xXx

Challenge No 7 - Hugs & Cuddles & GDT Call

Welcome to Challenge 7 at Charisma Cardz.

A massive thank you to all those who played along with Sharon's Theme of Cupcakes last week! Made me and the DT team so hungry looking through your wonderful creations!

We have some exciting news this week here at Charisma!

Firstly! our lovely guest designer Sharon has been offered the position on the perm DT! And she accepted! yay! WELCOME aboard properly hunni! great to have you on the team perm!

Secondly! Please welcome our Two new Guest Designers Lyndsey and Joy! They'll be with us for the next 8 weeks! We look forward to working with you and seeing all your lovely creations!

And thirdly! welcome to our new designed Challenge Blog!

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We are also on the hunt for Guest Designers... if you'd like to be considered please put GDT on the end of your entry comment and/or see the right hand side for more details

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This week's challenge has been set by me (Carly), I can't believe 7 weeks has gone so quick! anyways... I've choosen the theme this week to be:

HUGS AND CUDDLES

However you interprate it!

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Our sponsor this week is

Paper-angels is a new upcoming company who offer a large selection of card-making, scrapbooking, and all things crafty on there online shop! Prices are very low! and you even get free p&p when spending £40 or more! Also why not join there new forum!?! a great way to meet new crafters!
This is a very special prize this week worth over £80!! for one lucky winner!! As we're celebrating Sharon staying as a DT member!
The prize - A massive selection of Cosmic Shimmers!

2 sets of shimmering iridescent watercolour paints
1 shimmer spray and pigment set
2 irridescent sparkle pigment sets
and
1 set of cosmic shimmer ultra thick embossing powders!

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To be in with a chance to win, just leave us a comment with a link to your work and we will randomly pick 1 winner next Thursday. Don't forget you can make anything!!
We hope you will join in this week and we look forward to seeing your creations.If you don't have a blog please email us at charismachallenges@live.co.uk and we'll will post it on this blog for you.

You have till Wednesday 10pm GMT London to get your entry's in!

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Here are the Design Teams Crafty Creations for some inspiration!

Carly

Sharon

Vee

Paula

Joanne

Leanne

Guest DT - Lyndsey

Guest DT - Joy

For Last week's winner see post below!
Happy Crafting!!
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EMAIL ENTRYS

Lucinda Green -

Challenge 6 Winner

What gorgeous, sweet and yummy entries we had into the cupcake challenge. There was such a great variety of items and styles and the standard was excellent. Well done to you all.

Now to the winner of the Grab-a-doodle 'mmm... cupcakes' download from Sally-Ann and the Sakura Silver Shadow Effect Pens from Paper Angels.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

25

So - removing the 2 duplicate entries in the comments that means it is:

Graceful Girl

Well done Graceful Girl! Please e-mail your details to charismachallenges@live.co.uk and we'll get your prizes out to you as soon as possible! Please contact us by Sunday 6pm GMT or we will redraw!

This weeks challenge is being set by the owner of Charisma Cardz Challenge - the lovely Carly!So check back later this morning for a brand new challenge.
Thanks for playing and we all hope you'll play again this week.

Challenge No 6 - Cupcakes

Welcome to challenge 6 at Charisma Cardz. Thanks to everyone that played along with Joanne's recipe challenge last week, we all had fun visiting your blogs. This week's challenge has been set by Sharon and the theme is:

Cupcakes, or any other cake

Come on girls, let's see those sugary sweet, yummy creations with cupcakes, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, slices of cake or whatever else you have in your stash.

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This week we are sponsored by not 1 but 2 sponsors!
Our first sponsor!

Sally-Ann from Grab-a-doodle-do has very kindly donated the mmm... cupcakes download! perfect for this weeks prize! Grab-a-doodle-do offers Trendy doodles/digital downloads for you to print, colour and create all your lovely crafty things! Prices start from only £1.99!

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Our second Sponsor this week is...

Paper-Angels have very Kindly donated a brand new pack of silver shadow effect Skaura Pens!Paper-angels is a new upcoming company who offer a large selection of card-making, scrapbooking, and all things crafty on there online shop! Prices are very low! and you even get free p&p when spending £40 or more! Also why not join there new forum!?! a great way to meet new crafters!

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To be in with a chance to win, just leave us a comment with a link to your work and we will randomly pick 1 winner next Thursday. Don't forget you can make anything!!

We hope you will join in this week and we look forward to seeing your creations.
If you don't have a blog please email us at charismachallenges@live.co.uk and we'll will post it on this blog for you.

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Here are the Design Team gorgeous cards to inspire you

Sharon

Carly

Vee

Paula

Leanne

Joanne

Don't forget to check back next week when the winner will be announced along with a new challenge.

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Winner of Challenge #5

Hiya everyone! so sorry for the delay! we've had a few problems with the challenge blog this morning!

What a lovely week we've had at Charisma. So many different takes on this weeks theme it was fabulous to see them all. Thanks to everyone for taking part this week and I hope you will now be firm followers in the weeks ahead.

We've got some great challenges and prizes coming up so please join us again.
Now I'm pleased to announce this weeks winner, picked by Random.Org...
ENTRY NUMBER 8

Timestamp: 2009-02-12 11:24:13 UTC
Jilly
@

http://jillyscreations.blogspot.com/
Well done Jilly, if you would like to Email your details to charismachallenges@live.co.uk and we'll get your prizes out remember to pick a DT Card too!

This weeks challenge is being set by our lovely guest designer Sharon!

So check back later this evening for a wonderful new challenge!

Thanks for playing!

Joanne xxx

Challenge no.5 - A recipe

Thank you to everyone who entered Vee's challenge last week. We very much enjoyed seeing all of your 'black, white and one other colour' creations, some lovely colours used!

This weeks challenge has been set by me Joanne and is :

A RECIPE - 3,2,1

3 different papers, 2 flowers and 1 ribbon

You can of course add images and any other embellishments that you wish, as long as the 3,2,1 recipe ingredients are there.

This week we are proud to be sponsored by

who have very kindly donated a brand new Unmounted clear Arrow stamp by Stamps Away and a lovely Riff raff design!

The lucky winner this week will also recieve One of the Design Team's Cards from this week! The winner will get to choose which one!
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Angel Crafts have been trading for 3 years now and there range of scrapbooking supplies gets bigger and bigger! postage is only £3 or free with every £50 spend!!
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To be in with a chance to win, just leave us a comment with a link to your work and we will randomly pick 1 winner next Thursday. Don't forget you can make anything!!

We hope you will join in this week and we look forward to seeing your creations.

If you don't have a blog please email us at charismachallenges@live.co.uk and we'll will post it on this blog for you.

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Here are the Design Team gorgeous cards to inspire you

Joanne

Sharon

Carly

Leanne

Paula

Vee

Joanne x
ENTRYS VIA E-MAIL

Jackie sent in a lovely scrapbook page of her grandson playing in the sand!

WINNER OF CHALLENGE # 4.........

What a fantastic time the team had looking at all your lovely creations. So many different takes on this theme it was fabulous to see them all. Thanks to everyone for taking part this week and I hope you will now be firm followers in the weeks ahead. We've got some great challenges and prizes coming up so please join us again.

Now I'm pleased to announce this weeks winner, picked by Random.Org...

ENTRY NUMBER 30

Timestamp: 2009-02-05 08:47:53 UTC

SALLY

@

http://sallybentham.blogspot.com/

Well done Sally, if you would like to Email your Name and address to Carly @ carlzcardz@live.co.uk she will send you your lovely prize.

This weeks challenge is being set by the lovely Joanne and you can see that here later today.

Thanks for playing.