Challenge #17- Girly Card with Flowers

Welcome to another week of Charisma Cardz and the awesome challenges that the Design Team has created!

We were wowed again by the awesome entries to last week's challenge- quotes! Thank you so much for visiting us each week and playing along!

This week is hosted by me, Kelly, and I am going to challenge you to make a

Girly Creation

(of course, Mother's Day comes to mind since it is May 10th here in the U.S.!) However, the extra part of the challenge is to use flowers. Not just on your patterned paper (that would be taking the easy way out...LOL!)but to add dimension onto your card or project by either: making your own flowers (there are some great tutorials out there) using felt flowers or prima, or some crocheted flowers.

There are tons of choices in the flower department (you could even buy some silk flowers and take off the petals to create your own color scheme...) All projects must be entered by Wednesday to be considered for the sponsored prize.

Our challenge this week is sponsored by none other than Sally-Ann over at Digi Stamp Boutique

Digi stamp Boutique is run by a lovely lady, Sally-Ann, who is a truly talented Artist! Her designs are always a pleasure to look at and even use on our handmade creations!!! Why not check out her store!!! You'll not be dissapointed!! Sally-Ann is now our Regular sponsor at Charisma and each month she'll be giving one lucky winner the chance to win 10! yes 10 digi's of your choice!! what a faboulous prize!!!

So are you up for the double challenges this week?

Here are some samples to fire up your mojo Sally-Ann was even kind enough to let our DT play with some of her images (a few naughty DT's didn't but we'll blame Carly for that one as she's poorly at the moment she's not on top of things! tut tut!! haha....

Our Lovely Guest DT Cathy's Gift box and Card!

Leanne's Photo Frame!

Martha's Card (she forgot the flower haha!!)

Vee's Card

Allison's Card

Kelly's Card



Fayes Card

Joannes Card

Carly's Card

Tashas Card

Jan's card

Please use Mr Inlinkz and don't forget to link directly to your challenge project.

Entries must be in by 7.30pm Wednesday 28th April.

All winners are selected at random.

We look forward to viewing your creations and hope you have fun with it.

Winner & Top 3 of Challenge #16

Morning all!

OOh what a great week again we had at Charisma - your creations were just sooo nice!!

The winner of the prize from Sunshine Stamps is:

No: 37: Chris Olsen

And the winner for the prize from Charisma Cardz is:

No:94: Maxi's Creations Fm Auz

Congratulations!!! Please contact us to arrange your prize at charismachallenges@live.co.uk. You have till Sunday 6pm GMT London time to claim your prize!

Here are the top 3 for last week, in no particular order:

Debbie

Ginger Claire

Andria

Well done ladies!! Please ensure that you take your top 3 banner from our sidebar!

Our new challenge will go live at 8.30 - hope to see you back then, its a fab one!!!

Challenge #16: QUOTE ME!

Hello Everyone and Happy Thursday,

Martha here with this weeks challenge.

Thank you to everyone who took part last week! we had an amazing week looking at all your cards!
This week we'd love you to give a warm welcome to our newest DT Faye!, As the DT boss 'Carlyann' has a busy few months preparing for her wedding, Faye's joined us to cover! but she's gonna stay on too! hehe! so then...

For today lets see some projects using

"QUOTES"

Our Sponsor for this week is

Sunshine’s Stamps is the brainchild of Christina {Sunshine} and Rob. Angus Argus was launched into the paper crafting world on June 27th, 2009 and the rest as they say is history! We have a wide variety of stamps in our inventory - all of which are hand drawn by either Sunshine or Rob. We love to “sunshine” masculine vehicles and give them personality. We also have our signature image - Sunny Bunny - who will continue to be altered to celebrate all holidays and occasions. If you have a suggestion for a Sunny Bunny send us an e-mail and we will happily consider it! Whether it’s a card for your husband, boyfriend, man-cub or daughter, wife etc. we have an image that will suit your crafting needs! Our images are constantly evolving and are unique in the paper crafting world. We are very pleased to say that we respond to customer suggestion on images and sentiments. If you have an idea for an image or sentiment that you cannot find elsewhere on the web let us know. We will respond to all suggestions and let you know if its "doable". Finally, be sure to hop to our blog http://sunshinesstamps.blogspot.com/ to check out our wonderful design team "Sunshine's Dream Team" blogs! We are so very proud of our gals! They are all rock stars and continue to create amazing cards and projects to showcase our images and to inspire you all to create!!

The prize to the winner is 3 free images of their choice from Sunshine's Stamps Store.

Second Prize this week is from:
Charisma Cardz is an online webstore ran by our DT Carlyann! where she sells all her handmade cards, jewellery and 3-d items! New items are added weekly! and she's even started to sell tutorials!
This week Carlyann has very kindly donated:
a brand new Hanglar and stanglar stamp!!! (i know so painful to give away!!)

And now our DT's fabulous work:

Cathy GDT

Carly

Allison

Vee

Leanne

Martha

Jan

Joanne

Kelly

Faye

Please use Mr Inlinkz and don't forget to link directly to your challenge project.

Entries must be in by 7.30pm Wednesday 28th April.

All winners are selected at random.

We look forward to viewing your creations and hope you have fun with it.

Challenge #15 Winner & Top 3

Morning all!

OOh what a great week again we had at Charisma - your creations were just sooo nice!!

The winner of the prize from Donna's Den is:

No. 105 - Rachel - Critchley Creations

And the winner for the prize from all that scraps is:

No:135 - Polly B (Email entry)

Congratulations!!! Please contact us to arrange your prize at charismachallenges@live.co.uk. You have till Sunday 6pm GMT London time to claim your prize!

Here are the top 3 for last week, in no particular order:

Grace - Th-Ink-Ing of you
Marianne - Mariannes Hobby
Tracy - Crafteezee

Well done ladies!! Please ensure that you take your top 3 banner from our sidebar!

Our new challenge will go live at 8.30 - hope to see you back then, its a fab one!!!

Week 15 : MONOCHROMATIC CARDS

Hello, welcome to another fabulous week at Chrisma Cardz, thank you very much to all of you whom entered last weeks challenge, the submissions we received were fantastic!

It's Tasha here and this week i chose the challenge :

MONOCHROMATIC CARDS

So thats cards using different shades of one colour or you could opt for black and white.

We have two fabulous sponsors this week:

Our first sponsor is DONNAS DEN

Donna has very kindly donated a paper pack for 1 lucky winner! Donna's Den is a fantastic Den of all crafts! you must go have a browse and spend some pennies too! :-)

Our second sponsor is ALL THAT SCRAPS

We offer a little of everything for one stop shopping, including card stock, pattern paper, many stamp companies and great shipping rates. Home of C.C. Designs Rubber Stamps which is my passion, I love to see my drawings come to life on someones card or project.

Home of C.C. Designs Rubber Stamps which is my passion, I love to see my drawings come to life on someones card or project.

Here's the fantastic prize they're offering:

One lucky winner will receive 4 stamps or 1 stamp set.

Here's this week's fabulous DT Cards................

April Guest Designer Cathy

Tasha

Carly

Allison

Joanne

Jan

Leanne

Martha

Vee

Please use Mr Inlinkz and don't forget to link directly to your challenge project.

Entries must be in by 7.30pm Wednesday 21st April.

All winners are selected at random.

We look forward to viewing your creations and hope you have fun with it.

Winner of Challenge #14 & Top 3

Morning all!

Thank you to all for joining in with our 'Thank You' challenge - its fantastic to see such different styles there are out there in blogland!

We are pleased to annouce that the winner of Challenge #14 and the new proud owner of some fantastic stamps from The Cutting Cafe is:

NO: 2 Kozmik! aka Sara

Congratulations!! Please contact us to arrange your prize at charismachallenges@live.co.uk. You have till Sunday 6pm GMT London time to claim your prize!

It was also down to Joanne to choose her top 3 for her challenge. Here they are, in no particular order:

Debs - http://handcraftedespeciallyforyou.blogspot.com/
Yogi - http://yogiemp.blogspot.com/
Bosenberries - http://bosenberries.blogspot.com/

Congrats to you!! Please remember to take your 'Top 3' banner from our sidebar to put on your blog.

Remember to come back a bit later for this week challenge!

Challenge #14 - Thank You

Good morning everyone,

Hope you had a fantastic easter bank holiday weekend.
It's time for a new Charisma Cardz challenge, but we would firstly like to thank you all for the wonderful entries we had to our last challenge, so many great animal creations, you really are making choosing a Top 3 very difficult!

Before we go on to annouce this weeks challenge Carly has a little something to say on behalf of the whole DT.
''I would like to personally say thank you and goodbye to Sally as she is stepping down from the Design Team due to other commitments, we have all loved working with you and getting to know you and you'll be dearly missed!!

Secondly I'd like you all to welcome our new DT member Martha!!! welcome chick!!
Thank you to everyone who applied with the DT call and i'll still be in contact with some of you re GDT slots and also i need someone to be temp DT for a few months! Anyways... back to Joanne....

This weeks challenge was chosen by myself (Joanne)
and
I would like to see lots of
Thank You's',

I thought seeing that we had just celebrated easter, we could do with some thank you's for all of those treats! You don't just have to stick to making cards, a thank you gift, a picture anything you think that would make a nice thank you.

This week we are sponsored by :

and they have very kindly donated the Beautiful Blooms stamp set along with a choice of 3 others of the winners liking.

Here are the design team examples :

Cathy - our guest designer

Kelly

Martha

Leanne
Allison

Joanne

Carly

Tasha

Vee

Jan

Please use Mr Inlinkz and don't forget to link directly to your challenge project.

Entries must be in by 7.30pm Wednesday 14th April.

All winners are selected at random.

We look forward to viewing your creations and hope you have fun with it.

CHALLENGE CLOSED SEE YOU IN THE MORNING!! XXX