Challenge 35 - Valentines - Team 2

Hello, Everyone

Major apologies for being late, I have just moved housed and getting the internet sorted took a bit longer than anticipated as we didn't have a BT landline, and they've been struggling to get it installed, but it is all done now and everything is up and running.
The house is getting sorted too and a couple more days and all the boxes should be unpacked and away.

I haven't touched the craft stuff yet, and my hands is itching to get them all unpacked and organised into their new spaces.

Anyways, enough of all that lets get down to business.

I have a few oustanding winners to announce, please scroll the the bottom of this post as I will be doing it at the end. Also I will be in touch shortly with the ladies who has applied to become part of my new DT.

So our new challenge for the week running and I will leave the entries open till Monday morning seeing I was late in posting this, is Valentines - we would like to see all your lovely Valentine's makes seeing it is Valentine's Day on Friday.

We have a Brand New Sponsor - The Paper Shelter - and they have sponsored some lovely images for the DT to work with and as prize we will have a voucher for their store up for grabs.

So first up this week is 

John, using the LOVE word from Hobbycutz.

Valou, using Adorable Cinderella

Chris, using Enchanted Love

Nancy, using True Love

Susan, using gears from Hobbycutz.

Janet, using Adorable Cinderella

Erin, using True Love

Thank you for the DT for their lovely creations and if you would like some more info on these beautiful projects please hop over to each individual Dt members blog.

So here's our winners for Challenge 32 and Challenge 33

So for Challenge 32 - Lots of Layers  we had some digi's up for grabs from Sassy Studio's -

and our winner for that prize is - No 64

Can you please email me at hobbycutz@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Congratulations!!

And our Top 3 for this challenge is the following 3 -

92. Mian Hahne 

 95. Jessie L.

 

68. Margreet 

Well done ladies and please grab the badge above.

And now for Challenge 33 - which was a Sketch Challenge - we had a $15.00 Gift Certificate from Whimsy Stamps.

Congratulations to -  4. Susanne

Please email me at Hobbycutz@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Also because there was only 5 entries and they were all beautiful can all 5 entries please grab the TOP 3 badge.

Congratulations and THANK you to everyone who to a minute or two to enter our Challenge.

Well, I hope you all have a lovely week and please we would love to see your Love/Valentines Creations.

Challenge 34 - For a Lady

Hello Everyone

So sorry for the late posting, it was moving week this week as we in the middle of relocating from Scotland to Dorset in England. So it was totally hectic and things didn't all go to plan as I was hoping to, and I was struggling to find some internet as we are currently travelling down and will be arriving there Tuesday.

So I can't believe the week as gone so quickly and it's time for another brand new challenge and a brand new sponsor -

"A fantasy artist with a funny-looking last name. The first part of my last name is Japanese while the second part is Danish with the W pronounced as a V and the two 'f's being silent. *confusing* It sounds just like 'view', actually.

Like many self-representing artists out there, my Etsy shop is one of the many places where I sell my art, although the nature of this shop makes it very different from all the others since customer service and merchandising are hands-on and personal. It was my daughter who suggested that I sell my art on Etsy. I was reluctant at first. It all just seemed like so "labor intensive" to deal with taking photos, writing item descriptions, and handling packing and shipping after having gotten out of doing it almost a decade ago.

The shop was off to a slow, but encouraging start, which was good to ease me back into the routine of it all. The gradual growth also helped me streamline and refine my branding, packaging, and shipping. It's all been a fun experience.

The shop has grown about 10 times in number of listings. I now offer my line art in digital stamp instant downloads. It is the fastest growing section in my shop. Having been denied coloring books as a child (My mother cited some "experts" saying that coloring books hindered a child's creativity with pre-made lines...), I totally understand the joy and fun of coloring (It's my favorite phase of illustration work, too!), and it's a delight for me to be able to share my line work with crafters out there through my digi's. I'm very happy to say that I have "met" many new wonderful customers/collectors, and made new friends. Etsy has become one of my favorite places to spend my extra time on. I look forward to reaching more people and making new friends."

She has sponsored so lovely images for the DT to work with.

So first up was -

Caz,

Craftin' Suzie

Elaine,

Jennyfer,

Lorraine,

Please visit their individual blogs to get some more info on their gorgeous creations.

I hope you will all find a chance to enter our challenge this week.

Please check back during the week for the winners of the previous challenge.

Challenge 33 - Sketch Challenge

Hello Everyone,

Hope you all keeping warm in this horrible winters weather. It is a bit wild here at the moment with lots of rain and wind and snow forecasted.

But luckily I don't have to go out in this weather.

So we have our new challenge for the next week which is a lovely Sketch option.

Our Sponsor for the next week is Whimsy Stamps and they have sponsored us with some lovely images to work with.

About Whimsy -

Welcome to Whimsy Stamps!

We are a family owned art stamp company dedicated to providing crafters around the world with whimsical and fun rubber stamp designs. Our exclusive stamps are great for card making, scrapbooking, and many other crafting projects.

We have had a love of stamping and card making for many years. Our Co-Founder, Denise began her stamping career as an independent demonstrator for Stampin' Up!. As she grew to love stamping more and more, she wanted to be able to bring her ideas to life through rubber stamp designs.

With the help of our talented artists, we are happy to share the unique designs you see in our Whimsy Stamps Collections. We hope you'll find our stamps easy and fun to use. All of our ruber stamps are made from deeply etched rubber, mounted on Cling Cushion Foam, and once trimmed, they are ready to use with an acrylic block.

Our Shapeology Metal Craftings dies are exclusive to Whimsy Stamps and can be used with many table top cutting machines. These dies are made in the USA using top quality steel. They are perfect for cutting papers and fabrics. Many of our dies also coordinate with our sentiment stamps or can be used as accent details on your crafting projects.

We also have our own line of 6x6 designer papers printed on high quality, slightly textured vellum paper. And be sure to check out our large variety of digital stamps, custom designs, and digital papers and embellishments.

Whimsy Stamps is located in New Hampshire and all of our stamps are manufactured in the United States.

We hope you enjoy creating your craft projects with Whimsy Stamps!

Please visit them and have look at all the lovely things they have available.

Before I move on to the challenge and the DT projects here's the winners of Challenge 31 - Something New.

14. Debbie S 

You won the prize from Crafty Sentiments.

Please email me at hobbycutz@gmail.com to claim your prize.

And our Top 3 as chosen by the DT is as follow -

 13. Karasiowa

 20. Karola (Lola) 

 39. Tracy MacDonald

Congratulations to our winners, please grab the Top 3 badge.

So now onto our challenge.

Here's the sketch -

and we have some gorgeous entries from our DT -

Chris, using vintage heart.

Nancy, using Clarke with present

Erin, using cute cupid

Valou, using Cute Cupid

John,http://johnnextdoor.blogspot.com.es/

Susan,

Janet

Denise, using vintage Heart

Please visit the DT's individual blogs to find out how they did it and they love to hear from you.

So now it's onto you all and we would love to see your take on the sketch.

I have extended the DT call as I am still needing a few New DT's.

So all you need to do is add your name to the Linky for the DT.

Please make sure you Link to the the correct LINKY, if you entering the DT Call enter the one saying DT, if you entering the Challenge you have to enter under the challenge Linky.

Challenge 32 - Lots of Layers

Sorry the post is late...I didn't realised it didn't go live this morning.

Hello everyone how are you all doing?

Hope the weather is okay wherever you are? The weather in the uk is quite mild at the moment for this time of the year, just a lot of rain, so it's super wet and soggy....

Before I get down to the next challenge I would just like to remind everyone that we still running a DT Call for starting in March? So if you would like to join the Hobbycutz Design Team please add DT behind your name when entering the challenge. Thank you to those that has entered so far there is still some space available so if you think its something you would be interested in or you know someone please do enter.

So its our Second challenge for the new year and the DT had a lovely play with some of Sponsors images and our Sponsor for the next weeks challenge is Sassy Studios.

and the theme for the next week coming is -

Lots of Layers

So we want to see any project with lots of Layers - it doesn't have to be a card it can be an altered item, scrapbook layout or any other handmade article.

So here is what the DT has made -

Caz,

Cristina

Dawn

Jennyfer

Lorraine

Craftin Suzie

Elaine

Please visit the DT's blogs to find out which products they have used and details on their images.

So next I would like to get back to announcing the winners for the Christmas Special Challenge -

So the first price that was up for grabs was the voucher for my Store.

£15.00 voucher to spend on my website.

So the winner for this is -

 113. Karen P 

The second prize was the images from Sassy Studio.

and the winner for that is -  171. Samantha :0) 

the next winner is - 108. Kuni 

that is the digi's sponsored by Kenny K

The next prize is the images from Fairy Dust Crafts -

the winner for these are -

10. Ulla 

And the last prize was for the digi images from Digi Stamps 4 Joy

99. Gale 

Congratulations to all the winners - Can you please send me an email to hobbycutz@gmail.com to claim your prizes.

Can you please put the challenge number as well as the prize in the subject box. As I don't want to get them mixed up.

I will announce last weeks winners with the New challenge next Sunday.

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy the challenge for the next week. Looking forward seeing all the new challenge entries....