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The 4 Crafty Chicks welcome you to our weekly challenge blog. We are a close circle of friends who love the world of paper crafts and want to share that love with you. Our challenges will be posted every Thursday morning with submissions due the following Tuesday at midnight MST. To be eligible, your card, scrapbook page, or 3D altered project must be linked directly back to your post, not just to your blog. Don't have a blog but still want to participate? No worries...You are more than welcome to upload your card to an online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc., and then use the url for your photo in your gallery as the link that you post in your comment. We also ask that you set your commenting to be approved by owner as opposed to Word Verification. Thank you and happy crafting!

Thursday, May 17, 2012

GRADUATION!

Good Morning to everyone in blogger land!  Thanks to everyone who played in our "Sentiment Only" challenge, the winner's were posted yesterday so please scroll down and take a peek.

Hi all, it is me, Tamie and I am excited to share my challenge with you this week.  Can you believe we are on Challenge #90 already...woot, woot. Thanks to all of our followers and to everyone who has been able to share there creations with us.

The weeks sure have flown by this year with school and Graduation time is just around the corner for many this month and June.  There is kindergarten, grade 9, grade 12, and university or college.  Let's bring it.

Challenge #90 - GRADUATION

I chose this challenge because my oldest son is graduating from grade 9 tonight and many of my friends have children graduating from grade 12.


The chicks have some wicked, awesome inspiration to share with you.  Thanks girls loving your creations.






 

If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post (not just to your blog), using Inlinkz below. If you are uploading your project to an online gallery, please use keyword 4CCC-90 (eg: Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.)  



Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Winner's of Challenge #89 - Sentiment Only

Hey all, welcome back to another Winner's post from 4 Crafty Chicks.  It was such an awesome turn out and oh the inspiration was totally amazing.  Thanks so much to everyone for joining in on our challenge.

Fantastic layout, colors and sentiment.  The butterflies and scalloped boarder adds some pop.  


Wonderful texture, gorgeous flowers, layout and choice of  colors. Loving the sentiment.



 Stunning butterflies, flowers, ribbon, swirls and paper.  The layout for your sentiment adds to your elegance.

Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your Golden Egg badge and display it proudly on your blog! We'd love it if you could link it back to our challenge blog too.




Thanks to all who participated in our "Sentiment Only" Challenge. We will see you tomorrow morning with another fun challenge!

Thursday, May 10, 2012

4CCC-89 {Sentiment Only}

WOW!  You all did a fabulous job with last week's challenge - we couldn't believe the talent that is out there!  Congratulations to our three Guest Designers - we can't wait to have you join us this summer.  If you missed the announcement, please scroll down for all the details!

This week, I'm your hostess-with-the-mostest and thought it might be fun to see what you all can create using a Sentiment ONLY as the stamping on your card.  Yep, that's right - no images to color, no background stamps... the sentiment is the ONLY thing you are allowed to stamp on this card!

Would you like to see what the Chicks created?  Here's what I created for you:



And the other Chicks'...



 Lori


If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post (not just to your blog), using Inlinkz below. If you are uploading your project to an online gallery, please use keyword 4CCC-89 (eg: Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.)

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Winners of Challenge #88, Guest Designers and Prizes

Welcome back everyone! Thank you to those who entered Leanne's "Favorite Embellishment" challenge last week and all who applied for our Guest Designer spots! Our blog hop was a great success and the winners from each blog are listed below as well. I just have to say that we have had *such* a difficult time choosing winners this morning - the talent out there is just mind-blowing! Please know that this was not an easy feat this morning!!! Alright...onto all our winners!

 Here are our Top 3 picks for the Golden Egg in no particular order:







 




Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your Golden Egg badge and display it proudly on your blog! We'd love it if you could link it back to our challenge blog too!



BLOG HOP WINNER'S: All winners chosen by random.org

Lori's Blog (Inkingly Yours) - Georgiana

Tamie's Blog (Paper Infusions and More) - Louise

Leanne's Blog (Banking on Crafts) - Kim B

Melissa's Blog (My Paper Obsession) - inkypinkydelights

Congratulations to everyone who won please email us at 4craftychicks @ gmail dot com with your mailing address so we can get your prizes out right away.

GUEST DESIGNER TEAM:

We are happy to announce that Alethea, Judy and Annie will be our Guest Designers for the following 3 months:

  June- Alethea - LiLo Designs

  July- Judy - Inkypinkydelights

  August- Annie - Annies Crafty Heaven

We will be contacting you by email with your challenges and schedules.

Congratulations once again to all our winners! We will be back tomorrow with a brand new challenge...Miss Melissa is our "hostess-with-da-mostess!" See ya!

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Favorite Embellishment and Guest Designer Blog Hop

We are so excited to be having another Blog Hop and search for our Guest Designers for June, July and August.  

Today's challenge is what I call really fun, we would like to see your Favorite Embellishment, whatever that is to you, brads, flowers, ribbon, it is endless, and write what yours is.

Here’s the low-down on the Blog Hop:

  • Each Chick has graciously donated a prize to be given to one lucky Blog Hopper who leaves a comment on the Chick’s blog.  The winners will be chosen by each Chick using Random.org.
  • To be eligible to win Blog Hop prizes, participants must: (a) become a follower of the 4 Crafty Chicks blog; (b) leave a comment on each of the Chicks’ blogs; AND (c) leave a comment on the 4CC blog.
Would you like to join the 4 Crafty Chicks as a Guest Designer? If  you participate in this week’s Challenge and would like to be considered for June, July, and August's Guest Designer positions, please put (GDT) after your name when submitting to inlinkz – please remember that you will be committing to a month of challenges (which you will receive immediately after being chosen as Guest Designer.)


That's enough of my babbling -  I suppose you ALL want to get busy hopping, right? Well, what are we waiting for? Off you go!!  Don't forget to leave your comments because each Chick has their own blog hop prize to give away!

I hope you will all take a few minutes to play along with us this week – we can’t wait to choose our next Guest Designers!  Have fun, everyone!

Please post your links here!  Don't forget to include (GDT) to be considered for a Guest Designer position!














Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Winner's of Challenge #87 and Prize Winner

Good afternoon everyone! I hope that you all have had an amazing week and that the weather has been good in your area.  We have had sun but also rain and clouds this last week.  However, the exciting part is that our grass is looking green again. We had such a fantastic turnout out for Lori's No Stamping Zone.  Thanks for all of the incredible inspiration and to all who played.  It sure has been exciting stopping bye to see your creations.


Incredible flowers, layout and colors. 

 Wonderful bows, boxes that turn into a cake, flowers and beautiful colors.

Incredible box, that has so many layers and exciting dimensions. Wonderful colors.

Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your Golden Egg badge and display it proudly on your blog! We'd love it if you could link it back to our challenge too.


Winner of our Prize

Congratulations to..............Sharron/Sharrahug! Please email us at 4craftychicks@gmail dot com with your mailing address so we can get that out to you ASAP.

Using random.org is #54 Sharron/Sharrahug.

True Random Number Generator 1 64 54 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

Thanks to all who participated in our "NO STAMPING ZONE" Challenge.   Tomorrow is another exciting day, we are having another Challenge, Blog Hop, looking for more Guest Designers and each of us chicks have a small prize on our blogs that you can win while Blog Hopping.  We will see you tomorrow morning with another fun challenge!

Thursday, April 26, 2012

4 CCC#87 - NO STAMPING Zone!!

Happy Thursday everyone! Welcome to another challenge from us 4 Crafty Chicks and our 2 wonderful Guest Designer Chicks - Heather and Kasey! All of us here at 4 Crafty Chicks would like to take this opportunity to thank Heather and Kasey - we are so blessed to have had such talented ladies over the past 3 months! Thanks again, ladies! xoxoxoxo

This week it's my turn to issue the challenge and it's a "NO STAMPING ZONE!!" So, that means you can use rub-on's, die cuts, computer print outs, etc....just NO STAMPING!!! Since it's the last Thursday of the month, that means it's PRIZE TIME! I am offering up the following goodies to one lucky participant this week. We will use Random.org to choose the winner:



Here is my card for this weeks' challenge - it is from a kit that I made a while back and I used rub-on's and a marker for the accents...

 

...and without further adieu, here are the wonderful creations from the rest of the gang:

Kasey


Are you ready to play? If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post (not just to your blog), using Inlinkz below. If you are uploading your project to an online gallery, please use keyword 4CCC-87 (eg: Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.)