A Birthday Blog Hop and a Design Team Call

Hello and welcome to a fabulous week at the ABC. It's our birthday and not only have we got an amazing hop with lots of fabulous sponsor prizes up for grabs, we are looking to add a couple of new talented crafty people to our team too.

This Weeks Challenge

So, first up our challenge for the next two weeks will be Y is for Yesterday, we challenge you to make a card with a theme of yesterday, so you can have a vintage theme or use a stamp that is not the latest stamp on the block but one of those real old favourites. You could choose a past ABC Challenge theme just let us know which challenge and the date it went live. For inspiration, see the DT cards at the bottom of the page.

Last Weeks Winner

Well done to Heidi  who is the winner of our last challenge crossing ribbons. Please contact us to find out how to claim your prize.

Last weeks top five Kendra's turn this week to make the difficult choice of her top five, here they are, what gorgeous work!

10 - Janiel
11 - Lena Katrine
20 - Hege
23 - Charis
27 - Kirsten

DT Call

Next up, we are looking for a couple of new teamies, are you able to inspire others with beautiful, creative crafting? Can you make one project each fortnight and blog about it? If so, we are looking for you.

Being part of our team means making one project per fortnight and blogging about it.
Commenting fortnightly on projects entered into the challenge
Choosing your favourite top five every ten weeks
Joining in with the chat on our teamie blog

So, if you fancy being part of our team, email us with the following details:

• Your name and blog address
• A little bit about yourself and why you want to be part of our team
• The links to 2 or your favourite creations

Blog Hop
On to our blog hop.

In order to qualify for a prize, you must comment on all the hop stops you visit, all prizes will be drawn at random from all the qualifying entrants.

Here are all the hop stops in order

1 - Vicky
2 - Clare (Distressed miss)
3 - Sue C 
4 - Hanna 


5 - Emma


6 - Cecilia
7 - Gro 
8 - Sari
9 - Lin
10 - Jackie


11 - Kendra 
12- Angelique 
13- Karli 


14- Suzanne T
15 - Lols
16 - Ali
17 - Sandie
18 - Cathy 
19 - Ruby
20 - An
21 - Minna

 Thank you to the past design team members Lols, Ali, Sandie, Cathy and Ruby whom have kindly returned to help us celebrate.

The Sponsors and Prizes

4 digi's of the winners choice from Kenny K

a hero arts stamp set from Simon Says Stamp

Pollycraft

$15 gift certificate

Stamp fairy

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion. Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More will award either 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1paper set of the winner's choice to the winner of this challenge.

 

3 sets from the Cutting Cafe

 

5 digi'sfrom Di's Digi Downloads

 One whiff of joy - stamp of the winners choice

 

A set of Wimsey Digital Summer seals from Bunny Zoe

£10 voucher from Joanna Sheen

Either one rubber stamp or two digi stamps from Tickled Pink

 4 images of the winners choice from MelJen's Desigs

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 new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STOREto browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Inspiration just a  couple of designs as a teaser, I am afraid, this week, you need to visit all the blogs to get your inspiration fix.

Distressed Miss - Joanna Sheen

 

Emma