Tellens Place Challenge

All Right!  This card won the the first challenge at Tellens Place!  A new challenge starts today, and there is another awesome freebie digi image, but you don't need a digi image to enter!  Thanks for picking this card.  ~Diane

This is the card I made for the Tellens Place Challenge.  The challenge was to "embellish it".  The adorable image was a freebie at her challenge site.  I'm not sure if you can read the caption, it say's "Now this is how to shop Black Friday.  While the kids are in line, I'll be on line."  My grown children have plans to camp out at a few stores to get the doorbuster deals.  Not me, I will be sipping my coffee sitting at the computer, looking for the on line deals.  I'll also be watching the clock for the Spellbinders Black Friday contest!  ha ha.  Tellens Place is a new challenge site, run by a wonderfully sweet lady named Terry.  Her son Marcus draws awesome images which she also sells at her Etsy store.  Marcus drew this sweet lady for her first challenge.  I was also the fortunate recipient of some of Terry's blog candy, of which I used the blue and brown cs from her stash.  I also used my Spellbinders Impressabilities Circles, and the Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Coffee Shop, I really like how that came out.  And it was so easy too.  I used Bazzill jewel templates Borders, and then placed 4 misc jewels in too.  These are more items from When Creativity Knocks Great Tool Hunt. The font is LD Going Nuts Scrap n Fonts (free fonts).  I colored the image with Stampin Up Markers, Prismacolor pencils, Souffle 3D ink, and a Tombow and Copic marker.

This is a picture of my blog candy from Terry at Tellens Place.  She even included some directions and envelopes for me!  And don't forget the adorable images, I stood them up in the back so you could see them better.  Thank you Terry.

 

Thanks for looking, don't forget to check out the Tellens Place Challenge site, new challenges start on Wednesday.  ~Diane

Play Date Cafe Challenge #5, and Soartful Challenges - Lovely

Welcome to the new designer at Play Date Cafe, Julie Campbell.  I went to her site A Vintage Chic and I saw all of her gorgeous work there too.  She really inspired me this week, and she has some fantastic blogs that she follows too.  That's where I found the image for this card.  The site is called Old Photo Album and she has some wonderful, free, vintage photographs!  I also had a chance to use the Bazzill jewel templates flowers and flourishes, and the  self adhesive jewels in wild pansy,  that I won through When Creativity Knocks Great Crafters Tool Hunt.   Bazzill really has it together on this system.  It makes it so easy to look like a professional when adding the beautiful jewels to your projects.  Check out my beautiful swirl, I am really proud of it!  Thank you Bazzill!   Stop by Play Date Cafe and see what Julie and all her other team members made, and you will see my inspiration.  I love the vintage look of the pearls and lace.   I just found another challenge site SoArtful Challenges, and they just happen to be using this exact image in their challenge this week, called Lovely.  I used the Cuttlebug Swiss dots folder and I made my flower from the Spellbinders round scallop die distressed with Tattered Angels glimmer mist.  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

When Creativity Knocks Tool Hunt Tools have arrived!

Whoo Hoo!  It's here!  When Creativity Knocks Great Crafters Tool Hunt prize package has arrived! These are all the wonderful tools Ana and Megan scoped out at the CHA Craft Supershow in Florida.  I entered the contest by voting for my favorite tool, Spellbinders Impressabilities.  Spellbinders won and so did I!  Although it looks like a have a whole new list of favorites now!  Thank you Ana and Megan Araujo,and all of the Awesome Great Crafters Tool Hunt manufacturers
for making this generous prize possible!
I am so excited, I have so many wonderful tools to explore and share!  I will be highlighting each manufacturers tool(s) as I make projects with them in the coming weeks.  And these manufacturers were so very generous I am totally amazed!  I received way more than I anticipated from anyone, this is an awesome prize package!  Even more awesome than I had anticipated!  I have spent my weekend photographing  all of my wonderful new tools.  There were so many that I had to stand on a chair to get them all in the same shot!   Do you have any idea how hard it was to photograph them before I opened them?  I so wanted to tear into those packages, but I restrained myself till after the pictures were taken.  The photo above is from Cindi Bisson Associate Producer, When Creativity Knocks.  She sent me a picture of it before it arrived, it was packaged up so beautifully in baskets with cellophane and a large ribbon.  And the contents totally blew me away!  Hold on to your hats!  This is the line up!

Bazzill in Stitch'z carrying case, Bazzill In Stitch'z floss, Bazzill In Stitch'z piercing tool,  Bazzill In Stitch'z Piercing mat, Bazzill In Stitch'z 8 x 8 Flowers, Bazzill In Stitch'z Heidi Lynn's CAPS, Bazzill In Stitch'z Formal Flourishes, Bazzill Jewel Templates bling,  Bazzill jewel templates Christmas,  Bazzill jewel templates garden,  Bazzill jewel templates alphabet, Bazzill jewel templates flowers and flourishes,  Bazzill jewel templates borders Bazzill self adhesive jewels in chablis, clear, wild pansy, paulypoo and desert sun!  Wow!  They even gave me the carrying case to keep it all organized!  Thank you Bazzill, this is a totally awesome package!    I can't wait to try it all out!

imaginisce i*top Brad Maker,  imaginisce i*top Medium Topper Punch, imaginisce i*top  Small Topper Punch, 2 packages imaginisce i*top  Small Brad Daddies,  2 packages imaginisce i*top  Medium Brad Daddies, imaginisce i*top Topper Template for all 3 sizes.  Thank you imaginisce!

Tattered Angels Glimmer Screens Vintage Ice, attered Angels Tweezers, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Turquoise Blue, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Wheatfields, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Deep Plum, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Coffee Shop, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Pink Taffy,

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Iridescent Gold.  Thank you Tattered Angels!

Spellbinders  Impressabilities Paisley, Spellbinders Impressabilities Snowflake, Spellbinders Impressabilities Butterfly, Spellbinders ImpressabilitiesCircles, Spellbinders Impressabilities Tulips, Spellbinders Impressabilities Flourish.  Thank you Spellbinders and congrats on winning the Great Crafters Tool Hunt along with me!

We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper 1/4" & 1/2" round     
Completely Stencible  Re-Usable, Customizable Stenciling Kit         
McGill Angel Punch

Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro                                                                      

Easy Arranger 5"  and Dangles in Champagne

Thank you all, these are wonderful prizes I will truly enjoy for years to come!

These are the extra items sent along with the prize package from When Creativity Knocks. 
Creative Hot Marks

Scraperfect Perfect Printing Pouch                                                    

Clover Sweetheart Rose Maker 

Thank you Ana and Megan Araujo, When Creativity Knocks Executive Producer/Designer

and Cindi Bisson Associate Producer and all of the Awesome Great Crafters Tool Hunt manufacturers for making this generous prize possible!  I just can't thank all of you enough, this is so much more than I ever could have dreamed of!

Be sure to stop by When Creativity Knocks, Ana and Megan Araujo bring you fun, creative projects each week.  Ana travels across the country hosting home crafting parties for amateurs.  Each episode features projects for all ages.  Episodes can be viewed weekly on When Creativity Knocks.  This is an informative and interactive site.  Be sure to check out the Bloggers Bonanza (promoting designers blogs) and Creative journal, 2 of my favorite spots. Thanks for sharing the excitement with me, many new projects featuring these tools will follow.  ~Diane

WINNER OF THE WHEN CREATIVITY KNOCKS GREAT CRAFTERS TOOL HUNT!

Drum roll please!!!!!!!! The Winners are Spellbinders Impressabilities ....... AND ME!!!!
How awesome is this!!!! I am so excited, I just received this lovely e mail - I will let Ana tell you, I am almost too excited to speak or write!

Congratulations! You are the lucky winner of ALL THE TOOLS in the first When Creativity Knocks Great Crafter’s Tool Hunt! The manufacturers are sending the tools to us and as soon as we have them all, we’ll package them up and ship them off to you so you can start creating with them! Thank you for taking part in the tool hunt and casting your vote. We hope you saw some great new tools you’ll be excited to try. We also hope you have explored our website and will continue to be a part of our forum, view our episodes, etc. The episode library is full of inspiration, and we have product reviews and more in our forum.

Whoo Hooo! Thank you, Thank you! And Thank you! I am so excited!! I am doing the happy dance right here, right now! Those are some awesome tools, and now they are mine! I can't wait to get them and start using them!!! Yippee! Hooray! Whoo Hooo! and many Thanks again! I can't wait to share the news with all my crafting friends!!! Thank you for all the great tutorials explaining how to use each and every item. I love your web site with all the great episodes, and the library is wonderful to go back to and explore! You will see me as a regular in your forum too. And thanks for all the inspiration too! I can't wait!

This is the Awesome Great Crafters Tool Hunt manufacturers line up!

Spellbinders - Impressabillities is the winning Cool Tool!
This was my vote, and they won too, see what they had to say!

Impressabilities Rules! We Won! If I can quote Stacey Caron, “Yeahhhhh!!!!! Yippee!!!!! Yahoo!!!!!!” We owe our faithful readers a huge thank you for supporting us and for loving our Impressabilities templates! Don’t forget to check in over at When Creativity Knocks, a lucky entrant will win a prize package of one of all the nominated tools featured in the contest! That's me! Spellbinders wins a full-length episode featuring the Spellbinders Impressabilities and will be featured on the When Creativity Knocks website as the When Creativity Knocks Best Tool and receive a trophy! We’ll let you know when that episode is ready to view, and show off our trophy too! So thank you again, from the bottom of our hearts! We really appreciate your support!

We are memory Keepers
Tattered Angels
McGill
Imaginisce

Glue Arts
Easy Arranger
Completely Stencible -
Bazill - Squeezer...

I cant wait to get them and try them all out!! I will give you an update when they come, and show you all the cool tools, and what they do!
Thank you Ana Araujo , When Creativity Knocks Executive Producer/Designer
and all of the Awesome Great Crafters Tool Hunt manufacturers
for making this generous prize possible! ~Diane