Stampin' for the Weekend

Button it up

2013-05-10T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hello happy Friday ! It's time for a new challenge here at Stampin' for the weekend but before we get to that its time for me (Suzie) to share the winner and top 3 from last weeks Die cuts and punches challenge.

So the winner of our surprise package is

SCATTY JAN

congratulations I hope you enjoy your prize :)

Please e mail us with your postal address!

And here is my top 3

148 - Danielle C

220 - Simone

258 - Cinzia C.

Right onto this weeks challenge which is {drumroll please !}

Button it up

Yep we want to see lots of buttons on your projects.

And this time we have 2 fabulous sponsors for you

Whose images the DT have used.

and also Scrappiness designs

who have lots of fab digital paper kits at their store here.

and some of our DT have used these fabby papers..

Without further ado here is the super inspiration from the DT

Fabulous Buttoned creations I'm sure you will agree and now it's over to you!

There are 2 wks for you to join in!

Much love

The SFTW DT

Die cuts and/or punches

2013-04-26T09:00:00.000+01:00

Good Morning Crafters and Happy Friday.

It's Sue here to host the new challenge.

Before that though I would like to say a big thank you for taking part in our Friendship challenge. The Design Team really enjoyed looking at all your gorgeous creations. You really embraced the theme.
So, onto the winners

The winner of the prize from the wonderful Saturated Canary was picked by Random org and that is

MARI HARPHAM

Congrats! Please e mail us at the e mail in the sidebar for details of how to claim your prize!

Oh my goodness, it was soooo hard to pick a top 3. However, after much deliberation the Top 3 in no particular order are

28. Tracy MacDonald

106. Katie K

109. Scrappellen

Congratulations, please grab your well deserved Top 3 Badges for your blogs.

Now, onto our new Challenge.

This time I have picked a super easy theme for you

USE DIE CUTS AND/OR PUNCHES ON YOUR CREATIONS
don't forget we need to see some stamping too!

The prize will be a wonderful surprise package - how exciting!

Here is some wonderful inspiration for you from our Design Team

Thanks for joining us again, you have 2 weeks to play along!

Much love The SFTW DT xxx

Friendship

2013-04-12T09:00:00.000+01:00

Welcome back to another challenge here at Stampin for the weekend. This time it is my (Rebekah's) turn to host our new challenge!

Thanks to all those of you who joined in last time with us.

The lucky winner of the prize from our fab sponsor Flat friends was....

YOLA

Congrats! Please e mail us at the e mail in the sidebar for details of how to claim your prize!

The top 3 was sooooo hard to choose and this time goes to..

Kate

Delphine

Clarissa

Please grab your badges for your blogs!

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This time we have a wonderful challenge and a wonderful Sponsor in the form of Saturated Canary

who have given the DT some wonderful images to work with..

So what is our challenge? Well this time it is..

FRIENDSHIP

and here is what our DT have made for you this time...

Card with a choc' treat inside - Yummy :)

Rebekah

Some stunning inspiration I'm sure you will agree!
Please only enter once, you have 2 wks to join us!
Don't forget to include STAMPING on your creation somewhere!
Much love
The SFTW DT xxxxx

Anything but a card

2013-03-29T09:00:00.000Z

Happy Friday everyone and welcome back to a new challenge here at Stampin for the weekend!

Thanks to all those of you who joined in with our Childs play theme last time, thank goodness our winner is picked by random!

And our lucky winner of the voucher prize from Live & Love crafts is....

MELANIE

Congrats, please e mail us at the address in the sidebar to claim!

Our top 3 from last time (in no particular order) were..

Kalysto

ScrappEllen

Julie P

Well done folks grab your badges for your blogs.

This time we have a fab new sponsor in the form of Flat Friends by Emma Canning and aren't they just fabulous?!

And our challenge this time is..

ANYTHING BUT A CARD

So, we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Our DT have been lucky enough to use the sponsors images this time and they have made some really inspirational pieces...

Julie

And now it is your turn!
Please remember just 1 entry per person and you must also use stamping on your creation somewhere.
We wish you all a wonderful Easter!
Much love
The SFTW DT xx

Child's play

2013-03-15T09:00:00.000Z

Hello, it's Julie here - and it's my turn to host the challenge, I hope you've all had a good week and are ready for the weekend - and to make the weekend even more amazing our new challenge launches today!! Whoop Whoop!!

But first of all we need to reveal the winners of our last challenge: Use Lace

Well you don't make it easy for a girl to choose a winner do you? It's taken me ages to choose - not to mention adding lots more *needs* to my shopping lists seeing all the beautiful products you've used. (... now where did my husband leave his credit card?....)

First of all our random winner from last week was:

TRACY PAYNE

Congratulations chick you've won a prize from our fabulous sponsor Rick St Dennis. So drop us an email to claim your prize. The email address is on the sidebar!

And here's my top three:

Number 39: Nadell

Number 43: Nanda

Number 158: Nelly

How random - looks like it was a lucky week for you if your name began with N!!

Well done to all of you - make sure you grab our badge from the side bar.

So on to our new challenge, and our theme is Child's Play. So we are looking for you to either make a creation either for a child or using an image of a child. Nice and simple.

And as always we have an amazing sponsor; for this challenge we are thrilled to have Live and Love Crafts (I wonder if I could enter too???)

If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts!

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Pion Design, Maja Design, Riddersholm Design, Kort & Godt, Magnolia, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of close to 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

Any how that's all from me you'll be pleased to hear - but before I go let me introduce the Stampin' for the Weekend design team and their stunning creations - with a special hello to our new teamies as they join us for their first challenge!!

Thanks for looking - you have two weeks to enter this challenge and please only enter once!

Love and Hugs from

The SFTW DT

Use Lace

2013-03-01T09:00:00.000Z

Hi SFTW fans! Do you like our new look blog?!
Apologies to everyone for the linky which seemed to close early last time, let's hope he plays ball this time but don't worry anyone who left a comment with a link was put into the draw!
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Firstly let me introduce myself.....My name is Jayne and I will be your host for this challenge.

Well I am sure you are all wondering who the lucky winner of the Lilli of the Valley prize is.

Chosen Randomly

ANDREA

I have to say that the top 3 selection was a very difficult task for me this time as the standard was very high. We had some really lovely entries. So after much deliberation my top 3 in no particular order is......

62.Nancie Quay

31.Alyce

73. Deb

Well done everyone don't forget to grab your top 3 badge from the side bar.

Thanks to everyone who entered our DT call, it was a tough choice!

But we would like to welcome to you 2 new teamies

Jenn

and

Annie

You will be seeing some of their fab creations soon!

Right onto the new challenge which is being sponsored by

Rick St Dennis

The theme this time is to use LACE on your creations.

The Design team have out done themselves this time, I am sure you will agree

Helene

using sponsor image (not in the shop atm)

Sue

using sponsor image Joanie the Flower Child

Gunn

using sponsered image: Stich in time

Chris V

using sponsor image "Euro Girl"

Jayne

Using sponsor image Verooshka Valentine

Suzie McFloozy

using sponsor image Isabella recital

Rebekah

Using Sponsor image Rikki

Julie - using Snow Buddies

And now it is over to you.

Please only neter once and you have 2 wks to join in!

Much love

The SFTW DT x

Distressing

2013-02-15T09:00:00.000Z

Morning,

Heléne here to guide you through this fortnight's challenge. But first, let's cheer for the lucky winners of our last challenge.

Winner of the prize from Saturated Canary - chosen by Mr. Random himself is:

Nr 123 Hazel

Please send us an e-mail, address is found on the sidebar.

And the top 3 - chosen by me - are:

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DT CALL

WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR A COUPLE OF NEW TEAM MEMBERS SO IF YOU FANCY JOINING US AND WANT TO WORK WITH SOME AMAZING SPONSORS, LOVE TO STAMP AND CAN CREATE SOMETHING EVERY 2 WKS THEN POP DT AFTER YOUR NAME IN THE LINKY OR E MAIL US AT THE ADDRESS IN THE SIDEBAR.

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So, now to this challenge, sponsored by

Lilli of the Valley

the theme is DISTRESSED, so rough up those edges =).

The design team has achieved the following to inspire you:

Helene

using Starry Bunny from sponsor

Rebekah

We hope you can join us over the next 2 weeks!
Much love
The SFTW DT xx

Something metal

2013-02-01T09:00:00.000Z

Hello again.

It is me, Gunn who host this challenge

I have to say that I am over the top impressed over the amount of participants we have for the Girlie challenge, way over 400, that`s a bit to visit, and believe me, I have been visiting every one. This i fun, because it so much pretty and stunning cards out there. But it is also difficult, because I have to choose only 3 cards for the Top 3.

I had a really hard time, some of you I even had to visit twice before I finally had my final Top 3.

Here they are:

Top 3

#104 JennyB

#227 Jenny Hogdes

#367 Tracy McDonald

So please, girls grab the Top 3 banner from the sidebar and have it proudly on you blog.

And now we have to pick a winner for Live and Love crafts"

And the winner is:
CHRIS SPlease send an E- mail to our new Mail address you find in the sidebar.

Now it is time to get to our challenge for this week.
Our sponsor is Saturated Canary who have given the DT all stunning images to work with.

And for the chance to win the prize you have to make a project with metal.
You can make your background from metal, use a tag, charms or whatever you want as long as it is metal.
So don`t wait, got to your craftroom and have fun.
Here is some inspiration from the design team.

Helene

Something girlie

2013-01-18T09:00:00.000Z

It's Friday and time for a new challenge. But before I (oh, it's Chris V talking to you this week) get to the new challenge I'll bet you're wondering who made the top three cards for the Anything Goes challenge. This is the hardest part of being on the design team. All of your cards are gorgeous, you put your heart and soul into them and I think you're all winners. It's like trying to pick your favorite child, who wants to do that? But this is the task and I will grit my teeth and pick my favorite three. I usually start with a list of many more and slowly whittle it down and there's no rhyme or reason to how I do it. It's my mood more than anything else and it changes from day to day. So if you didn't find your name on the list, it probably was on my first go round list and I can't show you that, you'll have to trust me. So here they are, my top three:

1 #16 La Diva

2 #260 Sylvia

3 #401 Mandy

and the winner of the prize from Stamp fairy is..

KATHERINE K
Please e mail us at the NEW e mail in the sidebar to claim your prize!

So now that the old business is taken care of it's time to move onto the new business. Do you feel like you're at a weekly staff meeting? The new challenge is to make "Something Girly". That's a fun challenge, you can go wild with feminine embellishments or pick a girly image. Just remember to have fun, if you're not having fun you're doing something wrong. I've been checking out the design team's cards. They are amazing and full of all kinds of girly embellishments. I just love them and I'm sure you do too. It's be really great if you take the time to leave them a little love on their blogs.

Have fun making your card and then come back here to link it up so that we can ooooh and aaaaah over it and of course so you can enter it for a chance to win this week's prize.

Our sponsor is "Live and Love crafts"

and you know you'd like to win so don't forget to link up.

Here are the DTs cards..

Chris V

Thanks for joining us this time, don't forget to use some "stamping" somewhere on your project and you have 2 wks to join in!

Much love the SFTW DT

Happy new year and Anything goes!!!!

2013-01-04T09:00:00.000Z

Happy New year friends and welcome back to another challenge at Stampin for the weekend! We hope you all had a lovely festive period and a fabulous new year!

Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last ANYTHING GOES challenge for 2012.

Our top 3 were...

Louise
Jenny
Michelle B

and our winners were for the Bugaboo prize....

SCRAPELLEN

and for the Pretty little ribbon shop prize...

GEMMA

Congrats please e mail us at the address in the sidebar to claim your prize!

We loved our challenge last time so much that we are doing it all again. Just to get you back into the crafty spirit we have another ANYTHING GOES challenge for you.

And we are going to be a straight forward bi weekly challenge from now on, no 2 challenges a month but one every 2 wks so not much difference really!

We are so lucky to be sponsored by the fabulous Stamp Fairy this time

for a fab gift certificate

and we are so lucky some of the stamp fairy DT have joined in with us this time, so here is the inspiration for you this time..

From the stamp fairy DT

Celine

Using Mimi Frames

and

Chrissy

Using Lenny fathers day

and now from the SFTW DT

Jayne

Suzie

Rebekah

We hope you can join us this time! Please make sure there is stamping on your project and only 1 entry per person please!!!!
Hugs The SFTW DT xxxx

Challenge 24 Anything oes

2012-12-21T09:00:00.000Z

Hello friends and welcome back to our new challenge at Stampin for the weekend and our last of this year.

Thank you to all of you who joined in with the let it snow challenge, your entries are beautiful!

But our winner drawn by random of the voucher from Simon says stamp is..

15 Natalyia

Well done sweetie please contact us at the e mail in the sidebar to claim your prize!

Our top 3 this time went to..

Scrappellen

Renata

Katie K

Well done folks please grab your badge!

For our last challenge we have the simple theme of

ANYTHING GOES

and we are lucky to have 2 amazing sponsors this wk...

The brilliant Bugaboo

and the pretty little ribbon shop

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop is an online store supplying ribbons, twine, embellishments, rubber stamps, paper flowers and lots more for all your cardmaking and crafting needs.

Do pop by over Christmas as we will be adding lots of items to our sale.

They have this up for grabs

and here are the stunning creations from the DT this time..

Chris V
Using sponsor bugaboo image

Gunn

.This challenge will run until Jan 4th but remember folks only 1 entry per person and please add some stamping on your creations somewhere!!

Lastly a wonderful christmas to you all we do hope you have a fabulous family time and a great new year!

Much Love

The SFTW DT xxxx

Challenge 23 Let it snow

2012-12-07T09:00:00.000Z

Hello and welcome to back to Stampin' for the weekend for another fab' challenge :)

Firstly thanks to all of you who took part in our last challenge "use some texture" the winner of the store voucher from In2stamps is

ELLE

Our top 3 from the last challenge is...

#29 Elle

#72 Tracy Payne

117 Irit

Yes our lucky winner was also one of our top 3 this time!!!

Right on with our new challenge which this fortnight is

Let it snow

use a snowy image or create a snowy effect on your creations

We are sponsored by the wonderful Simon Says Stamp again

Don't forget we love to see any crafty project as long as they fit the challenge theme & have some Stamping on them they can be included in our challenge.

Also folks please remember one entry per person!

Here is our DT inspiration to get your crafty mojo working :)

Julie

Don't forget to include some stamping somewhere on your projects and only 1 entry per person please!

Much love

The SFTW DT xxx

Challenge 22 Use some texture

2012-11-23T09:00:00.000Z

Hey everyone, thanks for joining us here again at Stampin for the weekend.

Before I get on to todays challenge we just want to wave a big goodbye to our teamie Heidi-Mari. We will miss her creations lots and we wish her the best in her future ventures!

Thanks to all those of you who joined in with our stitching challenge our winner of the Simon Says Stamp voucher is...

ELLAPU

And the winner of our LOTV voucher is.....

CALYPSO

Congrats please contact us at the e mail in the sidebar to claim your prize!

Our top 3 this time were..

Susi
Scrapellen
KBrandy

Well done folks!

On to our challenge for you this time which is to USE SOME TEXTURE so that could be some fabric, tulle, cheesecloth, lace, ribbon, flowers even some embossing. Just add some texture to your creations!

We are really lucky to be sponsored by the fabulous In2Stamps who have provided a voucher to their store!

We don't have so much DT inspiration this time due to family illnesses but we hope we can still provide you with some inspiration!

Helene

Sue

Chris V

Julie

Jayne

Don't forget to include some stamping somewhere on your projects and only 1 entry per person please!
Much love
The SFTW DT xxx

Challenge 21 All stitched up

2012-11-09T09:00:00.000Z

This fortnight it is me; Gunn, who is hosting this challenge. Hope everyone is ok out there in blogland. I suppose some of you is feeling christmas knocking on your doors. So there is a lot of christmas card coming in blogland. And believe me, I know. I been visiting every blog and taking a good look at the cards you joined in with. And sometimes I had to visit the same blog several times. That`s kind of bad, because you are just allowed to participate with only one entrance for each challenge. And if you have more than one, they ended up being deleted from this challenge. So please bear this in mind for this next challenge. But by all means, we love for you to take part in our challenges.

It took me several hours to go true all entrances, but finally I could come to an agreement with myself for my top 3. But first of all we have to announce the winner and

THE WINNER IS:

CHRISSY

Congrats!

To claim your prize, please use the information in the sidebar and send us your address.

And for our Top 3, grab the badge from the sidebar and place it proudly in your blog.

My Top 3 is

#14 Andrea Schnipsel

# 78 Joey

#157 Anne Marie Governale

And what do we want you to do for this, our next challenge... hmm.

We want to see: ALL STITCHED UP - real or faux stitching.

Our sponsors for this challenge is

Simon Says Stamp

and

Lili Of The Valley

So I hope these projects from the DT give you some stitched inspiration :)

So visit your craftplace and have some fun making a card for this challenge.

Gunn

Jayne

Julie

Rebekah

Thanks for coming by and don't forget only one entry per person!
Much love
The SFTW DT xx

Challenge 20 Anything goes

2012-10-26T09:00:00.000+01:00

Challenge 20 Anything Goes.

Hello to everyone in blog land. My name is Jayne and I am going to be your host for this fortnights challenge. Anything goes for this one... so nice and easy!

Right before we get started, I need to Announce the winner from last time and the Top 3.

You lot certainly are a talented bunch which made it extremely hard for me to choose a top 3 this time.

In fact the standard was so high, that I have taken the liberty of choosing a top 4 and believe me it was hard to stop there!

The winner of our last challenge Spook chosen completely at random

is.....
SARAH(Papertree)

Congratulations and well done.

Please contact us to claim your prize using the details in the side bar and don't forget to grab your winners badge for your blog too.

Top (3) 4

163 Tina

77 Lucy Patrick

61 Louise G

100 Karin

Well done everyone & don't forget to grab your top 3 badge for your blog!

Right back to this weeks challenge of Anything Goes.

Everyone loves an anything goes challenge don't they? It doesn't have to be a card, just as long as you have used a rubber stamp or digital stamp anywhere on your project... and remember only one entry per challenge please.

So what are you waiting for?.... just enter a stamped project and you could be in with a chance of winning a fabulous prize from the Pretty Little Ribbon Shop who are our generous sponsors this time.

and here is what you could win..

Here's what our talented Design Team have produce for your inspiration and I am sure that you will agree they certainly are a talented bunch

Kathryn

We do hope you will join us this time, don't forget only one entry per person!

Much love

The SFTW DT xxxx

Challenge 19 Something spooky

2012-10-12T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hello Crafters!! Im Karen otherwise known as Redrottie, your host for this months challenge !! Theres something spooky going on round here ....!! but before i put the frighteners on you lets see how we got on with challenge #18 Feeling floral.. well WOW is all I can say.... we had a lot of stunning entries (you know how to make it hard on us DT members don't you !!) and the Lucky winner of the In2stamps prize chosen at random is....

ALI (AQUALEGIA)

woo hooo!! well done ! please contact us for your prize using the details on the side bar.and don't forget to grab your winners badge for your blog!

To choose a top 3 out of all the entries was harder than judges houses on X factor I'm telling you ! but after a lot of deliberation I managed to whittle it down to just 3 to proudly win a TOP 3 badge.. and they are...

#15 Natali

#79 Nixie-Moni

#167 NikkiByrne

So go grab your top 3 badge from the side bar for your blog and well done !!

Now...Onto

Challenge #19 Something spookyyyyyyyyy ..

(((((SHUDDER!!!)))))) With Halloween fast aproaching its time to dig out those ghosties and ghoolies and pumpkins... brush off the cobwebs and cast a little bit of magic over your next project... maybe you need a little bit of luck to help you with a witches black cat crossing your path or do you already have something brewing?? as a last resort you could always ask your Mummy for help!!,,,,, ok enough with the spooky jokes hehe

We would like to see some gloriously spooky creations from you this time. Dont forget your project MUST include a stamping rubba or digi to meet our specifications and please only one entry per person. multiple entries wont be counted. There are 2 prizes this time from

our sponsor Bugaboo stamps

and .from our sponsor Simon says Stamp

Here's what our talented bunch on the 'SFTW' design team came up with for your inspiration.

Karen

Helene

Sue

using sponsor Bugaboo image

Suzie

using sponsor Bugaboo image

Kathryn

using sponsor Bugaboo image

Gunn

Using sponsor Bugaboo image

Chris V
Using sponsor Bugaboo image

Jayne

Now it's over to you folks!
Thanks for playing with us again
Much love the SFTW DT xx

Challenge 18 Feeling floral

2012-09-21T09:00:00.000+01:00

Good Morning crafters

It’s Sue here to give you details of our next challenge but before that I wanted to say a massive thank you for all of your wonderful festive creations entered into our last challenge. It really was lovely to look through them all and we have been really inspired by your ideas and designs.

So, our lucky winner of the last challenge chosen by random is

#2 Dianne

Congratulations, please contact us using the details on the side bar.

Now for my top 3. Oh my goodness, it took me soooooo long decide, you are all so talented. I had such a long list to start with! Anyway, here are my final top 3.

#186 Chris Olsen

#203 Rose C

#211 Katie K

So, onto our next challenge and the wonderful theme for you to follow this time is one of my favourites:

Feeling Floral.

So we would like to see some flowers somewhere on your creation. Either as the image, the papers, embellishments or all 3!!

We are sponsored this time by the wonderful In2Stamps

This challenge will run for 3 weeks so plenty of time for you all to join in.

Here is some inspiration from our fabulous Design Team:

Sue

Heidi-Mari

Helene

Kathryn

Suzie

Julie

Gunn

Chris V

Jayne

Thanks for coming by and joining us!

Much love the SFTW DT xx

Challenge 17 Starting Christmas early

2012-09-07T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hi, Helene here. Thank you all for joining us for our Pearls and Swirls challenge! Picking a top 3 was no walk in the park but here's what I ended up with:
85. Sara
35. Maya
14. DeeDee

Gorgeous creations, soft and pretty and totally my style! Ladies, you have my utmost admiration!

And the winner of the gorgeous prize from the Pretty Little Ribbon shop is:

111. Red Squirrel
Congrats! send us an e-mail - address is on the sidebar - to claim your prize!

And now for the challenge this fortnight, I thought it might be a good idea to try to get some of the Christmas preparations going so the theme is Starting Christmas early. I know it's only September but before you know it it's mid-December and you panic over the Christmas cards - I know I do :)

Sponsoring the challenge is the wonderful

Simon says stamp

with a $25 voucher to spend!

And here are the DT creations to get the bells jingling.

Helene

Kathryn

Sue

Rebekah

Thanks so much for coming by we do hope you will join in!
Much love the SFTW DT xx

Challenge 16 Pearls and swirls

2012-08-24T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hello to all you crafting ladies! It’s me, Heidi-Mari from the freezing cold wet South Africa, to host the 16th Stampin For the Weekend Challenge!
But before I get started I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who entered in our Monochromatic challenge!
The one lucky winner of a $25 gift voucher at Simon Says Stamp is:
Nikki Byrne
Congratulations! Our e-mail address is on the side bar, please e-mail us to claim your prize.

Now the top 3! Always a challenge, here they are:
#25 Angella - I love the colour, with all the lace a tags, stunning!
# 43 Pauline - I love the soft pink colours, the flowers and beautiful image!
# 48 Rachel Fisher - Love all the different kinds of paper, with the glitter, fabulous!
Well done ladies, you deserve it! Please grab the top three blinkie on the side bar.
Okay, on to this fortnights challenge! The theme is......
Pearls and Swirls!!
We would like to see lots of pearls and swirls on you creations.
We are being Sponsored by The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop

With this prize up for grabs..

This month at the Pretty little Ribbon Shop our sale continues with further reductions and more items added regularly. New in stock is a very pretty range of guipure lace and pearl string in some lovely colours. We also have our usual range of quality ribbons, twine and embellishments. As always we offer free postage for orders over £25.

Here is some inspiration from the Stampin For The Weekend DT:
Helene

We can’t wait to see your creations!

Have a blessed weekend

Heidi-Mari and the Stampin For The Weekend DT.

Challenge 15 Monochromatic

2012-08-10T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hello to you all. This time I - Gunn have the pleasure to post this. I hope you had a great summer wherever you are in the world. I had a nice summer with lots of people visiting. And we driving to the other side of our country. I live in Norway and quite far north and all my family live in the south so it is bit to drive. But then again the journey is a part of our vacation, so I really don`t mind driving so far. And for the record,we drove thrue Sweden, they have better roads than us, so it is much better to go thrue them. Enough said about that :)

I also want to take the opportunity to wish our 3 new DT welcome and I am looking forward to work with them. Be sure to visit their blogs and give them a warm hello.

Thanks to all those who entered our DT call, our new teamies are...

SUE

KATHRYN

JULIE

These ladies have even speedily made a card for this challenge!

It is time for a new challenge here at SFTW. And I want to say a big Thank You to all that participated in our Photo Inspiration challenge. Lots of great entries.

The winner of the In2stamps is:

LENA KATRINE

Well done please contact us at the e mail in the sidebar for details of how to claim your prize!

And our top 3 for this challenge is:

# 14- Pat K

#20- E.T

#49- Liz Marsden

Please grab our Top 3 banner from the sidebar and post in your blog.

This challenge we go Monochromatic, so we want to see shades of the same color. This can be real fun and of course a "challenge". Don`t forget to have fun while creating.

Sponsor for this challenge is Simon Says Stamps with a voucher of $25

Here are some inspiration from the DT, so be inspired and take part in this challenge.

Wow haven't we given you a tonne of inspiration this time! We do hope you can join us this time!

Thanks for joining us.

Much love the SFTW DT xxxx

Challenge 14 Photo Inspiration

2012-07-20T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hello friends, it's challenge time here again at Stampin for the weekend!

Thanks to all those of you who joined in with our tags challenge last time. The lucky winner of the Simon Says Stamp voucher is....

Maarit

And the winner of the 4 Pink gem Digis is......

Carol

Well done folks please contact us at the e mail in the sidebar for details of how to claim your prizes!

Our top 3 this time were..

Coops
Catz
Shirley
Apologies for anyone not getting a comment from us, we do try to get around to everyone but at this time of year there are lots of holidays not to mention blogger and internet issues but we do promise we look at each and everyone of your entries!
We are also a bit light on the DT so we are having a DT call for anyone who fancies it!
We only require you to make something for our challenges twice a month, along with a quota of commenting and a tonne of fun!
If you are interested please add DT after your entry or e mail us if you don't get a chance to enter this challenge but are still interested in the call.

This time around we are sponsored by the fabulous In2stamps who have a voucher to their store up for grabs

Our challenge to you this time is this stunning photo inspiration.

And here is what the DT have created for your inspiration this time!..

Suzie

Thanks so much for coming by, we do hope you will join us!
Hugs The SFTW DT xxx

Challenge 13 Tags

2012-07-06T09:00:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the latest Stampin' for the Weekend challenge. This week it's my turn (Chris V) to pick the theme so I'm going to keep it easy, you just have to make a tag. Of course stamping is required but other than that it can be just a tag or a tag on a card or project. I say keep it easy but tags can be daunting, they're not easy for me so I will be making a little tag that will hang on a card. It's just a little tag but I love that punch and it sits on my desk so it's within reach whenever I want to use it.

The hardest part about being the hostess on this challenge is picking out the winners from the previous week. Fortunately I started looking at the gallery early. There are so many gorgeous entries it's next to impossible to pick three favorites. I started out with a list of about 50 favorites and narrowing it down to three was incredibly difficult. I looked at your cards over and over, I visited some of your blogs five times trying to make my decision. You cardmakers are so very talented, you all deserve to be picked (and wouldn't that make my job a lot easier) but that's not how we do it. So with much thought I finally decided on these three cards. In submission order they are

1 - #6 Gro Tjeltveit

2- #237 Teresa Kline

3 - #249 xxxtglxxv (Alison)

The winner of the challenge and the prize from the pretty little ribbon shop is

REBECCA

Please send us your address to the e mail in the sidebar so your prize can be sent out to you!

I'm really sorry you all couldn't be winners. At least I can offer you another chance, actually two chances because this week are lucky to have two great sponsors,

Simon Says Stamp

Offering a $25 voucher to spend in store

and Pink Gem Designs.

Offering 4 digis of your choice!

Play along with us this week and add your creation to Mr. Linky. Who knows maybe this will be your lucky week.

Check out what the design team have created using Pink Gem images - cute, huh? Take some time and stop by their blogs for all the details and while you're there leave some love. Those comments make everyone's day.

Thanks so much for coming by we hope you can join us this time!

Much Love

The SFTW DT xx

Challenge 12 Show us your style!

2012-06-22T09:00:00.000+01:00

Good morning everyone and welcome back to Stampin for The Weekend for another challenge.

We had some stunning entries for our Bugs and Butterfly challenge. You certainly are a talented bunch!

This winner this time is of the Simon Says stamp voucher is..

KELLY LLOYD
and the winner of the 7 digis from Bugaboo is...
NICOLCHEN

Please contact us at the email in the side bar for details of how to claim your prize.

Our top 3 are

43.Mandy

56. Allisa

68. Sarah-Jane

Well done everyone. Don't forget to take your badge from the side bar.

On to this fortnights challenge which is.........

show us your style

What style suites you best? Shabby Chic, CAS, Vintage, Girlie.
What ever your style we would like to see it. Don't forget to tell us what style you are using.

Our Sponsor this time is

The pretty little Ribbon shop

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop supplies gorgeous ribbons, twine, buttons, rubber stamps, embellishments and embossing powders for all your crafting needs. We are happy to accept small/large and international orders. New in stock this month are the fabulous WOW! embossing powders and clear stamp sets, and also a large range of pretty self adhesive pearls and rhinestones in a great selection of colours. We also have a gorgeous new Pretty Pearl collection. You can see our special offers (including SFTW's prize) HERE.

The prize this time is a selection of 600 self adhesive pearls in various colours.

Good luck everyone.

Please check out the DT's "style".....

Helene

Heidi-Mari
My style is, using Pearls, Ribbons, Whiff Of Joy Images and always Distress!

Jayne (layers)

Chris V

Gunn

Suzie
(Girly CAS !)

Karen

my style is to make my cards as personal as i can. I love colour and love distressing to match..

this card is for my daughters prom next week and is a caracature of her in her prom dress

(shown below in a try on session!)

We hope you can join us this time!

Much love the SFTW DT xxx

Challenge 11 bugs and butterflies

2012-06-08T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hi folks, welcome back to another challenge here at Stampin for the weekend.

Thanks to all those that joined in our sketch challenge.

The winner of that fab voucher from In2stamps is..

STEPHANIE HESTER

Please contact us at the e mail in the sidebar for details of how to claim your prize.

Our top 2 from last time were..

Sandy

Coops
Catz

Well done folks, please grab your badge for your blogs!

First of all a little sad news, our Teamie Sabina is leaving us.

Thanks for all your hard work sweetie, your creations will be missed!

Onto our new challenge jointly sponsored by the wonderful
Simon says stamp

with a $25 voucher to spend!

And the fabulous bugaboo

With a prize of 7 digis!

Our theme for you is BUGS AND BUTTERFLIES.

So anything of that sort on your creations even if it is an embellishment or patterned paper but don't forget to include some sort of stamping or digi stamping in your work!

A sample from the Bugaboo DT Billie

Here is what our DT have been up to...

Helene

Using sponsor Bugaboo image

Karen

Using sponsor bugaboo image

Rebekah

Using sponsor Bugaboo image