Christmas Stampin All Year Long Challenge #1

Hello CSAYL friends!!
this Friday is the beginning of the new year of challenges let's start by making a Gift Box or a Shaped Card, - yeeiiii!! make a box which you can use to send a present to a friend or your first Christmas card of the year but it has to be a non square one!

Our fabulous sponsor this week is
The Cutting Cafe
...Your one stop for affordable printable stamps and cutting files...

One winner will be chosen this week to receive THREE FREE SET of Cutting files of their choice!

You have until 12:00AM (E.S.T) on Wednesday to upload your creation and the winner will be announced on Thursday.

Be sure to check back here because I be sharing links to favorite entries!

Now, how about a little inspiration from our new design team?

Christmas Basic Shapes - Michelle

8.5 x 5.5 Box with Dividers Template - Judy

8.5 x 5.5 Box with Dividers Template - Karen

Christmas Basic Shapes - Wendy

Christmas Basic Shapes - Joni

8.5 x 5.5 Box with Dividers Template - Jessica

Christmas Basic Shapes - Debbie

Christmas Basic Shapes - Julie


and last but not for that the least!

8.5 x 5.5 Box with Dividers Template - Patty

Now let's see what you create!

Leave a link to your non square card and Christmas Box project for a chance to win 3 sets of files from The Cutting Cafe !

Ill see you real soon with more!!

Our fabulous Sponsors for 2012!

Scroll down if you're looking for the 2012 Divas!

Hello and Welcome back!
First our generous sponsors that we will have this year!!

{Click on the pictures to check out their store}

A big Thank you to all of the sponsors that we'll be working this year!

Thanks for your support and for spoiling our winners!!

and second information regarding our challenges .....

Our first challenge of 2012 will be posted here on Friday, March 9th at midnight!

After that, a new challenge will be posted EVERY Friday all the way through November 16.

Here's how it will work :
-Create a NEW project according to our challenge, post on your blog and link back to the challenge post at CSAYL.
- Add your entry to the CSAYL challenge post with a direct link to your project post.
- Stop by at least 2 challenge entries and leave them some love.
- The challenges will close on Wednesday at midnight (EST).

On Thursday Morning, I will post the 3 TOP TEN favorite entries and announce the winner! (on some weeks, we will have more than one winner!)

then we'll start all over again on Friday!

I'm really excited about this year with our new sponsors and Divas,

can't wait to see what you all do.

Again thanks for stopping by today!!

I'll see you again in a couple of days!!

2012 Design Team Members !!

Welcome back Bleeps Friends!
I'm very excited because today is the begin of our wonderful Holiday Journey here at
Christmas Stampin All Year Long
First I would like to Thanks to all of the fabulous ladies who applied! It was a very hard decision to only pick a few.... Here {Drum roll}

I'd like to introduce you to the 2012 CSAYL Divas!!

Debbie Fisher - USA

Jessica Bashaw - USA

Joni Mastronardi - USA

Wendy Keenan - England

Julie Elak - USA

Karen - UK

Michelle Blake - USA

Judy Applegarth - USA
(Senior DT member)

Patty Chalas - Dominican Republic

Some of Our Guest Designers

Linda Walsh - USA


Doreen Ninaus - Austria

Please let's give all of these ladies a warm welcome to the Team!
Later today I will post the great sponsors we will have this year, so be sure to come back!
Thanks for stopping by!!

Hello! and an update!

Hello CSAYL fans!

First of all I'd like to thank each and every one of you who applied to be on the 2012 CSAYL design team.  I loved looking at all of your blogs and checking out the projects that you've been posting recently.  Unfortunately for me, my crafting days have had to take a back seat to my health issues and just life in general. 

The bad news?

I will not be continuing with CSAYL for 2012.

The good news??

Patty, our long time dt member, will be taking over!

Patty is SO passionate about CSAYL and loves this blog so much.  She's been part of the team for several years and I know that I'm leaving it in very good hands.  I can't wait to check in and see what she has in store for all of you.!

Patty is currently going through ALL of the dt applications and making her final selections for the 2012 team.  If you've been chosen, she will be in touch shortly!