Our fabulous Sponsors for 2012!

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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!

Kenny K winners and a DESIGN TEAM CALL!

I'm just poppin' in today to announce our last three winners of the year!

We were sponsored by the uber-fabulous Kenny K and there are 5 free digis up for grabs!

And our winners are......

Mynnette - 3 digis from Kenny K!

Dora - 2 digis from Kenny K!

Julie E - 1 digi from Kenny K!

*Congrats ladies!  Send me a message to brucklerATcomcastDOTnet with your digi choices and I'll get you all hooked up.

Even though CSAYL is done for this year, I'm on the hunt for a brand new team for 2012!  If you're interested in joining me, please send me an e-mail with a link to your blog and a sentence or two about yourself.  I'll notify my new team members by mid-January.

Thanks to all of you who played along this year - it's been fun!

Have a wonderful and stress-free holiday season with those you love.



Photo Inspiration....and "Never Seen Ink" TOP TEN!

Happy Friday crafty people!

I'm thrilled that so many of you joined us for our "Never Seen Ink" challenge.  Didn't it feel great to FINALLY ink up that stamp that's been waiting patiently for some love?! 

Since we just played for fun last week, I thought I'd take some time to share my top ten picks from the last challenge.  It was reeeeally hard to only choose ten, but here they are in no particular order...

by Joan Ervin



by Tammy Louise



by Betty Wright



by Nixe-Moni

by Carol H

by Louise Hodge

by Sara

by Chris Olsen

by Annette

by Lynda

Thanks again to everyone who played along!

Today is bittersweet for me. 

It's our last CSAYL challenge of the year and I'll miss working with the great team I had for 2011.  But, I'm happy to say that I've got all my Christmas cards and packages FINISHED!  Such a load off my shoulders for the upcoming holiday season.

Well, let's get on to our last challenge, shall we?

This week we're being sponsored by the flirty and fabulous Kenny K!

In addition to fantastic digital images, they also have a line of stickers and temporary tattoos - so fun!  Kenny K just did a Christmas release and we're playing with some of those images today.  And if that wasn't great enough, Kenny and Elena were generous enough to offer the following prizes this week:

1st place - 3 digis

2nd place - 2 digis

3rd place - 1 digi

The challenge this week is to use this gorgeous photo as inspiration.

photo credit - Pinterest



Here's what my fabulous team created for our last challenge...

 "Boy Gift" by Alyssa.

"Gift Girl" by MacKenzie.

"Xmas Tree" by Patty.

"Sleigh" by Becky.

"Sleigh" by Kerry.

"Sleigh" by Judy.

"Boy Gift" by Lisa.

Now it's your turn to show us how our photo inspires you!

Leave us a link and I'll announce the winners next Friday.

*Links that don't follow our challenge will be deleted

Never Seen Ink...and THREE winners!

Wow peeps - only 2 challenges left for the year!  There were so many fantastic entries for our "use your favorite sketch" challenge.  I know I added a bunch of new challenge links to my favorites list, how about you?

Since we're so close to the end of our challenges, I decided to spread the love this week and choose THREE WINNERS!  Last week we were sponsored by Pink Cat Studio and I've got some digis to give away!  So, without furter adieu, our three winners are...

JULIE - winner of 3 PCS digis!

DEANNE - winner of 1 PCS digi!

CHRISTINE - winner of 1 PCS digi!

Here are their GAW-JUS creations and links to the sketches they used...

Julie used CPS sketch #242

Deanne used CPS sketch #140

Christine used I(heart)ProMarkers #91

Congrats ladies!!

Please send me a message to brucklerATcomcastDOTnet with your PCS image choice(s).

Let's get to the next challenge, shall we?

Raise your hand if you've bought a stamp that you just had to have, and there it sits....uninked and lonely on your craft table.  Or maybe it was a gift?  Either way, we all have em' and this week I want you to use em!  The challenge this week is "Never Seen Ink" - use a holiday image, new or old, that's NEVER seen ink.  No cheating!!  I'll choose my ten favorite entries and feature them on the CSAYL blog next Friday when I post our last challenge of the year.

Here's what I came up with using a Whiff of Joy stamp that's been in the original package on the floor in my workshop for 11 months...

I'm so glad I finally opened the package and trimmed the rubber - these guys are cute!!

And here's what the rest of my lovely team came up with...

Lisa used an image by Impression Obsession.

Becky used an image by Rubber Stampede.

Kerry used an image by PaperTrey Ink.

Judy used at image by CTMH.

*Please don't link up if you don't follow our challenge, your link will be deleted.