Friday, March 19, 2010

Challenge #44 - Pottery Barn Inspiration


Happy Friday! Debbie here. Today I am your hostess. I get a lot of my inspiration (esp colors) from Pottery Barn. I love their colors in just about everything. This week's challenge is to create a card from this picture.




There are 3 rules to the challenge:

1. use colors from the picture
2. leave plenty of white/ivory space
3. add a bird to your card

Here is what I created:




To play along, insert the link to your card via Mr. Linky below. If you are unable to link through Mr. Linky, please comment this post with the link to your card. If you upload your cards on SCS or PCP, please add the key word: CSAYL and the title "CSAYL44". We hope you'll play along.

We'll be voting on the participants' cards and the winning participant will be invited to be a guest designer for the following week's challenge. Good luck!!!

Congratulations to Anneke of Anneke's Scrap Fun!! She was chosen to be next week's guest designer for Challenge #45! Click Here to view the gorgeous gift set she created for Gift Set Challenge #1.

Guest Designer

Kate Wiles of Down Right Crafty





Hi I am Kate Wiles, I live in New Waltham, near Cleethorpes, on the East Coast of the United Kingdom at the mouth of the River Humber, with my husband, eldest son and my beautiful dog Star.

I suppose I have crafted since the age of about 8. Starting knitting with my mum and grandma, then crocheting and from there to cake decorating, flower arranging and making ballgowns. I had a spell with the husband decorating the house windows and in October 2008 when the husband took up fishing I decided I needed to find a new hobby to keep me occupied. I chose card making, which rapidly turned into attending scrap book classes at a local shop. I attended some card classes learning lots of techniques and became addicted to stamping, altered art and scrapbooking. I am also now I suppose addicted to blog challenges.

My small box of tricks grew to taking over a full corner of the lounge, at which point my husband very kindly converted one of my unused bedrooms into my very own craft room. This was christened the "Beach Hut" due to its sand, sea and beach hut colours. I spend many an hour in there enjoying myself.

I am so excited to have been chosen for the challenge 44 Guest Designer and hope you all enjoy the challenge. I know I did.


Check out the beautiful cards created by the design team








tina mommy scraps alot

Joan - Scrapmum

Jodi-Ann~Inked Inspirations

Michelle McDaniel - Creative Journey


Jacqui Lines - Sisterlines Space in Time

MacKenzie Bruckler- "Midnight Scramper"

Jeanne Streiff - Inky Paws

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Challenge #43 Out of the Box type of Card!!

Hello Girls!!! Patty here. I'm very excited to be the host of this week card challenge - let's make it a little bit different.. Create a card that is not a regular A2 card (nor square nor rectangle).

It can be a circle, an oval, parallelogram, heart, star, Christmas tree, whatever shape you can think of....let's make an Out of the Box type of Card!!!

Ahhh! the other rule is to have fun making the card! We can't wait to see what you create.!!

Here's what I came up with:


To play along, insert the link to your card via Mr. Linky below. If you are unable to link through Mr. Linky, please comment this post with the link to your card. If you upload your cards on SCS or PCP, please add the key word: CSAYL and the title "CSAYL43". We hope you'll play along.



We'll be voting on the participants' cards and the winning participant will be invited to be a guest designer for the following week's challenge. Good luck!!!

Congratulations to Kate of Down Right Crafty!! She was chosen to be our guest designer for next week's challenge! Click Here to view her card for Challenge #42. Thank you to those who participated in our card challenge!



Guest Designer





My name is Radha. Married to the love of my sweet life Ian. He is my other half, my soul mate together we are complete.We have 3 adorable kids.Kishan is 12.Narayani is 10 and Budhil is 6 years old. They are my creative, musical and Amazing Universe to me:)) Full with Joy & Bliss. I live in Iowa, Fairfield.No, I didn't like it when I first came here:(( Then I I fell in love with the land of Corn, Soybeans, and home of the Domes. A place where meditation and yoga are usual subjects.

Actually now I'm thinking...I started card making with dry flowers way back when I was 17-18. I remember taking walks where I had to stop just to pick the right flower, so I could press them and keep the color perfectly bright. I bought even a book on this subject:))


I started scrap-booking when my little girl was born, she is now 10-years. I picked up card making almost a year ago.I love stamping. Dots, (liquid pearls), bling, pearls and sometimes sewing. with my machine. Blogging came also a year ago. I just love this Blog-world... amazing souls are out there.

My other hobby's are cooking, baking, swimming, bicycling with family, playing violin with my daughter, piano with my sons, watch movie with my hubby, reading, sewing, painting, photography, gardening, flower arrangements,walks in nature and listen to the birds, home decor, horse back riding, golf, basket ball, tennis, role-blade (even I fell once:), herbs, quotes... Silence and Mediation...

I make friends for life, I adore good company, enjoy having family around me. My job is actually to support my family. My husband works from home and it is much easy to help him and be a home maker, I love this job.(I did study accounting and Pedagogy)






Check out the fabulous cards the design team created:














Vicki Garrett-Summerthyme Studio




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Friday, March 5, 2010

Gift Set Challenge #1 - Card Purse


Hello CSAYL Fans! Last year we did a wonderful job creating our Christmas cards but I found that I was lacking gift sets and rushed to create a few before Christmas. I wasn't very successful and I ended up resorting to just using "bought" tags and cellophane bags. Ugggh! Well, this year, I decided that I'm not going to do that again.

So. .. .this year at CSAYL, once a month on the first week of each month, we'll have "gift set" challenges which will consist of one 3D item (box, treat bags, gift bags, folders, etc.) and one card to create a coordinating set. The challenges will be to create both the 3D item and a coordinating card.

A tutorial or a link to a tutorial will be posted and the challenge will be to create that 3D item and the card.

Without further ado. . .this week's challenge is to create a "Card Purse" with a coordinating card. I decided the "Card Purse" that I saw on SCS was a wonderful gift set idea for our very first gift set challenge. There will be no specific theme for this project. You may use any image, color, or embellishment as desired.

Here is the link to the tutorial: Click Here

Insert the link to your card via Mr. Linky below. If you are unable to link through Mr. Linky, please comment this post with the link to your card. If you upload your cards on SCS or PCP, please add the key word: CSAYL and the title "CSAYL43". We hope you'll play along.


We'll be voting on the participants' cards and the winning participant will be invited to be a guest designer for the following week's challenge. Good luck!!!

The winning participant for "Challenge #41 - What's Cookin' Challenge" is Radha of CreativePearlTouch! Radha will be our guest designer for next week's challenge! Congratulations Radha! Here is the beautiful card that Radha created for Challenge #41:




Check out the beautiful sets the DT created:



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Friday, February 26, 2010

Card Challenge #42 A Colourful Christmas

Hi there!!! For starters we'd like to introduce our 2010 Design Team. Most of last year's designers returned this year but we also added a few new designers. Check out the design team's bio and get to know us a little better.

2010 Christmas Stampin All Year Long Design Team Bio

Okay, let's begin. . .how about a Colour Challenge this week? Christmas is such a colourful time of the year. It used to be you'd see everything decked out in Red and Green. Occasionally you would be mesmerized by a Regal Purple presentation, but that was usually an exception. Today you see many different colour schemes that just emit festivity. Personally, I love PINK Christmas cards.....so here goes! Your challenge is to create a Christmas card in shades of Pink.

Insert the link to your card via Mr. Linky below. If you are unable to link through Mr. Linky, please comment this post with the link to your card. If you upload your cards on SCS or PCP, please add the key word: CSAYL and the title "CSAYL42". We hope you'll play along.

We'll be voting on 3 participants' cards to be featured on the blog site and of the 3, one will be asked to be a guest DT for the week. Good luck!!!

Check out the fabulous cards created by the design team













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