Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Top Picks for CMCC#77!

A big thank you to everyone who played along with our challenge this week! We so enjoyed visiting your blogs and checking out your projects.

Now onto this weeks Captivator as chosen by Tara ...


Tenia

Tara's Pick: Tenia's super fun and funky card caught my eye this week with that pretty pink dress and happy orange lettering. Wonderful use of the colours this week! Congrats, Tenia.



Saturday, June 27, 2015

Colour Us... Thankful!

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Hayley and Tara here, and we want to thank our wonderful designers from Design Team #3 in a special way. Each of these ladies (as well as the Featured Designers we have had over the past 6 months) has helped shaped Colour Me...! into what it is today. 

We each CASEd three Design Team member cards from previous challenges to honour them and thank them for their tremendous contribution. 

THANK YOU!!

Hayley CASEing Angel
Angel's Original Card

Hayley ~ Angel thank you so much for being a part of our team this past 6 months. I was always so happy to see your talent each week. You sure had a good handle on the fancy die cuts! Hope we will see you in the gallery playing along with us :) 

Tara ~ Angel, your cards were such an inspiration each week! Always such clean designs and fun layouts - it was always so much fun to see what you'd come with each week. Thank you for being part of Design Team #3!


Tara CASEing Jenny
Jenny's Original Card

Tara ~ Jenny, I so loved your playful creations each week! There was always a touch of 'fancy' and whimsy in your creations that kept us all wanting more. We are so happy you could join us as a Designer for the past 6 months!

Hayley ~ Jenny thank you as well for being with us, we were so happy you agreed to join our team! The thing I most looked forward to each week from you were your coloured images, always so tastefully done! Hope we will see you playing along with us again :)


Hayley CASEing Julia
Julia's Original Card

Hayley ~ Well this isn't goodbye at all now is it? We are so thankful for all of the work you have done for us Julia and also that you have agreed to become a part of our Seniour Team here at Colour Me...! Your tutorials each week inspired me to step outside my box, and who knows perhaps some day I will share some of mine too! 

Tara ~ Julia, what a wonderful 6 months with you on the team. Your bright spirit and 'punny' creations each week were always a treat! We loved your video tutorials and seeing your style evolve and grow. We are very excited to have you stay with us as part of our Senior Team!


Tara CASEing Katie
Katie's Original Card

Tara ~ Katie, Katie, Katie! Your cheerful attitude and happy cards always brought sunshine to our Wednesdays! From sheer elegance to playfully sweet, your style always kept us guessing from week to week. Thank you for being a member of Design Team #3!

Hayley ~ Katie thank you for being such an important part of our team! We sure loved your fresh designs that each week would wow us even more than the last. We never knew what to expect from you as you have a fabulous style all your own, but what we did know was we would be delighted with each creation no doubt! 


Hayley CASEing Sandy
Sandy's Original Card

Hayley ~ Sandy you were our little flower girl. The delight blossoms of many shapes and sizes that came out of your craft room were awe inspiring! And you always seem to know the perfect little embellishment to add to push your design that much further :) Thank you so much for all of your hard work and inspiration. We look forward to seeing you play along when you have the chance!

Tara ~ Sandy, you single-handedly convinced me that I desperately need more flower stamps in my collection! Your blooming bouquets, clean and fresh style and positive attitude was always a ray of sunshine. Than you for joining us as a Designer for the past 6 months!


Tara CASEing Tanja
Tanja's Original Card

Tara ~ Tanja, you never ceased to amaze me each week with your unique creations. I was always blown away by what you came up with; such depth and texture to your projects that was such an inspiration! Thank you for your contributions to the team and being part of Design Team #3!

Hayley ~ Tanja where do I start? You my gal are the chick who rocked such cool and funky techniques over the past 6 months. Often times I would sit at my computer and think to myself, how on earth did she get that effect? Thank you for bringing so much talent to our team. We really look forward to seeing what is next for you!


And a big 'hip hip hooray' for our Featured Designers!

Tenia Nelson - Jazzy Paper Designs
Cornelia W - Stempel Spass
Joyce Mehrberg - Cards-By-The-Sea


But the fun isn't over yet!

Here is some really good news... Ready? Design Team #4 is going to blow your socks off :) Come back on Wednesday and check out their first creations!

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

CMCC#77 - Colour Me... Playful!

Welcome to the Colour Me...! Challenge Blog. Each week we will have a creative colour challenge for you to get crafty and show us your best greeting cards, 3D projects, scrapbooking, digital or traditional paper crafts, costumes, etc. Only the colours we indicate may be used for your project. Neutrals such as black, gray, white, vanilla, skin colours and kraft are also welcome. 

This week we are using Melon Mambo, Perfect Plum, Tangerine Tango & Pink Pirouette... have fun!



Before we move on to the inspiration, we'd like to take the opportunity to give a gigantic shout out to the amazingly talented ladies who have been helping to inspire you each week for the past 6 months. Please join us in giving them a huge round of applause and virtual hugs for all they have done!

Be sure to check back on Saturday for a special Thank You post.


Now... how about some inspiration from the Design Team! 














Our challenge ends on Mondays at 12:00 pm (EST). We have a few rules to keep things fun and fair!

  1. Any type of crafty projects are welcome ~ greeting cards, 3D projects, scrapbooking, digital or traditional paper crafts, costumes, if it's crafty we want to see it!
  2. We ask that you only use the colours listed for your project and of course neutrals are always welcome.
  3. Feel free to combine us with up to 3 challenges (including ours), with the exception of other colour challenges.
  4. Please add our graphic to your blog with a link back to us.
  5. We reserve the right to remove any links if we feel any material submitted is offensive or found to be in poor taste, we are all here to have a good time!

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Top Picks for CMCC#76!

Thank you so much for linking up all those fabulous creations. You really made it hard to choose a winner.

Now onto this weeks Captivator as chosen by Tanja ...


Lin

Tanja's Pick: I love Lin's use of the washi tape and the flowers look gorgeous.



Wednesday, June 17, 2015

CMCC#76 - Colour Me... Subtle!

Welcome to the Colour Me...! Challenge Blog. Each week we will have a creative colour challenge for you to get crafty and show us your best greeting cards, 3D projects, scrapbooking, digital or traditional paper crafts, costumes, etc. Only the colours we indicate may be used for your project. Neutrals such as black, gray, white, vanilla, skin colours and kraft are also welcome. 

This week we are using Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive & Coastal Cabana... have fun!



How about some inspiration from the Design Team! 












Our challenge ends on Mondays at 12:00 pm (EST). We have a few rules to keep things fun and fair!


  1. Any type of crafty projects are welcome ~ greeting cards, 3D projects, scrapbooking, digital or traditional paper crafts, costumes, if it's crafty we want to see it!
  2. We ask that you only use the colours listed for your project and of course neutrals are always welcome.
  3. Feel free to combine us with up to 3 challenges (including ours), with the exception of other colour challenges.
  4. Please add our graphic to your blog with a link back to us.
  5. We reserve the right to remove any links if we feel any material submitted is offensive or found to be in poor taste, we are all here to have a good time!

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Top Picks for CMCC#75!

Big thanks to all who played along with our captivating color challenge this week. There were so many great submissions, you really made it hard to pick winners! 

Now onto this weeks Captivators as chosen by Sandy...


Kathy Schweinfurth

Sandy's Pick: I thought Kathy's fun nautical card really captured the essence of these colors. It's so well put together, too. The kraft background grounds the patterns and bright colors, and I adore the bit of rope wrapped around the anchor. Well done, Kathy! Congrats!



Wednesday, June 10, 2015

CMCC#75 - Colour Me... Striking

Welcome to the Colour Me...! Challenge Blog. Each week we will have a creative colour challenge for you to get crafty and show us your best greeting cards, 3D projects, scrapbooking, digital or traditional paper crafts, costumes, etc. Only the colours we indicate may be used for your project. Neutrals such as black, gray, white, vanilla, skin colours and kraft are also welcome. 

This week we are using Real Red & Night of Navy... have fun!



How about some inspiration from the Design Team! 










*off this week*

*pssst....*
We've also introduced the lovely faces you'll be seeing in July!
Come check out Design Team #4 and give them a big Colour Me...! welcome :)


Our challenge ends on Mondays at 12:00 pm (EST). We have a few rules to keep things fun and fair!

  1. Any type of crafty projects are welcome ~ greeting cards, 3D projects, scrapbooking, digital or traditional paper crafts, costumes, if it's crafty we want to see it!
  2. We ask that you only use the colours listed for your project and of course neutrals are always welcome.
  3. Feel free to combine us with up to 3 challenges (including ours), with the exception of other colour challenges.
  4. Please add our graphic to your blog with a link back to us.
  5. We reserve the right to remove any links if we feel any material submitted is offensive or found to be in poor taste, we are all here to have a good time!

Introducing Colour Me...! Design Team #4!

It's that time - time for the big reveal!

We'd like to thank everyone who submitted to the Design Team call. We were so overwhelmed by the interest and creativity! We appreciate everyone's support and love having you with us with each new challenge. 

It is now time to introduce you to the lovely ladies who will be inspiring you from July-December:

My name is Antonia, and I live in the Netherlands.
I've been crafting ever since I was little and love nothing better than escaping to my craft room to play with my stamps, papers and all the colors, glitters, dazzles and sparkles.
Being creative is a big part of my life and I hope some of that passion rubs off others along the way. I like the clean and simple style, but also the vintage style, but in a kind of modern way.
I have been inspired by so many other talented people out there & I hope I can inspire you.



Hi Everyone, I am Bhavana, I was born and brought up in India. I worked as a software engineer for 8 years and left my job to pursue my passion. Year and half back I moved to beautiful state California with my husband. Crafting has always been my passion and I am happy to be pursuing it full time. I love anything and everything artsy. I am fond of color and sketch challenges. And love the different papers, textures, inks, stamps and everything in cardmaking. 
I am so excited to be a part of Colour Me design team. Looking forward to have fun card making time here.



My family and I live in a small suburb of Kansas City, Kansas, just over an hour and a half north of where I grew up.  I am a former kindergarten teacher turned adoring wife to BJ and stay-at-home, homeschool mom to Ezekiel (11), Adina (6), and Kaden (1).  When I’m not taking care of or playing with my family, you can find me cooking, baking, gardening, camping, sewing, taking pictures, blogging at Soaring, and of course, paper crafting.  My love for the latter started, over thirteen years ago, at a Stampin’ Up workshop; but I have been creating with any and every form of crafting media, that I could get my hands on, since I was old enough to hold a crayon.  I’ve been honored to have had a number of published works of art, as well as to get to design for some of my most favorite manufacturers and challenge blogs, and am just thrilled to have the privilege of joining the talented crop of designers at Colour Me…!  I hope that I can inspire you all to get creating!


Married with a daughter just about finished with college. I am a preschool teacher at a Christian school. Love to craft in my Disney/Mickey Mouse themed craft room, it is my favorite room in the house and my sweet hubby calls it Disneyland North. In addition to paper crating I love to sew, quilt and bake. 


Hi everyone, my name is Ren and I live in the sunny island of Singapore with my husband and eight year old son. 
I have always loved paper crafting since young but only started to take up this hobby more actively late last year when I became a stay-home mom.  And with that, I started blogging as well to share my creative journey with fellow crafters. I have been so privileged to "meet" and interact with so many like-minded crafters who are ever so generous in sharing their works and designs.
I am very excited to be part of Colour Me...! Design Team and can't wait to share this wonderful journey with everyone.  Let's all have a colorful crafting time together!


My name is Valentyna and I am a craft and blog addict, and a little bit crazy pinterester. I started cardmaking and blogging in 2011 at The Fairy and enjoyed every minute of it. Actually all my papercrafting, cardmaking and blogging started from getting Cricut as a present from my husband :). My blog was a great place to connect with crafters and find fanatics of cards, as I am. Three years after I started blogging, I decided to move to a different blogging platform, new name and a whole new concept. Flourishtina.com was born. The Flourishtina changed my style. I used a lot of paper before. Now more often I make CAS cards. I started using stamps and inks everywhere, but cooled off to embellishments.
Hope you can find an inspiration on my blog. I will be happy to meet new friends and share my papercarft passion with you!


We are also welcoming back two past Design Team members who will now be permanent members of the senior Colour Me...! family:

Design Team #1
(Guest Designer Coordinator)

Design Team #3
(Colour Coordinator)


Be sure to visit them and say hello! It is bound to be a wonderful term with much inspiration - we look forward to seeing you there!

Hayley & Tara

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Top Picks for CMCC#74!

Wow! Thank you to everyone who played along with our white-on-white challenge this week! So many beautiful creations. 

Now onto this weeks Captivators as chosen by Katie...


Rosemary


Katie's Pick: To borrow a line from the song My Girl, Rosemary's card is "like sunshine on a cloudy day!"  Which isn't to say that all the cards weren't lovely, but this one left me feeling particularly uplifted!  I love that sunny feel and sweet sentiment. Congrats Rosemary!