CMCC#28 - 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 Soft Sky & Elegant Eggplant... have fun!

How about some inspiration from the Design Team! 

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew

Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Sherrie Mannion

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for July...!

Anja Curvers

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!

An InLinkz Link-up

Top Picks for CMCC#27!

WOW! What a wonderfully rich and beautiful gallery this week! Thank you to all who stopped by. It was great to see such a variety of projects showing up this week. 

And now for this week's Captivator, as chosen by Claire!

Julie

Stamping with Julie Gearinger

Claire's Pick: Julie, I kept coming back to your beautiful snowy scene using our colors!  The stamping is gorgeous and it is so unique and distinctive for a wintery day!  Congratulations, Julie!

An InLinkz Link-up

Still time to join the fun for CMCC#27!

There's still lots of time to play along with us for challenge #27 where we are going Monochromatic and using Blackberry Bliss.

Can't wait to see what you create!

Challenge closes on Monday, July 7 at 12:00pm EST

CMCC#27 - Colour Me... Monochromatic!

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 Blackberry Bliss... have fun!

How about some inspiration from the Design Team! 

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew

Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Sherrie Mannion

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for July...!

Anja Curvers

Hi, my name is Anja and I live in a small village in the south of the Netherlands. I am a SAHM to four childern and married with a very nice guy.

Somewhere in 2003 I visited a scrapbook fair and I was hooked since then. Although I love making layouts, making cards has become my favorite thing to do.

I am addicted to challenges of all kind they inspire me a lot and help me thinking outside the box. I just love to play with stamps, ink, paper and embellishments and trying various techniques.

Through my blog, scrappietoo, I have met many wonderful people who inspired me a lot and I hope I can inspire them with my work.

I am trilled that Hayley and Tara asked me to be a guest designer for the month July. Thank you Hayley and Tara for this great opportunity.

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!

An InLinkz Link-up

Top Picks for CMCC#26!

What a beautiful and diverse gallery this week! As always, it makes it difficult for us to pick!

Lets check out the Captivator as selected by Katie:

Betty Wright

Crafting with Betty

Katie's Pick: Wow, where to start with this card?  I'm blown away by all of Betty's gorgeous and well thought-out details... from her stamped legal paper to that shadowed "smile".  A gorgeous creation that really rocks this colour combo, way to go Betty!

An InLinkz Link-up

Meet Design Team #2 - Julia and Sherrie!

Time to meet the rest of Design Team #2! Give a warm welcome to...

Julia Altermann

Hello! I'm Julia, and while I've always been interested in crafting & coloring, I've only gotten serious about it in the summer of 2013 when I created my dad's present for his 80th birthday. Since then, I've been hooked on stamps and dies and find card making a wonderful creative outlet. I'm originally from the wonderful city of Dresden, Germany, but have moved to Stuttgart a while ago to work the job my dreams: we make apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac and I love my small team and can't wait to go to work every single day. Seriously! 

At home, my (slightly crazy) cat Sissy demands my attention and isn't shy about sabotaging my crafting if she feels left out. I've explained to her that my responsibilities are a bit more serious now that I've joined the Colour Me…! Design Team and that I'm tickled pink about it! I'm looking forward to work with these other wonderful ladies and to see what you make of our challenges.

Sherrie Mannion

Hello! My name is Sherrie and I’m from New Jersey. I’m blessed with a  wonderful husband and three daughters that are very supportive of my crafty pursuits. I discovered pretty patterned paper and scrapbooking  back in 2003 when my first daughter was born and have delved deeper into the world of paper crafting ever since. I started making cards 3  years ago out of necessity but once I started playing around with  stamps and inks I couldn’t stop.  Nothing makes me happier than to  see my girls pull out the scrapbooks on their own just to see their  photos and read their stories or to put a pretty handmade card in the  mail. I am thrilled to join the Colour Me…! team and look forward to  stretching our creative muscles together. 

Meet Design Team #2 - Claire and Joanne!

Are you guys ready to meet some members of our new Design Team?! I thought you might be :)

We'll introduce you to two lovely ladies today, and two more tomorrow! Be sure to check back and give them a big warm welcome.

Claire Broadwater

Hi! My name is Claire Broadwater.  I live at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia.  It is a beautiful lake/golf community an hour east of Atlanta on Lake Oconee.  My husband, Bill is my biggest supporter.  I have twin sons and a bonus son and daughter.  We have five Grandchildren and we are expecting two more in July.  There is never a dull moment at our home.

I am a retired Elementary Educator. (27 years)  I have been cutting and pasting paper for as long as I can remember.  I was an avid Scrapbooker for years and was introduced to Stampin’ UP! two years ago.  I became a Demonstrator the first day!  I absolutely LOVE making cards and teaching others how to make them.  Embossing paper, bling and ribbon make me happy!  I started a blog last year to share my creations and have met so many fabulous people through challenges.  

I am THRILLED to be asked by Hayley and Tara to be on the Colour Me...! Design Team!  I look forward to the challenge and meeting new friends!  

Joanne James

Hello I’m Joanne and live in Northampton in the UK, although I’m Welsh at heart! I have always been creative and enjoy lots of crafts and papercrafting and rubber stamping is my passion. I only discovered Stampin’ Up! relatively recently and became a demonstrator 2 years ago. I love that Stampin’ Up! enables me to share my passion and creativity with others through parties, classes and writing my daily blog, which is my therapy!

I am a busy Mum of a 9 year old daughter and 6 year old son and have an amazing husband who is as much of a whizz with the ironing board as he is an IT genius! I love both colour and sketch challenges and am thrilled to have been asked by Tara and Hayley to join the Colour Me…! Design Team. I am excited at the prospect of working with this group of super-talented ladies and look forward to sharing our creative ideas with you.