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!



Saturday, June 6, 2015

Still time to join the fun for CMCC#74!

There's still lots of time to play along with us for challenge #74 where we are going Monochromatic and using Very Vanilla, or white-on-white.


Can't wait to see what you create!

Challenge closes on Monday, June 8 at 12:00pm EST

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

CMCC#74 - 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 Very Vanilla, or white-on-white... have fun!



How about some inspiration from the Design Team! 

*off this week*











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 2, 2015

Top Picks for CMCC#73!

Wow--33 outstanding projects entered into the challenge this week! Thank you so much to everyone who played along! 

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


Jinny Newlin

Julia's Pick: I picked Jinny's card this week because her gorgeous background contrasted again her black embossed scene was so striking. I also love her black stitched detail to tie all the elements together! :)