Forever Friends

Monday, 10 December 2012

Fortnightly Challenge 51 - Christmas Cards

Good morning everybody!

Firstly, thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge - please see the previous post for details of winners.

This fortnight's challenge is

Christmas Cards

and since we're all busy making them anyway, why not join in here? :)

We have two lovely sponsors as always.

The randomly selected winner's prize is sponsored by

Bugaboo Stamps

who are providing our lucky winner with

and our Forever Friends Favourite winner is sponsored by

Cupid Clear Stamps

who are providing our lucky winner with

this set of clear stamps

plus a personalised stamp of the winners choice

Here is an example of the personalised stamp

(the winner chooses their own from a large selection of personalised stamps)

So onwards!

We were joined by two Guest Designers from Cupid Clear Stamps. Here are their fab makes.

And here's some fab inspiration from our fabulous Design Team - we'd like to extend a huge welcome to our newest members this time too! We LOVE their work, and are sure you will too :)

Sandra H, using a Bugaboo image...

...and using a Forever Friends image

Julie, using a Bugaboo image

Lisa using a Bugaboo image...

...and a Forever Friends image

Shirl using a Bugaboo image...

...and using a Forever Friends image

Claire, using a Forever Friends image...

...and using a Bugaboo image

Moshie using a Forever Friends image

Linda got very busy and made three Forever Friends creations :)

Rachel, using a Bugaboo image...

...and using a Forever Friends image

Mags, using a Bugaboo image...

...and using a Forever Friends image

Sassy using a Bugaboo image...

...and using a Forever Friends image

Karen using a Forever Friends image

Diane, using a Cupid Clear Stamp image...

...and using a Forever Friends image AND a Cupids Clear Stamp image

...and here's her own Cupid's Clear personalised 'Handmade By' stamp...

...and using a Bugaboo image

Tanya

Jen using a Bugaboo image

...and using a Forever Friends image

So come and join us - and Merry Christmas!

Love from Tanya and all the DT ladies :) xxx

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Winner and Forever Friends Favourite for Fortnightly Challenge 50 - Glitter and Sparkle

Hi everyone!

We had lots of LOVELY entries for the Glitter and Sparkle Challenge - everyone's getting very festive coming up to Christmas! Thank you all so much for entering our challenge - we had a great time looking through all the entries :)

Firstly, our Randomly Selected Winner is...

No 74 NanaConnie

who made these gorgeous ATCs!

Congratulations NanaConnie - you win a $10 voucher to spend in our wonderful sponsor's shop

Di's Digi Downloads

Please take our badge to display on your blog :)

And our Forever Friends Favourite, as chosen by the Design Team, is...

Joke

who made this fabulous card!

Congratulations, Joke, you win 3 digital images of your choice from our fabulous sponsor,

Digi Stamp Characters, who can be found on the web here, here and here.

We would also love to have you as our next Guest Designer, Joke!

Please take our Favourites badge for your blog :)

Congratulations ladies - please contact Diane at dianej00-foreverfriends@yahoo.co.uk :)

Thanks everybody for entering, and see you all tomorrow for our next challenge :)

Love from Tanya and the DT ladies xxx

December's Give Away Prize Draw Winner

Hello Everyone....

Well that week went extremely quickly and its time to see who is the lucky winner of the Chrismasy Give Away prizes...

No 52

Angela Jervis

Congratulations Angela, you win these fab prizes:-

Please email your postal address to me at

dianej00-foreverfriends@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks

Diane xx

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Monthly Challenge for December...

Hello Everyone....

Before I talk about this month's fab challenge.... I have some a few things I would like to tell you about... so pull up a chair, make yourself a cuppa, grab a mince pie, relax and read on....

You only have 2 more days to enter our Christmasy Giveaway Prize Draw.

Click (here) for more details

One winner will recieve a fabulous Tim Holtz Holiday Lamppost Die,

some gorgeous silver reindeer embellishments

and a lovely christmas tree stamp....

Good Luck Everyone !!!!

The team would also like to say a very big 'Hello' and 'Welcome' to our new Facebook 'likers', we are now up to 170 of you lovely crafters who have chosen to join us !!!

As you know we recently held a DT call and we were all overwhelmed at how many talented crafters applied for the position - thank you. The team would like to welcome the new ladies who have joined our Forever Friends Family....

Monthly Team

Bettina, Laura, Lisa G, Lorraine, Natalie, Pauline, Petra, Sonia and Tracey.

Click (here) to see the names of the ladies who have joined the Fortnightly team.

'Thanks' to everyone who entered our Novembers 'Anything Goes' Challenge, we had a record number of entries and the team enjoyed visiting your blogs to view your creations. Click (here) to see if you were one of the lucky winners.

Right onto this months challenge....

For our December's Challenge, we would love you to enter your....

'Christmas Cards'

Dont forget to re-read our challenge rules (see the side-bar)...

there is now an entry limit of 3 cards/projects per challenge.

We have been joined by the fabulous Di's Digi Downloads who are sponsoring the Randomly Selected Winners Draw and one lucky crafter will receive a $10 voucher to spend in the web-store.

Our second sponsor is new to our blog and we would like to say 'Welcome' to the wonderful Meljens Designs who are sponsoring our Forever Friends Favourite Draw and are offering 4 digis of the winners choice from their web-store. Thanks also for providing the team with digi images to work with :o) xx

If you need some inspiration for our challenge - take a look at the design team's cards/projects - they have all been beautifully handmade and will really get you in the Christmas Spirit :o) If you would like to comment on the DT cards or read how they made their cards, just click on the names to be taken to their blogs.

Guest Designer Spot

This gorgeous card was made by Shell,

who was the Forever Friends Favourite Winner

from the monthly challenge in September - thanks for joining us !!!!