FFC08 - Week 2 Inspiration...

Here we are again at the midway point of our current challenge. We have loved seeing your interpretations of "Sweet" this past week... it's fun that you can really do whatever you like with these trigger challenges! So, of course, we have some favourites from the gallery to share, and as a reminder, here is this week's graphic:

So we wanted to see what this week's trigger inspired you to create, and we had nothing but gorgeous entries this week. But of course, we had to narrow it down, so here are your Shout Outs for this week!

We loved the colours that Anja used on her sweet creation!

We thought that Kimberly was so clever to create a card based on one of the best parts of the season: the baking!

Moriah's simple colour scheme and candy theme are both striking and festive!

Congratulations ladies! Be sure to email Meredith at delightfulwaste@gmail.com for your blog badges.

And here is some bi-weekly inspiration from our design team!

Geri

Melissa

Ardyth

Meredith

Remember, you have until Wednesday to link up your creation on this post.

FFC08 - Trigger Challenge

Welcome back to another new challenge here at Festive Friday! We had a record number of entries for our last challenge, which is so exciting for us. It's such an awesome feeling to see that we are inspiring more and more players every week to work on their holiday card stash!

As usual, we had some favourites that we wanted to highlight for you!

Shout Outs!

We thought that using a tiny wooden bird to accent her bow was brilliant on Maureen's part!

Kirsty created such a peaceful little scene with her cute little friend hanging a little star on the tree!

We loved the serene feel of Marcia's card, using these beautiful icy tones - perfect for the holidays!

And our Winner!

We had to give Tanis a win for being the only designer to post a penguin in our gallery! Easy to forget that these cute little guys are birds too!

Congratulations ladies! Please email Meredith at delightfulwaste@gmail.com for your blog badges!

This week, we are issuing a Trigger Challenge. That means that whatever the trigger conjurs up for you, we want to see it in your creations. You don't have to use the actual trigger word in your projects, but we'd love for you to tell us how it inspired you!

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Here is some inspiration for you from our Design Team:

Geri

Amber*

*Amber is feeling under the weather this week, so we've re-purposed an

older favourite project that suited our theme perfectly!

Meredith

This week, we are excited to be joined by Audrey Tokach, of Pink Ink Originals! 

My name is Audrey Tokach and I am a SAHM to two beautiful boys, Logan (11) and Joshua (9).  My wonderful husband Drew and I have been married for almost 12 years.  We live in sunny Florida, but I grew up in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs and will always call it home.  I am an animal lover (just ask my 2 Cocker Spaniels and 4 felines!).  I started scrapbooking in 2001 while pregnant with my oldest son and in 2009, I was introduced to the wonderful world of stamping.  After a few orders of clear stamps and Copic markers, and I was hooked!  Apart from stamping, I enjoy altered art and 3D home decor projects.  Please visit my blog, Pink Ink Originals, to see what I've been up to!! 

Here is Audrey's *adorable* card for this week's challenge:

Now that you've seen what we did with the trigger, it's your turn! Create any holiday themed project based on the trigger word and link us up below! You can combine our challenge with your other favourite challenges, and enter as many times as you like. This challenge will run until May 22, 2013 at 11:59PST. 

***Please remember to link up your actual blog post and not just your blog address!***

***As it takes time for our designers to visit your blog, please consider shutting off your captcha so that we might be able to more easily leave you some love!***

2013 Festive Friday Grand Prize! 

We want to give you even more incentive to stay on top of your holiday card stash, and we also want to encourage you to continue playing with us! Our last challenge will launch in the middle of November, and at that time, we will be offering a $40 Gift Certificate to one of three online shops to one lucky player who has participated in 15 or more of our challenges! Keep the images of your entries handy - you'll need them!

FFC07 - Week 2 Inspiration...

We're already a week into our current challenge! It's time for us to share some new inspiration with you, and, more importantly, share some of the favourites from the gallery this past week! A reminder, here is the current challenge:

Before I get to all of that, though, we have some announcements to make! Last week, I mentioned that we were changing a few things up with the design team, so I'll explain more here...

We have some exciting news! Week after week, we have *loved* one player's creations so much, that we finally decided it was time she join us officially, and be a part of our Design Team... please help us to welcome Ardyth Percy-Robb, as she joins the Festive Friday family!

Here is a little bit about Ardyth, in her own words:

I started cardmaking in 2006, at a Stampin’ Up! Party and have never looked back. Before that, I would not have claimed to be crafty or creative at all – I’m an accountant! 

I started uploading cards to Splitcoaststampers in 2006 but was really a blog ‘watcher’ until I started my blog, MASKerade in January 2012. I love clean, graphic design with bold colours and lots of white space. My favourite cards are the ones where stamps are used in unexpected ways to create something completely different.

Currently, I’m a sahm to my 13 year old son and my 9 year old daughter. I also volunteer in my daughter’s school and I am the piano accompanist for two children’s choirs.

 I'm so excited to be joining with these talented ladies on the Festive Friday Challenge Design Team!

We are so thrilled to have Ardyth join our team, so she can continue to inspire all of us with her beautiful designs!

Now, for another change! With the addition of a new member, we decided to split the team in two. Starting today, Sarah, Ardyth, Geri and myself will be bringing you the half-way point inspiration. That means that Melissa, Amber, Geri and myself will be giving you inspiration for every new challenge. Clear as mud? All you need to know is that there will be even more inspiration for our half-way posts, and we will continue to bring you ample inspiration to keep that Christmas card stash growing!

Alright, with the business out of the way, it's time for some Shout Outs!

Shout Outs!

We thought that Cara's woodgrain cardstock was the perfect compliment to her adorable wooden dove!

Lynn 'wowed' us with her subtle, monochromatic, beautiful design!

We loved that Kimberly used a non-traditional colour scheme, and her little foam birds accent her wreath perfectly!

Congratulations ladies! Please email Meredith at delightfulwaste@gmail.com for your blog badges!

Now, after everything I just explained about our team switch up, this week is slightly different - just to keep you on your toes! *wink*

Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:

Ardyth

Amber (who was travelling through Europe last week!)

Sarah

Geri

I also have something for this week, but have camera card issues - I'll be posting on my blog by tomorrow morning!

Remember that you have until Wednesday to join this challenge. You can link up your creations in this post.

FFC07 - Element Theme...

Welcome back to a new challenge at Festive Friday! This is going to be a JAM-PACKED post, as we have a lot in store for you today, so get comfortable, sit back, and take it all in...

Last week we had our highest number of players so far, which was really exciting for us. And apparently, the Retro theme was a really popular, if not challenging one! Because we had so many entries, we couldn't pick just three shout outs this week - so we decided to break the rules and choose four!

Shout Outs!

We love how Anja used our inspiration graphic to create her design - and she did it so well!

Kim hand cut the perfect shape to showcase her sentiment, fitting so exactly to the theme.

Kimberly executed this perfectly Retro design in perfectly Retro colours... an easy choice!

We love the style of snowflakes that Liz chose for this simple but stunning design - they were the right choice for this theme!

And now, our winner, who wowed us all with her creation!

Winner!

We loved Maureen's perfect layers and beautiful Retro holiday imagery on this beautiful card!

Congratulations ladies! Please email Meredith at delightfulwaste@gmail.com for your blog badges!

Alright, on to this week's challenge. It's time for another Element Challenge!

We want to see you incorporate a bird into your design - whether it's the focal point or an accent, it doesn't matter... we just want to see a bird!

Here is some inspiration from a few of our Design Team members for you!

Geri

Melissa

Meredith

Just a note for you - we have changed things up with our Design Team reveals for you, so that we can offer even more inspiration both weeks of our challenge. We'll explain more about these changes in our second week post next Friday, so make sure you stop by to find out what we have in store for you!

And this week, we are thrilled to welcome Laurie Willison as our guest designer!

My name is Laurie Willison.  You can usually find me crafting away in my craft room while the kids are in school or when they are sleeping!  :)  Other than that I am a part time RN and I live in the country with my very own farm boy and our 2 kiddos. :)  I love the outdoors and if I had my way I would live in the mountains.  I also love photography and am going to try my hand at Project Life....someday.  ;)

I have been stamping since 2007, when a sweet friend of mine introduced me and I started scrapbooking in 1998 ish.  (I still try on occasion but it doesn't happen very often.  I have had the pleasure and honor of working on several design teams, including my most current, Verve, CAS-ual Fridays and Retro Sketches Challenge Blog.  

And here is Laurie's beautiful card!

Now that you've seen what we did with the theme, it's your turn! Create any holiday themed project based on the above theme and link us up below! You can combine our challenge with your other favourite challenges, and enter as many times as you like. This challenge will run until April 24, 2013 at 11:59PST. 

***Please remember to link up your actual blog post and not just your blog address!***

***As it takes time for our designers to visit your blog, please consider shutting off your captcha so that we might be able to more easily leave you some love!***

2013 Festive Friday Grand Prize! 

We want to give you even more incentive to stay on top of your holiday card stash, and we also want to encourage you to continue playing with us! Our last challenge will launch in the middle of November, and at that time, we will be offering a $40 Gift Certificate to one of three online shops to one lucky player who has participated in 15 or more of our challenges! Keep the images of your entries handy - you'll need them!

FFC06 ~ Retro Theme ~ Week 2...

Hello, Festive Friday Fans!  Welcome to week 2 of this theme challenge...

It's been fun to visit and see/hear everyone's take on 'retro'! Sounds like it's been a true challenge for some of you!  If you're still wondering about just what 'retro' should look like...take a look at how these participants have approached it...

You probably remember this look by Rema...the hand painted looking images we used to see, paired with bold, almost over sized prints in classic Christmas colors!  Love how the images and prints balance one another out on this, too! Perfection, Rema!

Or how about this look by LeAnne...a totally different approach than Rema's...but it still takes us back...to those sweet little doll-faced images.  And, doesn't her sentiment and patterned paper fit so nicely with both the image and the 'retro' feel?!? Love it LeAnne!

Carol took on yet another 'retro' look by incorporating these CAS ornaments.  I saw lots of this style when I was searching out 'retro' images, and I remember when that dusty aqua was a 'new' and trendy color.  Great idea to allow the ornaments to hang 'out of the box', too, Carol! Love this card!

Thanks for your inspiration, Ladies!  Be sure to contact Meredith at delightfulwaste@gmail.com for your blog badge if you don't already have one!

And, if that's not enough inspiration for you, here's a little more from the team...

First, Melissa...

                                Sarah...

                                 Geri...

and Meredith...

So, what are you waiting for???  You have until Wednesday, April 24th,(11:59 PST) to show us your interpretation of 'retro' on this post!  (Please remember to link up your retro post and not your just your blog address.) Hope to see you in the gallery!!
Have a great weekend!!!

FFC06 - Theme Challenge...

We're back again with another Festive Friday challenge! We are enjoying seeing all of you return over and over to share your creations! As usual, we have a few projects that stood out from the gallery that we want to share with you!

Shout Outs!

We love how Kim incorporated all of the colours in her stamped snowflake banner, and the tag sets the entire design off perfectly!

We were impressed with how well Cara used these vintage-loving colours to create this super trendy ikat design!

Another stunning creation by Ardyth. We love the movement she created by using a circle stamp behind her snowflakes.

And our Winner!

Yes, we gave Chupa a shout out last week, but we couldn't help but name her winner this challenge as well! The colouring of this beautiful image was just too breathtaking!

And now, onto our new challenge for the next couple of weeks! Today, it's time for a theme challenge:

Think fabulous cocktail parties and grand department store Santa displays for this one... here is what the design team came up with:

Amber

Meredith

This week, we are welcoming the talented Nina Yang, of Waffle Flower Crafts as our Guest Designer!

Hello, my name is Nina Yang. I have been interested in stationary and gift packaging since a kid. Stamping and card making came after I started working from home in 2011. Fun & cute, bright & bold are my favorite styles. Cards and party / home decor items are my favorites to make. I share my projects at my blog http://waffleflower.com, hoping to offer something new or inspiring every time. I love everything retro! So glad to be guesting for the challenge this week.

Here is Nina's gorgeous creation using this week's theme:

Now that you've seen what we did with the theme, it's your turn! Create any holiday themed project based on the above theme and link us up below! You can combine our challenge with your other favourite challenges, and enter as many times as you like. This challenge will run until April 24, 2013 at 11:59PST. 

***Please remember to link up your actual blog post and not just your blog address!***

***As it takes time for our designers to visit your blog, please consider shutting off your captcha so that we might be able to more easily leave you some love!***

2013 Festive Friday Grand Prize! 

We want to give you even more incentive to stay on top of your holiday card stash, and we also want to encourage you to continue playing with us! Our last challenge will launch in the middle of November, and at that time, we will be offering a $40 Gift Certificate to one of three online shops to one lucky player who has participated in 15 or more of our challenges! Keep the images of your entries handy - you'll need them!