Our Color Coordinated Friday Five!

Thanks to everyone who played along with our color challenge last week - your artwork was beautiful! We picked our favorite five based on creative, execution, following the challenge rules and overall design elements and these are our picks for the week - congratulations ladies!

There is still time to play in this week's challenge. To be eligible for a great prize and a chance to be in our next Friday Five (and maybe be chosen guest DT for October!) simply upload your card and link it here by Sunday night at 10 pm EST.

Until next time, have a creative weekend!

1 Guest DT + 5 Fabulous Creations

Before we get to this week's Friday Five, I want to introduce you a little more to our Guest DT for September, Debbie Carriere. Here's a little about Debbie in her own words:

"Hi everyone, my name is Debbie. I live with my wonderful husband and three children just north of Boston, Massachusetts. This December we will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary. We have been blessed with three happy, busy little kids – Noah age 5, Nathan age 3, and little Isabel (baby Bel) age 18 months. Before children, I was a Process Development Scientist for a pharmaceutical company. I made the choice after Noah was born to leave the work force to be home with my children. I feel very fortunate that we have been able to make this work for our family.

I started scrapbooking just after Noah was born, as well. I love the idea that I am preserving my family’s memories for my children and grandchildren. I truly believe they will be so grateful that I did. I discovered Close to My Heart in January of 2008 – it was love at first sight, and I soon signed up to be an independent consultant. I have met so many fabulous people through my business and have learned so much more than I could have imagined. I started making cards and altered projects a couple years ago and LOVE it – maybe even more than scrapbooking!!

I love to spend time outdoors – gardening, walking, biking, hiking, relaxing. I also enjoy reading and baking. My dream is to one day have an RV and a boat. I am thrilled to be a Guest DT member for Heart 2 Heart. I hope I live up to the challenge and can inspire someone."

Welcome again, Debbie! You can stop by and Debbie at her blog at Scrap My Heart Out or at her website HERE. Debbie will be joining the rest of the team for 2 challenges this month so stay tuned!

Ok now on to our Friday Five. These gals really know how to work those folds! Take a look (click the photo to go to the blog to see the whole creation)

There you have it - some pretty great folds! Congratulations to our top five! You will be receiving your badge code later today (Kate - I need your email address - please contact me at mbryt1@bex.net)

Will you be in our next Friday Five? You might be but you have to play along! Check out our color challenge for the week and submit your artwork by Sunday night at 10 EST. And we will be back Monday with another great challenge! See you then!

The Friday Five has it all stitched up!

Great stitched projects everyone! love all the variations - makes me want to break out my sewing machine more often!

Here are our top five for this Friday:

Congratulations! You will all be receiving your badge codes in email soon and one lucky Friday Fiver has a surprise in store for them! Yes, a Guest DT spot for September - stay tuned for that announcement soon!

We also have a fun new prize to offer starting next week called 4 for 40.....coming Monday so don't forget to stop by between cook-outs and see what's happening this Labor Day! Until then, have a creative day (and keep those fancy fold cards comin' in!)

Friday Five - Back to School!

Our Friday Five this week certainly doesn't need to hit the books when it comes to creativity! Check out their awesome Back to School projects:

Congratulations! I will send out your badge code later today. Lela - I could not find your email address - please contact me at mbryt1@bex.net for your code.

We're having a great time checking out your stitching projects for this week so keep them coming in!

The Fabby Friday Five

You were all so creative with the sketch from a week ago that we had a hard time picking just five favorites but pick them we did! Here are our top picks for the week:

Click on the picture for the full version.

Great job everyone! It is so much fun for myself and the Design Team to hop around to all the blogs and see what you are creating! Keep up the good work and be sure to spread the word about our challenge blog to your customers too! Get them involved and just think of all the opportunities that can come from seeing so much awesome artwork!

There's still time to play in this week's challenge. The theme is Back to School - let's see what you can create for students, teachers...anyone headed back to the classroom!

Have a wonderful weekend and we'll be back Monday with another new challenge!

Tagging our Friday Five!

It's time to announce this week's Friday Five! These tag creations really inspired us so kudos to the following creations:

What a great variety! And I am so happy to see our previous DT members playing along as well! Congratulations ladies!  I will send your Friday Five badge info but it won't be going out until Sunday evening as I am actually our of town on vacation as you're reading this so hang in there and I will get it to you soon!!

Don't forget about this week's sketch challenge - we are enjoying seeing everyone's take on the sketch! And I'll be back Monday with an all new sketch and our Guest DT, Amy, will be joining in the fun as well! See you soon!

This week's Friday Five

First off I have to say, that while the color challenge from July 26 was definitely challenging, you all put on your creative thinking caps and made some awesome works of art! Way to go! So once again, it was tough narrowing it down to the top 5 but in the end, here is the Friday Five selections:

Fabulous creations! If you want to see the entire project, just click on the photo to visit each creator's blog.

Belinda - I don't seem to have your email address but I think you have a badge already so email me if you need me to resend it. mbryt1@bex.net

Congratulations to our top five! Now it's your turn! Create an awesome tag for this week's challenge and link it up here before Sunday night at 10 pm EST and you could be in our next Friday Five!

See you on Monday with another new challenge!

Our Friday Five are Cookin'!

Last week's challenge was all about recipes and our Friday Five this week used a variety of unique ways that incorporated that theme. Here are our favorites for the week - congratulations to these 5 ladies!

A new challenge will be coming at you soon but there's still time to play along with our color challenge this week! It might just be you in the next Friday Five!

In case you want to know what we look for when choosing our Friday Five, here's some tips:
* Following the challenge and using Close To My Heart products
* Creative and /or unique artwork
* Clean and well executed artwork
* Details and embellishments used
* Good overall design layout and presentation

We look forward to seeing what YOU create so join in our challenges - no matter your level of expertise, we hope our challenges inspire you to be creative!

Sketchy looks from the Friday Five

I love sketches and seeing all the different ways one sketch can inspire such a variety of looks! Thanks to everyone who played along with our sketch week 14. Here are our picks for the top 5:

Congratulations Friday Five! Benjaman, Nicole, Brenda and Amy - please contact me at mbryt1@bex.net for your badge code. (If you already have a Friday Five badge from us, you won't need another). Thanks!

How can you be in the Friday Five? Just play along with this week's challenge and create something that catches our eye. Here's some tips on what we look for:
* How closely you stick to the challenge
* How creative and "different" your project is
* How clean and well executed your project is
* Great use of CTMH products

We hope you'll play along! Have a great weekend!

This week it's the Saturday Six!

I apologize for being a day late but the good news is, I added an extra person to our usual Friday Five to make it a Saturday Six!

You were all waving your stars and stripes last week and we are so happy you all played along! Here are our top choices:

Are you feeling that patriotic vibe? Congratulations to our six winners! I will be sending your badge information soon!

** Jacklyn, I couldn't find your email address - could you contact me please at mbryt1@bex.net? Thank you!

Don't forget about our current challenge - you might just be in our next Friday Five! See you soon!