New Month, New Week, New Challenge!

EDIT: Please review the linking directions at the bottom of today's post. Thank you!
EDIT again - Sandra's prize is now posted below. Remember, you have all month to play along with these challenges!

Lots of new things going on this week including new prize sponsors, a new Guest DT and a new challenge! Woohoo! But first we have a couple of good-byes to send out -

To our January prize sponsors, Haley and Susan, THANK YOU for getting our year off to a great start! I do have the prize winners drawn and they are........drumroll..........for Haley's prize it is #44 from the color challenge week: THEDA MYER! and from this past week (animals/birds) is our second winner of Susan's prize: #26 JESS WATSON! Congratulations ladies! Please email me your mailing information so I can forward it on to our fabulous sponsors.

And as we start a new month, we have 2 new sponsors - they are Shirley Ross and Sandra Strickler - welcome gals! Shirley is offering a great prize package that you can see below:

It includes: 1 - Level 2 Paper Packet - Vintage Travel

1 - 9x9 My Creation Accordion Album
1 - Embroidery Floss - Green
1 - craft jar of brads - large and small
2 - D size stamp sets -Connections D1330 and Say It in Style D1283
1 - Dimensional Elements
1 - altered composition book (Olivia papers)

Awesome Shirley! You can stop and visit Shirley at her blog Mom 'n Me Scrap or at her website: http://shirleyross.myctmh.com/ Thanks Shirley!

Sandra has a great prize to offer too - take a look:

Be sure to stop by and visit Sandra at her blog: Stampin' and Scrappin' - and leave her a little hello while you're there!

Ok so on to our challenge for the week. One more goodbye, however - to our very talented Guest DT Vicki Vizniuk! Vicki took time out of her busy schedule (getting her new home in ship-shape!) and joined us for two challenges - today is her second and final contribution. But I am sure we will see Vicki around playing with our challenges just as soon as all her painting and moving is complete!  A new Guest DT will be introduced later in the week when we announce the Top Ten picks for January!!

Our challenge this week is a sketch - here it is:

And here is all the fabulous eye candy the DT - and Guest DT created based on this sketch - first up, Vicki:

Love how she rotated the sketch and that skirt - {swoon!}

Corina

Melinda

Debbie

Lorrinda

Jessica

Karen

Lisa

Aren't they incredible? A lot of pink on the DTs' minds this week :) Now we want to see what you can create with this sketch. Just a reminder: You MUST link to the specific blog page that your artwork is on, not to your blog as a whole! To do this, after you publish your post, click the title of your blog post. This will take you to a page that has only one post on it! If you link to your entire blog, we cannot always locate the artwork you meant for the challenge and it makes picking our top ten very difficult so please be sure to leave the correct link. ALSO, be sure to leave your link on the correct challenge. That way, we have all the entries for each challenge together in one spot. Thank you!

Ok - time to get creative!

New Scrapbook Layout Posted

I posted scrapbook layout #2 at the H2H Scrapbooking page - hope you will give it a try!

*NOTE - If you want to leave a comment on the scrapbooking posts, please do so at this post, not on the scrapbooking page. Since it is an additional page to this blog, all of the posts there are basically one long post and you can only leave a comment at the very bottom which makes it confusing for me to tell what the comment is referring to. So please leave any comments on this page of H2H - thank you!

Time to get wild!

We were so impressed with everyone's stamping spaces and organization ideas! Thanks to everyone who joined in the fun! There is still time to play along with the challenges and be eligible for this month's prizes from our two fabulous sponsors - Haley Dyer of The Inky Scrapper and Susan Winters of Winter Hearts Paper Arts.

The deadline to enter all of the challenges for this month will be this SATURDAY at 10:00 pm EST! After that, winners will be randomly drawn from the January challenges.

With that said, let's get to this week's challenge.

We want to see what you can create that features an animal or bird (insects are ok, too). Let's see how the DT got wild with this challenge starting with a special Guest today - our sponsor, Haley, is playing along with us this week! Here is her card to get us started:

Lovely, Haley!

Jessica

Corina

Melinda

Lisa

Mary

Karen

Lorrinda

Debbie

 Talk about a walk on the wild side - or, with all those winged creatures, would that be soaring through the wild side??

Now it's YOUR turn to show us the animal in you. Or at least in your artwork! Post your creation here by Saturday at 10:00 pm to be eligible for our monthly prizes!

From Your Heart to Ours

Thanks to everyone who played along with our color challenge last week - there were so many wonderful entries!!! Rmember to keep playing along all month until the last Saturday of the month to increase your chances of winning one of the two fabulous prizes being offered by our sponsors: Haley Dyer of The Inky Scrapper and Susan Winter of Winter Hearts Paper Arts.

Today we are starting a new challenge that is a lot different than the ones we have had before. We call this From Your Heart to Ours because we are going to ask you to share something that isn't artwork. This is a new feature that will pop up in our challenges every other month so you will find a From Your Heart to Ours challenge 6 times a year.

To start these challenges, we would like to ask you to share something on the theme of Organization. Maybe you are really proud of your stamping space and want to share the room with us. Or maybe, in all of your "creative disorganization" you have a fabulous way to store paper, or ink, or stamps. Whatever it may be, we challenge you to share with us. From Your Heart to Ours.

Here is a peek at what the Design Team is sharing - be sure to click on their name and follow to their blog to read all about their organization (and let me say, this challenge threw the DT for a loop as they all scurried to clean up their spaces.  LOL  You do not have to over-do this challenge - just think of a good organization idea that you can share with us. There is sure to be someone who will benefit from your knowledge and information)!

Debbie

Lorrinda

Jessica

Corina

Melinda

Karen

Lisa

Mary

Now it's your turn. Let's see what kind of organization ideas you have that will inspire us all! Post photos or a description and then link your post here. Have fun - we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Scrapbooking - Layout 1

Today is the first post for H2H Scrapbooking - I am excited to be getting back to scrapping and sharing my layouts and sketches with all of you. But even more, I am excited to be inspired by the layouts you share with me! And with all of us! So be sure to pop over to the H2H Scrapbooking page and play along. See you there!

Let's get this party started!

Welcome back to the Heart 2 Heart Challenges! We are all so excited to get back into the swing of things and I have such a talented team to inspire your creative spirit! And a lot of info to share with you so let's get to it!

First, our challenges are still the same format. The only difference you will find is that instead of a weekly top five, we will now have a monthly Top Ten. And 2 monthly prize sponsors, which you will see through out the month on our sidebar. <------- over there. So the more you play during the month, the more chances you have to win a prize or grab a spot in the Top Ten. And one Top Ten winner will be become a Guest DT member for a future month. So lots of changes but lots of things that are staying the same.

For instance, we will continue to bring you awesome artwork and we encourage you to tell your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers about our blog and get them to play along too!

To start off our new year, our prize sponsors for the month of January are HALEY DYER and SUSAN WINTER. Here is a little about the prizes these ladies are offering:

Susan will be giving one lucky player a $25.00 gift certificate to be used on any products in the current Close To My Heart Idea Book! You can stop by and say hello to Susan at her blog: Winter Heart Paper Arts. Thank you Susan!

Haley has a great prize package in store for one random winner - take a look at all the goodies:

I'll share the contents of this package of fun in a couple of weeks when Haley joins the DT for one of our challenges! Be sure to stop by and visit Haley at her blog: The Inky Scrapper. Thanks for sponsoring, Haley!

We are still in need of sponsors for February - if you are interested, contact me at mbryt1@bex.net.

Ok, on to the challenge - cause that's why you're here, right?

We are starting off the year with a color challenge:

You can also add a little Sorbet to this pallette, if you wish. If you don't have these exact colors, then choose colors that are close to these, ok? We don't want to leave anyone out!

Now on to our inspiration. First up, our Guest DT for the month, Ms. Vicki Wizniuk:

Beautiful as always, Vicki!

And now for the H2H Design Team!

Debbie

Melinda

Jessica

Lisa

Lorrinda

Corina

Mary

Karen

Is that a lot of eye-candy or what? You have to be inspired after that awesome gallery of artwork so we want to see what you create with these colors!  You can play along with this challenge all month, until Saturday, Jan. 29th at 10:00 pm to be eligible for the prizes and a place in our Top Ten. Post your artwork on your blog or in another public online gallery and then link your artwork to our site below in Mister Linky.

Are you ready? Let the creating begin!!

Let's meet our last two members!

Two more talented ladies to go - up first, returning as our Senior DT member, Jessica Moore:

"I am 31 years old, a Christian, a wife of almost 13 years to my most wonderful husband John, and mother to 5 children - the oldest is 7 and the youngest was just born on May 3rd. My life is everything I ever wanted and more, I am blessed to be a stay at home mom who will start homeschooling in the fall, we live in a tiny town in Upstate New York. I have a very full life and I wouldn't change it for the world!
I started scrapbooking in 2003 after my 1st child was born. I found Close To My Heart in the spring of 2007, signed up in September of 2007 and have loved every minute since! Papercrafting is very addicting and brings me a great deal of joy. I try to create something everyday! People often ask "how in the world do you find time to scrapbook with 5 kids?" Well I tell them it's easy, you always should make time for something you love. Since starting scrapbooking and cardmaking I have also started to sew as well as quilt, I love anything and everything related to homemaking, crafting, cooking, decorating, organizing and even cleaning, I was made to do these things! I am so excited to be able to share with others my love of papercrafts and Close To My Heart."

Welcome back, Jessica - we are thrilled to have you on board! Jessica will be helping me with various odds and ends as well as participating in the challenges every once in awhile. You can find her blog at http://jessicaspaperpetals.blogspot.com/.

Last but certainly not least is our uber-talented Guest Design Team member for the month of January - Vicki Wizniuk!

"A little about me... I’ll try to keep this short... lol

My name is Vicki Wizniuk and I live at Charlie Lake, BC, Canada. I’m a mom to three sweet kids, with my oldest two (visually impaired twins) grown and living on their own now – together, of course, as they are inseparable. My youngest is in Grade 5, so while he’s at school during the day, I’m usually able to find some sanity time to be creative. My husband and I are in the midst of building a new home on the other side of the lake, so that’s been keeping us busy since we broke ground last June, and we are hoping to move in around the end of March. I’ve been a “hobbyist” Consultant with Close To My Heart for 5 ½ years, and I’m so loving it! I LOVE to create with my paper and stamps, and I am honoured to be a guest DT in January for the Heart 2 Heart Challenge Blog! Come and visit me anytime at my blog: http://wizardshangout.blogspot.com/ "

And there you have it - a great group of talent, don't you agree?

Tomorrow is our first challenge of 2011 so be sure to come back and play along!