Our June Guest DT!

It is time to say Goodbye to Deneen, our May Guest DT, and Hello to our fabulous June Guest DT - Dawn!

Here's a little intro from Dawn:

"Hello everyone! I'm so excited and honored to have been asked to be a guest of such an amazing DT!!! I started scrapbooking just over 5 years ago after a friend invited me to her Close To My Heart party. I was instantly hooked on the quality, style, and all of the coordinating products CTMH offered. Less than a year later, I signed up as a consultant myself and have loved every minute of it.

My husband, Dave, and I have a very energetic three-year-old boy named Owen who fills every spare moment and is my constant inspiration. For my "real" job, I work part-time as an environmental engineer doing air compliance for a major oil company here in Anchorage, Alaska. I'm so thankful for such a creative outlet in scrapbooking and for a hobby that helps me get through our cold dark winters up here!"

I hope you will all stop by Dawn's blog and leave her a little congrats note. She will be joining the team for two of the challenges in June so watch for her amazing artwork in the coming weeks.

See you all again on Friday with our next Friday Five!

Let's Get Sketchy!

Happy Memorial Day and welcome to a new challenge week!

This week we are featuring a sketch challenge but before we get to that, let's award a prize from our wonderful sponsor from last week - Ruth Nava! Random.org picked our winner from all entries and that person is #7 - Brittany! Congratulations! Brittany, please contact me at mbryt1@bex.net with your mailing information so Ruth can get your prize out in the mail. And a big THANK YOU to Ruth for sponsoring a challenge week here at H2H!

Another little information to share with you before we get to this week's challenge - this is the last Guest DT post for our fabulously talented Deneen! Thank you for being a part of the team for a brief time - we love your artwork! Watch for an announcement regarding the June Guest DT in a couple of days!

Ok now on to our sketch and artwork! Remember that a sketch is just an inspiration - feel free to flip and adjust to suit you - we just need to be able to tell that your artwork was based on the sketch. Here it is:

 Now let's see what the team created based on this sketch, starting with Deneen:

Here's the 1sr of Deneen's cards and here's the 2nd:

So different from one another and yet so perfect with that sketch! Great job Deneen!

Carol

Mary

Jayma

Tracey

Angela

Helen

Katy

Inspired yet? Then join in the fun! Just create your artwork based on the sketch and upload to your blog or other public online gallery. We'll stop by and see what you've been creating and you might just land in our next Friday Five!

Have a wonderful Memorial Day!

This Friday Five worked the color challange!

I know the colors were a little challenging last week but everyone did a great job using them in their artwork - you're all amazing! But the Friday Five is, well, just 5 so, hard as the choice was, here we go - congratulations to the following creators:

Such a great variety of color interpretation - stars, a bird, a butterfly, a frog and a flower - awesome!

If you want to see the full card, click the image to go to the blog. And leave some love for the winners while you're there!

** Brenda, Dawn and Jody - can you email me please so I can send your badge info to you? My email is mbryt1@bex.net.

A new challenge will be posted Monday along with the announcement of our June Guest DT! Deneen, our current Guest DT will be playing along with us again Monday and I can't wait to see what she comes up with!  And don't forget, you have until Sunday night at 10:00 pm EST to enter the Stamp your own Background challenge! See you soon!

New Challenge time - Stamp your own Background

Before we get to the new challenge, I want to introduce our sponsor for this upcoming challenge week - Ruth Nava. Ruth has a couple of fun goodies for one lucky participant this week - here's some pictures:

Thank you Ruth! Please take a minute to stop by Ruth's blog and see what she has created along with us for this week's challenge and leave her a little lovin' for sponsoring our prize this week!

We are also welcoming Deneen to the team this week as May's Guest DT member! Deneen has been wowing us with her artwork and now she's going to add a couple of samples for this week's challenge which is to Stamp Your Own Background! Let's see what she and the rest of the team created to inspire you!

Both of these gorgeous samples are from Deneen - awesome!

Helen

Tracey

Jayma

Mary

Angela

Katy

Carol

So many fun and different looks and that's the beauty of creating your own look with a stamped background! To check all of this artwork further, be sure to visit each team member's blog.

Now it's your turn. Grab your CTMH stamps and create a background for your project. Post it to your blog or other online gallery (use keyword H2H8) and then come back here and leave a direct link to your post. You might win Ruth's great prize package and you might just be in the next Friday Five! Happy Stamping!

Friday Five - late night

I'm sorry for the delay getting this post together. Had family things that were of much greater importance but all is ok. Thank you to everyone who contacted me through Facebook with positive thoughts and prayers.

So now onto our Friday Five from technique week! I am going to keep this short and sweet so let's get to the top 5, as chosen by our Design Team:

Lorrinda

 

Belinda

Emily

Dawn

Vicki




Click on the links to see the whole project and find out about the great techniques used.


Congratulations ladies!! I will send out your badge info later this evening.

There's still time to enter this week's challenge - maybe you will be in the next Friday Five! See you all on Monday with another great challenge!

Friday Five is late

My apologies - the Friday Five will be posted later today. Had a family emergency that needed my attention.

It's a new week and a new challenge!

It's a new week but before we get to the new challenge, I have a prize winner to announce. The winner of the great prize package from Deneen is Becky Sorenson! Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to me at mbryt1@bex.net and I forward the info to Deneen.

I also want to thank Deneen again for being a great sponsor and we are so looking forward to your weeks as our Guest DT. Deneen will be joining the team for the last two weeks in May so stay tuned for her incredible artwork then! And you can always visit our sponsor page and find links to all of our great sponsors' blogs/websites. Pop over and leave them a little love, ok?

Now on to this week's challenge. It's a color challenge and maybe one that will make you think. We are working with Ocean, Topiary and Desert Sand (and of course a neutral like cream, white or black).

Here is what the Design Team created with these colors:

Tracey

Mary

Angela

Helen

Carol

Jayma

Katy

Are you inspired yet? Well we can't wait to see what you can create with these colors! Just post your artwork to your blog or other online gallery - PLEASE DO NOT use your MyCTMH site if you are a consultant unless you can link to the page that features that one specific piece of artwork! If you link to the entire gallery, you are not eligible for any prizes. Also, this is H2H7  - if you post at a public gallery, please use this keyword so we can find your entry easier!

Be sure to leave a link here to your artwork so we can check you out. You might just find yourself in a Friday Five! Happy Stamping!