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!)

How fancy are your folds?

There were a lot of wonderful stitched projects last week (gonna be hard to pick our top 5 once again!) but now we're moving on to a new challenge!

But before we get to that, I want to announce the winner of the prize from sponsor Ruth Nava and that winner is......drumroll......#21 - Kathy! Congrats Kathy! Send your mailing address to me at mbryt1@bex.net and I will forward it to Ruth. Also, a great big THANK YOU to Ruth for being a great sponsor! Thanks for joining us and offering this week's prize. Don't forget, you can visit Ruth's blog at The Scrap Chick.

So this week, we are including fancy folds on our cards and other projects. If you Google stamping and fancy folds, you will get some great ideas or better yet, take a look at what the Design Team came up with - loads of inspiration for you!

Jamia

Mandy

Deneen

Mary

Kelly

Jessica

Andrea

Be sure to click on each designer's name to go to their blog and find out all the details on how they included the fancy folds challenge. And leave them a little love while you're there - they deserve it!

Now we want to see what you can create with fancy folds. Post your artwork on your blog or other online gallery and then come back here and leave a link in Mister Linky below. We'll be around to check out what you create and you might just be in the next Friday Five!

Have a great week!

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!

Stitching up some artwork

We loved everyone's Back to School projects - thanks for playing along! Our prize winner was selected by Random.org and the winner of Christine's awesome package is......19. KIM! Congratulations Kim! Please send me your address so Christine can get your prize sent out. My email is mbryt1@bex.net

A BIG Thank You to Christine for sponsoring our prize. Don't forget that you can find a link to Christine's blog and website (as well as all of our tremendous sponsors) on our sponsor page.

This week, we are welcoming a returning sponsor - Ruth Nava. Ruth will be providing a prize to a lucky player from this week's challenge which is all about STITCHING! This can be real stitching or faux stitching, hand stitching or pen drawn stitching - whatever you would like as long as we can see signs of stitching on your artwork (and of course, you use mostly CTMH products!)

Our Guest DT, Amy, is joining us for her final challenge as part of the DT and she sewed up a great project - take a look:

Isn't that adorable? Thanks Amy for joining us - we've enjoyed your beautiful artwork!

And now for the rest of the team and their stitched projects:

Deneen

Mandy

Andrea

Jamia

Mary

Jessica

Kelly

So what do you think? Pretty darn awesome, aren't they? I always enjoy seeing what variety this team - and all of YOU - come up with, each and every challenge. Are you ready to get stitching? We are looking forward to seeing what you can create. Sew (hehehe) get creative, post your artwork and then leave us a link. Be sure to post before 10:00 pm EST on Sunday in order to be eligible for Ruth's prize!

Ready, set, STITCH!

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!

Back to School with H2H!

Sorry for the delay in getting this post up but believe me, it is worth the wait!

Here's what's happening this week - we are creating Back To School projects! Cards, layouts, altered items - whatever makes you think of heading back to the classroom!

Joining us this week is our talented Guest DT member for August - AMY! And our prize sponsor for the week is Christine David! You can visit Christine on the web at Create with Christine. Here is the wonderful package Christine will be sending to one lucky player:

Includes:

*Around the Block Stamp Set ($22.95 value)

*Notice the Details Stamp Set ($22.95 value)
*Exclusive Textured Stickers (not avail. for purchase)
*Exclusive Collection of Embellishments in Twilight and Colonial White (not avail. for purchase)


So let's get started and see what the DT (and our Guest DT) have whipped up for our Back to School theme. First up, take a look at what Amy created:

How sweet is that? To find out more, you can visit Amy at Amy's Art from the Heart.

And now for the rest of the team:

Jamia

Andrea

Kelly

Mary

Deneen

Jessica

Mandy

Looks like this group is ready to get school started! We hope you'll join us and create something with the theme of Back to School. Then come back here and leave us a link so we can check out your artwork. You might just be a prize winner or be chosen in our next Friday Five! Have fun creating!

Challenge delayed

This week's challenge will be a bit delayed as I just returned from vacation and do not have the post ready yet. It should be up no later than noon today so come back again soon!