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The 4 Crafty Chicks welcome you to our weekly challenge blog. We are a close circle of friends who love the world of paper crafts and want to share that love with you. Our challenges will be posted every Thursday morning with submissions due the following Tuesday at midnight MST. To be eligible, your card, scrapbook page, or 3D altered project must be linked directly back to your post, not just to your blog. Don't have a blog but still want to participate? No worries...You are more than welcome to upload your card to an online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc., and then use the url for your photo in your gallery as the link that you post in your comment. We also ask that you set your commenting to be approved by owner as opposed to Word Verification. Thank you and happy crafting!

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Crazy Egg Challenge Branching Out #92

Hello fellow crafter's, it is time for our Crazy Egg Challenge.  We hope you can join us with our challenge today, as it is kind of fun.  We decided to Branch Out, being as it is still spring, oh I hope summer comes soon.  Please use on your project some form of branches, trees, shrubs.  Also Leanne is offering a fabulous prize today, so do create something wonderful for us to view.  Happy Crafting!

Tamie


Lori


Melissa

Prize Package for one lucky Winner!
Are you ready to play? If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post (not just to your blog), using Inlinkz below. If you are uploading your project to an online gallery, please use keyword 4CCC-92 (eg: Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.)
Thanks for playing along with the 4 Crafty Chicks!





Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Winner's of Challenge #91 - Color Combo

Good morning everyone.  The sun is shining here this week and it feels so nice, although we did get a little rain last night. Thank you so much too all who played Lori's color combo challenge.  We received awesome entries, that were full of creativity and inspiration.  Without further adieu here are our TOP 3 PICKS:


Clean, simple and a wonderful layout.  Great use of the colors, the flower is wonderful and so is the sentiment.


Fantastic use of the different blues. Love that you used adia as layer. Wonderful coloring of your image.


Sweet layout, image, sentiment and use of the colors.  The pattern paper adds texture to the card.  Your stamped cupcakes look scrumptious.

Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your Golden Egg badge and display it proudly on your blog! We'd love it if you could link it back to our challenge blog too.



Thanks to all who participated in our "Color Combo" Challenge. We will see you tomorrow morning for our Crazy Egg challenge!  What happened to May :)

Thursday, May 24, 2012

4 CCC#91 - Color Challenge!!

Hello PEEPS! What a wonderful week we had with all who entered our GRADUATION challenge - loved seeing all the wonderful creations! Today it is my (Lori) turn to host the challenge, and I do know we get a lot of color combos out there, but it has been awhile since the 4 Crafty Chicks seen any and this is one of my favorite combos.....  I do hope you play along and have some fun.


Here is my card for this color combo....

And without further adieu, here are the rest of the Chicks' wonderful crafty creations using my color combo this week - please be sure to leave 'em all some love.....

Leanne







Are you ready to play?  If you would like to join us for this challenge please link directly to your post (not just to your blog) using Inlinkz below.  If you are uploading your project to an online gallery please use the keyword 4CCC-91 (eg: Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.)  Thanks for playing along with the 4 Crafty Chicks!


Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Winner's of Challenge #90 - Graduation!

Good afternoon! It is another wet and soggy day here in Central Alberta.  It has been raining since yesterday and boy do we have some big puddles.  They would be great for puddle jumping.  Here is to hoping it dries up for those who are having there graduation ceremonies this weekend.

On that note we would like to give a heart felt thank you to the 19 entrants we had this week.  It was so hard to pick because each creation was so unique and really just fabulous.  Inspiring layouts, color choices and images were seen this week.  Here are our new TOP3 picks, please be sure to stop by their blogs to see these creations.



Incredible design.  Love that the graduation cap is a focal point.  The inside is also very unique, truly great inspiration.



Lovely color choice and all of the details inside and out are very inspiring.  Great image with the graduation cap.  Absolutely adorable.


Clean and Simple with so much pop.  The image makes you smile and the colors you chose to use on image are awesome. Wonderful creation!

Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your Golden Egg badge and display it proudly on your blog! We'd love it if you could link it back to our challenge blog too.





Thanks to all who participated in our "Graduation" Challenge. We will see you tomorrow morning with another fun challenge!

Thursday, May 17, 2012

GRADUATION!

Good Morning to everyone in blogger land!  Thanks to everyone who played in our "Sentiment Only" challenge, the winner's were posted yesterday so please scroll down and take a peek.

Hi all, it is me, Tamie and I am excited to share my challenge with you this week.  Can you believe we are on Challenge #90 already...woot, woot. Thanks to all of our followers and to everyone who has been able to share there creations with us.

The weeks sure have flown by this year with school and Graduation time is just around the corner for many this month and June.  There is kindergarten, grade 9, grade 12, and university or college.  Let's bring it.

Challenge #90 - GRADUATION

I chose this challenge because my oldest son is graduating from grade 9 tonight and many of my friends have children graduating from grade 12.


The chicks have some wicked, awesome inspiration to share with you.  Thanks girls loving your creations.






 

If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post (not just to your blog), using Inlinkz below. If you are uploading your project to an online gallery, please use keyword 4CCC-90 (eg: Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.)  



Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Winner's of Challenge #89 - Sentiment Only

Hey all, welcome back to another Winner's post from 4 Crafty Chicks.  It was such an awesome turn out and oh the inspiration was totally amazing.  Thanks so much to everyone for joining in on our challenge.

Fantastic layout, colors and sentiment.  The butterflies and scalloped boarder adds some pop.  


Wonderful texture, gorgeous flowers, layout and choice of  colors. Loving the sentiment.



 Stunning butterflies, flowers, ribbon, swirls and paper.  The layout for your sentiment adds to your elegance.

Congratulations, ladies! Please grab your Golden Egg badge and display it proudly on your blog! We'd love it if you could link it back to our challenge blog too.




Thanks to all who participated in our "Sentiment Only" Challenge. We will see you tomorrow morning with another fun challenge!

Thursday, May 10, 2012

4CCC-89 {Sentiment Only}

WOW!  You all did a fabulous job with last week's challenge - we couldn't believe the talent that is out there!  Congratulations to our three Guest Designers - we can't wait to have you join us this summer.  If you missed the announcement, please scroll down for all the details!

This week, I'm your hostess-with-the-mostest and thought it might be fun to see what you all can create using a Sentiment ONLY as the stamping on your card.  Yep, that's right - no images to color, no background stamps... the sentiment is the ONLY thing you are allowed to stamp on this card!

Would you like to see what the Chicks created?  Here's what I created for you:



And the other Chicks'...



 Lori


If you would like to join us for this challenge, please link directly to your post (not just to your blog), using Inlinkz below. If you are uploading your project to an online gallery, please use keyword 4CCC-89 (eg: Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.)