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Monday, December 24, 2012

Winner announced

Hello everyone, and merry Christmas Eve to you!  Thank you to everyone who played in our last challenge of the year!   I am happy to say that Marlieke is the winner of the challenge with the beautiful card she made with the cute Bouncing Bundle by Eline Pelkhoff.

Marlieke, please contact Holly at usyungs@gamil.com to claim your prize.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  Squigglefly will start off the new year with a brand new batch of images being released on the 5th and our challenges will begin again on January 7th.


Monday, December 17, 2012

Squigglefly Challenge #50, SFC5012 Anything Goes with a Sentiment

Welcome to the Squigglefly Challenge Blog!

Hello everyone.  Welcome to Squigglefly for the last challenge of 2012!  Are you ready for this week's challenge? Well first let me tell you about last week's winner.  The contest last week was to use the traditional christmas colors, red and green, in your creation.  The winner in last week's challenge was Gail Scott  for creating a sweet card using Winter House on a Hill by artist Rich Davis.

  The winner can contact Holly from Squigglefly at usyungs@gmail.com, for your prize.
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Now, on to this week's challenge, SFC5012 Anything Goes with a Sentiment!

This week's theme is Anything Goes with a Sentiment.  So, just create a card in any theme but please include a sentiment on your card.  You can use one of those great .99 sentiments from Squigglefly or you can make up your own!  Squigglefly has lots of images that come with fun matching sayings or you can use a stamped saying or printed embellishment as your sentiment. 

Let's start with some examples made by the Holley Hobbyists:

Pat Martin crafted this beautiful card using artist Elizabeta Kushner's stamp called Christmas Candle.  She added a wonderful Peace on Earth sentiment.  This stamp is one from our brand new artist!  Be sure and check out Elizabeta's new stamps.

Jan Marshall  created a wonderful card with a beautiful saying "Make your holidays sparkle & shine!"   What a gorgeous border she added.  The pretty stamp is from artist Fawn Palmer and is called "A Tinsel Angel."  The saying comes with the stamp and it also includes an additional saying, "May the simple joys of the season be yours."  Just $3.00 for the wonderful image and two sentiments!

Elizabeth Hart designed a wonderful holiday themed card using an adorable holiday image from artist Fawn Palmer.  This image is called A Sleepy Gift  and comes with the Fairy Merry Christmas sentiment!  I just love how her present looks like wrapping paper, and complete with a tiny elf hat on the sentiment.
 
Charlene Mitchell designed this pretty Christmas card. She's using a Merry Christmas sentiment from artist Jess Holland and that adorable Polar Bear is from a wonderful set of stamps called Polar Pack by Brian Lock.  That set has five different bear designs in it!  I love the printed paper she used as her blue background.  Gorgeous.

Lisa Minkler crafted this humorous winter card using A Winter Owl Too by artist Fawn Palmer.  I LOVE the way she put the owl in this card.  LOL, makes me think of those days that I am upside down.  HA!  TOO cute Lisa!!  I love the sentiment "Winter is a real hoot!"  The sentiment is included when you buy the stamp.

Tammy Hair created this heart warming Christmas theme card using a great stamp from artist Cheryl Alger called Better Not Pout Santa.  Just perfect for the holiday season.  I love her stripes and her wonderful coloring.

And lastly, I (Holley Barnhart from Holley's Blog)  used a great image from artist Fawn Palmer.  This adorable little girl is from A New Teddy Bear.  The image comes with the adorable sentiment shown. 
I hope these cards have inspired you to make a card to play along this week.  You are always welcome to play no matter what images you use, but to be eligible for the prize, please use at least one stamp from Squigglefly!

We realize that many people don't have blogs, but instead participate in our challenges using on-line galleries. We love that you are helping us spread the word about Squigglefly! However, many of the galleries require passwords and not all of us at Squigglefly belong to every gallery or group. To help us make sure we don't miss your artwork, we are asking that if you do use an online gallery that you leave us a comment on the challenge post. That way we'll be sure to have a member of the Squigglefly team who is a member of that gallery (SCS, CDAC, PCP, etc) can validate your entry.

1.) If you up-load your creation to any on-line photo galleries, please use SFC5012 for your keywords when loading your creation photo there. 1b) please leave a comment on the challenge blog post so that someone from Squigglefly can validate your entry for the prize.

2) You don't *have* to include a Squigglefly image on your creation, but in order to qualify for the prize you will need to use one! You can also combine SF images with non-SF images to qualify! Don't have one? There are several FREEBIES you can grab from the Squigglefly store, hop on over there. Those images will qualify you for the prize.

3) You have one week to complete the challenge and it will close Sunday evening. The winner will be announced at the same time the new challenge post comes up...so be sure to check back EVERY Monday to see if you are a winner!

4) Please leave a direct link to your entry in the comments below. The linking tool works sporadically and we don't want to miss your project! (No back-linking please.)

Monday, December 10, 2012

SFC4912-Use traditional Christmas colors: RED & GREEN

Hello all-are you ready for Christmas yet? I'm not, but I am getting there!
Thank you to all who played in our challenge last week.
The challenge was "Winter Wonderland"-
the winner of last week's challenge is:
Sonja used Squigglefly's GET YOUR SHOVELS READY by artist Lynne Stansbery
what a fun card she made!!
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This next weeks challenge is to make a card using traditional Christmas colors: GREEN and RED.
We have some DT inspiration for you, from Rhonda's Rowdy Rascals~first up is:
Shirley has used Winter Clothes by Fawn Palmer
What fantastic papers she found to use for the background of this fabulous card~the little glittery hat just makes me smile!
next we have
Debbie has used Christmas Candle by artist ELizabeta Kushner
Those corner embellishments are gorgeous on this card!
now on to our next:
Linda has used Holiday Lamp Post by artist Lynne Stansbery
What fabulous coloring and love that gold and red ribbon peeking out all pretty!
Holiday Lamp Post - LStansbery (lw)
Up next we have
Kathy has used Christmas Candle by artist Elizabeta Kushner
Those papers are just perfect behind the lovely colored up candle-and I love the glittery flame!
next we have:
Sharon has used A Winter Owl by Fawn Palmer
What a perfect image for this beautiful Christmas Card-I need to take some lessons from Sharon on how to make such a perfect bow!!

We would like to THANK Sharon for all her gorgeous creations while she has been on our Squigglefly team! Good Luck-and we hope to see you around!!
last we have my card
I have used Holiday Lamp Post by artist Lynne Stansbery.
what a perfect image to use to pop out that gorgeous wreath!!

I hope these cards have inspired you to make a card to play along this week.  You are always welcome to play no matter what images you use, but to be eligible for the prize, please use a stamp from Squigglefly.

We realize that many people don't have blogs, but instead participate in our challenges using on-line galleries. We love that you are helping us spread the word about Squigglefly! However, many of the galleries require passwords and not all of us at Squigglefly belong to every gallery or group. To help us make sure we don't miss your artwork, we are asking that if you do use an online gallery that you leave us a comment on the challenge post. That way we'll be sure to have a member of the Squigglefly team who is a member of that gallery (SCS, CDAC, PCP, etc) can validate your entry.
1.) If you up-load your creation to any on-line photo galleries, please use SFC4912 for your keywords when loading your creation photo there. 1b) please leave a comment on the challenge blog post so that someone from Squigglefly can validate your entry for the prize.

2) You don't *have* to include a Squigglefly image on your creation, but in order to qualify for the prize you will need to use one! You can also combine SF images with non-SF images to qualify! Don't have one? There are several FREEBIES you can grab from the Squigglefly store, hop on over there. Those images will qualify you for the prize.

3) You have one week to complete the challenge and it will close Sunday evening. The winner will be announced at the same time the new challenge post comes up...so be sure to check back EVERY Monday to see if you are a winner!

4) Please leave a direct link to your entry in the comments below. The linking tool works sporadically and we don't want to miss your project! (No back-linking please.)




Monday, December 3, 2012

Squigglefly Challenge #48, SFC4812 Winter Wonderland

Welcome to the Squigglefly Challenge Blog!

Are you ready for this week's challenge? Well first let me tell you about last week's winner.  The contest last week was Glitter and Bling.  Weren't all the creations full of shimmer? The winner in last week's challenge was Leslie Miller for her beautiful creation using Holiday Bells by Marlene Shega.

  The winner can contact Holly from Squigglefly at usyungs@gmail.com, for your prize.
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Now, on to this week's challenge, SFC4812 Winter Wonderland!

This week's theme is winter wonderland. Anything winter theme is great, whether the image is winter themed or not--you can always add some winter themed paper or other winter embellishments to turn your card into a winter wonderland card!

Let's start with some examples made by the Holley Hobbyists:

Pat Martin created this cheerful card with a bright colors and beautiful snowflakes.  This adorable image comes from artist Cheryl Alger and is called Angeld up Christmas Caroler.  Who wouldn't want this little girl to sing at their door?  I'd call this card a wonderful winter greeting!

Jan Marshall  created a wonderful card with an adorable saying "Winter is a real hoot!"  I am thinking if I ever saw an owl with a hat and scarf set like that I sure would get a laugh!  How great is that?  This image is from artist Fawn Palmer and comes with the saying shown.  It's called "A Winter Owl Too."
Elizabeth Hart designed a wonderful winter filled card using and adorable holiday image.  I love the amazing snowflakes that she decorated her card with, matched with some fun ribbon and amazing papers.  She even made the image look like it's filled with snow in the air!  Beautiful.  This image is called Honk for the Holidays by Fawn Palmer.  It comes with 2 sentiments (not shown).
Charlene Mitchell designed this pretty card using amazing printable papers from the Inger Harding Paper Collection Joyful Christmas Collection . The image she is using is called Baby it's Cold Outside from artist Fawn Palmer.  What a delightful combination.

Lisa Minkler crafted this stunning card using a great image from artist Diane Caurbia. It's called Topiary Ted.  Isn't this creation amazing? I love her stitching and the gorgeous ribbons and beautiful bling.  What a wonderful sentiment, Oh Christmas Tree... (But if you check it out, Topiary Ted is making a car, this image would be perfect for any time of the year...or do you think he's just giving SANTA a big 'ol hint?)

Tammy Hair created this heart warming card using a great stamp from artist Fawn Palmer called Libby and her Penguin.  She added a great sentiment "Christmas brings out the kid in us all."  How dear is that?  Wouldn't we all want a pet penguin?

And lastly, I (Holley Barnhart from Holley's Blog)  used a great image from artist Diane Carubia called Big Sister Babs.  This image doesn't have to be used for Christmas theme, but I colored her up in light blue/greens and added her to a snowflake card with flocked handmade paper from India and adorable tiny decorative buttons.  She sure looks Christmas-y now!
I hope these cards have inspired you to make a card to play along this week.  You are always welcome to play no matter what images you use, but to be eligible for the prize, please use a stamp from Squigglefly!

We realize that many people don't have blogs, but instead participate in our challenges using on-line galleries. We love that you are helping us spread the word about Squigglefly! However, many of the galleries require passwords and not all of us at Squigglefly belong to every gallery or group. To help us make sure we don't miss your artwork, we are asking that if you do use an online gallery that you leave us a comment on the challenge post. That way we'll be sure to have a member of the Squigglefly team who is a member of that gallery (SCS, CDAC, PCP, etc) can validate your entry.

1.) If you up-load your creation to any on-line photo galleries, please use SFC4812 for your keywords when loading your creation photo there. 1b) please leave a comment on the challenge blog post so that someone from Squigglefly can validate your entry for the prize.

2) You don't *have* to include a Squigglefly image on your creation, but in order to qualify for the prize you will need to use one! You can also combine SF images with non-SF images to qualify! Don't have one? There are several FREEBIES you can grab from the Squigglefly store, hop on over there. Those images will qualify you for the prize.

3) You have one week to complete the challenge and it will close Sunday evening. The winner will be announced at the same time the new challenge post comes up...so be sure to check back EVERY Monday to see if you are a winner!

4) Please leave a direct link to your entry in the comments below. The linking tool works sporadically and we don't want to miss your project! (No back-linking please.)

Saturday, December 1, 2012

New Artist This Month

Squigglefly's December release is in full swing!  Lots of new images for your card making and scrapbooking, and several of them are perfect for those last minute holiday cards!   You can see this month's new images HERE.

We are excited to tell you that we have a new artist joining Squigglefly this month.  Elizabeta Kushner has a distinctive style that we know you will love.   Elizabeta is involved in a charity called The  Traveler, and generously gives all of her profit from the sales of her artwork to this charity.  You can learn more about this wonderful non-profit organization HERE.

See you back on Monday with a brand new challenge!