~CHALLENGE 26 ... INSPIRE US~

Craft Us Crazy will be taking a short summer break beginning May 3rd, but no fears, we'll be back on July 5th with a brand new challenge! I have a big move coming up, and we all know how busy our lives get in the summer months, so I want to give my creative and lovely design team a little break to spend with their family!!

This week our challenge is FAVORITE STAMP COMPANY AND/OR FOUND INSPIRATION!!!!! Just remember that it doesn't have to contain both themes, just one of them! But of course if you're up to a real challenge we'd love to see you use both!!  

I know that our lovely friends and family has already celebrated Mother's Day across the big pond, so we would like to see anything MOTHER'S DAY AND/OR FLOWERS!! You can accomplish this with stamps, embellishments, thread, anything!!  We want all crafters to feel welcome, so if your crafting medium fits our challenge, then we welcome you to join! Whether it be sewing, scrapbooking, altering, cardmaking, candle making, whatever!! We hope you'll be joining us!!

Please check out our Design Teams beautiful work and we would love if you went to their blogs and left them some love!!

 ~Lisa M~
Lisa's inspiration is Digital Stamps. Her images can be found at Free Vintage Digital Stamps.

~GENEVIEVE~ 

Genevieve was inspired by Tomoko Takahashi ...her link : http://crop-addict.blogspot.ca/

~LORI~
 Lori's image is from Stamping Bella

~Tiggertastic~
Tiggertastic was inspired by her favorite artist Hannah Lynn 

~Sam H~

Sam's inspiration came from Sue Wilson of Creative Expressions. You can find her here - http://www.particraft.blogspot.com

 

~Tammylee N~
Tammylee's image came from Blackleaf Studio located at MyGrafico

~CHALLENGE 25 ... HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY and FLOWERS~

WOW!!! Is April flying by or what??? Craft Us Crazy will be taking a short summer break beginning May 3rd, but no fears, we'll be back on July 5th with a brand new challenge! I have a big move coming up, and we all know how busy our lives get in the summer months, so I want to give my creative and lovely design team a little break to spend with their family!!

This week our challenge is MOTHER'S DAY AND/OR FLOWERS!!!!! Just remember that it doesn't have to contain both themes, just one of them! But of course if you're up to a real challenge we'd love to see you use both!!  

I know that our lovely friends and family has already celebrated Mother's Day across the big pond, so we would like to see anything MOTHER'S DAY AND/OR FLOWERS!! You can accomplish this with stamps, embellishments, thread, anything!!  We want all crafters to feel welcome, so if your crafting medium fits our challenge, then we welcome you to join! Whether it be sewing, scrapbooking, altering, cardmaking, candle making, whatever!! We hope you'll be joining us!!

Please check out our Design Teams beautiful work and we would love if you went to their blogs and left them some love!!

 ~Lisa M~

  

 ~JEANETTE~

~GENEVIEVE~ 

~LORI~

~Tiggertastic~

 

~Tammylee N~

~CHALLENGE 24...ANYTHING BUT A CARD/ALTERED ITEM w/ MELJEN'S DESIGNS~

This week our challenge is ALTERED ITEMS and/or ANYTHING BUT A CARD!!!!! Just remember that it doesn't have to contain both themes, just one of them! But of course if you're up to a real challenge we'd love to see you use both!!  
You can accomplish this with stamps, embellishments, thread, anything!!  We want all crafters to feel welcome, so if your crafting medium fits our challenge, then we welcome you to join! Whether it be sewing, scrapbooking, altering, cardmaking, candle making, whatever!! We hope you'll be joining us!!


We have a fabulous sponsor this challenge....

 Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family.  Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

And the winner will receive FOUR non colored DIGIs of their choice!!! WOOOHOOO!! What an awesome prize!!! So lets get those projects in!!!

A Big THANK YOU to Melissa for supplying images for our design team to work with if they so chose!

 ~LISA M~

   ~JEANETTE~
 image provided by Meljen's Designs - Little Love Duck

~GENEVIEVE~ 

~LORI~

~SAM~

  image and sentiment provided by Meljen's Designs - Little Love Duck

~Sarah-Louise~

~Tammylee N~

~CHALLENGE 23 ... CREATING WITH THE CUTTING CAFE~

CHALLENGE 22 WINNER & TOP 3 posted - HERE

Happy Thursday everyone!!! Time for a fun new challenge!! 
Don't forget that you're welcome to use any art mediums here! We love to see 3D, Altered, Cards, Scrapbook pages, crafty yummy goodness...whatever it is that you make by hand that fits our challenge theme!!! 

Before we go any further, I want to take this time to say "See ya later" to one of our awesome DT sisters. Maria has to leave us due to some personal reasons, but I hope that she'll be returning in the future! Thanks for sharing all your creativity and talents with us Maria, and you'll be surely missed by all!!!!! Best of luck to you!!!
 

Our challenge theme we have for you this time is RELIGIOUS/EASTER and/or SOMETHING SWEET!! So if you've got a project for us that fits either of these themes, we want to see it!!!!! 

We have one of my absolute favorite sponsors with us this challenge! The one and only...

 So what are we waiting for...lets learn something about The Cutting Cafe. 

    
Hello my name is Regina Easter. I have 4 wonderful children and an awesome supportive husband. I have for as long as I can remember loved all the aspects of creating things with paper and drawing. So it was only fitting that I decided to open up The Cutting Cafe' and I am loving every bit of this new venture. The Cutting Cafe' offers affordable Printable Stamps and Cutting Files. The Cutting Files which are basically just like templates are files that you Print out using your home printer, Cut, Assemble and then Embellish.....Very Easy.....The Cutting Files also come in the format where you can cut out the files using some of the latest Machine Cutters like the Pazzles Inspiration and Bosskut Gazelle. The Printable Stamps are just that, images that are sent to you through email that you print out using your home printer. After the images are printed out, you can just color them in like you would any other stamped imaged...One great thing about the Printable Stamps and Cutting Files is that you no longer have to worry about finding space to store all of your stamps....You can keep them all in a folder in your computer and use over and over again.

The Cutting Cafe is happy to award the winner her/his choice of any 3 Printable Stamp sets.

            

A Big THANK YOU to Regina for supplying images for our design team to work with if they so chose!

~LISA M~

 ~JEANETTE~
 image and sentiment provided by The Cutting Cafe - Sweet Stuff

~GENEVIEVE~

~LORI~
image and sentiment provided by The Cutting Cafe - Easter Set 2

~TIGGERTASTIC~

~SAM~

image and sentiment provided by The Cutting Cafe - Easter Set 2

~Tammylee N~