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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!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Challenge #9 - Roll with the Punches!

Good morning to everyone out there in Blogger land...can you believe Halloween is here already this weekend? wowzas...time is flying this year. Two months until Christmas...are you ready yet?!? LOL...

OK..onto last week's winners....these 3 girls did such a fantastic job of replicating Tamie's sketch, don'tchya think? Pop on over and say a "congrats" to these 3 talented ladies!


Betty


Megan


Please feel free to snag the badge, display it proudly on your blog and then link it back to us if you wouldn't mind! Congrats again, ladies!

Now...onto this week's challenge...it's being hosted by myself, Lori, and this week I would love to see anything you can create using PUNCHES or DIES. There are so many possibilities with this challenge, I can hardly *wait* to see all the wonderful things that come out of it!
PLUS...since this is the last Thursday of the month, we are offering up a prize chosen by Random.org for one lucky participant! Our wonderful, crafty PEEP, Melissa, is offering up this delicious package:


Here is my card using the butterfly and large flower punches from Stampin' Up! I also used some nestabilities for the sentiment layer.

Lori


Here is a close-up shot of the pansies:

Now, let's check out what the rest of the CHICKS did using punches &/or dies:

Melissa


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-9 (eg. Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.)
Thanks for playing with the 4 Crafty Chicks!


9 comments:

Paula-Scrap Addict said...

Thank you so much for selecting me as one of the winners from last week! I enjoy playing along when I remember to do it, I have a list :-)

Joynana said...

Love punches and don't use them as often as I should. Thanks for a fun challenge.

Benzi said...

Lori and all the Chicks' cards are fabulous. Great challenge and so much fun!

Dawn Frost said...

I've never been here before but saw your link on pile it on so thought I'd give it a try. Brilliant use of the butterfly punch for the pansies Lori! All of the DT's cards are great, thanks for the inspiration!

Benzi said...

I'm entering a second card. I really get into punches so this is a wonderful, fun challenge for me. Thanks for the awesome inspiration.

GrannyGoodwitch said...

Thank you for the interesting challenge and great ideas.

Basslady said...

hi everybody!

i loved this challenge...i love to use punches...

thanx a lot for the opportunity to play along with you all!

hugs and kisses from germany,
silvi xoxo

Marcia Santiago said...

Hi,
thank you for follow my blog, I'm a new follower of yours!!!
Marcia

Crafty Math Chick said...

Thanks for the cool challenge, I love using punches! The DT creations were so pretty, I especially liked Betty's card. Thanks for the chance to win too!