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Challenge #9 – No coloring allowed

23 Apr

Hello, and welcome to a new Young Crafters Unite challenge! We hope you will be able to join us in this challenge =)

 

This month’s challenge

 

So the challenge this month is to make a card/project, without coloring anything at all. That means no copics, colored pencils, markers or anything of that sort allowed! We hope you’ll enjoy working with this challenge =)

 

Awesome Design Team contributions

We are so lucky to have a great design team to give you lots of inspiration for this fun challenge. We also have some fabulous news concerning our DT… We are lucky to now have two new DT members in our YCU design team! Please give a warm welcome to Chunyuan and Danielle! We look forward to working with you, and seeing your awesome creations =) We asked Chunyuan and Danielle to share a little bit about themselves with us (and you!), so you can get to know them better. We know you’re soon going to adore them as much as we already do!

Introducing… Chunyuan Wu!

My name is Chunyuan Wu.  I am a researcher in public health science area.  I live with my husband and two preschoolers in Seattle, WA.  I love the process of card making that helps bringing out my inner creative spirit.   I love all aspects of paper crafts – color, pattern, embellishments, and techniques.   Now, I have become a voracious reader of the online world of card making blogs. I feel so privileged to be part of this inspiring community!  I am honored to be a member of the Young Crafters Unite challenge team.

… and Danielle Walls!

Hello! My name is Danielle Walls, and I am a 27 year old teacher turned stay-at-home mom. I’m lucky enough to be married to my best friend, and biggest supporter. Even though he doesn’t understand this whole paper and stamps thing, he still pretends to be interested! We have two little boys, and a chihuahua, Lucy.

I stumbled upon the world of paper crafting a little over a year ago and just can’t seem to stop! I love everything about stamps, ink, and paper, and it definitely helps me keep my sanity in a house full of boys. I’d describe my style as clean and simple for the most part, although I’m always up for trying something new. I love bright, bold colors, and fun, whimsical stamps. Perhaps more importantly, I love the friendships I have formed since starting my paper crafting journey. I’m thrilled to be joining such an amazing group of ladies.

With happy starts comes a fond goodbye

Our lovely design team member, Jess Larsen, has decided to step down from her position this month. She’s been very busy growing a sweet little bundle of joy, and we can’t wait to see her back sometime very soon. You’re an amazing crafter and dt member, Jess, and we’d be happy to have you back any time! Sending you love, hugs and best wishes to you and your lovely family. <3

Without further ado, here are the DT’s amazing creations for this challenge:

Chari Moss – http://littlemisslittleness.blogspot.com

 

Chunyuan – http://dahliamemories.blogspot.com

 

Danielle Walls – http://neatandtangled.blogspot.com

 

Jen Rzasa – http://ourchangeofart.blogspot.com

 

Britta Swiderski – http://brittaswiderski.com

 

Marie Forberg – http://legojenta.blogspot.com

 

Prize

Simon Says Stamp

We are so lucky as to be sponsored by the awesome Simon Says Stamp for this challenge. They are giving one lucky winner a $25 gift certificate to their online store! If you haven’t checked out their online store before, it’s totally worth your time. They have a huge selection of stamping and scrapbooking supplies =) You can check them out here =) Thank you so much, Simon Says Stamp!

 

Challenge Rules

Please make sure you read and stick to these rules. We will not pick you as the winner or as part of our top five if you have not followed the rules. Please know that we are only doing this to keep it fair for everyone =)

- Your entry must be made after this challenge was posted. We want to see your new projects!
- Link back to our challenge in the blogpost for your entry
- Display the challenge graphic in your blogpost. (This does not apply for entries posted on Flickr)
- You can not enter more then three challenges with your card. In other words, this challenge may only be combined with two other challenges
- You may enter this challenge up to three times
- Follow our blog via email, Google Friend Connect or RSS feeds
- Add the link to the post of your entry, not to your entire blog, in the Inlinkz tool below

Guidelines

We also have some guidelines you can follow. These are not nescessary to be picked as a winner or in the top five, but we would love it if you would please:
- Disable word verification on your blog to make it easier for us to comment on your creation
- Help us spread word of our challenge; you help make us successful by telling your friends

 

Deadline

You have until May 15th, at 11:59 pm central USA time, to link up your entry in the Inlinkz tool below. We will announce the winner and top five of this challenge on May 20th. The next challenge will start on May 23rd.

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. We hope you will be able to join in on our challenge =) We encourage everyone to enter our challenges, no matter what your real age might be. We’re celebrating our love of the craft and how we feel young at heart when creating!

- Britta and Marie

 



Challenge #8 Winner and Top 5

20 Apr

Thanks so much to everyone who played along in our last challenge! Now, it’s time to announce the winner and top five:

 

Challenge #8 Winner

We saw lots of fabulous cards with stitching on them entered into our challenge! But first place can only go to one participant, and that very talented someone is:

Kimberly Lane

Here’s a look at her winning card:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We love the  bright colors, clean design and the simple stitched border on Kimberly’s card! So, congratulations to you, Kimberly! You have won a $25 gift certificate from our great sponsor, Simon Says Stamp!

Have fun browsing through their huge selection and picking out what you want to spend your $25 gift certificate on! To claim your prize, please email Marie at legojenta@hotmail.com

 

Challenge #8 Top 5

We also wanted to name four other designers that really caught our eye from this challenge. These four designers will round out our top five. Without further ado, here they are:
Karen B.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bastelarena

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wida

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. We hope to see you back in a couple of days, on April 23rd to be exact, for our next challenge =)

- Britta and Marie

Challenge #8 – Sewing/Stitching

23 Mar

Hello, and welcome to a new Young Crafters Unite challenge! We hope you will be able to join us in this challenge =)

 

This month’s challenge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So the challenge this month is to use sewing or stitching on your project. We hope you’ll enjoy working with this challenge =)

 

Awesome Design Team contributions

We are so lucky to have a great design team to give you lots of inspiration for this fun challenge. Here are their amazing creations for this challenge:

Chari Moss – http://littlemisslittleness.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jen Rzasa – http://ourchangeofart.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jess Larsen – http://jesslarsen.blogspot.com

Jess has unfortunantely not been able to make a card for this challenge.

 

Britta Swiderski – http://brittaswiderski.com

Marie Forberg – http://legojenta.blogspot.com

 

 

Prize

Simon Says Stamp

We are so lucky as to be sponsored by the awesome Simon Says Stamp for this challenge. They are giving one lucky winner a $25 gift certificate to their online store! If you haven’t checked out their online store before, it’s totally worth your time. They have a huge selection of stamping and scrapbooking supplies =) You can check them out here =) Thank you so much, Simon Says Stamp!

 

Challenge Rules

Please make sure you read and stick to these rules. We will not pick you as the winner or as part of our top five if you have not followed the rules. Please know that we are only doing this to keep it fair for everyone =)

- Your entry must be made after this challenge was posted. We want to see your new projects!
- Link back to our challenge in the blogpost for your entry
- Display the challenge graphic in your blogpost. (This does not apply for entries posted on Flickr)
- You can not enter more then three challenges with your card. In other words, this challenge may only be combined with two other challenges
- You may enter this challenge up to three times
- Follow our blog via email, Google Friend Connect or RSS feeds
- Add the link to the post of your entry, not to your entire blog, in the Inlinkz tool below

Guidelines

We also have some guidelines you can follow. These are not nescessary to be picked as a winner or in the top five, but we would love it if you would please:
- Disable word verification on your blog to make it easier for us to comment on your creation
- Help us spread word of our challenge; you help make us successful by telling your friends

 

Deadline

You have until April 15th, at 11:59 pm central USA time, to link up your entry in the Inlinkz tool below. We will announce the winner and top five of this challenge on February 20th. The next challenge will start on April 23rd.

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. We hope you will be able to join in on our challenge =) We encourage everyone to enter our challenges, no matter what your real age might be. We’re celebrating our love of the craft and how we feel young at heart when creating!

- Britta and Marie

 



Challenge #7 Winner and Top 5

20 Mar

First of all, we wanted to thank everyone who played along in our last challenge. Now, it’s time to announce the winner and top five from our last challenge:

 

Challenge #7 Winner

There were many fabulous entries for our last challenge! We saw lots of wonderful clear cards and cards with clear elements. But first place can only go to one participant, and that very talented someone is…

Stephanie B

Here’s a look at her winning card:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We love the great colors and clean design on Stephanie’s card! So, congratulations to you, Stephanie! You have won a $25 gift certificate from our awesome sponsor, Simon Says Stamp!

Have fun browsing through their huge selection and picking out what you want to spend your $25 gift certificate on! To claim your prize, please email Marie at legojenta@hotmail.com

 

Challenge #7 Top 5

We also wanted to name four other designers that really caught our eye from this challenge. These four designers will round out our top five. Without further ado, here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lalo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kelly Latevola

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chunyuan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. We hope to see you back in a couple of days, on March 23rd to be exact, for our next challenge =)

- Britta and Marie

Challenge #7 – Clear Cards

23 Feb

Hello, and welcome to a new Young Crafters Unite challenge! We hope you will be able to join us in this challenge =)

Before we get to announching this month’s challenge, we have some news to share. We’re sad to announce that Paulina has decided to step down from the team of this challenge. She’s been very busy lately, so we most certainly understand! Paulina – thank you SO very much for all that you have contributed to our team over the past six months. You’re a fantastic artist and we know that you’ll be around. YCUers, please leave some love for Paulina in the comments and make sure to add her blog to your blog reading device. Paulina is awesome!
Although Paulina can of course not be replaced, we are working on a couple exciting things for the next challenge. Stay tuned for more on that!

 

This month’s challenge

So the challenge this month is to make either a clear card, or a card with a clear element. We hope you’ll have fun with it =)

 

Awesome Design Team contributions

We are so lucky to have a great design team to give you lots of inspiration for this fun challenge. Here are their amazing creations for this challenge:

Chari Moss – http://littlemisslittleness.blogspot.com

Jen Rzasa – http://ourchangeofart.blogspot.com

Jess Larsen – http://jesslarsen.blogspot.com

Jess has unfortunantely not been able to make a card for this challenge. We hope to see a card from her next time =)

 

Britta Swiderski – http://brittaswiderski.com

 

Marie Forberg – http://legojenta.blogspot.com

 

Prize

Simon Says Stamp

We are so lucky as to be sponsored by the awesome Simon Says Stamp for this challenge. They are giving one lucky winner a $25 gift certificate to their online store! If you haven’t checked out their online store before, it’s totally worth your time. They have a huge selection of stamping and scrapbooking supplies =) You can check them out here =) Thank you so much, Simon Says Stamp!

 

Challenge Rules

Please make sure you read and stick to these rules. We will not pick you as the winner or as part of our top five if you have not followed the rules. Please know that we are only doing this to keep it fair for everyone =)

- Your entry must be made after this challenge was posted. We want to see your new projects!
- Link back to our challenge in the blogpost for your entry
- Display the challenge graphic in your blogpost. (This does not apply for entries posted on Flickr)
- You can not enter more then three challenges with your card. In other words, this challenge may only be combined with two other challenges
- You may enter this challenge up to three times
- Follow our blog via email, Google Friend Connect or RSS feeds
- Add the link to the post of your entry, not to your entire blog, in the Inlinkz tool below

Guidelines

We also have some guidelines you can follow. These are not nescessary to be picked as a winner or in the top five, but we would love it if you would please:
- Disable word verification on your blog to make it easier for us to comment on your creation
- Help us spread word of our challenge; you help make us successful by telling your friends

 

Deadline

You have until March 15th, at 11:59 pm central USA time, to link up your entry in the Inlinkz tool below. We will announce the winner and top five of this challenge on February 20th. The next challenge will start on March 23rd.

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. We hope you will be able to join in on our challenge =) We encourage everyone to enter our challenges, no matter what your real age might be. We’re celebrating our love of the craft and how we feel young at heart when creating!

- Britta and Marie



Challenge #6 Winner and Top 5

20 Feb

First of all, we wanted to thank everyone who played along in our last challenge =) Now, it’s time to announce the winner and top five from our sixth challenge:

 

Challenge #6 Winner

There were many fabulous entries for our first sketch challenge here at YCU! We saw lots of fabulous cards based on our sketch. But first place can only go to one participant, and that very talented someone is…

Kimberly Lane

Here’s a look at her winning card:

We love the bold, happy yellow color on this card! So, congratulations to you, Kimberly! You have won a $25 gift certificate from our awesome sponsor, Simon Says Stamp!

Have fun browsing through their huge selection and picking out what you want to spend your $25 gift certificate on! To claim your prize, please email Marie at legojenta@hotmail.com

 

Challenge #6 Top 5

We also wanted to name four other designers that really caught our eye from this challenge. These four designers will round out our top five. Without further ado, here they are:

Wee-Dah

 

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. We hope to see you back in a couple of days, on February 23rd to be exact, for our next challenge =)

- Britta and Marie

Challenge #6 – Follow our sketch

23 Jan

Hello, and welcome to a new Young Crafters Unite challenge! We hope you will be able to join us in this challenge =) Now, let’s get to announcing this months challenge!

 

This month’s challenge

This time, we want you to make cards using this sketch:

You can make your card with whatever theme, colors, images and techniques you want. All we ask is that you base the layout of your card on the sketch.  We look forward to seeing how you use the sketch on your card =)

 

Awesome Design Team contributions

We are so lucky to have a great design team to give you lots of inspiration for this fun challenge. Here are their amazing creations for this challenge:

Chari Moss – http://littlemisslittleness.blogspot.com

 

Jen Rzasa – http://ourchangeofart.blogspot.com

Jess Larsen – http://jesslarsen.blogspot.com

Jess has been feeling a little under the weather lately, and so she has not been able to make a card for this challenge.

 

Paulina Nakamura – http://prettypinkposh.blogspot.com

Paulina has been without power for the last few days, and because of that she has not been able to make a card for this challenge.

 

Britta Swiderski – http://brittaswiderski.com

*Message from Britta: You rock, YCUers! Thanks for being so awesome and to the DT (and of course Marie) for working so hard and diligently to keep everything running while I’m traveling. You gals are the best!*

Marie Forberg – http://legojenta.blogspot.com

 

Prize

Simon Says Stamp

We are so lucky as to be sponsored by the awesome Simon Says Stamp for this challenge. They are giving one lucky winner a $25 gift certificate to their online store! If you haven’t checked out their online store before, it’s totally worth your time. They have a huge selection of stamping and scrapbooking supplies =) You can check them out here =) Thank you so much, Simon Says Stamp!

 

Challenge Rules

Please make sure you read and stick to these rules. We will not pick you as the winner or as part of our top five if you have not followed the rules. Please know that we are only doing this to keep it fair for everyone =)

- Your entry must be made after this challenge was posted. We want to see your new projects!
- Link back to our challenge in the blogpost for your entry
- Display the challenge graphic in your blogpost. (This does not apply for entries posted on Flickr)
- You can not enter more then three challenges with your card. In other words, this challenge may only be combined with two other challenges
- You may enter this challenge up to three times
- Follow our blog via email, Google Friend Connect or RSS feeds
- Add the link to the post of your entry, not to your entire blog, in the Inlinkz tool below

Guidelines

We also have some guidelines you can follow. These are not nescessary to be picked as a winner or in the top five, but we would love it if you would please:
- Disable word verification on your blog to make it easier for us to comment on your creation
- Help us spread word of our challenge; you help make us successful by telling your friends

 

Deadline

You have until February 15th, at 11:59 pm central USA time, to link up your entry in the Inlinkz tool below. We will announce the winner and top five of this challenge on February 20th. The next challenge will start on February 23rd.

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. We hope you will be able to join in on our challenge =) We encourage everyone to enter our challenges, no matter what your real age might be. We’re celebrating our love of the craft and how we feel young at heart when creating!

- Britta and Marie



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