Winner of Cat's Challenge and New Challenge

This week we all had SO much fun with Cat Darling's Birthday Card with Ribbon challenge! Random.org chose #6, Deena! Yay Deena!!! You win 2 Free images of your choice and YOU are next week's Guest Designer!! Renata was chosen as our Featured Artist. Yay! You also win 2 Free images! Check out Renata's blog! Really nice card!



Now, are you all ready for the next challenge? This week Jenn Borjeson is our Guest Designer! She would like everyone to create a Summer/Beach Themed card using 3 different background/designer/patterned papers! Take a look at Jenn's example card! What a cute Mer Couple!!!



Now, let's get to know Jenn a little better!!

What is your favorite craft medium? paper... all kinds of paper!

What is your favorite scrap item/tool? My Circle Scissors Plus - I love circles.

What is your favorite paper line/company? Stampin' Up!

What is your favorite color(s)? I love bright colors - purples and pinks and greens, anything bright

How do you have your scraproom decorated? Colors, themes, homey, contempo, etc. I am lucky enough to have a spare room dedicated to my crafting. I have orange beaded curtains hanging up and the room is decorated with my artwork. It's definitely homey!

Are you an animal person? Do they have a place in your scraproom? I have 2 cats - they do not have a place in my stamp room - I do not like flying fur stickin' to my stuff! LOL

What is your favorite Disney movie? Do you watch TV/Movies while working? Do you get your inspiration from them? My favorite Disney movie is Alice in Wonderland! I do not watch movies while working, but I do get my inspiration from everything around me. I cannot watch movies or TV, look at magazines or ads, without thinking "I could make a card like that...." :)

Sweet or Savory snacks? Do I have to choose one or the other?? My 2 favorite snacks are Snyder Buffalo Wing Flavored pretzel pieces and Reese's peanut butter eggs.

Scary or Romantic movies? Scary - but not bloody, gory scary! I like creepy, makes-you-think-scary!

Beach or Snow vacations? Oh definitely beach. I live in New England - I get enough snow.

Favorite type of music? Rock, hard rock.

I am 38 years old. My husband's name is Jeremy and we have 2 kids. Our son Trevor is 16 1/2 and our daughter Cassidy will be 15 next month. I work full-time during the week as the Bursar of a small local private college. I also volunteer with an organization called Audrey's Umbrella (http://www.braintrust.org/umbrella.htm) - we send "happy mail" to patients who are battling brain tumors. I use a lot of the cards I create for this purpose. I have been stamping and making cards for 8 years now. I absolutely love making cards, but I also enjoy making things like bookmarks, magnets, and tea-bag cards. I also enjoy altering items. The time I spend in my craft room is like my therapy - it leaves me feeling relaxed and accomplished!

New Releases!!!!

This week Robin and I have 2 cute Easter themed images for you guys to get a jumpstart on your Easter projects. Where the Easter Bunny Lives (just in case you ever wondered! LOL) and a Bear with Lamb and Chicks. They can also be used for different themes as several of our Princesses have shown in thier wonderful creations this week! So, sit back and scroll through all the super cards created by our DT for inspiration! Have a super week!! =)

Alicia Ekermans used Where the Easter Bunny Lives this week for her card! Great idea for the door knob!!


Annette Bowes
used Where the Easter Bunny Lives and Bear image this week. How very Cute!!!



Gloria Morizen used the Bear image with no sentiment. This could easily be a New Baby card as well as Easter! Great coloring and paper combo Gloria!


Jeanet Van Der Lee
created a beautiful Spring card this week with Where the Easter Bunny Lives! Lots of texture and dimension! Love the soft subtle coloring.


Joyleen Dianne Co Lim
used lots of Stickles on her creations this week! The little bits of sparkle add SO much! She also chose to use non-Easter sentiments showing that these images could be used for a variety of cards!



Kelly Ledder used Where the Easter Bunny Lives and instead of adhering the image to a card she used the image as her card cutting around to create a very unique shaped card! SO CUTE!!


Robin Rawlins used the Bear image with wonderful pastel colors, ribbon and a cute silver charm!



Ruth created this cute candy filled gift box. She says her hubby gets business cards in these little boxes! Way to recycle! These are some of the cutest little boxes I've seen! =)




Stacie DeBurger used faux stitching and dry embossing this week. Very Cute! Love the texture the embossing adds!


Make sure you also check out the Princesses' blogs for more inspiritation! They really are very talented!!

Challenge Winner and New Tuesday Challenge!!!

Happy Tuesday All!!! We hope your week has been just super so far! Random.org chose #6 today!! Jenn Borjeson, Come On Down! You get 2 Free Images and YOU are our Guest Designer next week! How exciting!

Our featured artist this week is Karnival! Karni, you also win 2 Free Images of your choice! Yay! What exciting things on a Tuesday afternoon!


This week we have a really great challenge for your designed by Cat Darling! She would like everyone to create a Birthday Card with Ribbon, and we never seem to have enough Birtday Cards right? So, this challenge is just PURRFECT! =) Here is Cat's Darling (hehehe) example card as well as Cat!!!



Let's get to know Cat a little better before we start on our Birthday Card challenge!

What is your favorite craft medium? I received some Copics for Christmas and I just LOVE them! BC (Before Copics) I used watercolor pencils. I still use them but now I often combine them with Copics.

What is your favorite scrap item/tool? I use a Cuttlebug a lot. I really like that it cuts and embosses. I almost always use pop dots on my cards. I love the added dimension they bring

What is your favorite paper line/company? DCWV (Die Cut With a View)

What is your favorite color(s)? Blue is my favorite, but I use a lot of pink on my cards.

How do you have your scraproom decorated? I had a scraproom when one of my sons moved out, but another son moved back home, so "Good bye, scraproom!". I create at the diningroom table now. I do have a large storage cabinet for supplies nearby.

Are you an animal person? I LOVE cats! At one time we had four. They have since moved on to Cat Heaven. My hubby gave me the nickname "Cat".

What is your favorite Disney movie? "Sleeping Beauty" is my all time favorite! But I am partial to "Peter Pan"! Wendy is my cousin, you know! Giggles! I got a Netflix subscription from my son for Christmas, and I enjoy watching movies while making cards. But I don't get inspiration so much from movies. I enjoy going to Dollar stores. I get a lot of inspiration there, because I always find something that can be altered.

Sweet or Savory snacks? Sweet! Anything chocolate!

Scary or Romantic movies? Romantic

Beach or Snow vacations? Snow!

Favorite type of music? Beatles, Classical, Soundtracks from Musicals

New Images and FREEBIE!!!

This week we have lots of things going on! We have been sponsoring ETSY INSPIRED Challenge, where we are giving away 5 free images, we have a new blog challenge where ANYONE that participates gets a free digital image of their choice! Be sure and submit your entry by next Monday! Woohoo! And...on top of that, we have an Easter freebie on the left sidebar! Can you tell we are in the giving mood this week? Maybe it's all the snow we got yesterday. LOL!
Here are our wonderful DT creations for this week. Prepare to be inspired!!!!

Alicia

Amanda

Annete

Gloria

Kelly

Pauline

Stacie
Thanks for looking! Hope everyone has a great week! Don't forget about the challenge this week...everyone's a WINNER!

The BIG Winner!!!

The winner of today's challenge, drawn by Random.org is #4, CatDarling! YAY!! She also the winner of our Featured Artist spot as chosen by our Design Team! You win 4 FREE images of your choice and you get to be a Guest Designer for our next Challenge! Congratulations CatDarling! Thanks to everyone who participated in this week's challenge! I can't wait to see what Cat will cook up for us, can you?

This is the project that CatDarling submitted to the Challenge this week which was to use many score lines. Fits beautifully! Love all the bright colors and the SO cute bugs! Make sure you go to Cat Darling's Blog to look at all the different pictures of this great candy holding mailbox! It will put a smile on your face for sure! And who wouldn't want to get this as a gift? I would take it empty, hint, hint... =)




We here in South Central Texas rarely get cold weather and almost never snow but it is snowing up a storm here right now! While entering the info for our new challenge my son decided to bean me in the back of the head with a snowball and missed getting my computer instead. My computer is drying out right now (and he had better hope and pray that is all it needs) so I am trying to finish this on his laptop! Problem is my pictures of the Random.org winner and the Sketch for this next challenge are on my computer. I will keep checking it until it boots up I promise!



For the next challenge we have a SKETCH. There is a large scalloped circle with a smaller smooth side circle inside for your image. There is a grouping of flowers at the bottom left and a ribbon running across the bottom. There is a swirl that comes up out of the flowers. Sorry guys! These images are also on my work computer so if mine is dead I will get these two pictures up at work tomorrow for sure.

We will give everyone who joins this challenge a FREE image. Yep, that's right, EVERYONE who joins this challenge gets a FREE image of their choice. The DT Princesses will still choose someone to be our Featured Artist too. That person will also get 2 additional images, and as usual, the Random.org winner will as well.

Doodle Palace - NEW IMAGES

Well everyone, IT'S NEW RELEASE DAY!!!! Yeah! I love Wedensdays, especially since it's hump day :) !!! Our princesses have been hard at work here at the palace and this week we have some really great examples using our new images. Chester the Rabbit and Lovey Dovey Bears can be found HERE at our website for immediate download. And now for our weekly inspiration...

Crafty AL
Amanda

Annette

Audrey

Gloria

Jeanet

Joy Lim

Kelly

Pauline

Robin

Ruth

Shana T.

Stacie Robin (Doodle Palace co-owner/designer) has played along this week and created this card...

Thanks so much for another very inspiring week, ladies!! ya'll are amazing!!!! Don't forget about our challenge this week...see the info on the left sidebar or go HERE to submit your entry.