Winter Snowflakes Winner and Runners Up

How appropriate this challenge!  As I am writing up this post, we are under a Winter Storm Warning and are expecting up a foot of snow.  We'll be seeing a lot of Winter Snowflakes by tomorrow :-).

We were awed by your gorgeous projects for our Winter Snowflake theme.  From gorgeous images featuring snow, snowmen or a wintery landscape to gorgeous colors, die cuts and glitter which evoked the feel of a wintry, snowy day.  Well done everyone! 

Alright, without further ado, 

the Top Sister Award goes to:

Gunn-Eirill

and the Sisterhood Top 3 Award goes to:

Ginny

Wicked Witch-SS

Hazel

Congratulations Ladies, don't forget to grab your award button from the sidebar!  

Be sure to check back February 12th for inspiration from the Sister's for our next challenge!  

See you then and thanks so much for playing along with us in The Sisterhood of Crafters!

We have a NEW SISTER in the Hood!

Happy February Friends!

We are thrilled today to introduce and welcome a new SISTAH to the group!

Diane Hover (Nellie's Nest)

Here's a little bit about Diane . . .

I was so excited to have been asked to be a part of the Sisterhood!!

I am from the great, but very cold (right now) state of Michigan!
I have been paper crafting for so long I can't even remember when I started!
As for a style of paper crafting, I would call it "all over the place"!
I enjoy pretty much all aspects of it!!
Besides my paper crafting I also enjoy gardening!
You will find me most days, weather permitting, in my flower gardens early in the mornings..
I share many of my garden photo's on my blog along with my cards.
I also enjoy sewing.
I think part of the paper crafting "bug" came from sewing,
as I enjoy picking out the beautiful papers as much as I do fabric.
I hope you stop by my blog and take a peek!!

Thanks Diane ... 
We are excited to have Diane joining and inspiring us
beginning with our February 12th challenge.

WELCOME to the Sisterhood Diane!

Winter Snowflakes

Hi everyone!  Micki here with our newest challenge details. 
Hope everyone is staying warm this winter.  It does seem to be a colder winter season than the previous couple of years, at least here in the Midwest.  And as much as everyone is eagerly anticipating Spring, we thought it a perfect time to challenge you to see the beauty in Winter Snowflakes.  I know I'm hearing some grumbles but seriously, gently falling Winter Snowflakes are beautiful.  

So the challenge is to create a project with a Winter Snowflakes theme. 

It can be a layout, a card, canvas....

anything as long as there are 

Winter Snowflakes 

somewhere in your project.  

Use Stickles to depict snowflakes, perhaps a layout with fun in the snow pictures, or a canvas with heavy bodied paint to replicate snow covered hills... see where I'm going with this?

Now let's see what the rest of the Sistah's came up with....

first up, a very warm welcome to our January Stepsister

Olga Bester (Elephant Fairies)

Darlene

Lisa

Micki

Now it's your turn to show us your projects with Winter Snowflakes.

Deadline to enter:
You have until Sunday, February 2nd - 8:00 P.M. (EST).

Winner will be announced Tuesday, February 4th.

Please remember to follow these few simple rules: 

• No backlinking
• Three (3) entry limit
• Must follow challenge theme to qualify for prize (when one is available)
• Direct link to your challenge entry ... not your entire blog.
• We would really appreciate you turning OFF the word verification.

HAVE FUN!
REMEMBER:  If you're interested in becoming our step sister, place an 'SS' after your name when you submit your creation.

 

Something Old, Something New WINNERS

Once again everyone's creations were gorgeous, which made choosing the winners impossible, so I used Random.org  to make the decision. It's fantastic to have so much inspiration to help in those times of creative block. Now for the announcement you have all been waiting for: 

Our Top 3 Sisters Award goes to:

#53 EricaK

 

#84 Cammy

 

#10 AlisonB

 

 

And, our TOP SISTER AWARD goes to:

#54 SANDY

 

Congratulations Ladies!

 Please grab your winner's badge from our sidebar and display it proudly on your blog.

Don't forget to stop back tomorrow for our 

next challenge hosted by Micki.

Happy New Year!

 We are so glad you've joined us for another round of fun challenges here at 

The Sisterhood of Crafter's 2014!!

 Terri here and I am so excited to be back with the "sistahs" and, I am thrilled to be the  hostess for the 1st challenge of the New Year!

 

But, before I tell you about our challenge, I'd like to welcome our  

JANUARY STEP SISTER
Olga Bester (Elephant Fairies).   

You'll want to pop over to Olga's blog, be inspired and leave her some love!

Now ... our 1st challenge of 2014 is:

"Out with the Old, In with the New" 

 (For this challenge, we are asking you to use a new product on your creation.) 

Terri

For my creation, the flower embellishments were made with my new product, 
the Flourish Flox dies by Memory Box.

Darlene
My new items are:  Stampendous 'sweater' stamp and
the Cottage Cuts 'Winter Wonderland Border' die.

My papers, charm and digi is new and the arch die is old. 

JANUARY STEP SISTER

Olga Bester (Elephant Fairies)

Lisa
My used some old designer paper, twine and a chipboard tag that I have had for literally 5-6 years! I just bought the Envelope Punch board from We R memory keepers and used that for the first time. I love it! I made this matchbox little gift box with it.

Micki

I used some new stamps.  The ink splashs and the inside Happy Birthday greeting is from Neat & Tangled and the Keep Calm greeting is from Technique Tuesday. 

Now it's your turn to show us your Out with the Old, In with the New ideas.  

We can't wait to see what you come up with!
*** Would you like to become a Step Sister?  Just place an 'SS' behind your name when entering our challenges and YOUR name might be drawn to become our next Step Sister! ... Good Luck! ***

Deadline to enter:
You have until Sunday, January 19th - 8:00 P.M. (EST).

Winner will be announced Tuesday, January 21st.

Please remember to follow these few simple rules: 

• No backlinking
• Three (3) entry limit
• Must follow challenge theme to qualify for prize (when one is available)
• Direct link to your challenge entry ... not your entire blog.
• We would really appreciate you turning OFF the word verification.

HAVE FUN!

All that Glitters WINNERS

WOW ladies you out did yourselves once again with so many gorgeous entries!! I know everyone is busy preparing for the upcoming holidays so I won't keep you.  But first I want to thank you on behalf of the Sisterhood for playing along and sharing your creativity in our 2013 challenges.  We look forward to a fun filled crafty 2014!!  We wish you all a very HAPPY, HEALTHY, CRAFTY, and SAFE 2014. I would also like to thank our Sponsors and Step-Sisters for helping to inspire our followers.

And a special thank you to FITZTOWN for sponsoring this challenge.  If you haven't done so already stop on by and see what a great variety of things they have to offer in their store.

Our Top Sisters in no particular order:

#68 Jessie L.

#31 Heather Hudson

#46 Amelia 

Top Sister:

#5 BENZI

Congratulation Benzi!  You have one three digis of your choice from our sponsor on this challenge FITZTOWN.  Please contact us at our2angelsinheaven@comcast.net to claim your prize.

We will see you next year when our challenges start again (January 8th).  Remember all of our challenges are listed on the side bar if you like to prepare ahead of time.

Again on behalf of everyone here at the Sisterhood we would like to thank you ALL for taking time to share your craftiness with us throughout 2013.  We look forward to having you play along with us in 2014!!  

Happy Crafting!

All that Glitters........

Good morning crafters! Lisa B here and I have the pleasure of hosting the last challenge of the year here at the Sisterhood of Crafters. After this challenge we will be taking a little break so we can all enjoy the holidays with our families and loved ones.

For this challenge we are asking you to make

 Christmas Sparkle!  

You can make a Christmas card/project and add glitter, rhinestones or Stickles to your project.  And since this is the season of giving gifts what would our last challenge of the year be without a prize?

This challenge sponsored by:  FITZTOWN

The Top Sister of this challenge gets three (3) digis of their choice from the Fitztown Store! How cool is that?? 

Now on to some crafty inspiration to get you started....

Lisa B

(using Winter 2)

Darlene

(using 'Winter 3' image)

Darlene

(using Winter 2 image)

Micki

(using Winter 4 image)

And a Special heartfelt thank you goes out to our Step Sisters for joining us again for another challenge.  Thank you!!

Step-Sisters:

STEP SISTER 

Rachel Taylor 

(using 'Winter 10' image)

STEP SISTER
Crafting Cathy
(using 'Winter 2' image)

We have the pleasure of having two of Fitztown's DT members on board with us for this challenge and sharing with us what they created to play along with our challenge.

Judy - Fitztown DT Member

The image I have used is a Christmas bell from the Fitztown collection of digital stamps. I used a two piece die cut set from Memory Box for the frame around the bell. I coloured my image with Copic Markers and glitter then added a layer of light blue glitter paper, bling and a ribbon to complete the card. 

Kate - Fitztown DT Member

Hi, Kate here!

For my card I have used a image from the store at Fitztown and you find it here.

I have color it with Spectrum Noir and Tombows and the die cut have I colored with sparkling watercolors. Sparkling organza as a frame and a little bow in the corner.  On the dress and flowers have I use Stickles to get the glitter effect on the card. Finally some gems in light green and pink. To see more of the card please come and look at my blog!

Thanks for letting me be a GDT!!

Now it's your turn to show us your Christmas Sparkle ideas.  We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Deadline to enter:
You have until Sunday, December 22nd - 8:00 P.M. (EST).

Please remember to follow these few simple rules:

• No backlinking
• Three (3) entry limit
• Must follow challenge theme to qualify for prize (when one is available)
• Direct link to your challenge entry ... not your entire blog.
• We would really appreciate you turning OFF the word verification.

HANDMADE winners . . .

Welcome back friends!

Good Golly!  Are you as crazy busy as we are here at the Sisterhood?  So much to do during these next few weeks before Christmas ... yikes!  But we're still having fun with our crafting of course and WOW!  what wonderful ideas you all shared in our "handmade" challenge!  THANKS SO MUCH for both taking the time to participate and for all the wonderful ideas you shared with us!  (I'll be snagging a few of them for my own personal holiday creations ... LOL)

Now without further ado . . .

Our TOP THREE awards go to:

#27 Toni at FHC

(Frankie Helps Craft)

#35 Jen Leeflang

(ABC - Art, Bellydancing & Crafting)

#8 Sandra Carey

(Carey's Cards)

Congratulations!

Please grab your Top Sisters Badge from our sidebar and 

we hope you'll display it proudly on your blogs. 

TODAY'S TOP SISTER AWARD

goes to:

#15 - KARASIOWA

CONGRATULATIONS!

Please grab your winner's badge from our sidebar

and we hope you'll display it proudly on your blog!

Thanks again everyone for the FABULOUS entry ideas!

Remember to come back tomorrow for our LAST CHALLENGE OF 2013 hosted by LisaB!  Hope to see you then!

HANDMADE . . .

Hello dear friends!  Darlene here as your hostess today and first of all I'd just like to shout out a huge THANK YOU to all who shared their BEAUTIFUL embossed creations with us ... WOW! what fabulous inspiration you have all shared! 

Thanks ever so much!

Today, our challenge to you is to use something 

HANDMADE

on your cards/projects.

The possibilities are endless and we can't wait to see what 

you'll have to share with us this time around!

Now, let's see what the Sisters & Step Sisters have created to hopefully help get you inspired!

STEP SISTER

Rachel Taylor

I have made some earrings to add to my card making it a gift card.

Darlene
Homemade Flower

 Terri
 Homemade Box

STEP SISTER
Crafting Cathy
The bow and the sentiment are my handmade elements.

Lisa

Handmade Christmas Tree Ornaments

Now it's your turn to show us your HANDMADE ideas.  We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Deadline to enter:
You have until Sunday, December 8th - 8:00 P.M. (EST).

Please remember to follow these few simple rules:

• No backlinking
• Three (3) entry limit
• Must follow challenge theme to qualify for prize (when one is available)
• Direct link to your challenge entry ... not your entire blog.
• We would really appreciate you turning OFF the word verification.

Embossing Winners

Wow guys!  I finished making my rounds Sunday evening and was just amazed.  Wonderful inspiration, from intricate details to simple, yet modern styles.  YOU guys ROCK!  (I'm definitely going to CASE several styles/techniques).

HOWEVER......you guys make it sooooooo hard to  pick winners.  So I let Random.org do the picking for me.   Without further ado:

The Top Sister award goes to:

#55 Mian Hahne

Top 3 Sister awards goes to:

#46 Nonni

#81 Shery R

#108 Anne

Congratulations Ladies!  

Don't forget to grab your award button from the sidebar! 

Thanks to everyone who played along with us, we truly appreciate it because we know how challenging it can be to get some creative time in this busy holiday season.  (Well, for some of us, like me, it's a challenge all year long, lol). 

Be sure to check back tomorrow for our new challenge!