Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge

Saturday Reminder!

2012-02-25T07:36:00.000-05:00

BRRRR! Happy cold and windy Saturday! Hope you're all staying warm and having a nice weekend. We're back today with a few more St. Patrick's/Luck 'o the Irish ATC's to share with you today.

I used our sponsor's image, JJ March Calendar Girl from Bugaboo, cropped the top of her body and colored with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits. I used a rub-on sentiment on the ribbon:

Sharon used a beautiful digi stamp from Michelle Perkett Studio called Fiona, love that little "good luck" tag she added:

Don't forget - you've got until Tuesday evening at 7:00 p.m. EST to link up your Irish ATC in the post below for your chance to win your choice of 7 Bugaboo digi stamps! Come back Wednesday to see the winner, top 3, and our NEW challenge (click the Sneak Peek tab above if you'd like to see the upcoming challenge themes).

Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #20 - St. Patrick's Day/Luck of the Irish

2012-02-22T06:41:00.002-05:00

**IMPORTANT NOTE** We are an ATC only challenge blog - please make sure you are linking up only ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) for our challenges. Thank you! :)

Top o' the morning to you! Can you believe this is our 20th challenge? Time flies when you're having fun, doesn't it? ;) Straight to business, then - last week's sponsor was Michelle Perkett Studio and the random winner of the "Happy Spring" image is...

Congratulations Kapree! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "Wicked Wednesday Week 19 Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your digi stamp out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 for last week were:

1.) Joanne

3.) Denice B.

6.) Angela D.

Congratulations, girls! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com if you need the Top 3 badge! Thanks for playing along with us each week!

Now for our new challenge - our theme for this week is:

St. Patrick's Day/Luck of the Irish

Show us your green, your Irish, your lucky charms, whatever! Just make sure it's an ATC and it fits our theme and link up below. Please do check out our rules in the tab above - we do ask that you not link up to more than 5 additional challenges in order to be eligible for our Top 3 and/or to be eligible to win the prize each week. Thank you for understanding!

Our fabulous sponsor this week is:

Tammy from Bugaboo generously let the DT pick an image to play with - one random winner will receive their choice of 7 free digis from the Bugaboo Digi Shop! How cool is that?!? Thank you so much, Tammy!

I decided to play with JJ March Calendar Girl, and I made a little mini March calendar page for my first ATC:

My next ATC is a cropped version of JJ, spritzed with Gold Glow Smooch Spritz:

Chelsea also used JJ and kept it simple by adding the happy st. patrick's day sentiment with a cute little shamrock - love the green beer:

Sharon used Fanny March Calendar Girl and came up with this fabulously multi-colored ATC, love how she only colored spots on the image and left the rest as-is:

Mary used Ruby March Calendar Girl, love that red hair and the quote is too funny:

And.... we were lucky enough to have the oh-so-talented Lori Padberg from the Bugaboo Design Team, join us this week! She created an ATC using my favorite March Calendar Girl, JJ, and I love the orange and green color combo:

Thanks for joining us, Lori!!! :)

Thanks for visiting us - we hope you've been inspired to create something lucky for us this week! :) Have a wicked awesome day, friends. See you back here on Saturday! Peace.

Saturday Reminder - Quotes/Words

2012-02-18T07:52:00.000-05:00

Hello friends - it's Saturday again and that means we have a few more ATC's to share with you and hopefully inspire you to play along with our challenge this week. Our theme is quotes or words (use a quote or words somewhere on your ATC) and link up with us here! You've got until Tuesday evening at 7:00 p.m. EST.

I decided to use one of the quotes from TLC, the woman who runs TLC is so very generous, she just amazes me. She is always offering free sentiments and digi images on her blog, and I'm so thankful - this one was perfect to pair with Winnie the Pooh (I just used Google to find my Pooh image to color):

I also made a couple more - this one uses a digi sentiment from MelJen's Designs, paired with Stampin' Up! cardstock, DP, and buttons:

This ATC was made simply by printing the digi stamp from Beyond the Fringe onto Kraft cardstock and then cutting it slightly smaller than an ATC - I then dragged it lightly through a black ink pad and added glitter before matting onto a black ATC:

Sharon's beautiful ATC uses digi stamps from CS Designs, perfect for this challenge:

We do hope you'll play along with us - have a wicked awesome weekend! Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #19 - Quotes and Words

2012-02-15T06:28:00.002-05:00

Another week has flown by and here we are again! I did add a page with the upcoming themes, you can click on it in the tabs above. I know how life can just get in the way sometimes, so I hope that helps some of you to get a little head-start on your ATC's.

Let's pick our winner from last week, the prize is the fabulous Ruby Ragdoll image from Dilly Beans and our winner is....

Congratulations Rebecca! Please send me an e-mail at JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your digi out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 for last week are:

2.) Steph

4.) Rebecca

10.) Melissa O.

Congratulations, girls! Please send me an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Top 3" in the subject line and I will send you the blog badge for you to display on your blog. I really want to comment on how impressed I was with Rebecca's entry - she's only 9 years old! She makes me think of Pablo Picasso's quote "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up." I hope Rebecca keeps creating and I look forward to seeing more entries from her. :)

On to this week's challenge - our theme this week is:

Quotes/Words

I'd love to see quotes and words as the focal point of your ATC, but as long as it's got a quote or words on it somewhere, it counts. Our sponsor this week is:

Michelle will generously provide the winner with the digi image we played along with, "Happy Spring".

My ATC's are bright and cheery, which is how I like to think of Spring (even though quite often it's rainy and not-so-bright...LOL):

Sharon's beautiful Marie Antoinette (also from MPS) is paired perfectly with the sentiment:

Mary combined a cute birdie stamp from Kawaii with the Happy Spring sentiment:

Chelsea used her quote to make an adorable little Easter ATC, love this:

Thanks so much for coming back every week - we love seeing all of your awesome ATC's and I personally love reading your comments to please keep 'em coming. :) Have a wicked crafty long weekend!

Saturday Reminder - Hearts & Love/Valentine's Day

2012-02-11T07:28:00.000-05:00

Happy Saturday! We're just popping in quick today with a reminder about our current ATC challenge:

Love/Hearts or Valentine's Day

Here's my LOVE themed ATC, made with one of my favorite images from Saturated Canary:

And here's Mary's reminder ATC, using her original characters Bo and bun bun:

We sure do hope you'll play along this week - scroll down to link up! Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #18 - Hearts/Love

2012-02-08T07:00:00.001-05:00

So glad to see you all back - I love that so many of you are stretching your creativity! I was wondering if you'd all like to know the themes for each month at the beginning of the month, maybe, so you can work ahead? Let me know what you think and I'll make a new tab that will just list the upcoming themes, if you're interested.

So for now - let's see who won the adorable Emo Mermaid image from Just Some Lines, our sponsor last week. The winner, chosen by Random.org, is:

Congratulations Charith! :) Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "Wicked Wednesday Winner - Mermaids" in the subject line, and I'll get your digi stamp out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 Mermaid ATC's are:

3.) Melissa O.

6.) Jehanne

8.) blackdragon

Congratulations, girls! E-mail me if you need the Top 3 badge - JennBorj@yahoo.com I do hope you'll play along again this week!

On to our new challenge - this week's theme is:

Love/Hearts or Valentine's Day

Our sponsor this week is:

Owned and illustrated by our very own DT member Megan, Dilly Beans is one of our very generous regular sponsors. This week she's offering up the digi stamp Ruby Ragdoll to our one random winner - keep reading to see what our DT came up with using Ruby this week!

Here are my 2 versions of Ruby - kind of a sugar and spice combo:

Next up is Sharon's gorgeous blonde Ruby - love the playing card in the background:

Ruby is so much fun to create ATC's with - Chelsea's ATC is all about love:

And Mary grunged Ruby up a bit, giving her hot pink hair and a sweet skull-centered flower hair-piece:

I do hope you'll give it a go this week for your chance to win RUBY RAGDOLL from Dilly Beans - feel free to interpret the theme however you want... love, hearts (literally? whatever), come play along! Have a wicked awesome week, friends!

Saturday Reminder - Mermaid ATC's

2012-02-04T06:00:00.003-05:00

Happy Saturday everyone! We're with a bit more underwater inspiration for you, I love what you've all done so far!

I made several ATC's this week - this first one uses this week's prize mermaid image from our sponsor, Just Some Lines:

For this one, I used a gorgeous baby mermaid from A Day for Daisies:

Mary's sweet pony mermaid is just too adorable:

Sharon used a mermaid from Michelle Perkett Studio for her ATC - love the pink:

Thanks for popping by - hope you'll join us this week and link up below. Have a wicked awesome weekend. Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #17 - Mermaids

2012-02-01T05:57:00.002-05:00

Hello ATC lovers! Can you bee-LIEVE it's February?!? Seems like it was just Christmas! I loved seeing all of your gorgeous fairy tale and nursery rhyme ATC's last week, thanks so much for joining us! We used Random.org to choose a winner, who will receive a Saturated Canary image as her prize, is:

Congratulations Donna! :) I will send you along your Winner's badge and the info you need to contact Krista in order to claim your prize.

Our top 3 are:

2.) Denice B.

3.) Lou

4.) Donna Mundinger

Congratulations, ladies! Contact me at JennBorj@yahoo.com for your Wicked Wednesday Top 3 badge! Thanks for continuing to play along with us - we love seeing what you come up with every week!

Now I don't know about all of you, but I could use a touch of Summer this week. It's Winter in Massachusetts and even though it's a mild one, it's still winter. So our theme this week is:

Mermaids

Show us your mermaids - cute, pretty, gothic, vintage, classic, whatever. We want to see it all. Just make sure it's an ATC and that it's got something to do with mermaids - link up below, and you've got a chance at winning the image the DT played with this week from our sponsor:

And here is what myself and the rest of the team came up with, starting with my blonde mermaid:

And here's my dark-haired beauty, on Tim Holtz Kraft DP and with a cute little skull stamp from The Greeting Farm added on to it:

Mary made twin mermaids into colorful sea friends:

Chelsea's blonde mermaid looks so perfect with those pearls in her hair:

And Sharon's mermaid has the most gorgeous colorful beads along with this fantastic seahorse charm:

So what can you all come up with? I can't wait to see! We'll be back on Saturday with some more underwater goddess inspiration for you, so don't forget to visit us! Have a wicked awesome week, everyone. Peace.

Saturday Reminder - Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes

2012-01-28T08:42:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone - so excited to see so many fabulous entries in our

Fairy Tale/Nursery Rhyme Challenge!

We have some super exciting things coming up in the weeks ahead including guest designers and tutorials. Be sure to keep checking in with us, you wouldn't want to miss the fabulously inspirational art projects we've got coming up.

For today's reminder post, I made a cute little Alice in Wonderland ATC with one of my stamps from The Greeting Farm:

Sharon's Alice in Wonderland ATC has a completely different look, I love the funky retro feel of this one:

Mary brought the sweet Happy Bunny back to us with a Snow White theme:

I hope you're all having a wicked awesome weekend and getting lots of crafting done. See you on Wednesday! Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #16 - Fairy Tales/Nursery Rhymes

2012-01-25T06:39:00.003-05:00

Hello friends - welcome back to another fun ATC challenge here at Wicked Wednesdays. I want to thank you all for playing along, you all liked our Dresses and Dress Forms challenge - so let's get to the winner and top 3! First, our winner chosen using Random.org is:

Congratulations Maggie H.! Send an e-mail to me at JennBorj@yahoo.com and I'll get your Vintage Dress digi from Michelle Perkett Studio sent out to you ASAP. :)

Our top 3 last week are...

4.) Joanne

8.) Donna Mundinger

14.) Denice B.

Congrats, ladies! Please send an e-mail to me at JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Dresses Top 3" in the subject line and I'll send along your Top 3 badge. I have to give a special shout-out to Joanne, who has made our Top 3 for the past 3 weeks in a row. Joanne, your work really rocks and I would love for you to be a guest designer for us for an upcoming challenge. Please mention this when you e-mail me, and I'll give you some themes/dates to choose from. Thanks! :)

Now I have to address something that touches a lot of nerves. First - please read the Rules and Guidelines page. I've updated it and it's worth taking a peek at. Second - it's come to my attention from one of our sponsors that there's a possibility of image theft happening. Please, if you like any of the images that you see from our sponsors here, please go buy them! Digital stamps are affordable and our sponsors are generous with providing prizes - we don't want that to stop. Moving forward, we will be removing any entries using traced facsimiles. Thank you for understanding.

Please take a minute and visit this page here. Chris Stern, owner and designer of CS Designs and Art With No Boundaries, wrote this from her heart and you can't help but see things from the artist's perspective when you read it. Chris also has a lot of great information on her site here about copyrights, I encourage you to check it out.

But please - the bottom line is just this: please don't steal. If you like an image, buy it and use it. Support the artists, so they can keep providing new stuff for us to play with. Thank you!!!

Now on to this week's challenge! Our theme this week is:

Fairy Tales or Nursery Ryhmes

Create an ATC based on a fairy tale or nursery rhyme. No modern cartoon-type things - think Goldilocks, Jack and the Beanstalk, 3 Little Pigs, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, you get the idea! This week we are being sponsored by the fun and quirky:

Krista generously agreed to let the DT choose between Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to play with this week - and one random winner who plays along with us will get to choose, too!

My first ATC uses Sleeping Beauty, she's colored with Prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits - I had this DP in my stash, I thought it was perfect for this ATC, then I added the sentiment and the pearl stickers:

I made another ATC using Snow White, this one is printed on a textured cardstock and cropped. I colored with a combination of markers and pencils, then added a little ribbon tag:

I love the way Mary colored the hair on her Snow White ATC, among everything else:

Sharon let the image speak for itself - which it truly does:

Chelsea's little sentiment is quite appropriate, isn't it? So cute:

We hope you are all having fun exploring with ATC's - I know it's new for some of you, and you're really rocking it! :) I didn't even know what an ATC was myself, until about a year ago! LOL Once I started making them, I was just hooked! So I'm glad you've all joined me - I love seeing what you've come up with each week, and I thank you for taking the time to follow our rules and guidelines. Have a wicked awesome week! Peace.

Saturday Reminder - Dresses/Dress Forms

2012-01-21T07:00:00.002-05:00

Hi friends! About to get a bit of snow here in the Northeast, so we're hunkering down today! Perfect ~~excuse~~ opportunity to spend the day crafting, right?!? Right!

We are so happy to have you back and hope you're being inspired by our Dresses and Dress Forms ATC's! First up is my (Jenn) new ATC for today's post, using Michelle Perkett's Vintage Dress (our prize image for this week):

My next ATC uses a vintage dress form digi stamp from Stampin Damour:

Megan made this beautiful ATC also using our sponsor's prize image, Michelle Perkett's Vintage Dress (LOVE the bits of fabric/ribbon):

Sharon's vintage look just shines with the beautiful light blue colors she used (LOVE that tag!):

Mary came up with this awesome trio of corset-like dress forms, love those butterflies:

Don't I have, like, the best design team ever? Yup, I do. I'm a very lucky girl! I appreciate them all so very much. Please make sure you visit their blogs and leave them some love. Thanks!

Link up your Dresses or Dress Form ATC by scrolling down or click here for the original post. Have a wicked WARM weekend! :)

Wicked Wednesday #15 - Dresses/Dress Forms

2012-01-18T07:00:00.003-05:00

Hello friends! Last week we were sponsored by the fabulous

And the winner chosen by random.org to receive one image of her choice from the Ocean/Aquatic Series is...

Congratulations Joanne! Please e-mail me at JennBorj@yahoo.com and let me know which image you'd like from the Ocean/Aquatic series (click to see).

Our top 2 are:

1.) Joanne

3.) Beverly G.

Thanks for playing, girls! We really appreciate you taking the time to play along with us each week - your artwork is always amazing and your blogs are such a pleasure to visit! :)

Our theme this week is:

Dresses/Dress Forms

Our sponsor is

The fabulous image the DT is playing with, and that one random winner will win, is "Vintage Dress."

Here's what we have for you today - I came up with a couple using different looks, my first ATC is vintage:

My next ATC is more retro:

Mary made her ATC with a chic look, love the chandelier and that adorable satin flower:

Chelsea always makes such pretty ATC's - love the color scheme and the little flower:

Sharon added gemstone stickers all over the dress, making the image really pop:

Hope you'll play along with us and link up your Dresses/Dress Forms ATC below. Have a wicked awesome week. Peace.

Reminder Ocean/Aquatic

2012-01-14T06:24:00.000-05:00

Happy Saturday everyone. We're back with a few more ocean/aquatic ATC's made with the gorgeous images from

I just couldn't stop creating with these images, so I made quite a few more of them:

Mary made a cute little Happy Merbunny ATC swimming in the sea, this character just makes me smile:

Hope you'll play along and link up below! Have a wicked awesome weekend. Peace. :)

Wicked Wednesday Challenge #14 - Ocean/Aquatic

2012-01-11T06:58:00.001-05:00

Hi there everyone! The weeks are just flying by, it's going to be Valentine's Day before we know it! The winner of the sweet Girl Holding Flower image from last week's sponsor, Jellypark, is...

Congratulations Lou! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW '60's ATC Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your digi sent to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

1.) Joanne

5.) Melissa
6.) Lou

Congrats - send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW '60's Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge! Thank you for following our simple rules, we really appreciate it! :)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

Ocean/Aquatic

This week's generous sponsor is:

We (Design Team and myself) created ATC's using several of the gorgeous ocean/aquatic themed images from CS Designs. One lucky (random) winner will get to choose whichever of these images they want - how cool is that?

Here are my creations (Jenn), I started with Sea Nymph - Montage Round:

My next ATC uses Ocean and Fish - Montage Round:

Sharon used 2 images (Loreley Zig Zags and Curls Ocean Montage and Loreley Stars and Fish Ocean Montage) and made a gorgeous coordinating set of ATC's:

Mary's colorful ATC uses Discover New Oceans Ocean Sentiment:

Chelsea used Loreley Stars and Fish Ocean Montage and added some adorable little pearls in the corner:

But wait - there's more! ;) I've also got a few samples to share with you from 2 of the members of the CS Designs/Art With No Boundaries Design Team!

Vicki combined 2 of the images and made this beautifully unique ATC:

And Rene used map pieces to make these 2 cool ATC's:

Hope this theme inspires you to play along. Don't forget that we'll be back Saturday with a reminder post and some more inspiration for you! Please check the "Rules" page above before linking up, thank you. Peace.

Saturday Reminder - the '60's

2012-01-07T07:00:00.000-05:00

Hi there everyone - just popping in quickly today with a couple more '60's themed ATC's for you! You can click here to see the original post and to link up.

I decided to go with a tie-dye look for my reminder ATC, using our sponsor's prize image, you can read the details on my personal blog here:

And Mary brought Happy Bunny into the '60's by giving her a fabulous Beehive 'do - love it:

I do hope you'll play along for your chance to win the adorable "Girl Holding Flower" from our generous sponsor:

Have a wicked awesome weekend! Peace.

Wicked Wednesday Challenge #13 - the '60's

2012-01-04T07:00:00.002-05:00

Hello friends! The holidays are over and even though they are a lot of fun, they are soooo exhausting, aren't they? I hope you all had a safe and happy New Year celebration and that you found plenty of time to spend creating! I know you're dying to know who won the adorable Lollipop Party Girl image from last week's sponsor, Dilly Beans, and that winner is...

Congratulations Juliet O.! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW New Year's ATC Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your digi sent to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

1.) Hlora

5.) Lou

8.) Angela D.

Congrats - send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW New Year's Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge! Thank you for following our simple rules, we really appreciate it! :)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

the '60's

We want to see your 1960's themed ATC's this week - anything that reminds you of the '60's - can't wait to see your interpretations! This week's generous sponsor is:

And the image we're playing with and providing as a prize to one random participant is Girl Holding Flower.

Here are my creations (Jenn) - I started with a purple color scheme, my DP has peace signs and hearts all over it:

And next is a blonde version of my Flower Girl, this time in pinks:

Sharon added a super cool '60's van to her ATC, what a perfect touch:

Mary's groovy ATC is so bright and colorful, and I love how the peace sign hangs off the top:

Chelsea's coloring is fabulous, love those highlights in her hair - and that DP is perfect for the '60's, reminds me of a lava lamp:

Have fun with this theme - we'll be back Saturday with a reminder post and some more inspiration for you! Don't forget to check the "Rules" page above before linking up, thank you. Peace.

Reminder - New Year's Challenge

2011-12-31T06:25:00.000-05:00

*H*A*P*P*Y* *N*E*W* *Y*E*A*R*!!!!!

Here is a bit of eye candy to hopefully inspire you to play along with our New Year's themed ATC challenge this week - you can see the original post and link up here.

Mary made this adorable Happy Bunny ATC with her signature pen and ink style, love it:

My first ATC uses our sponsor's image, Lollipop Girl by Dilly Beans:

My next ATC uses Reindeer Party Hard from Just Some Lines:

That's all for today - make sure you find time to create during this long weekend! I hope you all have a happy and safe New Year's Eve celebration and that it's just the beginning of the most wonderful year of your lives. :) Peace.

I love InLinkz!

2011-12-30T08:30:00.000-05:00

I love using InLinkz and I highly recommend it to my fellow challenge-blog owners. It's so easy to use and very inexpensive to include pics in your linky lists, which I find most people enjoy having the option to do. They even give you opportunities to earn free extensions on your membership, etc. It's a great linky tool - check it out here:

INLINKZ - the blue froggy

Tell them I sent you. :) Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #12 - New Year's Celebration!

2011-12-28T07:00:00.016-05:00

Hi everyone - are you all recuperated from the Christmas festivities, or what? Any big plans for New Year's Eve? My hubby and I always stay in and celebrate quietly, but it's still fun. We order some yummy take-out food, get a bottle of champagne, make some snacks, and settle in to watch movies. That's my kind of celebration. :)

So let's see who Random.org chose as the winner of the Tiddly Inks (last week's sponsor) image, Priscilla:

Congratulations Melissa O.! Please shoot me an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Steampunk Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your digi sent to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:
2.) Joanne
3.) Beverly G.
4.) Melissa O.

Congrats - send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Steampunk Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)! Thank you for following our simple rules, we really appreciate it! :)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

New Year's Celebration

This week's generous sponsor is:

And the image we're playing with and providing as a prize to one random participant is
Lollipop Party Girl.

Here is my creation (Jenn) - I cropped her, colored with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits and cut her so that the party hat stood out from the squared image:

Sharon used one of my favorite colors - purple - to showcase the lollipop party girl:

Mary made this colorful creation and even added a fuzzy pom-pom to the party hat:

And Chelsea's delicious polka dot background paper just works so perfectly with that lollipop:

Have fun with the New Year theme - we'll be back Saturday with a reminder post and some more inspiration for you! Don't forget to check the "Rules" page above before linking up, thank you. Peace.

Saturday Reminder - Steampunk

2011-12-24T07:15:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas Eve! :)

With all the festivities going on, don't forget to link up your Steampunk-themed ATC for our latest challenge, which you can find here.

We have some more eye candy to inspire you today - first up is Megan's wonderfully gothic steampunk creation:

Next we have 2 more ATC's from Sharon, the first is a Christmas twist on Steampunk:

And I just love the bicycle roller skates on this one:

This sweet bunny with his steampunk bicycle is from our newest DT member, Mary:

Chelsea used our sponsor's image this week - Priscilla from Tiddly Inks - and made a beautiful Christmas-y ATC:

Thanks for visiting us today - we hope you have a very merry Christmas Eve and a magical and happy Christmas Day! :) If you find time to play along with us, link up here. See you back here on Wednesday for our last challenge of the year. Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #11 - Steampunk

2011-12-21T05:56:00.002-05:00

Hello friends! Can you BEE-LIEVE Christmas is this weekend? I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful holiday! Make sure you save plenty of time for crafting! :) We have a fun new challenge this week, but first let's see who our random winner is from last week's Christmas/Winter Holiday ATC challenge! The winner will receive their choice of either Christmas Bird or Mistletoe Fairy from Just Some Lines, and that person is....

Congratulations Joanne! Please shoot me an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Christmas/Winter Holiday ATC Winner" in the subject line and let me know which image you would like, and I'll get it out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

4.) Debra James

5.) hilda

6.) Maggie H.

Congrats - send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Christmas/Winter Holiday ATC Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)! Thank you for following our simple rules, we really appreciate it! :)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

STEAMPUNK

If you are unsure of what steampunk is, you can find some cool ideas here.

This week's generous sponsor is:

And the image we're playing with and providing as a prize to one random participant is
Priscilla.

Here is my creation (Jenn), I cropped Priscilla, colored her with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits and Prismacolor markers and inked up the edges of the ATC to distress it:

For my next ATC, I used some newsprint DP from 7Gypsies, sprayed it with Log Cabin Smooch Spritz, and then painted Priscilla's hat and gown with the smooch spritz, too. Metal gear embellishments from Tim Holtz:

Sharon made this gorgeous mixed media ATC - love those colors and her rosy cheeks:

Mary is our newest DT member, please welcome her by leaving a comment below. :) Here's her debuting ATC, I absolutely ADORE what she did to Priscilla's dress!!!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with this week! Please check the Rules page above, thank you. Have a wicked awesome holiday weekend, we'll see you back here on Christmas Eve day for the Saturday reminder post. Peace.

DT NEWS & Reminder - Christmas or Winter Holiday Challenge

2011-12-17T07:23:00.001-05:00

Hello friends! I have a new DT member to introduce to you today, her name is Mary and she's been a faithful player here at our challenge from the beginning. You can see Mary's blog here and you can read her intro on the DT page here. Please welcome Mary with open arms! We have another new DT member who I will introduce to you on Wednesday - gotta keep you coming back for more, you know. ;)

So seeing that it's Saturday, let's give you what you came for - more ATC inspiration! Our sponsor this week is

And our theme is:

Christmas or Winter Holiday

Today I have 2 ATC's from the oh-so-talented Megan. First up is Megan's Mistletoe Fairy creation:

Megan's coloring is just stunning - next is this gorgeous made with Christmas Bird:

So are you all ready for Christmas or what? I am most definitely... NOT! I have so very much to do - but it'll get done. I will be out there with the rest of the last-minute shoppers next Friday, and frantically baking and cooking Friday night and Saturday. 'Tis the season, right? LOL

You've got until Tuesday evening at 7:00 p.m. EST to link up your Christmas or Winter Holiday ATC here. Hope you are having a wicked weekend. :) Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #10 - Christmas or Winter Holiday

2011-12-14T06:11:00.001-05:00

Hello friends, it's Wednesday again! I know how busy this time of year can be, and I wanted to let you all know how very much I appreciate you taking the time to enter our weekly challenge. For me, ATC's seem to be easier to make - less pressure for "perfection" and less space to fill! LOL One thing I do to make it quicker and easier on myself is to cut down scraps of cardstock into ATC-sized pieces, and keep them all in a Ziploc baggie on my craft table. I also have another bag full of tiny scraps of Designer Paper/Patterned Paper, which work out perfectly for ATC's. This way, I don't have to waste my precious crafting time cutting cardstock and DP! :)

On to business! I let Random.org choose our winner from last week (prize is the adorable Maddie from Saturated Canary) and that winner is:

Congratulations jo! Please shoot me an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Winter Fun ATC Winner" in the subject line and I'll send your name and e-mail address along to Krista at Saturated Canary, so she can send your digi image to you!

Our top 3 this week are:

1.) Mary
2.) Joanne
4.) Tracey W.

Congratulations! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Winter Fun ATC Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)!

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

Christmas (or Winter Holiday if you don't celebrate Christmas)

This week's sponsor is the fabulous:

Jehanne, owner and illustrator of the Just Some Lines images, very generously gave us 2 images to play with this week, and the winner will get to pick one of these images as the prize for the week:

Mistletoe Fairy

Christmas Bird

And here's what the DT and myself have created to hopefully inspire you to play along!

My first ATC uses Christmas Bird, colored with Prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits. Checkered DP is digi paper from Free Digital Scrapbooking. I used Emerald Smooch Spritz with a paint brush for the tree, and then sprayed the entire thing with Log Cabin and Gold Glow Smooch Spritzes. I added red pearl stickers and a rub-on sentiment from Stampin' Up!:

My next ATC uses Mistletoe Fairy, this one is a bit simpler. She's colored with Prismacolor markers, DP is from My Mind's Eye, and I added a button from my stash:

Sharon's Mistletoe Fairy is colored in a beautiful deep red, and I love the texture of the white fluff on her cap and the addition of the cute little fairy wand:

Chelsea's Christmas Bird is a cute little bluebird, I love how she focused on the bird by fussy-cutting him out of the scene :

Come back on Saturday for some additional inspiration from us! Remember to check the rules and guidelines before submitting and link up your Christmas/Winter Holiday ATC below by next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. EST. Thanks again for your continued participation and encouraging comments. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing your interpretation of our challenges every week. Peace.

Reminder - WINTER FUN Challenge!

2011-12-10T09:23:00.001-05:00

Happy Saturday, ATC fans! :) I know we're all super busy this time of year, I hope you find some time to relax and do some crafting and maybe create a WINTER FUN ATC? I have a few more ATC's to share with you today, created with our prize image Maddie.

Maddie was provided to us by our awesome sponsor this week:

So Chelsea came up with this pretty creation in purple, my favorite:

And I made a couple more myself - you can read the details on my blog here:

We hope you can find some time to join us this week - one random winner will receive Maddie as their prize! Link up at the post below or click here. Have a wicked awesome weekend! :) Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #9 - Winter Fun

2011-12-07T05:00:00.002-05:00

Happy Wednesday! Time for another fun ATC challenge for you all! But first, let's pick a winner for the prize from last week:

And that winner would be....

Congratulations Starla B.! Please shoot me an e-mail with your mailing address to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Black and White ATC Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your prize package out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

3.) Debra James

5.) Beverly G.

9.) Hilda #2

Congratulations! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Black & White ATC Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)!

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

Winter Fun

And we are being sponsored by the adorable and whimsical:

The image we played with this week, which is also the prize for one random winner, was Maddie.

Maddie is just beautiful! So here's some eye candy to hopefully inspire you to play along (please note - several of our DT members had family emergencies come up this week, so we'll have more eye candy for you on Saturday with our reminder post - be sure to come back then!):

My ATC is made with SU! cardstock, DP from My Mind's Eye, and snowflakes cut from the same DP. I added some gemstone stickers. Maddie is colored with Prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits.

Sharon made a beautiful blonde Maddie, with some wonderfully textured background paper::

Remember to check the rules and guidelines before submitting and link up your Winter Fun ATC below by next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. EST. Looking forward to visiting your blogs this week! Peace.

Reminder - Black and White Challenge!

2011-12-03T07:00:00.001-05:00

Happy Saturday, everyone! Time for me to remind you about our fabulous challenge this week, our them is

BLACK AND WHITE

and our random winner this week will win this little prize package of 6x6 Designer Series patterned paper from Stampin' Up! and a mini clear rubber unmounted stamp set:

Here's a little more eye candy to hopefully inspire you!

Chelsea used a gorgeous bird stamp with beautiful brads and even matching twine, so pretty - and I love the "inspire" - isn't that what we try to do? Chelsea sure does!

These are from me...

Top image is from TLC, bottom sentiment is a digi image from Tiddly Inks with clock/watch stamps from Rubbernecker. Hope you can play along with us and link up your black and white ATC here or just scroll down to the next post. :) Have a wicked weekend. Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #8 - Black and White

2011-11-30T07:00:00.017-05:00

Hello ATC lovers! It's Wednesday again and that means we have another fun ATC challenge for you all! First things first, though - let's pick a winner for this gorgeous image from last week's sponsor, Michelle Perkett Studio, called Stella the Summer Storyteller.

And that winner would be....

Congratulations heiki! Please shoot me an e-mail at JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Books/Reading ATC Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your "Stella the Summer Storyteller" digi out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:
1.) Joanne
4.) Mary
5.) Starla

Congratulations! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Books/Reading ATC Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)! (I checked to be sure the winner and top 3 had followed the rules before posting, thank you for doing so.)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

Black and White

Instead of a sponsor this week, I have a little prize package to send along to our random winner - it's a package of 6x6 Designer Series Patterned Paper from Stampin' Up! and a little mini clear rubber "Girl's Night Out" stamp set from Studio g:

So here's some eye candy to hopefully inspire you to play along!

I made my first ATC with a Prickley Pear stamp set that I won for playing along in one of their challenges - I have a "thing" for owls, and I just love the way you stamp the different elements for this one and then piece them together:

This next ATC is really simple - you can see my blog for details:

Sharon used Priscilla's Winter Play Time from CS Designs - and I love the background she created:

Megan used her own Dilly Beans image called Zombie Christmas Elf - I LOVE the way Megan incorporates white into everything to give it dimension and make it pop, like the candy on the hat - it looks all 3D, super cool:

Pauline's beautiful bow with sparkle all over it is just simple and elegant, isn't it?

Doesn't my Design Team rock? Well, we've got some awesome artists who are submitting every single week faithfully, too, and I hope you're all checking out the fabulous talent and leaving them some comments, letting them know how wonderful they are! :) Thank you, ladies, I appreciate your loyalty and I hope you're having fun. xoxo

OK - you're off - go create a black and white ATC and link it up here! Remember to check the rules and guidelines before submitting and link up below by next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. EST. Can't wait to see what you all come up with for this one. Peace.

Reminder - Books/Reading Challenge!

2011-11-26T08:16:00.000-05:00

Sorry for the late post, peeps! Black Friday kicked my butt this year - I'm apparently not as young as I think I am, and my body does not like me to force it to stay up all night. HMPH! We had a fabulous Thanksgiving, and I hope all of my USA friends did, too. My sister and I did some Black Friday shopping - we went out around 11:00 p.m. and got home at 3:30 a.m. I only slept for about 2 hours - just couldn't shut my mind off! So I was a bit of a mess yesterday! LOL Let's just say the couch and I were BFF's for the majority of the day yesterday.

So anyway - here's your reminder about this week's ATC challenge theme, which is BOOKS/READING! We've had a few great entries, you are all so creative and I just love seeing what you've come up with. I decided to make an ATC based on one of my favorite books, Alice in Wonderland! So I used one of my new images from Saturated Canary (who is going to be one of our sponsors soon - yay!), this one is called the Mad Hattress:

I focused on her upper body and colored her with a combination of Prismacolor, Copic, and Stampin' Up! markers. Cardstock is from SU! I applied the image with foam dimensional dots and hand-wrote the "Time for Tea" sentiment. I dragged the edges of the cardstock through an ink pad and spritzed the entire thing with Silver Foil Smooch Spritz.

Don't forget to check out the original post here to link up and see the beautiful image you could win from Michelle Perkett Studio! :) Enjoy the rest of your weekend, friends! Peace.

Wicked Wednesday #7 - Books/Reading

2011-11-23T07:00:00.013-05:00

Well it's Wednesday again and you know what that means - time for another fun ATC challenge! So let's get down to business and see who wins this gorgeous image from Dilly Beans called Rosie Framed.

And that winner would be....

Congratulations Beverly G.! Please shoot me an e-mail at JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Flowerful ATC Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your "Rosie Framed" digi out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

6.) Donna Mundinger
7.) heike
8.) Mary

Congratulations! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Flowerful ATC Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)! (I checked to be sure the winner and top 3 had followed the rules before posting, thank you for doing so.)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

Books/Reading

You can interpret this however you like - use books on your ATC, base your ATC on your favorite book, use book print/text on your ATC, etc. Just make sure you explain in your post how it relates to the theme, if it's not obvious. Thanks!

This week's generous sponsor is:

The image the DT and I are playing with and providing as a prize to one random participant this week is Stella the Summer Storyteller

So here's some eye candy to hopefully inspire you to play along!

I colored my Stella image with Prismacolor markers and mineral spirits. DP is from Donna Salazar:

I also made an ATC with a cropped version of Stella, as the rest of my DT did! I thought it was cool to see how we all cropped her differently. Check out my blog here for the details:

Sharon focused on Stella herself, did a fab job coloring and just how does she always seem to come up with the most awesomely coordinating DP?

I love how Chelsea made Stella's dress and the kitty overlapping the grass - makes the image just pop out at you:

Megan used fussy cutting for her image, too, and that text background is so perfect, isn't it? I love her coloring and highlighting, too:

So remember to check the rules and guidelines before submitting and link up your ATC below by next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. EST. I'm looking forward to seeing the different interpretations of this challenge! Peace.

Reminder - Flowerful ATC Challenge

2011-11-19T07:00:00.001-05:00

Hello friends! I'm here to remind you about our current challenge, FLOWERFUL ATC's! I had so much fun crafting with my 16-year-old daughter last week, and was thrilled that she enjoyed it and wants to do it again! We're going to spend today making stuff, I am looking forward to it. So last week, I made a few more ATC's with a flowerful theme, and Sharon also made another one for today's post.

Here's what we've got, starting with Sharon's bright and cheery ATC using one of the Angels from Dilly Beans, isn't she fussy cut and colored beautifully?

My ATC also uses the Angel image:

And this one is made with Rosie Framed, the image we're offering up as our prize this week - but I fussy cut her out of the frame, creating a different look for Rosie:

Don't forget, you've got until Tuesday 7:00 p.m. EST to link up your flowerful ATC here. Have a wonderful weekend!

Peace.

WW#6 - Flowerful ATC's - Dilly Beans!

2011-11-16T07:00:00.044-05:00

Well it's Wednesday again and you know what that means - time for another fun ATC challenge! I was amazed at the diversity in the ATC's posted for the ANGEL themed challenge last week - we had everything from beautiful hand-painted angels to gothic looking funky angels! So let's get right down to business and let Random.org choose who will receive the sweet Flower Angel image from our generous sponsor, Just Some Lines:

Congratulations Mary! Please shoot me an e-mail at JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Angelic ATC Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your Just Some Lines Flower Angel digi out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

3.) Starla B.

7.) Susan's Crafty Chaos

9.) steph

Congratulations! Please send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Angelic ATC Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)! (I checked to be sure the winner and top 3 had followed the rules before posting, thank you for doing so.)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

Flowerful

So this one's pretty easy - simply create an ATC and include flowers. This week's generous sponsor is:

And the image we're playing with and providing as a prize to one random participant is Rosie Framed.

Here's what my awesome Design Team and myself have come up with for this week!

I colored my Rosie Framed image as a blonde, you can read the complete details about it on my blog here:

Megan is a regular champ at creating ATC's and this week she rocked her own design with this gorgeous piece of artwork (I am totally jealous of the way she colors black hair, by the way):

Sharon made this absolutely phenomenal fabric ATC - look at that stitching! Let's just say they threw me out of home ec and into a typing class (that I totally kicked butt in, BTW)... I am in awe of stitching/sewing on crafts:

I absolutely love the way Chelsea did the eyes on her Rosie ATC, they are sort of hypnotizing, aren't they?

There's something about red and black and white that just grabs the eye, right? Pauline totally rocked it with her bright and cheerful Rosie:

So remember to check the rules and guidelines before submitting and link up your ATC below by next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. EST. Can't wait to see your flowerful creations! Peace.

Reminder - Angel ATC Challenge

2011-11-12T07:00:00.001-05:00

Happy Saturday! Although it kinda feels like a Sunday, doesn't it? We celebrated Veteran's Day yesterday, so everyone had the day off. Long weekends are just extra nice. Anyway - I'm here today to see if you'd like a chance to win this sweet Flower Angel image from our generous sponsor, Just Some Lines:

Yes? Of course you do! So get creating - all you need to do is make an ATC with an angel theme and link up to the original post here by Tuesday 7:00 p.m. EST Just to give you a little more inspiration, below are a couple more ATC's made with this adorable image.
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I (Jenn) used soft colors for my ATC - my DP is from My Mind's Eye, I just love this paper, and I paper-pieced her dress:

Pauline created a gorgeous sky background and added a matching border of flowers, so pretty:

Thanks for peeking in on us and we'd love to have you play along. I plan to start asking some of our participants to be Guest Designers, we've been having a lot of fun with this challenge blog and meeting some wonderful, friendly, sweet, extremely talented folks! So play along - you never know, you could be our first Guest Designer! :) Peace.

Getting Angelic on Wicked Wednesdays

2011-11-09T07:00:00.003-05:00

Hellooooo friends! I think Wednesdays are becoming my favorite day of the week! I am loving all of your gorgeous ATC's and you all really rocked last week's Alice in Wonderland themed challenge! So let's get right down to business and let Random.org choose who will receive the sweet Alice image from our generous sponsor, Tiddly Inks:

Congratulations hilda! Please shoot me an e-mail at JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Alice in Wonderland Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your Alice digi out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

1.) Jehanne

2.) Gez

3.) Beverly G.

Congratulations! send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Alice in Wonderland Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)! (I checked to be sure the winner and top 3 had followed the rules before posting, thank you for doing so.)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

Angelic ATC's

So this one's pretty easy - simply create an ATC with an angel theme. This week's generous sponsor is:

And the image we're playing with and providing as a prize to one random participant is Flower Angel.

Here's what my awesome Design Team and myself have come up with for this week!

My ATC was made with some DP from My Mind's Eye, I love that cloud motif:

I love the pink hair Megan gave to the Flower Angel, and that polka dot paper is delicious:

Chelsea's gorgeous clouds that hang off the edge of the ATC are the perfect touch:

Sharon gave a beautiful vintage look to her Flower Angel, and I just adore the lettering she used:

I have always had a "thing" for angels, and I am really looking forward to seeing the variety of styles you all come up with! Please remember: no back-linking (new creations only), you must mention us and link to us in your post, you can enter up to two (2) times, and you should not combine our challenge with more than FIVE (5) additional challenges in order to be eligible for the prize and/or the Top 3. Thank you! Peace.

Reminder - Alice in Wonderland Challenge!

2011-11-05T06:00:00.000-04:00

Hello friends! Just a quick reminder today - you've got until Tuesday evening at 7:00 p.m. EST to link up your Alice in Wonderland ATC here. The lucky random winner who follows our rules will win this adorable image of Alice from this week's sponsor, Tiddly Inks:

Megan and I have some more inspiration for you today! I (that would be Jenn) made a dark-haired version of Alice, whose time seems to be getting away from her... hee hee:

I colored Alice with Prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits, the numbers are stickers. My DP is digi paper, and I love it because I can print the black checks onto any color of cardstock for a different look - here it's printed on Very Vanilla, and Alice is printed on the same.

Megan made a gorgeous creation, complete with clouds in the sky and mushrooms at Alice's feet:

We've had some gorgeous ATC's linked up already - hope to see more this week! Have a nice weekend and stay warm! :) Peace.

New Challenge - Alice in Wonderland - Sponsored by Tiddly Inks

2011-11-02T07:00:00.003-04:00

Hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday! We were thrilled to have a fabulous turnout with our very challenging theme of creating a set of 3 ATC's last week! I let Random.org choose the winner, who will receive the beautiful Celeste the Good Witch image that the DT and I created with last week, and that person is....

Congratulations Susan's Crafty Chaos! Please shoot me an e-mail at JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Set of 3 ATC's Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your digi out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

2.) Joanne
3.) hilda
6.) Hazel (didos)

Congrats - send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Set of 3 ATC's Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge (unless you already have it)! (I checked to be sure the winner and top 3 had followed the rules before posting, thank you for doing so.)

Now on to the new challenge for this week! Our new challenge theme is:

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Your ATC can be anything Alice-related at all - it doesn't have to be an image of Alice.

This week's generous sponsor is:

And the image we're playing with and providing as a prize to one random participant is Alice

Here is my creation (Jenn), I used a really cool digi image from Sassy Studio for the background (Queen of Hearts Card):

Pauline's beautiful realistic background scene looks so perfect behind Alice:

Chelsea used the clock printed repeatedly as a background, and I love the sentiment:

Sharon's butterfly pops off the ATC at you, resting on that background of cool gears and sprockets:

I am so looking forward to seeing your creations honoring one of my favorite stories of all time, Alice in Wonderland. Please remember: no back-linking (new creations only), you must mention us and link to us in your post, and you should not combine our challenge with more than FIVE (5) additional challenges in order to be eligible for the prize and/or the Top 3. Thank you! Peace.

REMINDER - Set of 3 ATC's!

2011-10-29T07:57:00.004-04:00

Good morning! I know this week's challenge is especially, errrr, challenging - hee hee - which makes me appreciate even more the effort you're putting into your creations! Thank you so much for joining us, for visiting the other entrant's blogs and leaving some love (comments) on them. I thoroughly enjoy seeing everyone's unique creations!

Our DT member Pauline has a gorgeous set of 3 to share with you today using the image Celeste the Good Witch from our generous sponsor Michelle Perkett Studio!

If you look close, you can see how clever Pauline was with her creations - each image is cropped slightly differently. Her coloring is different on each one, but they're all gorgeous!

And I made a different set of 3 for today's post:

I used pieces of heavy Designer Paper (DP) for my base, I often will sit in front of the TV at night and cut my larger cardstock (or heavy DP) scraps into ATC sized pieces. I then keep them in a Ziploc baggie along with any other little pieces that I think would be perfect for ATC's. The words were stickers from a scrapbook set I had - the stickiness was gone, so I fussy-cut them out and used adhesive to apply them. I added gemstone and little heart stickers and voila - done. :) These were super easy to make with no coloring - but I admit, coloring is my favorite part of my crafting!

Hope you all find time this weekend to create your set of 3 ATC's - just remember, they must have some type of theme to them (they can be matching, coordinating, 3 of the same, based on a theme, etc.). You can read the original post and link up here.

Have a great weekend! Peace.

New Challenge - Set of 3 - Sponsored by Michelle Perkett Studio!

2011-10-26T07:00:00.005-04:00

WOW - I was blown away by the fact that we had double the number of players for our 2nd week as we had for our first! Keep up the good work, peeps! (That means keep playing! hee hee)

OK first things first - I put the numbers into the Random.org and the winner of the creepy-cute Heart Monster image from Dilly Beans is:

Congratulations Tina! Please shoot me an e-mail at JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Halloween Winner" in the subject line and I'll get your digi out to you ASAP!

Our top 3 this week are:

2.) Hazel (didos)

10.) Susan's Crafty Chaos

11.) Gez

Congrats - send an e-mail to JennBorj@yahoo.com with "WW Halloween Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge! I checked to be sure the winner and top 3 had followed the rules before posting, thank you for doing so.

Now on to the new challenge for this week!

This week's image is brought to you by Michelle Perkett Studio, and is called Celeste the Good Witch:

Our theme this week is:

Set of 3 ATC's

They can be 3 of the same, 3 coordinating, however you want to do it but it has to be a "set" in some way - in other words, don't just post 3 random ATC's you've made, there has to be something that ties them together. Got it? Good! Now here's some inspiration from me and the fabulous Design Team!

I'll go first:

I used digital paper from Shery K Designs, colored my images to match (the broom and sentiment were a freebie posted on Michelle Perkett's blog here) with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits. Buttons and gemstone stickers are from my stash.

Sharon:

Sharon's coloring is phenomenal and those papers are beautiful. I love how she used a mirror image of Celeste along with a clever sentiment - Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Well? What are you? As for me - depends on the day! ;)

Chelsea:

Chelsea's colorful trio looks perfect on those adorable easels of hers, don't they? I absolutely love how each one uses such a perfect coordinating light/dark shade of each color. So pretty!

Gorgeous, eh? OK now the rules are pretty simple but a basic overview is that creations must be new (no back-linking), you must mention us and link to us in your post, and you should not combine our challenge with more than FIVE (5) additional challenges in order to be eligible for the prize and/or the Top 3. Thank you! Now go get busy with your set of 3 ATC's - just think, you'll have an instant gift ready for someone (stick a magnet on the back of each one, put them in a small box - or make a small box - and tie a ribbon around it!). Peace.

Reminder and New Winner!

2011-10-22T07:39:00.001-04:00

Last week's winner, Lissa, let me know that she doesn't actually use digi images and has no printer, so she asked me to go ahead and give the prize from last week to someone else. I put the info in Random.org again but I am not able to save the widget this time, I don't know why - I think I need some help with this Random.org thing - ugh! Anyway - the winner is:

Ardilla!

Congratulations, Ardilla, please e-mail me at JennBorj@yahoo.com and put "WW Winner" in the subject line so I can send you along the Just Some Lines image "Gab in the Groove". :)

Don't forget to play along with our new Halloween-themed challenge this week - you can win this adorable Heart Monster digi from Dilly Beans:

I just love these images - hope you'll play along for a chance to win one! Have a great weekend, my friends. Peace.

New Challenge - Halloween Themed ATC sponsored by Dilly Beans!

2011-10-19T07:00:00.023-04:00

Thank you so very much to all of you who played along with our All About You themed challenge last week! We were really excited to have 7 entries into our very first challenge, and they were all gorgeous! First off, our random winner of the gorgeous Gab in the Groove image from our sponsor last week, Just Some Lines, is:

Lissa, please e-mail me at JennBorj@yahoo.com and put "WW ATC Winner!" in the subject line and I will send you along your digi stamp!

Now onto our very first Top 3! :) In no particular order, they are:

1.) Mary

2.) Jehanne

4.) hilda

Congratulations, girls! Please e-mail me at JennBorj@yahoo.com and put "WW ATC Top 3" in the subject line, and I'll send you along your Top 3 badge. :)
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Now onto our next order of business - our new challenge! The theme this week is:

HALLOWEEN!

This week we are being sponsored by our very own Megan's digital stamp company, Dilly Beans, and the image you can win is Heart Monster:

And here's what me and the fabulous DT have come up with using this scary cutie:

Jenn (that's me) cropped Heart Monster's head for a close-up version, stuck with a black and white color scheme and sprayed Silver Foil Smooch Spritz over the entire thing:

Sharon made this colorful creation, I love the "Boo Who?" sentiment:

Pauline's faux stitching around the border of the ATC is the perfect touch:

Chelsea's red heart really pops, and the sponged background is such a great touch:

Megan's polka dot background paper is so perfect with that red heart and those red-rimmed eyes:

I hope you will play along with us this week and create a Halloween based ATC! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Don't forget - challenges close at 7:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday evening. Please leave me a comment after linking up, too, I love to hear what you have to say! Visit the other entrant's blogs and leave them some love, too - that's what our crafting community is all about. :) Peace.

Happy Saturday - Challenge Reminder

2011-10-15T06:52:00.000-04:00

Happy Saturday, folks! Hope you're all having a great week. We're excited to have a few participants in our very first challenge -

All About You ATC Challenge

There's still plenty of time to play along - please upload your creations in the post below (or click link above) by Tuesday evening 7:00 p.m. EST

Sharon and I have each created an additional ATC to share with you for this week's challenge, we hope this inspires you to play along:

Jenn's ATC - I just LOVE coloring Gab's gorgeous hair:

Sharon's ATC - I absolutely adore the funky tie-dye look that Gab is printed on:

Don't forget, we've used the adorable image that is being offered from Just Some Lines as a prize to our random winner this week. Good luck! Peace.

All About You!

2011-10-12T07:00:00.058-04:00

Welcome to our very first challenge here at

Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenges!!!

We are so excited to announce our first theme:

All About You!

Rules: Create an ATC that represents you in some way. Be sure to mention us on your posting and link back here - please read the full rules and guidelines here.

This week we are being sponsored by:

Just Some Lines is generously providing this image as the prize for this week's random winner:

OK now let me introduce you to our Design Team!

My name is Jenn

Here's my creation, I painted my cardstock and cut into ATC sized pieces, printed Gab on copy paper and colored her with Prismacolor markers. I cut the words out of a magazine and used Mod Podge to apply everything to the painted piece of cardstock:

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Next up is Sharon

I love the vintagey look she gave to Gab:

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Next is Chelsea

And here's Chelsea's "Lotsa' Love" cutie:

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Next is Pauline

Pauline used one of my favorite colors, purple:

To wrap things up for today, we have Megan

Megan rocks ATC's and this one with the cool book pages as background paper is no exception:

To read more about our Design Team, please click here.
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We hope you'll play along by linking up below - the challenge closes on Tuesday evening, Oct. 18, at 7:00 p.m. EST, winner and top 3 will be posted along with the new challenge Wednesday morning. Peace.

Welcome to Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge Blog!

2011-10-09T06:50:00.000-04:00

Hi there! I am sooooo excited to welcome you to my new challenge blog - Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenges! This challenge blog is dedicated to.... you guessed it - ATC's! ATC's are Artist Trading Cards. They are mini works of art - the only real "rules" are that they must be 3.5 x 2.5 inches. You can use any supplies, mediums, etc. that you want - here are a few websites that you can browse for some ideas:

ATC's for All

Art in Your Pocket ATC Gallery

New challenges will be posted every Wednesday morning, along with a theme for the week. Our generous sponsors will provide the Design Team (please see link above for Design Team page, with links to their individual websites/blogs, as well) with images, which we will be creating our weekly ATC with. The random winner of each challenge will receive the same image as their prize, along with a winner's badge for their blog/website. We will also choose a Top 3 each week, who will be sent a "Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge Top 3" badge for their blog.

Just some info about ATC's - they are typically more... poetic, "edgy", dramatic... than cards. They are meant to be kept or traded, never sold, which to me means I'm free to do whatever I want - sometimes I use handwriting on my ATC's, something I'd never do on a card. I also like to sit with a magazine at night and cut out words from ads, articles, etc. and I keep them in a plastic baggie - I then piece them together to create a poem or sentence (or just random words!) on an ATC. Here are just a few ATC's I've made over the past few months:

Images from Dilly Beans & Tiddly Inks - cardstock from Crate Paper - ribbon & inks from Stampin' Up!

Image from Just Some Lines - entire ATC was coated with Mod Podge and sprinkled with glitter.

All supplies from Stampin' Up!

Please come back for our first challenge on Wednesday - I'll also introduce you to my fabulous Design Team! We are super excited and can't wait to share our creations with you and see what you can come up with! Peace.