May 22, 2009
Contest info:
For the May Monday Challenges Contest, I have had some trouble accessing the entries.
TO HELP SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, AND SAVE US ALL OODLES OF PRECIOUS TIME:
If you have completed or are completing a LO for any PAST or FUTURE May challenge please email them to me ASAP at peteali @ eastlink. ca (with no spaces).
Include your name.
THEN I can enter you in our “growing” Colorbok Prize Pack draw! It’s going to be a FUN and AMAZING PRIZE!
The BASIC Colorbok Prize Pack for May's Monday Challenges. It is GROWING!
It gets bigger EVERY time I receive an entry. Here is a sneak peek of the BASIC prize pack!
The only way I can enter your name is if you email it to me.
ALL WELCOME regardless of location. Additionally, former/current DT members and former/current Guest Designers are also eligible.
Have fun- Now go on!!! “Get creating! “
THANKS gals!
May 12, 2009
It’s Time for Challenge B!!
Challenge B: This week our challenge is to create a LO that features the colours RED or Blue, while creating a LO from Sketch #21!
(Ok…Yes… you can use both colours! )
Any shade of blue or red goes!
[These are my two fave colours, so I’m being a li’l selfish here! ]
Here is a link to Challenge A and the rules.
Remember you have a chance to win this GROWING prize pack if you enter!
- RAK Prize Pack to be won with your lucky “Challenge” ballot!
I am adding one new item every time I receive an entry. It’ll be a great pack of scrappy-ness!
Now go, go, go!!! Let me see your creativity!
Applicants to the CY Design Team might find this a good Challenge to do as well.
Show us your Team Spirit!
May 10, 2009
Prize Pak Picture!!
Be sure to enter the challenges this month!
Challenge A has been posted below. Three will be another Challenge posted EVERY Monday in May!
The challenges do not have to be done in order. You can pick and choose!
Do one challenge or do all 4 this month, but be SURE to get your name in the prize draw!
The prize is SO much fun!
RAK Prize for our Lucky Winner!
Each challenge you complete and send in to me {pete ali@ east link.ca no spaces} nets you a BALLOT for our
Colorbok Prize Pak.
I’m going to sweeten the pot… For every entrant, I will ADD one item of Scrappy-ness to the RAK seen above!
Now: Go, go, go!
May 5, 2009
Wow: It’s the Merry Month of May!!!
We’ll be sharing sketches from the CY archives as we do this!
Every time you email a LO or card to Ali & Noella, we will happily throw your name into our “hat.”
LOs & cards sent in will be shared here on the CY Blog, along with your name and blog addy on May 30th, 2009!!
What a great opportunity to share your work with others.
The BEST part!
At the end of the month, we will have a draw from ALL those names for a really fun Colorbok prize pack!
Your RAK Prize will look just like this one with a few extras thrown in to “sweeten the pot!”
So, to recap:
*A new Challenge will be issued on Mondays throughout May.
* Must use the CY sketch posted to complete each challenge
* email all of your CY Challenge LOs and cards to Ali by May 29th midnight YOUR time at pete ali @ eastlink .ca with no spaces.
*****PLEASE INCLUDE THE SKETCH NUMBER, your name and your blog addy! (Missing information makes it hard to complete my work. Thanks for your consideration.)*****
* LOs will be shared here at CY on on May 30th
*Prize draw and announcement of winner will be made May 31st
CHALLENGE A-
1. Challenge A is to create a LO about an ANIMAL. It can be a pet, zoo critter, a bird, a creepy crawly or a wilderness friend. ANY sort of animal LO is acceptable.
2. Here is the sketch you’ll use for your LO!
Sketch # 15
Sketch #15 by Noella Arsenault
April 24, 2009
Sketch #12
Hello everyone! Here’s hoping Spring has found you! We have had lots of April Showers here and now are expecting the MOST GORGEOUS weekend with summery temps here in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. When are ya’ll coming to visit me? You KNOW I’d love that!
Well, I must have Spring Fever b/c I posted the interpretations and forgot the Sketch! ROFL! OH MY Ali!!
Here’s that promised Sketch #12! (Better late than never! **Shaking my head at myself! LOL**)
Sketch #12 created by Ali MacDonald for Creatively Yours: 2009
Noella and I have a special treat for you today. Our talented Guest Designers, sisters Carla, Susan and Deanne, have interpreted today’s sketch! It’s such an honour for me to see how they interpret something I drew! LOL A big thanks ladies, for that.
Without further ado: Here are the sisters’ layout interpretations of Sketch #12!
~CY Guest Designer Carla Robinson provides us with a glimpse of the beauty of nature in her layout~
(Carla, I love the rich earth tones & the sweet critter faces in the pix. That title is PERFECT! LOL!)
CY Guest Designer Carla Robinson's "Squirrels & Chipmunks" layout, based on Sketch #12
~CY Guest Designer Deanne Burton created this layout in memory of a beloved pet. ~
(Deanne, I just love the “softness” of this layout- it’s so perfect for a LO about a bunny. )
"Remember Tweety"~ A layout by CY Guest Designer Deanne Burton
CY Guest Designer Susan Coish provides us with a glimpse of the happiness of children at play in her layout for Sketch #12
"Playground Pals" layout created by CY Guest Designer Susan Coish
"Love in Abundance" by CY Designer Ali MacDonald
April 12, 2009
Sketch #14
Please remember to post a link to your creation and we will go check it out. 🙂 WHY??
Because we have a DT CALL!
The CY DESIGN TEAM SEARCH has begun!…. We’re always on the lookout for talented Creatively Yours Design Team Members and a new term starts soon! The current DT finishes up their term on May 1-2009.
We have some special things planned here for May, so the next DT term will be June 01- October 31, 2009.
Being able to see how YOU interpret a CY sketch helps Noella and I make good choices.
If you are interested in a position on the next CY Design Team, be sure to post the link to your sketch #14 creation in the “Comments” section AND send me an email including your NAME and CREATION (DT entry layout based on sketch #14) at peteali@eastlink.ca so I am aware that you are interested and have entered the DT call. Love love love to see your DT entry (Sketch #14) creations!
EDITED: DEADLINE for DT call entries is MAY 15, 2009 midnight YOUR time (I am nice, LOL)
New DT members will be notified by May 17.
Our new DT will be announced here on May 22, 2009
Now on to Sketch #14…
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Sketch #14 created for CY by Ali MacDonald
Here are some beautiful interpretations by our uber-talented CY Design Team!
Layout created by CY DT member Liz Weber, a gal we can always count on for “a stunner!”
Yup!! A Stunner!
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“Many Faces” layout created by DT Member Liz Weber for CY
Here is Ann Seleshanko’s “wise” interpretation: No-one can combine patterns the way Ann does!!
A+ Gorgeous!
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“Summer Hike” layout by CY DT Member Ann Seleshanko
Here is a layout by CY Design Team Member Jana Fail. Colourful and happy in a way that is perfection- those are Jana’s LOs!
Bravo Jana!
- Stay tuned for more lovely work on Thursday… Hope you’re feeling inspired! 🙂
Now go re-read the DT applicant information, above! **Grin**
Thanks Liz, Ann and Jana for your beautiful work today!~
It was a pleasure to post!
March 17, 2009
Sketch #51 NOTE!!! (Sneaky….)
Sketch #51 Challenge is still open! So far we have had no takers! Who among our talented readers needs a fun Challlenge!?
And… the exposure of your beautiful scrappin’ work on the BLOG?
OK, I am going to sweeten the pot!!! We were being sneaky, Noella and I…LOL.
Here is the plan:
Noella and I will be choosing a GUEST DESIGNER for April among the Sketch #51 LOs created by our “CY” blog readers!
So please read the rules below, & then do a LO with that sketch! ! Send us the link so that we may visit. YOU just might be the APRIL 2009 “Creatively Yours” Guest Designer! ALL are welcome, regardless of whether you have designed for “CY” before or not, and regardless of your location… Go for it!
International participants are welcomed!
A note to our CY designers:
Any and ALL of the current CY Designers or GDTs who complete a LO for Sketch #51– including those who originally interpreted it for us and do a 2nd layout,– will receive the opportunity to accept an EXTRA “CY” assignment!!!!
This assignment could be a card or LO or… oh… let me tell you…it will be a FUN surprise… So please do a new LO for Sketch #51, post the link in the comments section and have a chance to get increased exposure on the Blog! Simple as that. OK?
Time to SCRAP ladies!!!!! Wahooo!!!!
March 9, 2009
Sketch#51
- “Creatively Yours” Sketch #51 by Noella Arsenault
“Creatively Yours” Designer Ann Seleshanko mixed a selection of patterned papers to create a crisp, cheerful winter layout as her interpretation of Sketch #51 . What gorgeous smiles… and shiny, pretty snowflakes! Brrrrrr!
Layout by "Creatively Yours" Designer Ann Seleshako
“Creatively Yours” Designer Evelien Verschelde celebrates love and sharing with a family-centered layout in her whimsical and gentle interpretation of Sketch #51. It radiates happiness!
- A layout by “Creatively Yours” Designer Evelien Verschelde
Noella and I, and our talented “Creatively Yours ” Designers hope you’ve enjoyed these beautiful interpretations of the latest CY Sketch!
~ “CREATIVELY YOURS” LAYOUT CHALLENGE ~
Why not give Sketch #51 a try? We’d enjoy seeing your interpretations!
What’s the incentive???
TWO lucky artists will have their interpretations posted on the CY site as a special treat!
Let’s Go!!!
How do you enter the Challenge???
Post the link to YOUR interpretation of Sketch #51 in the Comments section located below.
Noella and I will follow the link you provide, & come by to “visit” and see your creation(s) for this sketch! I’ll bet some of the CY Designers will pop by too! Wow, that means MORE BLOG TRAFFIC and exposure for YOUR WORK!!!
YES: you may create MORE than one layout for consideration in this Challenge. Create as many as you’d like.
We’ll be thrilled to consider each and every one for online publication on the CY blog!
Just remember: The layouts MUST be created with Sketch #51. Turning or flipping the sketch is fine, too.
And…you just might receive a request to place YOUR layout
front and centre on the “Creatively Yours” site!!
Now take Sketch #51 and GET BUSY!!!! LOL
Don’t forget to share the link to your creation so we can find it… and find you!
Tell all your friends to join us here at CY for this fun Challenge with a COOL “Creatively Yours” incentive!
Have fun!
- A layout by “Creatively Yours” Designer Evelien Verschelde
Noella and I, and our talented “Creatively Yours ” Designers hope you’ve enjoyed these beautiful interpretations of the latest CY Sketch!
February 4, 2009
Scrapscene… and our RAK Winner!
mentioned Creatively Yours today! Check it out girls!
You’re all famous! Congratulations!
And now for the draw for the winner of the Ribbon RAK…
I was assisted by my son Bryan, who drew the name….. are you ready?…
And the winner is…
JANA!!
Jana, you’ve won the CY Ribbon RAK! I will mail it as soon as you email me your snail mail addy!
YAY! CONGRATS! A big thanks to ALL who played along! ~ Ali
February 1, 2009
Sketch #2
Sketch #2
What a Sunday treat!
With pleasure, I bring to you a new sketch and two individual interpretations of Sketch #2 by CY Designers Jana and Beth. What can YOU create with this sketch today?
Enjoy!
"Treats from the heart" ~A layout by CY Designer Jana Fail for Sketch #2
"This Day" ~ A Layout for Sketch #2 by CY Designer Beth Price
Thanks for checking out the artistic interpretations of this sketch by our talented Designers! If you try this sketch, remember to link your creation via the Comments section here at CY! We’ll be by to have a peek and leave you a li’l note! It’s a great chance to have your work “seen” by many other scrappers and sketchers!
RIBBON RAK REMINDER!!!
Remember our Ribbon RAK that is open until Sunday at Midnight AST honouring our FOUR new Guest Designers!! You still have plenty of time to add a comment and thus have a chance to WIN a selection of ribbon sent right to your door!
Creatively Yours 