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Friday, April 30, 2010

Phindy's Place Friday Challenge #3 - Use Your Favourite Phindy Image

Thank goodness it's Friday, welcome to Phindy's Place Friday Challenge! Thank you to all the people who submitted their lovely entries last week. Please drop by later to see who are the winners from the second challenge.

It's nearly the weekend (hooray!) and it's time for our third Phindy's Place Friday Challenge. This week the theme is what I thought was a super-easy one when I set it - use your favourite Phindy image. That was until the DT all said how impossible it was to choose and, on reflection, I agree with them:). My favourite is often the most recently acquired image, how about you?


This week the challenge winner, picked by Random.org, will get a $8 Gift Certificate to use in Phindy's store. The second and third prize winners will receive 5% off vouchers to use in the store. And there's more! Each week a Top Three will be picked from the entries and they will be able to display a winner's banner on their blog. As well as the banner, the number 1 entry will get a 10% off voucher for the store and 2nd and 3rd will each get a 5% discount voucher. So with six prizes in all you stand a great chance of winning!

So it's another fun and easy challenge, the main thing to remember is that you MUST use a Phindy's Place image to enter this challenge.

Here's some inspiration for you from our amazing DT, who keep raising the bar each week with their wonderful cards. Enjoy and do check out their blogs for more info about how their cards were made and why this is their favourite image.


Anne Ray




















Friday, April 23, 2010

Phindy's Place Challenge #2 - Use Ribbon

Thank you so much to those who played along with our first challenge, anything goes, there are some stunning entries posted from some very talented crafters!

Welcome to the second Phindy's Place Challenge. This week your challenge is to make a card or or project using ribbon. Everyone loves to add a bit of ribbon to their card, or even a lot of ribbon! So it's another fun and easy challenge,
the main thing to remember is that you MUST use a Phindy's Place image to enter this challenge.

This week the challenge winner, picked by Random.org, will get a $8 Gift Certificate to use in Phindy's store. The second and third prize winners will receive 5% off vouchers to use in the store. And there's more! Each week a Top Three will be picked from the entries and they will be able to display a winner's banner on their blog. As well as the banner, the number 1 entry will get a 10% off voucher for the store and 2nd and 3rd will each get a 5% discount voucher. So with six prizes in all you stand a great chance of winning!


Please check the earlier posting to find out who won the first challenge and whose cards made the Top 3.

Here is some wonderful inspiration from the DT:

Tammy Maynard


Sylvia BlumMary B Giemza


Linda Payne


Lynda Nielson

Jane Wetzel

Emma Lockley


Cindy Royal

Annika Ryan

Anne-Marije

Anne Ray
Ann English


Winners of the first Phindy's Place Challenge

It's time to announce the winners from the first challenge and how exciting, I have SIX winners to announce in total. Random.org didn't pick out any of the Top Three awards, so SIX different people get to win - how good is that!

The winner of our first Challenge, chosen by Random.org is.....


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Carlie M
!!!!

Congratulations Carlie, you win the $20 gift certificate to use in Phindy's store. Here's Carlie's fabulous card:
In second place, winning a 5% off voucher for the store is Anita A and in third place, also winning a 5% off voucher, is Cec.

And there are more prizes! Now for the Top 3 cards from the Challenge, voted for by the DT:

The winning card is by Sue M, who receives a 10% discount voucher to use in Phindy's store, here is Sue's gorgeous card:

The second place card was made by Cec and in third place is Kertu. Both second and third place win a 5% discount to use in Phindy's shop. Congratulations ladies!

Top Three winners, if you contact me via the comments I will arrange for you to get your Top Three Banners, which I hope you'll display proudly on your blogs :). Also, all winners need to contact Phindy to get their Gift Ceritficates or Discount Vouchers.

Hope you'll all play along with this week's challenge, I can't wait to see your entries!







Saturday, April 17, 2010

Winner of the First Phindy's Place Challenge Blog Hop!!!

It's time to announce the winner of the first Phindy's Place Challenge Blog Hop, chosen by Random.org.

The winner of the $15 gift certificate to use in the Phindy's Place Shop was....


drumroll......



Shirley, who said:

"Bloghop finished and a great DT put together. Your cards were all wonderful and you are deserving of your positions."

Congratulations Shirley!!! If you would like to send Phindy an email she can arrange for you to get your prize.

Thank you so much to everyone who played along, I hope you enjoyed looking at the scrumptious artwork put together by the DT and please don't forget to play along in our first Challenge - Anything Goes.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Challenge #1 - Anything Goes!

Welcome to the very first Phindy's Place Challenge! We have a fun challenge to start with that really couldn't be easier - anything goes. Yes, it really is that easy, so no excuses, let's see you get out your Phindy's Place images and get colouring. Please check out the rules in the sidebar, the most important one to remember is to use an image from Phindy's Place. If you don't have any yet, there are some lovely free images available at Phindy's Papercraft Planet Group.

For our first week, we're starting with a major prize from Phindy for first place: the challenge winner, picked by Random.org, will get a $20 Gift Certificate to use in Phindy's store. The second and third prize winners will receive 5% off vouchers to use in the store. And there's more! Each week a Top Three will be picked from the entries and they will be able to display a winner's banner on their blog. As well as the banner, the number 1 entry will get a 10% off voucher for the store and 2nd and 3rd will each get a 5% discount voucher. So that's six prizes in all - wow!

I have some amazing and inspirational artwork to show you from the DT. Here is their work, please do check out their blogs to find out how they made their cards and we would all love to hear your comments.

Ann English

Anne-Marije Poppen

Anne Ray
Annika Ryan

Cindy Royal


Emma Lockley

Jane Wetzel


Linda Payne

Lynda Nielsen
Mary B Giemza

Sylvia Blum

Tammy Maynard
Please stay tuned to hear who won the "New" Blog Hop!


Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Blog Followers Candy - Winners!!!!

Good Morning! If you're looking for the blog hop, please hop down to here to play along :). The hop is open until midnight Thursday, don't forget to play along to be in with the chance to win a $15 gift certificate to Phindy's Place store.

Phindy very kindly agreed to create one new design for each 50 followers that the challenge blog had before the blog hop began, to be won in a random drawing. I've done the draw, using random.org and I'm really excited to be able to reveal the winners and the images.

The first number drawn was 36, which is Mary Ski. Mary, congratulations, you win the "Something New" image
that the DT has been working with.

The second number to be drawn was 85, which is Paper, Ink, Colour. Congratulations, you've won Rainy Day, the second of the as yet unreleased images.
The third random drawn number from the followers is Aunty Sue's Craft Cabin. Congratulations Sue, you've won My Best Friend, the last of the three images.

Well done you three, if you contact Phindy direct, using her email in the sidebar, she will send you your gorgeous images to use, can't wait to see what you make with them, perhaps you'll be using them to enter the first challenge, which starts this Friday. Thank you to everyone who is following the blog, don't forget to blog hop and see you on Friday for the challenge!

Monday, April 12, 2010

The First Phindy's Place Challenge Blog Hop


Hello and welcome to the first Phindy’s Place Challenge Blog Hop! I’d like to introduce you to Phindy’s Dazzling Digi-Stamping Design Team, who will be showcasing their fabulous creations along the way. Because the DT and the Challenge are new, our theme for the hop is “New”. Phindy has designed an adorable New Arrival digi especially for the launch of the challenge! This image is not available to buy in her shop until Friday, April 16.

One lucky follower of the challenge blog has won this image – check back later and see if it’s YOU! For every 50 followers on the challenge blog, there is another un-released image to be won – I hope you have signed up as a follower - you could be a lucky winner!

The bloghop winner (chosen by random) will receive candy from Phindy – a $15 gift certifcate to her shop! Not only that, you will also find some small individual pieces of candy hidden along the way by the DT! All you have to do to win is to sit back and enjoy the wonderful projects from the Design Team, be sure to leave comments at each blog and you will be entered into the candy draw. The Blog Hop Draw closes on Thursday 15 April at midnight GMT.

Now it’s time for you to meet the DT; here’s your list for the hop. If you get lost on the way you can come back here and see where you should be! Have fun and see you at the end

Tammy Maynard

Sylvia Blum

Mary B. Giemza

Lynda Nielsen

Linda Payne

Jane Wetzel

Emma Lockley

Cindy Royal

Annika Ryan

Anne-Marije Poppen

Anne Ray

Ann English

Challenge Blog

MAKE SURE YOU COME BACK AND PARTICIPATE IN OUR FIRST CHALLENGE,

FRIDAY, APRIL 16TH! More fun and prizes!

Meet Phindy's Dazzling Design Team!

The wait is over, it's time to meet Phindy's Dazzling Design Team! I know that Phindy had a lot of applications to join her DT and be part of this exciting new challenge blog that showcases her dazzling digis. She had a tough task choosing her team but I can tell you she has picked some awesome and talented crafters. I can't wait to share their creations with you!

Here is our team! You will be able to see their "new" creations for the blog hop shortly and they will be back with the first ever Phindy's Place Challenge on Friday - don't miss it!
Ann English, Anne Ray, Anne-Marije Poppen, Annika Ryan, Cindy Royal, Emma Lockley, Jane Wetzel, Linda Payne, Lynda Nielsen, Mary B. Giemza, Sylvia Blum, Tammy Maynard.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Sneak Peek!

Here's a peek at bits and pieces of some of the unreleased Phindy images that are up for grabs on our launch day, April 12th!
Get a free copy of one of these brand new images - not for sale until April 16th.
Fully detailed, fun images - like all the Phindy images you love!

We launch with a Blog Hop!

Our big launch day is Monday, April 12th - and I'm giving you a sneak peek at some of the fun. Please feel free to grab this image and promote our big launch and blog hop on your own blog!
See you on Monday - you are going to want to check out the new DT team and what they have cooked up for you!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Two new Phindy images!

Now that we are over 100 members, we have two un-released Phindy images for our opening day drawing. Let's try for at least three!

Monday, April 5, 2010

Only One Week to Go!

Just one week remaining until Phindy's Place announces the new DT and launches our new Challenge Blog! Sooooo exciting!

To encourage YOU to encourage your friends to sign up here, A NEW UNRELEASED PHINDY DIGI STAMP will be entered into a draw for every 50 followers we have on this site. So far, there is one new stamp in the drawing. When we reach 100 followers, there will be two - and a new one added for every 50 new followers!

HELP SPREAD THE NEWS - announce our Challenge Blog launch and DT announcement on your blog, encourage your followers to sign up and increase everyone's chance of winning!

Winners will be chosen by random and will receive their new digi stamp on launch day, April 12th. The stamps will not be available in the shop until Friday, April 16th.