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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Winners! Winners! Blog Hop & OWH

Sorry to keep you all waiting, I have been away, but without more ado it is time to announce some winners!  I'm afraid you need to wait a couple of days for your prizes as Phindy is out of town, they should be with you by Friday!

First of all, that Christmas Cutie Blog Hop - weren't those cuties adorable and weren't the cards from the Design Team brilliant!  The sentence that you should have found while hopping was:  Phindy's Christmas Cuties are perfect for your Christmas projects.
The winner of TWO Christmas Cuties of your choice, chosen at random from the comments left at the Challenge Blog was Kerstin.   There is a further prize of a Christmas Cutie chosen at random from the comments left on one of the DT's blogs.  The winner is Anita A and the mystery DT blog was Mary's!  Congratulations to Kerstin and Anita!

Next, thank you to all who entered the Operation Write Home Challenge.  The winner of an $8 gift certificate, chosen at random, is this cute birthday card by San

Winner of Pick of the Week, winning a 20% off voucher for Phindy's Place Store is Marlena with her stunning Christmas Cutie card.   
 
Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!

Well done Marlena and San and congratulations to all the winners, hope you'll be entering this week's challenge!

Friday, September 24, 2010

Challenge #24 - Give Thanks

Welcome to Friday and welcome to a new Phindy's Place Challenge.  Thank you so much to all who took part in the Christmas Cutie Blog Hop and also a big THANK YOU to all who took part in Operation Write Home and entered the Challenge.  As I'm out of town and scheduling this post you will have to wait until my return to find out whether you are a winner!

One of the things I like most about making cards is that I have a good stash of cards and can give cards "just because" without worrying about buying one.  It is so nice to be able to say Thank You to someone with a hand-made card and that is out theme this week, to make a Thank You card or gift, using a Phindy's Place image.   

The winner of the Challenge will be chosen by Random.org and will receive an $8 Gift Certificate to the Phindy's Place store. The Pick of the Week wins a 20% off voucher for the Phindy's Place store. Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!

Here is some eye candy from Phindy's very talented team for your inspiration!




Mary B. Giemza



Anne Ray made three Thank You cards!
Tammy Maynard

    Sylvia Blum

    Ann English has made two gorgeous Thank You cards


      Annika Ryan
     Cec Wintonyk
     Linda Payne

    Anne-Marije Poppen




    Monday, September 20, 2010

    Winners for challenge #22 Going Green

    Hi everyone!  It's time to announce our winners from the Going Green challenge.  It was such a fun challenge and you all did awesome with it.

    The winner of our challenge chosen by Random.org and receiving an $8 gift certificate to the Phindy's Place store is....

    Anna with this absolutely darling card using one of the Summer Cuties called "Ready For Beddy"!!

    And our winner of Card of the Week with a chance to be our next guest designer and a 20% off voucher is.........

    Patricia St Martin with this adorable card using another of the Summer Cuties called "Just Hangin Around"

    Congratulations ladies and please email Phindy to claim your prizes.  And I want to thank all of you who played along with us for our "Going Green" challenge.  You all did a fabulous job!!

    Friday, September 17, 2010

    Phindy's Place Christmas Cuties Blog Hop - and OWH Challenge


    Welcome to Phindy's Friday Challenge and take a look at this sneak peek of the new Christmas Cuties - just wait till you see the real thing, they are just gorgeous! We have lots of information in this post, so get yourself a cuppa and read all about it!

    Its time for the PHINDY'S PHABULOUS CHRISTMAS CUTIES BLOG HOP!  These oh-so-cute images you have been waiting for, go on sale in Phindy's Shop today and we're celebrating their launch with an amazing blog hop around the DT, where you will see not one but TWO -  count 'em, two - Cuties used in projects on each blog.  We'll also have TWO winners of the blog hop!  One random winner of the blog hop will receive TWO Christmas Cutie images of their choice and there will be an extra prize of another image for a comment picked from one of the DT's blogs - but which blog?  What do you have to do to win? Visit the DT's blogs and be sure to leave a comment at each one. Also, each blog will have a word that you need to collect as you hop along. Put the words together to make a sentence and leave a comment, including your sentence, in the comments below to be in the draw to win.

     Here is a full list of the participating blogs in the correct order:

    Tammy Maynard
    Ann English
    Annika Ryan
    Linda Payne
    Anne-Marije Poppen
    Lynda Nielsen
    Mary B. Giemza
    Sylvia Blum
    Phindy's Place Challenge Blog and your final word is PROJECTS!!

    Our regular challenge this week is to make a card for Operation Write Home  OWH is an organization that sends blank handmade greeting cards for all occasions to deployed service members to write home on. Please check their website for their very specific guidelines. If you are a non-US member you can make a holiday, birthday, Christmas or anniversary card. Please check if there is a local good cause in your country, such as Post Pals that you can support with your entry. THIS WEEK ONLY YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE A PHINDY'S PLACE IMAGE. This challenge is open to ALL images, so we are hoping for huge participation. Let's show our support to OWH!  Please link your blog post to the inlinkz labeled "OWH challenge" located at the end of this post.

    The winner of the Challenge will be chosen by Random.org and will receive an $8 Gift Certificate to the Phindy's Place store. The Pick of the Week wins a 20% off voucher for the Phindy's Place store. Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!

    Now for a little inspiration from the DT..........

    Annika Ryan

    Mary Giemza

     Anne-Marije Poppen

    Lynda Nielsen

    Ann English

    Linda Payne

    Sylvia Blom


    Tammy Maynard


    Have fun on the Blog Hop and let's produce lots of fabulous cards in support of OWH!"

    Please leave us your link if you have completed the blog hop and know what the winning phrase is.  Please do not leave your link if you haven't collected all of the words as when we random pick the winner, that person will be required to provide us with the winning phrase in order to claim their prize.  If you don't have a blog please leave us a comment with your email address (you can type it all out if you want to (eg. "phindysplace at gmail dot com").  What are you waiting for!?!  Lets get to hoppin'!! 


    Please leave your phrase in the comments section.  Comments moderation has been turned on so you have to do the hop!! :)


    Have a good one!!



    Wednesday, September 15, 2010

    Winners for challenge #21 Paper Piecing

    Hi everyone.  So, have you been chompin' at the bit to find out who our winners are for the Paper Piecing challenge!?!  LOL!!!  Sorry to keep you waiting but without further ado here are our winners!

    Winner of the random draw and an $8 gift certificate from the Phindy's Place store is.......

    Sue MacLean with this absolutely darling card!!!!

    And our Card of the Week winner with the chance to be our next guest designer and a 20% off voucher to Phindy's store is.........................

    Jackie Mooney with this absolute stunner!!!
     
    Congratulations girls and a great big thank you to all who played along with us last week!!!  Hope to see you all for our Going Green challenge this week.  You just never know when you may be our next winner!!  :)

    Have a good one!!!

    Friday, September 10, 2010

    A new Phindy's Place crafting poll!


    Welcome to the second Phindy's Place crafting poll! This time we ask the question, "What is your favorite challenge theme?"

    Pop over the Phindy's blog to leave your answer and add your link to be entered in the random drawing for this adorable unreleased "Winter Cutie"! (First peek at the coming Winter Cuties!)

    While you are there, check our the interesting results of our first poll!

    Challenge #22 - Going Green

    Good Morning!  Welcome to Phindy's Friday Challenge Blog and welcome to Friday:). This week we have a great challenge for you - we are Going Green.  You can interpret this either by using the colour green or by recycling in your project, however do be sure to use one of Phindy's fabulous images!
    The winner of the Challenge will be chosen by Random.org and will receive an $8 Gift Certificate to the Phindy's Place store. The Pick of the Week wins a 20% off voucher for the Phindy's Place store. Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!
    Here are some gorgeous green cards from Phindy's fabulous Design Team for you to enjoy:

    Tammy Maynard  
     
     

    Anne Ray


    Cec Wintonyk  

      Linda Payne
        Anne-Marije Poppen
         

          Mary B. Giemza


           Sylvia Blum    

          Annika Ryan


          Tuesday, September 7, 2010

          Winners for Challenge #20 - Christmas in Summer

          Hi everyone!!  Hope you all had a fabulous Labor Day weekend.  It's time to announce our winners for the Christmas in Summer challenge and there were some very beautiful cards last week!!  I'm starting to feel a little more in the Christmas spirit after seeing all of your beautiful creations.  Okay...on to our winners.

          The winner of our $8 gift certificate to the Phindy's Place store chosen by random is...

          Carolina with this darling card!

          And our Card of the Week winner with a chance at becoming our next guest designer and a 20% off voucher is...

          Viv with this stunning card!!!

          Congratulations ladies!!  You will need to contact Phindy to claim your prize and be on the lookout for your blog blinky being emailed!  :)  Thank you to all who joined us for our challenge last week and we really hope that you will show us what you got this week for our Paper Piecing challenge!!!

          Have a good one!!

          Friday, September 3, 2010

          Challenge #21 - Paper Piecing

          Welcome to this week's Phindy's Place Challenge; this week we come of age with our 21st challenge; I can't believe we're on the 21st challenge already!  
          Please welcome our Guest Designer for this week, Sue Drees  .  Sue makes some beautiful creations and her adorable card this week is no exception. 
          This week's challenge is to use paper piecing in your design. As ever, please remember that you need to use a Phindy's Place image to take part in the challenge!  If you don't have any of Phindy's fabulous images then why not visit her shop or if you join the Papercraftplanet group there are some fantastic freebies to pick up.

          The winner of the Challenge will be chosen by Random.org and will receive an $8 Gift Certificate to the Phindy's Place store. The Pick of the Week wins a 20% off voucher for the Phindy's Place store. Don't forget that once a month we will choose an overall winner from the weekly winners and they will be offered a Guest position on the DT - and of course a free image from Phindy's Place to use for that week's challenge!

          The Design Team has created some perfect paper piecing cards for your enjoyment and inspiration, here they are:
          Sue Drees  - this week's Guest Designer




            Sylvia Blum 


            Lynda Nielsen 
             
               


               Cec Wintonyk

              Tammy Maynard

              Linda Payne