colourQ challenge #32...

Welcome to colourQ #32! Hope you had a fabulous Mother's Day! The last of our family is leaving today... sorry this is late - I was up very late cleaning house as they were all coming this morning to say goodbye!

Anywho - we had a spectacular week last week, THANK YOU to all who played along! You just manage to rock these colors week after week! Not only are we blessed to have you play, we're also blessed by all your talent! Some of you may very well see me "borrowing" some of your ideas - lol!

There are a few retired in-colors that I love, and Kiwi Kiss is one of them... so here's another combo using it (Stampin' Up! if you're reading, we NEED this color back!) but if you don't have any left in your stash, no worries - just use Old Olive or some other substitute. Also, if you're Groovy Guava-less, use Cameo Coral.

Here's my little card today... 20 minutes was all I had & I couldn't put my hands on a piece of Very Vanilla, so I used white... OOPS! More details will be on my blog later.

Here are the super-duper-ly gorgeous samples from our very own Royal Court Design Team:

Kari

Krystal

Leanne

Renée

Samantha

Tanja

We would LOVE for you to play along with us this week!!!

ENTRY DEADLINE is Sunday, May 16th at 12 noon CST, to be considered for colourQueen! If you miss the deadline but still want to link up, InLinkz will re-open the next day, so you can play with any of the previous colors anytime. You must be linked before the deadline to be in the running for colourQueen, though!

PLEASE focus on the challenge colors for your project!

Using InLinkz, link to the actual post/gallery page your project is in, and select the thumbnail image of your project.

Any mis-linked entries are subject to deletion, but I'll try to let you know if there's a problem!

*** Just so you know, InLinkz is not fool-proof, some of you may not be able to post the thumbnail of your card... if not, link your profile picture. But if you CAN post the thumbnail of your card, please do! If I have time I will go back & 'fix' the Inlinkz for those of you who cannot get your project thumbnail to post, oky-doky? If I do "fix" it for you, your thumbnail may be moved to a different position on the entry list***

And now what you've all been waiting for... the winners of our little contest! Thank you for bringing a buddy to play last week, it was fun! And we'll definitely be doing it again! Drawn by Random.org, the winners are...

BETTY & TERRI!!!

Betty & Terri, please email me with your physical address so that I may get your prize out to you!

Have an awesome week, gals! Can't wait to see your fabulous creations!!!

colourQ challenge #31 ~ Winners Crowned...

OH MY GOSH - we had so many phenominal entries last week, I was blown away!!! And I think I can speak for the entire DT, and say that they were too! Something strange happened again this week, when I tallied all the votes, we had ANOTHER 3 way tie - how strange is that?

So let me give a HUGE CONGRATS to our THREE colourQueens this week for their gorgeous creations...

MARY, LISA & TERRI!!!

Please check out their blogs and leave them some love! Here are some of the other entries that caught our eye...

As always, you can click on either the names or images to go visit their blogs & see how they created their masterpieces! Thank you so much to all who entered... I learned a lot of neat tricks this week from you all! I'll be back in the morning with next week's challenge and the winners of the paper packs!!!

See you in a few hours!

PS - We have NEW badges!!! If you have an older one, I welcome you to replace it with this one! Also, if you have been featured in the roundups of cards that caught our eye - you are now "courtiers" and can claim your badge as well!!! To install these badges on your blog, simply right-click onto the image & save it to your desktop. Then go into your blog's gashboard and add it as a "picture". You can even link it back here! If you need help, send me an email & if you've sent me one in the last week or so, I was waiting to introduce the new badge before I answered... so you'll be hearing from me this week!

ENJOY!!!

colourQ challenge #31...

Welcome to week 31! Sorry if you've been stalking for a while... CRAZY DAY! Anyway, todays inspiration is from a super cool set of garden stakes I found at Open Window Designs - but now they're sold out - BUMMER! They would have looked so cool in the backyard! These are gorgeous summer colors, I hope you get to play along & also have a chance at some free goodies! I was visitng Christina's blog yesterday & saw that her friend Jeannie had dared her to make something with last week's challenge colors - how cool! So it gave me an idea for a little giveaway... the deets are at the end of the post!

Here's my take on these colors, I thought this fab set from There She Goes was a perfect choice! More info will be on my blog...



Here are the gorgeous samples from our Royal Court design team:

Tanja

Kari

Krystal

LeAnne

Renée

Samantha


There's a little prize this week ~ but there's also a twist!!!


A random player will be chosen to win a new pack of Stampin' Up! designer series paper, Island Oasis. HOWEVER - the twist is, in order to win you have to enlist a buddy to play along this week as well! You & your buddy need to list each other's names in your entry blog post... if one of you is randomly picked to win & we verify your buddy's entry as well - BOTH OF YOU GET A PACK OF PAPER!

ENTRY DEADLINE is Sunday, May 9nd at 12 noon CST, to be considered for colourQueen & possibly win the prize! If you miss the deadline but still want to link up, InLinkz will re-open the next day, so you can play with any of the previous colors anytime. You must be linked before the deadline to be in the running for colourQueen, though!

PLEASE focus on the challenge colors for your project!

Using InLinkz, link to the actual post/gallery page your project is in, and select the thumbnail image of your project.

Any mis-linked entries are subject to deletion, but I'll try to let you know if there's a problem!

*** Just so you know, InLinkz is not fool-proof, some of you may not be able to post the thumbnail of your card... if not, link your profile picture. But if you CAN post the thumbnail of your card, please do! If I have time I will go back & 'fix' the Inlinkz for those of you who cannot get your project thumbnail to post, oky-doky? If I do "fix" it for you, your thumbnail may be moved to a different position on the entry list***