Challenge #45

Hello crafters, and welcome to May! Is it spring where you are? Or Autumn with promise of winter? Wherever you are, we hope that you will enjoy our challenge this fortnight!

For this challenge, we have looked close to our hearts – to one of our own designers. We want you to scraplift the below FABULOUS LO from Marie Johansson! For more inspiration from Marie, visit her blog here:

http://gulavillanivallen.blogspot.co.nz/

The winner of this challenge will win the Echo Park paper pack “Scoot”!

Marie has done the hard feat in scraplifting her own LO, and of course the rest of the team has got more inspiration for you:

Marie:

Annelie:

Hayley:

Norine:

Missy:

Michelle:

Heidi:

Hannah:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge.

If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation

before midnight 15 May 2013 NZ time (GMT + 11 hours) here:

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Challenge #43

Hi everyone!

Although it’s April’s Fools day today – you will find no hidden jokes in this post. Only a whole lot of FUN!

For April, we have a new exciting sponsor!

PaperVine is thrilled to have the opportunity to sponsor the “Challenge Me Happy” Challenge this month. 

PaperVine is a New Zealand based, on-line store selling fabulous craft supplies. We offer flat fee shipping within New Zealand and Australia and also have a website packed with craft tutorials and ideas.  Our products include a wide selection of washi tape, twine, pins, trinkets, buttons, flowers, packaging supplies and laser-cut mdf projects. See our full range of items here. 

You can contact or follow us at the links below and be sure to sign up for the newsletter which features all our new products and subscriber-only exclusive offers.

 Shop -http://www.papervine.bigcartel.com

Blog – www.papervinenz.com

Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/papervine

Newsletter Sign Up – http://eepurl.com/uXRx5

The winner of this challenge will win a $30 voucher to the PaperVine shop!

So – time to reveal the challenge! This fortnight we have a COLOUR CHALLENGE for you! This is the colour scheme we want you to follow. As always, additional colours are black and white. But we’d like you to stick to the colour scheme as much as possible!

As always, some lovely examples from our designers:

Heidi:

Hannah:

Hayley:

Michelle:

Marie:

Missy:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge.

If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation

before midnight 15 April 2013 NZ time (GMT + 13 hours) here:

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Challenge #41

Hi Challenge Me Happy fans!

Challenge Me Happy is sharing the LOVE on Facebook at the moment. Like our page, AND our sister page Crazy Monday Kits to be in a generous RAK filled with scrappy goodness from your favourite manufacturers. Make sure you get over there and like both pages, when you have checked out our new CHALLENGE!!

This fortnight, we are giving you the easiest challenge of them all:

ANYTHING GOES!!

The winner of this challenge will win a prize pack with Webster’s Pages goodies!

And you know it – the DT have been busy creating awesome examples for you:

Hannah:

Hayley:

Marie:

Norine:

Lisa:

Missy:

Heidi:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge.

If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation

before midnight 15 March 2013 NZ time (GMT + 13 hours) here:

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Challenge #39

Welcome to February Happy Scrappers! We have a new challenge all lined up for you!

First, a shout out to our sponsor for February – Maja Design! A paper manufacturing company from Sweden, who produces lovely, soft and romantic papers with amazing quality. The winner of this challenge will win a Maja Design paper pack!

So what’s the challenge? A technique challenge this fortnight, and we challenge you to scrap with WHITE SPACE! It’s a technique that has been popular for a while now, and our desgners has of course done an amazing job showcasing it:

Michelle:

Hannah:

Norine:

Lisa:

Missy:

Heidi:

Hayley:

Marie:

And a stunning LO from our GDT Mette, thanks for playing with us Mette:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge.

If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation

before midnight 15 February 2013 NZ time (GMT + 13 hours) here:

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Challenge #37

Hi everyone! We have come to the LAST challenge of 2012! Wow! And what a year we’ve had! Thanks to all of you for supporting us by participating in our challenges throughout the year. We would be nothing without you. And a HUGE thank you to our sponsors and guest designers. We love you!

So, the last challenge of the year is a RECIPE challenge. These are the ingredients we want you to use on your project:

* a quote

*stamping

* bird/s

*arrows

* brads 

The rest is up to you, but these items must be easy to spot on your project.

Wow us with your project and you will win a prize pack pack from ZVA Creative who are sponsoring us in January. Thank you ZVA Creative !

That is something worth playing for, wouldn’t you say?

And now, some stunning examples from the DT:

Heidi:

Hayley:

Missy:

 Marie:

Michelle:

Lisa:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge.

If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation

before midnight 15 January 2013 NZ time (GMT + 13 hours) here:

  

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Challenge #35

Happy December to all of you!! Crazy month is here – are you ready??

We hope you find some time in your busy schedule to play with our latest challenge. This fortnight we have a SCRAPLIFT for you, and you will be lifting… ME – Annelie Maddock!

Wow us with your project and you will win…

…A GUEST DT SPOT WITH US FOR CHALLENGE #37!

That is something worth playing for, wouldn’t you say?

And as always, we have amazing examples from the DT:

Hayley:

Marie:

Lisa:

Norine:

Heidi:

Melissa:

Hannah:

Missy:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge.

If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation

before midnight 15 December NZ time (GMT + 13 hours) here:

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Challenge #33

It’s hard to believe we have reached November already, but there it is. Less than 2 months ’til Christmas. Time to get prepared perhaps…

But FIRST – please join us in our latest challenge!!! This time around you can win a FABULOUS prize – 3 meters of twine, of every single colour from The Twinery!!

And what better challenge for this prize, than a COLOUR CHALLENGE!

Here is the colour chart we have for you this fornight:

And here are the examples from our Design Team to inspire you!

Annelie:

Missy:

Marie:

Heidi:

Michelle:

Lisa:

Hayley:

Melissa:

Hannah:

Norine:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge. If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation

before midnight 15 November NZ time (GMT + 13 hours) here:

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Challenge #31

Welcome to October everyone! I personally can’t believe how fast this year is going by. Anyone else feel this way? But then again, I guess that’s the feeling we all get every year around this time…

We are ready to challenge you once again, here at Challenge Me Happy. And this fortnight we have the easiest of all challenges – it’s the DT favourite:

ANYTHING GOES!

Show us your best work!

The winner of this challenge will get a lovely kit with My Little Shoebox products!!!

 

 

The DT has as always come up with some amazingly inspiring work. For this challenge, Marie has used products sponsored by Scrappin’ Patch!

Marie:

Melissa:

Hannah:

Missy:

Annelie:

Norine:

Heidi:

Lisa:

Hayley:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge. If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation before midnight 15 October NZ time (GMT + 13 hours) here:

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Challenge #29 and new DT reveal!

Hello Happy Scrappers!

I’d like to start this post by introducing you to our THREE NEW DT members! A huge welcome to:

HAYLEY STEWART - Christchurch, NZ

HEIDI BARCLAY - Christchurch, NZ

MELISSA JOHNSON - Texas, U.S.A

Stay tuned for introductions of our new DT girls next week, and to see some of their fabulous work!

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Now for this fortnight’s challenge. I’m very excited to introduce our sponsor for this challenge:

C’est Magnifique Kits

C’est Magnifique Kits is a US-based company whose kits predominantly feature ‘hard to find’ international papers. You will find papers from Denmark, Poland, France and many other countries. We have also featured embellishments from Australia, the UK and Poland.

 If you are looking for a kit club that serves something a little bit different, come check us out! We would love it if you jumped right in on our forums and gallery. We hope to see you there!

The winner of this fortnights challenge will win a mini kit from C’est Magnifique!!

And this time we challenge you with a technique – SEWING!

Stitching by hand or machine sewing does not matter, just make sure the sewing is prominent in your project!

Our DT has as always come up with some fabulous example. Michelle have used products sponsored by Scrappin’ Patch for this challenge.

Michelle:

Lisa:

Missy:

Norine:

Hannah:

Marie:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge. If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation before midnight 15 September NZ time (GMT + 12 hours) here:

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Challenge #28

Hello and welcome back!

Thank you to everyone who applied to join our fabulous team, you will all know soon who will join us!

Today we challenge you to scrap YOURSELF – yes, we have another BOM challenge for you!

The theme is: When I grow up…

The winner of this challenge will recieve two 6×6 paper pads from Studio Calico!

As always we have amazing inspiration from our DT. This time around, Annelie & Marie have used product from Scrappin’ Patch!

Marie:

Annelie:

Missy:

Michelle:

Lisa:

Norine:

Hannah:

Now we want to see your take on this! Please enter a project that is made EXCLUSIVELY for this challenge. If you don’t, your entry will not be considered for the prize.

Upload the link to your blog post or gallery post with your creation before midnight 1 September NZ time (GMT + 12 hours) here:

 

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