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 #30

Hello everyone!

Hope you are all happy and creative, and if not – maybe we can help you with our new challenge?

This fortnight we challenge you to MAKE YOUR OWN EMBELLISHMENT & put it on your project. There are endless techniques and ideas out there – make flowers, alphas, banners, badges, stamps – the list goes on. Wow us with your project and you will win…

…A GUEST DT SPOT WITH US FOR CHALLENGE #32!

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

To inspire you, we have awesome examples from our DT, as always! This time, Marie & Michelle has used products

from Scrappin’ Patch on their projects!

Marie:

Michelle:

Lisa:

Heidi:

Norine:

Hayley:

Missy:

Melissa:

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 30 September NZ time (GMT + 12 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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Hoopla Winners!

Wow! It took some time to go through all the wonderful entries for our hoopla challenges. You ladies are amazing, thanks for playing along with us!!!

So, down to business…

• Norine’s challenge winner – winning a collection of washi tapes – SUE SMITH!

• Norine’s RAK winner – KELLY FOSTER! Please visit Norine’s blog on details how to contact her for your RAK. http://thevelvetlemon.blogspot.com/

• Missy’s challenge winner – winning two Authentique 6 x 6 paper pads – KELLY FOSTER!

• Missy’s RAK winner – MARHAMAH! Please visit Missy’s blog on details how to contact her for your RAK. http://littlenuggetcreations.blogspot.com/

• Michelle’s challenge winner – winning the Pink Paislee Spring Jubilee Paper collection – BELINDA LEEN!

• Michelle’s RAK winner – TOPKATNZ/HEIDI! Please visit Michelle’s blog on details how to contact her for your RAK. http://harbourgal.wordpress.com/

• Marie’s challenge winner – winning Nikki Sivils Get Well Soon Collection kit – FELICIVY IVES!

• Marie’s RAK winner – JANICE! Please visit Marie’s blog on details how to contact her for your RAK. http://gulavillanivallen.blogspot.com/

• Lisa’s challenge winner – winning a My Little Shoebox kit – MARHAMAH!

• Lisa’s RAK winner – FELICITY IVES! Please visit Lisa’s blog on details how to contact her for your RAK. http://lisadorsey.blogspot.com/

• Hannah’s challenge winner – winning a 2Crafty Chipboard pack – VICKI PARKER!

• Hannah’s RAK winner – BELINDA LEEN! Please visit Hannah’s blog on details how to contact her for your RAK. http://blairsboys.wordpress.com/

• Annelie’s challenge winner – winning Echo Park Paradise Beach Collection kit – VICKI PARKER!

• Annelie’s RAK winner – JANET J! Please visit Annelie’s blog on details how to contact her for your RAK. http://swewi.wordpress.com/

Aaaaaaaaaaaand…. The moment you’ve ALL been waiting for. The RANDOM DRAW – amongst the 15 ladies who participated in ALL SEVEN CHALLENGES – to win the BIG SHOT + two Tim Holtz dies, sponsonred by Scrappin’ Patch gave us a winner… Aaaaand the winner is:

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KIRSTY – that’s you!

Congratulations to all our CHALLENGE & RAK winners!

If you are a CHALLENGE WINNER please contact us with your details on challengemehappy@googlemail.com and we will send your prize out to you. If you are a RAK winner, please contact the Designer to claim your prize.

Thanks for your support, and don’t forget our next challenge is due on July 31st!

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Challenge #26

Dear Challenge Me Happy fans – welcome back!

We hope you  have all had some FUN with our HOOPLA challenges. The DT now has a daunting task in choosing a winner for each challenge, and of course we will also draw a RANDOM winner for our BIG prize – the BIG SHOT & two Tim Holtz dies – sponsored by Scrappin’ Patch!

While we wait for all of that to be revealed, we have another FUN challenge for you! Challenge #26 is a WORD challenge, and the word we want you to include in your TITLE is:

TODAY

Sponsor for this fortnight’s prize is the very cool chipboard manufacturer 2Crafty Chipboard from Australia.

The winner of this challenge will recieve a very generous package of 2Crafty Chipboard !

As always we have inspiring LO’s from our Design Team. Hannah & Missy has used product sponsored by Scrappin’ Patch for their examples, the chipboard word “today” is from 2Crafty Chipboard !:

Hannah:

Missy:

Annelie:

Norine: 

Lisa:

Marie:

Michelle:

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 August NZ time (GMT + 12 hours) here:

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Challenge Me Happy One Year Anniversary Hoopla!

Welcome to the Challenge Me Happy One Year Anniversary HOOPLA!!!

It’s hard to believe, but Challenge Me Happy has been dishing out fortnightly challenges for A YEAR today. This is something to CELEBRATE of course, and we hope you want to celebrate with us!!

You will have SEVEN challenges to complete, in FOUR weeks. You can participate in however many challenges you want, and there are prizes to win in EACH challenge.

 Aaaaand – something we are VERY excited about – if you upload a project to EACH of the seven challenges, you will be in the DRAW to win a BIG SHOT machine + two Tim Holtz dies. This has been generously sponsored by Adrienne at Scrappin’ Patch  – she is one amazing lady!

So – how does it work?

Each Challenge Me Happy designer is presenting their challenge in detail on their blog (see list below). You will find all links here on the Challenge Me Happy blog – and the inspiration project to go with it. Each designer is offering a prize for their challenge – the winner will be chosen by vote. Each designer will ALSO draw a RAK amongst the uploaded projects.

Upload ALL your projects to the “inlinkz” page AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST. Please name your project with YOUR name AND the name of the designer who’s challenge you have interpreted. All challenges are due on midnight (NZ TIME) July 15th!

 

Here is the list to all of the design team blogs:

1. Norine – http://thevelvetlemon.blogspot.com/

2. Missy – http://littlenuggetcreations.blogspot.com/

3. Michelle – http://harbourgal.wordpress.com/

4. Marie – http://gulavillanivallen.blogspot.com/

5. Lisa – http://lisadorsey.blogspot.com/

6. Hannah – http://blairsboys.wordpress.com/

7. Annelie – http://swewi.wordpress.com/

You will find the details of each designer’s challenge ON THEIR BLOGS, but here are their beautiful work for you to be inspired by:

Norine – theme:

Missy – BOM:

Michelle – word:

Marie – sketch:

Lisa – ad:

Hannah – recipe: 

Annelie – photo:

 

If you have ANY questions, please email challengemehappy@googlemail.com OR ask us on our Facebook page (which you have liked already – right?).

 

Remember to upload ALL your projects before midnight 15 July NZ time (GMT + 12 hours) here:

 

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Challenge #24

Welcome back everyone, can you believe we’re almost HALF way through 2012? Amazing… It’s also ALMOST ONE YEAR since this challenge blog was born, and yes – we will celebrate that in style. Make sure you tune in on June 15th – all will be revealed then…

First – we have another fantastic challenge for you.

Sponsor for this fortnight’s prize is the very cool chipboard manufacturer 2Crafty Chipboard from Australia.

The winner of this challenge will recieve a very generous package of 2Crafty Chipboard!

 

This fortnight we are challenging you to do a SCRAPLIFT! Our example LO comes from the incredibly talented Nina Ostermann. She’s a magician with papers & scissors, and she has chosen a fabulous LO for us all to scraplift.

Please visit Nina’s blog for more inspiration here:

http://www.ninasblog-scrapmama.blogspot.com/

Here is Nina’s original LO:

As always, our lovely designers has got amazig examples for you. This fortnight, Hannah & Missy have used products sponsored by Scrappin’ Patch.

 

Hannah:

Missy:

Norine:

Lisa:

Marie:

Michelle:

Annelie:

 

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 June NZ time (GMT + 12 hours) here:

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Challenge #20

Welcome to April happy scrappers! We have the easiest challenge ever for you today – no joke!!

And the challenge winner will get something fabulous – a wonderful prize pack from My Little Shoebox!

Our own Norine Borys is part of their DT and has sent me a fabulous array of My Little Shoebox products to give away! Thank you Norine!

Now – what is challenge #20 you wonder? Let me tell you… it’s the easiest of them all:

ANYTHING GOES!

Show us your BEST work, and create anything you want!

 

Of course, this means our designers have done the same!

For this challenge, Annelie & Norine have used products from Scrappin’ Patch !

Annelie:

Norine: 

Michelle:

 Marie:

Hannah:

Missy:

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 April NZ time (GMT + 12 hours) here:

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Challenge #19

Hi everyone! I can’t believe we’re up to challenge #19 already. Thanks for all your support so far! Keep coming back, we have LOADS in store for you in the future!!

Today we have another fun challenge for you, but first let me remind you of our wonderful sponsor for March; Nikki Sivils!

Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker is a scrapbooking company specializing in premium papers and embellishments that will make you smile. From whimsical designs to cute, cuddly creatures, Nikki Sivils designs straight from her heart hoping to inspire creativity and expressions of love and life.

The winner this fortnight will win a fabulous collection with Nikki Sivils papers & stickers. Something worth playing for, for sure!

Thank you Nikki!

This fortnight, we challenge you to

MAKE YOUR OWN EMBELLISHMENT

and put it on your project! 

As always; some examples from our talented designers.

This time, Hannah & Lisa have worked with product sponsored by Scrappin’ Patch.

Hannah:

Lisa:

Marie:

Missy:

Norine:

Michelle:

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 31 March NZ time (GMT + 13 hours) here:

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