Winner and DT Favorites: Challenge No. 117

Welcome, bloggers! Considering that it's the holidays, we had a good turnout with 95 entries last week!

We use Random.org to pick our winners. Our sponsor last week was Rick St. Dennis!

Random.org chose:

#8 Cheiro Urgia

Please put IDCB Winner No. 117 RSD in the subject line.

Congratulations! Please send an email to IDCB.Winner@gmail.com within 7 days. We will provide you with info on how to collect your prize. :) Be sure to grab our badge from the right side bar to proudly display on your personal blog! Thank you so much for playing along with Inspiration Destination!

Now for our DT Favorites! These participants were each handpicked from 95 entries! 

Team members who participated in the challenge each selected a favorite and here they are: 

Billie's favorite is #3 Margreet and here's why in her own words: Cute new years card. Fun image and clock. Love the black and white. Fun happy card.

Ema's favorite is #18 Rocky and here's why in her own words: What a clever project! I love the recycling aspect and it just packs such a WOW! 

Geesje's favorite is #43 Coops and here's why in her own words: love the card and the very nice colouring

Jolanda's favorite is #13 Annemis and here's why in her own words: the image is adorable and beautiful colored. The card looks beautiful with the embellishments

Michelle's favorite is #76 Rijacki's Workshop and here's why in her own words: The image is so sweet and I love the little workshop how to make this card.

Patricia's favorite is #33 PaperPlotterLottas and here's why in her own words: I love the sweet card she made and the colors she used for the image and the papers.

Wendy's favorite is #72 Deonna Bemish and here's why in her own words: love these tags and the colours are just gorgeous

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Congratulations and well done! Please grab our DT Favorite badge from our side bar to the right.

Thank you for joining our challenge last week and we hope to see you again! 

Be sure to join us for Challenge No. 118 being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps and Sweet 'N Sassy! Thank you so very much for choosing to play along with us! 

Ema

Anything Goes Challenge No. 118

Hello, everybody! :D I trust you've all had a wonderful Christmas holiday and are here to play along with this week's anything goes challenge with my team and me. Our two wonderful sponsors this week are Bugaboo Stamps and Sweet 'N Sassy!
I'd like to give you all a heads up! Our format will be changing with the next challenge on January 4, 2017. Wow! I cannot believe I am typing 2017! Where did the rest of 2016 go!?! One minute it was January 1st and here we are at the last week of December! Wowzers, as one of my dear imaginary friends likes to say. :)
There are a few other changes as well. We will no longer be a weekly challenge blog. We will have our challenges every other week. We're also changing the sponsorship lineup. I had three or four sponsors I was willing to take on for 2017 but one's no longer sponsoring, two have yet to respond and so, as of now, we will have only the one sponsor next year; however, that does not mean we will totally discontinue having weekly prizes. The remaining challenges will be a mixture of RAKs, gift certificates to a digi shop online or JFF. There's no lineup as of yet. It's all willy nilly but as soon as I have a concrete schedule, I'll be posting it right over there <<<<<----- so keep your eyes peeled! :D
We will discontinue the weekly DT Favorites as well. We will instead have TOP 3s alongside the winner or just a TOP 3, depending on the schedule. My Team and I will continue to comment on entries. In the past I've attempted to comment on each and every entry but I've been unable to do that in a wicked long time and it's caused so much turmoil for me. I've felt awful about being unable to do so. I have viewed each entry and ooh'd and aah'd right along with my team but life has been so incredibly messy this year. I lost my brother in August, injured my knee over the summer and am still recuperating and, finally, my estranged daughter came home to announce she was giving me a grand baby! We've been excitedly planning for that as best as we can considering I can't really do any shopping. We're doing everything online and I'm telling you, it's just not the same thing. It's so much more fun to be able to hold the items and feel what it is we're getting. Then the holidays! One right after another! If I could have, I'd have rescheduled them! Ha! But anyway... then I made the mistake of thinking I could hold down a full-time job, run my blog and join a couple of other DTs just for fun and, haha, NO. I. Couldn't. Do. That. Either! :( And next year, I've baby showers to plan and attend and there'll be a wedding sometime after that. So that's the main reason for the changes. I felt like I was short-changing our participants and I didn't want to start short-changing my 'Dream Team' as well! So I've made some executive decisions after consulting with my DT and these are the changes we're comfortable with for now. As everything in life, if we find things need tweaking... then so be it!
But for now, it is what it is, and I hope you will continue to join our challenges. We've loved having you playing along with our challenges week after week and we look forward to seeing you every other week in 2017. :D

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BUGABOO

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay 

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week! And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

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BILLIE
Using: Christmas trio blocks

EMA
using Girl Speech Bubble

GEESJE
using: Christmas teddy 2

MICHELLE

using Seasons Greeting Feet

 PATRICIA
using Dino Birthday

TRACEY

using Sweet-Unicorn

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SWEET 'N SASSY

We strive to bring glory to God through everything we do, for without Him, we could do nothing.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31

Our Story: 

We are a small, family-owned, Christian company offering exclusive hand-drawn images in both clear and digital stamps to the paper crafting community. 

We got our start back in November of 2007 when Korin was searching for a knight stamp to use for our son's 5th birthday party invitations. The search failed so she decided to draw one herself and, as they say, the rest is history. :) 

That first knight drawing became our first stamp set, which turned into four stamp sets, which soon became many, many stamp sets. 

In addition to our "sweet 'n sassy" images and sentiments, we pride ourselves in offering many KJV scripture stamps. Our personal conviction is that the KJV Bible is the most accurate and we found the industry really lacking in this area, so we decided to do something about it. God's Word is so important to us and we love sharing it with others in this way! 

In February 2009, we introduced digital stamps to our line and what a blessing that was! It opened up a whole new market for us and allowed us to bring even more of our exclusive images to our customers. 

In Fall 2011, we introduced our first die set and it was a huge hit. We have since added others to our die line but only gradually, as they are more expensive to manufacture. We look forward to bringing you more fabulous die designs in the future! 

It has been an amazing journey thus far full of countless blessings and we can't wait to see where the Lord leads next! We invite you join us as we continue on this exciting journey! 

Because He lives, 

Korin & Dan Sutherland

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BILLIE

Using: Tulips

DIANNE
Using Forget-Me-Nots

EMA
using Puppy Love Digital Stamp

GEESJE

using Christmas Puppy

JOLANDA

using Christmas Puppy

SHELL

using 'Tulips'

TRACEY

using Forget Me Not

WENDY

using Christmas Puppy

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Inspiration Destination Challenge Blog is an anything goes, weekly challenge blog and you have until Tuesday, midnight, CST to link up with us! xx

Winner and DT Favorites: Challenge No. 116

Welcome, bloggers! Thank you so much for being patient! Here I am at last with our latest winners. We had a great turnout with 129 entries last week!

We use Random.org to pick our winners. Our sponsor last week was Robyn's Fetish!

Random.org chose:

#58 Brenda's Card Corner

Please put IDCB Winner No. 116 RF in the subject line.

Congratulations! Please send an email to IDCB.Winner@gmail.com within 7 days. We will provide you with info on how to collect your prize. Please be patient! It's the holidays! :) Be sure to grab our badge from the right side bar to proudly display on your personal blog! Thank you so much for playing along with Inspiration Destination!

Now for our DT Favorites! These participants were each handpicked from 129 entries! 

Team members who participated in the challenge each selected a favorite and here they are: 

Billie's favorite is #103 Beebeebabs and here's why in her own words: The background and ribbon are really stunning and her beautiful image and dress with glitter is perfect. . I love this card.

Dianne's favorite is #40 Hazel and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous card love the sweet image and fabulous colours xx

Jolanda's favorite is #111 Stempelhexchen and here's why in her own words: Very nice image and great use of dies and embellishments.

Khushboo's favorite is #12 - Annette Stapylton and here's why in her own words: Super kewt card. Love the idea of incorporating gift boxes in an easel card.

Michelle's favorite is #9 Lynne in NI and here's why in her own words:  I love the CAS card she made with a little get well mouse. It is so cute and colored lovely.

Patricia's favorite is #109 Zora and here's why in her own words: I love the layout and the patterned papers. It is very beautifully colored too.

Shell's favorite is #92 Rora and here's why in her own words: Just love the colours you have used & how it just flows through everything else added to the card....just perfect!

Tracey's favorite is #20 Tinka and here's why in her own words: pretty image lovely sweet card.

Wendy's favorite is #62 Aurora Aurelia and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous image, colouring and layout. I love it

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Congratulations and well done! Please grab our DT Favorite badge from our side bar to the right.

Thank you for joining our challenge last week and we hope to see you again! 

Be sure to join us for Challenge No. 117 being sponsored by Rick St. Dennis! Thank you so very much for choosing to play along with us! 

Ema

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Anything Goes Challenge No. 117

Welcome, fellow crafters! Hold on to your pants! We've got Rick St. Dennis in the house this week! :)

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RICK ST DENNIS

Designer of over 100 theatrical productions, Rick St Dennis (Donald McAfee) is also the author of 4 books on decorative painting and contributor to at least a dozen national magazines on crafts and art. He has taught design at the college level as well as seminars and classes across the USA and Canada. He is one of a handful of designers to have designed TWO productions of AIDA, Verdi's massive Egyptian opera spectacle. Currently living in the quiet beach community of Seal Beach, California he writes restaurant reviews and theater reviews between assignments for web designs, logos and creating art for local shows. Rick has appeared on such TV shows as Home Matters with Susan Powell, Aileen's Crafts and others. He was Crafts editor for Country Folk Art Magazine and sells his artwork nationally through galleries and shows. Among numerous awards he won a presidential commendation in 1976 for his contributions to the bicentennial year including the design of the west coast premier of William Grant Still's opera BAYOU LEGEND. His drawings and paintings are in the collections of Diana Ross, Sandy Duncan, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jacqueline Onnasis, among others.

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BILLIE
using: Flirty Flora Valentine girl

DIANNE

Using ' Skating Santa ' 

EMA
using 2012 Starry Night Santa

GEESJE
using: Cute Sante

JOLANDA
using Cocoa and Cookies Santa

KHUSHBOO
using: 20 winks

MICHELLE

using Mistletoe Santa

 PATRICIA
using Pansy

TRACEY

using catnap

WENDY

using Rock Star

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Inspiration Destination Challenge Blog is an anything goes, weekly challenge blog and you have until Tuesday, midnight, CST to link up with us! xx