Inspiration Destination Challenge Blog: September 2016

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Winners and DT Favorites: Challenge No 104

Welcome, bloggers! We had a fantastic turnout with 159 entries last week!

We use Random.org to pick our winners. Our sponsors last week were Karleigh Sue and Polkadoodles with a £9/$15 USD digi voucher!

For Karleigh Sue, Random.org chose:

#157 AJ

Please put IDCB Winner No. 104 KS in the subject line.

For Polkadoodles, Random.org chose:

#31 Crafting Suzie

Please put IDCB Winner No. 104 Polkadoodles 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 159 entries!

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

Billie's favorite is #43 Lori Turner and here's why in her own words: great card and fall colors. I like the stamp and dies she chose. Great placement of the flowers.

Dianne's favorite is #30 Michelle Lancaster and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous card love the image and beautiful colour's and design xx

Geesje's favorite is #134 Bianca and here's why in her own words: Love the card. Leuk modelletje en prachtig kaartje.

Ine's favorite is #100 Anet and here's why in her own words: Love the way she makes cards, the colouring especially

Jolanda's favorite is #129 Julie O and here's why in her own words: I love the sunflowers and sentiment is brilliant as is the shape of the card.

Khushboo's favorite is #151 Coops and here's why in her own words: Love the style and layout of the card, with all the different embellies. Refreshing and beautiful.

Michelle's favorite is #108 KT Fit Kitty and here's why in her own words: I had to chose this card as I am a tea lover. It is such nice sentiment and the colors fit great together.

Patricia's favorite is #59 Lilibet's Monkey Hut and here's why in her own words: I love the design of the card with the acetate and the shiny stars. Gorgeous coloring too.

Shell's favorite is #71 Tracy J and here's why in her own words: I just love your creation, the way the colours pop against the kraft card is just perfect xx

Tracey's favorite is #13 Nick and here's why in her own words: what a sweet image & love all the extras!!

Wendy is unavailable this week

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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. 105 being sponsored by Aurora Wings! Thank you so very much for choosing to play along with us!

Ema

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Anything Goes Challenge No. 105

Hiya, everybody! :)
Welcome to our weekly anything goes challenge! My Team and I are happy to see you!
Have any of you noticed IDCB has reached 488 followers! Wow! Do you think we could break 500? I'd like to find out! lol Until then, join us this week where we've got Aurora Wings as our wonderful sponsor! Let's have some fun!

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AURORA STAMPS

Fantasy artist and digital stamp designer Mitzi Sato-Wiuff started offering digital stamps in Aurora Wings shop on Etsy in May of 2013. It has experienced a phenomenal growth, thanks to your wonderful response to the unique style of art that ranges widely in terms of subject matter, style, and complexity from simple beginners' images to highly detailed, advanced colorists' images -- different from a lot of digital stamps that are available in the paper crafting industry.
MITZI SATO-WIUFF
Mitzi (Her last name is pronounced sah-toe-view. It's Japanese and Danish.) is a Colorado based artist, who is originally from Japan. Her artwork shows a clear and distinct influence of vintage shojo manga (少女漫画), tattoo art, woodblock prints, and kimono textile art of her native country. Mitzi has been drawing since early childhood, playing with crayons, watercolor, colored pencil, pastel, acrylics, and more recently, digital.
In 2010, she became a part of an artists collective, "Enchanted Visions Project", originally founded by famous fantasy artists Amy Brown and Jessica Galbreth. EV provided a wonderful opportunity to produce artwork on a regular basis and helped her portfolio grow steadily. Mitzi served for 2 years as an assistant administrator of the project, all the while staying an active contributing member. In 2011, her long-time dream of publishing a coloring book became reality with the publication of "Gardens & Goddesses" from Ellen Million Graphics.
The Aurora Wings Etsy shop and the Challenge Blog are the newest art ventures as she continues to grow, experiment, learn, and play with an open mind and child-like curiosity.

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BILLIE
Using: whimsical ladybug sprite

DIANNE
Using Wisteria Sprite

GEESJE

Using: butterfly-sprite

JOLANDA
using: Elf with poppy blooms

KHUSHBOO
using: Elf with poppy blooms

MICHELLE

using Whimsical Ladybug Sprite

PATRICIA

using Little Lotus Sprite

SHELL

using 'Mushroom Family'

TRACEY

using wisteria-sprite

WENDY

using Wisteria Sprite

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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

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Winners and DT Favorites: Challenge No. 103

Welcome, bloggers! We had a fantastic turnout with 204 entries last week!

We use Random.org to pick our winners. Our sponsors last week were Julia Spiri and Pattie's Creations!

For Julia Spiri, Random.org chose:

#203 Suze

Please put IDCB Winner No. 103 JS in the subject line.

For Pattie's Creations, Random.org chose:

#131 Red Obsession Cards

Please put IDCB Winner No. 103 PC in the subject line.

Now for our DT Favorites! These participants were each handpicked from 204 entries!

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

Billie's favorite is #73 Mindy Baxter and here's why in her own words: Darling image and her coloring is awesome. She has a great tutorial on coloring grass. I love this CAS card.

Dianne's favorite is #30 Lozzy and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous card beautiful image and wonderful design xx

Ema's favorite is #197 My Creative Place and here's why in her own words: Wow! All my favorites! Apples, baskets and RED! I just love everything about this!

Geesje is unavailable this week
Ine's favorite is #1 Sheena and here's why in her own words: I really love the background

Jolanda's favorite is #119 Tindaloo and here's why in her own words: Really beautiful how she made a goth card without getting it too dark. Great folding also

Khushboo's favorite is #64 Coops and here's why in her own words: beautiful card. Lovely colours.

Michelle's favorite is #96 Vintage Handmade and here's why in her own words: I absolutely love the bold colors.

Patricia's favorite is #160 Beebeebabs and here's why in her own words: I love her coloring and the frame she did around the image.

Shell's favorite is #81 Rijacki and here's why in her own words: I just love the simplicity of it & the colours used to outline the image & the sentiment is perfect! Awesome!!

Tracey's favorite is #44 Louise and here's why in her own words: what a sweet card grat colouring & layout.

Wendy's favorite is #152 Rijacki's Workshop and here's why in her own words: Gorgeous slider card, this is such a fun card and a job well done for first slider card. I just love it!!