Challenge 9 ~ Halloween

Good morning and welcome to our 9th challenge at 2 Sisters Challenges.  First we would like to thank Robyn's Fetish for sponsoring our Animal Fun challenge.  Please be sure to check back on Monday when we will announce our winner and top 3.

We have some exciting news to share with you.  Starting with this week's challenge we will now be a weekly challenge blog.  This week's challenge will be open until 11:59 pm EST on Friday, October 22, 2010.  The theme we have chosen is.....

HALLOWEEN

And we are very excited to announce that our sponsor this week is......

Sassy Studio Designs

Sassy Studio Designs is a fresh new company. We have been designing and selling for a year now, and we have been kindly received into the community of digi stampers and crafters. I started designing images shortly after I started stamping, reason being...I didn't hardly like anything else out there I was a young adult woman at the time I was engaged, had no kids, I wanted fun sexy images that I would enjoy using and my friends and hubby would enjoy receiving. I designed images for 2 other digi stamp companies when my wonderful hubby kept trying to get me to go out on my own. So in June 2009 thanks to the few faithful followers I had, Sassy Studio Designs was born! It has been a wonderful journey starting my own store. We have just grown so much these past months. I still try to keep with my original philosophy and reason for designing stamps, make them fun and keep them sassy...and yes sometimes even sexy!

~ Lindsay ~

The winner of this week's challenge will receive 4 digi's of their choice from Sassy Studio Designs!!

Be sure to check out Sassy Studio Designs for some amazing images.  There are some great ones perfect for this week's challenge. Lindsay was so sweet and kind and gave the design team some gorgeous images to play with this week. Here's the amazing cards the DT came up with....

Mary

(Adventures In Sassyland ~ Sassy Mad Hatter) 

Stacy

(Adventures In Sassyland ~ Sassy Mad Hatter)

Donna

(Little Honey's ~ Betty)

Jo

(Little Honey's ~ Betty)

Pat

(Little Honey's ~ Betty)

Tina(Adventures In Sassyland ~ Sassy Mad Hatter)

Now it's your turn to show us what you can do with this week's theme. Don't forget you have until 11:59pm EST on Friday, October 22nd to enter your halloween project into the linky below.  Last week we had a few problems with the linky button. If you experience problems this week please be sure to add your entry into the comment section.

Mary

Winner & Top 3 ~ OWH Christmas Challenge

Hello and good evening.  First of all we would like to thank Tracey Malnofeski of The Stamping Boutique again for sponsoring our OWH Christmas challenge.  We would also like to thank everyone that joined us during this challenge to help support OWH the entries were fantastic.  We have picked the winner and top 3.  The winner of our OWH Christmas challenge and 2 Digis (Snowman's Clothes Line & Snowfriends) from the Stamping Boutique is...

DARLING HO

Congratulations Darling.  Please contact Tracey Malnofeski to claim your prize.  Our winners badge is in the side bar if you would like to place it on your blog.  The Top 3 picks in no particular order are...

MS PLUM

LORI

NELA

Congratulations ladies.  The Top 3 badge is on the sidebar if you would like to place it on your blogs.  We hope to see everyone back during our current challenge.  The theme is ANIMAL FUN and we are being sponsored by Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More. 

Challenge 8 ~ Animal Fun

Good morning and welcome to challenge #8.  First we would like to thank Tracey Malnofeski of Stamping Boutique for sponsoring our OWH Christmas challenge.  We would also like to thank all you who came out to support this event.  We had 55 entries and they were all amazing.  Don't forget to come back on Monday when we post the winner and top 3.

On a sad note, three of our DT members have decided to step down for various reasons.  We have enjoyed working with them and seeing their creations.  Jo, Susan & Emma you will be missed.

For this challenge we have chosen the theme of.....

ANIMAL FUN

For this challenge we would like to see animals on your creation.  This challenge is being sponsored by the wonderful Robyn's Fetish.  You should hop over and check out her images at I Did It Creations 

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is
is owned by Robyn Weinrib.  Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,    designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5 digital stamps
or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice.

Robyn was very kind and gave our DT images to showcase during this challenge.  Here is some inspiration from the DT.

MARY (Hog Wild Over You)

STACY 

(Over Da Wall Puppy)

DONNA 

(Over Da Wall Puppy)

JO

(Cute Bear)

PAT 

(A Little Birdie Told Me)

TINA 

(Hog Wild Over You)

Now its your turn. You have from now until 11:59 pm on October 15th to enter. We can't wait to see all of your wonderful creations.

Challenge 6 Winner And Top 3

Good afternoon.  We had 74 entries during our last challenge and I loved looking at each and every one of them.  You do an amazing job on your projects.  We have picked our winner and Top 3 for our MONOCHROMATIC challenge.  The winner of this challenge is...

KATE

Congratulations Kate.  Please contact Beth at Stamping Dragons Designs for your prize picks. Our winners badge is on the sidebar if you would like to display it on your blog.  Our Top 3 picks in no particular order are...

MANDY

LYNSEY

NIMU (age 3y11m)

Congratulations ladies.  The Top 3 badge is on the sidebar if you would like to grab it to place on your blog.  Our current challenge is a special one.  We are participating in the OWH Birthday Bash.  They have asked us to have our entrants create Christmas cards for the heroes serving in other countries to write home on.  Just remember that if you make cards for this event there cannot be any glitter on them as this poses a danger to the troops. 

OWH Christmas Card

Here is a card that I created this afternoon using an image from Designed 2 Delight Digital Stamps called Primitive Snow Angel.

I created this card for the following challenges:

Moving Along With The Times ~ Christmas

Double Delight Challenges ~ Card For OWH Using A Designed 2 Delight Image

OWH Birthday Bash ~ 2 Sisters Challenge 7 ~ Christmas

Here is a card that I created as a DT member of the 2 Sisters Challenge Blog.  I created this card using an image from Stamping Boutique called Snowfriends.  During this challenge we are asking all of our entrants to make cards for Operation Write Home.  This is an amazing outreach to the men and women of the military who are away from home.  You can go here to read more about OWH.

I created this card for the following additional challenges:

Aimee's Challenge ~ Christmas Wishes

Sentimental Sundays ~ Christmas Cards For OWH


Crafty Cardmakers ~ Clean & Simple

Stamping Boutique ~ Image


Just Inspirational Challenges ~ Christmas

Moving Along With The Times ~ Christmas

Glitterbabe's Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Fussy And Fancy ~ Christmas Colors

Catch The Bug ~ Holiday Themed Cards For OWH

Challenge 7 ~ CHRISTMAS

Good Morning and welcome to our next challenge.  First we would like to thank Stamping Dragons Designs for sponsoring our monochromatic challenge.  We would also like to thank everyone who played along.  Be sure to stop by on Monday when we announce the winner and top 3.
During this challenge we are being sponsored by Tracey Malnofeski of Stamping Boutique.  Stop by her shop and check out all the great images.

 The prize for this challenge are the following images from Stamping Boutique

We are proud to have been asked to take part in the OWH Birthday Bash during this challenge.  OWH is in need of Christmas card so the theme of this challenge is........ Yep, you guessed it

CHRISTMAS!!!

What is Operation Write Home:

Operation Write Home is an organization that sends blank handmade greeting cards for all occasions to deployed service members to write home on. They’ve mailed approximately 500,000 cards so far—and are still going strong! Our challenge to you is to make cards to send to them for our nation’s heroes.

Please Read The Basic Guidelines Here:

it’s important especially to remember that glitter is NOT allowed (it’s a safety hazard to our heroes), handmade cards only, and OWH needs A2 sized cards. “Operation Write Home” needs to be on the backs of your cards—it can be stamped, handwritten, or printed on labels. Please include a packing slip inside your box or envelope, and mail them to any of their shippers listed on the Mailroom page.  In your package, you can also include notes written to a deployed service member.

The reason behind our "no glitter" requirement may help to clarify things. It's not about the shiny aspect of glitter. It's about the messy side of it!

Many of our deployed heroes live in very primitive conditions. Primitive as in no showers for a couple weeks. No laundry. Nowhere to get cleaned up. And if they open a box of cards and get sprinkled all over, they might have absolutely nowhere to get rid of all that mess; they may not even realise it's all over them. And if they have glitter on their uniforms it can put them at risk — it can make them visible to night vision goggles, and that is just not a risk we're willing to take!

It's clearly hard for crafters to deal with making cards without glitter; we do realize that. However, we reallllllly ask that you set it aside for cards for OWH!  The number of emails asking if this product or that product are okay show us that it's really really really hard — but we do appreciate your efforts to abide by what we need to do to keep our heroes safe!

Shipping Addresses:

 

When you are ready to send your cards download a packing slip from here and email the shipper that you will be sending your cards to and let them know that your cards are on the way.

Kris Allan
12152 S Summit St
Olathe, KS 66062
Email Kris

 

Dixie Cochran
9611 Brookdale Drive
Suite 100, PMB 319
Charlotte, NC 28215
Email Dixie

 

Sandy Allnock
35205 13th PL SW
Federal Way, WA 98023
Email Sandy

 

Tracy Malnofeski was very kind and provided our DT with some images to work with.  Here is some inspiration from our DT members

STACY

 

MARY

DONNA

EMMA

JO

PAT

SUSAN

TINA

 

 

 

 

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