Winners PIO #26 - Make your own embellishments

Thank you for the 80 gorgeous & creative entries to Pile It On Challenge #26 - Make your own embellishments!

Challenge 2012 #26
Top 3:

#12 Becky G     

#57 Joan Ervin     

#80 Jayne    

Lucky Winner:

#68 Linda Simpson 

Congratulations Linda, you win 7 digis from Bugaboo Stamps! Please email CG to receive your prize (CGsaysSomethingLoudly AT gmail DOT com).

Congratulations to you all, and we hope you'll join us this week for Pile It On #27 - For a Guy with a Sports Theme, sponsored by Dude Time Doodles.

Pile It On #27 - For a Guy with a Sports Theme

It's Sunday and time for another fun challenge here at Pile It On!
This week we are sponsored by Dudetime Doodles and we want to see your Sporty Guy cards!



And they are offering a $10 Gift Certificate to our winner!

Whether your guy is an avid participating sportsman or just an armchair player we know he likes sports! So make him a card to let him know just how important sports are to you too, or not!

And here are the fabulous team samples to get you in the mood to craft!

Katie - Both Sides of The Paper

Challenges for Katie:
PIO - For a Sporty Guy!
Digi Make Over - Anything Goes with a Digi
Totally Papercrafts - Use a Digi
Tuesday Throwdown - Gingham
Cutie Pie - One For The Boys
Cards For Men - Sports and Sentiment
Crafty Boots - Sports
Simon Says Stamp - Patriotic or Sports
Use It Tuesday - Patriotic (the colors of the flag and American Football)
Cute Card Thursday - Patriotic
Paper Pretties - Red, White and Blue
Crafty Sentiments - Red, White and Blue
Loves Rubber Stamps - Red, White and Blue
Card Makin Mamas - Red, White and Blue (2 entries only)
Our Craft Lounge - Photo Inspiration (I took the Red, White and Blue colors)
Patties Creations - Red, White and Blue
2 Sisters - Red, White and Blue
My Sheri - Red, White and Blue

Emma - Paper Addicts Anonymous

Challenges for Emma:
Pile It On - For a guy/sports related
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - Sports
Cards For Men - sports with a sentiment
Cutie Pie Challenge - For the Guy
Simon Says Stamp - Sporty or Patriotic
Totally Papercrafts - Use a Digi
Charisma cards - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Use Kraft

Jennifer Scull - Just Coffee Please...



Challenges:
Pile it On - masculine with a sports emphasis
Crafty Boots - sports
Cards for Men - sports with sentiment
House of Gilli - red, white, and blue
Paper Pretties - red, white, and blue
Cutie Pie - one for the boys
DRS Designs - stars and stripes
Paper Shelter - punches/dies
Simon Says Stamp - sporty/patriotic
Sisterhood of Crafters - stars
Crafty Sentiments - red, white, and blue
Totally Stampalicious - red, white, and ?
Card Makin' Mamas - red, white, and blue
Crafty Catz - metal
Pattie's Creations - red, white, and blue
Stamping with the Dragon - red, white, and blue
Sweet 'n Sassy - stars and stripes
Totally Papercrafts - use a digi
Phindy's Place - inspired by a song: 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame', of course! :)

CG - CG-says [something loudly]


CG's Challenges:
Pile It On Challenge #27 - For/From a Man (emphasis on sports)
Crafty Boots Challenge - Sports
Digi Makeover Challenge #42 - Anything Goes
Here Come the Boys Challenge #30 - Metal and/or Embossing
Love to Create Challenge #21 - Anything Goes
Made Especially for You Weekly Challenge - Heat Embossing
My Time Made Easy Pretty Patterns #65 - Sketch
PTT #74 - Anything Goes
Tammy's Scrapin Corner Weekly Challenge #16 - Anything Goes/Any Artist
Waste Not Wednesday Week 24 - Use your forgotten stuff (I haven't pulled out my Smirk papers in forever! I also haven't used eyelets in a long time)

Kimberly - Paper Munch

Challenges entered-
Pile it on - for a guy/sport theme
Fresh Brewed blog - pop it (it is hard to see but the card is popped)
Stampin for the weekend - my style CAS
crafty catz weekly challenge - show us your metal
the scrapbooking queen - atg
the kraft journal - kraft paper
incy wincy designs - atg
delicious doodles challenge - 1,2,3 (one hemp, two eyelets, 3 stamps)
Paper take weekly challenge - 3,2,1 (three stamps, two eyelets, one help)
marks fines paper - metal
tuesday throwdown - gingham (the embossed section)
Simon Says Stamps - sporty
The cutie pie - one for the boys
wags n' whiskers - kraft paper
paper crafting journey - kraft

Melissa- I Have Prettier Stuff

I will enter the following Challenges:
4 Crafty Chick: Schools Out
Cards For Men: Sports with a sentiment
Crafty Boots: Sports
Cutie Pie Challenge Blog: One For The Boys
Inspire Me Fridays: Always Anything Goes
Love To Create: Anything Goes
Make It Mondays: Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly: Sketch
Paper Makeup Stamps: Anything Goes
Paper Playtime: Say It With Sentiments- Anything Goes
Paper Shelter Challenge Blog: Punches/and or Dies
Simon Says Challenge Blog: Sporty/or Patriotic
Totally Papercrafts: Use a Digi Image

Jenn Zeeb

Challenges:
CAS-ual Friday-circles
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards-Anything goes
Frosted Designs-circles
Raise The Bar-summer
Totally Papercrafts-use a digi
Charisma Cards-anything goes
Bearly Mine-anything goes
Party Time Tuesday-anything goes
Try It On Tuesday-anything goes
Daisy Doodles-anything goes
Incy Wincy-anything goes
Love To Create-anything goes
Cutie Pie Challenge-for the boys

Beth- BethieJs Blog Spot- 

Challenges Entered-
PIO- For The Guys/Sports
Make It Monday- Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamps - Sporty
The Cutie Pie - One For The Boys
 Totally Papercrafts - Use a Digi
 The Paper Shelter- Punches/dies

So whether the recent NBA draft, Euro 2012 or upcoming 2012 Olympics leave you wanting more or begging for it all to be over we still want to see your Sporty cards for a Guy so link up below and have fun!

Winner PIO #25 - Graduation with your School Colors

Although all the projects for PIO #25 - Graduation with your School Colors were fabulous, we had a record low number of entries, at four! And two of those didn't quite follow our rules, as we ask that you enter our challenge plus at least one other. So instead of a Top 3, we're just posting the prize winner; but please check out the gorgeous entries and many thanks to our four entrants!

Challenge 2012 #25 Winner:

#2 Vickie ODell 

Congratulations Vickie, you win the $5 gift certificate to Digital Delights! Please email CG to receive your prize (CGsaysSomethingLoudly AT gmail DOT com).

Congratulations to you all, and we hope you'll join us this week for Pile It On Challenge #26 - Make your own embellishments, sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps.

Pile It On Challenge #26 - Make your own embellishments

Welcome to another fun week at Pile It On! This week we want you to Make your own embellishments.

This week we have a fabulous sponsor and that is Bugaboo Stamps!

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!


If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

And they have a fabulous prize for our winner of 7 digis from their store!

Now it's time for a little inspiration from the Pile It On Team, featurig some of Bugaboo's wonderful images:

Lorianna - Lorianna's Corner

Challenges for Lorianna:

PIO- make your own embellishment

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #159 - Sketch

Crafty Sentiments - bright colors
Pause, Dream, Enjoy - 3 Things (3 handmade flowers & 3 bling embellies)
Fabulous Friday -Make Your Own Embellishment
Paper Play Week 25 - Use a Die
Delightful - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - here comes summer

Fab n Funky - polka dots (in the DP)

Fat Pages & Cards with Attitude – Anything Goes
Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday – Make your own Embellishment

Lia Stampz - summer

Love to Create - summertime fun

My Heart Pieces - summer fun

Paper Playtime - anything with a sentiment

Papertake - bingo  (ribbon & blooms)

Scrapalicious - what do you do for summer (gardening)

Allsorts - Any Die Will Do
2 Sister  - Anything Goes

Sparkles Forum - summer fun

Tammy's Scrappin Corner - ribbons or bows

Inspire Me Fridays – Always Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom Door - summer lovin

Use your Stuff - handmade embellishment -(paper flowers)

Helen - Helen's Craft Haven:

Challenges for Helen:
Pile It On! - Make Your Own Embellishment (Snowflakes)
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Any Die Will Do
Craft Your Days Away - Teddy Bears
Crafter's Companion - Time to Embellish
Crafts & Me - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments - Bright Colours
Creative Card Crew - 1,2,3 (1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 buttons)
Crimbo Crackers - Anything Goes
Delightful - Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon - Get Krafty
One Stop Craft - Christmas in June
Papercrafting Journey - Kraft
PaperPlay - Use a Die
Papertake Weekly - Bingo (Ribbon-Die Cut-Buttons or Die Cut-Free-Glitter)
Stamp & Create - Bold & Bright
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
Sweet Stampin' - Ribbons & Bows
Wags 'n Whiskers - Use Kraft
Winter Wonderland - Christmas Teddy


Chris V - Easily Amused

Here's the challenges:
Pile It On #26 - Make YOur Own Embellishments
Pause, Dream, Enjoy  #25 - 3 Things (the first three things I grab are an image, my copics and my die cuts)
Fabulous Friday -Make Your Own Embellishment
Paper Play Week 25 - Use a Die
Delightful - Anything Goes
ABC  Christmas - L is for Lyrics ("Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer)
Crafts and Me #89 - Anything Goes
L'il Red Wagon #138 - Get Krafty
One Stop Crafts #188 - Christmas in June
Catch the Bug -Recipe:  Twine, Buttons and Sentiment
Allsorts week 160 - Any Die Will Do
2 Sister #97 - Anything Goes

Elizabeth - Warm Harted

Challenges for Elizabeth

Celebrate the Occassion - welcome summer

Clear it Out - anything goes with 2 ribbons

Crafty Sentiments - bright colors

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Creative Mondays - summer fun

Cute Card Thursday - here comes summer

Fab n Funky - polka dots

Lia Stampz - summer

Love to Create - summertime fun

My Heart Pieces - summer fun

Paper Playtime - anything with a sentiment

Paper Shelter - the great outdoors

Papertake - bingo

Scrapalicious - what do you do for summer

Sparkles Forum - summer fun

Tammy's Scrappin Corner - ribbons or bows

Through the Craftroom Door - summer lovin

Use your Stuff - handmade embellishment -(button flower)

Deanne - A Little Bit O' Paper

Deanne's Challenges:
DYSU-inspired by a movie (Bring It On)

Crop Stop-let's hear it for the children

Frosted Designs-make own embellishment

Cardmadfairy-girly

2 Sisters-anything goes

Less is More-paper piecing

Craft Your Days Away-teddy bears

Looking forward to seeing what you make! Please link your projects below:

Winners PIO #24 - Let's get Outdoors

Wow, thank you for the sensational 104 entries to Pile It On #24 - Let's get Outdoors!

Challenge 2012 #24
Top 3, as chosen by the Design Team:

#35 Jan Hunnicutt   

#82 Cheryl (Shestamps)   

#81 Tracy MacDonald   

Lucky Winner, chosen by Random Sequence Generator:

#58 Gloria Shirr 

Congratulations Gloria, you win a $15 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp! Please email Dalis to receive your prize (alidalis AT comcast DOT net).

Congratulations to you all, and we hope you'll join us this week for Pile It On #25 - Graduation with your School Colors, sponsored by Digital Delights.

Pile It On #25 - Graduation with your School Colors!

Here at Pile It On we like to cover as many themes as possible and in June we have already done Dad's so how the Grads?!
We would like to see a congratulations card for a Graduate featuring your School Colors!

To help the team with this we have the wonderful sponsor Digital Delights!

And the winner gets $5 to send in the Digital Delights Store!

Now here are the team samples to help you create!

Katie - Both Sides of The Paper

Challenges for Katie:
PIO - Graduation (did Kindergarten so no school colors)
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes
Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Freshly Brewed - Anything Goes (5 entries only)
Forever Friends - Anything Goes with an Animal
Tuesday Throwdown - Critters
Hand Stamped Sentiments - Birds
Paper and Such - Birds
Pixie Dust Studios - Birds
Stampavie and More - Things with Wings
Paper Crafting Journey - Hand Colored
Freshly Brewed Monthly - Pop It Up (5 entries)
Going Grey - Celebration
Crop Stop - Celebrate with Banners/Bunting (the punched border)
Cute Card Thursday - Punch Drunk (punches or drink)
Sweet Stampin - Sewing (real or faux)
2 Sisters - Stripes


Melissa - I Have Prettier Stuff

I will enter this in the following challenges:
Can You Digi It?: Button It Up
Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks: Sketch
Crafty Creations: How Charming (use a charm) does the key count?
Cute Card Thursday: use a punch or something drink related
Delightful Challenges: For The Boys
Delicious Doodles: For The Fellas
Do You Stack Up: Boys/Men
Fussy And Fancy Challenge Blog: Boy Attitude
Inspire Me Fridays: Always Anything Goes
Paper Play: For A Man (how about a young man?)
S J Crafts; Monthly Challenge; For the Boys
Scrapalicious: Happy Graduation
Simply Create Too: (Happy Fathers Day) or For A Male


Emma - Paper Addicts Anonymous

Challenges for Emma:
Pile It On - For the Grad
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch (slight altered, hope that's OK!)
Do You Stack Up - Boys/men
Forever Friends - Anything Goes + an animal
Moving Along with the Times - Let's Get Krafty
Paper Crafting Journey - Hand coloured image


Kimberly - Paper Munch

challenges entered -
let's ink it up - favorite embellishment - buttons :)
Paper take weekly challenge - atg
Paper and such design blog - feathered friend
the paper shelter - atg
card fairy digi days - masculine
little miss muffet challenge - layers
Pixie dust studio - bird
paper crafting - colour it up
sassy studio - sketch

Beth- BethieJs Blogspot

PIO- Graduation/School Colors
Can You Digi It?: Button It Up
 Make It Monday- Anything Goes
 Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

Delightful Challenges: For The Boys

Delicious Doodles: For The Fellas
Do You Stack Up: Boys/Men
Fussy And Fancy Challenge Blog: Boy Attitude
Inspire Me Fridays: Always Anything Goes


Jenn Zeeb - Stamplified

Jenn's Challenges:
Delicious Doodles-for the fellas
Emergency Crafter-thing with wings
Fussy and Fancy-boy attitude
Inspire Me Fridays-anything goes
Stamping with the Dragon-anything goes
Delightful Challenges-for the boys
DYSU-masculine
Forever Friends-with an animal
Papercrafting Journey-hand colored image
Southern Girls-wings
Freshly Brewed-anything goes
Paper Shelter-anything goes
Scrapalicious-graduation
Paper and Such Design-feathered friends
Try it On Tuesday-anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown-critters
Craft Your Passion-anything goes
My Grafico-graduation
Simon Says Stamp-anything goes
Pink Elephant-anything goes



So there are our samples, now it's over to you to create and link back up with us!

Winners PIO #23 - Put a Button on Fathers Day

Thank you for linking up your gorgeous projects to last week's Pile It On #23 - Put a Button on Fathers Day challenge!

Challenge 2012 #23
Top 3, as chosen by the Design Team:

#7 Michelle B.   

#12 Lorraine A   

#22 Pauline   

Lucky Winner, chosen by Random Sequence Generator:
So lucky! Congrats Lorraine!

#12 Lorraine A 

Congratulations Lorraine, you win the $12 gift certificate to A Day For Daisies! Please email CG to receive your prize (CGsaysSomethingLoudly AT gmail DOT com).

Congratulations to you all, and we hope you'll join us this week for PIO #24 - Let's Get Outdoors, sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.