Challenge #4 - Enough of winter colors

Hi everyone, sorry for the delay! It is still Sunday for a few more minutes at least here in the midwest. This week's challenge is: Enough of Winter Colors. Yes, this is a color challenge, but the twist is that you can use any NON winter combinations.. have fun and link us DIRECTLY to your project post in Mr. Linky... and now the amazing samples of the DT.

Ann - Raindrop Echo Designs


Challenges for Ann:

• Pile It On! - Enough of the Winter Colors
• A Spoon Full of Sugar - Freestyle
• Artful Inkables - Think Spring
• Creative Card Crew - Punch It
• Creative Inspirations - Feminine
• Cute Card Thursday - Blooming Gorgeous
• Dutch Dare Challenge - Summer in Winter
• Bee Crafty - Romantic (and digi)
• JUGS - Wildcard
• Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Open
• Etsy Inspired Challenge - Challenge #73

Sammye Jo of 62Cards

Challenges for Sammye Jo:

• Pile It On- Enough of the Winter Colors
• A Spoon Full of Sugar- Freestyle (Anything Goes)
• DCRU- Ribbon
• Pixie Cottage - Red & Pink
• Little Red Wagon- Hearts
• Stampavie - Love Card/ValentinHand Full of Stamps - Use Hearts
• Crazy 4 Challenges- Pretty In Pink

Rosanne of Bits of Life,Scrapbooking and Cooking

Challenges for Rosanne:

• Cuttlebug Challenges - vintage valentine
• Pixie Cottage - red and pink
• Spoon Full of Sugar - anything goes
• Stampavie - valentines
• Creative Inspirations - feminine
• Hand Full of Stamps - hearts
• Stamp Simply - hearts and red
• My Grafico - sketch
• Your Next Stamp - anything that sparkles
• Lily Boo Too - valentine
• Fussy and Fancy Friday - hearts
• The Secret Crafter - hearts
• Corrosive - love

Audrey from Aud Cards


Challenges for Audrey:

• Pile It On: No More Winter Colors
• Cupcake Craft : Matching Set
• Pink Elephant :Polka Dots, Bow and Pink
• Kaboodle Doodles : Pink, Lemon, Green and Plum
• Lily Boo Too : Valentines
• Spoonful Of Sugar : Freestyle
• Die Cuts R Us : Ribbon
• Creative Card Crew : Punch It
• Little Red Wagon : Hearts
• Paper Popsicles : Love
• Your Next Stamp : Anything That Sparkles
• Belli Challenge : Hearts
• Pixie Dust : 3D Project
• Dutch Dare : Summer In Winter
• Doodle Palace : Something New
• Play Date Cafe : Color Challenge
• Dare U 2 Digi : Hearts/Valentines
• Fussy and Fancy : Hearts
• Secret Crafter :Hearts
• Stampavie - Valentines
• Creative Inspirations - Feminine
• Hand Full of Stamps - Hearts
• Bee Crafty -Romance
• Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Open
• Corrosive -All You Need Is Love

Jennifer from Just Jennifer's Stamping

Challenges for Jennifer B.:

• Pile It On: No More Winter Colors
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #75 – Matching Set
• There She Goes Challenge #39 – Sketch
• The Pink Elephant Challenge #51 – Polka dots, a bow & pink
• Spoonful of Sugar Challenge #88 – Freestyle
• Crafty Creations Challenge #52 – Celebrate
• Dutch Dare Card Challenge #70 – Summer in Winter
• The Play Date Café Challenge #14 – Use colors white, green, melon, pink & orange
• Die Cuts R Us Challenge #23 – Ribbon
• Stamp Something Challenge – Yummy Food
• No Time To Stamp Challenge #124 – Use color red & a heart
• Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #68 - Hearts
• Pile It On Challenge #4 – No More Winter Colors

Designed by: Piali ~ Touch Of Creation

Challenges for Piali:

• Cupcake Inspiration Challenge:
• Mercy's Tuesday sketch: Sketch
• Pile it On: No more Winter colors.
• A Spoonfull of Sugar: Freestyle.
• Paper Popsicles: Love.
• Lily-Boo too : Valentine.
• Creative Inspirations: Feminine.
• No Time to Stamp?: Red and Heart.
• Handfull of Stamps: I Give You My Heart.
• Die Cuts R Us: Ribbon.
• Stamp,Scrap and Doodle Saturdays: Open.
• Pixie Cottage: Pink and Red.
• Fussy and Fancy Friday: Hearts.
• Stampavie and More: Love Card/Valentin
• Creative Belli : Hearts.
• Secret Crafter Saturday : Hearts.
• Just Us Girls: Wildcard.
• Saturday Spotlight: Bigger is Better.
• Little Red Wagon: Hearts.
• Creative Card Crew: Punch it.
• Your Next Stamp : Anything that Sparkles

Juliann Scrappylife

• scrappylife: so cute i'm hoarding it!
• the pixie cottage: challenge #8
• pile it on: challenge #4 no more winter colors
• willow traders: weekly challenge #6
• willow traders: weekly challenge #5
• secret crafter saturday: hearts

Dee - http://www.deespapertree.blogspot.com/

• Pile It On - Anything but Winter
• A Spoonfull of Sugar: Freestyle.
• Paper Popsicles: Love.
• Lily-Boo too : Valentine.
• No Time to Stamp?: Red and Heart.
• Die Cuts R Us: Ribbon.
• Pixie Cottage: Pink and Red.
• Stampavie and More: Love Card/Valentin
• Creative Belli : Hearts.
• Secret Crafter Saturday : Hearts.
• Little Red Wagon: Hearts.

GDT card to this week challenge - warm wishes

Hi, I hope everyone has had a wonderful week, filled with joy and happiness. I created a card with the theme: love/valentine for the warm wishes challenge. I will be giving it to my hubby along with a matchbookalbum (I will put the front of it up on my blog tomorrow).

The supplies I used for this card, is up on my blog.

Challenge for Anne-Katrine:

* Pile it on - warm wishes

* Lexi's Creations - valentine

* My time to craft - elegant rose

* Practical scrappers - patterned paper

* a spoon full of sugar - freestyle

Remember to put your entery to this week challenge in the mister linky here, so we can see YOUR beautiful work :)

Wishing you a wonderful week and happy scrapping :)

TOP 3 Scoops for Challenge #3

Every week it is harder and harder to pick our TOP 3, this week was no exception... so we have 4... LOL!!!! Here are the TOP 3 Scoops (remember to grab your linkie from the side frame).

Leanne - Fluttabyz Crafty Haven

Dayna - Buggin' Out

Avina - Crafting in a crazy world.

Justine - CARDiology

Challenge #3- Warm Wishes

Hi everyone! Ready for one more week of "Pile It On!", we are ready for you. This week's challenge is "Warm Wishes", you can interpret this many many ways... you could think of warm days in the sun, or of nice hot cocoas to warm your heart... or you could even go w/ "warm" colors... let your imagination run and have fun. Remember to leave us a DIRECT link to your projects in Mr. Linky.

And now the amazing work from our Designers:

Designed by Beth: BethieJ's Blogspot


Challenges for Beth-

• PIO-Winter Wishes!
• Bitten By The Bug 2- Use a snowman
• Little Red Wagon- Use snowflakes
• Your Next Stamp- Anything that sparkles!
• Colour Create-Kraft, Blue, White and Texture!
• Truely Scrumptious- Sketch

Designed by Trish: Hand Full of Stamps


Challenge for Trish:

• Pile it On: Warm Wishes
• Pink Elephant: sketch
• HFOS: swirls
• Crafty Angel: keep it simple
• Spoon Full of Sugar: layers
• Creative Crew: Punch it
• Little Red Wagon: snowflake
• Fussy and Fancy: Winter
  
  

Designed by: Jennifer-Random Vintage Finds

Challenges for Jennifer:

• Pile It On-Warm Wishes
  
• DCRU-Sketch
• Quixotic Challenge-Ink up an old stamp
• Creative Card Crew - Punch It
• Simon Says Stamp -Punch It
• Ooh La La - Create a Scene
• Tuesday Taggers-Leftovers
• A Spoon Full of Sugar-Lots of Layering
• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday-Create a Scene
• Incy Wincy-Color me wonderful (use favorite coloring medium)
• Charisma Cardz-Fruity Colors

Designed by Katie: Both Sides of the Paper

Challenges for Katie:

• Pile It On - Warm Wishes
• Ooh La La - "Create a Scene"
• Flourishes - Scene
• The Pink Elephant - sketch
• Practical Scrappers - Embossing
• Crafty Ann - Embossing
• Creative Card Crew - "Punch It"
• Simon Says Stamp -"Punch It"
• Little Red Wagon - Snowflakes
• Sassy Susie - Card for a Boy (with an animal option)
• Stamp With Sarah Kay - Birthday Card for a Boy
• Fab N Funky - Blue, Green and White
• Gingersnaps - Metallics
• Double Dutch - Baby It's Cold Outside

Designed by: Sam scrapping memories

Challenges for Sam:

• Pile It On - Warm Wishes
• Charisma cardz - Fruity colours
• Cards & things - Sketch #16
• Spoon full of sugar - Layers
• Quixotic challenges - Ink up an old stamp
• Crafty angels - Keep it simple
  
  

Designed by Tanja: Stampin'Piper

Challenges for Tanja:

• Pile it on ~ Warm Wishes
• Just Magnolia ~ Sketch
• Double Dutch Challenges ~ Baby it's cold outside
• Roses on Paper Challenge Blog ~ Show us Winter
• A Spoon full of Sugar ~ Layers
• Creative Card Crew ~ Punch it
• Papertake Weekly Challenges ~ Pretty in Pink
• Simon says Challenge ~ Punch it
• Crazy for Challenges ~ Pretty in Pink
• Magnolia-licous Highlites ~ Pretty in Pink
• Belli Challenges ~ Hearts
• Little Red Wagon ~ Snowflakes
• Fussy and Fancy Friday ~ Winter

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Challenges for Linda

• Pile it On - Warm Wishes
• CCEE Stampers - Sketch
• Stampin B's Design Team - Make a nautical card
• Flourishes Timelss Tuesday Challenge (FTTC#50) - Scene It
• Scrap and Stamp - Use your stash
• Quixotic Challenge #10 - Ink up an old stamp
• ABC Challenge - M is for masking
• Gingersnap Creations #39 - Color Challenge - Metallic
• Oh la la Creations - Create a Scene

Designed by Andrea M -workinprogress-am

Challenges for Andrea:

• Pile it on ~ Warm Wishes
• Cooking it up with Katie ~ Use a "non human" image, Add some texture, Use a product you've never used before
• Just Buggin' ~ Make a monochromatic card, use your cricut
• Treehouse Stamps Blog ~ Get well soon (well, sort of :D)
• Crafty Calendar Challenge ~ Keeping warm - use a warm color scheme
• Quixotic Challenges ~ Ink up an old stamp
• Taylored Expressions ~ Sketch challenge #98
• Spoon Full of Sugar ~ Layer challenge #87
• Practical Scrappers ~ Embossing
• Crafty Ann ~ Embossing

GDT card for this week challenge

Hi Anne-Katrine here to show you my card for this week challenge. I'm a Guest DT for this month and for February, something I'm very happy about. I will post my card on Thursdays.

First I can tell a little bit about me. I'm 34 years old, live in Norway together with my husband, son and kitty. I started with paperscrapbooking in 2004, digitalscrapbooking in 2007 and cardmaking in 2007 too. Now I have started to do hybrids too, it's so fun to work with both my hobbies together. I have a blog here: love to create. Where I showcase my hybrid- and cardprojects.

Here is my card:

Challenges for Anne-Katrine

• pile it on - Tie it on
• Sketch and Stash challenge - sketch and stash challenge 27 (new buttons and string)
• Incy Wincy Designs - COLOUR ME WONDERFUL
• dare you to digi stamp - buttons

I wish you some wonderful and happy scrapping days rest of the week.

TOP 3 Scoops for Challenge #2

I want to say that I loved all the different takes you ladies gave us w/ Challenge #2. Here are the TOP 3 Scoops (remember to grab your linkie from the side frame).

Annita - Paper Art by Annita

Cat - Cat's Craftivity Corner

Chris - Easily Amused

And now for our Sweet Sprinkles award... yes, not every week we give this one, but this week we got double the goods....

Mandy - Made by Mandy

Pauline - Passion for Papercraft

Challenge #2: Tie it around it (Use AT LEAST 3 ribbons)

Hi everyone this year you will see a few changes.

1. TOP 3 Scoops will be announced on Tuesday.


2. Our wonderful Guest DTs will be inspiring you on Thursday.


3. If we get contacted by a company to be a sponsor thanks to one of our players, you will get a little RAK. (We will be announcing our first little RAK this week!)


4. You will see a change in our look pretty soon, but that is about the changes we will do to our blog challenge.

A now onto this week's challenge! This week is all about ribbon, all you have to do is to use AT LEAST 3 ribbons in your project and of course pile at least one more challenge into it too! Link us DIRECTLY to your project using Mr. Linky that is at the bottom of the post.

Please now enjoy our wonderful DT's samples!!!!

Piali~ Touch of Creation.

Challenges by Piali :

• Pile it On: Tie it around.
• Colour Q: Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery,White.
• Tuesday Morning Sketches: Buttons & Bows.
• Inspire Me #5: One Man's Trash.
• Incy Wincy Designs: Sweet Treats.
• Your Next Stamp Challenge: Embossing.
• The Pink Elephant: Birthday.
• ABC challenge: 'L is for LAYERING'
• Digital Tuesday Challenge: Emboss it.
• Creative Inspirations: Distressing.
• Crafty Creations: Textures.
• Little Red Wagon: Polka Dots.
• Charisma Cardz: Anything New.
• Crafty Catz: A Birthday card.
• Dare U 2 Digi Stamp:Buttons
• Cupcake Craft Challenges: Going Girly.
• Quixotic Challenges: Sketch.
• Sew Many Challenges: Anything goes..
• Creative Belli : Glitter OR Rhinestones.
• Hand Full of Stamps: Polka Dots.

Juliann scrappylife

Challenges by Julie

• scrapjacked: Carloine Rondel
• paper cutz: challenge #24
• if the shoe fits: fashionista friday #18
• willow traders: weekly challenge #2

Tanja Stampin'Piper:

• Pile it on: Tie it around
• Papertake Weekly: Sketch
• Magnolia Down Under Challenges: Valentine
• Cute Card Thursday: Pink & Grey
• Sew many Challenges: Anything goes
• Creative Inspirations: new products (new stamp)

Ann - Raindrop Echo Designs

Challenges for Ann:

• Stamp with Fun - Snowflakes
• Everybody Art - Snowflakes
• Three Clovers - Winter
• Fussy and Fancy - Winter
• Saturday Spotlight - Snowflakes
• One Stop Craft - Fancy Edges or Corners
• Sew Many Cards - Anything Goes
  
  
  

Rosanne - Bits of Life, Scrapbooking and Cooking

• sketch at The Fresh Batch
• dots at Hand Fullof Stamps
• dots at Little Red Wagon
• dry embossing at Crafty Anns

Audrey Aud Cards

• Pile It On "Tie It On"
• Copic Buzz #25 "Red and Pink”
• Digital Tuesday #41 "Emboss It"
• ABC "L is for Layering..."
• Crafty Creations #50 "Textures"
• Paper Take Weekly #32 Sketch
• Bee Crafty #21 "Thank You
• Cupcake Craft #73 "Going Girly”
• My Grafico #31 "Yellow”
• Incy Wincy#25 "Sweet Treats”
• 2 Red Bananas "Think Round”
• Charisma Cardz#2 "Anything New"
• Little Red Wagon #11 "Polka Dots"
• Your Next Stamp #7 "Embossing"
• Dare U 2 Digi Stamp #29 "Buttons"
• Paper Cutz #24 "Summer"
• Sew Many Cards #1 "Anything Goes"
• Crazy 4 Challenges #20 Sketch
• Stamp, Scrap & Doodle #23 “Girly”

Jennifer B. Just Jennifer's Stamping

• Pile It On Challenge #2 "Tie It Around It"
• Digital Tuesday Challenge #41 "Emboss It"
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #73 "Going Girly"
• Creative Inspirations Challenge #43 "New Year, New Products"
• There She Goes Challenge #37 "Embellish x3"
• Flutterby Wednesday's Challenge #92 "Anything butterfly, angel or fairy"
• Your Next Stamp Challenge #7 "Embossing"
• Unscripted Sketches Challenge #38
• Phindy's Place Challenge #3 "Something New & Different"

Sammye Jo - 62Cards

• Pile it On: Tie It Around
  
• ABC challenge: 'L is for LAYERING'
• Digital Tuesday Challenge: Emboss it
• Creative Inspirations: Distressing
• Incy Wincy Designs: Sweet Treats
• Your Next Stamp Challenge: Embossing
• The Pink Elephant: Birthday
• Crafty Creations: Textures
• Little Red Wagon: Polka Dots
• Sew Many Challenges: Anything Goes!
• Hand Full of Stamps: Polka Dots
• Charisma Cardz: Anything New
• Creative Inspirations Challenge #43 "New Year, New Products"
• Crafty Catz: A Birthday Card

WELCOME NEW SWEETIES!

Please help me welcome the new Pile It On! Design Team!!!! And you might notice some familiar names and blogs, that is because some of our very talented girls decided they wished to continue with Pile It On! for a little longer.

• ANDREA
• ANN
• AUDREY
• BETHIE
• DEE
• JENNIFER
• JENNIFER B.
• JULIE
• KATIE
• LINDA
• PIALI
• ROSANNE
• SAM
• SAMMYE JO
• TANJA
• TRISH

I am working on the announcement of the Guest DTs... coming really soon!!

TOP 3 Scoops!

The Tops for Challenges #29 and #30

Ladies, grab the blinkie from the side and wear it proud!

Laurel for this fearless bow!!!! (sorry I meant card.. LOL!!!)



Emma for the super duper card.


Alison for this super duper sweet card.


Amy for this card... that I just adore!!!!