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.

Pile It On #24 - Let's get Outdoors

Welcome to another fun Pile It On Challenge! This week, we want you to "Go Outdoors."

We are sponsored by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp who are offering a $15 Gift Certificate to our wonderful winner.




Our team did a great job and hopefully it will inspire you to join in with us.

Deanne - A Little Bit O' Paper

Deanne's Challenges:
Pile It On #24 - the Great Outdoors
Southern Girls - things with wings
Papercraft Star - here comes summer
Paper Pretties - favorite color combo (greens and oranges)
Pixie Dust Studios - 3 or more pattern papers
Emergency Crafters - things with wings
Sweet 'N Sassy - back to nature
Crafty Catz - sumertime
Stampin' for the Weekend - butterflies and bugs
Frosted Designs - card sketch #20

Elizabeth - Warm Harted

Elizabeth's Challenges:

Crafty Catz - summer
Delightful Challenge - fun in the sun
Digital Tuesday  anything goes
Fashionista - simply summer
Fresh Brewed - pop it up
Fun with Shapes and More - summer
Great Impressions - die cuts/punches
House of Gilli - vibrant/summer
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Papercraft star - here comes summer
Pink Elephant - vibrant colors
Raise the Bar - summer
Ribbon girl - use ribbon or lace
Totally Gorjuss - sunshine
Whoopsi - summer colors
Whimsy - things with wings


Chris V - Easily Amused

Here's the challenges:
Pile It On #24 - the Great Outdoors
Digital Tuesday  #63 - Anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (optional Father's Day)
Pinspirational #10 - photo of girls on beach
Tuesday Throwdown #101- Friendship
Color Throwdown CTD195 - pink, light yellow, peach and aqua
Papercraft Star #100 - Here Comes Summer
Delightful - Fun in the Sun
Paper Playtime #76 - Die cuts - Vacation
The Pink Elephant TPE151 - Vibrant Colors
Raise the Bar #107- Hello Summer
Totally Papercrafts - Doodle On It
Crafty Ann's #67 - It's a Girl Thing
Crafty Catz #136 - Summertime
Just Add Ink JAI 121 - Just Add Pearls
Sweet Stampin' - All Stitched Up
Totally Gorjuss #135 - Sunshine


Helen - Helen's Craft Haven:

Challenges for Helen:
Pile It On! - Let's Get Outdoors
2 Sisters - Sketch
Allsorts - Ice Cream Colours
Crafty Catz - Summer Time
Cute Card Thursday - Water, Water Everywhere!
Delightful - Fun in the Sun
House Mouse & Friends - Here Comes the Sun
Papercraft Star - Here Comes Summer
Papercraft Bliss/The Journey - Colour It Up
Paper Playtime - Die Cuts & Vacation
Pink Elephant - Vibrant Colours
Raise the Bar - Hello Summer
Totally Gorjuss - Sunshine
Totally Papercrafts - Doodling

Lorianna - Lorianna's Corner

Lorianna's Challenges

Pile It On #24 - the Great Outdoors
Willow Sketchie Challenge -  Sketch
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Paper Pretties - favorite color combo (greens and beiges)
Platypus Creek - for boy
Flourishes - at least 3 colors of rainbow(yellow, green, blue)
ATC's and Cards with Attitude - Anything Goes/Father's Day
Card Makin Mamas  - Father's Day
Delicious Doodles - For the Fellas
Pattie's Creations - Father's Day
Phindy's Place - Father's Day/Masculine
The Poodles Parlour - Father's Day / Male
Simply Create Too - Father's Day / Male
The Stamp Man - For a Man
CRAFT - Male Card
Digi Doodle Shops Best - Male Card
Secret Crafters Saturday - Fathers Day
Sweet 'N Sassy - back to nature
Digital Tuesday - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - Water, Water Everywhere!
Paper Crafting Journey - Hand Colored
Sassy Cheryl's - Dads or Grads
Cards For Men
Going Grey - Fathers Day
Card Mad Fairy - Fathers Day

Looking forward to seeing all your "outdoorsy" projects!
Please add your link below.

Winners PIO #22 - Two or More Folds

We really enjoyed all of your multi-fold projects for PIO #22! So many great ideas.

Challenge 2012 #22
Top 3, as chosen by the Design Team:



#11 Sue bearhouse

#26 CraftyGirl

#1 Julie J 

Lucky Winner, chosen by Random Sequence Generator:

#16 Jill 

Congratulations Jill, you win the $10 Gift Certificate to Digi Doodle Shop! Please email CG to receive your prize (cgSaysSomethingLoudly AT gmail DOT net).

Congratulations to you all, and we hope you'll join us this week for PIO #23 - Fathers Day + Buttons, sponsored by A Day for Daisies.