Pile It On #49 Midway post - Anything Goes Christmas/Holidays!

Happy Winter Solstice! We hope you'll join us for our special Christmas/Holidays challenge, running through January 3rd 2015. If you've already linked up a project, feel free to link up again!

We have three sponsors for this challenge: Pink Gem Designs, Digital Delights, and Cuddly Buddly!

Here's some more inspiration from our Design Team:


Elizabeth - Warm Harted

Challenges for Elizabeth:

A Crafty Mess - anything goes/traditional Christmas colors

Animal friends - must have animal

Brown Sugar - Christmas

CCC Digi - digi/rhinestone or ribbon

Craft for the Craft - favorite Christmas colors

Completely Christmas - anything goes

Colouring Crazy Challenge - make it festive

Crafter's cafe - animal friends

Cute Card Thursday - sparkles

Di's Digis - any winter holiday

Inky Impressions - winter wonderland

Little Red Wagon - Christmas

Milk Coffee - sparkle

QKR - layers

Sweet 7 - winter

CG - Say Something Loudly

Challenges for CG:
Add a Little Dazzle: Anything Goes
Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge: Vacation/Travel (hoarded items: wooden globe and twine)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper December Challenge: AG with DP background
Crafty Sentiment Designs: Winter
Digi Choosday Challenge #50: Last Minute X-mas
Hambo Hoedown: Winter
Simon Says Stamp: Winter inspiration
A song in your He{ART} #22: I'll be Home for Christmas


Kimberly - Paper Munch

Challenges for Kimberly:

A Crafty Mess - anything goes/traditional Christmas colors

52 christmas card throwdown - gifts of the season (pick any past challenge)

Brown Sugar - Christmas

allsorts challenge blog - last min gifts

Craft for the Craft - favorite Christmas colors

Completely Christmas - anything goes

Colouring Crazy Challenge - make it festive

always playing with paper - colour theme

cuttin and stampin - christmas

curtain call - candy cane

little scrap pieces - linky party

Fantabulous cricut challenge- atg 

mfp stamp - round those corners

paper take weekly - last christmas 

hiding in my craft room - free style

Di's Digis - any winter holiday

Christmas card challenge - CAS

Little Red Wagon - Christmas

deep ocean - christmas

clear it out challenge - atg

crafty hazelnut - anything still needed for christmas

pennys paper - atg

shopping our stash - red alert

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Anything Goes Holidays/Christmas Reminder

A week has gone of our Anything Goes for Holidays/Christmas Challenge and we want to keep your excitement going!

We have a couple of cute cards, one featuring one of our sponsor images and you could win the stamp set used on this card if you are one of our lucky winners!

We have also included some challenges that you may like to take and add to your entry, remember you can enter as many times as you like with different projects!

Katie - Both Sides of the Paper

Challenges for Katie:
Crafters Cafe - Christmas (3 entries only)
Fab N Funky - Christmas
Crafty Creations - Die Cuts
Creative Moments - Winter
Hambo Challenges - Winter (1 entry only)
Chocolate Coffee and Cards - Christmas (3 entries only)
Crafts 4 Eternity - Christmas (3 entries only)
Crafty Catz - Last Minute Christmas
Docerela - Red, White and Blue
Graph It - Festive Wishes
Jingle Belles - Christmas


Alycia - Happy Chick Designs

Challenges:
Oddball Art Stamps - Any Winter Holiday
Crafty Boots - Merry Christmas
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes Christmas
Craftin' Desert Divas - Christmas
Loves Rubberstamps #130 - Winter/Christmas
Cardz 4 Guyz #48 - Winter Critters
Crafty Sentiments - Christmas
Craft-Alnica #123 - Festive Greetings
Fab N Funky #241 - Christmas
Word Art Wednesday #162 - Anything Goes
The Crafter's Cafe #94 - Christmas/Holiday
Scrapbooker PHD #18 - Christmas Critters
2 Crafty Chicks #224 - One Layer Card
Brown Sugar #124 - Red, White, and Green
Crafty Catz #259 - Last Minute Christmas
Creative Fingers #60 - Anything Goes
Colouring Crazy Challenge #50 - Festive Wishes
Crafts 4 Eternity #206 - Christmas
Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards #80 - Christmas
Wags N Whiskers #144 - Merry Christmas
Red Carpet Studio #84 - 'Elf'
Fantasy Stampers #25 - CAS Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #207 - Urgently Needed Christmas
AllSorts Challenge Blog #289 - White Christmas


Remember you still have plenty of time left to enter and it is worth it as we have a bucketful of prizes up for grabs.
For all the details and the link to enter simply go to our Anything Goes for Holidays/Christmas Challenge and Good Luck!

Winners PIO #48 - Sprinkle It

Thank you all for joining our Sprinkle It challenge last week. 

Prize Winner, as chosen via Random.org:

#51 Melissa Sunshine HoneyBee

 

Congratulations! Email CG (CGsaysSomethingLoudly [at] gmail.com) to receive your 3 digi stamps from Doodle Pantry. Please put "PIO Winner #48" in the subject line.

Top 3, as chosen by the Design Team:

#42 Karen H

 

#38 Crissy Armstrong

    #52 NanaConnie

Congratulations! Please grab your Top 3 Scoops badge (code is available in the right sidebar):

Many thanks to you all, and we hope you'll join us for our final challenge of 2014, Pile It On #49 - Anything Christmas/Holidays, sponsored by Digital Delights, Pink Gem Designs, and Cuddly Buddy.

Pile It On #49 - Anything Goes Christmas/Holidays!

Have we got a great challenge for you today? Yes we sure do!
It is our final challenge for 2014 and runs all the way to the end of January 3rd 2015.
Both of our teams are playing and we have the best theme "Christmas/Holidays!"
With this being our last challenge this year we hope to get lots of entries and so to make that more fun we have lots of prizes!!

Our first sponsor is Pink Gem Designs, and they offering a prize of 2 digi stamps of the winner's choice!

Next we have the fabulous Digital Delights who have a great $5 Gift Certificate as the prize for our winner.

Welcome to Digital Delights by Louby Loo, a magical place filled with digital creations from all walks of life. We are your one stop shop for all your digital stamps and digital products which are instantly downloadable. We also have a wide range of digital papers and svg cut files for all your crafting projects. Our low prices reflect our belief that crafting should not only be fun but affordable too!! Other services include custom blog design and custom watermarks. Why wait for snail mail? Start creating with our instant downloads today.

And finally we have clear stamps from Cuddly Buddly and we have 4 sets of 2 stamps sets (our choice of design) from the brand new lines released over the last few months.

Our team have some fabulous samples to get you in the Holiday crafting mood and we can't wait to see what you come up with to enter!

Katie - Both Sides of the Paper

Challenges for Katie:
Craftin Desert Divas - Christmas
Jingle Belles - Christmas
CRAFT - Christmas (5 entries only)
Patties Creations - Christmas Cards (2 entries only)
CCC Digi - Christmas and Digi (3 entries only)
Doodle Pantry - Any Digi Goes (1 entry only)
Aud's Sentiments - Bingo! (Die Cut, Image, Bling) (5 entries only)
Moving Along With the Times - Christmas Climate (snowman)
A Creative Need - Playing with Snow
Crafty Catz - Snowmen (3 entries only)
Brown Sugar - Winter
Crafts 4 Eternity - Winter (3 entries only)
Completely Christmas - Add Holly


Helen - Helen's Craft Haven:

Challenges for Helen:
Pile It On! - Anything Christmas
4 Crafty Chicks - Animals
Allsorts - Animal Magic
Animal Friends - Anything Goes
Cards Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Completely Christmas - Add some holly
C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Bright Colours
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra - Anything Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments- Anything Goes
Fab 'N Funky - Pre-coloured Images
Gem of a Challenge - Anything Christmas
Jingle Belles - Anything Christmas
Moving Along with the Times - Christmas Climate
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Sketch Saturday - Sketch #339


Anna - Anna's Handmade Cards

Challenges for Anna:
Fab'n'Funky - easy-peasy (no hand-colored images)
Eclectic Ellapu - vintage X-mas
Crafting for all seasons - tis the season
A Song In Your Heart - have yourself a merry little X-mas
Fussy and Fancy - happy holidays
We Do Doobadoo - get festive
V's Sweet Ideas - holiday theme
Crafting By Designs - all things X-mas
Stempelsonnen - anything goes
Sister Act - anything goes


Elizabeth - Warm Harted

Challenges for Elizabeth:
A Girl Who Crafts - Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything goes Christmas
Crafting by Designs - Anything for Christmas
Craft Hoarders - Celebrate the Season
Creative Craft Challenge - Christmas and digi
Eureka Stamps - Celebrate
Get Creative - Christmas
Incy Wincy - Non traditional Christmas Colors
Mema's crafts - Celebrate the Holidays
Simon Says Stamp - Christmas/Holidays
Tuesday Throwdown - Bling it On
Crafts Galore - Anything Goes
Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes
Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes
Scrapper's Delights - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday - Positive/Anything Goes

Beth- BethieJs Blogspot

Challenges For Beth-

PIO- Anything Christmas

613 Avenue Create- ATG W/Twist

Brown Sugar-winter

CRAFT- Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - ATG

Simon Says Stamp - Christmas/Holiday

Jingle Belles - Anything Christmas

Gem of a Challenge - Anything Christmas

Patties Creations-Christmas Cards

Sister Act-ATG

Creative Moments- ATG W/Winter

Crafty Sentiments-

 ATG

Party Time Tuesday -ATG

Winter Wonderland- Snowman or Penguin

CG - Say Something Loudly

Challenges for CG:
Add a Little Dazzle: Snow/Snowflakes or Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge #121: Holiday Bingo (middle row: Die cuts, Stamp, Bling)
Craft and Smash: Ice- snow- Christmas
Crafty Ribbons: Mono Christmas
The Crazy Challenge: White All Around (all white or with snow)
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #64: Anything Goes with twist - Add Embossing
Happy Little Stampers: Sketch
Sparkle N Sprinkle December Challenge: Anything Goes: use loose glitter, embossing powder, and/or flocking
Stampavie and More: Snowflakes


Kimberly - Paper Munch

Challenge for Kimberly:

papertake weekly - atg

creative knockouts - festive flourishes

crafty ribbons - mono christmas

speedy fox and friends - christmas tags

hiding in my craftroom - christmas colours

little scrap pieces - atg 

crafty boots - christmas

my craft spot - christmas shaped cards

the house that stamps built - abc

bearly mine - abc

penny black designs - celebration 

Jenn Zeeb - stamplified

challenges:
Brown Sugar-winter
Crafts 4 Eternity-winter
Fancy & Fussy-happy holidays
Patties Creations-Christmas cards
Sister Act-anything goes
Winter Wonderland-snowman or penguin
Crafty Little Faries-holly
Dream it Up-cute or quick
Little Miss Muffet-anything goes
Outlawz-Christmas
Crafting by Design-Christmas
Little Red Wagon-things with wings

Now it's over to you, link up below and Good Luck!

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Winners PIO #47 - Recycle/Upcycle

Thank you all for joining our Recycle/Upcycle challenge last week. 

Prize Winner, as chosen via Random.org:

#11 Carol Dunham

 

Congratulations! Email CG (CGsaysSomethingLoudly [at] gmail.com) to receive your Gift Certificate to Bugaboo Stamps. Please put "PIO Winner #47" in the subject line.

Recycle/Upcycle Challenge
Top 3, as chosen by the Design Team:

#4 Katrina

 

#10 Rebecca Billard

    #13 Coops

Congratulations! Please grab your Top 3 Scoops badge (code is available in the right sidebar):

Honorable Mention / Sweet Sprinkles Award

#2 Myrna Sweet

Myrna, we loved your creative use of leftover Christmas cards. Please grab your "Sweet Sprinkles" Badge from the right sidebar.


Many thanks to you all, and we hope you'll join us this week for Pile It On #48 - Sprinkle It, sponsored by Doodle Pantry.

Pile It On #48 - Sprinkle It

This week at the Pile It On Challenge our theme is Sprinkle It (glitter, flocking, embossing powder... anything you "sprinkle" on.)

We're sponsored this week by Doodle Pantry and one lucky participant will win 3 digital products of their choice!

Doodle Pantry is honoured and excited to be sponsoring Pile It On!  We have a nice variety of all styles of digital images at the shop  from the whimsical to realistic. If you've never worked with digital images before we also have a full freebies page! We look forward to seeing what everyone creates this week. We also invite you to join our Challenges.

The Doodle Pantry Design Team has joined us with these wonderful projects:

Ellen using Snowglobe Gala and Charlie Reindeer

Annie using Gingerbread House Ants

Pat using Winter Star

And here are the fabulous samples from our team!

CG - Say Something Loudly

Challenges for CG:
Get Creative Challenges: Anything Goes + Optional Twist: Glitter (there is a touch of glitter in the "wine stain")
The Pink Elephant Monday Card Challenge: Anything Goes
Perfectly Rustics: Embossing
Sparkle N Sprinkle: Anything Goes with Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking

Elizabeth - Warm Harted

Challenges for Elizabeth
Clear it Out - Winter Wishes /Snowflake
Craftin Desert Divas - Christmas
Craft Your Passion - Cold Outside
Crafty sentiments - Use Die Cuts
Digi Sketch - Punch or Die
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
Just Inspirational - Winter
Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
Simon says - Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom door - Anything Goes

Jenn Zeeb Stamplified

Challenges:
A Crafty Mess-anything goes
ArtbyMeriam-anything goes
Brown Sugar-anything goes
Creative Need-button ip
Crafty Catz-anything goes
Fussy & Fancy-any holiday
Sister Act Card Challenge-anything goes
Stamping Boutique-sparkle
Southern Girls-celebration
Creative Moments- anything goes with sparkle
Simon Says Stamp-anything goes
Sweet Sketch-sketch
PArty Time Tuesday-anything goes
Tip Top Tuesday-buttons & bows

Beth- BethieJs Blogspot

Challenges For Beth-
PIO- Sprinkle It (Used Glitter)
613 Avenue Create- ATG W/Twist
Sweet Stampin- Let It Snow
 Brown Sugar- ATG
Stamping Boutique-Sparkle
Creative Moments- ATG W/Sprakle
MAWTT- Inspired By A Song (Let It Snow!)

Craft Your Passion - Cold Outside

Crafty sentiments - Use Die Cuts

 Sister Act Card Challenge - ATG

Just Inspirational - Winter

Party Time Tuesday -ATG

Kimberly - paper munch 

Challenges:

crafting for all seasons - tis the season

holly jolly Christmas - elves

addicted to stamps - make your mark

amusing challenge - atg

brown sugar - atg

craft challenge - presents

catch the bug - scraps

catered crop - atg

crafty catz - atg

crafty hazel christmas - santa's on his way

creative fingers - atg

creative knockouts - all that glitters

creative moments - atg

eueka stamps - non traditional colours

hiding in my craftroom - free style

little scrap pieces - atg

simon says - atg

that craft place - atg

Now it's over to you, link up and Good Luck!

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