#TGIFC140 December Designer's Delight

Hello, TGIF Challenge friends!!! As we wrap up this year, we once again reflect on all of the memories of the last year, the good, the bad, the fun, the sad. We all seem to be so busy though, wrapping up one year and getting ready to start another - that's why we decided to mix it up a  little this week. This week you'll see a variety of projects from our designers, as we let them have free reign over what they chose to design. Our challenge to you is to choose one, or more to be inspired by and create based off of their project(s)

This week we are bringing you even MORE inspiration!!! We have TWO new designers on our TGIF Challenges team! Please help us welcome the fabulous Maria Willis and Tami Hewlett!!!

Maria discovered stamping and paper crafting almost 4 years ago, immediately joined Stampin' Up! and has never looked back! She is super excited to be joining our design team and sharing with all of our amazing TGIF Challengers. Be prepared to be inspired by many different styles from this amazing stamper, and be ready to see and learn about many techniques from her - she truly is the BOMB!

Tami fell in love with stamping over 15 years ago, and has been an avid paper crafter ever since.  While she's a CPA and Controller by day, she looks forward to her free time when stamping provides the perfect creative outlet.  Art has been a passion since childhood, whether it's painting, sewing, or even cake decorating.  Tami is a California native with a loving husband and two grown children, one still in college.  She is so excited to be part of the TGIF Challenge Design Team.

 Thank you to all of our participants from last week and congratulate our winner!!!!
Jan Clothier!

Let's see what our design team created when left to their own devices:

Cathy Caines | In the Cat Cave

Elizabeth Price

Maria Willis

Tami Hewlett

Jeanna Bohanon

Breelin Renwick

Of course, the beauty of a challenge site is that you not only get to see what the Designers have made but you also get to play along!

You can go and check out our Guideline page for complete details, but here are a few things to keep in mind: 

Deadline for entries will be at 10am PST on Thursday 01/04/18

• Uploaded projects need to be direct linked to your blog, Facebook, or other on line gallery.
• Please post the TGIF Challenge graphic on your blog and link back to our site
• Your project MUST be new and inspired by our challenge parameters
• When sharing your project publicly, please use this weeks hashtag- #TGIFC140
• Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 01/05/18
• Questions should be left in the comment section
• Challengers can even post your cards on our FB page too!!  "Like us" while you're there :-)

 Now show us what you've got!

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#TGIFC139 Last Minute Santa! What are you making?

Hello TGIF friends. As Santa is getting ready for the big day, I am sure you are all hustling around as well! This week's theme is "Last Minute Santa". What do you say we share some of those last minute card & gift giving ideas with each other this week? We hope you can join in the fun!

Thank you all so much for playing along with us each week! We love seeing your creativity and how our challenges inspire you. This week we would like to recognize our winner from last week's challenge:
Jenny Hall!!!!

Let's break the "No Peeking" rule and see what our Design Team has been keeping under wraps:

Cathy Caines | In the Cat Cave

Elizabeth Price

Charlet Mallett

Jeanna

Melissa Stout

Carolynn Sander | Care Bear Stamps

Ashley Van Camp

Stesha Bloodhart

Of course, the beauty of a challenge site is that you not only get to see what the Designers have made but you also get to play along!

You can go and check out our Guideline page for complete details, but here are a few things to keep in mind: 

Deadline for entries will be at 10am PST on Thursday 12/28/17

• Uploaded projects need to be direct linked to your blog, Facebook, or other on line gallery.
• Please post the TGIF Challenge graphic on your blog and link back to our site
• Your project MUST be new and inspired by our challenge parameters
• When sharing your project publicly, please use this weeks hashtag- #TGIFC139
• Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/29/17
• Questions should be left in the comment section
• Challengers can even post your cards on our FB page too!!  "Like us" while you're there :-)

 Now show us what you've got!

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#TGIFC138 It's Time to be Inspired!

Hello, TGIF Challenge friends! This week we chose to use Christmas Carols as our inspiration. We want to make sure first that we want everyone to be able to participate, so if you don't celebrate Christmas, PLEASE, choose a song from whatever holiday you might celebrate, or ANY SONG in general 

 Thank you to all of our participants from last week and congratulate our winner!!!!

Mary Deatherage

Let's see what our design team created when inspired by some of their favorite carols:

Cathy Caines | In the Cat Cave

Breelin Renwick

Melissa Stout

Marisa Gunn

Stesha Bloodhart

Of course, the beauty of a challenge site is that you not only get to see what the Designers have made but you also get to play along!

You can go and check out our Guideline page for complete details, but here are a few things to keep in mind: 

Deadline for entries will be at 10am PST on Thursday 12/21/17

• Uploaded projects need to be direct linked to your blog, Facebook, or other on line gallery.
• Please post the TGIF Challenge graphic on your blog and link back to our site
• Your project MUST be new and inspired by our challenge parameters
• When sharing your project publicly, please use this weeks hashtag- #TGIFC138
• Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/22/17
• Questions should be left in the comment section
• Challengers can even post your cards on our FB page too!!  "Like us" while you're there :-)

 Now show us what you've got!

An InLinkz Link-up

#TGIFC137 It's a SQUARE Sketch Challenge

Hello, TGIF Challenge friends!!! Welcome back for another week of inspiration. This week we have a great sketch for you. It's been a LONG time since we have done a square card sketch, so we figured it was time! Now of course, you can use this as a jumping off point, so you don't HAVE to do a square card - but extra points if you do!

 Thank you so much to all of those that participated last week with our color challenge! There were some AMAZING, and GORGEOUS cards submitted. We want to take a moment to CONGRATULATE our winner:

Tami Hewlett

Now, let's see how our team tackled these squares:

Elizabeth Price

Stesha Bloodhart

Ashley Van Camp

Carolynn Sander | Care Bear Stamps

Charlet Mallett

Andrea Tracy-Tucker

Jeanna Bohanon

Cathy Caines | In the Cat Cave

Of course, the beauty of a challenge site is that you not only get to see what the Designers have made but you also get to play along!

You can go and check out our Guideline page for complete details, but here are a few things to keep in mind: 

Deadline for entries will be at 10am PST on Thursday 12/14/17

• Uploaded projects need to be direct linked to your blog, Facebook, or other on line gallery.
• Please post the TGIF Challenge graphic on your blog and link back to our site
• Your project MUST be new and inspired by our challenge parameters
• When sharing your project publicly, please use this weeks hashtag- #TGIFC137
• Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/15/17
• Questions should be left in the comment section
• Challengers can even post your cards on our FB page too!!  "Like us" while you're there :-)

 Now show us what you've got!

An InLinkz Link-up

#TGIFC136 Color Challenge

 Hi TGIF Challenge friends!!! It's Friday - our favorite day of the week and we hope it's one of yours too! This week is the start of a new month, which means we like to kick things off with a color challenge. 

We want to take a moment to thank all of our challengers from last week, and to CONGRATULATE last week's winner:
Teresa Kline!!!

Sadly, we've had a few team members that have recently had to make the difficult decision to step down from the team for now. We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Sue Plote, Holly Stene, and Chloe Evans. We love y'all and will miss all of your amazing talents!

Now - how about our Design Team, what did they come up with?

HOWEVER!!!! We are adding new team members to TGIF to bring you some fabulous new inspiration. We like to introduce you to the first one,
Stesha Bloodhart!!!

Stesha (pronounced Steh-shuh) is from the small town of River Falls, WI. She's always had a love for crafting of all kinds. In addition to her passion for paper crafting, she also dabbles in jewelry making. After being introduced to Stampin' Up! in the early 2000s, she signed up the next day to be a Demonstrator! She took a break for a while to start her family, but signed back up in 2016, just started blogging earlier this year, and BOY are we ever glad she did!!! If you aren't familiar with her work yet, you will surely fall in love with her gorgeous projects!!!


Stesha

Jeanna Bohanon

Breelin Renwick

Marisa Gunn

Of course, the beauty of a challenge site is that you not only get to see what the Designers have made but you also get to play along!

You can go and check out our Guideline page for complete details, but here are a few things to keep in mind: 

Deadline for entries will be at 10am PST on Thursday 12/7/17

• Uploaded projects need to be direct linked to your blog, Facebook, or other on line gallery.
• Please post the TGIF Challenge graphic on your blog and link back to our site
• Your project MUST be new and inspired by our challenge parameters
• When sharing your project publicly, please use this weeks hashtag- #TGIFC136
• Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/8/17
• Questions should be left in the comment section
• Challengers can even post your cards on our FB page too!!  "Like us" while you're there :-)

 Now show us what you've got!

An InLinkz Link-up

#TGIFC135 Inspiration/Technique Week

 Hi TGIF Challengers! We are so happy that you are joining us. This week is an Inspiration/Technique week. This week we are focusing on a "trend" that's been popular for quite a while now, and doesn't show any signs of going anywhere soon.

 
 

Thank you all for playing along with us last week with our Gratitude Challenge. Congratulations to our winner from last week:
Amy K!!!

Now, who wants to see what the team came up with this week??? Take a peek:

Mercedes Weber

Charlet Mallett

Elizabeth Price

Carolynn Sander | Care Bear Stamps

Rochelle Blok

Jeanna Bohanon

Andrea Tracy-Tucker

Melissa Stout

Of course, the beauty of a challenge site is that you not only get to see what the Designers have made but you also get to play along!

You can go and check out our Guideline page for complete details, but here are a few things to keep in mind: 

Deadline for entries will be at 10am PST on Thursday 11/30/17

• Uploaded projects need to be direct linked to your blog, Facebook, or other on line gallery.
• Please post the TGIF Challenge graphic on your blog and link back to our site
• Your project MUST be new and inspired by our challenge parameters
• When sharing your project publicly, please use this weeks hashtag- #TGIFC135
• Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/1/17
• Questions should be left in the comment section
• Challengers can even post your cards on our FB page too!!  "Like us" while you're there :-)

 Now show us what you've got!

An InLinkz Link-up