TGIF Challenges!: 2021

Friday, December 31, 2021

#TGIFC349 Theme Challenge

Hello and happy Friday to our dear, TGIF friend!

We definitely cannot bring this year to an end without expressing our deep and sincere gratitude for each and every one of you and all of your continued support and some of the best challenge submissions out there!

So here we are, wrapping up another year, bringing a calendar year to a close. How appropriate then is this week's challenge...it's all about CLOSURE!

Congratulations to last week's winner!!!

Barb Pfeffer

How did our Design Team choose to wrap up their year? Take a look!

Elizabeth Price with a belly band closure

Carolynn Sander

Tammy Wilson

Jeanna Bohanon

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 1/6/22

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- #TGIFC349

Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 1/7/22

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 :-)

Friday, December 24, 2021

#TGIFC348 Technique Challenge

Hello and happy Friday TGIF friends! Welcome back.

We are so grateful that you choose to stop by week after week to get your dose of inspiration! This week we thought it would be a great week for a technique to try.

It's a fairly simple technique, but it lends itself to some great results!

Speaking of great results - thank you so much for all of the amazing entries for last week's gift card holder challenge.

Congratulations to our winner:

Verena Shapiro-Simple Stamper

Now on to our Design Team's technique show off!

Tami Hewlett

Bree Renwick

Tanya Rees

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 12/30/21

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- #TGIFC348

Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/31/21

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 :-)

Friday, December 17, 2021

#TGIFC347 Project Challenge

Hello and happy Friday!!!

Welcome back! We sure hope that you had a great week and had a chance to get some creative time in. We are back this week with a new challenge for you, one that hope you will find very helpful!!! This is kind of a different challenge for us, but we want to challenge you to create a fun gift card holder! Gift cards seem to be a very popular gift of choice, so we think our challenge this week should be pretty timely for everyone.

Thank you so much for participating in last week's sketch challenge with us. We loved seeing how it inspired you, and as always you blew us away with your creativity and made it hard to choose a winner. After some deliberation, we want to congratulate

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Verena Shapiro

Let's take a peek at our team's gift card holders!

Elizabeth Price - SeeingINKspots

Stesha Bloodhart - Stampin' Hoot!

Ashley Van Camp | Design With Ink

Charlet Mallett

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 12/23/21

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- #TGIFC347

Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/24/21

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 :-)

Friday, December 10, 2021

#TGIFC346 Sketch Challenge

Hey there TGIF friends!!!

We sure hope that this challenge is finding you well in this often busy time of the year. This week we have a great sketch challenge for you to create along with! We hope that it helps spark your creativity and can't wait to see how it inspires you!

Before we check out what our team created for you, let's take a moment to congratulate last week's Color Challenge Winner

Barb Pfeffer

So what exactly did our team create? Take a look -

Tami Hewlett

Bree Renwick

Jeanna Bohanon

Mercedes Weber

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 12/16/21

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- #TGIFC346

Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/17/21

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 :-)

Friday, December 3, 2021

#TGIF345 Color Challenge

Happy December, TGIF friends!!! It's the first Friday in December, the start of what is often the busiest month of the year and we hope we can help you ring it in with a little bit of crafty time. Take a little time and slow down. Hopefully this color combo will inspire you, holiday cards, tags, gifties, or whatever might be on your stamping list this week.

Thank you all so much for finishing out November with some amazing projects.

Congrats to our winner:

Barb Pfeffer

Take a look at these lovelies from our Design Team -

Ashley Van Camp | Design With Ink

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 12/9/21

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- #TGIFC345

Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/10/21

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 :-)

Friday, November 26, 2021

#TGIF344 Product Challenge

Happy Friday, TGIF friends!!! Do you have pastels? Have you USED them? While many of us were excited to see them in the Stampin' Up! catalog this year, we wondered if many people were actually using them. There are so many different ways that you can use them, and hopefully we inspire you.

Here are a few ideas -

Poppin' Pastels - 1)Stamp the image with Craft White Ink or Versamark. 2) Use Sponge Daubers to apply the pastel color directly to the inked image. 3)Blow off any excess powder. TIP - To avoid smearing, gently dab the chalk rather than rubbing it across the image.

Chalking - 1)Apply pastel color to your card stock or paper with a cotton swab, sponge dauber, or dry Water Painter. 2)Blend the colors as desired with the applicators or Blender Pen. When using Blender Pens, just touch the tip lightly to the corner of the pastel to pick up the color.

Of course we never want to exclude anyone from one of our challenges. If you don't have the pastels, get creative and show us ways that you can create a similar look. Although we think that after this week, you'll definitely want to add them to your list!

Thank you all so much for all of your great projects last week. We love that you played along and shared them with us.

Congrats to our winner:

Barb Pfeffer

Our Design Team loves to inspire you - let's see what they made this week

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 12/2/21

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- #TGIFC344

Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 12/3/21

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 :-)

Friday, November 19, 2021

#TGIF343 Project Inspiration Challenge

Hello TGIF friends!!! Happy Friday. Here we are, halfway through the month, we hope it's been good for you so far. We know that this time of year can get a little busy with the Holidays coming up, so we are hoping that this week's challenge will help you cross one thing off your to-do list, or help you up your game...

Last week's sketch challenge really inspired y'all, and we loved seeing everyone's projects, thank you for sharing them!

Rochelle Blok

Here's what our Design Team created for this week's challenge for ya....

Charlet Mallett

Elizabeth Price

Ashley Van Camp | Design With Ink

Carolynn Sander

Tanya Rees

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: m

Deadline for entries will be at 10am PST on Thursday 11/25/21

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- #TGIFC343

Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 11/26/21

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 :-)

Friday, November 12, 2021

#TGIF342 Sketch Challenge

Hello and happy Friday, TGIF friends!!! We are so grateful that you came by today to check out this week's challenge. Hopefully you were able to play along with us for last week's color challenge. We are kicking off the weekend with a great sketch for you.

Should be a fun one, right?

Speaking of fun, we sure had fun looking at all of your projects last week. Thank you so much for sharing them with us.

Congratulations to our winner:

Jennifer Frost

Our team loves sketch challenges, let's see what they did with it!

Tami Hewlett

Tanya Rees

Bree 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 11/18/21

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- #TGIFC342

Winning project(s) will be posted on next week's challenge on Friday 11/19*/21

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 :-)

Friday, November 5, 2021

#TGIF341 Color Challenge

Hello! Happy Friday, TGIF friends!!! Whether we are ready or not, here we are, in November! Is anyone else wondering how that happened? If you are ready, or if you aren't, we are still kicking off the month with a pretty color challenge to get your creativity flowing.