CYDA Challenge #12 ~ LOVE

Hello and welcome to our next challenge her at Craft Your Days Away!!

Well we are all totally overwhelmed by the phenomenal amount of entries to our 'Anything Goes' challenge which was set by Liz, we knew it would be a popular challenge, but nowhere near as popular as it was, CYDA records were broken with a whopping 789 entries to the challenge.  We must apologise that unfortunately not everyone may have recieved a comment, the sheer number of entries left many of us behind in our commenting rota and we just couldn't keep up.  But as a thank you to everyone for taking part in the challenge we are doubling up on the winner and GD, so there is going to be TWO winner's prizes, TWO GD's chosen for challenge #13 and there is going to be a Top 10 instead of the normal Top 3.  All winners, GD's and Top's will be announced towards the end of this post, but first onto our next challenge....

Our new challenge for you has been set by our wonderful Shelley and her theme for you is...

'LOVE'

 Valentine's will soon be upon us, though your project doesn't have to be specifically Valentine's related but it must represent LOVE.

We welcome a new sponsor to our challenges for 2011 the lovely Melissa Jenkins creator of  Meljen Designs.

Melissa designs some of the cutest digital images and rubber stamps which can be bought exclusively from Whimsy Stamps  

The winner can choose 4 Digital images of their choice.

Melissa also kindly provided the DT with some of her wonderful images to use.

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We welcome Maxine as our GD for this challenge, and she has made the most sweetest card using 'Teeny Mouse Hugs'.... 

Please spare a few moments if you can and go visit Maxine's Blog, and don't forget to let her know you stopped by.  Thank you so much Maxine for agreeing to be our GD for this challenge, it's been a real pleasure.

 And here is the wonderful DT inspiration...

Shelley

using 'Rose Bloom'

Lesley

Doreen

using 'Girl and Her Kitty'

Mel

using 'Teeny Mouse Hugs'

Lisa (aka Dazie)

using 'Teeny Mouse Hugs'

Donna

using ' Rose Bloom'

Sarah

using 'Bulldogs Bear'

Jackie

using 'Girl and Her Kitty'

Carol Ann

using 'Rose Bloom'

 

Liz

Amanda

using 'Girl and Her Kitty'

Joanne

using 'Teeny Mouse Hugs'

 

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Right now onto our random winners for Challenge #11....

Thank you as always to Simon Says Stamp for sponsoring the last challenge and the winner of the $10 voucher to spend in the Simon Says store is....

   Entry #448 was...

DEBRA

Congratulations Debra!!  Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE, and I will then send you your $10 voucher code.

As an extra surprise we are drawing an extra winner for a secret prize....

Entry #24 was...

Ali (Aqualeiga)

Congratulations Ali!!  Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE, with your full name and postal address so I can send you your secret surprise prize.

Please both grab the winners badge to display on your blog if you so wish.

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 As mentioned earlier we are having a special Top 10, which believe me didn't make it any easier with so many entries....lol, so here are the Top 10 for Challenge #11...

Katie Tate 

Shirley

 Lorraine

NiMu (aged 4)

 Kylie

 Brook

Chris Olsen

Micki

Ms Plum

Davi 

Well done to you all!!  Please grab our special Top 10 badge to display on your blogs if you so wish.

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And finally it's time to announce the TWO GD's we would like to invite join us for Challenge #13 in 2 weeks time, remember we will be choosing at least one GD for every challenge so if you weren't successful this time there will be plenty more opportunities.  So our two invited GD's are....

Bettina

 (Min Lilla Blogg)

and

Darling Ho

(Darling Ho's Colorful World)

Congratulations Bettina & Darling Ho!! We do hope you will want to join us for our next challenge in 2 weeks time.  Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE so we can discuss the GD details further.

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And that is it for our extra long challenge post....lol.  We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'LOVE' challenge and remember if you would like to be considered for our GD for challenge #14 then please add 'GD' next to your name when adding your entry to Inlinkz. Entries for this challenge close at midday on Friday 4th February 2011.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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PLEASE FOLLOW THE CHALLENGE, ANY MAKES FOUND NOT TO FOLLOW THE CHALLENGE WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CHALLENGE DRAW, TOP 3 & GD OPPORTUNITY, SORRY BUT THIS IS ONLY FAIR TO THOSE THAT HAVE FOLLOWED THE CHALLENGE, YOU CAN ENTER AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WISH AND COMBINE YOUR ENTRY WITH OTHER CHALLENGES, BUT YOUR ENTRY MUST BE A NEW PIECE OF WORK NOT BACK LINKED.