Craft Your Days Away Challenges

CYDA Challenge #37 ~ Distressing

2012-01-21T09:00:00.000Z

Hello and welcome to Craft Your Days Away

Thank you to everyone for all your amazing entries to Mel's New Beginnings challenge this past fortnight. As many of you maybe aware there appears to be some blogger issues currently and some of us have had problems visiting blogs and also problems with commenting, so we sincerely apologise if it appears none of the team have visited some of your blogs or left comments it has certainly not been through lack of trying, hopefully these hitches on blogger will soon be corrected.

Lesley has chosen our next challenge for you......

DISTRESSING

So it's time to get inky fingered, paper tearing and all those other forms of distressing you enjoy on your creations.

We are thrilled to welcome another new sponsor to CYDA this time round....

You'll find a digi image for any occassion over at Bugaboo Stamps, from fab fun characters through to beautiful and elegant silhouettes. You will be truly stuck for choice!!

We are pleased to also welcome two of the Bugaboo DT as our GD's for this challenge...

Created by Jen

Created by Yvonne (Scrappy)

Thank you to Jen and Yvonne for being our GD's for the challenge. You can visit their wonderful blogs by clicking on their names under the pictures.

Here are the wonderful distressing creations from the DT....

Lesley

Donna

Using Bugaboo Stamp 'Silhouette - Butterfly Flowers'

Gaynor

Using Bugaboo Stamp 'Gus Fish Whisperer'

Cathy

Using Bugaboo Stamp 'JJ Shopping - So Much Plastic'

Amanda

Using Bugaboo Stamp 'Silhouette - Butterfly Flowers'

Sarah

Using Bugaboo Stamp 'Silhouette-Elephant Paisley'

Mari

Using Bugaboo Stamp 'AKV Summer Sports - Rock Climbing'

Joanne

Using Bugaboo Stamp 'Gus Fishing'

Dazie (aka Lisa)

Using Bugaboo Stamp 'Silhouette - Butterfly Flowers'

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Challenge #36 Random Winner

And the winner is Gina!!!

Congratulations Gina!!!....please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I'll pass your email onto Annette at The StampFairy to contact you on how to claim your prize of...

Don't forget to grab the CYDA winner's badge for your blog...

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Challenge #36 Top 3

Chanelle

Inger

Priya

Well Done Ladies!!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs....

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We do hope you will be able to join us for our 'Distressing' challenge. Entries for this challenge close Thursday 2nd February 2012 at 18:00.

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.

If Inlinkz is unavailable please leave a link in the comments, thank you

CYDA Challenge #36 ~ New Beginnings

2012-01-07T09:00:00.001Z

Hello and welcome to Craft Your Days Away Challenges.

We hope you all enjoyed a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our month long challenge over the festive period all wonderful snowman projects, our random winner and Top 3 will be announced in a little while but firstly it's time to reveal our first challenge of 2012.

Well with the start of a brand new year the lovely Mel has chosen the challenge theme of.....

NEW BEGINNINGS

New beginnings could be something to do with the new year, a new baby, new job, new home or maybe a new life such as engagement, marriage or even divorce!!! So it's time to celebrate a new event of some kind.

We welcome a brand new sponsor to CYDA to kick off the year....

The StampFairy Shop sell some of the cutest digistamps around, so if you've never visited the shop it is well worth the visit there is also a wonderful blog to follow for all the latest StampFairy news and wonderful samples by their DT. And the lucky random winner of this challenge will recieve a.....

We also welcome as guest designers for this challenge two very talented ladies from the StampFairy design team, here are their gorgeous makes.....

Created by Celine

Created by Jess

Thank you to Celine and Jess for being our GD's for the challenge. You can visit their wonderful blogs by clicking on their names under the pictures.

And here are the DT's awesome 'New Beginnings' creations.....

Mel

Dazie (aka Lisa)

Using StampFairy - Baby Dotty - Dear Teddy

Sarah

Mari

Using StampFairy - Lenny - Happy New Year

Amanda

Using StampFairy - Baby Dotty - Dear Teddy

Donna

Gaynor

Joanne

Using StampFairy - Baby Dotty - Dear Teddy

Lesley

Cathy

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Challenge #35 Random Winner

And the winner is Farrah!!!

It was Farrah's lovely children whom made this wonderful creative piece, well done to them too !!!

Congratulations Farrah & Children!!!....please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I will send you the voucher code for Simon Says Stamp. Thank you as always to Simon Says for their sponsorship.

Don't forget to grab the CYDA winners badge for your blog.

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Challenge #35 Top 3

Birgit

Ali

Sara

WELL DONE LADIES!!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs...

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We do hope you will be able to join us for our 'New Beginnings' challenge. Entries for this challenge close Thursday 19th January 2012 at 18:00.

Sadly we are saying goodbye to another of our wonderful CYDA team mates, unfortunately Shaz has decided to step down from the DT, she's been a bit poorly lately so needs to take some time out to get herself back up to 100%. I'm sure you will all join us in wishing her the all the very best and hope she gets well soon. Sending gentle hugs to you Shaz xx

So all that is left to be said is.....

Have fun and Craft Your Days Away

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #35 ~ Snowmen

2011-12-10T09:00:00.000Z

Hello and welcome to our final challenge of 2011 here at Craft Your Days Away. Our new challenge will be running for 4 weeks so the wonderful DT can enjoy a well deserved break over the festive period. Thank you to everyone who joined in with our last challenge which was set by our lovely Lisa (aka Dazie).

To end the year our lovley Amanda has chosen the challenge of

SNOWMEN

A nice festive theme, and a great opportunity for your last minute, cards, gifts or decorations.

The wonderful Simon Says Stamp are our sponsors for this challenge. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all of the Simon Says Stamp team for their support as our monthly sponsor throughout 2011.

The winner will recieve a $10 voucher code to spend in the Simon Says Store.

Here are the wonderful creations from our DT, ooddles of inspiration to see...

Dazie (aka Lisa)

Shaz

Shelley

Gaynor

Cathy

Sarah

Lesley

Mel

Mari

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CHALLENGE #34 WINNER

Entry #11 was......

PAMI

Congratulations Pami!!! You have won a gorgeous 6 x 6 My Minds Eye 'Everyday Flair' paper pad from Crafty Emma's Store. Please can you email me (Joanne) giving your full name and address and I will pass this on to Emma so she can pop it in the post to you.

Don't forget to grab the CYDA winners badge for your blog!!

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CHALLENGE #34 TOP 3

Gitte

Hannelie

Jane W

WELL DONE TO YOU ALL!!!

Grab the CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs!!!

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We do hope you will be able to join us for our 'Snowman' challenge. Entries for this challenge close Thursday 5th January 2012 at 18:00.

Finally we would like to thank all our valued sponsors from 2011, some will be joining us again in 2012, but we will also be welcoming some new sponsors to CYDA!!

And of course we want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has joined us for our challenges throughout the year, a majority of you are fortnightly regulars, thank you so much for all your support.

Merry Christmas to you all and Best Wishes for 2012, may it be filled with peace, health, happiness and lots of crafting.

Have lots of festive fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

See you in 2012

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #34 ~ Buttons or Bows

2011-11-26T09:00:00.000Z

Hello and Welcome to Craft Your Days Away

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Embellishment Bingo challenge, I hope you all had fun with it. This time round we stick to another embellishment theme as chosen by our lovely Dazie (aka Lisa).......

BUTTONS OR BOWS

Again you are free to use any other embellishments but you must include either buttons OR bows too, simples!!!!

We are sponsored this time round by our very dear friend and former team buddy Crafty Emma

Prize TBC

The DT as always are stars at showing you some superb inspiration......

Cathy

Donna

Mari

Mel

Sarah

Lesley

Shaz

Shelley

Gaynor

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RANDOM WINNER CHALLENGE #33

Entry #135 was.....

TAMMY LOUISE

Congratulations Tammy Louise!!!... Please can you email me (Joanne) CLICK HERE. I will then forward you on the $10 voucher code and instructions from Simon Says Stamp.

Please feel free to grab the CYDA winners badge for your blog

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CHALLENGE #33 TOP 3

Amelia

Debbles Dabbles

Wintam

WELL DONE LADIES!!!

Please feel free to grab the CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs.

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And finally......

We would like to invite as our guest designer for Challenge #35 in two weeks time....

REBECCA

(REBECCA'S CRAFT CORNER)

Congratulations Rebecca!!!...Please can you or your mum email me (Joanne) by CLICKING HERE. Then I will give you all the details of the next challenge.

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We do hope you will be able to join us for our 'Buttons or Bows' challenge. Entries for this challenge close Thursday 8th December at 18:00.

We are not running a GD call this time round, but we will be resuming GD slots again in the New Year.

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.

If Inlinkz is unavailable please leave a link in the comments, thank you.

CYDA Challenge #33 ~ Embellishment Bingo

2011-11-12T09:00:00.000Z

Hello and welcome to Craft Your Days Away!!!

Gosh, can't believe another 2 weeks have passed, time just seems to be flying by, it'll be Christmas before we know it...eeeekk!!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Shaz's Autumn challenge over the last fortnight, lots of wonderful creations as always and the random winner, TOP 3 and GD will all be announced at the end of this post, but firstly it's time to give you our next challenge....

EMBELLISHMENT BINGO!!

It was my turn (Joanne) to choose the challenge this time round so I thought we'd have a bit of fun. For those of you not familiar with Embellishment Bingo, here's what it's all about. You'll find below the embellishment bingo card, all you need to do is pick one line of three embellishments, either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The rules are to just use the three embellishments in your chosen line on your craft project.

Please try and only use the embellishments in your chosen line. You can use other embellishments that are not included on the bingo card alongside your chosen three, for example brads/eyelets.
We will be a little lenient if another embellishment from the bingo card creeps in, but this must be minimal, too many or much of another embellishment that is on the bingo card and outside of your chosen line will result in exclusion from the random winner draw and Top 3. Remember to stick to a line!!

We welcome back our fabulous monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp

The winner will recieve a $10 voucher code to spend in their awesome online store.

We welcome as our guest designer for the challenge Martina, with this stunning card...

Martina has chosen the line of Pearls, Flowers & Ribbon. Thank you Martina for joining us for the challenge. Please take a moment to stop by Martina's fabulous blog 'My Stamping Obsession' and don't forget to let her know you stopped by.

And here is some wonderful inspiration from the DT...

Joanne

Using Pearls, Flowers & Ribbon

Amanda

Using Gems, Ribbon & Buttons

Gaynor

Using Lace, Pearls & Pins

Lesley

Using Lace, Charm & Gems

Cathy

Using Lace, Charm & Gems

Mari

Using Pins, Flowers & Gems

Sarah

Using Pearls, Flowers & Ribbon

Mel

Using Lace, Pearls & Pins

Shaz

Using Gems, Ribbon & Buttons

Donna

Using Pearls, Flowers & Ribbon

Dazie (aka Lisa)

Using Pearls, Flowers & Ribbon

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RANDOM WINNER FROM CH#32

Entry #2 was....

Kate (DownRightCrafty)

Congratulations Kate!!!....Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE, and I will then forward on your email to our lovely Shelley so she can contact you on how to claim your £10 voucher to spend in her online store One Stop Card Crafts.

Don't forget to grab the CYDA winner's badge for your blog!!

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CH#32 TOP 3

Katie Tate

Lisa

Irit

Well Done Ladies!!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA Top3 badge for your blogs!!

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Guest Designer for Ch#34

We would like to invite as our GD for our next challenge in 2 weeks time........

Mary Lou

Congratulations Mary Lou!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I will get the GD details to you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Embellishment Bingo' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 24th November 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #35 on the 10th December which will be our last challenge for 2011 whilst the DT take a well earned break over the festive period.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #32 ~ Autumn

2011-10-29T09:00:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome to another challenge here at Craft Your Days Away.

Well our last challenge really came up with some spooky creations and lots of cute ones too. It was also fab to see that halloween colours could make some stunning non-halloween creations, such a fabulous mix of ideas!!

The wonderful Shaz has chosen our next challenge for you which is quite simply....

AUTUMN/FALL

I think autumn is my favourite season, especially for all the rich beautiful colours nature provides us, which always inspires me in my autumn crafting. So this ones pretty open whether it be the autumnal colours, scenes or maybe an occasion such as Thanks Giving that inspires you, we would like to see it.

We are being sponsored for this challenge by our very own lovely Shelley with a £10 voucher to spend in her online store One Stop Card Crafts

Shelley has a fabulous clearance sale on at the moment, so it's well worth popping over you may well grab yourself a bargain or two, or three....!!!

We welcome as our Guest Designer for this challenge Hannelie, who has made this wonderful autumnal card..

Isn't it a real sweetie? Thank you Hannelie for joining us as our GD for this challenge. Please take a moment to visit Hannelie's wonderful blog Desert Diva, and don't forget to let her know you stopped by.

Time now to share with you the amazing creations from the DT, which are sure to inspire you....

Shaz

Shelley

Sarah

Joanne

Amanda

Lesley

Cathy

Gaynor

Mari

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Random Winner for Challenge #31

Entry #57 was...

Jenn Zeeb

Congratulations Jenn!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE, and I will then forward you the details of how to claim your $10 voucher to spend in the Simon Says Stamp store.

Don't forget to grab the CYDA winners badge for your blog...

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Challenge #31 Top 3

Jules

Anita

Karenladd

Unfortunately we are unable to show a picture of her ATC as it's on a Flickr album but if you click on her name you will be able to view it over on Flickr.

WELL DONE LADIES!!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs...

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Guest Designer for Challenge #33

We would like to invite as our GD for the next challenge in 2 weeks time....

Martina B

Congratulations Martina!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I will get the GD details to you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for Shaz's 'Autumn' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 10th November 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #34 on the 26th November.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #31 ~ Halloween Colours

2011-10-15T09:00:00.002+01:00

Hello and welcome to our next challenge here at Craft Your Days Away.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our last challenge 'TAG IT', lots of wonderful creations as always!!

We sadly say goodbye to another wonderful DT member, Angel. Thank you Angel for joining the team we will really miss you hun, it's been a real pleasure to have you with us again.

Well, autumn is well and truly upon us, there's even talk of the white stuff in the next few weeks here in the UK, can you believe it, just two weeks ago we were basking in barmy weather, with autunm hitting hard this last week, and now a big freeze could not be too far away. This fortnight's challenge really kicks off the autumn season and has been set by the wonderful Mari....

HALLOWEEN COLOURS

It's up to you, you can go halloween themed or you can just stick to the Halloweeny colours of Purple, Green, Orange, Black etc... you don't have to use all the colours.

We are being sponsored this time by our great monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp

There's a $10 voucher code for one lucky random winner.

Sadly we have no GD this time round but here is the wonderful inspiration from the fabulous DT..

Mari

Gaynor

Lesley

Shaz

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Shelley

Cathy

Sarah

Joanne

Donna

Amanda

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Random Winner for Challenge #30

Entry #27 was....

FABIOLA

Congratulations Fabiola!!! Please can you email Mel (CLICK HERE) and she will let you know how to choose your digi images from Meljen Designs!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA winners badge for your blog

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Challenge 30's Top 3

Mary C

Kavitha

Pami

Well Done To You All!!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA Top 3 Badge

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Guest Designer for Challenge #32

We would like to invite as our GD for the next challenge in 2 weeks time....

Hannelie

Congratulations Hannelie!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I will get the GD details to you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for Mari's 'Halloween Colours' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 27th October 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #33 on the 12th November.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #30 ~ Tag It!

2011-10-01T09:00:00.003+01:00

Hello and welcome to our next challenge here at Craft Your Days Away.

We loved all your Pink, Brown and Blue creations for Angel's challenge, we will announce the random winner, Top 3 and GD choice towards the end of this post.

Sadly, we are bidding farewell to the lovely Sarah M. She has landed herself a fabulous job, which is of course good news, so we wish her the very best, but we will sure miss you hun xx

The lovely Sarah S-W has chosen our next challenge for you....

TAG IT !!

There simply just needs to be a tag, no matter how small or big, whether it's on a card, gift bag, gift or just, well a tag.

Our sponsor for this challenge is the lovely Melissa from Meljen Designs

Melissa's wonderful images can be purchased from the Whimsy Stamps Store

The winner will recieve 4 digital images of their choice.

We welcome Tracy as our fabulous GD for this challenge and her creation certainly has the WOW factor...

Absolutely fabulous Tracy, thank you for being our GD for this challenge hun. Please spare a few moments to check out Tracy's wonderful blog 'A Hint of Magnolia', don't forget to let her know you stopped by.

Unfortunately we have a few poorlies amongst the team at the moment, and me, well I lost all my pictures on my camara, and the card I'd made went off to my dear nan, before I'd tried to download the pictures...grrr, but here is still some wonderful DT pieces to help inspire you.....

Sarah S-W

Shelley

Cathy

Shaz

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Gaynor

Lesley

Amanda

Mari

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Random Winner of Challenge #29

Entry #52 was....

Kimberley (Mitton Musings)

Congratulations Kimberley!!! ....You have won a $10 voucher code to spend in the Simon Says Stamp online store. Please can you contact me (Joanne) by emailing me HERE and I then I can send your voucher code and details.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge for your blog!!

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Challenge #29 Top 3

Lil

Sandra

Paula

Well done to you all!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs...

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Guest Designer for Challenge #31

We would like to invite as our GD for the next challenge in 2 weeks time....

Frea (Creafrea)

Congratulations Frea!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I will get the GD details to you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for Sarah's 'Tag It' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 13th October 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #32 on the 29th October.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #29 ~ Colour Combo

2011-09-17T09:00:00.004+01:00

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

Well the 'Make Your Own Flowers' challenge was popular so there was an amazing abundance of your DIY flowers, so gorgeous. We will be announcing the random winner, Top 3 and GD choice towards the end of this post. So firstly onto our new challenge.....

This fortnights challenge has been set by the wonderful Angel who has a lovely colour combo for you...

PINK, BROWN & BLUE

Please stick mainly to the above colours with skin tones and hair colour not included in the colour combo.

We are sponsored for this challenge by our regular sponsor Simon Says Stamp with a $10 voucher code for the winner

We welcome as our Guest Designer Alison who has made this gorgeous notelet box and notelets..

What a fabulous creation Alison. You can find out how Alison made this over on her blog and she is also has some candy up to offer too, so please do stop by her blog. Thank you Alison for joining us as our GD for this challenge.

And the wonderful DT have plenty of inspiration for you too....

Angel

Lesley

Amanda

Mel

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Gaynor

Shaz

Donna

Shelley

Joanne

Mari

Sarah M

Sarah S-W

Cathy

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Random Winner from Challenge #28

Entry #176 was....

Lisa (Adventures in Cardland)

Congratulations Lisa!!! You have won a £10 voucher to spend in Shelley's store One Stop Card Crafts. Please can you contact me (Joanne) by emailing me HERE and I then will on your email to Shelley.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge for your blog!!

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Challenge #28 Top 3

Evie

Loretta

KalySto

Well done to you all!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs...

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GUEST DESIGNER FOR CHALLENGE #30

We would like to invite as our GD for the next challenge in 2 weeks time.....

Tracy H

Congratulations Tracy!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I will get the GD detsils to you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for Angel's 'Pink, Brown & Blue' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 29th September 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #31 on the 15th October.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #28 ~ Make Your Own Flowers

2011-09-03T09:00:00.097+01:00

Hello and welcome to Craft Your Days Away.

Thank you to everyone for their delicious cupcake entries for challenge #27, ohhh they were so yummy!!! We will be announcing the random winner, Top 3 and GD towards the end of this post.

Just before I go on to our next challenge I have some sad news to share with you. This is the last challenge that our lovely DT buddy Doreen will be joining us for. Doreen has been here with us right from the beginning and we are all sad to be losing her from the team. But Doreen has been given the chance of a new DT journey and boy they are sure lucky to have such a wonderfully talented lady on their team. We hope you will join us in wishing Doreen all the very best in her new DT venture and thank you Doreen for all your support and beautiful contributions to CYDA, remember there will always be a place for you on the team hun xxx

Challenge #28

The lovely Cathy chose this next challenge for you...............

MAKE YOUR OWN FLOWERS

Cathy wants you to get all creative with making your own flowers either as an embellishments or maybe something more elaborate. No cheating on this one please, you must of made your own flowers up.

Our sponsor for this fortnights challenge is our very own Shelley with a £10 voucher to spend in her online store One Stop Card Crafts....

The DT have made some gorgeous flowers for this one, made from all kinds of different things so plenty here to inspire you....

Cathy

Sarah S-W

Mari

Sarah M

Doreen

Joanne

Shaz

Donna

Angel

Lesley

Gaynor

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Amanda

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Random Winner from Challenge #27

Entry #21 was....

CINDY (Cre8tiveCindy)

Congratulations Cindy!!!...You have a $10 voucher code to spend in the Simon Says Stamp store. Please can you contact me (Joanne) by emailing me HERE and I then will give you the voucher code and claim details.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge for your blog!!

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CHALLENGE #27 TOP 3

Natascha

Hazel

KalySto

Well done to you all!!

Don't forget to grab the CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs...

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GUEST DESIGNER FOR CHALLENGE #29

We would like to invite as our GD for the next challenge in 2 weeks time.....

COCKNEY BLONDE

Congratulations Alison!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I will get the GD detsils to you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for Cathy's 'DIY Flowers' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 15th September 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #30 on the 1st October.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #27 ~ Cupcakes

2011-08-20T09:00:00.004+01:00

Hello and welcome to Craft Your Days Away Challenge Blog

A massive thank you to everyone who joined us for our 1st Birthday Challenge and all the birthday wishes too!!

A spectacular amount of birthday themed creations. I will announce the winners, Top 6 and GD towards the end of this post.

Firstly it's time to let you in on our new challenge for the next fortnight. It's time to let our newest DT members have a turn on setting the challenges so first up is the ever so talented Gaynor and her challenge for us all is..

CUPCAKES

The word itself is enough to make many of our mouths water, so goodness knows what we'll be like when we see all the wonderful entries for this one. You could even get baking for this one and show off your homemade cupcakes if you wish. As long as it's cupcake related we want to see it, and no doubt we'll wish we could eat it too.

It's our regular monthly sponsor for this challenge the wonderful Simon Says Stamp

With a $10 voucher code to spend in their online store, and as many of you know you will be spoilt for choice everytime you visit their store.

The lovely Gry joins us this time round as our guest designer and what a deliciously gorgeous card she has created too....

Isn't it yummy? Thank you Gry for being our GD for this challenge, it's been a real pleasure. If you have a few moments to spare please do pop by Gry's Blog, it's such a beautiful blog and don't forget to say hi, so she knows you stopped by.

Now if that wasn't enough to get your mouth watering here are the wonderful DT pieces which by the end are sure to have you drooling....

Gaynor

Angel

Joanne

Donna

Mari

Amanda

Shaz

Lesley

Shelley

Sarah S-W

Doreen

Cathy

Sarah M

Mel

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Now it's time to announce our four random winners from the 1st Bithday Challenge....

#22 was TRACEY (Crafty Corner)

Congratulations Tracey!! You have won the £10 gift voucher to spend in Crafty Emma's Store

#301 was DEB (Pink Dandelions Craft Space)

Congratulations Deb!! You have won the BoBunny Paper Pad.

#85 was CATHY (Ellieskeepers Creations)

Congratulations Cathy!! You have one the roses selection.

#220 was FIONA (Handmade by Fiona McCarthy)

Congratulations Fiona!! You have won the Card Candi.

If you could all please pop me an email (CLICK HERE) and give you full names and address I will get your prizes to you, except for Tracey where I will pass your email onto Emma who will contact you about how to claim your £10 voucher.

Congratulations again to all four of you, please don't forget to grab the winners badge for your blog!!

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With so many wonderful entries to the birthday challenge this time we have a TOP 6 rather than the normal 3, so in no particular order here are our 1st Birthday Challenge Top 6!!....

Well Done To You All!!!

Don't forget to grab the one off special Top 6 badge for your blogs...

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And finally it's time to announce our GD for our next challenge in 2 weeks time (Challenge #28)...

CRAFTY KITTEN

Congratulations Crafty Kitten!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE so I can discuss the GD details with you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for Gaynor's 'Cupcake' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 1st September 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #29 on the 17th September.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #26 ~ Birthday Celebrations

2011-08-06T09:00:00.059+01:00

Hello and welcome to a special Craft Your Days Away challenge, the challenge blog is ONE years old, can you believe it?? Well we can't, it only seems like yesterday that we launched with the very first CYDA challenge. It sure has been a fun year but we did sadly have to say goodbye to some special team members along the way...

But we also welcomed some very talented new team buddies fairly recently, and they have been a true asset to the DT.

So to celebrate our 1st Birthday this fortnights challenge is quite simply....

BIRTHDAYS

We want to see your creations for birthdays for any age and anyone be they general or special.

We have a number of prizes up for grabs for the special challenge....

1st Prize

Our wonderful former team buddy Emma is giving a £10 gift voucher to spend in her online store.

2nd Prize

BoBunny - Gabrielle Collection 6 x 6 Paper Pad

Prize 3

Roses Selection, including stemmed leaves and 2 decorative dragonflies

Prize 4

Three packs of Craftwork Cards Card Candi

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We are thrilled to have THREE wonderful guest designers joining us for our birthday challenge....

ANDREA (AndreaJB - Pieces of Mine)

Andrea has created this gorgeously colourful birthday card and jewellery set

JUDY (InkyPinkyDelights)

Judy has made this beautiful card with such pretty detail

BLANKINA (Blankina Creations)

Blankina has created a stunning Birthday Basket, and it even has the challenge blogs name on it

A massive thankyou Andrea, Blankina and Judy for joining us for this challenge, it's been a real honour to have three such talented crafters as our GD's. If you have a moment please stop by our GD's blogs, you wont be disappointed!!!

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And here are the Birthday creations from the fabulous DT....

Cathy

Sarah M

Mel

Doreen

Shelley

Sarah S-W

Mari

Joanne

Gaynor

Shaz

Lesley

Angel

Dazie (aka Lisa)

Amanda

Donna

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Time to announce our random winner for Challenge #25 which was kindly sponsored by our monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp.
So the winner of the $10 voucher code is....

entry #173 was.....

Carissa (Creative Expressions)

Congratulations Carissa!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE and I will get your voucher code to you.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge for your blog

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And here is Donna's Top 3 from Challenge #25.....

Ira

Maria

Jocelyn

Well Done to you Ladies!!!

Don't forget to grab the TOP 3 badge for your blog...

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And finally it's time to announce our GD choice for the next challenge in 2 weeks time (Challenge #27)

GRY (Grys Scrappeblogg)

Congratulations Gry!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE, so I can discuss the GD details with you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Birthday' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 18th August 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #28 on the 3rd September.

Lastly I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has joined us for our challenges over the past year and a special thank you to all my DT ladies old and new for all their support and dedication to the challenges and of course thank you to all our guest designers too!!!

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #25 ~ Summertime

2011-07-23T09:00:00.003+01:00

Hello and Welcome to Craft Your Days Away Challenges!!

WOW there were so many amazing 'Fancy Folds' projects entered into our last challenge, so nice to see so many different ways a card can be made as well as all the non-card creations. The random winner, TOP 3 and GD's will be announced towards the end of this post.

This fortnights challenge has been set by the lovely Donna, I hope you will all join the DT in welcoming back Donna who has been on a break for the last few months recovering from some operations, it's so lovely to have you back with us Donna, we've really missed you hun....

So Donna's challenge for you is....

SUMMERTIME

Well I know here in the UK we are yet to see much in the way of summer, so if you feel your summer is a bit lacking of, well the summery weather hopefully this challenge will brighten all our days and add a bit of summer to our lives.

Our fabulous monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp is our sponsor for this challenge and one random lucky winner will get a $10 voucher code to spend in the Simon Says online store.

We welcome back our regular GD slot for each challenge after a small break and so we welcome.....

Sue as our Guest Designer for this challenge with a gloriously summery card for the challenge.....

A totally gorgeous card Sue, thank you so much hun for being our GD for the challenge. If you have a moment please take a visit to Sue's wonderful blog 'Sue's Craft Haven' and don't forget to let her know you popped by.

Now it's time to share with you the wonderful summery creations from the DT....

Donna

Lesley

Angel

Sarah S-W

Amanda

Shaz

Mel

Gaynor

Sarah M

Mari

Shelley

Cathy

Doreen

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Now it's time to announce our random winner from Challenge #24.....

Entry #64 was....

Lynsey (Lynsey's Place)

Congratulations Lynsey!!!.... If you could please email Mel (by clicking HERE), letting her know you are the CYDA Challenge 24 winner and she will give you further details about your prize from Meljens Designs. Many thanks to Meljens Designs for sponsoring the previous challenge.

Lynsey, don't forget to grab the winners badge for your blog....

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Next up is the TOP 3 from Challenge #24, never an easy decision but here goes the chosen three.....

Wendy

Jill

Suzi

Well Done Ladies!!!

Don't forget to grab your CYDA Top 3 badge for your blogs

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As mentioned on the last challenge our next challenge in 2 weeks time is our 1st Birthday, can you believe it's nigh on a year since CYDA launched? Well we can't, where's the time gone!! We are going to have a special challenge to mark the occassion and would like to invite THREE GD's to join us for our 1st Birthday challenge. So we would like to invite....

Andrea (AndreaJB - Pieces of Mine)

Blankina (Blankina Creations)

Judy (Inky Pinky Delights)

We do hope you will join us ladies for our challenge in 2 weeks time. If you could please email me, Joanne (click HERE) so I can get the challenge details to you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Summertime' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 4th August 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for challenge #27 on the 20th August.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #24 ~ Fancy Folds

2011-07-09T09:00:00.088+01:00

Hello and welcome to our next challenge here at Craft Your Days Away.

Thank you to everyone who entered our 'Vintage' Challenge, there were so many stunning pieces of vintage work, it was a real joy to see such beautiful crafts. Choosing a Top 3 was extremely hard, but you'll have to wait to see who made our Top 3, winner and GD at the end of this challenge post.

Our challenge for you this fortnight is has been set by our lovely Shelley.....

FANCY FOLDS

Quite a wide scope here from fancy folded cards, origami figures to handmade flowers made from folding, let you imagination and folding run wild.

Our sponsor for this challenge is the ever talented Melissa Jenkins of.....

Melissa's images can be purchased from Whimsy Stamps, but you can also check out the Meljen's Designs Team Blog to check out all the latest new designs, news and challenge.

The prize for the random winner will be 4 images of the winners choice.

Our DT appear to have had some awesome fun with this challenge, and their makes are sure to give you plenty of inspiration. Some of us have used some of the wonderful images from Meljen.....

Shelley

Mari

Joanne

Angel

Cathy

Sarah M

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Doreen

Gaynor

Lesley

Sarah S-W

Amanda

Shaz

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It's now time to announce the winner of Challenge #23.....

entry #115 was....

Chris (Easily Amused)

Congratulations Chris!!! You have won a $10 voucher to spend in the Simon Says Store!! Please can you email me (Joanne) HERE,so I can send you your voucher details. Don't forget to grab the winners badge below for you blog. Many thanks as always to Heidi and her team over at Simon Says for sponsoring the challenge.

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Next up is the Top 3, with so many worthy entries this really had to be a lucky dip, so in no particular order...

Clare

Bettina

Blankina

Well Done to you all!!!

Please grab the Top 3 badge for your blogs.

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And finally it's time to announce our invited guest designer to join us for our next challenge in a fortnight's time, and that person is....

Sue (Sue's Craft Haven)

Congratulations Sue!!! We look forward to you joining us for our next challenge. Please can you email me (Joanne) HERE, so I can discuss the GD details with you.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Fancy Folds' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 21st July 2011.

Remember if you would like to be considered for a GD position then please add 'GD' next to your name on your entry. The next GD position will be for our special 1st Birthday challenge on August 6th, and we would like to invite at least two guest for this special challenge.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #23 ~ VINTAGE

2011-06-25T09:00:00.018+01:00

Hello and welcome to our next challenge here at Craft Your Days Away.

Thank you to everyone who entered Doreen's 'Monochrome' Challenge, lots of amazing shades of colours used, a few were a bit on the borderline, but we all know how hard it can be to stick fully to the monochrome.

Just want to say a massive thank you to the DT for keeping things ticking along whilst I was away on my holidays, especially Mel for writing up and organising the last challenge post.

Our challenge for you this fortnight is.....

VINTAGE

A great challenge for you to get all inky fingered and tearing/fraying your lovely papers...lol. Whatever your preferred method for the vintage look we want to see it.

We welcome back our monthly sponsor....

And one lucky winner will win a $10 voucher code to spend in the Simon Says Store.

Here are the gorgeous and elegant vintage pieces from the DT...

Shaz

Amanda

Sarah S-W

Lesley

Gaynor

Doreen

Shelley

Angel

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Mari

Sarah M

Cathy

Joanne

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Now it's time to announce the winner of Challenge #22 which was kindly sponsored by our former team buddy and very good friend Crafty Emma.....

and entry #45 was....

CELINE JO

Congratulations Celine Jo!!! Please can you me (Joanne) by clicking HERE giving me your full name and address and I will then pass it on to Emma who will get your Helz Cuppleditch stamp set posted to you.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge to display on you blog if you wish.

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And finally here's Doreen's Top 3....

Jack

Carina

Rebekah

Well done to you all!!!

Please feel free to grab the CYDA Top 3 badge to display on your blogs.

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After a short break we are now going to re-start our regular GD slots, so if you would like to be considered for the next GD slot which is for Challenge #25 (July 23rd) then please add GD next to your name on your challenge entry, the GD will be announced with Challenge #24 in two weeks time.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Vintage' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 7th July 2011.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #22 - Monochrome

2011-06-11T09:00:00.003+01:00

Hello and Welcome to Craft Your Days Away Challenges!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Fathers Day / Special Man challenge last time, so many wonderful creations.

The winner and Sarah's Top 3 will be announced towards the end of the post.

The challenge this time round has been set by the lovely Doreen and her challenge for you is......

Monochrome

We want to see your creations using only one colour, or shades of one colour. Use of skin tones and hair colours on an image is acceptable.

We welcome back Crafty Emma's Store as our sponsor this time.

The prize on offer is this fabulous Helz Cuppleditch Stamp....

The DT have all come up with lots of inspiration for you....

Doreen

Sarah M

Mari

Mel

Cathy

Angel

Amanda

Gaynor

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Sarah S-W

Joanne
Happy Holidays

Shaz

Shelley

Lesley
Get well soon

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Now it's time to announce the winner of challenge #21, many thanks to Heidi from Simon Says Stamp for sponsoring the last challenge.

The lucky winner, chosen by Random.org is.....

40 - Katzz Creations

Congratulations Katja!!!....Please can you contact our boss Joanne (email in sidebar),

letting her know you are the winner of our CYDA challenge.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge to display on your blog if you'd like to.

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And finally time for Sarah M's Top 3 from Challenge #21 in no particular order...

Gro

Sazzle

Dorcas

Well done to you all!!

Please grab the TOP 3 badge for your blogs, if you'd like to...

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Monochrome' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 23rd June 2011.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #21 ~ Fathers Day/Special Man

2011-05-28T09:00:00.009+01:00

Hello and Welcome to Craft Your Days Away Challenges!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our White + One challenge last time, so many wonderful creations, thank you, but sadly also a few entries that didn't quite stick to the theme, but thank you for shaing with us anyway.

The winner and Lesley's Top 3 will be announced towards the end of the post.

The challenge this time round has been set by the wonderful Sarah M and her challenge for you is......

FATHERS DAY / SPECIAL MAN

With Fathers Day fast approaching here in the UK it's time to start making those male themed cards, your card/project can be for a dad or another special man be it for fathers day, birthday, etc....

We welcome back our monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp this time round, as always thank you to Heidi and her team for their continued sponsorship. The prize is a $10 voucher code to spend in the Simon Says online store.

We also welcome our new DT buddies on their first challenge and along with the rest of the DT have all come up with lots of inspiration for you....

Sarah M

Mari

Mel

Cathy

Doreen

Angel

Amanda

Gaynor

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Sarah S-W

Joanne

Shaz

Shelley

Lesley

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Now it's time to announce the winner of challenge #20, many thanks to Leah from Heart Song Designs for sponsoring the last challenge...

entry #28 was....

Georgina

Congratulations Georgina!!!....Please can you contact Leah from Heart Song Designs by clicking HERE

letting her know you are the winner of the CYDA challenge.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge to display on your blog if you'd like to.

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And finally time for Lesley's Top 3 from Challenge #20...

Mandy

xTGLx

Nicki (Little Ted)

Well done to you all!!

Please grab the TOP 3 badge for your blogs, if you'd like to...

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Fathers Day/Special Man' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 9th June 2011.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #20 ~ White + One

2011-05-14T09:00:00.045+01:00

Hello and Welcome to Craft Your Days Away.

I hope everyone has got over the blogger problems over the past few days, I was worried for a while we wouldn't be able to get the challenge posted for today, phew!!

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge which was chosen by Mel, absolutely fabulous creations and interpretations of the theme. Thank you also to those of you who were interested in joining the DT, as always it's a tricky job, as I do hate to disappoint anyone, but if I could of had a mega large team I would of had you all on the team, but sadly I couldn't choose you all, so I am very sorry to those of you who were unsuccessful this time round.

So now I would like to reveal and welcome our new DT members

It's so lovely to have you all join us, and we all hope you will thoroughly enjoy being a part of the CYDA DT.

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Challenge #20

Our new challenge has this time been chosen by the lovely Lesley and her challenge for you is...

'WHITE + ONE'

So it's white with just one other colour, you can use as many shades of your chosen one colour as you wish. It is ok to use skin tones and a different colour for hair if neccessary.

We welcome another new sponsor to CYDA for this challenge...Heart Song Designs

Here's a little bit from Leah about Heart Song Designs....

Heart Song Designs offers hand drawn digital stamp images perfect for all your papercrafting needs. We offer a variety of images from elegant to super cute. Come visit us at www.heartsongdesignsshop.com and find digis that make your heart sing.

The winner will recieve 3 digi's of their choice.

Leah very kindly provided some images for some of the DT to use, and here are the DT's splendid creations....

Lesley

Amanda

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Shelley

Sarah

Doreen

Mel

Joanne

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Time now to announce the winner of Challenge #19, thank you to SJ from Little Musings who sponsored the challenge, and the winner is....

entry #6 was...

Alison - Tillymint

Congratulations Alison!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE, and I will then get your email forwarded on to SJ for you to claim your prize.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge to display on your blog if you'd like to.

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Challenge #19's Top 3

Lena Katrine

Hazel

Irit

Well done to you all!!

Please grab the TOP 3 badge for your blogs, if you'd like to...

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'White + 1' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 26th April 2011.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #19 & DT CALL

2011-04-30T09:00:00.097+01:00

Hello and Welcome to Craft Your Days Away Challenges!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Easter Challenge last time, so many wonderful creations, thank you.

We are all a little excited about our next challenge because we're looking for some new teamies to join us!!! Anyone interested?? Well if you can commit to producing a piece of work every fortnight for the challenges then we would love for you to apply. No previous DT experience is neccessary. We are a friendly happy team and like our challenge blog there are very few rules, we all just like to have fun creating inspiration for each challenge. So if this sounds like the DT opportunity for you all you need to do to apply is......

- Have a Blog

- Join in with this challenge

- On your blog post mention the DT call, plus with your challenge entry picture include one other picture of one piece of work previously posted on your blog which you consider to be one of your favourites (no matter how old it is)

- Add DT alongside your entry name on the Inlinkz

GOOD LUCK!!!

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Challenge #19

The lovely Mel has set the challenge this time round....

MUSIC & DANCE

You can either include both Music & Dance in your project or just choose one or the other, it's up to you as long as there is an obvious element of music or dance on your piece of work.

We welcome a new sponsor for this challenge Little Musings. SJ is the creator of the Little Musings digital images, clear stamps and prints. Her clear stamps have also recently been featured on QVC.

The winner of the challenge will recieve this fabulous digital set called 'Acceptable in the 80's'

Plus one other digital set of their choice!!!

Many thanks to SJ for sponsoring the challenge and also for providing the DT with some awesome images for this challenge.

Shelley

Doreen

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Joanne

Lesley

Sarah

Amanda

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Now it's time to announce the winner of our last challenge....

entry #147 is....

Sarah

Congratulations Sarah!!! Please can you email me (Mel) by clicking HERE, and she will then sort out your prize from Meljen Designs. Thank you once again to Melissa for sponsoring our Easter challenge.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge to display on your blog if you'd like to.

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Now for the Top 3, which is always hard but it really was harder to whittle down this time round, in no particular order...

Rianna

Betty Wright

Well done to you all!!

Please grab the TOP 3 badge for your blogs, if you'd like to...

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As mentioned in the last challenge there will be no guest designers for the next couple of challenges whilst we do the DT call and get our new teamies settled in.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Music & Dance' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 12th May 2011. New DT members will be contacted on the Friday evening and officially announced on the challenge blog on the Saturday.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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CYDA Challenge #18 ~ Easter

2011-04-16T09:00:00.002+01:00

Hello and welcome to our new challenge here at Craft Your Days Away.

Thank you to everyone who entered my 'Spots & Stripes' lots of wonderful entries again, thank you. We will be announcing the random winner, my Top 3 and GD choice towards the end of this post.

Sadly, we say goodbye to our wonderful DT buddy Jackie, who is taking some time out to try some new things, she's going to be hugely missed by all her DT buddies, but she knows there will always be a team position here for her if she feels like coming back at any time. Wishing you all the very best Jackie, and thank you xxx

But Jackie is leaving us with her choice of challenge for you which is....

EASTER

It's only a week away so a good chance for any of those last Easter projects you need to get done.

We welcome back Melissa from Meljen Designs as our sponsor for the challenge.

The winner will get the chance to choose FOUR images of their choice. You will be totally stuck for choice I can tell you. Melissa has also kindly provided images for some of the DT and our GD to use.

We welcome as our guest designer for this challenge the lovely Kitty with this beautiful card using one of Meljen's images...

This really is such a cutie Kitty and we love the pastel colors!! Thank you hun for joining us for this challenge. Please take a moment to visit Kitty's Blog and don't forget to let her know you stopped by.

And here is some more gorgeous inspiration for you by the fabulous DT....

Lesley

Amanda

Sarah

Doreen

Lisa (aka Dazie)

Shelley

Joanne

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Time now to announce our random winner of Challenge #17, many thanks as always to our monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner is...

and entry #104 is...

Bernadet

Congratulations Bernadet!!! Please can you email me (Joanne) by clicking HERE, and I will then forward you details of your $10 voucher to spend in the Simon Says Stamp Store.

Don't forget to grab the winners badge to display on your blog if you'd like to.

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And for my Top 3, in no particular order..

Sammibug

Marit

Kerys

Well done to you all!!

Please grab the TOP 3 badge for your blogs, if you'd like to...

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And finally it's time to announce the GD we would like to invite join us for Challenge #19 in 2 weeks time. We are taking a break from having a GD for the next few weeks as we have something else coming up for the next challenge, all will be revealed in a moment. So our invited GD is....

Jo Davies

Congratulations Jo!! 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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*** EXCITING NEWS --WE WILL BE HAVING A DT CALL WITH OUR NEXT CHALLENGE ON THE 30TH APRIL***

Please note because of this we will not be choosing a GD for challenge #20

We do hope you'll be able to join us for our 'Easter' challenge. Entries for this challenge close at 18:00 on Thursday 28th April 2011.

Have fun and 'Craft Your Days Away'

Hugs

The CYDA Team

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