Challenge 53 - Family Affair

Well - we certainly slowed you all down last week with our tricky recipe!! Thanks so much to everyone who joined in.

The winner of the fabby prize from The Greeting Farm is Juliet. Congratulations!! Could you please e-mail Deb for more details.

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Okay - onto this week's challenge

Challenge 53 - "Family Affair"

A nice easy one for this week!! We want you to make a card for a member of your family. As simple as that. Could be mum, dad, husband, son, sister - anyone!!

We have another amazing sponsor this week My Favourite Things with a fantastic prize of

Bling 'bet rubber stamp set!

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We are really pleased to have Joanne aka Bubbles joining us as Guest Designer for the next two weeks - welcome Joanne and thanks!!

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Here are the Design Team's wonderful creations for this week's theme. Click on the name directly above the picture to be taken straight to the blog of each person.

Andrea

Annie


Deb

Fran

Lynn


Shary

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Entries received via e-mail

Vicki

To be in with a chance of winning please enter via the Mr. Linky widget by no later than 8pm (BST) next Wednesday. Good luck!!

Challenge 52 - Recipe

Well what can we say? Absolutely amazing entries last week!! Thanks so much to everyone for helping us celebrate our first birthday with such a bang!! Thanks again to Katharina for the great sketch and to Marlene for being our Guest Designer.

Thanks again of course also goes to our amazing sponsors last week - you are all just the BEST for helping us celebrate in such style!! The lucky winners of the fantastic prizes are as follows:-

1) The prize from Whiff of Joy goes to

142. Sammacco

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2) The prize from Whimsy Stamps goes to

87. Danielle Lord

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3) The prize from Alota Stamps goes to

81. Jilly

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4) The prize from Pink Gem Designs goes to

119. Cyndi

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5) The prize from Emma at Something Sweet goes to

19. Jeanette C

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CONGRATULATIONS to all the winners!! Please e-mail Deb for further details.

Once again a HUGE thanks to all our fabulous sponsors for donating such amazing prizes which helped make our birthday week so memorable!
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PHEW - now onto this week's challenge

Challenge 52 - RECIPE

Take something ripped;
2 papers and
4 embellishments

BUT there's a twist - four embellishments means ONLY four.
A two-layered flower with a charm/spacer and a brad for example would count as
ALL of your embellishments so choose them wisely!

Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with this week.

This week we have another amazing sponsor The Greeting Farm

We have one very cute Happy Chef Stamp set to give away to one lucky participant who will be chosen at random next week! Be sure you have your entries in by Wednesday at 8pm!

We are thrilled to have Sharon from my Creative Space back this week to finish her Guest Designer slot. Thanks Sharon for the beautiful creations you have produced for us.


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As usual the Design Team have done us proud with their beautiful creations. To see how each lovely piece was made, click on the name above to go directly to the blog.

SHARY


ANDREA


ANNIE


CLAUDIA



DEB



FRAN



KATHARINA


LYNN

We are using Mr. Linky again this week. Please put a **DIRECT** link to your entry into the box below BEFORE 8pm next Wednesday. Entries posted after this will not be entered into the draw for the prize. Thanks for joining in!!

Happy Birthday CCT!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge. The winner of the fabulous £20 Poppicrafts voucher is Valems, please email Lynn for instructions to claim your prize!

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You may have noticed a slight difference in our appearance this week. We have had a major facelift to celebrate our birthday, yes we are 1 year old this week!

An enormous thank you to Lynn and Jo of Siggi Shop for all their hard work in transforming the blog this past week! They did an amazing job and we all love it!

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Now onto this week's special birthday challenge!

Challenge 51

Celebration!

This week we have a fabulous sketch designed by our own Katharina, we would also like to see you create a card for a celebration with the sketch!

Now onto the birthday presents...........

We have lots of fabulous prizes this week, very generously donated by our sponsors, Whiff of Joy, Whimsy Stamps, Alota Stamps, Pink Gem and Emma from Something Sweet so 5 lucky people can win a prize this week! The winners will be chosen at 8pm on wednesday 18th March so if you would like to be in with a chance of winning one of these fantastic prizes come on and join the party and show us your fabulous creations!

We have a surprise prize from Whiff of Joy! The winner will receive a Whiff of Joy goodie bag which will contain 3 stamps from the brand new and still secret Elisabeth Bell Guardian Angel collection!

The prize will be posted out to the winner prior to the official release so will be one of the first people to stamp them!

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Pajama time Emma

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Four cute bug stamps

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Pirate Milly

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Our special Guest Designer this week is Marlene, we are all thrilled that she could return to join us for our birthday challenge! What an amazing card she created for us, thank you so much Marlene, it means such a lot that you could be with us this week! Thanks hunny!

Marlene
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Here are the fabulous cards from our very talented Design Team which we hope will inspire you! Please drop by their individual blogs to see more wonderful creations and find out how they made these cards! Just click on their names!

Lynn

Shary


Andrea


Annie

Claudia


Deb
Fran

Katharina

Leann
Cards received from entrants without a blog
MONIKA


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Although we welcome your comments and love to read them - PLEASE now use the Mr. Linky below to give us a DIRECT link to your blog post for this challenge. Only entries submitted via the Mr. Linky widget will be eligible for a prize. Thanks so much for your participation.

Challenge #50 - "Wine and Dine"

WOW - we were just completely blown away by the amazing entries we had last week for our "Animal Magic" challenge! We had the most entries we have ever had! Thanks so much to you all for continuing to make CCT the huge fun it is!!

The winner of the wonderful Riley stamp generously donated by last week's sponsor Craftaway is Liz at Buttons for Brains. Congratulations Liz - if you contact Deb by e-mail your fabby prize can be winging its way to you in no time!

Next week we are celebrating the first birthday of Cute Card Thursday with a whole host of fabby prizes, a few surprises and a wonderful Guest Designer ......... but more about that next week!! (I know - I am such a tease!!).

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Now - onto this week's challenge
"FOOD & DRINK"

Create a card with an item of food or drink on it somewhere - as simple as that!


This week our amazing sponsor, Michelle from POPPICRAFTS has amazingly donated a whopping £20 voucher for one lucky entrant - thanks so much Michelle!!

The winner will be drawn at 8pm on Wednesday night so please be sure to have your
entries in by then.


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We are thrilled to have the lovely Sharon from My Creative Space joining us as Guest Designer. Welcome Sharon!


Here are the amazing cards from our wonderful Design Team this week for your inspiration. To see how these amazing creations were made just click on the name to take you directly to the corresponding blog.

Leann

Lynn

Shary


Andrea

Annie

Claudia

Deb


Fran

Katharina