Cupcake Craft Challenges: September 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011

Cupcake 161... If you go down to the woods today...

Morning my fluffy little Cupcake Lovers! Yep, it's Monday morning again...

Well, you're a dark side loving lot aren't you! You totally rocked Delphine's Purple and Black Challenge. We loved seeing all your fantastic creations, it was so hard choosing the Cuties, this week, we have extras! Thanks so much for joining in with us.

I'd best get on with telling you about our next Challenge, who knows what magic you could bestow upon me! Just don't make me any more fluffy please. :)

So, this week, it's my turn to pick a theme and I've chosen:

... If you go down to the woods today ...

We'd like to see your creations including a teddy bear in the main image. Simples, right?

You have until 8pm, GMT on Sunday 02 October to place your entry for this challenge. Have fun!

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We have a Winner for last weeks sponsored Challenge and we’ve also chosen our Cupcake Cuties.

Here are the winners:

Challenge 160 Winner
chosen at random;
Dawn Lancaster
Dawn's Crafting

Congratulations Dawn, you win a $15 Gift Certificate to spend on cutesome images from last weeks fabulous sponsor, Prairie Fairy. Could you please e-mail me by Sunday 02 October so I can arrange for you to receive your prize? If the prize is not claimed by then, another winner will be chosen.

Our Cupcake Cuties are;

Annie
Ms Schnaderle
Sandy's Stamping Scene
Nela
Martinas Welt
Jen

Congratulations girls, you can pick up the Cupcake Cutie badge below... we hope you will display it on your Blogs with pride!

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This week we are thrilled to be joined again by:

Sassy Studio Designs are kindly offering one lucky winner, chosen at random, four images of their choice from the Sassy Store!

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And don't forget about our super monthly sponsor. We're really excited to welcome back:

Just look at all the new treasure Nikki has in stock:

Crate Paper 6x6 Paper Pads
Limited Edition My Minds Eye Paper Pads
Marianne D, Nellie’s Multi Frame and cART-Us
New Marianne Design and cART-Us Paper Pads
Marianne D Vintage Lace Packs
Christmas Bildmalarna
MagnoliaInk Issue 4 - Chocolate Dreams
Basic Grey 6x6 Paper Pads - Indie Bloom & Nordic Holiday
Cosmo Cricket 6x6 Paper Pad - Odds & Endsl
Fancy Pants 6x6 Paper Pads - Oct 31st & Off to School
Authentique 6x6 Paper Pads - Splendid & Wonder
Prima 6x6 Paper Pads

Bunny Zoe's Crafts are kindly offering one lucky winner, chosen at random, a £15 Gift Voucher to spend in their scrummy store.

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This month, The Cupcakes are joined by a Guest Cupcake you may well know. Coops, makes the most amazing projects. Check out all the Cupcakes gorgeous work, links are below if you fancy leaving some well deserved love...

Coops

A Few things to remember!
Please leave a link to your blog post and not just your blog!
Make sure that 'Cupcake Crafts' are linked in your post... if you don't mention us in your posting you will not be eligible for any prize(s) offered by our sponsors!
Please only link to new entries - it isn't fair to backlink to older posts!

Monday, September 19, 2011

Cupcake 160...The Darkside

Good morning crafters, it’s time for another Cupcake Craft Challenge and before we announce this week’s challenge we would like to thank everyone who entered our back to school challenge last week...we received some really fab entries and the Cupcakes loved visiting your blogs to see your creations!

We would also like to thank everyone who left entries for our 'Choose the Challenge' Competition...there are some brilliant suggestions and the winner will be announced soon...watch this space for an announcement!!!

So onto this week’s challenge which has been chosen by our gorgeous Cupcake Delphine. Now, you could be forgiven for thinking we have a Star Wars theme for you this week but you can breathe a huge sigh of relief that we aren’t asking you to incorporate anything that remotely resembles the Star Wars universe!

What we are asking is that you create a project using the colours BLACK & PURPLE hence the theme…

*** THE DARKSIDE ***

Please remember that the main colours of your project must be BLACK and PURPLE...you can stamp onto a neutral base and use skintones and hair (unless you want purple or black hair) but otherwise your creation must be purple and black!

You have until 8pm, GMT on Sunday 25th September to place your entry for this challenge!

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We have a winner for last weeks sponsored Challenge and we’ve also chosen our Cupcake Cuties.

Here are the winners…

Challenge 159 Winner
chosen at random

Alie
Hubbly Bubbly Busy Alie

Congratulations Alie, you win a £10 gift voucher from last week’s sponsor Quixotic Paperie! Could you please e-mail Faye by Sunday 25th September so she can arrange for you to receive your prize? If the prize is not claimed by then, another winner will be chosen.

Here are our Cupcake Cuties…

Janiel
Lea L
Lisette
Nubia
Vicky

Congratulations girls, you can pick up the Cupcake Cutie badge below... we hope you will display it on your Blogs with pride!

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This week we are delighted to be sponsored by

Prairie Fairy are kindly offering one lucky winner, chosen at random, a $15 Gift Voucher to spend in Store!

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Our Icing on the Cupcake sponsor for September is the fab

Just look at all the new treasure Nikki has in stock:

Crate Paper 6x6 Paper Pads
Limited Edition My Minds Eye Paper Pads
Marianne D, Nellie’s Multi Frame and cART-Us
New Marianne Design and cART-Us Paper Pads
Marianne D Vintage Lace Packs
Christmas Bildmalarna
MagnoliaInk Issue 4 - Chocolate Dreams
Basic Grey 6x6 Paper Pads - Indie Bloom & Nordic Holiday
Cosmo Cricket 6x6 Paper Pad - Odds & Endsl
Fancy Pants 6x6 Paper Pads - Oct 31st & Off to School
Authentique 6x6 Paper Pads - Splendid & Wonder
Prima 6x6 Paper Pads

Bunny Zoe's Crafts are kindly offering one lucky winner, chosen at random, a £15 Gift Voucher to spend in their scrummy store.

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This month, The Cupcakes are joined by a Guest Cupcake you may well know. Coops, makes the most amazing projects. Check out all the Cupcakes gorgeous work, links are below if you fancy leaving some well deserved love...

Coops

Delphine

Denise

Donna

Jane

Liza

Louise

Maarit

Rachel

Sari

Shelly

A Few things to remember!

Please leave a link to your blog post and not just your blog!
Make sure that 'Cupcake Crafts' are linked in your post... if you don't mention us in your posting you will not be eligible for any prize(s) offered by our sponsors!
Please only link to new entries - it isn't fair to backlink to older posts!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Cupcake 159... Back to School

Morning, morning, morning! Time for another Cupcake...

Wow, you love your patchwork! We really enjoyed all of your projects last week. We had such a hard time choosing our Cuties. Thanks, as always for taking the time to play along. It wouldn't be the same without you. :)

If you'd like a chance to Guest Design for us and pick your very own Cupcake Cuties, you still have time to enter our Choose the Challenge Competition...

Late last weekend, Very Understanding Hubby and I heard a bit of a commotion outside. Further investigation revealed a stunning firework display. I'm talking thousands of pounds worth of fireworks here. Very Understanding Hubby asked me what is was for, me being the font of all knowledge and all! As I didn't really know, I said it was some parents celebrating as the school holidays were over!

Which brings me very nicely onto the theme that our lovely Jane has chosen this week:

... Back to School ...

We'd like to see your creations including something to do wth school.

You have until 8pm, GMT on Sunday 18 September to place your entry for this challenge. Have fun!

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We have a Winner for last weeks sponsored Challenge and we’ve also chosen our Cupcake Cuties.

Here are the winners:

Challenge 158 Winner
chosen at random;
Crafting Cathy
Crafting Cathy

Congratulations Cathy, you win a $20 Gift Certificate to spend on scrummy stash at Simon Says Stamp. Could you please e-mail your choices to me by Sunday 18 September so I can arrange for you to receive your prize? If the prize is not claimed by then, another winner will be chosen.

Our Cupcake Cuties are;

Jen
Arina
Nnalorac
Jo
Rose C

Congratulations girls, you can pick up the Cupcake Cutie badge below... we hope you will display it on your Blogs with pride!

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This week we are delighted to be joined again by:

Quixotic Paperie are kindly offering one lucky winner, chosen at random, a £10 Gift Voucher to spend in Store!

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The beginning of the month, of course, means we have a change in Sponsor Toppings! We're really excited to welcome back:

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

It's back... Choose the Challenge Competition!

Morning! Again. No, it's not Monday already!

Well it's been a little while, but, as we had such a good response to our last competition to let you pick a theme, we've decided to take a week off and do it all again. :)

So, if you'd like to Guest Design for us on the week that your Challenge goes live on 03 October, and have a chance to pick your very own Cupcake Cuties, leave your idea in a comment on this post.

We'll close this competition at 6pm (GMT) Tuesday 13 September and randomly draw a winner from all the fabby ideas after that.

Get your thinking caps on Cupcake Lovers!

Monday, September 5, 2011

Cupcake 158... Pathwork Quilt

Morning Muffins. Time for another Cupcake! I can't believe we've whizzed through yet another month. September. Already. Really?!

We had such a great time with you all in August. Thank you for helping to make Cupcake's birthday month so much fun. And we luuuuurved all your Altered Projects last week. Absolutely Fabulous Darlings. :)

This week, we are joined by a new Guest Cupcake, Coops. I know you will love seeing what she creates as much as we're enjoying having her at The Cupcake Factory.

Well time for another Cupcake me thinks and this week, Liza has chosen the Challenge:

*** Patchwork Quilt ***

We'd like to see patchwork, somewhere on your creation...

You have until 8pm GMT on Sunday 11 September to place your entry for this challenge. Have fun!

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We're bursting at the seams with winners today! We have a Winner for last weeks Challenge, our August Icing on the Cupcake Winners, we’ve also chosen our Cupcake Cuties and we have a Special Mention...

Here are the winners:

Challenge 157 Winner
chosen at random;
Liz
Buttons for Brains

Congratulations Liz, you win four Digital Images of your choice from our lovely sponsor, Pink Gem Designs. Could you please e-mail your choices to me by Sunday 11 September, so I can arrange for you to receive your Images! If the prize is not claimed by then another winner will be chosen!

Crafts U Love Winner
chosen at random;
Lisa
Paper + Craft = Bliss

Congratulations Lisa, you win a £15 Voucher to spend in the fabby Crafts U Love Store. Could you please e-mail me by Sunday 11 September so I can arrange for you to receive your prize! If the prize is not claimed by then another winner will be chosen!

Mo's Digital Pencil Winner
chosen at random;
Sara
Sara's Sugar and Spice

Congratulations Sara, you win a $10 Gift Code to spend on Mo's gorgeous images. Could you please e-mail me by Sunday 11 September so I can arrange for you to receive your prize! If the prize is not claimed by then another winner will be chosen!

Sew Sweet Winner
chosen at random;
Samantha
Me and My Job Penrith Crafts

Congratulations Samantha, you win a £10 Voucher to spend on pretty things from Sew Sweet. Could you please e-mail me by Sunday 11 September so I can arrange for you to receive your prize! If the prize is not claimed by then another winner will be chosen!

Our Cupcake Cuties;

Karen C
Carissa
Catherine
Samantha
Irit

Congratulations girls, you can pick up our badge below... we hope you will display it on your Blogs with pride!

This week we have a Special Mention too. The Cupcakes fell in love with this Treasure Box, made by TJ, who is seven. Well done TJ!

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We welcome back our regular monthly sponsor, Simon Says Stamp this week. We're so grateful that they continue to sponsor Cupcake. Simon Says Stamp has an incredible selection of crafting goodies in their on-line store and they stock lots of scrummy goodies that can't be purchased here in the UK.

Simon Says Stamp are offering one lucky winner the opportunity to win a $20 Gift Voucher.

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The beginning of the month, of course, means we have a change in Sponsor Toppings! We're really excited to welcome back:

This month, The Cupcakes are joined by a Guest Cupcake you may well know... Coops make the most amazing projects. Check out all the Cupcakes gorgeous work, links are below if you fancy leaving some well deserved love...

Coops