Start each Monday with a Cupcake! Challenge 102...Distressing

Morning Cupcake Crafters! Thanks so much to everyone who played along in our Pastel Christmas Challenge last week. We hope you had as much fun as we did visiting you, it was wonderful to see all your festive creations.

It's an exciting day for me today in my new role at Cupcake! The first and most important thing I would like to do is thank Donna. Cupcake has grown from strength to strength due to the hard work and care she has put in since taking over in July 2009. Donna you are fab! The girls on the Design Team also deserve a special mention; Catherine, Denise, Liza, Kathrin, Shelly, Victoria, your time and dedication has been a major contributing factor in Cupcake's success. What a brilliant team of Cupcakes I get to work with!

Keep watching, as, starting today, we've got some naughty little treats to help celebrate our birthday later in the month...

But before we get to that, are you ready to play? Yes? This weeks challenge has been chosen by Kathrin, we would like to see...

***Distressing***

So get your scissors out and start duffing up your papers!

You have until 8pm GMT on Sunday 8 August to play with this challenge.

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We have a winner for last weeks sponsored challenge and we have also chosen our Top 5... here they are:

Challenge 101 Winner
chosen at random

Katie McCormick
Crafty Cat

Congratulations Katie, you win 3 digi images from last weeks sponsor Papermom! Could you please e-mail me (Faye) at the address in the sidebar, by Sunday 8 August, so we can arrange for you to claim your prize. If the prize is not claimed by 8 August, another winner will be chosen.

The Top 5 Winners are:

Suzie
Stefanie
Debbie
Tracy
Liz

Congratulations! You can pick up the Top 5 Badge below and we hope you will wear it with pride!

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We are pleased to welcome back our regular monthly sponsor...Simon Says Stamp and we are forever grateful that Heidi continues to sponsor Cupcake. Simon Says Stamp have 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 & Free Shipping!

Earlier, I promised you a naughty little treat and here it is! As it is our birthday in a few weeks time, we not only have wonderful weekly sponsors lined up this month, but Crafts U Love are also sponsoring us for the whole month! Crafts U Love keep up to date with the latest product releases in-store and on-line. They stock a variety of rubber stamps, die cutting, punches and general card making and scrapbooking materials. Together with great customer service Crafts U Love is the perfect choice for any crafter.

Crafts U Love are offering one lucky winner these three CC Designs Stamps:

So, what do you need to do to be in with a chance of winning these gorgeous stamps? At the end of the month, a winner will be randomly chosen and as long as you've entered at least two different Cupcake Challenges throughout August, it could be you! Easy Peesy!

Our wonderful design team have provided some amazing inspiration....if you want to find out how they made their cards then click on their name to go directly to their individual blogs.

Catherine

Denise

Donna

Faye

Kathrin

Liza

Victoria

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 then your link entered with Mr Linky will be removed and 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!

Challenge 101...Pastel Christmas

Good morning crafters...thank you to everyone who entered last weeks challenge...it was great to see so many cute and cuddly creations on your blogs...the DT thoroughly enjoyed visiting you especially our new owner Faye who loves to see lots of fluffiness around blogland lol!

This is the last time I will be posting a challenge on Cupcake (Donna) and as of today I am delighted to hand over the running of Cupcake to Faye...I'm pleased to say that I will still continue to be a part of the DT and I am so looking forward to the continued success of Cupcake and working with such a talented bunch of ladies!

So are you ready for a new challenge? This weeks challenge has been chosen by Denise and we want to see your creations for a....

***PASTEL CHRISTMAS***

There are quite a lot of Christmas challenges around at the moment and we didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to make a head start on our Christmas cards...a fairly easy challenge for you this week...pastel colours only please!

You have until Sunday 1st August..8pm GMT time to place your entry for this challenge

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We have a winner for last weeks sponsored challenge and we have also chosen our Top 5...here are the winners

Challenge 100 winner
chosen at random

Lisa Jane
Mess2Magic

Congratulations Lisa Jane you win the £10 Gift voucher from last weeks sponsor Clip Clop Crafts! Can you please e-mail me (Faye) at the address in the sidebar by Sunday 1st August so we can arrange for you to claim your prize! If the prize is not claimed by 1st August another winner will be chosen!

The Top 5 Winners are

Caroline
Debbie
Desiree
Erin
**Vicky**

Congratulations ladies you can pick up the TOP 5 badge below...we hope you will display it on your blogs with pride!

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We are delighted to welcome Papermom as our sponsor this week...they have some really cute digi images in their store including some very scrummy cupcakes!

Papermom are offering 3 Digi Images as a prize this week...the winner gets to choose which ones!


Our wonderful design team have provided some amazing inspiration....if you want to find out how they made their cards then click on their name to go directly to their individual blogs.

Denise

Catherine

Donna

Faye

Kathrin

Liza

Shelly

Victoria


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 then your link entered with Mr Linky will be removed and 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!

Challenge 100...Cats & Dogs

Good morning everyone...what a busy week we have had...we received a fantastic response to our advert for a new owner for Cupcake and we would like to say a massive thank you to all of you who emailed us to express your interest in taking over our lovely challenge blog when Donna stands down at the end of July.

We had an incredibly difficult task of picking someone as all the candidates were wonderful and we wish we could have picked them all...we did however finally make a decision and we are so pleased to announce that the new owner of Cupcake from the beginning of August is.........

Faye

We hope you will join us in welcoming Faye to Cupcake and we very much look foward to working with her...Faye makes the most beautiful cards and has a terrific sense of humour and fun...she also loves all things sweet so she should fit in quite well here at Cupcake...welcome aboard Faye!

Now on to this weeks challenge...thank you to everyone who entered last weeks 'Acetate' challenge...we were totally wowed at all the different ideas you came up with...you ladies really do rock our challenges with your craftiness!

This weeks challenge has been chosen by Catherine...

***CATS & DOGS***

We're sure you'll need no guidance for this theme...it's simple...Cats or Dogs or both..we really don't mind...we know how much you love your furry friends out there in blog land and we really look forward to seeing your entries for this one...have fun!

You have until Sunday 25th July..8pm GMT time to place your entry for this challenge

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We have a winner for last weeks sponsored challenge and we have also chosen our Top 5...here are the winners...

Challenge 99 winner
chosen at random

Darling Ho
Hearts

Congratulations Darling Ho you win the $15 gift certificate from last weeks sponsor Paperjewels! Can you please e-mail me (Donna) at the address in the sidebar by Sunday 25th July so we can arrange for you to claim your prize! If the prize is not claimed by 25th July another winner will be chosen!

The Top 5 Winners are

Debs
Farrah
Kaos
Kerry
Wendy

Congratulations ladies you can pick up the TOP 5 badge below...we hope you will display it on your blogs with pride!

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We are delighted to welcome Clip Clop Crafts as our sponsor this week...they have a fantastic selection of crafting goodies in their online shop and be sure to check out their fab digi downloads while you are there!

Clip Clop Crafts are offering a fantastic £10 Gift Voucher to be spent in their online store.

Our wonderful design team have provided some amazing inspiration....if you want to find out how they made their cards then click on their name to go directly to their individual blogs.

Catherine


New Owner Faye's Card

Denise

Donna

Kathrin

Liza

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 then your link entered with Mr Linky will be removed and 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!

Challenge 99...Acetate & An Announcement

Good morning everyone...before we announce the details of this weeks challenge we have some news regarding the running of our lovely challenge blog...we are looking for a new owner for Cupcake as sadly Donna is unable to continue running the challenges for us each week...we very much hope that someone will want to step forward and take over the running of the weekly challenges...please see details below....closing date for Donna to receive emails is Friday 6th July!

Now on to this weeks challenge...big thanks to all the entrants who played along with last weeks 'World Cup Wonders' challenge and congratulations to our blog visitors from Spain for winning the World Cup Tournament Yesterday!

This weeks challenge has been chosen by Victoria...

***ACETATE***

The challenge is simple...all we want is for you to use acetate somewhere on your card...it could be in the form of an aperture...a card base or perhaps an embellishment...we hope you will all enjoy this challenge as much as the DT did!

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We have a winner for last weeks sponsored challenge and we have also chosen our Top 5...here are the winners...

Challenge 98 winner
chosen at random

Pinky
Pinky's World

Congratulations Pinky you win the $20 gift voucher including free shipping from last weeks sponsor Simon Says Stamp! Can you please e-mail me (Donna) at the address in the sidebar by Sunday 18th July and I will send you details on how to claim your prize! If the prize is not claimed by 18th July another winner will be chosen!

The Top 5 Winners are

Annika
Kristine
Lorraine A
Pops
Trish Mc

Congratulations ladies you can pick up the TOP 5 badge below...we hope you will display it on your blogs with pride!

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We are delighted to welcome Paperjewels as our sponsor this week...they stock a wonderful range of rubber stamps including the very popular CC Designs and Sweet Pea stamps..be sure to pop over and check them out.

Paperjewels are offering a fantastic $15 Gift Certificate to be spent in their online store

Our wonderful design team have provided some amazing inspiration....if you want to find out how they made their creations then click on their name to go directly to their individual blogs.

Victoria Rogers

Catherine Lavoine

Denise Morgans

Donna Barber

Kathrin Donhauser-Ruth


Shelly Luton-Olson

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 then your link entered with Mr Linky will be removed and 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!