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Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Challenge #21- Handmade flowers


Hi everyone! This is my ( Amanda) last week at the fabulous Ladybug Crafts and I had the honor of choosing this weeks challenge! 
My request is to see "handmade flowers" on your card.
 With spring coming up I thought it would be great to see all the talent out there.

 Please make sure you link up below, you could be in the top 3 and be able to grab a banner for on your blog or possibly even win a free stamp! 
Remember, you can use a stamp from any company now so that makes it even easier but who wouldn't want to have another ladybug craft stamp?!  
I also want to thank the ladybugs for making me feel so welcome this past month, I had a great time!

So without further ado .. here are what the DT came up along that theme ..




And now for the bit you have all been waiting for 
The winner this week is......


please email us at lcichallengeblog@aol.com to arrange your prize.

and the top 3 who should grab the banner form the side bar are ....

SHEILA
CAROLINA GIRL
LYNDSEY MARIE

Hope you have fun making your handmade flowers this week.. the DT look forward to visiting your blogs to see all your fabulous creations.




Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 20 - Monochrome

Good morning and welcome to this week's Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge!  Thanks to everyone that entered last week's WOW challenge!

The winners are announced towards the bottom of this post.

This week, we'd like to see your MONOCHROME creations. You can use all the shades you want of just one color. This is a color challenge, not a coloring challenge, which means you are allowed skin and hair color on your image but the whole card must be mostly made of shades of just one color (papers, embellishments...). Black and white are allowed since they can be considered as very light and very dark shades of any color...

Each week, one random winner will win a  Ladybug Crafts Ink stamp of their choosing AND remember, you do not have to use an LCI image (although if you have some, why not give them some love and use them!).  Besides the random winner, we also pick our Top Three!

To get you started here's some inspiration from the DT:




Pinky




As promised, last week's winner is:

Congratulations Laurie! Please email us at lcichallengeblog@aol.com to arrange your prize, and please take the winners badge from the sidebar to let everyone know!!
...and the top three, in no particular order, are...

Congratulations ladies!!  Please feel free to display the Top Three badge from the sidebar.

To enter this week's challenge, just click on the linky tool at the bottom of this post.  We can't wait to see your monochrome creations this week!




Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 19 - WOW (White on White)

Good morning and welcome to this week's Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge!  Thank you to everyone that entered last week's challenge, we went OVER-THE-TOP with 101 entries!!

The winners are announced towards the bottom of this post.

This week, we'd like to see you WOW us; yes, that's right WOW = White on White; only color allowed is your main image.  WOW cards can have a loud and bright main image/sentiment, a soft/subtle image/sentiment, vintage/shabby - you name it, let's see what you have for us!

Each week, one random winner will win a  Ladybug Crafts Ink stamp of their choosing AND remember, you do not have to use an LCI image (although if you have some, why not give them some love and use them!).  Besides the random winner, we also pick our Top Three!

To get you started here's some inspiration from the DT:

Amanda
Anita
Gaelle
Lisa
Mary
Pami
Pinky

Sue Front

Sue Back

  


Tams


As promised, last week's winner is:

Number 27!!!

Congratulations Claire aka CraftyC! Please email us at lcichallengeblog@aol.com to arrange your prize, and please take the winners badge from the sidebar to let everyone know!!
...and the top three, in no particular order, are...

Kim Piggott
Silke Ledlow
Alison (xtglx)

And I can't not make a very special mention to 64 - Elena, thank you so much hunny for entering your wonderful card (if you haven't seen Elena's blog, please check it out, her colouring is incredible and it's hard to believe she is only 12!!)

Congratulations ladies!!  Please feel free to display the Top Three badge from the sidebar.

To enter this week's challenge, just click on the linky thingymajig (totally legit word, right?) at the bottom of this post.  We can't wait to see what you come up with this week!

And before I go; the LCI Design Team wishes to extend our thoughts and condolences to those in Japan and those touched by the Tsunami.

Hugs, ~M.

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 18 - Spring Colours

Good morning and welcome to this weeks Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge!  Thank you to everyone that entered last weeks challenge - the winners are announced towards the bottom of this post

Seeing as we have had a few warmer days I (Sue) would love to see your creations in

Spring Colours

you can make as bright or as subtle as you like and this isn't just for cards either!!

Every week the randomly picked winner wins a Ladybug Crafts Ink Stamp, and you don't have to use a LCI image (although we love it when you do!!) and we pick a top three too :-)

To get you started here's some inspiration from the DT

Amanda (our lovely March GDT)




No submission this week as Hayley has no phone or internet connection at the moment :-(







As promised last weeks winner selected by random org is...

Number 28!!!

Congratulations Katie Tate! Please email us at lcichallengeblog@aol.com to arrange your prize, and please take the winners badge from the sidebar to let everyone know!!
...and the top three, in no particular order, are...


Congratulations ladies!!  Please feel free to display the Top Three badge from the sidebar :-)

To enter this weeks challenge, just click on the linky thingy at the bottom of this post, looking forward to seeing what you come up with!!

Sue  xx

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Totally Ladybug Tuesday Challenge 17

Hello everyone, Anita here.  It is Totally Ladybug Tuesday and this week it's my turn to choose the challenge.  I chose Stitching - faux or real  for our challenge. So as you can see, it's an easy challenge this week. 

Before we get to the beautiful creations by the DT, here is the winner from last week's challenge....


please email us at lcichallengeblog@aol.com

And the top 3 are ....

please grab your badge from the side bar.
We also  have the winners of the blog hop candy 

1st Prize .. the winner of all 4 of the BFF's new release stamps is....

BARBARA

and the four runners up who win one new release stamp of their choice each  are .....

Carrie
Diane
Brook
Bea
Please email us al lcichallengeblog.aol.com to arrange your prizes
We would like to thank Domi, our Feburary Guest Designer, for all her enthusiasm and hard work last month.  And we want to welcome our Guest Designer for March ... Amanda.  Now, let's see what this talented DT has created this week!

                          (Our Lovely Guest DT)                       
                    





                                



























Aren't they all stunning?  Please stop by the DT blogs and give them some Ladybug Love ... and while you're visiting Amanda's blog, be sure to also give her a warm hello.

Thank you to everyone that played along in our challenge last week.  We hope you find time to play again this week in our Stitching - faux or real challenge.

And please note - from now on you can use ANY IMAGE to be in with a chance of winning the prize!