Challenge #11 - Favourite Sentiment & WHY

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge. 
Our winner, selected at random is:

#18 Laura Love
I just love Laura's colouring, the bright colours 
set against the dark hair is just stunning.
Well done honey.



Please email us at AsYouLikeItChallenge@hotmail.co.uk to claim your prize, 
and don't forget to grab your *winners* badge below:





and our Top 3 4 are

#10 Liz



#15 Claire H



#35 Norma




and it's a top 4 this week because I couldn't resist adding this one to the top picks, but you really need to visit Heather's blog to see the photos as her creation is just amazing, and she's done a fab tutorial too:

#39 Heather A Hudson



Congratulations and please grab our *Top 3* badge to display on your blog:

Before I get onto our challenge, I'd like to sneak in a quick 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
to one of our DT members.
Yup, it's Suzette's birthday today peeps, 
so please join me in wishing her a lovely day, 
and pop over to her blog if you can to with her a happy b'day.

Best wishes Suzette, from all your DT pals too!
xxxx


Right, onto our 11th challenge

Our fabulous sponsor this week is 

Happy Hippo
who are offering a £10 prize to our lucky winner.

This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using 
your Favourite Sentiment & Why.

PLEASE remember you MUST explain WHY it is your favourite 
in order to qualify for the prize. 
To ensure we see this when we visit your blog, please 
write your reason(s) next to your link to our challenge.
Thank you

Here are the beautiful creations made by our Design Team to get your mojo flowing:

Annette

 Since my favourite occasion is Christmas, it's got to be a festive sentiment for me.  My favourite sentiment would either be Merry Christmas, or Winter Wishes, but as I used Winter Wishes on my card yesterday, I decided to opt for just a plain Merry Xmas today.

Samantha

Well I have to agree with Annette my favourite occasion is also Christmas,
so my favourite sentiment is Seasons Greetings, I love this one as I have friends all over the world and this greeting works for them all.

  

Carol

I find it hard to show my feelings outwith my family and find some sentiments a bit over the top for me but when it comes to my grandchildren well anything goes especially ones like these. So meaningful and it's a card you can give, just because! 

Mojca

My definetly favourite sentiment is from Vladka's Thought's sentiment set "Dare to live your dream" which I also used on my card. I think it says it all :)

Sarah

I found this little "Recipe" and have to say that
I think it just about sums up the feeling of Christmas!!

Suzette (the birthday girl!!)

I love all sentiments especially happy ones and this one can be used for all occasion.

So now it's over to you.
We hope you will join in our challenge, show us your style and 
showcase your Favourite Sentiment.

Good luck, and happy crafting.
Hugs from the AYLI girls.

Challenge #7 - Favourite Fancy Fold & Why

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge. 
Our winner, selected at random is:

#31 Debbie S



Please email us at AsYouLikeItChallenge@hotmail.co.uk to claim your prize, 
and don't forget to grab your *winners* badge below:






and our Top 3 5 (yup, I couldn't reduce it to 3 again) are :

#2 Mian Hahne



#4 Lorraine A



#9 Papersniffer



#22 Lesley




#41 Debbie S




Congratulations and please grab our *Top 5* badge to display on your blog:

So, onto our 7th challenge

The sponsor of this challenge is 
Handy Hippo
who are offering £10 voucher to their lovely store for our winner.

This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using 
your Favourite Fancy Fold & Why.

You MUST explain WHY it is your favourite.

Here are the beautiful creations made by our Design Team to get your mojo flowing:

Annette

Using Penny Black Carolling Trio

My favourite fold is a J-fold (or Joy-fold). 
It's so quick and easy to make and I love the focus on the image in the finished result.
Here's my finished card:

And here's an image before I constructed it so that 
you can see the main two component parts. 
The smaller folded square is stuck down inside the larger one,
and they open in opposite directions.

Samantha

Well my NEW favourite Fancy fold has to be the one that 
Annette recently did a tutorial for.
You can see the tutorial here.
Thanks Annette :)

Carol
One of my favourite folds is the gate-fold.
Have made it clean and simple with the focus on the image and use of pretty papers.

Mojca
I love book cards! 
They are so simple to make and a little bit special and fancy.



Sarah
My favourite fancy fold is the centre stepper card.
 The layout is done and all you have to do is decorate it!!

So now it's over to you.
We hope you will join in our challenge, show us your style and 
showcase your Favourite Fancy Fold.

Good luck, and happy crafting.
Hugs from the AYLI girls.

Challenge #3 - Favourite Rubber Stamp (& why) and our DT Call Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge. 
There were some fab entries, and we loved seeing them.

Our winner, selected at random is:

40 Any Old Craft
who said that her favourite colours were blue and white 
because it reminded her of winter snowballs.
What a lovely choice of colours, and a beautiful reason.
Thanks for your entry, it's beautiful and worthy of our winners prize this week.


Please email us at AsYouLikeItChallenge@hotmail.co.uk to claim your prize, 
and please do grab your *winners* badge below.




Our Top 5 are :
(sorry we are hopeless about limiting to 3 when the entries are so fab) 

28 Lisa


30 Coops


33 Jenny



37 Christine


49 Cara



Congratulations and please grab our *Top 5* badge to display on your blog:








We're also sneaking in a couple more of our favourites from the last challenge:

Carol

Sarah

because we'd love for you to see some of their handiwork as we announce the :
Winners of our DT CALL

We're delighted to be able to finally announce our new DESIGN TEAM members.

Thank you to everyone who entered our DT call.
We could not narrow down the choice to 3 so we ended up inviting 4 talented teamies.

Please join us in welcoming our new members:

Carol
Mojca
Sarah
Suzette


They are joining us for the first time this week, so please give them a hearty welcome and pop by their blogs to see their fab creations.


WOOHOOOOOO!!!!
Welcome to the team girls.

So, onto our 3rd challenge






Our fabulous sponsor this week is 
Happy Hippo
who are offering a £10 prize to our lucky winner.

This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using 
your Favourite Rubber Stamp & Why.

You MUST explain WHY it is your favourite.

Here are the beautiful creations made by our Design Team to get your mojo flowing:

Annette

Wow, this takes me right back to the start of my stamping addiction. 

The first stamps I bought were Penny Black, and my favourite characters have always been the hedgehog and mice.  

This stamp features both, so for me it's a great image.  

I love their cute expressions.

I've also used some of my other favourite stash, 

the oval nestie, lavish leaf and corner bow dies, 

gorgeous glittered cupcake papers, ribbons, flowers and pearls.

Samantha
Oh choosing 1 favourite is hard I soo love stamping
I love making Christmas cards through the whole year so for my Favourite stamp
I would have to say this Penny Black SlapStick Stamp, its very versatile and
makes a great impact.

Carol
Ooooo,what a hard decision this was, have so many favourites but went for cute, love Sarah Kay and it's been awhile since I got to play with any of them.

Mojca

Ok, this was really hard! Just one? 

Well if I just have to choose it would be Dancing with stars Tilda. 

She is just so cute!

Sarah
Almost impossible to choose, but this Whiff of Joy stamp is one of mine as it's a stamp for  the occasion when you have time to indulge yourself in some "grown-Up" colouring in!

Suzette
 I have so many favourite stamps but this one is the best, the reason why is because  I drew her base on my little 4 year's old character for Crafty Sentiments Designs, she is very cheeky but fun, there is also lots of open space on this image to colour in too.
 

We hope you agree that our new team has made some AMAZING cards for our challenge, and welcome them to the team.

But now it's over to you.

We hope you will join in our challenge, 
show us your style and showcase your 
Favourite Rubber Stamp & Why.

Good luck, and happy crafting.
Hugs from the AYLI girls.