April is in bloom! NEW ELEMENTS CHALLENGE!

HELLO, visitors to the Dollhouse! :)

Leah here, filling in for Adina (but she'll be back soon to announce a winner and show us the prize for the April Elements challenges!).

So March has come and gone (in like a lamb, out like a lamb?) and we had lots of participants in the Elements challenges, with AMAZING talent and creativity! We've loved seeing your translations of our recipes into your work, and we hope April will keep your mojo bubbling over!

I'm going to throw the new challenge at you now to get started (whether you're getting ready to do the Trifecta tomorrow, or looking to tackle these challenges individually)... Come back to find out who won the March prize pack, and to see what you could win this month!

This week's challenge?
APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS!
(or so the old adage goes, right?)

We want to see flowers and showers incorporated into your projects! For example:

Dana created this amazing door hanger:

Kate's fabulously doodly layout (taken on a rainy day at the beach):


Adina (getting her thank yous ready for her baby SHOWER - get the raindrop reference?):

and Lizzie, our awesome Guest Dollie for April, with a beautiful, introspective page:

And that's all she wrote!

Okay, that's not true at all. Most of you know by now that I am far too wordy to just let it go like that. ;) SOOOOO, we want to see what you'll do with this challenge, and feel free to combine it with Monday's COLOR CHALLENGE or tomorrow's SKETCH CHALLENGE - you'll have until next Monday, April 12th at midnight EST to link your newly-created project below (be sure to link back to OUR blog in your blog post in order to be eligible for the prize draw!), OR if you do any combination of our challenges this week, the deadline is SUNDAY, April 11th at midnight EST.

Happy crafting!

Happy Spring/Fall/Winner/What?! NEW COLOR CHALLENGE!

WOOT! Check the new banner! Our Kristy-Dollie rocks the graphic design, oh yes she does! HELLO, new Dollie! And HELLOOOOOOOO, Spring! Yep, we've definitely got some springtime happy going on over here, and it's fabulous! Looking forward to some weekends down at the shore (Cape May, NJ) - I know the water is cold now, but soon I'll be dipping my feet in the ocean, and I can't wait!

So to celebrate the warm weather, how about a winner from the March Color Challenges, yeah? :)

Of 74 eligible entries (the highest number yet for Color Challenge players - WOO HOO!), random.org spat out lucky number 56... So you'll want to know whose fabulous entry takes the prize then, right?

THIS ONE!


Congratulations, Alin! And thank you so much for playing along - your Black, White and Yellow entry was fabulous and inspiring! :) Please drop me an email at spazzicassi@yahoo.ca with your mailing address so I can send you this prize:


And let's just jump right into the April challenges, shall we? How's this for a prize.....


the flip side, for a slightly better look:


Here's what's included:
Cosmo Cricket Blackboard "Fleuriste" - 45 pcs (GORGEOUS flowers and flourishes)
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - 2 oz. in Creme de Cacao
Shimmerz Spritz miniZ - 1 oz. in Rock-a-fella Blue
Ranger Stickles - .5 oz in Black Diamond
Prima Clear Stamp with bling - 8 adhesive rhinestones and clear stamp 2 1/8" x 2 3/4"
Prima E Line pearls and crystals - 60 pcs in black
Zva self-adhesive crystal rhinestones - 72 pcs various sizes

SOOOOOOO, if you wanna win this little pack of goodies, you have to play along with any of my Color Challenges for the month of April...

Here's your first challenge:
Dark green, rusty orange, yellow


And here's what the Dollies have done with this fall-ish combo...

our totally spunky and fab Guest Dollie for the month of April, Lizzie:


Adina-Dollie:

Metal_Minish:

and yours truly, Leah the Orange:

So now that you have your challenge, GO TO IT! :) Upload your NEWLY-CREATED project (not your general blog, please!) to Mr. Linky below, ensuring that you have included a link to our blog in your post, and do this before next SUNDAY, April 11th at midnight EST for your chance to win that stuff up there! Have fun, good luck, and HAPPY SPRING!

Hello and Goodbye...

There are a lot of things going on today! I'm hoping to keep it all straight and hit everything LOL. First off we would like to extend our gratitude, love and appreciation to our inaugural Dollies as we say goodbye. We wish them the best and hope that they don't become strangers but I think it may be impossible :)

Second a BIG WELCOME to our next batch of Dollies! Kate, Melissa, Dana and Metal_Minish! CLICK ON THEIR PICTURES IN THE SIDEBAR TO READ ABOUT THEM! There are links to their personal blogs in the bios, too. :)

Well now down to the meat and potatoes! Here is April's first sketch!

Some of our new Dollies are on board today and giving us a run for our money!

Kate

Melissa

Kristy

Well there ya go! You have until April 7th at Midnight EST to get in on this or until April 4th at Midnight EST to get those last minute entries in by doing the Trifecta! Don't forget to link back to us in your blog post in order to be eligible for the prize...

Oh! You want to know about the prize for the month? Well our March winner is...

HEATHER!!!
She entered with this fab LO:

The pictures are just TOO DARLING!!!!!! I love it!!!

Don't be sad! We've started a new month and we have a new prize!

These are all goodies from Tinkering Ink! I wanted to keep those lil felt birds but I resisted! Someone needs to win it so I can forget and not hoarde LOL!

Link us up!

Last March Elements Challenge (It's a Recipe!!)

Let's end the month with a bang and play with a recipe... I must say, before going on, that we are humbled by the amazing talent we have been blesseed with this past quarter, and our very first Design Team ever has definitely RAWKED it with the Dollies... So our utmost thanks to the DT talent and I hope you all choose to play with us again soon!!!

Without further ado, ingredients for this week's Elements challenge must include:

1) a Frame of sorts;
2) A stamped image;
3) The color brown;
4) 3 flowers (no more, no less); and
5) Butterflies.

And here's some inspiration.... (and a final thank you to our FABULOUS Design Team!!!)

A round of applause for Heidi

A humble thank you to Ellen

And another amazing example from Kate (who will still be with us...)

The amazing Kristy

And little ole me, Adina MedinaSo let's get scrappy, and please upload all Elements projects via Mr. Linky by midnight on Monday, April 5th. And join us on Thursday to welcome our newest Dollies to the fold!

One more YUMMY color challenge for March!

Here it is - your last chance to get in on the action, for a chance to win THIS tasty little prize pack:


you'll have until midnight (EST) on SUNDAY, April 4th to upload your projects below (please link to where you post the project for this challenge, not to your general blog)... remember that your projects must be created NEW for this challenge and link back to us in your blog post.

SO, you wanna know what you've got to work with this week? :)

RED, TURQUOISE and BLACK or WHITE
(i'll add in the colour swatch when Blogger starts behaving!)


and this is what our Dollies have done with this combo:

the amazingly ambitious KATE (who rocked the doodle scallop and the ball-trim)

our Adina-Dollie (i THINK this is the last of her amazing Alice-themed projects):

and me, Leah the Orange:

so how are those colours going to assemble themselves into a gorgeous project crafted by YOUR capable hands? i can't wait to see! remember that you do not have to create a card or scrapbook page for our challenges - if it's crafty, it follows the challenge, and you've followed the rules, it QUALIFIES!

so have fun with this one, and OOOHH, don't forget to drop by Adina-Dollie's blog for her birthday blog candy - it ends March 31st, so it's crunch-time! :) (you don't have to play along with our challenges to enter for her candy, but you get bonus entries for each project you've submitted!)