little technical difficulty here! sit tight, folks!

Sorry for the delay, folks! My camera is acting VERY strangely, and I'm trying to get everything together for the next Color Challenge post, so please stay tuned! I hope to have the problem fixed in the next hour or two!

New challenge coming soon! AND, hopefully, if I do solve the problem, I'll have pictures of the new prize pack, too!

Let's rename Thursday to Sketchday

It might be confusing for a while but I think it could catch on! I mean really, what does Thurs mean anyway?

Welcome welcome! I'm excited you are thinking about staying at the Dollhouse! Are your bags packed and do you have your tickets? Well I hope so b/c I have a sketch for Sketchday!

Are you ready? Here's what our Dollies did with it!

Penny

Karen

Kristy

As the last ingredient for this weeks Trifecta you can combine or do each on its own. For the sketch you have until July 14th at midnight EST to get'er done or for that elusive Trifecta Sunday July 11 at midnight EST. Make sure to link on all three posts to get your Trifecta entries! Well Dolls, have an amazing weekend and be on the look out for some special Dollhouse fun coming to you next week!!!

July ELEMENTS Challenge, sponsored by SCRAP ATTACK!

We are VERY excited to kick off July's Elements Challenges, because we have a FANTASTIC sponsor (our very first one)! Please say hello to Scrap Attack Scrapbooking!

Scrap Attack Scrapbooking is an online scrapbooking store & community. They have a wonderful store that is stocked with beautiful scrapbook supplies all at 10% off MSRP everyday – NO coupon needed! They pride themselves on having a great selection of scrapbook supplies with competitive prices, fast shipping and outstanding customer service. Scrap Attack Scrapbooking, otherwise known as SAS, also “rewards” you for shopping with them. For every dollar you spend you are rewarded with points that can be cashed in on your next shopping visit. They also have a fun and friendly online community, creative gallery, monthly challenges, and YUMMY KITS!

To join in the fun please visit their site at www.ScrapAttackScrapbooking.com

SAS is also offering all friends of the Dollhouse a fabulous 25%* off msrp on your total order. Please use coupon: dollies to take advantage of this discount. This coupon will expire at midnight PST on 8-1-10. Enjoy! (*25% off msrp is calculated by taking an additional 15% off their already low 10% off prices.)

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Here's the GORGEOUS kit that Lauri is offering up
as the prize for this month's Elements Challenges:

and a bit of a closeup:

So you need to play along with our Elements Challenges this month for a chance to win! Let's get started with our first Elements Challenge for the month, shall we?

This week we are asking you Dolls to take some inspiration from your favorite tunes... Song selections should be predominant in your project via title or artistic influence, and should be relatively contemporary--no older than 1990, please.

As always, we have some inspiration for ya!

Chiqui used Taylor Swift as inspiration for this gorgeous summery layout:

And Dana blew us away with this spin on Ludacris ... classic! :):
While Nicole used Katy Perry's song to drive this unforgettable work of art!:
And Adina used Celine Dion's emotional song for this vintage layout:And now it's YOUR turn to use some tunes to inspire your creativity this week! All entries must be NEWLY CREATED for this challenge, and submitted via Mr. Linky by midnight EST on Monday July 12th to be included in this month's drawing.

Oh AND at the risk of posting the longest post in Dollie history... Our winner for the June Elements Challenges is:

CRYSTAL!!!! Thanks for playing along with our Sandy challenge Crystal!! Please send me your address via email and I'll send out your prize pack ASAP! :)

So what are you waiting for? Go get scrappy and keep cool!! :)

JUNE WINNER and brand new color challenge for JULY!

Happy July, friends of the Dollhouse! For those of you who celebrated your country's big days, I hope you enjoyed them and ate lots of yummy stuff with friends and family! :) I wasn't able to properly enjoy Canada Day (in true Canuck fashion), but I did have some Fourth of July fun with friends and good food, so that made up for it, to some extent. :D (and today, off to the gym!)

So you wanna know who won the June Color Challenge prize pack? Well we had a TON of fabulous entries, so a huge thank you to everyone who played along! I hope you'll be equally inspired this month, and I'll be back later today to show you the prize pack....

But now, a big Dollie congrats goes out to
ROXY ROLLA, of Roxy's Creative Hot Spot! She gave us THIS gorgeous creation at the beginning of June (I absolutely LOVE those papers, and of COURSE, the Dymo tape!):

Roxy, when you return from your holidays, please drop me, Leah, a line at spazzicassi@yahoo.ca with your mailing address, and I'll be shipping this batch of treats off to you:

Now with that little bit of bidnizz out of the way, it's time to kick the Color Challenges off for JULY... Let's start with a combination that totally turned out to be one of my faves to date!

ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW and WHITE/IVORY
(I'd give you a swatch for this one, but I think it's pretty straightforward)

Here's what our fabulously talented "staff" (hee hee) have done with this yummy combo....

Karen gobbled up the challenge and gave us THIS amazingly beautiful, happy page (dig that cardie, Karen, and those little green clips ROCK!)

Our sweet nerdy fella, Metal_Minish, gave us a positively SCRUMPTIOUS ode to SUSHI (YUM!), with some seriously awesome doodlin' action!

Your Color Challenge hostess, Leah the Orange (moi!), went for bright and simple with some tasty Basic Grey goodies and some AWESOME orange trim (thank you, Kimmy!):

ANNNNND, an extra tasty treat from our clever lit-chick, Adina, with yet another BEAUTIFUL thank you card... Don't you LOVE the crackled element with that happy Sass paper?!

And there ya be, sweet friends! Lots of tasty eye candy, a new month kicked off, a winner, a new prize, and a horrible heatwave in store for South Jersey! (I'm totally staying inside all week!)

Get started on the challenge - you have until SUNDAY, July 11th at midnight EST to play along with this one. We'll have the new Elements Challenge tomorrow, another new Sketch Challenge on Thursday, and you are welcome to try your hand at the trifecta by combining all three of these challenges once Thursday rolls around! Just remember, we must have your submissions by SUNDAY NIGHT, and you'll get entered to win all THREE prizes for this month! Link up below, be sure to link back to us in your blog post, and GOOD LUCK!

(Stay tuned TOMORROW, when we have a little surprise with our Elements Challenge - we're VERY excited about this!)

Welcome and Good Bye....

Can you all believe that another 3 months has gone by? A lot has happened in that time. Our Doll Adina has had a handsome baby boy and we've grown to love our Dollies for this term. But alas today is the day we have to say goodbye to our Dollies Kate and Melissa. :( Both have been super fun to have on our DT site and we hope they come back and play along b/c we couldn't stand it if they dropped of the face of the blogosphere! HUGS!

Well if you are a regular visitor of the Dollhouse you'll see we've spruced up the joint a bit. The new Dollies have their dolls on our header (guess who is who ;) ) and we've brightened up the colors. I hope you all likey! Speaking of new Dollies we've got 4 new Dollies joining us today and 2 who have stayed aboard. Say hi to...

Dana

and Metal_Minish

who have extended their lease. :) Joining us brand new for our 6 month term (July-Dec) are...

Chiqui

Penny

Nicole

and Karen (who has been a regular here since about the beginning :) )

Welcome to all our new and well loved Dollies!!! WOOHOO! Click their pics on the left to read up on these lovely ladies and laddie and hop on over to their blogs and welcome them aboard :)

And to keep the party going I've got a winner for the June Sketch Challenge draw! She created this fabulous LO that combined two of our challenges into a wonderful creation!

ANDREA! Email us at designdollies@gmail.com with your address so we can get your prize right out to ya!

PHEW! Longest post evah! LOL! Here is our prize for July:

Well, my friends, that brings us to our Sketch Challenge for today! Joining me in their Dollies debut is Chiqui, Penny and Nicole. Let's look at the sketch...

Here's what our Dollies did with it...

Kristy

Penny

Chiqui

Nicole

Well, I think our newest Dollies totally brought it today! SO, if you wanna get in on this sketch you have until July 6th at midnight EST but seeing as this is the last ingredient for this weeks Trifecta you can take that challenge too! Get in your Trifectas by July 4th at midnight EST. Remember to link your project in all three spots so you can be sure to get all your entries in! You wouldn't want to miss out. Alrighty dolls, link us up!