Clean and simple!

Welcome to another Design Dollies Elements Challenge!

This week we'd love to see your CLEAN AND SIMPLE style, with some BRADS and BEADS too (we want to SEE the brads and beads, by the way - make it obvious where you've used them!)

I know you'll LOVE what the Dollies have come up with to inspire you ~ here we go...

Dana created this amazing layout:

Penny rose to the challenge with this super cute layout (and check out the stitched beads!)

Nicole chose to do an extra project this week and showed a great deal of restraint!  (Can you see the gorgeous beaded border?)

Who's next?

You've got till midnight EST, Monday 29th November to submit your entry and go into the draw to win a shopping voucher from our fabulous sponsor Steph at Scrap-A-Doodle-Doo!

If you're not sure how it all works - check it out HERE.

Mornin', friends! Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend and are getting geared up for lots of festive holiday stuff - whatever it is you and your loved ones may celebrate. It's Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. and people are frantic in the grocery stores, but I think the big excitement happens this Friday when the BLACK FRIDAY SALES are in full swing! Good luck to those of you braving the physical stores - online shopping may be the way to go though, if you're not a fan of crowds and getting up at 3 a.m. ;)

Leah here, bringing you another Color Challenge! You rocked it last week, and a few of you even SQUEAKED in your projects within the last few hours - WOOT! I absolutely love the pink and green combo, and clearly I am not alone! This week, something a little more dramatic...

I want to see:

BLACK, GREY, WHITE and a POP of ORANGE!
Not too much orange, folks! Some subtle accents, but
the majority of your project must be black and grey and white.

Like THESE:

KarenB, our Honorary Dollie Admin Wonderwoman, created this AMAZING
stitched masterpiece (and check out those rolled flowers!):

I, Leah, went CAS with a thank you card for a sweet friend
(who happened to give me a pad of paper from whence the orange flowers were cut!)


And Cardmaking Queen Chiqui brought us ANOTHER fabulous card - we're thrilled
to have turned her to The Dark Side, as she's obviously got the knack!

Think you can rock this combo like you did with last week's colors? We at the Dollhouse have NO DOUBT whatsoever that we're gonna see some serious mastery of the papercrafting kind!

Play along by next SUNDAY, November 28th, at midnight EST for your chance to win, uh, a bunch of awesome stuff. Seriously - I've been a mad shopper, and I have loads of things piling up here!

***Your projects must be NEW for this challenge - absolutely NO backlinking, and if your link is posted 5 minutes before or after this post goes live, I think it's safe to say you didn't actually MAKE the project for this challenge, which totally upsets us! Please consider the fact that we buy the prizes for our challenges from our very own pockets, so we'd like to know that you're truly inspired by the challenges we set. Occasionally we do have sponsors, but for the most part we do this and give stuff away because we love to do it. How ya like DEM apples? :)

OH, and be sure to link back to this here Design Dollies blog in order to help us spread the word and bring more people here to visit. The more, the merrier!

Happy crafting! ANNNNND, if you're thinking you might like to BE on the next team of Design Dollies, check out our Dollie-Call HERE! You could be playing in the Dollhouse with us!

Belated WINNERS post!

Folks, I do apologize for the crazy late posting, but I started my new job training in October and for the past couple of weeks I've been on the early shift - I leave my house at 6:10 a.m. to be at work by 7:30, and I generally get home sometime after 6 p.m. so it's been tough to get myself into some kind of routine... This is all temporary for the training and sometime a couple of months from now, I'll be working 2 miles from my home, so I should have NO excuse for keeping on top of things!

Let's get to our October winners...

First, for the Color Challenges, a big congrats to PEGGY, who rocked a TRIFECTA with this gorgeous page:


and also, a big WOOT WOOT for this lovely creation by SHERRIE, who is our Elements Challenge prize winner!


CONGRATS, lucky winners! Please email me (Leah) at spazzicassi@yahoo.ca (note it's not a dot com!), and I'll be sending out some yummy Little Yellow Bicycle goodness and a little shopping happiness to our fabby Elements Challenge sponsor, Scrap-A-Doodle-Doo!

Now, some sad news... I won't go into detail, but I will say that one of these winners was actually by SECOND drawing, because the first name chosen didn't have our blog linked (or even mentioned, actually) on their post, so unfortunately they were disqualified from winning. Dear bloggy friends, please be sure to complete all required steps so that your gorgeous projects aren't made in vain! (Not that they ever truly are, because, well, we're CRAFTERS and we love what we do!)

Welp, that's it for me! Thanks for your patience, sweet friends! You may want to try to get in on ANY of the challenges over the next couple of weeks, because I'll have another little surprise at the end of the month (did you happen to notice how many FOLLOWERS we have here?!), and for those interested in becoming the next Design Dollies, CLICK HERE FOR THE DOLLIE-CALL and deets on how to apply to be on our team! :)

Sketch Challenge time!

This weeks sketch can be taken in tons of different ways and I know you'll have fun making it yours!

Here's the Dolls interpretations...

Dana

Kristy

Metal

You have until Wednesday Nov 24 at midnight EST to get in on this sketch. If you'd like to rawk the Trifecta you have thru Sunday November 21 to try your hand. I hope you enjoy your stay at the Dollhouse this week!

This month you are playing for this prize...

Don't forget about our DT Call going on NOW!

Tuesday silliness

Hi to everyone and welcome to Tuesday.  I hope everyone is up for a little bit of silliness, because this week our theme is BEING SILLY.  Lighten up and share your silly faces, silly situations, silly songs, silly quotes...and to keep you on your toes, include some BUTTONS on your creation too.

Here's a bit of fun from the Dollies to get you in the mood:

From Chiqui:

The next two are both from Nicole:

Karen (that's me) asked her daughter to join in the fun.  This is what 9 year old Jasmine created:

So, are you up for a bit of silliness??  Link up your creations by Monday, 22nd November, midnight EST, for your chance to win a shopping voucher from our amazing sponsor Scrap-A-Doodle-Doo.