Friday, December 1, 2023

Challenge #24 "Anything (goes) Flies" or "Christmas" sponsored by Sheepski Designs

Welcome to Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges!  
We're so happy you are here to play with us and having so much fun, thank you for all your wonderful support


ALL WINNERS ARE NOW UP!
The winners are now up in the previous post and the winners of Challenge #22 are up here!

I want to thank all of you for playing in Paper Dragonfly's Challenges over the last 2 years but sadly the December challenge will be the last one for a while.  I'm having surgery on my hands with the first scheduled for January and therefore Paper Dragonfly Challenges will be taking an indefinite break!  I wish you all Happy Holidays and I hope to see you all back here soon in 2024!

December Challenge #24
Anything (goes) Flies
or
Christmas

Proudly Sponsored by

PRIZE
The main Challenge Winner wins 3 digis of choice from Sheepski Designs!

THEME CHOICES:  Our 4 Challenge theme categories for Challenge #23 are:
  1. Anything Flies (what we call Anything Goes)
  2. Creative Design Team theme is Christmas
  3. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #1: make Dragonfly themed projects
  4. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #2:  Include Dragonflies in clever ways on either of your option 1 or 2 projects
All 4 theme categories are eligible to win the main Sponsored prize.
A max of 5 entries by different people are needed for the prize to be awarded.

DRAGONFLY AWARD CHALLENGE TWISTS
  • Every month we also challenge you to do our two Dragonfly Award Challenge Twists!
  • We want to see your projects with a specific Dragonfly theme or you can include Dragonflies on either your Anything Flies or Creative Design Team themed projects!
  • Those who choose to rise to the Dragonfly Award challenge twists in the most unique way wins our coveted Dragonfly Award badge.
  • Please put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists!
  • Your Dragonfly Award projects are also eligible to win the main Sponsored Prize so you could be a double winner!
Enter your projects in the Inlinkz link-up below following the challenge rules provided by 11:55pm pacific on November 30.

SPONSOR

We're excited to have Sheepski Designs sponsoring our prize this month, YAY!  
They have a wonderful selection of Christmas themed digi stamps in their store, do stop by for a look and support our Sponsor!

Today we're sharing our projects using the Christmas Candle by Sheepski Designs!


Created by Cat

Created by Val

I'm also delighted to share a lovely card by Maryann, our Challenge #21 Dragonfly Award Winner!
Maryann used a freebie image called Christmas Robin offered at Kit and Clowder.
Thank you for being our guest designer today Maryann!


CHALLENGE INFO and RULES
INFO
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the 1st Friday and end on the last Friday of each month.
  • Each challenge has a choice of FOUR theme categories each month:
  1. Anything Flies projects - what we call Anything Goes
  2. Creative Design Team theme - play along with our CDT theme if you prefer the challenge of a different theme each month
  3. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #1 - Make Dragonfly themed projects to be eligible to win both the main prize and our coveted Dragonfly Award badge
  4. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #2 - Include Dragonflies in clever ways on either your Anything Flies projects or your Creative Design Team themed projects to also be eligible to win both the main prize and our coveted Dragonfly Award badge
DRAGONFLY AWARD CHALLENGE TWISTS
  • Every month we also challenge you to do our two Dragonfly Award Challenge Twists!
  • We want to see your projects with a specific Dragonfly theme or you can include Dragonflies on either your Anything Flies or Creative Design Team themed projects.
  • Those who choose to rise to the Dragonfly Award challenge twists in the most unique way wins our coveted Dragonfly Award badge.
  • Please put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists!
  • Your Dragonfly Award projects are also eligible to win the main Sponsored Prize so you could be a double winner!
WINNERS and PRIZES
  • A max of 5 entries by different people are needed for the prize to be awarded!
  • Sponsored Challenges - the main Prize Winner wins the Sponsored Prize.
  • Non- sponsored Challenges are "just for fun".
  • All four theme categories are eligible to win the Sponsored Prize!
  • The main Prize Winner, Dragonfly Award Winner and Top 3 Winners get Paper Dragonfly badges.
  • The main Prize Winner is invited to guest DT for an upcoming Challenge using the prize they won.
  • Dragonfly Award Winner and Top 3 Winners are also invited to guest DT for an upcoming Challenge with an Anything Flies or Dragonfly themed project. 
  • Winner Posts can be easily found via our Winners page.
RULES
  • All paper crafts, mixed media and altered art using stamps, digis, dies etc and cute to creepy projects are welcome - let your creativity fly at Paper Dragonfly!
  • Enter projects inspired by any of our FOUR theme categories.
  • Dragonfly Award Twist entries - put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists. 
  • You must mention and link to the current Paper Dragonfly challenge in your post to be eligible to play and win the prize. 
  • You may enter a max of 5 projects per month.
  • No limit on how many other challenges you can combine with Paper Dragonfly!
  • Your linky entry must be a permalink to your project post. 
  • Entries must be blogged or shared on or after the start date of the challenge - older postings and projects are not eligible - no backlinking!
  • It is OK to use another online forum such as Flickr and Instagram if you do not have a blog, we will do our best to comment on sites that require membership.
  • Turn off blog comment verification to help us comment on entries. 
  • Help promote us by including our current challenge badge in your posts.
  • Help promote us by displaying our Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges badge in your sidebar.
  • We'd appreciate it if you'd follow the Paper Dragonfly Challenge Blog and leave a comment on the challenge post when you play in our challenges.

Have a wonderful crafty day!
Cat 🐱

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Thursday, November 30, 2023

CHALLENGE #23 "Anything (goes) Flies" or "Anything Festive" - WINNERS

Hello and thank you so much for playing in our "Anything Flies (Goes)" or "Anything Festive" Challenge!  A BIG Thank You to LeighSBDesigns for being our November Challenge Sponsor!

Also, the winners for our October Challenge #22 are now up here!


The Prize Winner with this lovely card is
#42 Vannessa

Congratulations, you've won our Winner badge and a $5 gift certificate to spend at LeighSBDesigns!
Please email Cat to claim your prize before the end of December at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com with “Challenge #23 Winner” in the subject!
Please resend your email if you don't hear from me within 4 days!


The Winner of our coveted Dragonfly Award badge with this lovely project is

#6 Granmargaret 

Congrats to the TOP PICK badge Winners with these lovely projects

#2 I Luv Scrapping Too

#4 Carol J

#27 ScrappyHorses

#28 Chrissy

#32 Ellie

#35 Alicia

#39 Maryann Scrapbooking

#41 Pauline C

#44 NanaConnie

Congratulations everyone, enjoy your wins and proudly display your Paper Dragonfly badges!

See you all here Friday for Challenge #24!

Have a wonderful crafty day!
Cat 🐱
xox

Friday, November 3, 2023

Challenge #23 "Anything (goes) Flies" or "Anything Festive" sponsored by LeighSBDesigns

Welcome to Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges!  
We're so happy you are here to play with us and having so much fun, thank you for all your wonderful support!  

Thank you to Mirtillamente for sponsoring our October Challenge #22 - "Anything Flies (Goes)" or "Dragons" - See the previous post for the Winner announcement!

November Challenge #23
Anything (goes) Flies
or
Anything Festive

Proudly Sponsored by
PRIZE
The main Challenge Winner wins a $5 gift certificate to spend at LeighSBDesigns!

THEME CHOICES:  Our 4 Challenge theme categories for Challenge #23 are:
  1. Anything Flies (what we call Anything Goes)
  2. Creative Design Team theme is Anything Festive for the holidays
  3. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #1: make Dragonfly themed projects
  4. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #2:  Include Dragonflies in clever ways on either of your option 1 or 2 projects
All 4 theme categories are eligible to win the main Sponsored prize.
A max of 5 entries by different people are needed for the prize to be awarded.

DRAGONFLY AWARD CHALLENGE TWISTS
  • Every month we also challenge you to do our two Dragonfly Award Challenge Twists!
  • We want to see your projects with a specific Dragonfly theme or you can include Dragonflies on either your Anything Flies or Creative Design Team themed projects!
  • Those who choose to rise to the Dragonfly Award challenge twists in the most unique way wins our coveted Dragonfly Award badge.
  • Please put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists!
  • Your Dragonfly Award projects are also eligible to win the main Sponsored Prize so you could be a double winner!
Enter your projects in the Inlinkz link-up below following the challenge rules provided by 11:55pm pacific on November 30.

SPONSOR

We're excited to have LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz sponsoring our prize this month, YAY!  

LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz has a brand new website store where you can shop their entire catalog of wonderful digi stamps, decorative digi papers and SVG Cutz for electronic cutting machines.  The store just had a soft open and they're still busy adding all the products.


LeighSBDesigns Etsy store is still open where you can shop new releases and select products only available for a limited time.  You can also request items from the new store to be made available at Etsy if you're an avid Etsy shopper.


LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz provided the wonderful Christmas and Fall digi stamps we used on our projects to inspire you this month!

CHALLENGE INFO and RULES
INFO
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the 1st Friday and end on the last Friday of each month.
  • Each challenge has a choice of FOUR theme categories each month:
  1. Anything Flies projects - what we call Anything Goes
  2. Creative Design Team theme - play along with our CDT theme if you prefer the challenge of a different theme each month
  3. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #1 - Make Dragonfly themed projects to be eligible to win both the main prize and our coveted Dragonfly Award badge
  4. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #2 - Include Dragonflies in clever ways on either your Anything Flies projects or your Creative Design Team themed projects to also be eligible to win both the main prize and our coveted Dragonfly Award badge
DRAGONFLY AWARD CHALLENGE TWISTS
  • Every month we also challenge you to do our two Dragonfly Award Challenge Twists!
  • We want to see your projects with a specific Dragonfly theme or you can include Dragonflies on either your Anything Flies or Creative Design Team themed projects.
  • Those who choose to rise to the Dragonfly Award challenge twists in the most unique way wins our coveted Dragonfly Award badge.
  • Please put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists!
  • Your Dragonfly Award projects are also eligible to win the main Sponsored Prize so you could be a double winner!
WINNERS and PRIZES
  • A max of 5 entries by different people are needed for the prize to be awarded!
  • Sponsored Challenges - the main Prize Winner wins the Sponsored Prize.
  • Non- sponsored Challenges are "just for fun".
  • All four theme categories are eligible to win the Sponsored Prize!
  • The main Prize Winner, Dragonfly Award Winner and Top 3 Winners get Paper Dragonfly badges.
  • The main Prize Winner is invited to guest DT for an upcoming Challenge using the prize they won.
  • Dragonfly Award Winner and Top 3 Winners are also invited to guest DT for an upcoming Challenge with an Anything Flies or Dragonfly themed project. 
  • Winner Posts can be easily found via our Winners page.
RULES
  • All paper crafts, mixed media and altered art using stamps, digis, dies etc and cute to creepy projects are welcome - let your creativity fly at Paper Dragonfly!
  • Enter projects inspired by any of our FOUR theme categories.
  • Dragonfly Award Twist entries - put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists. 
  • You must mention and link to the current Paper Dragonfly challenge in your post to be eligible to play and win the prize. 
  • You may enter a max of 5 projects per month.
  • No limit on how many other challenges you can combine with Paper Dragonfly!
  • Your linky entry must be a permalink to your project post. 
  • Entries must be blogged or shared on or after the start date of the challenge - older postings and projects are not eligible - no backlinking!
  • It is OK to use another online forum such as Flickr and Instagram if you do not have a blog, we will do our best to comment on sites that require membership.
  • Turn off blog comment verification to help us comment on entries. 
  • Help promote us by including our current challenge badge in your posts.
  • Help promote us by displaying our Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges badge in your sidebar.
  • We'd appreciate it if you'd follow the Paper Dragonfly Challenge Blog and leave a comment on the challenge post when you play in our challenges.

Have a wonderful crafty day!
Cat 🐱

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Thursday, November 2, 2023

CHALLENGE #22 "Anything (goes) Flies" or "Dragons" - WINNERS

Hello and thank you so much for playing in our "Anything Flies (Goes)" or "Dragons" Challenge! 
A BIG Thank You to Mirtillamente for being our October Challenge Sponsor!


The Prize Winner with these lovely card is
#7 Maryann

Congratulations, you've won our Winner badge and 2 digis and a mini digi paper pad from Mirtillamente!
Please email Cat to claim your prize before the end of December at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com with “Challenge #22 Winner” in the subject!
Please resend your email if you don't hear from me within 4 days!


The Winner of our coveted Dragonfly Award badge with this lovely project is

#5 Deanne


Congrats to the TOP PICK badge Winners with these lovely projects

#10 Bonnie G

#17 Lori P

#18 Margreet

#25 Becca S

Congratulations everyone, enjoy your wins and proudly display your Paper Dragonfly badges!

See you all here Friday for Challenge #23!

Have a wonderful crafty day!
Cat 🐱
xox

Friday, October 6, 2023

Challenge #22 "Anything (goes) Flies" or "Dragons" sponsored by Mirtillamente

Welcome to Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges!  
We're so happy you are here to play with us and having so much fun!  

Thank you to We Are 3 for sponsoring September Challenge #21 - See the previous post for the Winner announcement!


CHALLENGE #22
Anything (Goes) Flies
or
Dragons
Sponsored by
Mirtillamente


PRIZE
The main Challenge Winner wins 2 digi images and a "mini" digi paper pad from Mirtillamente
!

THEME CHOICES:  Our 4 Challenge theme categories are:
  1. Anything Flies (what we call Anything Goes)
  2. Creative Design Team theme is Dragons
  3. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #1: make Dragonfly themed projects
  4. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #2:  Include Dragonflies in clever ways on either your Anything Flies or Island Paradise projects
All 4 theme categories are eligible to win the main Sponsored prize.
A max of 5 entries by different people are needed for the prize to be awarded.

DRAGONFLY AWARD CHALLENGE TWISTS
  • Every month we also challenge you to do our two Dragonfly Award Challenge Twists!
  • We want to see your projects with a specific Dragonfly theme or you can include Dragonflies on either your Anything Flies or Creative Design Team themed projects!
  • Those who choose to rise to the Dragonfly Award challenge twists in the most unique way wins our coveted Dragonfly Award badge.
  • Please put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists!
  • Your Dragonfly Award projects are also eligible to win the main Sponsored Prize so you could be a double winner!
Enter your projects in the Inlinkz link-up below following the challenge rules provided by 11:55pm pacific on October 27.

SPONSOR

We're excited to have Mirtillamente sponsoring us this month, YAY!
Mirtillamente has a wonderful collection of digi images and papers in their store so do pop over for a look and support our Sponsor.  They are busy re-doing their website but you can still order by email.

Here's our projects using the digi provided by Mirtillamente to inspire you!

by Cat

by Val

CHALLENGE INFO and RULES
INFO
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the 1st Friday and end on the last Friday of each month.
  • Each challenge has a choice of FOUR theme categories each month:
  1. Anything Flies projects - what we call Anything Goes
  2. Creative Design Team theme - play along with our CDT theme if you prefer the challenge of a different theme each month
  3. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #1 - Make Dragonfly themed projects to be eligible to win both the main prize and our coveted Dragonfly Award badge
  4. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #2 - Include Dragonflies in clever ways on either your Anything Flies projects or your Creative Design Team themed projects to also be eligible to win both the main prize and our coveted Dragonfly Award badge
DRAGONFLY AWARD CHALLENGE TWISTS
  • Every month we also challenge you to do our two Dragonfly Award Challenge Twists!
  • We want to see your projects with a specific Dragonfly theme or you can include Dragonflies on either your Anything Flies or Creative Design Team themed projects.
  • Those who choose to rise to the Dragonfly Award challenge twists in the most unique way wins our coveted Dragonfly Award badge.
  • Please put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists!
  • Your Dragonfly Award projects are also eligible to win the main Sponsored Prize so you could be a double winner!
WINNERS and PRIZES
  • A max of 5 entries by different people are needed for the prize to be awarded!
  • Sponsored Challenges - the main Prize Winner wins the Sponsored Prize.
  • Non- sponsored Challenges are "just for fun".
  • All four theme categories are eligible to win the Sponsored Prize!
  • The main Prize Winner, Dragonfly Award Winner and Top 3 Winners get Paper Dragonfly badges.
  • The main Prize Winner is invited to guest DT for an upcoming Challenge using the prize they won.
  • Dragonfly Award Winner and Top 3 Winners are also invited to guest DT for an upcoming Challenge with an Anything Flies or Dragonfly themed project. 
  • Winner Posts can be easily found via our Winners page.
RULES
  • All paper crafts, mixed media and altered art using stamps, digis, dies etc and cute to creepy projects are welcome - let your creativity fly at Paper Dragonfly!
  • Enter projects inspired by any of our FOUR theme categories.
  • Dragonfly Award Twist entries - put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists. 
  • You must mention and link to the current Paper Dragonfly challenge in your post to be eligible to play and win the prize. 
  • You may enter a max of 5 projects per month.
  • No limit on how many other challenges you can combine with Paper Dragonfly!
  • Your linky entry must be a permalink to your project post. 
  • Entries must be blogged or shared on or after the start date of the challenge - older postings and projects are not eligible - no backlinking!
  • It is OK to use another online forum such as Flickr and Instagram if you do not have a blog, we will do our best to comment on sites that require membership.
  • Turn off blog comment verification to help us comment on entries. 
  • Help promote us by including our current challenge badge in your posts.
  • Help promote us by displaying our Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges badge in your sidebar.
  • We'd appreciate it if you'd follow the Paper Dragonfly Challenge Blog and leave a comment on the challenge post when you play in our challenges.

Have a wonderful crafty day!
Cat 🐱

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Thursday, October 5, 2023

CHALLENGE #21 "Anything (goes) Flies" or "Fall Spendor" - WINNERS

Hello and thank you so much for playing in our "Anything Flies (Goes)" or "Fall Splendor" Challenge

A BIG Thank You to We Are 3 for being our September Challenge Sponsor!


The Prize Winner with these lovely card is
#19 Pauline C

Congratulations, you've won our Winner badge and these 3 digi sets from We Are 3.

You are also invited to be our Guest Designer for our November or December challenge using your prize.  Please email Cat to claim your prize and make arrangements before the end of October at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com with “Challenge #21 Winner” in the subject!
Please resend your email if you don't hear from me within 4 days!


The Winner of our coveted Dragonfly Award badge with this lovely project is

#12 Maryann


I've got FIVE Winners of our Top 3 badge with these lovely projects

#26 Pam

#31 Jose

#32 Alicia

Congratulations everyone, enjoy your wins and proudly display your Paper Dragonfly badges!  All of you are invited to be our guest for either our November or December challenge with an Anything Goes project using your own stash.  Please email Cat to make arrangements at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com with “Challenge #21 Guest DT” in the subject!  Please re-send your emails if you don't get a reply from me within 4 days!

See you all here Friday for Challenge #22!

Have a wonderful crafty day!
Cat 🐱
xox