Color Throwdown #99

One more week before the big 100th challenge celebration! Today it's challenge #99--can you feel the excitement growing!? I know we do here at CTD!! Danielle chose this week's colors but I'm pinch hitting for her while she's off enjoying some vacation with her family. These are her colors--I loved working with them and I hope you do too!
We can't wait to see how you use these colors, so get to stampin'! In the meantime, here are some DT projects to help get your mojo movin'! Thanks for playing with us this week!





Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Wanda Cullen, June Guest Designer - Cullen-ary Creations

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker


Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

LeAnne Pugliese - WeeInklings

It's Almost Party Time!

Can you believe it? The big day is almost here! Color Throwdown #100 is just over a week away! The excitement is mounting, and the list of prizes that you'll be eligible to win is getting longer and longer! It's hard to put into words how thrilled we have been with the response from so many fabulous companies!!! Many of these companies will have their design team members playing along with us on July 7th too, so you're going to be treated to some fantastic inspiration all around the web!

Next Monday, we'll be posting a full list of the prizes you'll be able to win from these outstanding companies...

Kitchen Sink Stamps, Couture Cardstock, Just For Fun Rubber Stamps, JustRite Stampers, Mark's Finest Papers, The Cat's Pajamas, My Favorite Things, Our Daily Bread Designs, Susana's Custom Art & Card Design, Our Craft Lounge, i {heart} papers, Joan's Garden, All That Scraps/CC Designs, Flourishes, Stampin' Up!, Ippity by Unity, Verve, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, My Time Made Easy, Rubbernecker, Stampers' Dream, Taylored Expressions, Clear and Simple Stamps, Paper Makeup Stamps, Cornish Heritage Farms, Great Impressions Rubber Stamps, There She Goes Clear Stamps, DRS Designs, Starving Artistamps, Tami Mayberry, and Limelight Papercrafts.

So, get ready to get inky on the 7th and help us celebrate Color Throwdown #100!

Color Throwdown #98

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Are you ready for another Color Throwdown Challenge? This is Barbara and I'm your host today. I've chosen these colors to work with, inspired by Basic Grey's Cappella collection. I just love the vintage prints and colors in this collection and I hope you will love these colors too!

So, there you have them! Now get to creating! We can't wait to see what you come up with! If you don't have the exact colors, use the closest thing you have. Please add a DIRECT link to your card, not just your blog or gallery!

Don't forget we'll be having a HUGE celebration in honor of reaching challenge #100. That'll be on July 7th and we can't wait!!! So please be sure to come and help us celebrate! We have some awesome stuff to give away so you won't want to miss it!

Thanks again for joining us this week--here's a little DT inspiration to get your mojo hoppin'!





Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits



Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor



LeAnne Pugliese - WeeInklings

Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker


Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen, June Guest Designer - Cullen-ary Creations

Featured Stamper #97

Hi everyone! It's time to announce our Featured Stamper of the week. The random generator popped out #12 and that is Kim Burmeister of Clearly Inspired. And here's her lovely card:


Kim, please email me at "bronih@truvista.com" so I can send you a Featured Stamper button for your blog!

Now here are a few of my favorites from this past week:

1) Mary Brown
10) Harriett Skelly
14) Sylvia Nelson
18) Rosemary D
28) Renee (prchvs)

Thanks so much to everyone who played along. I loved seeing your creations and reading about you in your blog posts!

Please be sure to check back in tomorrow when Barbara will have a new color combo for you to 'throwdown'!

Celebrating Color Throwdown #100

Color Throwdown #100 is just a little more than 2 weeks away! And we're working overtime behind the scenes with some of the most amazing companies in the business to put together some fabulous prizes for you to win if you decide to join us on the big day! The list of companies who have donated prizes just keeps getting longer and LONGER! Here is our current list (linked to their online stores) of companies who have made donations to date. During the coming week you can keep checking the list of logos in the right-hand sidebar where there will be continual updates!

Many thanks to....

Kitchen Sink Stamps, Couture Cardstock, Just For Fun Rubber Stamps, JustRite Stampers, Mark's Finest Papers, The Cat's Pajamas, My Favorite Things, Our Daily Bread Designs, Susana's Custom Art & Card Design, Our Craft Lounge, i {heart} papers, Joan's Garden, All That Scraps/CC Designs, Flourishes, Stampin' Up!, Ippity by Unity, Verve, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, My Time Made Easy, Rubbernecker, Stampers' Dream, Taylored Expressions, Clear and Simple Stamps, Paper Makeup Stamps, Cornish Heritage Farms, Great Impressions Rubber Stamps, There She Goes Clear Stamps, DRS Designs, Starving Artistamps, and Tami Mayberry.

So, mark your calendar for July 7th so you don't miss out on all the fun!

Color Throwdown #97

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another edition of the original Color Throwdown. We're so glad to have you here. This is Broni, and it's my turn to host the challenge this week. I just got back from the beach, so my mind is definitely still in the coastal color mode! That's my inspiration for the choices this week, and here they are:

I can't wait to see what you do with these colors! If you don't have the exact color match, please try to stay close. And please add a DIRECT link to your card, not just your blog or gallery!

Don't forget we'll be having a HUGE celebration in honor of reaching challenge #100. That'll be on July 7th and we can't wait!!! So please be sure to come and help us celebrate!

Now go forth and create!! And thanks again for joining us!

Here's your weekly dose of inspiration from the design team -

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor


Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker

LeAnne Pugliese - WeeInklings

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen, June Guest Designer - Cullen-ary Creations

Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs

Featured Stamper #96

Many thanks to everyone for playing along with my tropical colors in last week's challenge! The aqua, orange and yellow has always been a favorite of mine, and I'm glad it appears you all liked it, too!

The randomly chosen Featured Stamper today is Carla Suto with this darling card, which you can find in her gallery at Stamp TV. (Sorry I couldn't comment on it, Carla... I'm not a member over there!)

This card would definitely have fallen into my favorite list, and in addition here are my Top 5 faves, too (in no particular order!)

Joan

Dana

Annika

Shannon

Arielle

Thanks again to everyone for joining in! Stay tuned for a new challenge from Broni tomorrow!

Celebration Time is Getting Closer!

July 7th and Color Throwdown #100 are getting closer and closer! And we're working overtime behind the scenes with some of the most amazing companies in the business to put together some fabulous prizes for you to win if you decide to join us on the big day! Did you see the list last week of companies who have donated prizes? Guess what? It got LONGER! Here is our current list (linked to their online stores) of companies who have made donations to date. During the coming week you can keep checking the list of logos in the right-hand sidebar where there will be continual updates!

Many thanks to....

Kitchen Sink Stamps, Couture Cardstock, Just For Fun Rubber Stamps, JustRite Stampers, Mark's Finest Papers, The Cat's Pajamas, My Favorite Things, Our Daily Bread Designs, Susana's Custom Art & Card Design, Our Craft Lounge, i {heart} papers, Joan's Garden, All That Scraps/CC Designs, Flourishes, Stampin' Up!, Ippity by Unity, Verve, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, My Time Made Easy, Rubbernecker, Stampers' Dream, Taylored Expressions, Clear and Simple Stamps.

So, mark your calendar for July 7th so you don't miss out on all the fun!

Color Throwdown #96

It's that time again... let's throw down some colors! I'm hooked on this color combo, and I hope you'll love it, too! It just makes me think of summer! Remember, you don't have to have these exact colors... just use whatever you have that is similar. Link your creation below using the Inklinz widget (remember, direct links to your blog post... it makes it so much easier for us to find your entry on your blog when we don't have to search through other posts!)

Don't forget about the upcoming Color Throwdown #100 on July 7th! Check out the company logos in the right sidebar...we've got some fabulous prizes already from these generous companies, and can't wait to have you join us for the celebration!

Happy stamping!

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Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits



Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor


LeAnne Pugliese - WeeInklings

Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker

Wanda Cullen, June Guest Designer - Cullen-ary Creations

Featured Stamper #95

So are you ready for the big celebration? Didn't hear about it? Check it out here---it's our 100th Color Challenge! You won't want to miss it! And wow, you really rocked the colors this week....I know they were neon-bright, in-your-face, but you really came up with some fun creations! Now, let's see who will be our Featured Stamper this week.....drum roll, please....#2, Tammy Fite! I was very excited when Random.org picked this number, because it was one of my favorites:

Tammy, be sure to shoot me an email so I can send you our FS blinkie! And here are a couple more that made me smile, in no particular order:

Bonnie Rose
Monika
Silke
and Lynne

Now be sure to come back tomorrow, when Tammy will have another challenging combo for you!

Are you ready for a CELEBRATION?

Are you ready for a celebration? The Color Throwdown team will be celebrating Challenge #100 on Wednesday, July 7th, so we're planning a party and we want you to be there! In addition to our eight member Design Team, we also have thirteen former Guest Designers who will be joining us for a big blog hop that day! And there will be prizes! So far, we have some fabulous donations coming in from some of the greatest companies... My Favorite Things, JustRite Stampers, Just For Fun Rubber Stamps, Rubbernecker, Verve, Flourishes, Couture Cardstock, My Time Made Easy, Mark's Finest Papers, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, Stampers' Dream and Taylored Expressions just to name a few! We hope to hear from more companies in the coming weeks with more fabulous prizes for our participants to win! (The right hand sidebar is being constantly updated with companies who have donated prizes! Keep checking back!)

So, mark your calendar for July 7th so you don't miss out on all the fun! And stay tuned for more announcements and details on how you can play along and WIN!

Color Throwdown #95

Hi everyone! I am the hostess for this week and I hope you have fun with the colors that I've chosen! Every time I work out at my local Curves, I look at this shirt hanging on the wall:

So, I decided to use these colors for my challenge this week:

What do you think??? Come on, it's a challenge, so let's see what you can come up with! Remember to check all the rules and details posted on the sidebar; then after you've posted your creation on your blog or an online gallery (use the keyword CTD95) link it up with the InLinkz feature below! I can't wait for you to see what the designers have done this week! I also want to introduce Wanda Cullen as our Guest Designer for the month of June....she has been a faithful player and we are looking forward to creating with her. And remember to throw some love out to Laura, the newest member of the CTD team!!

LeAnne Pugliese - Wee Inklings

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits


Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor


Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen, June Guest Designer - Cullen-ary Creations

Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs