Just Inspirational Challenges

Week 18 - Happy St Davids Day

2012-03-01T10:25:00.001Z

Welcome to another week at Just Inspirational Challenges. Can you believe we are in our 18th Week?! Thank you to everyone who joined in with the blog hop, the winners will be posted asap.

Don't forget our new Newsletter is out this week, which will include a couple of freebies, from our wonderful Kate and news of upcoming challenges, so if you don't already subscribe pop your name in the box at the top or email Kelly at kmsmith@sky.com with 'NEWSLETTER' in the subject line.

Right onto this weeks challenge, we are sponsored by the fabulous Floppy Latte Digital Designs who are offering the winner a $10 Gift Certificate to their store!

It is Team A's week this week. The lovely Annie chose our inspirational photo this week and i think it is a fab one, especially as it is St David's Day in Wales!

Here is what the DT have done:

NanaConnie

TraceyMo

Ann

Choccy

Janice

Denise

Goldie

Erin

Thanks for playing along this week, we can't wait to see what you come up with.

Now it's your turn, please enter your week 18 entries here:

Week 15 Winners!

2012-02-29T21:38:00.000Z

We had some absolutely stunning entries for our Week 15 inspiration challenge and it was very hard to choose our winner and top 3. After a lot of umming and ahing, here are our choices.

In no particular order, the top 3 are:

24. Pinky

12. Wendy Bickford

5. Gemma

And the project we loved the most and the winner of the £10 LOTV voucher:

8. Crafting Suzi

Congratulations! Please collect your badges to display on your blogs. Crafting Suzi, please email Kelly (kmsmith@sky.com) to claim your prize.

Don't forget you still have a few hours to complete our blog hop. Simply visit the DT's blogs and leave a comment, and then post an anything goes project. There are loads and loads of prizes you could win!

BLOG HOP! 23rd February till 1st March

2012-02-23T09:00:00.014Z

Welcome to Just Inspirational Challenges 1st Blog Hop!!

And boy do we have a treat for you! There are TONS of prizes along the way from some very generous sponsors!!

How amazing is that!!!

All you need to do is:

Spread the word about our Hop
Leave a comment on each team members blog (you MUST do this to be in with a chance to win)
AND to be in with a chance of winning the prize on the Challenge blog we would like you to make something. Absolutely anything you like as the theme is ANYTHING GOES!

Here are some inspirational photos for you

I hope they got you inspired!

You should finish here. When you get to the end, don't forget to link up with Mr linky and leave a comment!!!
Are you ready to start ?!?!?

Well, get on your hopping shoes because here is the order of the hop: Good luck and HAVE FUN!!!!!

Annie

Erin

Jill

Kate

Victoria S will be slightly late

Just Inspirational Challenges Blog

For a chance to win the prize on the blog enter your project into Mr Linky

Thank you so much for hopping with us!!!! Good luck & HAVE FUN!!!!

And please don't forget to leave a comment on each members blog too.

The prizes that are on offer here are:

A £10 voucher to use at Joanna Sheen's online store!

AND

A special prize from Crafty Ribbons

So to be in with a chance to win these please enter your NEW ANYTHING GOES project below.

Week 16

2012-02-16T09:00:00.001Z

Welcome to week 16. This week we are sponsored by Fresh Brewed Designs.

This week we have 3 fab pictures to inspire you.

You can use the colours or the themes of the pictures it's your choice. For this challenge only you can back link any project you have made that dates from the 1st February up to when this challenge ends. You can't link any project that is older than the 1st February. Now on to what Team B have created for us this week.

Erin

Jill

Choccy

Glo

NanaConnie

Kelly M

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Winners of Week 13 and 14!

2012-02-12T17:12:00.000Z

Good afternoon everyone,

As our design team choose the winners on our challenge blog, it tends to take a while to get them posted, but we are upto date now, so i just wanted to apologise for the wait. Soooo on to the winners.

Week 13 winners are:

#4~*Joni

Congratulations!!! Please email me at kmsmith@sky.com for details of how to claim your prize xx

The top 3 are:

#9 - Suzette

#10 - Allisa

#13 - Gemma

Well done everyone! Please take your badge from the sidebar.

Week 14 winners are:

#6 - coops

Congratulations!!! Please email me at kmsmith@sky.com for details of how to claim your prize xx

The top 3 are:

#2 - Christine Garner SSD DT

#7- Anne-

#9 - Glenda Atkins

Well done everyone! Please take your badge from the sidebar.

Don't forget to join in our challenge this week here

Week 15 and Winners!!

2012-02-09T09:00:00.003Z

Hi everyone, Thank you so much to everyone who played along last week.

The winners from Week 12 chosen by the design team are:

Prize winner is #7 Lynda

Please email me at kmsmith@sky.com to claim your prize x

Top 3 is:

#1 nicky

#9 Laurel S

#2 peggysue W

Please grab your badge from the sidebar. Well done to you all.

Now onto this weeks challenge, which is Team A's week.

We are sponsored by the amazing Lili Of The Valley who are offering the winner a £10 gift voucher to spend in their store!! (I wish i could enter!!)

Our inspirational picture is:

You can use the colours, what you see in the picture or whatever else it inspires!

Here is what the DT have done:

Erin

Tracey

Kate

Choccy

Denise

Janice

Ann

Kelly S

Victoria J

Mr Linky should be below but if not please leave a comment x

And don't forget to visit us on Facebook xx

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Week 14

2012-02-02T02:59:00.004Z

Welcome to week 14. Just a quick thankyou to all of our entries, there's been fab designs and you're making our DT's job extremely hard when chosing our top 3. This week we are sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs.

Here is our inspirational picture. Steampunk

Here is a sketch for you designed by Kelly, it's optional but would be great if you used it too

Here are fabulous designs from our team.

Vicki S

Kate

Erin

NanaConnie

Janice

Kelly M

Caroline

Kelly S using one of Kate's freebies only available through the newsletter

We can't wait to see your creations.

New Design Team and Week 11 Winners!

2012-02-01T17:54:00.000Z

Hi all, Kelly S here to do a couple of announcements.

First of all thank you to everyone who entered last weeks challenge, it is open till midnight so still time to enter!

The winners of Week 11 are as follows:

Winner of a gift voucher from Floppy Latte, chosen by the DT is

# 18 Suzanne B

please email me on kmsmith@sky.com to claim your prize

And our TOP 3 is:

# 7 Kate

# 17 wendy bickford

# 13 Leesa aka The Navy Wife

Well done to you all please take your badge from the sidebar x

Next is the newsletter, our talented Kate has designed 4 fab freebies which you can only get by subscribing to the newsletter which also contains upcoming challenges and something special planned for the future! Just enter your name and email in the box on the right at the top or email me with 'NEWSLETTER' in the subject and i will send it right out to you

And last but not least, Thank you to everyone that applied to be on our team, but unfortunately i couldn't pick everyone. Our new team is as follows:

Team A

Ann

Team B

Carolyn

Sofia

Be sure to pop by and give them some love x

Week 13

2012-01-26T09:00:00.006Z

Welcome to week 13.

Thank you for your fab entries. They have been stunning.

This weeks challenge is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Designs

The winner chosen by our design team will receive:

This weeks inspirational photo. A chance to use all of the colours of the rainbow.

Here are the fabulous inspiration from our DT

Kate

Vicki

Erin

Kelly M

Kelly S

Caroline

We can't wait to see your designs this week. Don't forget to tell your friends about our challenges.

Week 10 Winners!!!!

2012-01-24T17:00:00.000Z

Hi everyone,

Kelly S here to announce the winners from week 10 as chosen by the DT!!

Winner of the prize from Whoopsi Daisy is:

Number 2 Tracey Macdonald

Please email me at kmsmith@sky.com so i can sort your prize out for you!

The top 4 are (in no particular order)

9 - Janine

6 Dragonllew

5 Hazel

& 1 Jen Leeflang

Congratulations to you all please grab your badge from the sidebar

Week 12

2012-01-19T09:00:00.004Z

Welcome to Week 12.

This week we are sponsored by the fantastic Ellephantastic.

Here is our inspirational photo for this weeks challenge.

The lovely owner of Ellephantastic Helen has done us a guest designer card

How gorgeous is that?? Be sure to pop over to Helen's blog

And of course the fabulous design team have some inspiration for you too.

Kate

Vicki

Erin

Caroline

Kelly M

Kelly S

WEEK 9 WINNER & TOP 3

2012-01-18T16:10:00.002Z

Hello everyone, it's time to announce the winner and top 3 of our week 9 Challenge!

The winner is

2: NanaConnie

and the top 3

3: Doreen

5: Hazel

1: La Vikinga

Congratulations to you all, if you could please contact Kelly at kmsmith@sky.com
to claim your prize and blog badges.

Week 11

2012-01-12T09:00:00.003Z

Welcome to week 11. Thank you for joining in with our challenges. This week we are sponsored by Floppy Latte Designs.

Here is this weeks inspirational photo

Here are the DT's creations.

Kate

Erin

Kelly M

Kelly S

Caroline

Don't forget we are having a design team call. Here is the post DT call

WEEK 7 WINNERS

2012-01-11T19:25:00.000Z

Well this was out super-de-duper 2 week challenge and we had 3 winners this time instead of 1 and a top 3.

So onto our winners.

The 1st winner gets £10 to spend with Joanna Sheen

5: Marianne's Craftroom

The 2nd winner who gets some Stamping Dragon digi images

4: Becky Y

And the 3rd winner who will receive 3 digi's from Digi Stamp Characters

2: Kbrandy

Well done to all entrants, the DT loves to look at all your creations. If the winners can contact Kelly at kmsmith@sky.com
to claim you prizes and blog badge.

WEEK 6 WINNER & TOP 3

2012-01-11T19:14:00.000Z

The winner for our WEEK 6 challenge is

1: Sara L

and our Top 3 are

3: Jill

4: goldie

Congratulations to you all, please get in touch with Kelly to claim your prize and blog badges.

WEEK 5 WINNER & TOP 3

2012-01-11T19:07:00.000Z

Hello bloggers

The winner of our week 5 challenge is

1: Nicki LT

and the top 3

3: Sammibug

2: Wijskuikentjes

Congratulations to you all, if you could please contact Kelly at kmsmith@sky.com
to claim you prize and blog badges.

DT Call

2012-01-08T12:49:00.003Z

Hi all, Kelly S here, we have a little announcement!

We are having a DT Call to expand our wonderful team. We see so many wonderful creations each week we would love to have a few of you on our team.

Don’t worry if you have never been on a design team before, we are looking for all levels of experience and everyone has to start somewhere!

There are a few requirements:

you need to have an active blog that you post on regularly

any level can apply
you should be willing to submit at least 2 projects per month
Last of all want to have fun!

What’s in it for you?

You will receive images from our sponsors regularly and we have some fabulous sponsors!!
You will get exposure to your work all around the world
And you will get to work with a friendly and creative team!

This DT call will run until 31^st January.

All you need to do to email me at kmsmith@sky.com with JIC DT Call in the subject line, a selection of your favourite pieces and a link to your blog.

Week 10

2012-01-05T09:00:00.005Z

Happy New Year to you all.

Thank you for joining in with our challenges.

This weeks challenge is sponsored by Whoopsie Daisy.

Here is this weeks inspirational photo.

Here are the fab designs from the DT

Kate

Kelly M

Kelly S

Caroline

We can't wait to see your creations

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WEEK 9 CHALLENGE

2011-12-29T16:08:00.001Z

Hello Bloggers and i hope you enjoyed our last MEGA 2week challenge, i know i enjoyed looking at all your entries. So what do we have instore for you this week, well for starters our fantastic sponsor this week is

LIMITED RUNS

and your inspirational photo is

WOW look at all those lovely bright colours, such a lot of inspiration to be had there. Here's what out DT members have come up with

Kate

Kelly M

Caroline

The DT cant wait to see what you come up with for this weeks challenge, please link up below

Happy Crafting

Week 4 winner and Top 3

2011-12-26T22:07:00.000Z

Firstly I want to apologise for us being late in announcing our recent winners, but i am glad to be able to tell you now that the winner for our week 4 challenge is number

6 Jacky

and our top 3 are number

2 Zahreen

7 Girl Scientist

11 Jenny B

Congratulations to you all, please could you contact Kelly at kmsmith@sky.com for your prize and blog badges.

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and that you will continue to join in our challenges in 2012

Happy Crafting

Week 7

2011-12-15T09:00:00.000Z

Hello Bloggers.

Today we have 3 wonderful sponsors.

As it's so close to christmas we thought we would run this challenge for two weeks.

Our first sponsor is Joanna Sheen

Who has kindly going to give our winner £10 to spend in her store.

Our Second sponsor is

For our winner there will be some digi stamps from Stamping Dragon.

Our third sponsor is

The winner will receive 3 digis from their store.

This weeks inspirational photo is

Here are the fabulous designs from the DT

Vicki

Kate

Kelly M

We can't wait to see your creations. Don't forget this challenge lasts for two weeks.

Week 6

2011-12-08T10:00:00.000Z

Welcome to week 6 of our challenges. This week we are sponsored by

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

This weeks inspirational photo is

Kate has done us this freebie. If you would like to use it on your creation that would be wonderful but it's not a requirement.Here are the designs from our fabulous design team.

Vicki

Kate

Kelly M

The prize this week is a choice of 5 digi stamps from Robyns Fetish our sponsor. We'll be looking forward to see your creations this week. This will end on Thursday 14th December.

Week 3 WINNER and TOP 3

2011-12-07T22:14:00.001Z

I am happy to announce the winner of our 3rd challenge is

number 6 Sammibug

congratulations, please contact Kelly kmsmith@sky.com
to claim your prize

and onto the top 3

number 9 Catherine
number 10 goldie
number 7 TRACEY

well done to the top 3, please take your badge from the blog.

Thankyou for all your entries, they are all great in their own way and all the DT love looking at them all

WEEK 2 WINNER & TOP 3

2011-12-07T21:56:00.000Z

Hi all

firstly an apology for the winner and top 3 being late, we have been having a few blogging problems here, but its all sorted now.

So onto the winner of our WEEK 2 challenge

number 3 Mcihele S

and the TOP 3

number 11 Croms

number 9 Jan Hunnicutt

number 14 Debbie

well done to everyone, all the design team love looking at all your projects each week. Would the winner please contact Kelly at kmsmith@sky.com

to claim your prize and the top 3 please help yourself to a blog badge

Week 5

2011-12-04T12:00:00.001Z

Welcome bloggers to this weeks challenge. This week we are sponsored by Stamp and Create.

Here's the Inspirational Photo for this week

Here are the fabulous designs from our DT

Caroline

Kelly M

This week our challenge will end on Sunday. I hope you will join in and be in with a chance to win a fab prize from Stamp and Create. We can't wait to see what you create this week.