WWC206 - Anything Goes Challenge

Woo Hoo!  It's the fifth week of the month and so it's time for our much-awaited "Anything Goes" Challenge.  We're happy to see all your wonderful creations, including cards, scrapbook pages, wall art, 3-D projects and all the other creative things I can't think of at the moment.

And now on to the terrific projects by the Watercooler Artists to get your creative juices flowing.  I love how wonderfully diverse all our creations are this week, don't you?   For details on how Tristan and the other Watercooler Artists created their projects, just click on the name underneath and you will be taken to that blog post.  We begin with Tristan's  beautifully decorated Sweet Cup creation :

Tristan Dawes

Donna Scholz

Marsha Reed

Karen Brown

Dawn Turley

Charlotte Ehrukainen

Gail Allen

Helen Finlay

Kath Ricks

Heidi Weaver

And now it's your turn.  You can join us by linking up your creation with the InLinkz at the bottom of this challenge. 

Remember:

          1.  This must be a new project---no back-linking to a previous post.

          2.  You must link your project back to our challenge (details at top of page).

          3.  You must link directly to your post, not simply your general blog.

          4.  Please link to no more than 8 challenges, including ours.

          5.  Have fun!

Please use the link-up below to share your project.  This Linky will close one week from now, on Monday, February 4th,  at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.

An InLinkz Link-up

WWC205 - The Watercooler Rock Star and Rockers

Drum roll, please!  It's Tuesday and time to announce our Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers for Donna's "Holiday's Around the World" challenge.  But first, we'd like to thank all those who played along with us.  Beautiful entries that make our choices so much harder, but we think you are all stars.  Well done!

Donna's choice for our Watercooler Rock Star is Claire's beautifully done monochromatic card.  Following the winner are the Watercooler Artists choices for the Watercooler Rockers.

#10 Claire

Donna's Winner:  Claire's card is adorable with it's very happy kitty, Newton! Her bokeh background adds a feeling of lightness and fuzzy feelings Newton is no doubt feeling. I can't imagine this card in anything else but monochromatic!!!

Congratulations, Claire!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as our Watercooler Rock Star.

Now on to the other wonderful designs that caught the eyes of the other Watercooler Artists for our Watercooler Rockers.  They are shown in no particular order.

#11 Debbie

Gail's Choice:  Debbie has used such a cute image of the caroling couple. I love the Victorian feel to this design. The monochrome background really makes the focal image the star of the show.

#6 Shani (Paperesse)

Dawn's Choice:   The penguins are simply delightful. The background of the black and white music looks amazing with the red and white layers. The addition of the metal music notes finishes the design beautifully.

 #15 Lynn

Marsha's Choice:  Lynn's design perfectly shows off that great sentiment.  I love the simplicity and the soft reds and greens.

#2 Darnell

Tristan's Choice:  Darnell has created a fabulous CAS card with that textured blue base, prominent white sentiment and that pop of colour with the red heart.

#9 Marina

Karen's Choice:  Marina has created an adorable clean and simple Valentine card. With just a few elements she has created a fun little scene anyone would enjoy receiving.

#19 Ma-Mi

Charlotte's Choice:  Ma-Mi has made a gorgeous clean and simple card. The colour palette is perfectly wintry, and the masking beautifully done. Really lovely design.

#3 Jane Willis

Heidi's Choice:  Jane has created an awesome card for the Chinese New Year. The black seems almost lacquered and shows off that gold foil and the red beautifully. I love that wonderful stamped dragon and that tied-on good luck money.

#14 Heather Hopson

Helen's Choice:  Heather's card is stunning with it's bright red and black die cuts. Love the way the design carries over onto the inside of the card!

#13 Karen

Kath's Choice:  Who doesn't love a pun based Valentine? The coloring on Karen's card is excellent! the image and the die-cut work well together.

Congratulations Debbie, Shani, Lynn, Darnell, Marina, Ma-Mi, Jane, Heather and Karen!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.

That's our lineup for this weeks' Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers.  Be sure to come back tomorrow, January 30th, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  You won't want to miss all the wonderful designs by our Watercooler Artists.

WWC205 - Donna's "All About Holidays" Challenge

Woo Hoo!  It's time for our awesome "All About Holidays" Challenge, hosted this week by Donna.  This challenge is such fun because it includes holidays all around the world.  Even if you're into working on getting your Christmas cards done bit by bit for this coming season, you'll have fun seeing the wonderful interpretations of this challenge.

Of course it's Week 4 for our special Guest Designer, Sandie.

Sandie Munro

I live in London, England and my blog is London Days where you will see I am very much a 'Clean and Simple' designer. In fact I am happiest just using stamps and inks and making one layer cards! I call it 'stamp and go'!  I run the challenge Time Out Challenges where I also get to use my love of administration.  I delight in visiting other crafters' blogs have made friends from all over the world through crafting.  I can't wait to see what you will all be creating.

Sandie Munro

And now on to the terrific projects by the Watercooler Artists to get your creative juices flowing.  I love how wonderfully diverse all our creations are this week, don't you?   For details on how Donna and the other Watercooler Artists created their projects, just click on the name underneath and you will be taken to that blog post.  We begin with Donna's Happy Australia Day card (celebrated January 26th):

Donna Scholz

Dawn Turley

Karen Brown

Marsha Reed

Heidi Weaver

Kath Ricks

Tristan Dawes

Charlotte Ehrukainen

Gail Allen

Helen Finlay

And now it's your turn.  You can join us by linking up your creation with the InLinkz at the bottom of this challenge. 

Remember:

          1.  This must be a new project---no back-linking to a previous post.

          2.  You must link your project back to our challenge (details at top of page).

          3.  You must link directly to your post, not simply your general blog.

          4.  Please link to no more than 8 challenges, including ours.

          5.  Have fun!

Please use the link-up below to share your project.  This Linky will close one week from now, on Monday, January 28th,  at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.

An InLinkz Link-up

WWC204 - The Watercooler Rock Star and Rockers

Drum roll, please!  It's Tuesday and time to announce our Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers for Gail's Masculine (Anything Goes" Occasions" challenge.  But first, we'd like to thank all those who played along with us.  Beautiful entries that make our choices so much harder, but we think you are all stars.  Well done!

Gail's choice for our Watercooler Rock Star is Shani's cute birthday chef card.  Following the winner are the Watercooler Artists choices for the Watercooler Rockers.

#1 Shani (Paperesse)

Gail's Winner:   Shani has combined so many interesting elements in her design without it being fussy. The combination of the patterns is very pleasing and the paper-pieced towel and bow tie and great touches. And what man wouldn't love a birthday cake dripping with frosting?

Congratulations, Shanii!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as our Watercooler Rock Star.

Now on to the other wonderful designs that caught the eyes of the other Watercooler Artists for our Watercooler Rockers.  They are shown in no particular order.

#13 Caroline Paton (KISS)

Marsha's Choice:  I love Caroline's adorable guitar playing chihuahua.  That mustache just adds such character.  It's a well done clean and simple design.

#10 Darnell

Heidi's Choice:  Darnell has made an adorable graduation card using wonderfully bright colours. I love that owl sitting on top of the textbooks and, of course, the unique vertical placement of the sentiment. 

#5 Jane Willis

Karen's Choice:  Jane has created a beautiful and unique card using a technique I would love to try...embossing with an embossing folder so you have two different effects going on. Her black and white city-scape set at an angle is very eye-catching.

#25 Nandini

Kath's Choice:  Nandini's generational stamping is wonderfully done! It is hard to believe it is hand stamped and not DSP an all-around wonderful card.

#11 Janice

Dawn's Choice:  Janice has made a great masculine card. The colouring of her vehicle is superb. All over an awesome card.

#19 Kylie

Donna's Choice:  Kylie has created such a super cute boy card. I love how she masked, then stamped all the circles to fill in the triangular areas! It looks so perfect that at first I thought it was pattern paper!!!. The sweet dinosaur with this tiny "RAWR" would make any little boy smile.

#22 Stephanie L

Tristan's Choice:  Stephanie has created a super classy card and that pink love heart is perfect for the bowtie and the colour just makes it pop. It was a great interpretation of the sketch.

Congratulations Caroline, Darnell, Jane, Nandini, Janice, Kylie, and Stephanie!   Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.

That's our lineup for this weeks' Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers.  Be sure to come back tomorrow, January 23rd, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  You won't want to miss all the wonderful designs by our Watercooler Artists.

WWC204 - Gail's Masculine "Anything Goes" Challenge

Woo Hoo, Gail is hosting our terrific Masculine "Anything Goes" Challenge this week.  This is a great opportunity to create something special for those men (of all ages) in our lives.

Of course it's Week 3 for our special Guest Designer, Sandie.

Sandie Munro

I live in London, England and my blog is London Days where you will see I am very much a 'Clean and Simple' designer. In fact I am happiest just using stamps and inks and making one layer cards! I call it 'stamp and go'!  I run the challenge Time Out Challenges where I also get to use my love of administration.  I delight in visiting other crafters' blogs have made friends from all over the world through crafting.  I can't wait to see what you will all be creating.

Sandie Munro

And now on to the terrific projects by the Watercooler Artists to get your creative juices flowing.  I love how wonderfully diverse all our creations are this week, don't you?   For details on how Gail and the other Watercooler Artists created their projects, just click on the name underneath and you will be taken to that blog post.  We begin with Gail's wonderful monochromatic Thank You card:

Gail Allen

Donna Scholz

Karen Brown

Dawn Turley

Kath Ricks

Tristan Dawes

Marsha Reed

Heidi Weaver

And now it's your turn.  You can join us by linking up your creation with the InLinkz at the bottom of this challenge. 

Remember:

          1.  This must be a new project---no back-linking to a previous post.

          2.  You must link your project back to our challenge (details at top of page).

          3.  You must link directly to your post, not simply your general blog.

          4.  Please link to no more than 8 challenges, including ours.

          5.  Have fun!

Please use the link-up below to share your project.  This Linky will close one week from now, on Monday, January 21st,  at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.

An InLinkz Link-up