WWC232 - "Anything Goes" Challenge

Woo Hoo!  This month has five Wednesdays and you know what that means, right?  We're having an awesome "Anything Goes" Challenge.  So pull out the stops and surprise us with your creation.  This should be a lot of fun!

Are you ready to get your creative juices flowing with the terrific projects by the Watercooler Artists.  I love how wonderfully diverse all our creations are this week, don't you?   For details on how the Watercooler Artists created their projects, just click on the name underneath and you will be taken to that blog post.  Since Marsha uploaded her creation first, she leads the team and will be the one to pick the winner.  

Marsha Reed

Karen Brown

Dawn Turley

Tristan Dawes

Kath Ricks

Michelle Wallace

Helen Finlay

Heidi Weaver

And now it's your turn.  You can join us by linking up your creation with the Linky 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 the top of the page).
3.  You must link directly to your post, NOT simply generally to your blog.
4.  Please link to no more than 8 challenges, including ours.
5.  Have fun!

Please use the Linky below to share your project.  This Linky will close one week from now, on Monday, August 5th, at 5 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.

WWC231 - The Watercooler Rock Star and Rockers

Drum roll, please!  It's Tuesday and time to announce our Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers for Tristan's "All About 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!

Tristan's choice for our Watercooler Rock Star is Trina's beautiful monochromatic card design.  Following the winner are the Watercooler Artists choices for the Watercooler Rockers.

#13  Trina P

Tristan's Rock Star:  Trina who has made a lovely soft sympathy card for her coworker. I love the monochrome blue with the gesso resist floral image.

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

Next up are all the wonderful designs that caught the eyes of the other Watercooler Artists for our Watercooler Rockers.  They are shown in no particular order.

#36  Tracy

Marsha's Rocker:  Tracy has created a gorgeous water-colored lily. She has done is a wonderful job of coloring. It's truly a beautiful card.

#1  Natasa

Kath's Rocker:  The card is a Birthday card that is perfect for summer and is adorable. The coloring is excellent!

#32  Cornelia

Dawn's Rocker:  Cornelia’s Katzelkraft Monsters look amazing in their Christmas hats. They are coloured beautifully. The totally different Christmas card really caught my eye.

#2  Tenia Nelson

Karen's Rocker:  I love the dimension, texture, colors and composition of Tenia's card.  Lovely creation!

#4  Stephanie L

Helen's Rocker:  Stephanie's wonderful alcohol lifting is o clan and crisp against the wonderful depth of colour in her gorgeous background! 

#45  Claire

Michelle's Rocker:  Claire has made a gorgeous CAS congrats card for her son. I love that cute car with the smoke puffs coming from the back. So crisp and clean!

#24  Lesley K

Heidi's Rocker:  Lesley has created such a sweet, nostalgic Christmas card with her traditional colours and the lovely background patterned paper. I love the image of the little boy, looking up past the top of the Christmas tree, to the sky where he's hoping Santa will soon appear. Great work colouring, too. Simply a wonderful Christmas card.

Congratulations Tracy, Natasa, Cornelia, Tenia, Stephanie, Claire and Lesley!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.

That's our lineup for this week's Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers.  Be sure to come back tomorrow, July 31st, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  You won't want to miss all the wonderful designs by our Watercooler Artists.

WWC231 - Tristan's "All About Occasions" Challenge

Woo Hoo!  This week Tristan hosts our awesome "All About Occasions" Challenge.  There are so many occasions during the year, aren't there?  And, of course, there is the tendency to begin thinking about Christmas, too.  You'll see a huge variety of samples from our Watercooler Challenge to inspire you this week.

Are you ready to get your creative juices flowing with the terrific projects by the Watercooler Artists.  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 brilliant array of flowers:

Tristan Dawes

Karen Brown

Marsha Reed

Kath Ricks

Dawn Turley

Michelle Wallace

Heidi Weaver

Helen Finlay

And now it's your turn.  You can join us by linking up your creation with the Linky 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, July 29th at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.

WWC230 - The Watercooler Rock Star and Rockers

Drum roll, please!  It's Tuesday and time to announce our Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers for Kath's Masculine "Anything Goes" 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!

Kath's choice for our Watercooler Rock Star is Kathy K's wonderful birthday card.  Following the winner are the Watercooler Artists' choices for the Watercooler Rockers.

Kathy K. (#15)

Kath's Rock Star:  I choose Kathy K's card from the Purple Princess Diaries blog.  I love how clean the card feels.  I also love the silhouette of a man with an umbrella.  All over a great masculine card.

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

Next up are all the wonderful designs that caught the eyes of the other Watercooler Artists for our Watercooler Rockers.  They are shown in no particular order.

Natasa (#10)

Dawn's Rocker:  This is a quintessential masculine card.  The white waves on the background and the white anchor with the sentiment on red certainly make the card pop.

Caroline (#21)

Karen's Rocker:  Caroline has created a fun playful card.  Her leopards are adorable and her background and "Edison" die cut  beautifully set her scene.

Stephanie (#9)

Tristan's Rocker:  I love the anchor theme and how Stephanie has created the background to her large die anchor.  Great colour scheme.

Heather (#23)

Heidi's Rocker:  Heather has created an amazing birthday pop-up card for her son.  Love the colours and the use of those great stitched, nested dies and the foil to showcase that wonderful motorcycle image.

Kate Rijacki (#30)

Helen's Rocker:  I love Kate's mix of inks and glitter paste to design her wonderful stencilled background.  The vellum strip for the sentiment and die cut anchor is perfect.

Maria (#22)

Michelle's Rocker:  Maria's chocolate cake is beautifully coloured and I Love how she has kept it fairly masculine with the colouring of those flowers.  The added black and white at the bottom of the card balances it out perfectly.

Andrea (#6)

Marsha's Rocker:  Andrea has created a great background for those playful little otters.  It's such a cute card!

Congratulations Natasa, Caroline, Stephanie, Heather, Kate, Maria and Andrea!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.

That's our lineup for this week's Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers.  Be sure to come back tomorrow, July 24th, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  You won't want to miss all the wonderful creations by our Watercooler Artists.

WWC230 - Kath's Masculine "Anything Goes" Challenge

Woo Hoo!  This week Kath hosts our awesome Masculine "Anything Goes" Challenge.  It's always fun to see the wonderful inspiration for those more difficult masculine cards, isn't it?  You won't be disappointed.

Are you ready to get your creative juices flowing with the terrific projects by the Watercooler Artists.  I love how wonderfully diverse all our creations are this week, don't you?   For details on how Kath 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 Kath's spectacular seascape:

Kath Ricks

Dawn Turley

Karen Brown

Marsha Reed

Heidi Weaver

Tristan Dawes

Michelle Wallace

Helen Finlay

And now it's your turn.  You can join us by linking up your creation with the Linky 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, July 22nd at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.

WWC229 - The Watercooler Rock Star and Rockers

Drum roll, please!  It's Tuesday and time to announce our Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers for Helen's "All About 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!

Helen's choice for our Watercooler Rock Star is Alli's cute birthday card design.  Following the winner are the Watercooler Artists choices for the Watercooler Rockers.

#18  Alli C

Helen's Rock Star:  Alli has created a wonderful card with her gorgeous no-line coloured pup floating up in the clouds.  A great combination of elements for a great card.

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

Next up are all the wonderful designs that caught the eyes of the other Watercooler Artists for our Watercooler Rockers.  They are shown in no particular order.

#8  Lola

Tristan's Rocker:   Lola has created an adorable, cheeky beautifully coloured squirrel. The DSP provides lovely balance to her card.

#10  Lyn (Paper Petunia)

Marsha's Rocker:  I love the unique look of Lyn's "blob" flowers. I'm looking forward to her video on how she created them.

#26  Kylie

Dawn's Rocker:  Kylie has made a fabulous card with the sun rays peeking from behind her balloon. The colouring on the ballon is superb.

#22  Julie O

Heidi's Rocker:  Julie has created such a sweet Christmas card! The colouring is gorgeous, bringing those adorable little creatures to life. The layering of patterned paper, the scalloped die-cut and that lovely ribbon finish it up beautifully.

#24  Claire

Karen's Rocker:  Claire has created a vibrant card. Her Prisma coloring is gorgeous and I love the contrast with the black cardstock. I also like the gold embossing, especially the vertical sentiment.

#11  Jen Mitchell

Michelle's Rocker:  Jen has created a beautiful CAS Christmas card. I love the ombré JOY and the sentiment strip over the top. Stunning card Jen!

#36  Lee Ann Barrett

Kath's Rocker:  Lee Ann's anniversary card is beautiful! Her peonies are wonderfully colored and the crisp white and black show the pink peonies at their best.

Congratulations Lola, Lyn, Kylie, Julie, Claire, Jen and Lee Ann!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.

That's our lineup for this week's Watercooler Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers.  Be sure to come back tomorrow, July 17th, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  You won't want to miss all the wonderful designs by our Watercooler Artists.