Wednesday, December 16, 2020

WWC302 - Marsha's Special 3-Week Anything Goes Challenge

 Hoorah!  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  Happy any celebration dear to your heart or tradition!  We love you all and have been delighted with the wonderful response to our challenge all year long.  But now, with the year ending, celebrations happening, it's time to take a break.  We are, therefore, extending this challenge for an entire Three Weeks!  And, yes, we'll pick winners in the New Year.  Here's hoping 2021 is a kinder year than this year has been.

For the next three weeks Marsha will be our host and the challenge will be "Anything Goes".  We're looking forward to seeing the wonderful creations which you'll be linking up.


Are you ready to be inspired by the terrific projects created by the Watercooler Artists?  I love how wonderfully diverse all our creations are for this special challenge, don't you?   For details on how Marsha and all the Watercooler Artists created their projects, just click on the name underneath and you will be taken to that blog post.  We begin with Marsha's awesome calendar/notepad/pen set:








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.  You have a limit of 3 entries for each of our challenges. Entries over that limit will be deleted.
5.  Please link to no more than 8 challenges, including ours.
6.  Have fun!

Please use the Linky below to share your project.  This Linky will close one week from now, on Monday, January 4th, 2021 at 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.

NOTE:  If you see that one or more of your entries has been deleted, we include in our rules in the right column as well as in the instructions above that this will occur if you have more than 3 entries in this challenge. 


Tuesday, December 15, 2020

WWC301 - The Watercooler Rock Star and Rockers

Our host, Dawn, has chosen our Watercooler Rock Star and the Watercooler Artists have chosen the Watercooler Rockers for this challenge.  We would like to thank all of you for playing along with this week’s challenge.  We loved browsing the gallery and seeing all of your wonderful creations.

 The Watercooler Rock Star

Angie Cimbalo (Cimbacreativefun)

Dawn's Rock Star:  I just adore these cards by Angie (Cimbacreative). The stamp is a prefect Christmas one and Angie has paired it beautifully with the slimline blanket die. All five versions are as beautiful as each other.

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


The Watercooler Rockers

 Caroline - KISS

Tristan's Rocker:  Caroline has created a lovely Christmas street scene with her colourful houses and sprinkling of snow.

Shani Thomas (Paperesse)

Marsha's Rocker:  Shani has created a bright, bold card using the greens and touches of red. That snowman is just adorable and colored beautifully.

Milla

Kath's Rocker:  Milla has created a CAS card! I love the wintery simplicity of her card!

Janice

Karen's Rocker:  Janice created a beautiful nostalgic black and white card. I love her idyllic scene which is siimple yet stunning.

Stephanie L

Heidi's Rocker:  Stephanie has created a stunning Christmas card. I love the swirling die-cut background with its silver foil backing. It enhances the lines of the gorgeous Poinsettias beautifully while the heat-embossed sentiment provides the perfect finishing touch.

LazzieJ

Helen's Rocker:  Jacinda has created a stunning floral card with her beautiful pencil colouring. The lovely sentiment fit with it perfectly.

Congratulations Caroline, Shani, Milla, Janice, Stephanie and LazzieJ!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.


We would love to see you come back tomorrow, December 16th, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  The Watercooler Artists will have plenty of inspiration to spark your creativity.

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

WWC301 - Dawn's Challenge: All About Occasions

Woo Hoo!  We're already into our second challenge of December.  The year is almost gone!  Time for Dawn to host our awesome All About Occasions Challenge.  With Christmas getting closer and closer, it's easy to guess what most of the Occasions will be.

Are you ready to be inspired by the terrific projects created by the Watercooler Artists?  I love how wonderfully diverse all our creations are this week, don't you?   For details on how Dawn and all the Watercooler Artists created their projects, just click on the name underneath and you will be taken to that blog post.  We begin with Dawn's wonderful Gnome Christmas card:








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.  You have a limit of 3 entries for each of our challenges. Entries over that limit will be deleted.
5.  Please link to no more than 8 challenges, including ours.
6.  Have fun!

Please use the Linky below to share your project.  This Linky will close one week from now, on Monday, December 14th at 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.

NOTE:  If you see that one or more of your entries has been deleted, we include in our rules in the right column as well as in the instructions above that this will occur if you have more than 3 entries in this challenge. 

 

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

WWC300 - The Watercooler Rock Star and Rocker

Our host, Tristan, has chosen our Watercooler Rock Star and the Watercooler Artists have chosen the Watercooler Rockers for this challenge.  We would like to thank all of you for playing along with this week’s challenge.  We loved browsing the gallery and seeing all of your wonderful creations.

 The Watercooler Rock Star

Rachelle Oltean

Tristan's Rock Star:  Rachelle has create a super fun vibrant card. I love her rainbow coloured flower girl in front of that sunray stenciled background. It certainly made me smile.

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


 The Watercooler Rockers

Linda W

Marsha's Rocker:  Linda has created a beautiful sympathy card.  I love the blue and the single rose is such a nice touch.

This Little Place

Dawn's Rocker:  I was drawn to the beautiful bright colours of the dress on the card from This Little Place. The shabby/grungy look achieved is stunning. All in all, a beautiful card.

Gerrina

Karen's Rocker:  Gerrina created a bright fun mixed media card. I love the colors and all the interesting details she included.

Cathy R

Kath's Rocker:  Cathy has made a lovely wedding card! Her inka gold smooshed background is perfect with her die cut.

Heather

Michelle's Rocker:  I love how Heather has used an embossing folder with some patterned paper. Stunning Christmas card, Heather!

Kim K

Heidi's Rocker:  Kim has created a wonderfully feminine birthday card using the lovely Unity Stamp Angiegirl image and Prismacolor watercolour pencils. I love the added smooshed inks. A very original and beautiful card.

Joyce M

Helen's Rocker:  Joyce has created a super fun CAS Christmas card! Looking at this little dog with his big ears automatically brings a smiles!!

Congratulations Linda, Zoe, Gerrina, Cathy, Heather, Kim and Joyce!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.

We would love to see you come back tomorrow, December 9th, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  The Watercooler Artists will have plenty of inspiration to spark your creativity.

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

WWC300 - Tristan's Challenge: Anything Goes With a Feminine Twist

Woo Hoo!  Tristan is our host for the awesome Anything Goes With a Feminine Twist Challenge.  This is always such a fun challenge and we invite you to check out the fabulous Design Team samples.  We're excited to see the fun and wonderful creations that you link up this week.


Are you ready to be inspired by the terrific projects created by the Watercooler Artists?  I love how wonderfully diverse all our creations are this week, don't you?   For details on how Tristan and all the 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 gorgeous affirmation card:









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.  You have a limit of 3 entries for each of our challenges. Entries over that limit will be deleted.
5.  Please link to no more than 8 challenges, including ours.
6.  Have fun!

Please use the Linky below to share your project.  This Linky will close one week from now, on Monday, December 7th at 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.

NOTE:  If you see that one or more of your entries has been deleted, we include in our rules in the right column as well as in the instructions above that this will occur if you have more than 3 entries in this challenge. 

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

WWC299 - The Watercooler Rock Star and Rockers

Our host, Heidi, has chosen our Watercooler Rock Star and the Watercooler Artists have chosen the Watercooler Rockers for this challenge.  We would like to thank all of you for playing along with this week’s challenge.  We loved browsing the gallery and seeing all of your wonderful creations.

 The Watercooler Rock Star

Claire

Heidi's Rock Star: Claire has created such a beautifully designed CAS card! I love the igloo for which she created a template and then added all the details. It is the perfect background for the sweet penguins and the glittery die-cut "hugs". Where I live it definitely is a "freezin' season".

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

  The Watercooler Rockers

 Darnell

Michelle's Rocker:  I love all those gorgeous colourful trees on Darnell’s Christmas card and the extra padding behind the hill! Stunning card!

Izzy Scrap

Kath's Rocker:  I love the stack of little reindeer forming a Christmas tree. A darling Christmas card!

Ashwini Rao

Karen's Rocker:  Ashwini created the most delightful winter scene. She combined stamping, watercoloring and sketching on her lovely Christmas card. Very nicely done.

Steph

Dawn's Rocker:  I was drawn to the bright red butterfly on Steph’s card. It really popped against the gorgeous watercolour background. Great job, Steph, on that background.

JanR

Tristan's Rocker:  Jan has created the cutest reindeer tag. Such clever use of the die cut stars and great texture on the nose with that embossing folder.

Marlene

Helen's Rocker:  Marlene's sweet little critters caertainy look as though they are enjoying singing Carols in the snow! Her use of DP and double matting really makes for a lovely eye-catching card!!!

Vicky

Marsha's Rocker:  Vicky has created a lovely Thanksgiving card.  All the elements of the design come together so well.  I really like the lantern and the pumpkins.

Congratulations Darnell, Izzy, Ashwini, Steph, Jan, Marlene and Vicky!  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.


We would love to see you come back tomorrow, December 2nd, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  The Watercooler Artists will have plenty of inspiration to spark your creativity.