WWC165 - The Winners

Hello and Welcome to a wonderful Tuesday afternoon!  It's time to announce our Rock Star and Rockers for Tenia's "All About Occasions" challenge.  But first, we'd like to thank all those who played along with us.  You're entries this week were magnificent!  You are making it harder and harder on us to make our choices as we think you are all stars.  Well done!

Tenia's choice for our Watercooler Rock Star is Lola's wonderful unicorn birthday card.  Well done!  Following the winner are the Watercooler Artists choices for the Watercooler Rockers.

#37 Lola

Tenia's Winner:  Her card is fun, bright and I just LOVE LOVE that AWESOME unicorn image!!! Awesome job and congrats!

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

Now it's on to the Watercooler Artists choices for our Watercooler Rockers.  They are shown in no particular order.

#33 Steffi H

Marsha's Choice:  Clean and simple is my favorite and Steffi has done a great job.  I love these colors and the sketch.  Well done!

#3 Karen Finkle

Gail's Choice:  It is such a clever use of the splatters from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set. And it made me laugh!

#13 Joan W

Heidi's Choice:  Joan created a terrific set of cards using her free images. I love them all. In each one the background paper seems to set the mood. Such fun!

#19 Ruth (Tip Top Toppers)

Penny's Choice:  I fell in love with Ruth's Happy "Baa Baa Birthday to Ewe" card both for its humour and for its great style. Love the bright colours, buttons and dsp. Great card!

#9 Aileen (Colour and Sparkle)

Kath's Choice:  The coloring on both cards are excellent! The little fairy is adorable!

#23 Trina P

Charlotte's Choice:  Gorgeous clean and simple card. The brightly coloured balloons are just perfect for the birthday theme and I love the touch of glitter on the sentiment.

#27 Robyn Oliver

Helen's Choice:  Robyn has created such a pretty, elegant card. I love her choice of stamp and the lovely colour combination she has chosen.

Congratulations Steffi, Karen, Joan, Ruth, Aileen, Trina and Robyn.  Here is your badge to proudly display on your blog designating you as one of our Watercooler Rockers.

There you have our Rock Star and Watercooler Rockers lineup for this week!  Be sure to come back tomorrow, April 18th, for our next Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  You won't want to miss out on all the wonderful designs by our Watercooler Artists.

WWC165 - Tenia's "All About Occasions" Challenge

Woo Hoo!  This week Tenia Nelson is hosting our very popular "All About Occasions" challenge.  Isn't that one of the main reasons we all make cards, for occasions?  You can see some occasions listed in the challenge image but I'm sure you can think of more.

Before I get to the samples, I wish to introduce our Guest Designer for this week's challenge, Stephanie Lanzalotto.  I'm sure you've seen her lovely cards here and in many other challenges.

"I live in the state of New Jersey with my husband and 18 year old twin sons. By day, I am a librarian in a Pre-K through 8 school.  I have had many and varied crafting passions over the years, but the one I remain most passionate about is card making.  A heat embossing demonstration 25 years ago hooked me.  The magic of that powder turning into this wonderfully shiny and sparkly finish hooked me immediately.  I love the camaraderie and the exchange of artistic styles and ideas with people from all over the world. I have been delighted to meet some of them in person.  I am delighted to be Guest Designer for the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge this week."

Stephanie Lanzalotto (Guest Designer)

And now on to our terrific projects by the Watercooler Artists to get those creative juices flowing.  With Spring trying to get established, we're showing an overwhelming love for flowers.   For details on how Tenia 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 Tenia's wonderful monochromatic birthday card:

Tenia Nelson

Helen Finlay

Marsha Reed

Penny Hanuszak

Heidi Weaver

Kath Ricks

Gail Allen - Away having fun

Charlotte Ehrukainen - Away, very ill

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 on Monday, April 16th  at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.

An InLinkz Link-up