New Member Joining Us!!!

Hello everyone! I hope that you enjoyed your holiday.

I am popping in today to let you know that we have a new team member joining us. Back in October I started wooing one of our participants to see if she might join us here on our team and lucky girl that I am, she agreed! With the loss of Julie and Pat who are both still on leaves of absences, our usually small team became really small with just three members! Thankfully, with the addition of our newest member we'll be back up to four at least. Incredibly, it has been exactly three years since we brought on our last member so it was definitely time to add to our talent!

I won't keep you in suspense any more. Carole from Craftilicious Creations will be joining us. Carole has been a supporter of the blog for some time now and thankfully she was in a position to take on some new design team work. We are so very fortunate to have this wonderful woman join us. Her positive outlook and incredible design skills will definitely be assets to the team. Let's get to know her a bit, shall we?

Hello! I'm Carole and I’m from the North West of England where it’s often cloudy and mostly raining! I live with my lovely hubby and our kitty, Casey.

I have been creating for as long as I can remember. I love all types of arts and crafts and will happily have a go at any. In the past, besides getting inky, painty, sticky and glittery with paper crafts, I have knitted, sewed, quilted, embroidered, cross stitched, made batik, made and swapped Pocket Letters and scrapbooked. I am enjoying mosaic workshops at the moment and hope to attend a glass fusing course this year. At the moment I am working on improving my art journal skills. I’m lucky to have a room at home where I can create. I spend hours in there, getting lost in the creative process and losing all track of time. At the moment I’m enjoying making cards, ATCs and recycling/altering boxes, tins and such like. I design for a few companies and would describe my style as eclectic, loving everything from cute and whimsical to shabby chic and vintage. I enjoy working with digital images and pretty design papers, but I also like to incorporate stamping and mixed media techniques and enjoy getting my fingers inky. When I’m not buried in my craft room, I enjoy reading, gardening, yoga, pilates and travelling.

I am so excited to have been invited to join the Path of Positivity Design Team.

Please join me in welcoming Carole to the team. You will get to see one of her amazing creations in just a few days as she officially comes on board for our very first challenge of the year, beginning this Monday evening, January 6th. To visit Carole beforehand, just click on her blog badge or name above.

I hope to see you all very soon when Challenge #76 begins!

Merry Christmas!

Winners & Design Team Delights for Challenge #74--Opt. Twist: THANKFULNESS

Hello to all our wonderful crafting friends!  Can you believe that Christmas is just two days away?! If you celebrate, I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends!

Right now, it is the fourth Monday of the month and that means that it is time to present the winners for Challenge #74.

First we'll share the names of the Voter's Choice, the Most Inspirational and the Random Winner and then we'll move on to showcasing our DT Delights. Who are all the lucky peeps? Well, let's find out.

So, without further ado, here are the choices...

Drum roll, please....BBBbbbrrrrrrrrr pish

 The people have spoken and their choice for Challenge #74 is…

 

#5. ELLIE

Ellie, you are entitled to receiving a cool and awe inspiring personalized badge for your blog as the Voter's Choice for Challenge #74. Please feel free to copy your badge below...

 In the category of Most Inspiring, our winner is…

#7. CAROLE J.

Carole, you have won ONE image (value of $5 or less) from Scribbles Designs, our on-going sponsor providing a prize for the project chosen as Most Inspirational for each of our challenges in 2019.

Carole, you are also entitled to a lovely, one of a kind personalized badge for your blog as the Most Inspiring choice for Challenge #74 which you can find below...

The Random Winner for this challenge (chosen by Random.org), 

based on all eligible participants is…

  #9. VALÉRIE

Valérie, you have won THREE images from A Day for Daisies, our guest sponsor during Challenge #74.

Valérie, you are also entitled to a neat and unique personalized badge for your blog as the Random Winner for Challenge #74 which you can find below...

Big Congrats to...

ellie, carole & VALÉRIE

If you have won a prize during this challenge, please send your message to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols), or click HERE to bring our email up in your program, with the subject heading, "WINNER PoP Challenge #74" to make arrangements to receive your prize. Let me know which category you won (Most Inspirational or Random Winner) and also the prize value and sponsor. Please note that I am rather behind these days so it may take me a while to get back to you but I promise I will. I am currently caught up with any mail received in this account.

Now it is time to announce our DT Delights from this challenge. As always, in each challenge you, the readers, get to voice your opinion by voting for your favourite and so it is only fitting that my Design Team get to do so as well.

Thanks to the people who took the time to join along our Path during the month of November for Challenge #74. Out of the 12 entries linked up, check out the ones that really caught our attention...

Carole--chosen by Pippa & Suze…

Pippa had this to say:
"My DT Delight is Carole (#07). From all the entries this one is the first one my eye went to. I love the colour palette, the composition and the different textures. Just beautiful."
 
Suze said this:
"My DT Delight is also Carole (#07). The colours and the gorgeous background topped with a beautifully coloured image really caught my eye."

To see the details of Carole's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Ellie--chosen by Katrina…

Katrina had this to say:
"My DT Delight is Elliebelle (#05). I found this Christmas Card delightful! The whimsical image in those soft colors with the rustic ribbon and golds really appealed to me! Beautiful!! "

To see the details of Ellie's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Creative Congratulations to you all!

Thank you to those who played on our Pathway during the month of November. As always we greatly appreciate you sharing your incredible talents with us.

For our DT Delights chosen for this challenge...

Carole and Ellie

  You are entitled to one image of your choice from our on-going sponsor...

Please click HERE to check out the image previews. They are arranged into general categories; although, due to the nature of some of these images, they have been repeated in certain applicable categories. If you are interested in claiming a digi, please send me the name of the one image you want and let me know which section it came from. Send your request to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols), or click HERE to bring our email up in your program, with the subject, "PoP#74-DT Delight Digi Request". I'm always running rather behind these days, so your patience is appreciated.

Additionally, you are entitled to the special Challenge #74 DT Delight Badge which you can find below...

Well, that is it for this one. If everything goes according to plan, we'll be back on Monday, January 6th, with the very first challenge of 2020. Have a wonderful holiday and we'll see you all again in the new year!!!

Until next time,