Design Team Delights for Challenge #16

It is time for my Design Team to share their favourite entries for Challenge #16.  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 everyone who took the time to join along our Path during the month of July for Challenge #16.  While it is always a difficult decision, each team member managed to find a particular entry that really caught their attention.  Take a look... 

Deanne--chosen by Vicky...

Vicky had this to say:
"My DT Delight choice is Deanne - I really love how she found 2 very inspiring quotes to go with her card!  And I do believe that this little  ballerina would achieve her dream.  My favorite quote of the two mentioned would have to be":

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer.  Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." --Harriet Tubman.

 To see the details of Deanne's creation, click HERE.

Donna--chosen by Desíre...

Here is what Desíre had to say:
"My DT Delight choice is Donna.  Not only is her card beautiful, but  she has captured the meaning of DREAMS so beautifully in this paragraph":

"Instead of viewing stumbling blocks as obstacles, those "blocks" may actually be BUILDING blocks to bring us to a different place, fulfilling an "UNKNOWN DREAM" which has always resided in our hearts."

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

Teresa--chosen by Monica and Sandy...

Here is what Monica had to say:
"My DT Delight choice is Teresa.  The overall card is just stunning with her coloring and choice of colors. I instantly LOVED it!" 

Sandy said this:
"My DT Delight choice is also Teresa... I LOVED LOVED LOVED the colors!  It is a fun fun card!"

 

To see the details of Teresa's creation, click HERE.

Carmen--chosen by Pat...

This is what Pat had to say:
"My DT Delight choice is Carmen whose pink & grey color combo, along with my favorite Disney quote, won me over."

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

Julie O--chosen by Lynda...

Lynda had this to say:
"My DT Delight choice is Julie.  I love how her photos and the layout design are so full of color.  The heart cutout is awesome.  I love that she focused on the powerful connection between a dog and human.  Sophie the dog connects with the residents of the nursing home.  I love that she says in her post that she (Sophie) is the 'maker of dreams and fulfiller of dreams'...truly warms my heart."

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

Judith H--chosen by Lisa (that's me)...

My DT Delight choice is Judith H.  Disney definitely influenced a couple of our participants as Judith also used the same quote that Carmen did.  This quote really speaks to me.  It doesn't matter how old or young we are--laughter, imagination and dreams are things that we can, and indeed should, experience throughout our entire lives.  There are no age limits on using our imagination or coming up with new dreams to explore; and of course, laughter should be part of every single day.

Now while I like Carmen's card as well, as she too made the Disney quote the focus, I am drawn more to Judith's card.  She has done such a lovely job framing with beautiful diecuts and embellishments.  There is something about the horizontal symmetry and the way she reflected her diecuts.  It just really draws me in.  I also like the greens and lilacs coming together for a subtle blending of colour.  It is a beautiful card to encourage anyone who may have forgotten the important points stressed in the quote or to simply serve as a reminder for how we should live.

To see the details of Judith's card, click HERE.

 Creative Congratulations to all of you!

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

For our DT Delights chosen for this challenge... 

Deanne, Donna, Teresa, Carmen, Julie O. and Judith H.

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

Please head to the Creative Bug Digital SnapShots store:  http://creativebugdigis.com.  Scroll down a little bit and you'll see a brown banner on the left hand side that says, "looking for digis".  There will be a Polaroid image right underneath it that says SnapShots (Digital Images).  Click on this.  You'll be taken to a page that lists all the categories of images available for you to choose from.  Once you've made your decision, please send me the name of the one image you want and let me know which section it came from. 

Additionally, you are entitled to the special Challenge #16 DT Delight Badge. To claim both your digi and the badge, send your requests to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace at and dot with the appropriate symbols) or by clicking HERE to bring the address up in your email program, with the subject, "PoP#16--DT Delight Badge and Digi Request".   I'm always running a bit behind these days, so your patience is appreciated.

Our special yearly prize package will also still be taking place.  Remember, if you are chosen as a DT Delight during any of our challenges, your name will be entered into a draw for some digital goodies.  You get one entry per choice; so, if two members picked your card, you will earn 2 entries, three members 3 entries, etc.  The winner at the time will be notified by email.   The next draw will occur sometime in the summer of 2015.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope to see you again tomorrow as we will be back with the start of Challenge #18.  We hope that you will join us then to learn what the newest theme will be.


Until then, have a blessed day!

The People Have Spoken: Winners From Challenge #16

It is time to announce the winners from Challenge #16.  Once again, the same person has been chosen by both the people and the Design Team. So, without further ado, here are the choices...

Drum roll, please....BBBbbbrrrrrrrrr pish

The people have spoken and their choice for Challenge #16 is....

JULIE O.

Julie, you will be getting a cool and awe inspiring personalized badge for your blog as the Voter's Choice for Challenge #16.

In the category of Most Inspiring, our winner is also...

JULIE O.

So Julie, that means that you have won a £15 voucher from Scribble & Scrap, our guest sponsor during Challenge #16.

Julie, you will also be getting a lovely, one of a kind personalized badge for your blog as the Most Inspiring choice for Challenge #16.

The Random Winner for this challenge (chosen by Random.com), based on all eligible participants is:

CARMEN

Carmen, you have won your choice of three images from Ike's Art.

Carmen, you will also be getting a neat and unique personalized badge for your blog as the Random Winner for Challenge #16.

We also have a prize available for a random voter who left a comment.

 The random winner for this challenge (chosen by Mini Web Tool), based on all eligible participants is:

Regina Easter with her comment:

awesome work ladies.....love Julie's layout..so cute

Regina, you have won a selection of digital designer papers from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles.

Big Congrats to...

Julie, Carmen & Regina

Please click HERE to send us an email with the subject, "WINNER PoP Challenge #16" to make arrangements to receive your prize and badge (where applicable).  Please note that it may take me a few days to get back to you.  Thank you for your patience. 

All entrant's in Challenge #16 are entitled to a special digital sentiment based on the theme for the upcoming challenge.  So, if you were one of the individuals who entered Challenge #16 and would like to receive a free sentiment based on the theme for Challenge #18, which starts Monday, September 1st, please click HERE to send us an email with the subject line, "PoP#16 Entrant Quote Request for #18".

You still have one week left to enter into this month's challenge on POSSIBILITIES.  Click HERE for details.  If you haven't linked up already, I hope that you will consider coming over to play with us.  As always, we'd love to have you join our Path!

Don't forget to join us this coming Sunday for our DT Delights post.  Until then, 

Challenge #16 Top Picks: Voting Open August 11th to August 18th, 2014

Welcome to the Challenge #16 PoP ToP!

Hello everyone!  Sorry that this post is a little bit later than usual.  I had a medical appointed late this afternoon and then a little bit of shopping while I was out.  We didn't get home until just now.  Due to the fact that I need to add the images to the link up by hand as soon as the post goes live, I wasn't able to just schedule it to go out at six.  I had to wait until I was home so that I could get everyone linked up to begin the voting process.  Hopefully, this delay wasn't a problem for anyone.  However, I'm here now so let's get the show on the road!

Now unfortunately, our numbers were low again for Challenge #16.  The first time this happened the team came to a consensus that any time we had under 14 participants we would not have a top seven and simply open things up so that all the entrants have the opportunity to be chosen as the Voter's Choice.  So, that will be the case once again for this past challenge.

However, I've decided to change things up a little bit.  While we may not have enough participants to have a top seven, we certainly have enough to have a top three.  So, from now on, in situations where we have 7 to 13 participants we will showcase a top three and any time we have 14 or more entrants, we will have our usual top seven.

So, without further ado, please let me introduce you to the Top Picks for Challenge #16 (in no particular order)...

 

Congrats Ladies...

As a participant who has been chosen as a Top Pick, each of you is entitled to a special Top Pick badge. Please send an email to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com, or by clicking HERE to bring up the address in your email program, with the subject "Challenge #16 Top Pick" and I'll email your badge to you.  Please note that it may take me several days to get back to you, so I really appreciate your patience.

Now as I mentioned, each of the participant's who entered Challenge #16 is eligible to have their project and/or post voted on.  Here is a list of everyone who entered.  Each of the entrant's names is linked up to their blog post (order is reflective of how they entered the challenge and nothing else).

Dawn

Carmen

Teresa

Donna E.

Deanne

Gloria S.

Dawn (link up #2)

Julie O.

Judith H.

Jennie Silver

Hanne

Have Your Say!

Now the really hard work starts.  It is time for you, our readers, to vote for your favourite entry.  Which participant most inspires you?  Remember, you are not necessarily voting on a creation that was made.  You might simply find what the person had to say in their post to be inspiring and optimistic and in line with the concept of dreams.  A few of our participants included great passages on how their project connected to the theme and what they had to say was inspiring. Therefore, please be sure to go and check out the entries first and not just make your choices off of the thumbnails.  You can also check out comments left by entrants on the Challenge #16 start post by clicking HERE and scrolling down to the bottom.  Once you have checked all the entries out,  let us know who your favourite choice is by placing your vote below using the Inlinkz feature.

Voting open for 7 days:
August 11th to August 18th

Come have your say in determining the Voter's Choice for Challenge #16!  Don't forget to leave a comment after you have voted.  There will be a prize for one lucky voter who leaves a comment (chosen randomly).  If you haven't had the opportunity to visit each of the entries already, please go and check them out a little more closely before placing your vote.  Once you have made your decision, why not go back and let them know how they inspired you.

Good luck everyone!

Important Note:

Please note that in order for this to work, I must add all the entries but I can only do this AFTER I have published this post.  So there will be some overlap time between when this post is published and when you will be able to vote.  Once I have uploaded the entries there will be a total of eleven images below on which to vote.  As soon as all eleven are uploaded, I'll enable voting to begin. If there are less than eleven, it means that I am still in the process of adding the images and you should come back in a little while to make your vote.  Thank you for your patience!

Link Up Below:

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge #16--Midway Reflection & Voting Reminder

Note to email subscribers:  I must apologize for the strange post that you will undoubtedly receive if you get the posts delivered by email.  Normally I schedule first before I even get the title in but when working ahead today I did not.  While typing in the title for the next challenge I somehow hit some keyboard keys that automatically published it before I was even finished editing the title.  I don't know what the keyboard keys are, I just know I've hit them in the past which is why I always try to schedule before starting to avoid these embarrassments.  That post has been deleted.  Sorry if it posed any confusion.

Hello everyone! We have reached the midway point of Challenge #16. The theme for this challenge is all about DREAMS. Today I am going to share a little introspection with you all that I am also presenting on my own personal blog in my "Motivational Monday" feature.

There is Beauty in the Unknown...

For the last couple of weeks, I've been mulling over some ideas about what I wanted to say on the topic of dreams this month but nothing really definite inspired me.  Then Saturday, I visited one of our wonderful challenge supporters, Donna Ellis, affectionately known by many as de.  After reading her own observations on the topic of dreams (located HERE), I knew exactly the approach I wanted to take with today's reflection.

Many of us can become bogged down by unfulfilled dreams.  I know that I have.  Sadly in my case, it wasn't just one or two.  I have had many dreams that have been unfulfilled but it doesn't mean that I've given up on the idea of them.  The key is that just like in every aspect of life, you must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and keep moving.   When it comes to dreams, it merely means a course correction.

Maybe the dreams that we carry in our heart, aren't meant to be our reality.  It is possible that our higher power and/or the universe have decreed that we are destined for something else completely.  I saw myself surrounded by children, and later, grandchildren.  When that dream fell through, I concentrated on my career.  I saw myself fulfilling my goals of finishing my degree, spending my working hours developing curriculum and teaching learning strategies to individuals with learning disabilities.   That dream was ripped from me as well.  My dream of being financially secure?  Bye, bye.  Then in 2002, I became disabled.  So many more dreams were crushed and left to the wayside and for a very long time.  It felt like obstacles were being erected all around me to prevent me from ever fulfilling ANY dream.

Donna stated in her passage about dreams, that "instead of viewing stumbling blocks as obstacles, those "blocks" may actually be BUILDING blocks to bring us to a different place, fulfilling an "UNKNOWN DREAM" which has always resided in our hearts."  Well, I couldn't agree more!  Our hearts and minds are vast and we may have many burgeoning dreams and desires that have yet to be discovered.  Donna went on to state, "I would not have discovered the wide world of Beauty found in our Internet Community, had I not become critically ill, and home-bound".  Apparently, Donna and I share this in common as well.

Had my life not changed dramatically, I would still have been out in the workforce.  Had I been spending the majority of my day outside the home, I would never have had the need to find something satisfying to fill up so much of my spare time with.  Had I not discovered the world of card-making, I too would never have discovered the love and acceptance of this beautiful on-line community.  Now I have new dreams, very different dreams.  Some of them are well on their way to fulfilment, others need to be nourished and grown a little bit longer before they take root. 

The point is, is that sometimes it is necessary to stand back and re-evaluate the dreams that each of us once had.  Maybe we are destined for a different path than the one we anticipated. The key is that we never give up.  We must continue to change and adapt to our ever altering circumstances.    There is a quote by Alice Sebold that states, "Sometimes the dreams that come true are the ones you never knew you had."  Take comfort in the unknown, for those dreams may turn out to be the best ones yet. 

To help inspire you down the path into the land of dreams, check out the wonderful projects a few of my Design Team had the opportunity to create...

For Monica's midway project, she has chosen to work with the image With This Ring from one of our regular sponsors, Ike's Art.  I just love this image.  So romantic and brings back lots of memories for me.  If you are interested in purchasing it, click on the watermark to head over to its section in Ike's store.  It is currently located within the 'My Latest Designs' section. 

Vicky chose to work with an image from our guest sponsor this month, Scribble and Scrap.  For this journal entry she used an image from the Vintage Photo Sheet 24 and paper from the Elegance Set 1 collection of papers. 

Lynda decided to use Blossom, from Ike's Art.  If you are interested in purchasing this pretty image, click on the watermark to head over to its section in Ike's store.  It is currently located within the  'Flowers' section.

Pat decided to use Poe Bust, from Ike's Art.  If you are interested in purchasing this neat image, click on the watermark to head over to its section in Ike's store.  It is currently located within the  'People' section.

 

Sandy chose to work with Vintage Beauty #1 and used paper from the Mint Chocolate Set 1 collection of papers, once again from our guest sponsor, Scribble and Scrap.

I created a scrapbooking layout using two of our guest designer's images and one of her papers.  The images are Steampunk Key and Steampunk Keyhole.  The paper is from the Grungy Florals - Naturals collection.  To purchase either the key or the paper, click on the watermarks.  Lexie is busy working on the store right now, so I was unable to grab a watermark and link for the keyhole.  If you are interested in it, please be sure to contact her.

Finally, that leaves our...

Edwina, from Edwina's Creations, who is our guest designer this month, created these wonderful cards...

For her first card she used the same image that she did for the start of the month, Vintage Pansy Wreath, plus papers from the Fabulously Feminine 2 set of papers, all from Scribble and Scrap. 

For her next two cards, Edwina chose to use the image called Twigs from our second regular sponsor, Creative Bug Digis.  I just love this wonderful snowman.  If you are interested in purchasing this cute image, click on the watermark to head over to the 'Seasonal' page in Naomi's store.  Twigs can be found up in the first section under 'Winter'.  

Clicking on the team members name (or in the case of our GDT, the blog name) will take you to their blog where you can check out the details for their inspirational creations!

So if you haven't entered already, what are you waiting for?  Create a project and/or post that is positive AND relates to dreams, provide an explanation of how your project and/or post relates to the theme somewhere in your post or come over and leave a comment with the explanation.  Easy, peasy!  You can enter our latest challenge by clicking HERE.

Also, I know that the participants would love for you to go and pay them a visit.  Remember we're creating a Path of Positivity to follow one project at a time and we'd love to see you somewhere on that route even if it is just by leaving a comment on an entry from someone who has touched you somehow with their project and/or post!

If you are new to this unique challenge, you can find out the impetus behind why I started it under the 'Introductions' tab and all the details you need to know in order to participate, in the 'Challenge Details' tab (both tabs located at the top of the blog).

Don't Forget...

You still have until 11:55 p.m. tonight, to vote on your favourite entry for Challenge #15.  Voting is quick, easy and painless so I hope you will consider casting your vote if you haven't already.  Don't forget, if you leave a comment after voting, you have the opportunity to walk away with a selection of digital papers created especially with your interests in mind. To check out all those eligible and cast your vote, click HERE.  Winners for challenge #15 will be posted next Monday.

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE ON DREAMS?
If you need some additional motivation to help inspire you, I've provided another sentiment on this month's theme (the first is available HERE), free for you to download:

Credit Notes For This Creation:
© 2014, Lisa L. Décosse.  PUO.  However, you are allowed to use the sentiment on handmade projects that you intend to sell on a small scale basis provided credit is given. You also need to include a credit note and a link to this blog should you use any of my images in your creations and post them on your blog. Please be sure to familiarize yourself with my full terms of use found in the 'Download Instructions & T.O.U.' tab at the top of this page.  Of important note:  Please do not share my images with family, friends, etc. Additionally, do not post any images to file sharing services like Box®, 4-Shared®, etc. Instead, please direct people to my blog so they can grab the image for themselves. If you would like to post a watermarked version of the image, please contact me to obtain one. 

This word art creation is in png format and published at 300 ppi. It is quite large in order to accommodate different programs that people work with.   If you are a card maker you can always resize it smaller without distorting the quality.

Font Information:

• Foglihten font created by gluk
• Beyond Wonderland font created by Livin Hell

Click on the font name to take you to a download location.  These fonts were listed as free for commercial use at the time this project was made.and as such, it is my understanding, that I am within my rights to use these fonts in my creations and offer them to others.  Please refer to my full terms of service for what you can and cannot do with this digital creation.

SUMMARY
Whether you are new and need to familiarize yourself with all the details,  or a returning participant and just need to refresh yourself, you can always find out everything you need to know in order to enter this challenge in the 'Challenge Details' tab at the top of the page. You can enter the challenge by clicking HERE to take you to the current challenge post where you can also find a quick summary of the details related to this challenge, towards the bottom of the post. 

GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY...

Please show your support to our fabulous sponsors by going over and checking out their work and saying hi if you have the chance.  In addition to Scribble and Scrap, our guest sponsor for the month...

...we also have our regular sponsors:

 

 

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If you ever have any questions be sure to EMAIL ME or just leave me a comment.

We look forward to seeing you participate!