Design Team Delights for Challenge #30--DEDICATION

It is time to share our favourite entries for Challenge #30.  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 September for Challenge #30.   As it turns out, each participant managed to catch our attention...

Jo Ann--chosen by Desíre, Sandy, Monica, and Pat...

Here is what Desíre had to say:
"My DT Delight is J Atterbury.  Jo Ann your card is so beautifully designed with all the wonderful layers and sewing. A great masculine design too with an inspiring message."

Sandy said this:
"My DT Delight is also J Atterbury.  I love the scripture and the sweetness of the paper layering and coloring of the image.  It works perfectly with the dedication of the Word with the image."

Here is what Monica had to say:
"My DT Delight is also J Atterbury.  The design and color elements are beautifully done and I love the scripture!"

This is what Pat had to say:
"I also love the card that J Atterbury created. She's my DT Delight choice this month for many of the same reasons as above."

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

NanaConnie--chosen by Julie...

Julie had this to say:
"My DT Delight is NanaConnie. This card is adorable! Being a dog lover, I find it irresistible!"

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

Deanne--chosen by Suze...

Here is what Suze had to say: 
"My DT Delight is Deanne.  I love the colour scheme and that all the embellishments frame this lovely image (I'm a cat lover!)"

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

Jackie--chosen by Katrina...

Katrina said this:
"My DT Delight is Jackie. I love that card, the colors, bow, and those adorable shoes! I loved her comment, "if marriage isn't a dedication, I don't even know what else it is!" That made me smile!"

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

Pippa--chosen by Lisa (that's me)...

My DT Delight this time around is Pippa.  For all the reasons we chose her as the Most Inspirational choice for Challenge #30, the same reasons apply as to why she is my DT Delight choice as well.  Her incredible story of slowly making her way up the hill at her own pace, determined to get to the top was such a strong example of dedication. Surprising everyone, including herself, when she reached the summit, showed just how much her hard work and dedication to the task paid off!

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

Creative Congratulations to all of you!

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

For our DT Delights chosen for this challenge...

  Jo Ann, NanaConnie, Deanne, Jackie and Pippa

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

If you are familiar with the Creative Bug Digital SnapShots store, PLEASE NOTE THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED.   Unfortunately, the website is no longer available.  As such I created a page on the originating blog that lists all of the images available.  Please click HERE to check out the image previews.  I have tried to arrange them into general categories.  Due to the nature of some of these images, they have been repeated in certain applicable categories.  Be sure to click on the watermarks to bring them up into the lightbox for better viewing.  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 #30 DT Delight Badge. To claim both your digi and the badge (or just one or the other), 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#30--DT Delight Badge and/or Digi Request".   I'm always running rather 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 2016.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope to see you again tomorrow on November 2nd, when we will be back with the start of Challenge #32.  We hope that you will join us then to learn what the newest theme will be.

See you again soon!

The People Have Spoken: Winners From Challenge #30

Apologies for running a bit late with posting.  It was another dreaded afternoon at the dentist but I'm back and now it is time to announce the winners from Challenge #30.  Who are all the lucky winners? Well, let's find out.

Without further ado, here are the choices...

Drum roll, please....BBBbbbrrrrrrrrr pish

The people have spoken and their choice for Challenge #30 is....

DEANNE

Deanne, you will be getting a cool and awe inspiring personalized badge for your blog as the Voter's Choice for Challenge #30.

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

PIPPA

Pippa, that means that you have won $15.00 worth of digital images from Sparkle N Sprinkle, our sole guest sponsor during Challenge #30.

Pippa, you will also be getting a lovely, one of a kind personalized badge for your blog as the Most Inspiring choice for Challenge #30.

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

JACKIE

Jackie, you have also won $15.00 worth of digital images from Sparkle N Sprinkle, our sole guest sponsor during Challenge #30. 

Jackie, you will also be getting a neat and unique personalized badge for your blog as the Random Winner for Challenge #30.

We also have a prize available for a voter who left a comment.  Anyone who left a general comment on all the posts related to Challenge #30 (excluding winners post and DT Delights post) is eligible to receive the prize.  So, if you have commented on the start or midway posts for Challenge #30, Pat's Pondering on Dedication, or on the Top Picks post for #30, you are eligible.  The more you comment, the more the chances of winning!

While we had two people comment during the challenge, one is on our design team so choosing our winner this time round was an easy task.

Our winner this challenge chosen by MiniwebTool.com...

Pippa who left this comment on the Top Picks post:

Thank you for picking my entry as the top pick. I feel honoured as all the entries are wonderful. What a pity there are so few of us this time. I shall be thinking of ways to spread the word, this is such a great challenge. x

Pippa, along with your prize from Sparkle N Sprinkle, you have also won a selection of digital designer papers from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles.

Big Congrats to...

Deanne, Pippa, & Jackie

Please click HERE to send us an email with the subject, "WINNER PoP Challenge #30" to make arrangements to receive your prize and badge (where applicable).  Please note that it may take me several days to get back to you.  Thank you for your patience. 

All entrant's in Challenge #30 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 #30 and would like to receive a free sentiment based on the theme for Challenge #32, which starts Monday, November 2nd, please click HERE to send us an email with the subject line, "PoP#30 Entrant Quote Request for #32".

There is still one week left to enter into our challenge on RESILIENCY.  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.  We look forward to seeing you all again soon.

 

Challenge #30 Top Picks: Voting Open October 12th to 19th, 2015

WELCOME TO THE CHALLENGE #30 POP TOP!

It is time to get on with showcasing the top picks for Challenge #30.  Unfortunately, we only had 5 entries in this challenge.  The sad thing is that I think some people get bogged down in the word rather than the concept and don't realize just how many situations where the theme will apply.  With this challenge it was all about Dedication--that could have covered any type of creation featuring 'love or devotion' and of course 'encouragement' cards for living the dream and so much more!  Thankfully though at least a handful of you had the opportunity to join us.

Since there were so few, we will only be having one top pick.  We will also be opening up the voting to everyone who submitted a creation that followed the theme.  We do this any time we have less than 14 participants.  Thus, without further ado, please let me introduce you to our Top Pick for Challenge #30...

Congrats Pippa...

As a participant who has been chosen as a Top Pick, you are 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 #30 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 earlier, each of the participant's who entered Challenge #30 AND FOLLOWED THE THEME & RULES is eligible to have their project and/or post voted on.  Here is a list of those participants.  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).

J Atterbury Creations 

~DEANNE~

Jackie Cornfield 

NanaConnie
Pippa

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 DEDICATION.  Please be sure to go and check out the entries first and not just make your choices off of the thumbnails.  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:
October 12th to October 19th

Come have your say in determining the Voter's Choice for Challenge #30!  Don't forget to leave a comment after you have voted.  There will be a prize for one lucky person who leaves a comment on on one of this month's posts (chosen randomly--excluding the winners post for #30).  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 five images below on which to vote. As soon as they are all are uploaded, I'll enable voting to begin. If there are less than five, 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 #30--DEDICATION: Midway & Voting Reminder

Hello everyone! We have reached the midway point of Challenge #30. The theme for this challenge is all about DEDICATION.  If you are looking for some introspection on the topic of dedication, be sure to check out Pat's Pondering which was posted on Friday (just scroll down one to find it).

Anyway, it is time to get on with our midway!

Here are the watermarks and links for the wonderful images that the team worked with for the midway.

 From Sparkle N Sprinkle....

 

 GUITARS

FRIENDSHIP FLOWERS

 VW BUG

 BEACH FRIENDS

BALLET SHOES

We are fortunate and blessed to have the chance to work with all these fabulous images during the midway.  Thanks so much to our amazing sponsors.

To help inspire you down the path of dedication, check out the wonderful projects most of my Design Team had the opportunity to create...

 

 <<<coming soon>>>

Katrina, from Scrappy Horses, who is our guest designer this month, shared this beautiful card with us...

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 dedication, 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 #29.  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. To check out all those eligible and cast your vote, click HERE.  Winners for challenge #29 will be posted next Monday.

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE ON DEDICATION?
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.

 Left click to bring the image up into the lightbox in its full size and then right click and scroll down to 'save as'.

Credit Notes For This Creation:
© 2015, 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:

• Budmo Jiggler font created by Raymond Larabie
• Everglow Script font created by Seniors Studio

The first font is free and was listed for commercial use at the time this creation was made.   The second font was purchased as part of a limited time bundle with a commercial use license but may be purchased from the designer by clicking on the link above.  It is my understanding, that I am within my rights to use these fonts in my creations and offer them to others for free.  If you download these fonts yourself, always check to make sure the terms haven't changed before using the font on something you sell.

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 wonderful guest sponsor by going over and checking out their work and saying hi if you have the chance.  As mentioned above, this month our guest sponsor is...

Our regular sponsors include...

 

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

We look forward to seeing you participate!