Your Favorite Critters

Challenge #9, May 15th - June 13th, "Critter Crazy", Critters can be frogs, bugs, butterflies, cats and dogs, hedgehogs,... what is your favorite critter ?  Cards, Tags or Bookmarks

May I make a suggestion on some images that you might like, that feature cute critters?   Here are some picks for you: 

Beau & Butterfly

Vintage Butterfly Airmail

Samantha

Springtime Bird

Emmie Lou

OR

I invite you to Shop my many other selections at Createful Heart Design

We'll see you at Blog Challenge # 9, May 15th @ 7:00 A.M. EDT

Announcing Winners From Challenge #7...

Hello and Welcome to our Winners Announcement from last Challenge #7, here is our list of Winners! Please get in touch with me for your selections and Grab yourself a Badge from our Blog, 2 Weeks from Today the 25th, to claim prizes.

Our Winner and Guest Designer for our next Blog Challenge #9 coming up on May 15th, is:

Mallows Crafty Bits - Sarah Wills - #16 - Winner of 2 Images!

Our Top 3 Picks are:

Sherry aka Loose Stitches # 1, Winner of 2 Images!

J. Atterbury Creations # 10, Winner of 1 Image!

AJ Art Jypsy #22, Claimed

Remember beginning May 15th, we will select 2 Guest Designers to be featured in our Blog Challenges!!

Don't forget to Grab your Winners Badges!!  And display them proudly. ♥♥

To claim your prizes please go to our Createful Heart Face Book Group, and leave me a message, or leave a comment on the Winners Announcement, and I will get back in touch with you.  Thanks!

P.S. Reminder: When you enter using one of Createful Heart Design Images, and if you are selected, then you win an extra image!!  

Mary - Admin

Coming Up

Hello!

Hi everyone, Blog Challenge changes coming up: Starting in on May 15th, we will be selecting 2 Guest Designers. We will still select Top 3.

Also, beginning in May, twice a month on Thursdays, we will be having a "Show Your Craft Space" Depending on how many entries we receive, I will randomly select up to 2 Winners. 1st place will receive - 1 Image, 2nd place winner will receive - a percentage off of their order.

First Contest will begin on May 2nd.

We hope to see you join in with our Blog Challenges coming up in May! And lets have some fun showing off your crafting space!  * 1 photo per entry *

Must be a Blog Follower to join in with our Blog Challenges.

Mary - Admin

To enter our Contests, you must join in with our Createful Heart Design Face Book Group!   Click the link to join!

Challenge 15 has been postponed..

I am sorry folks, but things with me have been somewhat emotional for the past few weeks, and with that said, we will not be having Challenge 15 this month.   We will be resuming our challenges in May.   The Theme for May is: Challenge #9, May 15th - June 13th, "Critter Crazy", Critters can be frogs, bugs, butterflies, cats and dogs, hedgehogs,... what is your favorite critter ?  Cards, Tags or Bookmarks

I will be adding more to my store, so be looking for updates.    Also, if you haven't joined in with our facebook group, please do.  Next month we will be resuming our "Show Your Craft Room Thursdays"  we might be having a few contests too... so be checking in.  

During the time of not having challenges this month, I will still be doing Sponsorships.  So, if you would like me to fill in as Sponsor just let me know!!  

Createful Heart Fan Page
Createful Heart Design Store

Mary - Admin/DT/Owner

Welcome to Challenge #7!!!

Hello and Welcome to Blog Challenge #7 

Theme: Spring Time, Easter or Anything Goes

*Please see our rules on how to enter our challenges*

We are excited to be back with our monthly challenges, and we look forward to seeing all of your lovely creations... be sure to link your card and not your entire post in the inlinkz below. ;)

Let's begin today by showing off what our Guest Designer - Angela Bonanno  made for this Challenge:

How pretty!  She used our image: Old Fashioned Rose

Thank you Angela for being our Guest Designer for this month!

Let's take a look at what our Designers at Createful Heart made for this month!

Helen Nile - DT

Using Image: Awesome Blossoms

Beautiful!

Fiona Deborah Mctiernan - DT

Using Image: Floral Hug

Pretty!

And last but not least, Mary Smith - DT/Admin

Using Image: Vintage Butterfly Airmail

I absolutely love this Vintage Butterfly.  Wanted to create a butterfly card in memory of my Mother, she loved Butterflies.  She would have liked this very much. ♥♥

Cheryl Wall - DT

is taking some time off

Now that we have shown you what we've made... let's hope we have inspired you. :)

Now is the time to Announce our Winners from our previous Challenge of #5, the theme was Valentines Day, or add some red

Winner: Aunty Sue

Love the layers of this card just beautiful!

#5 Aunty Sue is the winner of 2 Images of choice and we would like to invite her to be our Guest Designer for Challenge #8!

Our Top 3 Winners are:

#7 CASS - 1 Image of choice

#8 Marlene - 1 Image of choice

#10 Jacqueline Cornfield - 1 Image of choice

Winners please grab a Winners Badge and don't forget you have 2 weeks from today 3-15-2019 to claim your prizes.  I cannot be held responsible for late claims.

To select your Images please go to my Zibbet Shop and send in your requests to: roseheart587@gmail.com

(do not send spam, it will be deleted)

I would like to remind those of you that have won my Images, color them up and enter our Challenges.. and if you are selected as a Winner then you will receive an extra image.. how cool is that!!   Pretty Cool.  ♥

Design Team Call

We are looking for Designers to join our Team at Createful Heart Design

* We have 3 openings

What are we looking for?

Dedicated team members

Must have an interest in working with our wonderful Images!

*We accept those that have previous experience being on design teams.

Terms of 3 or 6 months

If this sounds interesting to you, please drop me an email, and include 3 of your creations. (Cards)

And why you would like to be on our Team.

 roseheart587@gmail.com

This Design Team Call will remain open until all positions have been filled*

Have a Happy Crafty Day  and we look forward to seeing your wonderful entries!

♥♥♥

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Our Challenge is Springtime!

Hello everyone!  It's almost time for our Challenge, starting at 7 in the morning.   We are looking forward to all of your beautiful cards and creations.   Please do check out our current Themes and the Rules for those wanting to enter.    This time, our Theme is really Springtime, Flowers, or Anything Goes.   Okay, I am going to get going, and get with the post for tomorrow.. looking forward to all of your lovely creations!!   

We will be listing the Winners from our previous Challenge.  ;)

Happy Crafting,

Mary and the Design Team of Createful Heart Design 

March On...

Hello everyone, I would like to give you all an update on what's happening on March 15th... we will start up our blog challenges!  Yahoo!!   We'll also announce the winners of our last challenge.  Here is the Theme:  Challenge #7, March 15th - April 13th,  Springtime or Easter or Anything Goes [updated 2-27-19]   

We look forward to having you join in with us!  Remember our challenges go live on the 15th of each month at 7 A.M.  EDT (Indiana, U.S.) 

♥ Mary ♥

...until we meet again

Just wanted to let you all know, that my family and I have had some very shocking news.  On Monday the 4th of February my Mother suffered a very bad stroke.   This time she was transported to the hospital in an ambulance.     And sadly, tomorrow she will be laid to rest.   Its been a very sad time for me and the family.   

The next blog challenge may be a little late, but we will still have it.   As my mother would want me to go on with my hobbies and to continue on with my business.    She always respected my time.   When I tried to tell her what all I do on my computer she would seem confused by it all... "never mind, I wouldn't understand anything about computers even if you tried to explain it all to me", she would say.   


So I hope you all will understand the reason for any kind of lag in me getting the next blog challenge up and ready.   

Thank you for understanding.     Until we meet again, Mary ♥

Is it Spring yet...??

Hello everyone!   It's Groundhog day here in the U.S.  and according to our lovely day here in Indiana, he saw his shadow.  We know that Spring officially begins on March 21st ...have a little ways to go yet.   To celebrate the upcoming Springtime season I wanted to introduce to you my newest image:  "Awesome Blossoms".. let me know what you think of these pretty flowers in the comments below.  ;)

And follow this LINK to check them out at my Zibbet Shop.

I did the first one without a background color.

Colored the image up with my new Ohuhu Art Markers!

Actually, these kind of resemble Peonies to me... but yet they look like Roses. ;)

I created the image and colored it all in late last night, I wont say how long I stayed up... let's face it, it was fun to use these markers, and I'm still learning.   Just received the markers yesterday in the mail.  

In just a few more days, we'll begin another Challenge..and as always we hope to see you all join in!   Our Theme will be "Flowers"... hey,..this image would look very nice done up in a card.  

These have not been done up in a card yet, I was just getting the feel for the use of these markers... this was done on regular card stock, not too thin or thick.  Not much bleed through either.  

Until next time, have a happy crafting day! 

Snow Family Gift Box

We would like to Thank our December Guest Designer - Carol Math, for her beautiful creation using the Snow Family Image.  Instead of just coloring this image up and making it into a card, she took the design and made it into a Snow Family Gift Box!  Totally awesome, see the photo below. :)

So pretty!

Thank you, for being our Guest Designer!

♥

Welcome Back! Time for Challenge #5!!!

Hello!  And Welcome to Challenge #5!!

Our Theme for this month is: Birthday Wishes, Valentine's Day or Thinking of You [Sentiment does not need to be the main focus, the sentiment can be on the inside of your card].   Cards must have Red, in the form of your choice of lace, heart, or card stock.  [Theme updated, Jan. 14th].

Our Dec 15th Challenge was postponed last month, our Design Team Ladies already had their lovely Christmas cards designed and ready to go, when the last minute change was made.   This month I would love to present their beautiful creations. 

Here is Fiona's

Image Used: Christmas Bells Are Ringing

Here is Helen's 

Image Used: Bear Buddies

Here is Mary's

Image used: Christmas Window

We have a new designer joining Createful Heart Design Team, her name is: Cheryl Wall 

And the Image she has used is: Owl-Way's Be There For You

I would like to take this time to say Thank You for all the lovely creations everyone made for Challenge #3.  (We have skipped over challenge #4, and we've moved on to Challenge #5, that was my goof ).  ;) 

Let us announce our Winners from Challenge #3, and they are as follows:

Our Challenge Winner is:  #24 - Angela Bonanno, she has Won 2 Images of Choice!!  And we'd like to ask Angela to be our Guest Designer for our upcoming Challenge #6!!   Congrats to you!!

Now on to our Top 3 Winners:

Congratulations to all!!

#26 - AJ - She wins 1 Image of Choice

#14 - Ans Gilbert - She wins 1 Image of Choice

#16 - Nisha - She wins 1 Image of Choice

Please go to my Zibbet Shop and pick out your faves and send the link to me via the addresses given below.

Winners have 2 Weeks from January 15th, to claim your prizes!

Remember to Grab your Badges , and place them proudly on your blog sites!! 

Don't forget to Read over our Rules concerning our Monthly Blog Challenges, our Rules are very Specific

Winners please get in touch with me using my FB Messenger  or my email. 

**Remember**

You MUST be a BLOG FOLLOWER in order to enter our Monthly Challenges!! 

Enter up to 2 entries per person.

We've got a Challenge....

Hey!  Don't forget this Tuesday the 15th of January starts another wonderful challenge, and we'll be looking forward to see all of your beautiful creations!    Remember - you may enter up 2 entries.  Make sure to make a link to the card you are entering and not the entire blog.    We'd love to comment on all of your cards, but sometimes that isn't always possible.  Please turn off the "I am not a robot" thingy.  This will surely slow down any of our DT Members from commenting.  

Flicker and Photobucket entries can be difficult for us to comment on, as we don't all have accounts.  So, if you don't see a comment.. you'll know why.  

We are a "G" rated & family friendly blog challenge, please make sure to read over our rules before entering.  

And one other thing, please be sure to "follow" our Blog, and we'd love to have you join in with us on our FB Createful Heart Design group!  ♥    Thanks so much - And the best of luck to you! 

Mary and the Design Team

Challenge has been postponed

I have to say, that we will postponing the challenge until January 15th.  Due to a family crisis.   I'm sorry about this change.  But, I got some rather upsetting news earlier today.   I will, post winners at some point...but today, is rather shot for me. 

Thanks, Mary

Celebrate Christmas 25% Off

We are Celebrating the Christmas Season by having a great sale, all Images are 25% off !   All you do is, use the code: CHD25  at the checkout.    This Offer will end by midnight of the 8th of December.   Here is the link to my shop: http://createful-heart-design.zibbet.com/

Welcome to Challenge #3!! - DT Call Announcement

Hello!  And Welcome to Challenge #3! - Christmas

We are always happy to Welcome everyone back to our Blog Challenges. ♥

Challenges begin on the 15th of month and end on the 13th of the following month.

We are a Themed Blog Challenge, we do not accept anything goes. 

The Theme this month is:  Christmas 

Please make sure that you follow our Rules & Guidelines, as they are very specific!

***Please DO NOT link to Videos, either on YouTube, or on your blog. These will not be accepted. (No card or project, tutorials) 
*You MUST be a follower of this blog.
*All projects must be your own and new, no back linking to an older post. Please post a direct link to your creation using the inlinkz tool and link back to: Createful Heart Cards Challenge blog from your post.
*You must follow the Theme of the Challenge for the month.

And no back-linking!   We appreciate that.

Also, if you post your card using Flickr, or some other photo places, we will not be able to leave you a comment.   Our DT may not comment if you have word verification turned on.

When using our images, please provide a link back to my Zibbet Shop, and a link back to my blog challenge.  

♥♥ You may enter up to 2 projects for each challenge, but please, remember to read our Rules & Guidelines.♥♥

At this time, I would like to announce the Winners from Challenge #2!!  

♥♥ Announcement ♥♥
Starting this Challenge #3, in addition to winning images, our Winners will also receive a 15% off Coupon to use on any Images from our Zibbet Store!  Another reason to enter our Blog Challenges!! ♥♥

Our Blog Challenge Winner is: #3 Cass -  She has won 2 Images of choice, and we would like to invite her to be our Guest Designer for Challenge #4.  Congrats to you!!! 

Our Top 3 Winners are as follows:

#9 - Aunty Sue, she has won 1 Image of choice!  Congrats to you!

#10 - Wendy Batchen, she has won 1 Image of choice!  Congrats to you! (Claimed)

#7- Donna Mundinger, she has won 2 Images of choice!  Congrats to you!
                      Because she used our images, then she wins two images. ♥

We would like to Congratulate our Winners!!   ** You have up to two weeks, from the announcement of the winner to claim your prize, just click on the email link.  Remember to grab your Winner's Badges, and display them proudly!

We Thank everyone that entered our last Challenge!

♥♥♥

We would like to introduce you to our GDT Member of this Challenge, Thank you for being a part of our Design Team ♥

Aunty Sue

Using Image: Hettie's Christmas List

Our Team has created lovely works to inspire you!

Mary Smith - Owner/Designer

Using Image: Baby Ce Ce - Gingerbread Girl

Robyn Pixley Barber - DT  ( Has stepped down)

Fiona Deborah McTiernan - DT

Using Image:  Christmas Eve Kitty

Helen Nile - DT

Using Image: Bear Buddies

There you go, we hope that our Designers have inspired you with their wonderful cards.   We can't wait to see what you will create!

Enter your creations below, at the blue frog. :)

** DT Call Announcement **

I am looking to fill 3 DT positions on the Createful Heart Design Team.

Must be dedicated.  Must have prior DT experience.

Create one project a month.

Share and promote Createful Heart Designs on social media.

To comment on the Challenge Entries and generally on Facebook Fan Page.

To commit to a six month term.

To support and encourage team mates.

(Must have a Blog.  And I don't allow projects to be presented with videos).

You will receive one image a month to work with. 

I will create a DT Badge for you to place on your blog.

Access to new release images.

I run a relaxed and interactive team.

Please send up to three of your favorite creations, and tell me a little about yourself. How many design teams you already work on, and any DT experience. 

To be considered please send me a private message, on Facebook, or you may apply through email. 

I think you'll enjoy working with our Team of Designers.  

New DT Members will begin their term in January 2019!

Thank You.

Link to Zibbet shop: http://createful-heart-design.zibbet.com/

Link to Facebook Fan Page:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1802862793362586/

Mary ♥

you're invited

Hello, everyone!   I would like to invite everyone to come to visit my newest blog, here is the link: Createful Heart Cafe   this blog is about recipes, sharing from my heart, and a bit more.  I would love to have some followers too!   I just started this one, but will be adding on more each day! 

We have just a few days left before this current challenge ends, so if you've been sitting on the fence... don't wait too long join in the fun! 


♥ Mary ♥

Blocking those annoying ads

Hello everyone,   I just wanted to add a short note.   Its about those annoying ads that seem to pop up, when visiting blogs and websites.   To help get them out of your viewing, go to adblockplus.org , download it and those ads will be outta site!   (And outta mind)  :) 

Thanks for visiting our challenge blog!

Mary

Welcome to Challenge #2!! - Add Sentiment

Welcome to Challenge #2 !!

We loved having you join our first challenge, we are delighted to have you join in with us again! 

The Theme this month is:  Sentiment (Thinking of You, Thankful, Blessing, or you may choose Christmas Image and add in a sentiment)

*Anything goes will not be accepted*

**We have Specific Rules that need to be followed in order to enter our monthly challenges.

Our Blog Challenges will begin on the 15th of the month @ 7:00 A.M., and end on the 13th of the following month @ 12:00 Midnight.  (Times are set for EDT - Indiana U.S.)

Please use the Blue Frog at the bottom of this post in order to enter.   Please no links to Advertising, we do not accept business entries, those will be removed.

Please insert links to your card that you are entering and not your entire post.   Please no back-linking, we appreciate that!  If you are using an image from Createful Heart Design, please provide a link back to my Zibbet Store.   And a link back to our Blog Challenge.

You may enter up to 2 Projects for each Challenge, just make sure to follow our Rules & Guidelines, as they are very specific!!

**Right now in our Zibbet Store we are having a Sale, there is no code needed.   This sale ends on the 12th of November.**

* The Winner will be chosen by Random.org and the Top Three will be selected by our DT.   The Winner will receive 2 images of choice and Top Three Winner will receive 1 image of choice.

**However, if you use an image from Createful Heart Design and are selected as a Winner, you'll receive 3 images of choice!   And Top Three Winner will Win 2 images of choice!**

* You will have up to two weeks, from the announcement of the winner to claim your prize; if I receive your email after that time, you'll not be able to claim your prize.  Use this email link **

Now without further delay.. I would like to introduce you to our Wonderful Team of Designers and their Beautiful Creations!

Mary Smith - Designer/Owner

Using the Image: Checking It Twice

Robyn Pixley Barber - On break ♥

Helen Nile - DT

Using the Image: Bouquet of Red Poppies

Fiona Deborah McTiernan - DT

Using the Image: Sarah Jane

***
And NOW the ♥Winners♥ from Challenge #1!!!
Go to my Zibbet Store to select your Images!

Our Winner - selected by Random.org is:  
#13 - AUNTY SUE
Congrats to you!  You have Won 2 Images of choice! (Claimed)

Our Top 3 Winner is:  #9 - Victoria R.  Congrats to you!

You've Won 2 Images of choice!  (Because she used an image from Createful Heart Design!) ♥

Victoria R., used our Image: Ms. Scarecrow with Squirrels

**It was brought to my attention that I had missed announced some winners of the Top 3**

I would like to also mention that we have 2 more Winners of the Top 3 and they are: 

#6 - Donna Rinckel - you've won 2 images!  (claimed)

#2 - Chriss Real - you've won 2 images!

I do apologize.

Ladies, you have from today the 18th of October through  November 1st to claim your prizes.  Go to my Zibbet store to see what you would like.  I have several images!

Don't forget to grab your badges!

And just email those to me. ♥

Be Sure to Grab Your Badge! 

And display them with pride. ♥

Thanks to everyone that entered our first challenge, we enjoyed seeing your beautiful creations! ♥

We look Forward to having you join in with us again!!

♥♥♥