Monochromatic New Year!!!!

The kids are school vacation, which means I don't have to get up until my 23 month old wakes me up! So forgive this late post!!!!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the last challenge. I have to say I am surprised we had even twenty participants with all the holiday running around that was needing to be done!!!

This week (and next week, we are a bi-weekly challenge now remember) our challenge is a simple one!

MONOCHROMATIC NEW YEAR!!!!

Please remember if you use one of my digital stamps you get a second entry into in the challenge. Winner will receive two digis of their choice from my store!

Here is some fantastic INSPIRATION from the design team.

Alison

Boni

Darlene

Another by Boni

Another by Darlene

Cheryl

Please remember to use Mr. Linky and when adding a link, add the link to your project, not the link to your entire blog. Please click here if you've forgotten the rules. You have until 6am next Wednesday, January 06 to submit an entry! If you're using a photo gallery instead of a blog please use this weeks tag: "PC19", blog users can just use the tag "Penny's Challenges #19"

If you are using one of my digi stamps... enter your link TWICE.

Featured: Christmas Stars

I am so pleased to say that this weeks featured Christmas Star project is my good friend Jess!!!

She has also won some Creations by Penny digi's.

Jess, I know you know how to get ahold of me! lol. Go to http://www.creationsbypenny.com/store and let me know which two free digis you want!!!

So this is Christmas....

A great big THANK YOU to each and every one of the last challenge's participants. Half of you posted that it was difficult using no DP, the other half said it was no problem!!! lol. Glad you all enjoyed it.

This week, a little announcement... I have re-opened my digi stamp store. However, it is now hosted on it's own domain.... you can find that here. I'm trying to doodle and update as often as I can this time around. There are freebies up there as well. I do hope that those of you who digi stamp can find something you like.

Since I have opened the new digi store, as you can see I have redesigned this challenge blog to match it a little bit. I'm going to merge the two places.

If you're wondering... no, this is not going to be a digi stamp only challenge blog. You can still use whatever you want in your creations. However, those of you who use one of my digi stamps in your creation will get a second entry. So what, you say, there is no prize!

Actually, from now on there is going to be. Every challenge, Random.org will choose a winner. So please, when you enter on Mr. Linky if you have used one of my digi stamps, put your link in twice. Winner will get to choose any two of my digi's that they want for free. This will always be the prize until I can find more sponsors.

Now... enough of all that technical mumbo jumbo. On to the challenge!!!

This week... with Christmas only 16 short days away, we'd like to see your creations using

"Christmas Stars"

Now here is some inspiration from my FANTASTIC design team!!!

Boni

Darlene

Another from Darlene.

She was feeling ambitious!

KimAlanna

Please remember to use Mr. Linky and when adding a link, add the link to your project, not the link to your entire blog. Please click here if you've forgotten the rules. You have until 6am next Wednesday, December 23 to submit an entry! If you're using a photo gallery instead of a blog please use this weeks tag: "PC18", blog users can just use the tag "Penny's Challenges #18"

If you are using one my digi stamps... enter your link TWICE.

Thanks for playing and don't forget... HAVE FUN!!!!!

Featured: no dp

The Rubber Maid is our feature card from the last challenge!
Didn't she do great! What a lovely card!

Do you Digi???

First, just a quick WOW!! to all those who have entered so far. Love seeing cards with stamped backgrounds! Great work so far, keep them coming!!!

Now my real reason for this post... a shameless plug... lol. Read on!

Just letting everyone know I added a whole bunch of new digis
on my other website
(which has a whole new look).
I'm adding some of the older ones back up today.
Also I will be adding some freebies today as well.

No dp allowed!

First, an announcement: starting this week Penny's Challenges is now a bi-weekly challenge blog. So today's challenge is good until December 8th. A New challenge will be posted December 9th. Hopefully we will see more participants this way too!

On to the challenge:
I'd like to see your cards, scrapbook pages, altered items, or anything else made without decorative paper. You should make your own decorative paper with Random Stamping!

This week we are playing for F-U-N! Winner will be chosen next Wednesday morning using Random.org. They will get their project featured here with a link back :) You can view past featured projects by clicking "Featured" at the top of the page.

Here is some inspiration from the design team, please visit their blogs and leave some nice comments, and I'm sure they will do the same for you!

Darlene

Cheryl

Alanna

Kim

Boni

Alison

Please remember to use Mr. Linky and when adding a link, add the link to your project, not the link to your entire blog. Please click here if you've forgotten the rules. You have until 6am next Wednesday, December 09 to submit an entry! If you're using a photo gallery instead of a blog please use this weeks tag: "PC17", blog users can just use the tag "Penny's Challenges #17"

Thanks for playing and don't forget... HAVE FUN!!!!!

Featured: Color Challenge

Diane's card is our featured color combo card from last week!
Congratulations Diane. Great job on the challenge!

Week #16 - our first color challenge.

Hey guys! It was so great to see all those sketch cards last week. They were fantastic. Those are my favorite types of sketches, the ones that are easy to interpret the way that you want!!!

This week we have our very first color challenge. These colors are from CTMH, however if you don't have CTMH inks you can use the same color from a different company!

This week we are playing for F-U-N! Winner will be chosen next Wednesday morning using Random.org. They will get their project featured here with a link back :) You can view past featured projects by clicking "Featured" at the top of the page.

Here is some inspiration from the design team, please visit their blogs and leave some nice comments, and I'm sure they will do the same for you!

Kim

Darlene

Boni

Allison

Please remember to use Mr. Linky and when adding a link, add the link to your project, not the link to your entire blog. Please click here if you've forgotten the rules. You have until 6am next Wednesday, November 24 to submit an entry! If you're using a photo gallery instead of a blog please use this weeks tag: "PC16", blog users can just use the tag "Penny's Challenges #16"

Thanks for playing and don't forget... HAVE FUN!!!!!

Featured: Sketch #5

Chocolate Fudge Cake's card is our featured sketch card from last week!
Pop on over and leave her some comment love!!!

It's a Sketch!!!

I am running so late this morning. My computer broke down so I'm on my husband's laptop and none of my files are on here! lol So I apologize.

Thank you to every single one of you who participated in last week's challenge. I saw alot of new blogs over this last week. Very exciting.

Anyway, this week is a sketch. It does not matter what your project is, as long as this sketch is the basis for it.

This week we are playing for F-U-N! Winner will be chosen next Wednesday morning using Random.org. They will get their project featured here with a link back :) You can view past featured projects by clicking "Featured" at the top of the page.

Here is some inspiration from the design team, please visit their blogs and leave some nice comments, and I'm sure they will do the same for you!

KimAlison

Alanna

Darlene

Cheryl

Please remember to use Mr. Linky and when adding a link, add the link to your project, not the link to your entire blog. Please click here if you've forgotten the rules. You have until 6am next Wednesday, November 18 to submit an entry! If you're using a photo gallery instead of a blog please use this weeks tag: "PC15", blog users can just use the tag "Penny's Challenges #15"

Thanks for playing and don't forget... HAVE FUN!!!!!

Featered: Winter Recipe

Diane is last week's Feature card for our winter theme!!!

Congrats Diane!!

Has winter arrived where you are?

Thank you all so much for participating in last week's inspiration challenge!! So much fun and LOVE checking out all your beautiful artwork.

This week our challenge is:

Winter Theme!
but... your project MUST include either glitter or sparkles
AND somewhere on there I want to see some ribbon!

This week we are playing for F-U-N! Winner will be chosen next Wednesday morning using Random.org. They will get their project featured here with a link back :) You can view past featured projects by clicking "Featured" at the top of the page.

Here is some inspiration from the design team, please visit their blogs and leave some nice comments, and I'm sure they will do the same for you!

Kim

DarleneAlanna

Boni

Cheryl

Alison

Please remember to use Mr. Linky and when adding a link, add the link to your project, not the link to your entire blog. Please click here if you've forgotten the rules. You have until 6am next Wednesday, November 11 to submit an entry! If you're using a photo gallery instead of a blog please use this weeks tag: "PC14", blog users can just use the tag "Penny's Challenges #14"

Thanks for playing and don't forget... HAVE FUN!!!!!

Featured: Sketch

Angie's gorgeous butterfly card is our featured sketch from last week! Congrats Angie! Click on over and leave her a comment!

Our Fourth Sketch Challenge - week 13

Thank you all so much for participating in last week's inspiration challenge!! So much fun and LOVE checking out all your beautiful artwork.

This week our challenge is:

Our Fourth Sketch!

This week we are playing for F-U-N! Winner will be chosen next Wednesday morning using Random.org. They will get their project featured here with a link back :) You can view past featured projects by clicking "Featured" at the top of the page.

Here is some inspiration from the design team, please visit their blogs and leave some nice comments, and I'm sure they will do the same for you!

Cheryl

DarleneAlanna

Boni

Kim

Alison

Please remember to use Mr. Linky and when adding a link, add the link to your project, not the link to your entire blog. Please click here if you've forgotten the rules. You have until 6am next Wednesday, November 04 to submit an entry! If you're using a photo gallery instead of a blog please use this weeks tag: "PC13", blog users can just use the tag "Penny's Challenges #13"

Thanks for playing and don't forget... HAVE FUN!!!!!

Featured: Theme

Wanda's card is our featured Halloween card from last week!
Head on over to her site and leave her a comment!

Week #12 - Halloween

Thank you all so much for participating in last week's inspiration challenge!! So much fun and LOVE checking out all your beautiful Autumny artwork!!! It's my favorite time of year so this last week was especially fun for me... I've been missing the Autumn!

This week our challenge is:

Halloween themed Project.
Let's see your witches, pumpkins, cats and bats!!!

This week we are playing for F-U-N! Winner will be chosen next Wednesday morning using Random.org. They will get their project featured here with a link back :) You can view past featured projects by clicking "Featured" at the top of the page.

Here is some inspiration from the design team, please visit their blogs and leave some nice comments, and I'm sure they will do the same for you!

Darlene

Cheryl

Alanna

Boni

Kim

Please remember to use Mr. Linky and when adding a link, add the link to your project, not the link to your entire blog. Please click here if you've forgotten the rules. You have until 6am next Wednesday, October 28 to submit an entry! If you're using a photo gallery instead of a blog please use this weeks tag: "PC12", blog users can just use the tag "Penny's Challenges #12"

Thanks for playing and don't forget... HAVE FUN!!!!!