Sparkle at Christmas

Hello All, welcome to our last challenge of 2013. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that has supported us this year, our generous sponsors, talented design team but most of all you, if it wasn't for you entering our challenges and supporting us we would not be here, so thank you one and all.

As this is our last challenge of the year, and to give you plenty of chance to enter at this busy time of year it will run until 3rd January 2014. Our challenge this time is Sparkle at Christmas, and as its our last challenge both teams have some gorgeous festive inspiration for you this time. 

Becky

Rebekah

Louise

Delphine

Yuri

Linda

Jenny

Fleur

Ann Marie

Teresa

Rosie

Alby

Dee Dee

We have a super prize this time from LDRS....

Remember, you can enter as many times as you like, combined with as many challenges as you like with any image you like. All you need to do its add your details to the linky below, and good luck.

Winter Blues Winners

I hope this has been worth waiting for, eventually here are our winners from our Winter Blues challenge.

The winner of the voucher for Live and Love Crafts is

Congratulations Lucy Patrick, that's you sweetie, please send us an email to acr@post.com and we will get your voucher sorted.

And, now for our top 3, chosen as always by the DT,

1. Nancy Quah

45. Tamika

93. Louise

Congratulations, please take our badge for your sidebar,

Hugs, from all of us at

Vintage Style

Hello lovely Crafters, and hooray its Friday! What a long weeks its been. Its the turn of our Chic Crafters this week, and our theme is Vintage Style. You can use any image, and enter as many times as you like. So lets see what the fabulous Chic Crafter's have created to inspire you this time.

Jenny

Fleur

Teresa

Becky 

Rosie

Fabulous creations, I am sure you will agree. So on to our prize, this time we are sponsored by The Ribbon Girls, with a fab voucher to spend with them :) 

So pop your entry in the link below and good luck xxxx

Metal Winners

Hey lovelies, hope your having a good week. Its time to announce our winners for the last challenge - Add Metal. Wow what awesome entries, you guys are so talented, it gets harder to choose each time. Thank goodness our prize is picked by random org.

So on to that winner of the Ribbon Girls voucher

48 - Kuni

Congratulations! Please can you e-mail us at acr@post.com and we will get your voucher sorted.

Now onto our top picks, as always chosen by our DT,  we had so many amazing entries, we could'nt pick just 3 so we have a top 4 this time  - their names are linked directly to their blog so you can go and take a closer look :).

56 Roberta

73 -  Elena F

76 - KalySto

119 - Jennifer D

Congratulations ladies, please grab a Paper Goddess badge for your sidebar.

There is still time to enter our Winter Blue's Challenge, click HERE to go to the post.

Hope you all have a great week.

Winter Blue's

Yay, it's Friday, at last, it's been such a long week for me. It's the Elegant Artisans turn to bring you inspiration of our new challenge, our theme this time is 'Winter Blues'. Remember, you can use any image, and enter as many times as you like, but to be eligible for the prize you must stick with our theme. Before I get onto our sponsor for this challenge, I would like to take the opportunity to introduce our newest teamie here at A Creative Romance, please welcome Linda!

Linda's blog is stickywithglitter.blogspot.co.uk, please have a pop by, her work is truly stunning, here is her first DT card for us.

Our sponsor this time is

Live and Love Crafts

If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts! 

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

And now for more inspiration from the Elegant Artisans

Louise

Yuri

Becky

Collection -

Top Picks Challenge #10 'Pink'

Morning everyone, I am sooo sorry this has taken so long, but with one thing and another it flew out of my head, I'll not bore you with the details, but been a busy and bad week for me. 

Anywho, here is our winner of  the Bunny Zoe Crafts voucher, as always picked by Mr. Linky,

Congratulations Lorraine's Loft that's you, can you please drop us an e-mail at acr@post.com and we'll get your voucher sorted.

And now for our top 3, as voted by the DT,

8. Danielle C

67. Lottes Cards

94. Lucy Patrick

Congratulations ladies, please take our badge for your side bar.

There is still a few days left to enter our current challenge HERE.

Metal Mania at A Creative Romance.

Hello lovelies, I hope you are looking forward to a great weekend. Thank you all so much for all your amazing entries to our Pink challenge, we will be back next week to announce the winners, with 159 entries that is going to be a hard choice.

So on to our new challenge today, this time we are looking for you to Add Metal to your creations. It can be any kind of metal, charms, buttons any kind of metal embellishment, we are looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

First off, here is an amazing card from our Guest Designer Mel.

Now some more to get you started, lets see what the fabulous Chic Crafter's have created to inspire you this time.

Jenny

Fleur

Ann Marie

Teresa

Rosie

Dee Dee

Alby:

Beautiful I am sure you will agree. So on to our prize, this time we are sponsored by The Ribbon Girls, with a fab voucher to spend with them :) 

So pop your entry in the link below and good luck xxxx