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

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Pink

As you probably are aware October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and to show our support of this cause our theme this time is Pink, so bring on your pink creations!

Our sponsor this month is Bunny Zoes Crafts and Nikki has kindly offered us a £10 voucher for the lucky random winner.

Pop back next Friday when the winners from our Fairytale or Winged Creations challenge.

First up for inspiration is our Guest Designer

 Mel

And the gorgeous creations from the Elegant Artisans;

Louise

Yuri

Becky

Delphine

Remember, you can enter as many times as you like, combined with as many challenges as you like with any image you like ;)

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Dies or Punches

Hi everyone, wow, what gorgeous CAS cards, but it's now time for another challenge here at A Creative Romance, this time we want to see your creations with dies or punches, or both, how easy is that???

The prize up for grabs this challenge is a £10 voucher for

We'll be announcing the winners of the CAS challenge once all of our votes are in.

Now for inspiration from The Elegant Artisans:

Becky

Louise

Yuri

Sandie

Rebekah

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Masking

Hi everyone, today we have a new challenge for you, but first of all I would like to introduce you to some new members of the A Creative Romance Design Team.

Alby

Diana

and Yuri

I hope you will join me in welcoming them to our team. I am sure you will have seen their work around blogland.

Now onto today's challenge, and that is masking.

For this challenge we are generously sponsored by Mary and Andrea at The Ribbon Girl

Now onto the inspiration from the Elegant Artisans

Becky

Louise

Delphine

Rebekah

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No Designer Papers

Hi everyone, and welcome back to our new challenge. This theme was suggested by our Delphine, and believe me when I tell you that I found it a doosie! We want to see your creations WITHOUT any Designer Paper (DP).

Please come back on Sunday when the winners of our 'Ribbon or Twine' challenge will be announced, we need a few days to decide as there were so many gorgeous entries.

The prize for our random winner for this challenge is a selection of rubber stamps from

And now for the inspiration from The Elegant Artisans;

Becky

Louise 

Delphine

Sandie

Rebekah

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Don't Be Square

Wow, what a response to our first challenge, we're certainly going to have a problem choosing our top 3 out of all of those stunning creations. We'll be back in a couple of days with our top picks, but on to today's challenge 'Don't Be Square', so we want to see your shaped creations.

Our prize for this challenge is a voucher kindly offered by Nikki at Bunnyzoe's

We have two Guest Designers this time, Andrea and Mary from the Ribbon Girl.

Andrea

Mary

And now for the Elegant Artisans

Becky

Louise

Rebekah

Delphine

Sandie

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