MIDWAY THROUGH CHALLENGE #48:: DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY :: "

You have just under a week left to enter our challenge

"PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN"

We're challenging you to make a papercraft creation to celebrate the beauty of a woman (of any age)

We have had some really beautiful entries, such as this exquisite jewellery box by Darlene:
 

Now isn't that a magnificent homage to a beautiful woman??!!

You can visit Darlene's blog to see more creations by a wonderfully talented crafter!

Our talented Guest Designer, Jackie Cornfield, from the United Kingdom, has created this vintage masterpiece, featuring Vintage Debutante

 

Here are some more wonderful cards made by our Design Team B, for your inspiration:

CHARLENE

Diva "D" is the image featured on this gorgeous Portrait of a Woman that has a hidden sentiment card inside:

ELENOR

This cutie pie is called Chubby Girl in Floral Dress and is featured on this creation that gives some excellent advice to any woman:

KAREN

Sophisti-Kat is the name of the featured image on this beautifully made and elegant side step card:

STEF

It is said that her hair is a woman's crowning glory and Summery Girl is the image featured on this glorious card:

URSULA

Every woman should have a little mystery about her, and what can be more mysterious than the woman behind the Lace Fan?  

Don 't you love those beautiful Portraits of a Woman creations!?

By entering you could win one of these prizes:

DT'S CHOICE : $10 gift voucher from the store and a badge for your blog

RANDOM WINNER : 3 images of your choice from the store and a badge for your blog

and

2 runners up will win badges for their blogs

We have introduced an extra prize ....

... the chance to feature as a Guest Designer and earn a badge to add to your blog:

And how do you get to be a Guest Designer?

Easy-peasy - if you enter our challenge using a Digistamps 4 Joy image, you have a chance of being invited as a Guest Designer.   

Are you ready to create something fabulous?

Remember to link your post, not your blog, to the linky tool here.

And what if you don 't have a blog ... you can still enter by emailing the photograph of your entry to jencraft.jen[at]gmail[dot]com, with "DS4J CHALLENGE #48 EMAIL ENTRY" in the subject line.  Don 't forget to add your name in your email.

We have a few rules we'd like you to read ... check out the sidebar ->->->

Remember to add a link to this challenge in your blog post .. you wouldn't want to be disqualified from winning a prize just because you didn't!
   

Remember : you may enter up to three different entries per challenge, each from a separate entry on your blog.

We can't wait to see what you have for us!

Remember to link up HERE.

 

WINNERS OF DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY CHALLENGE #47 : "POLKA DOTS AND STRIPES"

Please go to the Challenge Winners page for details.

{{{hugs}}} Margy

DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY : CHALLENGE #48 : 'PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN'

9 August is National Women's Day in South Africa!

HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!!!

It is 53 years since the Federation of South African Women organized a mass demonstration against the imposition of pass laws on women in South Africa. More than 20,000 women, led by Lilian Ngoyi (a trade unionist and political activist), Helen Joseph, Albertina Sisulu, and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn, took part in the multi-racial march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, to deliver a petition to the prime minister JG Strijdom. 

Three years ago, as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for the 1956 Women's March, the South African government decided to rename Strijdom Square, where the Union Buildings in Pretoria are, as Lillian Ngoyi Square - to honour of all those who took part in the historic event.

Since 9 August 1994, this day has been commemorated annually and in support of all the strong women of South Africa who have helped to make South Africa what it is today.

So, in support of women worldwide, our the theme of our new challenge is:

'PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN'

We're challenging you  to make a papercraft creation that can be quirky, fun and frilly, elegant, sophisticated, etc etc...

BUT IT MUST SHOW HOW BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL A WOMAN IS, at whatever age!!!!!! 

What we don't want to see are the witches, vampires, goths, fairies, etc.

The talented Design Team A have come up with some wonderful inspiration for you :

AMANDA

This beautiful portrait of a woman features the image "Sally Sunshine"

 DESIRE

"Miss Mandy" is the featured image on this prettily coloured portrait of a woman:

JAN

Fresh and lovely would best describe this lovely portrait of a woman featuring two merged images, "Sally Sunshine" and "Fence"

KARIN

This elegant portrait of a woman, featuring the image "Stormie"  is beautifully embellished with pearls and swirls.

JEN

This portrait shows the roles of a woman of Africa, and features the images "Malawi Lady and Baby", "Malawi Lady with Pot", and Guinea fowls"

Don 't you love those fantastic creations!?
Are you ready to create something fabulous?

By entering you could win one of these prizes:

DT'S CHOICE : $10 gift voucher from the store and a badge for your blog

RANDOM WINNER : 3 images of your choice from the store and a badge for your blog

and

2 runners up will win badges for their blogs

We have introduced an extra prize ....

... the chance to feature as a Guest Designer and earn a badge to add to your blog:

And how do you get to be a Guest Designer?

Easy-peasy - if you enter our challenge using a Digistamps 4 Joy image, you have a chance of being invited as a Guest Designer.   

Are you ready to create something fabulous?

Remember to link your post, not your blog, to the linky tool below.

And what if you don 't have a blog ... you can still enter by emailing the photograph of your entry to jencraft.jen[at]gmail[dot]com, with "DS4J CHALLENGE #47 EMAIL ENTRY" in the subject line.  Don 't forget to add your name in your email.

We have a few rules we'd like you to read ... check out the sidebar ->->->

Remember to add a link to this challenge in your blog post .. you wouldn't want to be disqualified from winning a prize just because you didn't!
   

Remember : you may enter up to three different entries per challenge, each from a separate entry on your blog.

We can't wait to see what you have for us!

NEW RELEASES : SUNDAY, 5 AUGUST

Unfortunately Margy was unexpectedly called away from home to attend to family matters, and will be away all week.  For this reason she was unable to add the beautiful cards made by the talented Digistamps 4 Joy Design Team to her post showing you all the new releases.

We wouldn't want to deprive you of these beauties :

ELENOR (using ZEN BIRD)

STEF (using FUCHSIA)

URSULA (using FUCHSIA)

JEN (using ZEN BIRD)

JEN (using FUCHSIA)

Aren't the cards really lovely this week?  

Click HERE to link to the post showing ALL the new images released in the store today.

Okay - that's the fun stuff, and now onto the not-so-fun stuff, but we feel we should let you know:

If you place an order in the store, please be a little patient as Margy is away from home and your 'delivery' may be delayed for a few hours.

There won't be any new releases next Sunday (11 August) as Margy will be attending to family matters so she won't be able to digitize any drawings for you.  However, there will be a TUTORIAL with a free template for you next Sunday, and some DT inspiration to go with it.

On the following Sunday (18 August) watch out for a 

BUMPER PACK OF NEW RELEASES!!! 


We look forward to seeing what you create with today's newbies!


Have a wonderful creative week!
Jen Leeflang
DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY DT LEAD

NEW RELEASES - Sunday 5th August

Here are our new releases for Sunday 5th August 

A lot of babies and flowers in this release, but they are gorgeous!
Note: The artists' name is in brackets. Click on the category link to take you directly to the shop. 

10 Tiny Toes (Jen) (Babies & Toddlers)	Cry baby (Jen) (Babies & Toddlers)
Garden gate (Jen) (Backgrounds)	Our secret (Jen) (Babies & Toddlers)
Telephone Tammy (Jen) (Babies & Toddlers)	Zen bird (Jen) (Animals)
Bougainvillea (Jen)  (Flowers)	Fuchsia (Jen) (Flowers)
Hyacinth (Jen)  (Flowers)	Vintage debutante (Jen) (Divas by design)

Karin made a lovely card using the FUCHSIA image and the GARDEN GATE image

I have had to attend to a family matter, so did not have time to post the cards that the other DY have made. Please therefore visit their blogs and leave a comment on their cards.

FREEBIE FRIDAY - 3rd AUGUST 2012

NOTE: This image is now only available in the DS4J store.
It's the first Friday of AUGUST and it's therefore time for another Digistamps4Joy FREEBIE! We know you will love this one as it's a really REALLY useful background image, designed by Jen. The freebie is only available for 2 days (3-5 August), after which it will go to our SHOP. Some of our DT have made up stunning cards with this image.

Desire added the "Juvenile Trio" image onto the freebie

 Jan used Betty Bucket with her background image

Jen added a poem to her background image on the card

Karen added Emma to her background

Jen added TWO images (Mom and me; Back to school Bernie) to her background

Want to know how to add an image to the background image? You will need the PNG file format of the top image as that has a transparent background. Layer the PNG image on top of the background image in your Word software, and then print the composed picture. As easy as that!

THIS WAS THE FREEBIE!

PLEASE NOTE: This image may NOT be shared, posted on another blog, website, or forum. Please direct people to this blog post. Only the owner of DS4J has the right to distribute the freebie.

MIDWAY THROUGH CHALLENGE #47 :: POLKA DOTS AND STRIPES

You have just under a week left to enter our challenge

POLKA DOTS AND STRIPES

We're challenging you to make a papercraft creation incorporating the patterns of polka dots AND stripes

We have had some really beautiful entries, such as this Fairy Happy Birthday card by Pumpy:

We have some more inspiration for you, firstly from our talented Guest Designer ...

Sandra created this beautiful shaped multifold card featuring the Digistamps4Joy image called "Summer Ice Cream"

You can visit Sandra's blog, "Cards and Creativity" to see this talented lady's creations! 

The ladies of our uber-talented Design Team have these fabulous creations to inspire you:

Charlene has featured "Sophisti-Kat" on her ever so elegant trifold shutter card:

Karin features the image "Bumble Bee with Honey" on her beautifully constructed card:

Ursula has used "Hot Cactus" as the feature image on her lovely bright and sunny card":

Don 't you love those fantastic creations!?

By entering you could win one of these prizes:

DT'S CHOICE : $10 gift voucher from the store and a badge for your blog

RANDOM WINNER : 3 images of your choice from the store and a badge for your blog

and

2 runners up will win badges for their blogs

We have introduced an extra prize ....

... the chance to feature as a Guest Designer and earn a badge to add to your blog:

And how do you get to be a Guest Designer?

Easy-peasy - if you enter our challenge using a Digistamps 4 Joy image, you have a chance of being invited as a Guest Designer.   

Are you ready to create something fabulous?

Remember to link your post, not your blog, to the linky tool here.

And what if you don 't have a blog ... you can still enter by emailing the photograph of your entry to jencraft.jen[at]gmail[dot]com, with "DS4J CHALLENGE #47 EMAIL ENTRY" in the subject line.  Don 't forget to add your name in your email.

We have a few rules we'd like you to read ... check out the sidebar ->->->

Remember to add a link to this challenge in your blog post .. you wouldn't want to be disqualified from winning a prize just because you didn't!
   

Remember : you may enter up to three different entries per challenge, each from a separate entry on your blog.

We can't wait to see what you have for us!

Remember to link up HERE