NEW RELEASES - 21st October 2012

Here are our new releases 

Our artists have been busy creating some super images for you! 

Note: The artists' name is in brackets. Click on the category link to take you directly to the shop. 

Illegal parking zone (CC/Janel) (Holidays)	Pocket love (CC/Janel) (Animals)
Acapella cats (Jen) (Animals)	The secret ingredient (Jen) (Cutie Pies)
Thanksgiving topiary (Jen) (Holidays)	Supper's ready (David) (Cultures)
Hawaiian dolphin (Margy) (Animals)	Ice skates (Margy) (Holidays)
We see 'ewe' (Margy) (Animals)	Underwater scene (Margy) (Backgrounds)

The DT were given "Underwater Scene" to play with and here are their wonderful creations!

Karin

   Jen (who added Smiling Mermaid and Mom & Daughter)

  Alex (who added Seahorse and Fishy)

And JEN made gorgeous cards with some of the other images!

Image used is "Thanksgiving topiary" drawn by Jen

Image used is "Illegal parking area" from Country Crafts (Janel range)

Image used is "We see 'ewe'" drawn by Margy

Image used is "The Secret Ingredient" drawn by Jen

Image used is "Pocket love" from Janel (Country Crafts)

Margy created this card
Image used is "Suppers' ready" drawn by Margy's dad in 1951

Marcy drew the image "Ice skates" and created this centre-stepper card

  Thanks for visiting and we hope you enjoyed our showcase!  

All of these images are now available in the DS4J Shop.

DIGISTAMPS SALE - 24-27 OCTOBER !!

ADVANCE WARNING .......

Digistamps4Joy is holding a 3-day SALE of all the

CUTIE PIES and DIVAS BY DESIGN  'girly' images in the store!

ALL these 'girly' images are marked down by 30%

The SALE is running from

Midnight 24th October

to

Midnight 27th October

(Central African Time)

CHALLENGE #53: ANYTHING GOES - with a masculine twist 'bonus'

This fortnight we are challenging you to create a project in our challenge

“Anything Goes!”

 … but with a masculine twist bonus

Enter your projects (there’s a limit to 3 per crafter), for a chance to win 3 images
of your choice from the store.

The BONUS is that if your papercraft project is suitable for a man, you will also go into a separate random draw for ANOTHER  3 images from  the store!

As usual, if you use a DS4J image on your project, you will get the chance to win a $10 voucher to spend in the store.

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

BERNI's creation features the image Football Phil

ELENOR's creation features the image Juvenile Trio

  KAREN's creation features the image Men's Tie  

 

URSULA's creation features the image Canoeist

Don 't you think that those are perfect creations for a man of any age??

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 ONE image and badges for their blogs

BONUS PRIZE (if you create a masculine card): 3 images from the store! 

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 Digistamps4Joy 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 #53EMAIL 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 post on your blog.

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

We do have a special request:

We understand that many crafters celebrate Halloween but ask that you restrict your entries to those that are not demonic, scary, blood-curdling or dark.  We like to keep our challenge child-friendly.

NEW RELEASES - 14th October 2012

Here are our new releases 

A mixed bag but some super images! We focused with our main showcase image, on the month of October which is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Remember ladies - get checked please!
Note: The artists' name is in brackets. Click on the category link to take you directly to the shop. 

Flowers from Heaven (CC/Janel) (Fantasy)	Patience is a virtue (CC/Janel) (Animals)
Talk about fast food! (David) (Boys 'n toys)	Country boy (CC/Janel) (Boys 'n toys)
Steampunk spider (Jen) (Animals)	Felicity (Jen) (Divas by design)
Quackers for you (Jen) (Animals)	Turban Trish (Jen) (Divas by design)
Balancing act (Jen) (Animals)	Fishing tackle (Margy) (Boys 'n their toys)
Winston (David) (Boys 'n their toys)	Chief "Bones" (David) (Cultures)

The DT were given "Turban Trish" to play with and these are their wonderful creations!

Alex

    Berni

 

Jen

Ursula

Karin

Karen

And then JEN made gorgeous cards with some of the other images!

Image used is "Fishing Tackle" by Margy

Image used is "Chief Bones" drawn by Margy's dad in 1952

Image used is "Steampunk spider" by Jen

Image used is "Felicity" by Jen

Margy created this card
Image used is "Winston" drawn by Margy's dad in 1951

  Thanks for visiting and we hope you enjoyed our showcase!  

All of these images are now available in the DS4J Shop.

BLOG HOP WINNERS

Yippee, we can announce the WINNERS of the Blog Hop!

So, without further ado, here is the full list of winners per blog.
The DT confirmed that they all used RANDOM.ORG to select their winners.

Blog Hop owner	Winner
Digistamps4Joy	Madaleen
JenLee	Laurian
Amanda	Teresa Arsenaut
Angela	Charlene Mitchell
Berni	Yvonne Morentin
Charlene	Pumpy
Desire	Sophia Allison
Elenor	Michelle Ramsay
Margy	Georgia Ehrmann
Karen	Georgia Ehrmann
Karin	Doreen
Ursula	Shari Nelson

All the winners must please send MARGY an email stating whose blog they won on. 

EMAIL: info{at}digistamps4joy{dot}co{dot}za

MIDWAY THROUGH CHALLENGE #52 : "YOU'VE BEEN TAGGED!"

You have just under a week left to enter our challenge!!!

We're challenging you to enter a papercraft papercraft creation that IS or INCORPORATES at TAG that is quirky, fun, serious or punny!

We have already had some wonderfully creative entries, such as this beautiful card with a tag by Jennifer Scull.

Please pop over to Jennifer's blog and leave her some love - when you read her post you will realize that she needs some help in putting her 'brave girl boots' on right now!

And now, some more inspiration from the talented Design Team B:

BERNI

CHARLENE

 featured image : VINTAGE LANTERN GIRL

ELENOR

featured image : BREAST CANCER AWARENESS SET

KAREN

 featured image : FRECKLE FACED BALLERINA

URSULA

featured image : URCHIN ANGEL

JEN

featured image : PEEKABOO BABY

 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 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 #51EMAIL 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!

You will find the challenge entry linky HERE.

A NEW DESIGN TEAM MEMBER FOR DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY

Our DT Call is over and then came the hard work ... sifting through the applications, shortlisting and final selection.

Firstly we'd like to thank each one of the applicants for your interest in serving on our team .. we so wish that we could have a team of 20 because everyone had such awesome talents that Digistamps 4 Joy could certainly benefit by, but sadly, we could choose only one.

Please join us in welcoming the talented designer we selected to join us ...

ALEX

from the United Kingdom

We'll let Alex introduce herself to you:

  "I teach art and design, paper craft and sugar craft for Adult Education and a local hobby store in an area of Kent in the UK. My background originally was hair and beauty, I worked in the family business  for ten years, after my first husband passed away from cancer. By that time my mum wanted to retire so I re-trained as a teacher, firstly teaching hair and beauty and then moving to art and design and sugar craft.

 I got the crafting bug about three years ago and with my design background I am able to make a small living from teaching.  Cards are my passion along with anything Spellbinders.

In my spare time I help with animal rescue, mainly kittens who have no mum. I married my second husband this year and I have 2 sons, both of whom have left home, and three step children:  twins (a boy and a girl) and another step son,  who all live in Rome. 

I have one dog and two cats."

 Alex, it sounds as if you will fit perfectly into our team and you are very welcome here!

Please visit Alex's blog:

PRETTY PAPER AND INKY FINGERS