Guest DT Call

Saturday 31 January 2009
Hey everyone!
We're on the look out for 12 guest designers for 2010!!
woooo hooo!
It's a chance to design for Charisma for a whole month! that mean's we're looking for not 1 but 12 designers!
If you meet the following criteria then please please we'd love to hear from you!
*You must be an active blogger between 3-5 posts a week
*Be avalible for the month 4 or 5 challenges depending on what month you are given
*Have high standards of colouring
and
*Be able to photograph your work
***Benifits***
1. You'll be with us for a whole month!
2. You'll get freebies
3. You get to work with a bunch of lovely girls!
Please leave your name & email address below and what months you CAN'T design for.
Closes 20th November 2009 or before if we find the right designers!
you'll be notified if chosen asap!
The Charisma Gals
xXx
***Please note***
The following months are now taken:
Jan
Feb
March
April
may
June
july
August
September
October
November
December

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR APPLYING!

This GDT call is now closed!

CHARISMA CARDZ CHALLENGE # 4

Thursday 29 January 2009
Hello everyone and welcome!

To

Charisma Cardz Thursday Challenge

Week # 4

THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED

Thank you to everyone who took part in Paula’s LOVE challenge last week the entries were amazing and the team really enjoyed seeing all your lovely creations.
This week it’s my turn Vee to set the challenge. The theme I have chosen is

Black and White, with one other colour of your choice
You can have as much or as little of the other colour as you like, as long as there is Black and White there too.
Remember this can be interpreted any way you like. Create a card, an ATC, a scrapbook page or any altered item, there is no restriction on the image you use either. You can see the full rules on the sidebar.


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This week here at Charisma Cardz we are proud to be sponsored by...


Jane Aldrige has very kindly donated this Personal Impressions Wooden Mounted Stamp for
this weeks winner!


The stamp is from the 'Beryl Peters Collection'
worth approx £8.99
Jane Alridge card's is a lovely online store aswell as offering participation in there own craft club! why not check out the site! she's a large card making, scrapbooking and many many other wonders stockist.

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Here are this weeks DT cards for inspiration



CARLY

PAULA
Guest Designer - SHARON
LEANNE

VEE

The team are looking forward to visiting your blogs to see all your amazing creations , and
remember to check back here next Thursday for another challenge and to see the winner of this weeks Prize.

For the winner of the 3rd Challenge LOVE, please see the post below. Good luck everybody and thanks for joining us this week.


Winner of Challenge 3 LOVE

First of all i just wanted to Thank everyone one who enterd our 3rd Challenge last week all of your entry's were Fantastic and myself (Paula) and the DT really enjoyed visiting all of your blog's so thankyou. Now onto the Winner of the Love Challenge i have used Random.Org to choose the Winner and that is .......................................

Here are your random number's : 37
Timestamp: 2009-01-29-11:33.33
UTC
That is Val ( Happy Crafter ) From The crafting pad. Congratulation's Val please could you email Carly @ carlzcardz@live.co.uk and she will send your lovely prize out to you asap.
The Lovely Vee will anounce the next challenge later today. Hope to see you back here soon. Paula xxxx

Charisma Cardz Challenge Number 3!

Thursday 22 January 2009
Hello everyone and welcome!
to
Charisma Cardz Thursday Challenges
WEEK 3


Thank you to all the lovely people out there that joined in last week's fantasy challenge set by Leanne. Your entries were incredible, so thank you for taking the time to support our challenge blog! I'm Paula and it's my turn to set the challenge this week and I've decided that "All you need is......"
Love

This can be interpreted in anyway you like! Create a card, atc, scrapbook page or altered item. You can use any type of image you want to!! Remember, you can see our rules on the sidebar.


This week here at Charisma Cardz we are proud to be sponsored by...

And Carly has thrown in some 3D Decoupage!!


Taken from Beth Hughes Roses and Daisies Kit
Designed by Beth Hughes, this mini kit centres around the assortment of pretty card plaques that have a variety of preprinted messages to fill them. Added to the plaques you also get a lovely assortment of matching A4 background papers and some subtle printed vellum sheets (vellum not in pic) - Full kit available to buy from Papercraft Clearance for only £8.76
Carly has also added a couple of flower 3D Decoupage sheets in with the mini kit
And Carly has thrown in some 3D Decoupage!!

Now for some inspiration from our DT















Leanne




We cant wait to visit all your blogs to see what you have made with the Love theme!
Remember to check back next Thursday when we'll set a new challenge and to find out who will win this weeks prize.

For the winner of our second challenge, please see the post below!
Happy Crafting!!


Entrys By E-mail -

Jackie
E-mailed in saying ' Just 'LOVE' this challenge!'
Think the challenges are super....hope you like my layout!



Alexandra

Emailed in all the way from france! it's her first time over at charisma cardz challenges.

Keep them coming in!!

Winner of the FANTASY challenge 2

Hello there!!

What another great week and wonderful entries we had into the FANTASY challenge. Thank you all very much for entering and for producing such wonderful interpretations of the challenge.

Now, the very hard task of choosing a winner was down to me Leanne. After spending ages going through all the entries, I have finally chosen.....




Dawn from Crafty Ramblings.

This entry stood out to me not only as the image was so stunning, but the way that Dawn has put it all together, the flowers, colours, wording - everything is spot on.

Congratulations Dawn!!

Dawn - can you please e-mail Carly at carlzcardz@live.co.uk so that she can e-mail you the gorgeous prize from Crafty Muse.

Challenge No. 3 will be annouced later today by our DT member, Paula.

Hope to see you back here soon!

Happy crafting!

Charisma Cardz Challenge Number 2!

Thursday 15 January 2009
Hello everyone and welcome!


Charisma Cardz Thursday Challenges


WEEK 2

Well, what can I say? What an absolutely fantastic first week for Charisma Cardz Challenges. We had 85 entries into the PINK challenge, set by the lovely Carly. All the entries were outstanding, so thank you for taking the time to support our challenge blog! Hopefully, you are now a firm follower and are waiting desperately to hear what this weeks challenge is!

Now, the task for setting this weeks challenge fell onto my shoulders (Leanne), so how on earth do I top last week? Well, after many an hour of pondering, I have decided on.....

..... wait for it......
....The Theme of....


FANTASY!



This can be interpreted in anyway you like!
Create a card, atc, scrapbook page or altered item. You can use any type of image you want to!!

A reminder of the rules:

1. Post your project on your blog with a link to our challenge.
2. Leave a comment on this blog with a link to your work.
3.If you don't have a blog you can email your projects at carlzcardz@live.co.uk and we will add them to the blog.

This week here at Charisma Cardz we are proud to be sponsered by...





Crafty Muse is a challenge blog as well! and also sammi sells some very cute downloads for everyone to colour in!
This week's prize up for grabs is
Crafty Muse's Princess Amber Digital download!! 7 very lovely pretty fairys!!





Inspriation from the team

Leanne





Paula





Vee




Joanne


Sharron - Guest DT




We cant wait to visit all your blogs to see what you have made with Leanne's theme Fantasy!. Remember to check back next Thursday when we'll set a new challenge.



For the winner of our first challenge, please see the post below!



Happy Crafting!!

Email Entrys -

Anne

Winner Of Challenge 1

Hello all!!
What a fantastic week we've had! Me (Carly) and the design team are amazed on our first week just how many of you took part! thank you to each and everyone one of you! I wish i could pick you all as winners!


However the winner for challenge 1 PINK set by me is.......


CATHY from ELLIESKEEPER'S CREATIONS

I loved her card seems i got the feeling she doesn't like pink!


Cathy did a fantastic job! the papers are simply lovely and i love the pink spotty ones hehe and of course you girls know i love flowers!!


Well Done Cathy


Could you please e-mail me at carlzcardz@live.co.uk and i'll get the lovely paula to send out you winning prize!
CHALLENGE 2 Will be set by our DT member Leanne later on today!


Happy Crafting
Carly xxx

Charisma Cardz Challenge Week 1

Thursday 8 January 2009


Hello everyone and welcome to our first challenge here at



Charisma Cardz Thursday Challenges



Have you all been waiting with baited breath? The DT have been so excited waiting for this day, but at last it has arrived. Firstly we'd like to apologise for keeping you waiting all day today (We were due to go live at 7pm however the DT didn't get my e-mail blasted msn! , But.. thanks to sharon she's uploaded it all for me! thanks hun!




As this is our first challenge it has been set by Carly (me)! I thought she’d keep it simple, well simple ish…..This week is theme week! and the chosen theme is:



PINK!


Create a card, atc, scrapbook page or altered item. You can use any type of image you want to!!

Now for the rules
1. Post your project on your blog with a link to our challenge.
2. Leave a comment on this blog with a link to your work.
3.If you don't have a blog you can email your projects at Carlzcardz@live.co.uk and we will add them to the blog.




The prize this week has kindly been donated by our very own Paula. Ain't she a darling!!




Here's some inspiration from the design team:









Our Guest Designer - Sharon

We cant wait to visit all your blogs to see what you have made in pink. Remember to check back next Thursday when we'll set a new challenge and Carly will let you know who the winner of this week's prize is.

Happy Crafting!!

E-MAIL ENTRY'S...

Jacqueline Edwards
Emailed in saying ''It was nice having this challenge as I have two grandsons and usually scrap 'blue'....don't think to do pink!!!
Thought this was good of my youngest grandson eating a peach and so suitable!!''

Katherine
LavenderCards
Emailed in it's her first time playing along with any challenge... this is what she came up with!

Sandra

Kim Thompson


Anita's

Sue McCormack


Toni Shepherd


Alyssa

Terri

Emailed in saying: Good luck with the new challenge blog. Looks to me like it will be very successfull. This is my first ever challenge so I hope you like my entry. I got the datils from the fab Sally Ann at Love to Doodle.

Welcome to Charisma Cardz Challenges

Thursday 1 January 2009
Hello all crafters!
Welcome to our New Challenge Blog!
Our grand 1st opening challenge will be set on the 8th January 2009!
We will run every thursday!
Welcome to the 4 new DT Members (Paula, Vee, Leanne and Joanne) congratulations girls on making the Design Team!!!
And Congratulations to Sharon who is joing us for the next month or so as a Guest DT member! :-) Look forward to crafting with you all!
Please don't forget to bookmark us! add our challenge blinkie to your blogs!
Happy Crafting
Carly xXx