Challenge #13: It's All Fun and Games

Welcome to another Sentimental Sunday!

  

I was surprised to see so many wonderful entries for last week's challenge! I know a lot of us struggle to make things for men and I hope that all your wonderful cards go to some very deserving men :) Also, I'm so glad to see that so many of you keep coming back to play with us.  We love seeing your creations every week!

Here's our random winner of Challenge #9: 

#31 Lisa

 

  Congratulations! As mentioned in the last challenge, The prize is four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs Section.  Please email me (Ann) at raindropecho@gmail.com to get details about your prize :)

This week's challenge is:
It's All Fun and Games
Playful or funny card

(plus a sentiment)

Of course, what YOU define as fun or funny or playful is all up to you! If you can explain how it fits into your challenge and you have a sentiment on your creation, then come join us this week.

Here are some super fun cards created by the design team:

Ann E.

 

Anesha

Annika

Bonnie Rose

Ceal

Christine

Joanna

Kimberly

A note about this week's freebie:

Every other week, will be creating freebie sentiments picked by a member of the design team.  These are some of their favorite sentiments! Sometimes they will match the theme, sometimes they won't, but I still hope you enjoy ALL them.  This week the freebie is a set of three sentiments chosen by our design team member, Renate! Renate's cute and bright creations always make me smile! This week, she's chosen a bear theme which I hope you all enjoy!

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

Free sentiments are only available for one week.

For more sentiments like this, please visit the Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments Collection at Whimsy Stamps.

A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!

The prize for this challenge will be four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs at Whimsy Stamps.

When uploading to SCS, PCP, SNR, or other galleries, please use the keyword "sentimentalsundays13" Thank you!

Challenge #12: For Men

Welcome to another Sentimental Sunday!

  

Sorry ladies (and gentlemen?) this post is going to be really short! It's blistering hot and these days, and I cannot stand to sit more than a few minutes in front of the computer.  I know some of you know how I feel! So, let's get on with it :)

Here's our random winner of Challenge #9: 

#2 Susan's Crafty Chaos

  

Congratulations! As mentioned in the last challenge, The prize is four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs Section.  Please email me (Ann) at raindropecho@gmail.com to get details about your prize :)

This week's challenge is:
For Men

(plus a sentiment)

Yep, break out those manly colors, manly stamps, and manly sentiments :)  Here are the DT's always amazing creations:

Alicia

Ann E.

Anesha

Annika

Bonnie Rose

Ceal

Christine

Joanna

Kimberly

Renate

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

Free sentiments are only available for one week.

For more sentiments like this, please visit the Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments Collection at Whimsy Stamps.

A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!

The prize for this challenge will be four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs at Whimsy Stamps.

When uploading to SCS, PCP, SNR, or other galleries, please use the keyword "sentimentalsundays12" Thank you!

Challenge #11: I can see clearly now...

Welcome to another Sentimental Sunday!

  

I hope that your weekend is going well so far!  I know that there are several places that are really starting to feel the summer heat, but for some of you (my Australian friends), winter is really starting to set in.  Whatever weather you're having, thanks for taking the time to visit us today!

Here's our random winner of Challenge #9: 

37. Leanne Garner  

 

Congratulations! As mentioned in the last challenge, The prize is four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs Section.  Please email me (Ann) at raindropecho@gmail.com to get details about your prize :)

This week's challenge is:
  I can see clearly now...

Use a clear element on your creation

(plus a sentiment)

I was amazed at how the design team incorporated their clear elements into their creations! I hope you get inspired by them like I did :)  Here are the stunning cards they came up with: 

Ann V.

Anesha

Ann E.

Annika

Bonnie Rose

Ceal

Cheryl

Christine

Joanna

Renate

A note about this week's freebie:

Every other week, will be creating freebie sentiments picked by a member of the design team.  These are some of their favorite sentiments! Sometimes they will match the theme, sometimes they won't, but I still hope you enjoy ALL them.  This week the freebie is a set of three sentiments chosen by our design team member, Anesha! Anesha's creations are always so inspirational because she uses sentiments and quotes that celebrate life.  Every time I see one of her creations, it just brings me a little serenity :) We're lucky to have her on the team!

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

Free sentiments are only available for one week.

For more sentiments like this, please visit the Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments Collection at Whimsy Stamps.

The prize for this challenge will be four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs at Whimsy Stamps.

When uploading to SCS, PCP, SNR, or other galleries, please use the keyword "sentimentalsundays11" Thank you!
 

Challenge #10: Celebrations!

Welcome to another Sentimental Sunday!

Happy 4th of July to our American players!

  

I hope you all got to send those cards of encouragement and support last week.  They were fantastic and I'm sure the recipients appreciated the time and effort that you put into them.

Here's our random winner of Challenge #9: 

27. Shelly

Congratulations! As mentioned in the last challenge, the prize is a digital sentiment set of four sentiments of your choosing or two sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Sentiments Collection.  Please email me (Ann) at raindropecho@gmail.com to get details about your prize :)

Before I get to today's challenge, I have some special announcements:

Want to join in on a card drive? This card drive is for Michelle Oatman (http://donkeysmiles.blogspot.com/) who recently suffered the loss of one eye.  The ladies at A Spoon Full of Sugar blog and Just Magnolia blog are holding a card drive for Michelle starting Tuesday, so please visit those challenge blogs then.  Whimsy Stamps has also joined in and one of our artists, Melissa Jenkins, created a special image for you to use.  This freebie, along with some coordinating sentiments that I've created, will be available on the Whimsy Stamps store on Tuesday.  So please, if you can, squeeze in a card for Michelle.  If you create one (and please send it to her), send me either a link to your blog post or a picture and I will send you a sentiment set from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Sentiments Collection of your choice.   Thank you for your generosity; I'm sure Michelle will appreciate it, too!

Want to grab another freebie? There is a freebie up at Cheryl's blog, one of our DT sisters here at Sentimental Sundays.  Operate Write Home is having a "birthday" blog hop in celebration of the 4th of July. You can head to her blog to grab the freebie, because after the hop is over, it will no longer be available. If you want to create a card for our troops, you can also download the For The Troops sentiment freebie at my blog post here.

Okay, back to the challenge!

This week's challenge is:
Celebrations!

(plus a sentiment)

In honor of our July 4th celebrations in the US this weekend, this week we're asking you to create a card with a celebration theme! It can be a birthday, a wedding (it is the season afterall) or just about celebrating life.  I've been bogged down with so much work this week that I didn't have time to create a card, but here's plenty of inspiration from the design team:

Alicia

Ann E.

Anesha

Annika

Bonnie Rose

Ceal

Cheryl

Christine

Kimberly

Renate

A little change to the freebies offered at this blog:

A lot of time and effort goes into creating the digital sentiments and starting today, freebies will only be offered for a period of one week.  Afterwards, they will be available for sale at the Raindrop Echo Designs Collection at Whimsy Stamps.  The freebies given in previous challenges will also be removed after this week.  To compensate, the challenge prize will now be FOUR sentiment sets of the winner's choosing AND your choice of a custom watermark/signature set.  

Thank you for understanding!

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

Free sentiments are only available for one week.

For more sentiments like this, please visit the Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments Collection at Whimsy Stamps.

The prize for this challenge will be four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs at Whimsy Stamps.

When uploading to SCS, PCP, SNR, or other galleries, please use the keyword "sentimentalsundays10" Thank you!