Challenge #27: Birthdays!

Welcome another Sentimental Sunday!

...and Happy Halloween!

Can you believe it?  It's already almost November!  Pretty soon the holidays will be right around the corner and I'll be freaking out about how getting Christmas gifts on time.  Eeek, let's not think about that for now :)  We should live one day at a time and enjoy the now!  So let's move on to TODAY'S festivities.

Here's our random winner of the last challenge:

#41 Janice

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

This week's challenge is:
Birthdays!

(plus a sentiment)

Please give a big, warm welcome to some of our new DT members!  These is the first time that some of them are joining us and we're so glad that they have.  Just take a look at all the eye candy that they've created for you this week!

Ann E.

Annika

Ceal

Cheryl

Christine

Jess

Kimberly

Kristina

Melissa

Nicole

Shirley 

Tameko

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, Ann E!  Ann E, or Tall Ann as I affectionately refer to her, is so great to have on the team! She has a wonderful sense of humor and a wonderful devotion to sentiments.  Thanks for the perfect quotes this week, Ann!

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 INDIVIDUAL 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 "sentimentalsundays27" Thank you!

Challenge #26: Distressing

Welcome another Sentimental Sunday!

First, we would like to announce the new members of the Sentimental Sundays team!  I must say that everyone made it VERY difficult because we had outstanding applicants.  You all blew us away!  As you can see, it was really hard to narrow down the amount of team members so we've chosen a whopping 15 new members. Here are the newest additions to the Sentimental Sundays team:

Amy - Papertrails Lover
Dorcas - Dorcas Designs
Jeanet - Creaplekkie van Jeanet
Jess - Playing With Paper
Kristina - Reflections of a Happy Crafter
Lisa - This 'n' That
Melissa - My Paper Obsession
Nicole - Mullen Images
Sally - Sally's Bits and Bobs
Shirley - Shirl's Cards
Susan - The Two Pink Ladies
Sylvia - Poppy's Papercraft Patch
Tameko - Creating My Peace
Tracy - Tracy's Stamping Corner
Tracey - Crafty Corner

You'll be able to get to them know a little later as they pick their sentiments and as their bio and pictures go up on the Design Team page HERE.

Now that you've met the new team members, it's time to get on with this week's festivities.

Here's our random winner of the last challenge:

#21. Christi Hicks 

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 us at sentimentalsundays@raindropecho.com to get details about your prize :)

This week's challenge is:
Distressing

(plus a sentiment)

Please don't stress out about this challenge (I know, bad joke) because here at Sentimental Sundays we're all about fun! The design team did a wonderful job as always.  Just take a look at their distressed creations:

Ann V.

Annika

Ceal

Cheryl

Christine

Joanna

Kimberly

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 individual 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 "sentimentalsundays26" Thank you!

Sentimental Sundays DT Call

DT CALL CLOSED

I can't believe the Sentimental Sundays blog has been running for almost six months! The days have flown by and I still feel lucky every day for the fun we get to have each week.


I would not have been able to keep it going without the talent and support from the lovely ladies here at the Sentimental Sundays.  Recently, Anesha and Renate has decided to step down from the team.  We'll miss them tremendously, but because of that, we've decided to put up our second DT Call to look for talented, easy-going, dedicated, and fun-loving individuals to join our Sentimental Family.


Here's some info:
1.  Create a project (card, scrapbook, digital layout, alter item, anything) using any sentiment an incorporating the challenge theme at least TWICE A MONTH.  You do not have to create weekly, though we (the team and those who visit the blog) love to see your creations!  Comment on participant entries (we divvy it up) - this is very important!  Everyone loves comments.  Join the Sentimental Sundays Yahoo group for DT communication and to chit-chat and share your creations.

2.  You will have access to all the digital sentiments I create for sale (such as the ones for Whimsy Stamps here) or others that I may sell elsewhere in the future.  Of course, you also have access to all my free digital sentiment sets.  If we have sponsors, you will have access to sponsor products if/when they are offered to the team.  You will receive a free watermark and/or signature set from the Custom Digital Designs section.  Though you have free access to all my digital sentiments, you are not required to use them for the challenges.  I greatly appreciate it if you do, but of course, I know there are lots of other wonderful sentiments out there and I never want to limit anyone's creativity :)

3.  Your name and blog link will be displayed on the sidebar and permanently displayed on the Design Team page.

Design team call ends Monday, October 18.  The new members will be announced on October 23.

To apply, please email me (Ann) at sentimentalsundays@raindropecho.com with your name, email address, blog address, and why you would like the join the Sentimental Sundays team. This is a very carefree team and designed-to-be-fun group so I'm looking for some laid back individuals who just love to craft.  If that's you, I would love to hear from you!

Looking forward to seeing all your fantastic entries!

Challenge #25: Black and white plus one!

Welcome again to another Sentimental Sunday!

I apologize that this post is a little late; thank you all for your patience.  It's been somewhat of a strange weekend for me and I couldn't really sit down at my desk to create the freebie and put together the post until now.  I hope you all understand.

Well, you've been waiting long enough so I won't make you wait any longer :)

Here's our random winner of Challenge #24:

#24 Lena

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:
Black and White Plus One

(and a sentiment)

I've always loved classic black and white with pops of color!  I think this color combination, whatever the third color may be, really make a great impact on cards.  I hope you agree that the design team creations below certainly are breath-taking!

Ann E.

Annika

Ceal

Cheryl

Christine

Joanna

Kimberly

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 "sentimentalsundays25" Thank you!

A tad late...

Hello everyone!  Sorry, I'm running a little late on the post and freebie, but it should be up later tonight.  Thank you for your patience!

Challenge #24: Tag it!

Welcome again to another Sentimental Sunday!

 

Thank you for the wonderful turnout last week!  Those lovely autumn creations really got me in the mood for the season, even though we had some strange weather here in Southern California this week (one day it's raining, the next day is sweltering hot).  Remember, we still have a DT Call going on (see post above) so make sure to get your applications in.  The quality of applications we've received so far has been great; this will definitely be a tough choice.

Here's our random winner of Challenge #23:

#34 Debs R

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:
Tag, You're it!

(plus a sentiment)

We'd love to see you create some tags!  The holiday season is slowly (or quickly for some) creeping up on us so why not get started on those tags? I've always had trouble creating them, but all our players always impress me with what they come up with.  Just like the design team!  Take a look at their creations featuring tags: 

Ann E.

Annika

Cheryl

Christine

Ceal

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 "sentimentalsundays" Thank you!

Challenge #23: Autumn or fall and a DT CALL!

Welcome again to another Sentimental Sunday!

Wow, thank you for all your amazing entries last week. We had a great turn out! Everyone seems to LOVE to layer and add dimension to their creations! Before we get on with today's festivities, I'd like to mention the DT Call that we're currently having. You can see all the information in the post above, or click here to be taken to the post.

Having mentioned that, let's get on with the fun!

Here's our random winner of Challenge #22:

#34 Bonnie McLain

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:
Autumn or Fall

(plus a sentiment)

Come on ladies (and gentlemen?), I know you've been noticing those hundreds of other challenges out there asking you to create an autumn or fall card, so why not throw in a sentiment and combine our challenge with them? We love to see you mix it up here at Sentimental Sundays! For inspiration, here are the design team's wonderful autumn creations:

Ann V.

Ann E.

Cheryl

Christine

Joanna

Ceal

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, Cheryl! I really can't say enough about Cheryl. She's a kind, helpful person who so graciously offers her time and her wonderful talent to this team. We're so lucky to have you, Cheryl!

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 "sentimentalsundays23" Thank you!