Sunday 28 August 2011

Welcome to the Design Team

For our current challenge please click HERE 

Good morning, what an exciting day it is for us here at Anything Goes HQ as you all know we have had a design team call.  It was a very difficult decision to make as we had so many wonderful entries.  Thank you to everyone that entered.  If you are still interested in joining our team please put your name down to become a guest designer HERE 

Lets now introduce the new team 
First up is..

Sharon Keanly 

Greetings from South Africa.... I am absolutely thrilled to be a Designer for Anything Goes Challenge Blog.

A little bit about me... My name is Sharon and I live in the coastal city of Cape Town, where I get to view the majestic Table Mountain every day. How lucky am I? Card-making is my speciality, although I have tried making a few other items too. I love starting out with a blank canvas and then sitting back after a few hours to see what I've managed to produce. Pretty paper, ribbon, flowers and rubber stamps are my weakness. As I work full-time, my crafting time is limited to evenings and weekends. This is when I get to relax and play. A friend and I have regular 'play dates' via skype-ing, where we chat and craft for hours on end. I am also Mom to a wonderful daughter, who is an Attorney and Conveyancer. She’s my pride and joy! I hope you enjoy viewing my creations as much as I enjoy sharing them with you. 

hugs Sharon
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Kathleen aka Kat
 

Hi Im Kathleen, or Kat for short, Ive been married to Mike for 16 years, I have 3 kids, Meghan 14, Alex 4, and Maya 18 months. I also had another son Charlie who was born with major health problems, he battled through many operations, illnesses and disability for 9 years, he lost his battle in January 2010, But I am proud every day of what he did and I feel lucky to have been his mum.
I also have a very stupid westie called Bobby, who never fails to amaze me just how daft he is!!
I started card making around 7 years ago to help keep me sane (debatable!! lol), I have been stamping in one way or another for many years but last year I discovered Tilda, hAnglar & sTanglar, Elisabeth bell etc and very quickly became hooked. I tend to flit between prismas and promarkers. I am fairly new to blogging but I have become addicted to it.

I feel so honoured and delighted to have been asked to join the Anything goes design team, and I cant wait to get started.

Hugs Kat xxx
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Elaine 

Hi, I'm Elaine, married to Andy for 22 years, we have three children, two boys aged 16 and 14 and a little girl who is 4 years old.
I have been crafting with all things since I was a very little girl. I used to make things a la Blue Peter and Take Hart, loved art at school and love getting messy.
I have been cardmaking for the last 10 years and was introduced to it by a friend. I started out very simple with peel offs and printed images and then moved all to stamping and digi stamps. I love to experiment with colour and my new Spectrum Noir pens are my absolute favourites!

Lovely to meet you all :)
Elaine x
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Val 


I am in my 60's, have married for 38 years, with two grown up sons, and three cats - a Persian who is now 17 years old, and two naughty boy Chinchillas. I live in a small village in Hampshire, southern UK.

I have a fairly eclectic style, working with stamping, digital and multimedia and altered art. I took early retirement because of ill-health, which has now improved beyond measure, and although crafting in one form or another has been part of my life since childhood, when I found cardmaking, and particularly rubber stamping, etc, around 10 or so years ago, it was almost life changing for me - I became addicted! This is well evidenced by the amount of stash I have, and very little space left in my craft room. I love colour and working with it and the results were so immediate. 

I feel truly honoured to be a designer for you.
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Annette 

My name is Annette, 42 years old. I live in Sweden with my husband, our two boys, 17 and 14 years old and our dog, Kiwa who is a Flatcoated Retriever girl. 
I have always loved to craft, but then I discovered card making, I know that this is absolutely one of my greatest passions in life. My favourite colour is green, no doubt, but I find that I use quite varied colours when I create. 
My main interest is card so I've tried some different folds, which I think is fun and challenging. But I have more to learn ;o)
I'm so honoured to became part of the team 
There are so many talented ladies and gents in the world that have inspired me and I do hope I can inspire some of you back!

Thanks again for this opportunity!"
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Joanie 
http://craftietimes.blogspot.com/
Hi I'm Joan, I am an accountant and have been married to Rob for almost 6 years and we live in Todmorden. I am mum to two children, Paul is in the army and Rachel is in her final year at uni. I have two gorgeous grandchildren, Molly and Ben, who are my pride and joy.


I have always liked to create in some form since a little girl starting with knitting, then dressmaking, cooking, gardening, cross stitching and then about 6 years ago I started card making. My daughter persuaded me to start a blog and I finally succumbed about two months ago when I started entering challenges.


My style is quite eclectic as I like cute, conservative and shabby/grungy. I like to scrapbook and love mixed media projects. I started jewellery classes in my local bead shop in order to incorporate this into my projects. I now sell my cards and mixed media projects in the shop. I also hold a monthly workshop there teaching mixed media. I love teaching and it is so rewarding to see people who may not have crafted before producing a project to be proud of. I think I have missed my true vocation!


To be invited to join the DT was such an honour and I am so pleased to be part of such a talented team.
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Gaynor 


Glitter Bug 


Hi, I am Gaynor, I live in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. I am married to Paul and we have a 23 year old Daughter Emily, they both support my craft addiction lol. I work on the Intensive care unit at my local hospital and I enjoy this immensely. I love anything crafty and love to try new techniques and that's why I love Blog land so many talented crafters who are generous enough to share their tips and techniques. I have been making cards since 2006, I have lots of customers and I love to see the delight on their faces when I give them their cards. My favourite cards to make are Christmas, Baby and Halloween, I am addicted to Glamour Dust and Stickles. I am thrilled to be part of such a talented team and I can't wait to get started, Gaynor


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These lovely ladies join 

Welcome to the team, we are thrilled that you have join our team and looking forward to seeing all your gorgeous and fabulous creations!!

Tuesday 23 August 2011

Challenge 48 - Inspired by TV/Films

Wow and Wow again thank you for all your support we had 355 entries for our last challenge, each and everyone was gorgeous!!! So thank you again. 
Please scroll down for our Top 3...

Onto our challenge for this fortnight 
Challenge 48 - Inspired by TV/Films
We would like to see your projects that can be related to TV or Films, so for example a get well card could be linked to Holby City or Top Gear could be something to do with vehicles, you get the picture.  Don't forget to mention the TV or Film you have got inspiration from.

I also have a few sad announcements to make we say goodbye to two of our design team 
Katy and Deb they are both going on to pastures new.  We wish them both luck in the future.  

Our design team call will be closing 24th August so if you haven't already entered there is still time Here

We welcome back our two guest designers for August and the 
GUEST DESIGNER IN THE SPOTLIGHT 
Julie Bennett 


Hello. My name is Julie, I am 50 years old and I live in a small village in South Yorkshire with my partner Mick. I have two children Emma, 24 who has just started work as a Doctor and Michael, 18 who is still at home and deciding on his future career. We have two dogs Poppy and Milly both Lhasa Apsos and they are just adorable. I work full time in a wonderful Independent School where all the staff and students are fantastic. I get 18 weeks holidays a year which are used up doing all things crafty.
I feel very honoured to be a guest DT member for the Anything Goes Challenge Blog. I just hope you like my creations.




Julie's card has been inspired by Holby City 

Our other guest designer is 
Annette Anderson 

Annette's card was inspired by a program in Sweden called "Packat och Klar"
in translation: "Packed and Ready".
Now for the Design Teams projects 

Cheryl's card is inspired by... Coronation Street 


Steph card was inspired by... Garden's world 



Tamara's card was inspired by... Heroes 

Kathryn 



Kathryn's project was inspired by "Escape
to the Country".
To find out what TV/Film Annie's card has been inspired by please visit Annie's blog as she has a little surprise for you.. 

ANYTHING GOES 
TOP 3 
No - 142 
No - 298

No - 352

CONGRATULATIONS LADIES
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Tuesday 9 August 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY/CELEBRATION - CHALLENGE 47

Hello everyone, so glad you could join us.  Thank you to all of you that entered our last challenge we so enjoyed visiting all your blogs.  (Please scroll down for our top 3) 
On a sad note Sue has decided to step down as one of the team.  She will be sadly missed and we all wish her well for the future..

Don't forget we still have a
DESIGN TEAM CALL CLICK HERE TO ENTER

This fortnights challenge 47 
our theme is....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY / CELEBRATION 
and will run from today 
Tuesday 9th August - Monday 22nd August 2011 
so you have plenty of time to get those wonderful creations entered..

GUEST DESIGNER IN THE SPOTLIGHT 
for this challenge I would like to introduce..

Annette Andersson 




My name is Annette, 42 years old. I live in Sweden with my husband, our two boys, 17 and 14 years old and our dog, Kiwa who is a Flatcoated Retriever girl.  
I have always loved to craft, but then I discovered cardmaking, I know that this is absolutely one of my greatest passions in life. My favorit color is green, no doubt, but I find that I use quite varied colors when I create. 
My main interest is card so I've tried some different folds, which I think is fun and challenging. But I have more to learn ;o)
I was so honored when I was asked to be the Guest Designer for August!!! 
There are so many talented ladies and gents in the world that have inspired me and I do hope I can inspire some of you back!
Thanks again for this opportunity!"




Our second guest designer is
Julie Bennett 


Thank you ladies for creating such beautiful work we hope you will have fun working with us here at Anything goes challenge blog..

Onto the eye candy from our talented design team 






OUR TOP 3

No 161- Shirley 



No 22 - Hilde 

No 95 - Val 
 

CONGRATULATIONS LADIES
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