Challenge #70 Sun, Sea and Sand

Hi everyone, Caz here,  welcome to our monthly challenge blog. Our thanks for joining us last month for Challenge #69 - Vintage or Shabby Chic , which was chosen by Vickie.   Let us see who our winners and Top 3 are.

                                                    Kindly sponsored by  Crafty Individuals 

Chosen at random our first winner of Prize 1 is

#74 Debra Kenworthy

Kindly donated by  Di's Digi Downloads

$10 Voucher 

and the winner for Prize #2 is

#65 Julie Lavalette

Congratulations to the winners, to claim your prizes please email our

 Sponsor Hostess Helen at helenann_1971@yahoo.com  

 Please remember to collect your Winner's badge from the side bar. 

Once again thanks to our generous sponsors.

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Our Top 3 Winners, chosen in numerical order by Vickie

#6 Jana's Journal

                                        #11      Plony

#84 Karasiowa

Congratulations to you all,  it has been so difficult to choose
only 3 this month,  for the standard and number of
entries has been fanatastic.  Please remember to collect your

well earned Top 3 Winner's badge. 

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 It is with sadness we say farewell to Suzy, who has decided to leave the DT.

We thank her for being such a wonderful contributor during her spell on the team.
We wish her every success with her future creative ventures. 

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DT CALL 

I would like to thank everyone who applied for the DT post, sadly I am not able to 

accept everyone at this time. I will be having another DT call later in the year, so if you 

have not been asked to join us this time round please look out for our next call.

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We are happy to welcome and introduce our 3 new members to the Design Team.

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Cathy Tanner

http://kraftykoolkat.blogspot.co.uk

I am a 63 year old crafter living Hertfordshire UK. I spend all my time crafting and blogging. I had to retire from work early through ill health and my crafting keeps me going. If I am not crafting or blogging I am on the internet looking for crafty things to buy, I am lucky to have a dedicated crafting room in our apartment. (BUT, I do have to let the other half in occasionally to do his hobby as well !!! )  I have been happily married to Tony for 30 years.  I have a Stepdaughter that lives in France with her husband but sadly no Grandchildren.  My favouriete technique is colouring stamps and Digi’s with Promarkers/Graph’ It  markers and using all the lovely dies that there are on the market. 

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                                                                    Maryvonne
                                              http://prendreletempsenfin.blogspot.fr/

" I am French. I live in Normandy,  two hours from PARIS, and I love my little corner of countryside with trees, flowers, and birds! I'm passionate of scrap, more exactly card making  : this is a very recent (end of 2011) passion, I opened my blog in may 2014.  I am married to a wonderful companion that makes the happiness of my life for almost 40 years, and I have a great girl.  The Scrap is for me an opportunity to create and dream ! 

I Love especialy Vintage and Shabby Style , and so I am very very happy to join the DT of 

                                                                    Sparkles  Monthly challenges !

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                                                                          Del

                                                 http://designedbydel.blogspot.co.uk/

Hello there, I'm Adele (but most people call me Del).  I'm 48 years old and live in Hull with my Hubby and a verrry old cat called Suki.  I have always been into crafting of some description, started off when I was younger by learning to knit (basic lol), which was no easy feat as I'm left handed and was taught by my right handed sister!!  Tried a bit of cross stitch and then when I was organising my wedding (10 years this year!) I decided to have a go at making all the stationary for it.  I made Invitations, Evening Invitations, Order Of Service, Thank You cards and table numbers all in the same theme...oh and the table plan too.  As with my other crafting ventures I take notions.  When I turned 40 I treated myself to a dolls house and built, decorated and furnished that too.  Sadly 7 years ago I lost my mum and that's when I took up card making again.  I've really enjoyed my journey....check out my blog to see if you think I've improved since I started lol  I've been (and still am) on various DT's and am really looking forward to taking up a new position here at Sparkles Monthly where I've enjoyed participating in previous challenges.

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Our grateful thanks to both of our generous sponsors for our next challenge

Prize 1 from Dry Gulch is $10

and

Prize 2 is from Craftybren Embroided Embellishments

£10 Goody Bag 

So at last, I hear you say it's time to introdudce our new challenge for

the period of 15th July - 13th August. 

It was my turn to choose the topic and this is the time of year

when I love to go and sit by the sea, so the challenge is

Challenge # 70 

Sun, Sea and Sand

Let's take a look at the creations from our Design Team

Vickie 

                                                                           Del

                                                                       Helen P

                                                                           Caz

                                                                       Helen N

                                                                         Cathy
                                                                    (on holiday)

                                                                          Nick

Thanks to the Design Team for their wonderful inspiration.

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