AIF061 Winner and a new Challenge

Hello everyone! We hope you had a fabulous holiday and are looking forward to 2011. Hard to believe that it is only a few days away!
A big thank you to everyone who participated in our challenge last week. You showed us some fantastic cards and projects and we tried to comment on as many as we could!
Our random winner is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

80

Timestamp: 2010-12-30 04:36:27 UTC



Congratulations to #80 Tracey aka Lalkygirl! Please contact Tammy to claim your prize.

We have a new challenge for you, our last one of 2010.  We want to thank everyone that has participated in our challenges this year, as well as our Guest Designers through the year that have helped us to give you inspiration and ideas.  This week's theme is ELEGANCE
It can be an elegant wedding card, birthday card, thinking of you card, whatever you want to create. Let's see that lace and shine and pearls and whatever else you think elegance represents.   Up for grabs is this gorgeous digital set called Ella the Flower Girl

You will have until 11:59EST on Wednesday January 5 2011 to upload your card using the link below.  As always you don't have to use any of the AIF images but we would love it if you did, AND you get double entries into the draw! Please check out our store, which also has a great freebie section! If you are uploading from an online gallery don't forget to tag your card with AIF062 so we can easily find it.  Also remember to upload it to our online community gallery for a chance to win a $10GC to our store!
Here is some DT inspiration for you (you'll have to forgive us if we don't have as many as usual. A lot of the DT have been under the weather for the holidays :(  )

Rhonda

Cindy-Lynn

Lisa

Tammy

 Radwa

 Scrappy

Elegance entries here

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Going Going Gone...AIF061and 3 winners!

Thank you for the great response to our Christmas/Holiday challenge!  The DT loved seeing all your great cards, layouts and projects.  Such creativity.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

78

Timestamp: 2010-12-16 05:04:39 UT

Congratulations to  Joy Stagg who is this week's winner.  Please contact Tammy to get your prize and your blog badge.

Also, congratulations to Liz and to Stacie who both win this new holiday set for posting a link on their blog while entering this week's challenge.Please contact Tammy to claim your prize.

You too can win these digis by entering our challenge this week and posting a little something about this new set on your blog as well. 

With Christmas only 10 days away, the DT is going to take a little break so there will be no challenge next week.  This week's challenge will run for 2 weeks.  It's an easy one...a favorite I'm sure..it's

                                                          ANYTHING GOES

You can upload your creations until 11:59EST on Wednesday December 29th.  If you are uploading from an online gallery please use the code AIF061 so we can easily find your project. You don't have to use our images to play but we would love it if you did.  Check out our store here (we've also got some freebies in there) If you use one of our images, and upload it to our community gallery, you could also win a $10 gift card to our store as part of our Customer Appreciation!  I've got some great cards to show you this week from our DT using this cute little digi called Sweet Pea Fairy.

Lisa

Radwa

Cindy-Lynn

Georgia

Scrappy

And don't forget to check out the other DT blogs for some more inspiration

Cathy

Rhonda

Lawren

Crystal

Laralee

Anne

Happy Holidays to you all and all the best!

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Last but certainly not Least new DT member Crystal

our current challenge is here
our current freebie is here

Here is our last introduction today everyone! Meet Crystal

I am married to the love of my life & together we have a 14 yr old son & 5 yr old fur baby. I am a freelance editor/writer & SAHM. I love crafting & cooking, as well as being with my family. I've been scrapbooking for nearly 5 years now & creating cards for around 2 years. I also love altering items - pretty much, I just adore paper & anything I can create with it! Feel free to visit my blog (scrapcandydesigns.blogspot.com) anytime...I love meeting new crafty friends & bloggers!! Please stop by and say hello!

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A big hello to new DT member Lisa Smith

As we continue to introduce the new DT today we get to learn a bit about Lisa!

Hi.My name is Lisa and I live in a small village in the U.K. With my Husband and four gorgeous children.I started cardmaking in 2006 and what was a hobby soon became a passion - although my family would say it's an obsession!I love working with digital stamps.They're just so versatile and great to colour using my favourite ProMarkers.I also like to use colour,texture and dimension which I think shows in my work.I'm delighted to be part of the team.

Make sure you stop by Lisa's blog and check out more of her fantastic work!  Welcome Lisa!

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A digital Freebie for you!

If you are looking for our current challenge, please scroll down or click here

Hey everyone! I know that you are working on those holiday cards both for your various challenges and also for your personal cards so Mia has uploaded this really cute digi freebie for you!

 Just go to our community site here to download it.  If you use it on a card or project, we would love for you to leave us a comment so that we can check it out and add it to our facebook page and our community gallery!  This would be a great image to use for our current Christmas challenge.  You get two entries to win whenever you use one of our images...and check out the new holiday set as well

 You can be entered to win this set free by joining one of our challenges and writing a little something on your blog about our new holiday collection...
What are you waiting for! There's lots of fun to be had this week at AIF!

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Happy Holidays Challenge #60 & a Bonus Prize to Win

Hellllllloo! It's challenge time again here at AIF and we want to thank all the wintery participants in last week's challenge! Wow! What creativity! Our random winner is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

37

Timestamp: 2010-12-09 05:35:04 UTC


Congratulations Mandy (made by Mandy)! Please contact Tammy to receive your prize and your blog blinkie!
This week the DT is showcasing one of the new holiday sets that can be found in the store right now! It's an awesome set is called Holiday Birds and there are 4 stamps in the set! Our theme this week is

Holiday/Christmas 

You have until 11:59EST on Wednesday December 15th to upload your images using the link provided below.  If you are uploading from an online gallery please use code AIF060 so we can find your project.  Remember, you don't have to use one of our images but we'd love it if you did and you'd get double entries to win this week's prize. Make sure you check out the store and there are some freebies in there as well

We have an added bonus this week as well.  We have another great set that is new in the store called  Holiday Celebrations!

 

Such an adorable set...if you want to win it free all you have to do is participate in the challenge this week and post a little something on your blog about the Celebrations set with a link back to our store  http://www.aivault.com/store/     and we will draw a random winner at the end of the challenge.
easy peasy! 

Now onto the DT cards for this week!  This is the first week that all the new DT members are participating so we're highlighting their cards this week...

Anne

Cindy-Lynn

Crystal

Lisa

Radwa

Scrappy

and don't forget to check out the blogs of the returning DT to see the great cards they've created as well
Cathy
Laralee
Georgia
Tammy
Lawren


Happy Scrapping Everyone!

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A Fellow Canadian on our new DT

Everyone it's time to introduce Cindy-Lynn Taylor, a fellow Canadian, altho we are on opposite ends of the country :)

My name is Cindy-Lynn! I live in the Great White North of Ontario Canada. I have a four legged little pal named Gizmo that that I truly adore. As I have no children, I treat him like my son, spoiling him to a point that beyond repair! *grin* I always have time to hide in my studio with my loyal baby boy sleep on my feet, keeping my toes warm!

I have been paper crafting for over 10 years. Scrapbooking and Stamping has come such a long way over the years, and I have grown so much. I have been a designer for multiple stamp companies, and loved every moment of it. I have taught classes for years, and currently teach classes in the little town of North Bay where I live. I am a proud member of a few design teams, and am now so very excited to be a part of the AI Factory Challenges and meet all of you that read this blog and play in the Challenges! I am looking forward to meeting new faces, and making some new friends along the way.

I hope I create something that inspires you, for as long as my loyal blog readers and fans are with me in this journey I am a very happy person (((Hugs)))

 We are very excited to have Cindy-Lynn on our team and I know that you will see some great projects from her! Please leave a comment on her blog  and make her feel welcome!

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Introducing....

 click here for our current challenge

another new DT member...please welcome Radwa Bayoumi

My name is Radwa Bayoumi. I live in Cairo-Egypt with my family (Dad, Mom, 2 sisters and 2 brothers).I have started card making one year ago. Although this hobby is not well known in my country but I have supportive family and friends. I’m thrilled to be a member of Aifactory  with other lovely girls. I share my creations on my blog: http://stepstowalk.blogspot.com/    

I hope you'll visit Radwa's blog and welcome her!

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Meet and Greet our New DT Member Scrappy

Hey everyone! Sorry for posting late today!  My son is teething and life has just been a struggle lately.  I am happy to announce our next DT member, who is no stranger to the world of blogging and cardmaking.  I'm sure you've seen her creations everywhere! Please welcome
Scrappy!

'Scrappy' has been crafting pretty much her entire life - she's even owned her own handicrafts business! She has been chiefly scrapping for the last 4 years and stamping for 3 years. To feed her ever increasing curiosity about paper-crafting, she took a job at a local stamp store, joined their LSS design team and represented them on The Martha Stewart Show!  She is proud to be one of the founding members of Splitcoaststampers infamous 'Stamp Ho's' - even going so far as to organize 2 stamping conventions for them in 3 years!    Scrappy picks up things relatively quickly, and she is always eager to learn or try something new. She currently serves on 8 design teams and continues to guest design for others! Her inordinate of energy, has her creating or blogging in her studio at all hours of the day and night. She is delighted to join the AIF DT and share their creative designs with everyone!   Make sure you stop by her blog and welcome her!

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Introducing....Anne Campbell

Hey everyone! Thanks so much to those of you who have entered our challenge so far! It's been great checking out your wintery entries.  If you are looking for the current challenge click here

Today I am introducting to you the first of our many talented new DT members!  We are very excited to have her on board and I know that you can expect some great inspiration pieces from her in the coming weeks.

Here is Anne!

Hi I'm Anne and extremely proud to be part of the DT.  I am happily married to a long suffering husband who accepts my craft addiction without question.  We have two grown up children and a fantastic granddaughter who is 12. 

I have been crafting since I was little.  Mum taught me to knit when I was quite young and I used to knit clothes for my dolls.  Late teens saw my friend and I buying material to make a dress on a Wednesday, cutting it out the same night, sewing it on Thursday and wearing it on Friday when we went dancing!  I knitted and sewed for the children when they were small then discovered x-stitch.  I did that for a few years till we had no more space on the walls for pictures! 

In 2001 I had an accident and while recovering decided it was time for more 'me' time.  One of the girls I worked with went to card making class and used to bring her creations in to show me and of course I thought 'I could do that' so, once on my feet again, Saturday afternoons saw me at class and the rest, as they say, is history.  I started my blog in 2007 and have 'grown' since then as there are so many talented people in blogland to learn from.  I'd be delighted if you popped in to have a look around my blog called Wicked Designs.

 

 

I hope you will all stop by Anne's blog and leave her some love and make sure you keep checking each week to see Anne's take on the current challenge!

Happy Scrapping Everyone!

Tammy

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BRRRR it's a wintery challenge-#59

Thanks to those of you who played along with last week's challenge.  We didn't have that many entries but the ones we did were fantastic!  Our random winner is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

8

                          
 Congratulations to Audrey E. Please contact Tammy to claim your images and your blinkie.

Well it's beginning to look a lot like winter pretty much all over the place now, so this week's challenge is of course WINTER!

Your project can be anything you want as long as there's some kind of winter in there...you have until 11:59EST on Wednesday December 8th to upload your project and then a random winner will be chosen.  You don't have to use our images but hey, why not?? We've got some great ones in the store and in our freebie section as well so check them out here. 
If you are uploading from an online gallery be sure to tag your project with AIF059 so we can easily find it and leave you some love :)
This is a fun week because a few of our new DT are debuting this week as well as our Guest Design Team member.
Our first card is from our GDT Cheryl Gorka.  Cheryl was a previous challenge winner and we are so happy to have her with us for this challenge.  Make sure you stop by her blog here and check out her fabulous creations! Thanks Cheryl!

Now here is a card from our new DT member Anne I just love the background on this..nice and icy

Anne

Next up is Cindy-Lynn I just love that big red bow!

Cindy-Lynn

And how about this one from Scrappy. Aren't those snowflakes fun!

Scrappy

And now some great cards from our returning members

Georgia

Tammy

Laralee

Rhonda

Lawren

We can't wait to see your wintery creations so get Scrappin!

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Announcing the AIFactory DT

Our current challenge

Hey everyone ! Please help me in welcoming the new DT for the new December to February term.  We have 6 new ladies joining us as well as a bunch of familiar faces staying on.  We have a fantastic team for you and you are going to love seeing all the great projects they create to inspire you!

Our new members
Scrappy
Cindy-Lynn
Radwa
Crystal
Lisa
Anne

Welcome back to familiar faces
Georgia
Cathy
Rhonda
Margie
Lawren
Laralee
and Me :) Tammy

Make sure you stop by their blogs and say hello and welcome.  Some of our new DT will be showcasing their projects in tomorrow's challenge but you will get to see everyone next week!
Stay tuned over the next week starting on Friday as I introduce the new members of our DT to you.

It's a new challenge tomorrow so make sure you come see us.
Happy Scrapping!
Tammy

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