Design Team Delights for Challenge #22--UNIQUENESS

It is time to share our favourite entries for Challenge #22.  As always, in each challenge you, the readers, get to voice your opinion by voting for your favourite and so it is only fitting that my Design Team get to do so as well.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to join along our Path during the month of January for Challenge #22.  While it is always a difficult decision, each team member managed to find a particular entry that really caught their attention.  Take a look...

NanaConnie--chosen by Vicky...

Vicky had this to say:
"My DT Delight choice is NanaConnie.  I really love that she has made a fabulously unique card for a unique friend:"

"He's also one of those guys who offers a helping hand to anyone in need, a positive thought to anyone who might be a bit down in the dumps, and who is a mover & shaker in local community activities; truly, a unique individual."

To see the details of NanaConnie's creation and read more of what she had to say, click HERE.

Nancy--chosen by Sandy, Pat and Suze...

Sandy said this:
"My DT Delight choice is Nancy.  I loved loved her calendar card... what a wonderful idea to celebrate the uniqueness of someone or oneself!"

This is what Pat had to say:
"My DT Delight choice is also Nancy Brown.  I love that she creates a calendar card for her friends that remind them to be their own kind of wonderful, which to me means being unique and true to themselves."

Here is what Suze had to say:
"My DT Delight choice is also Nancy Brown.  I love the balanced feel of this easel card.  The colours are beautiful and the sentiment is perfect for the theme of the challenge."

 To see the details of Nancy's creation and read more of what she had to say, click HERE.

Stephanie--chosen by Monica...

Here is what Monica had to say:
"My DT Delight choice is Stephanie (her first entry). I loved her design of a cascade card. I always admire people who go outside of their comfort zone to try new designs and techniques. Beautiful and well done Stephanie!"

To see the details of Stephanie's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Veronika--chosen by Penny...

Penny said this:
"My DT Delight choice is Cheiro (Veronika).  I think her creation is absolutely gorgeous and made with lots of love for a special woman in her life--theirs is a rather unique relationship, too."

To see the details of Veronika's creation and read more of what she had to say, click HERE.

Deanne--chosen by Desíre...

Here is what Desíre had to say:
"My DT Delight choice is Deanne.  Loved how the focus is on the very true wording and the overall design is delight itself."

To see the details of Deanne's creation and read more of what she had to say, click HERE.

Edwina--chosen by Lisa (that's me)...

My choice this time around is Edwina.  I really like what she had to say about being unique:

"We are all unique in one way or another. We all have gifts that we are blessed with at birth or later in life when we need them. It is never too late to try something new and stand for what you believe in...Being unique is the ability to adjust and be yourself. That does not mean we do not change. It means we grow while staying true to ourselves."

There are so many different perspectives on what being unique is all about.  The way that each of us sees the concept of uniqueness, all plays into how we bring the idea into our everyday life.  I hope that each of you strives to be the truly unique person that you were meant to be, just like my friend Edwina!

To see the details of Edwina's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Creative Congratulations to all of you!

Thank you to everyone who played on our Pathway during the month of January.  As always we greatly appreciate you sharing your incredible talents with us.

For our DT Delights chosen for this challenge... 

  NanaConnie, Nancy, Stephanie, Veronika, Deanne and Edwina

  You are all entitled to one image of your choice from our on-going sponsor...

Please head to the Creative Bug Digital SnapShots store:  http://creativebugdigis.com.  Click to enter the digital snapshots area.  Once you are on the homepage for the digis, scroll down a little bit and you'll see a brown banner on the left hand side that says, "looking for digis".  There will be a Polaroid image right underneath it that says SnapShots (Digital Images).  Click on this.  You'll be taken to a page that lists all the categories of images available for you to choose from.  If you need to see the image a bit closer, just right click and choose 'view image'.  Once you've made your decision, please send me the name of the one image you want and let me know which section it came from.

Additionally, you are entitled to the special Challenge #22 DT Delight Badge. To claim both your digi and the badge (or just one or the other), send your requests to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace at and dot with the appropriate symbols) or by clicking HERE to bring the address up in your email program, with the subject, "PoP#22--DT Delight Badge and/or Digi Request".   I'm always running a bit behind these days, so your patience is appreciated.

Our special yearly prize package will also still be taking place.  Remember, if you are chosen as a DT Delight during any of our challenges, your name will be entered into a draw for some digital goodies.  You get one entry per choice; so, if two members picked your card, you will earn 2 entries, three members 3 entries, etc.  The winner at the time will be notified by email.   The next draw will occur sometime in the summer of 2015.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope to see you again tomorrow, March 2nd, when we will be back with the start of Challenge #24.  We hope that you will join us then to learn what the newest theme will be.

See you again soon!

The People Have Spoken: Winners From Challenge #22

It is time to announce the winners from Challenge #22.  It was a tight race this month with three projects neck in neck.  However, one pulled out ahead with just one vote separating the Voter's Choice from the two projects tied in second place.  Just one more reason it is so important to vote. Every single one can help your favourite project. Additionally, by complete coincidence, it turns out that our three winners are also the same people who were our top three picks.  Funny how that works out some times.  Who are all the lucky winners? Well, let's find out.

Without further ado, here are the choices...

Drum roll, please....BBBbbbrrrrrrrrr pish

The people have spoken and their choice for Challenge #22 is....

DEANNE

Deanne, you will be getting a cool and awe inspiring personalized badge for your blog as the Voter's Choice for Challenge #22.

In the category of Most Inspiring, our winner is...

VERONIKA

Veronika, you have won a prize package worth $10 of digi images (digital papers not applicable) from Scribbles Designs, one of our guest sponsors this month during Challenge #22.

Veronika, you will also be getting a lovely, one of a kind personalized badge for your blog as the Most Inspiring choice for Challenge #22.

The Random Winner for this challenge (chosen by Random.com), based on all eligible participants is:

 NANCY

Nancy, you have won a $10 gift certificate from Ike's Art, our second guest sponsor during Challenge #22.

Nancy, you will also be getting a neat and unique personalized badge for your blog as the Random Winner for Challenge #22.

We also have a prize available for a voter who left a comment.  Our winner this challenge chosen by MiniwebTool.com is...

Donna with her comment:

So difficult to pick a winner. They are all so beautiful. Good luck to all the participants. You are all winners in my book.

Donna, you have won a selection of digital designer papers from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles.

Big Congrats to...

Deanne, Veronika, Nancy & Donna

Please click HERE to send us an email with the subject, "WINNER PoP Challenge #22" to make arrangements to receive your prize and badge (where applicable).  Please note that it may take me a few days to get back to you.  Thank you for your patience. 

 

All entrant's in Challenge #22 are entitled to a special digital sentiment based on the theme for the upcoming challenge.  So, if you were one of the individuals who entered Challenge #22 and would like to receive a free sentiment based on the theme for Challenge #24, which starts Monday, March 2nd, please click HERE to send us an email with the subject line, "PoP#22 Entrant Quote Request for #24".

 

You still have one week left to enter into our challenge on LAUGHTER.  Click HERE for details.  If you haven't linked up already, I hope that you will consider coming over to play with us.  As always, we'd love to have you join our Path!

 

Don't forget to join us this coming Sunday for our DT Delights post.  We look forward to seeing you all again soon.

 

Challenge #22 Top Picks: Voting Open February 9th to February 16th, 2015

Welcome to the Challenge #22 PoP ToP!

It is time to get on with showcasing the top picks for Challenge #22.  As we only had 10 participants enter Challenge #22, we will be opening things up so that all the entrants have the opportunity to be chosen as the Voter's Choice.  We do this any time we have less than 14 participants.  And while we may not have enough participants to have our usual top seven, we certainly have enough to have a top three.  Therefore, it is time to get on with showcasing the three projects that the team feels were the best of the bunch.

So, without further ado, please let me introduce you to the Top Picks for Challenge #22 (in no particular order)...

Congrats Ladies...

As a participant who has been chosen as a Top Pick, each of you is entitled to a special Top Pick badge. Please send an email to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com, or by clicking HERE to bring up the address in your email program, with the subject "Challenge #22 Top Pick" and I'll email your badge to you.  Please note that it may take me several days to get back to you, so I really appreciate your patience.

Now as I mentioned, each of the participant's who entered Challenge #22 is eligible to have their project and/or post voted on.  Here is a list of everyone who entered.  Each of the entrant's names is linked up to their blog post (order is reflective of how they entered the challenge and nothing else).

 Deanne

Stephanie #1 

Cheiro 

Judith W. 

Julie O. 

Nancy B. 

Edwina B. 

 Stephanie #2

NanaConnie 

Annette R. 

Have Your Say!

Now the really hard work starts.  It is time for you, our readers, to vote for your favourite entry.  Which participant most inspires you?  Remember, you are not necessarily voting on a creation that was made.  You might simply find what the person had to say in their post to be inspiring and optimistic and in line with the concept of uniqueness.  Some of our participants had some great things to say on how their project connected to the theme. Therefore, please be sure to go and check out the entries first and not just make your choices off of the thumbnails.  Once you have checked all the entries out,  let us know who your favourite choice is by placing your vote below using the Inlinkz feature.

Voting open for 7 days:
  February 9th to February 16th

Come have your say in determining the Voter's Choice for Challenge #22!  Don't forget to leave a comment after you have voted.  There will be a prize for one lucky voter who leaves a comment (chosen randomly).  If you haven't had the opportunity to visit each of the entries already, please go and check them out a little more closely before placing your vote.  Once you have made your decision, why not go back and let them know how they inspired you.

Good luck everyone!

Important Note:

Please note that in order for this to work, I must add all the entries but I can only do this AFTER I have published this post.  So there will be some overlap time between when this post is published and when you will be able to vote.  Once I have uploaded the entries there will be a total of ten images below on which to vote.  As soon as all ten are uploaded, I'll enable voting to begin. If there are less than ten, it means that I am still in the process of adding the images and you should come back in a little while to make your vote.  Thank you for your patience!

Link Up Below:

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge #22--Midway Reflection & Voting Reminder

Hello everyone! We have reached the midway point of Challenge #22. The theme for this challenge is all about UNIQUENESS.  

Sadly I do not have a my regular introspection for you this month. It has been a rather difficult week. During the first half of the week I was ill and then we were also dealing with the fact that my mother-in-law had been diagnosed with influenza and pneumonia. Sadly her heart was not strong enough and she died in the early hours of Sunday morning. She will be missed by her 14-children, 36-grand-children, 59-great grand-children and 7-great-great grand-children.

 Yvette Décosse,

October 14, 1914 - January 18th, 2015

While it is a time of mourning for our family, my team has worked very hard to come up with projects for our midway so the show must go on!


As a reminder, here are the watermarks and links for the wonderful images that the team worked with for the midway.

 From Scribbles Designs...

#250 Birthday Chef

#704 Mr Wool Smiley

#837 MoVember Boys Group Shot

From Ike's Art...

Shhhhhh!  is in the 'My Latest Designs' section

Muse 3 is in the 'People' section

Vaguely Goth is in the 'People' section

We are fortunate and blessed to have the chance to work with all these fabulous images.  Thanks so much to our wonderful sponsors.

To help inspire you down the path of uniqueness, check out the amazing projects my Design Team had the opportunity to create...

Finally, that leaves our...

Mimi, from Crafty Animal, who is our guest designer this month, created this really cool storage container...

Clicking on the team members name (or in the case of our GDT, the blog name) will take you to their blog where you can check out the details for their inspirational creations!

So if you haven't entered already, what are you waiting for?  Create a project and/or post that is positive AND relates to uniqueness, provide an explanation of how your project and/or post relates to the theme somewhere in your post or come over and leave a comment with the explanation.  Easy, peasy!  You can enter our latest challenge by clicking HERE.

Also, I know that the participants would love for you to go and pay them a visit.  Remember we're creating a Path of Positivity to follow one project at a time and we'd love to see you somewhere on that route even if it is just by leaving a comment on an entry from someone who has touched you somehow with their project and/or post!

If you are new to this unique challenge, you can find out the impetus behind why I started it under the 'Introductions' tab and all the details you need to know in order to participate, in the 'Challenge Details' tab (both tabs located at the top of the blog).

Don't Forget...

You still have until 11:55 p.m. tonight, to vote on your favourite entry for Challenge #21.  Voting is quick, easy and painless so I hope you will consider casting your vote if you haven't already.  Don't forget, if you leave a comment after voting, you have the opportunity to walk away with a selection of digital papers created especially with your interests in mind. To check out all those eligible and cast your vote, click HERE.  Winners for challenge #21 will be posted next week.

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE ON FAITH?
If you need some additional motivation to help inspire you, I've provided another sentiment on this month's theme (the first is available HERE), free for you to download.

 Left click to bring the image up into the lightbox in its full size and then right click and scroll down to 'save as'.

Credit Notes For This Creation:
© 2015, Lisa L. Décosse.  PUO.  However, you are allowed to use the sentiment on handmade projects that you intend to sell on a small scale basis provided credit is given. You also need to include a credit note and a link to this blog should you use any of my images in your creations and post them on your blog. Please be sure to familiarize yourself with my full terms of use found in the 'Download Instructions & T.O.U.' tab at the top of this page.  Of important note:  Please do not share my images with family, friends, etc. Additionally, do not post any images to file sharing services like Box®, 4-Shared®, etc. Instead, please direct people to my blog so they can grab the image for themselves. If you would like to post a watermarked version of the image, please contact me to obtain one. 

This word art creation is in png format and published at 300 ppi. It is quite large in order to accommodate different programs that people work with.   If you are a card maker you can always resize it smaller without distorting the quality.

Font Information:

• Kingthings Extortion fonts created by Kingthings
• Duality font created by Ray Larabie

Click on the font name to take you to a download location.  These fonts were listed as free for commercial use at the time this project was made.and as such, it is my understanding, that I am within my rights to use these fonts in my creations and offer them to others.  Please refer to my full terms of service for what you can and cannot do with this digital creation.

SUMMARY
Whether you are new and need to familiarize yourself with all the details,  or a returning participant and just need to refresh yourself, you can always find out everything you need to know in order to enter this challenge in the 'Challenge Details' tab at the top of the page. You can enter the challenge by clicking HERE to take you to the current challenge post where you can also find a quick summary of the details related to this challenge, towards the bottom of the post. 

GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY...

Please show your support to our wonderful guest sponsors by going over and checking out their work and saying hi if you have the chance.  As mentioned above, this month our guest sponsors are...

Our regular sponsors include...

 


If you ever have any questions be sure to EMAIL ME or just leave me a comment.

We look forward to seeing you participate!