Craft Dash

Sweet Birdhouses

I just came from leaving comments on the latest 10 Minute Craft Dash #10 entries. I am so excited to see many new names already popping up for this challenge. It’s a dream of mine to bring together creativity and people from all across the globe and I’m thrilled that my challenge is doing this. If you haven’t entered this challenge yet, don’t worry, you have until Saturday!

Since I love these colors so much, I wanted to play with them again. I pulled out my Wplus9 sets, Folk Art Florals and The Birds & The Bees. Both must-haves in my book!

CD_10_2a Time it took to create: 9 minutes 19 seconds

This color combination is so fresh and versatile. Since I created a Valentine’s card last time, I thought I would go for an everyday card this time around. This year I’ve been trying to be better about sending out cards to friends, so stocking up on my everyday cards has been helpful.

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I’ve been a busy little bee prepping for the announcement of the first DT for the 10 Minute Craft Dash and getting details finalized for some upcoming sponsorships and giveaways. If you don’t already, be sure to sign up for email updates so you don’t miss any posts!

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I’m so glad that you stopped by today. Have a wonderful start to your week!

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10 Minute Craft Dash #10

Ready for a brand new 10 Minute Craft Dash? I am so glad that you joined me today- not only is this the first challenge of 2013, it’s also the color palette that a previous 10 Minute Craft Dash winner picked!

Seeing as we are less than a month away from Valentine’s Day, I thought I would create a lovey dovey card with these colors. I just love how versatile these colors are together! I could see all sorts of cards being made with these colors- birthday, thinking of you, wedding, baby….. the list could go on and on!

Time it took to create: 8 minutes 43 seconds

I’m so thrilled to have WPlus9 Design Studio sponsoring a prize. Not only that, I also have a lot of the WPlus9 DT joining in this challenge! These gals blow me away with their talent and I’m glad that you were able to join along today!

Dawn Woleslagle (owner)

Cristina Kowalczyk

Elise Durenberger

Jinny Newlin

Kerrianne Gwin

Sarah Martina Parker

Savitri Wilder

Now onto the fun prize! Dawn has graciously offered up a $20 gift certificate to the WPlus9 website. With a large assortment of stamp sets, dies and different accessories, you will have so much fun shopping!

How to Play

Create a card/craft project within 10 minutes using the color palette above
Post the time it took to create
Be sure to include the challenge graphic in your post and link to the challenge
You may combine a total of three challenges with your entry. You may enter the challenge a maximum of two times.
Challenge ends January 26, 2013 at 11:59pm, PST.

You can pull out your supplies before your timer starts!

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Exclusive Look at Craft Dash #10

Are you ready? TOMORROW will start the first 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge of 2013! Do you remember back in December when a lucky winner had the opportunity to pick an upcoming color palette? This will be the challenge where you can see the colors she chose! Not only that, I have a fantastic sponsor, along with quite a few special guests AND rumor has it there may be a video somewhere in the mix.

If you are interested in getting a head start on your project, I have the colors that will be featured on the Pretty Pink Posh Facebook page. This is EXCLUSIVE to those who like my page. If you go there and click on “exclusives”, you get to see the next 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge colors a day early!

I hope that you all will join me for the challenge tomorrow. After a little break for the challenge, it’ll be so awesome to get back into a normal routine again!

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10 Minute Craft Dash #9 Highlights

You all have made me one happy girl. I’m so thrilled that one of my 2013 goals was accomplished in the last 10 Minute Craft Dash. We reached a whopping 100 entries in that one challenge! THANK YOU to every single person who submitted and helped get to this monumental number.

Well, it’s time to announce the 10 Minute Craft Dash #9 Highlights. Boy, oh boy, this was a tough decision. I sincerely wish I could pick every single entry- you all did a great job using the “holiday” theme for this challenge. Alas, there can only be one winner.

Please give a warm congratulations to the winner, along with the favorites!

Congratulations to Julie Hoffman!

Please email me with your contact info to claim your prize. Also, you get to grab the badge below and proudly display it on your blog!

I honestly couldn’t just pick five entries as favorites this time around. Here are the eight cards that caught my eye. Be sure to stop by each of the blogs to take a look at the beautiful cards! {Ladies, feel free to grab the badge below and put it on your blogs!}

There will be a BRAND NEW 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge coming next Wednesday, January 16th. I have a fantastic sponsor lined up, along with some special guests. I hope you all will be able to join me in the first challenge of 2013!

In closing, I want to remind you all there are five days left to submit your application for the 10 Minute Craft Dash DT. I’ve received applications from all over the world-have you sent YOURS in yet?

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10 Minute Craft Dash DT Call

It’s true…..after many requests, I will be opening up a DT call for the 10 Minute Craft Dash! The Craft Dash has grown leaps and bounds and I’m hoping in 2013, word about the challenge will continue to spread. I always love seeing new names & faces in the entries!

I am looking for a small group of crafters who will promote the challenge and provide inspiration for each new challenge. In return, you’ll get lots of exposure to your blog and you’ll get to meet some amazing blog friends along the way!

* Term will be February- June 2013*

If you can create beautiful things within 10 minutes, are good at deadlines and want to join in a growing challenge, I would love to hear from you!

Please email me with the information below:
prettypinkposh@gmail.com
and have “10 Minute Craft Dash DT Call” in the subject line

Your name, email address and blog link
4 photos of your work that was created within 10 minutes. {Please include time within your email}
Short bio that includes any past design accomplishments and Design Team experience.
Current Design Teams and term lengths

Deadline to apply is January 13th, 12 pm PST

Notifications will be sent out no later than January 20th.

I’m looking forward to seeing your beautiful DT submissions and hopefully getting a chance to work with some of you! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below, or send me an email!

Craft Dash | My Life

10 Minute Craft Dash + Eastridge Youth

“Guys, she looks at details.”

“Maybe if we win, she will put us on her blog.” – quotes from this post

I have a fun post to share with you all today. As my regular readers know, I’m a leader in the high school group at my church. I absolutely LOVE my students and the leadership team I’m blessed to work with. I haven’t been as active, since the accident, but I am {hopefully} on the way to becoming a regular again.

To celebrate this special season, today we changed up the normal routine in Life Groups. I’ll be talking about one specific activity that happened…..building gingerbread houses!

I was introduced to the group as the special guest judge for this activity, apparently having a craft blog qualifies me for this task. Since the other leaders know I run a challenge here on the blog, they decided to incorporate this into the gingerbread house decorating. Dozens of high school students, gingerbread houses, competitiveness and a time limit= a hilarious sight.

I forewarned them and said that I see entries from ALL over the world, so I wasn’t going to be easy on them. :) Detailed work, colors, team-work were the main themes I told them I would be judging on. And with that, they were off….

It’s true, I chose one of the guy groups as the winner. Their creativity in using the box to make it tall and the fact that added the trees for scenery was impressive. Add to that they had music playing from a phone {for ambiance}, it definitely deserved the win.

PLUG: if you’re looking for a solid, Bible believing, faith-filled Christian church and you live in Washington state, check out the Eastridge Today website. Email me if you have any questions, I’ll try to answer them or I’ll find answers for you!

It was so fun to see two different parts of my world collide in this post. If you have kiddos, they are more than welcome to play along in the 10 Minute Craft Dash! Also, remember, it’s not limited to cards/ tags- you can sew items or do other crafty items, too!

That’s a wrap for this post. Have a fabulous Christmas Eve– I’ll talk with you all soon!

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10 Minute Craft Dash #9

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I’m so excited about today’s challenge! Remember how I said I wanted to make December super fun for the Craft Dash? I put together an ultra talented group of designers in the last challenge and for this one I’m “teaming-up” with my friends over at the CAS-ual Fridays challenge! Both of our challenges feature a holiday theme, so one of your handmade creations can fit into TWO challenges. What’s even better, you could potentially win two separate prizes!

NOTE: their challenge starts at noon– only a couple hours away, but I wanted to be sure to mention that. :)

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Just like the last 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge, there isn’t a specific color palette. The requirements? Create some sort of holiday goodness, stay within the 10 minute time limit* and post your time in your post.

* If you aren’t able to stay within the 10 minutes, you can still link up your item! While it won’t quality for the winners spot, it might still be featured in the favorites!

CD_9_2 This card features Merry Kiss-mas by CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

Time it took to create: 8 minutes 8 seconds

Now onto the fun prize! Michele over at CAS-ual Fridays recently started her very own stamp company called CAS-ual Fridays Stamps. Here’s a little background on her new endeavor:

“Founded in 2012, we are a small company with big ideas located in beautiful Colorado.

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps are made of the finest clear photopolymer available, and proudly made in the Heartland of America. Our stamps are created with Clean and Simple designing in mind, however, whether you are a CAS enthusiast, or lover of all things layer-licious, you will have a blast getting inky with them!”

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How to Play

1) Create a card/craft project within 10 minutes using a holiday theme.

2) Post the time it took to create

You can pull out your supplies before your timer starts!

-Post the challenge graphic in your post, link to this challenge post.

-You may combine a total of three challenges with your entry. You may enter the challenge a maximum of two times.

-Challenge ends January 3, 2013 at 11:59pm, PST. (That’s even longer than usual!)

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10 Minute Craft Dash #8 Highlights

Hi there!

You may notice that the blog is looking a tad bit different….I recently switched over from Blogger to WordPress! It may take a little while to get everything up and running smoothly- I didn’t realize how different it was! My goal is to make this site look and run seamlessly, so please bear with me as I get it there.

Today I’m announcing the 10 Minute Craft Dash #8 Highlights! Oh my, there were so many stunning entries in the latest challenge- it just warmed my heart to see so many NEW faces and participants! I really enjoyed looking at your creations and also stumbling across new blogs.

If you are interested in getting a head start on your project, I have the colors that will be featured on the Pretty Pink Posh Facebook page. This is EXCLUSIVE to those who like my page. If you go there and go to “exclusives”, you get to see the next 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge a day early!

Congratulations to May!

Please email me (click the contact on the top right) with your contact info to claim your prize. Also, you get to grab the badge below and proudly display it on your blog!

Here’s your winner badge- you deserve it!

You ladies made it so hard to pick favorites- each submission was so unique and beautiful! With the assistance of some helpers, I was able to get these narrowed down. Be sure to stop by each of the blogs to take a look at the beautiful cards! {Ladies, feel free to grab the badge below and put it on your blogs!}

THANK YOU to everyone who entered this challenge! I hope you all will join in the next one- I’m teaming up with another fabulous challenge and there is going to be TONS of inspiration and lots of holiday goodness!

Have a fabulous rest of your day- I’ll see you all tomorrow!

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Holiday Trees

A few years ago, I would have never thought to put pink and red together on a card. In my mind, the colors weren’t supposed to mesh– it was a one or the other. Somewhere along my crafting journey, these colors found their way together and well, it’s one of my favorite color combinations now.

Since I absolutely LOVE the current 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge, I created quite a few items for it. Not sure I’ll be able to showcase them all before the challenge ends- I’ll do my best though!

For this card I pulled out a little Christmas tree I’ve had stashed away for a while. One of my favorite things to do with little stamp- create patterned backgrounds with them! It’s amazing how a single stamp can make such fun backgrounds!

Time it took to create: 6 minutes 12 seconds

For those who are new to my blog, I’m a huge fan of anything sparkly. It is very rare for card to not have either glitter or rhinestones on it. As you can see, this card wasn’t an exception….

If you want a beautiful and inexpensive Christmas gift idea, you’ll want to stop by the DeNami blog today. I have a new video there AND it works for the 10 Minute Craft Dash! Hope you’ll stop by and check it out!

That’s going to wrap up this post. I’ve loved all the entries that have come in so far for the challenge- looking forward to seeing yours!

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10 Minute Craft Dash #8

It’s time for the first 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge of December! Since I absolutely LOVE this time of year, I wanted to make this month extra special for the challenge. As you saw yesterday, I have TWELVE very special guests joining me today, along with a hefty prize pack. More on that a little later in the post….

As you can see above, there isn’t a specific color palette for this challenge. This time around you just need feature red somehow {a little or a lot}, it fits within the 10 minute time frame* and post the time it took to create within your post.

* If you aren’t able to stay within the 10 minutes, you can still link up your item! While it won’t quality for the winner spot, it might still be featured in the favorites!

Time it took to create: 9 minutes 15 seconds

For this project, I used a little clipboard I bought a while back {LOVE that $1 section at Target} and pulled out three of my washi tapes. Once I got my paper sized, adhering the washi tape was a breeze! Add in a quick bow and notepad, and this project was finished!

As you all know, I have special guests joining me for this challenge. These gals are extremely talented individually, but bring them all together and wow, it’s pure amazing. Be sure to visit each of them- I’ve seen some of their items already and you won’t want to miss a single one!

While the beautiful goodness from the special guests are a prize in itself *wink*, I also have put together a mega prize pack for the winner of this challenge. Since I already know I won’t be able to choose winners by myself, I have a special team put together who will help me pick out winners when the challenge closes. I’m already anticipating a super hard judging process!

Here is the prize pack the lucky winner will receive…..

How to Play

1) Create a card/craft project within 10 minutes using red somehow {a little or a lot}

2) Post the time it took to create

You can pull out your supplies before your timer starts!

3) Follow Pretty Pink Posh viaGoogle Friend Connect or subscribe to my RSS blog feed

Post the challenge graphic in your post, link to this challenge post.
You may combine a total of three challenges with your entry. You may enter the challenge a maximum of two times.
Challenge ends December 15, 2012 at 11:59pm, PST.