A plea for your creativity...

You may have noticed the badge to the top right of my blog.  There is an adorable little 2 year old girl fighting for her life with leukemia.  If you'd like to participate in a blog hop to help raise funds for this little girl, here is the link and all the necessary information to follow:  http://networkedblogs.com/VqzoR

Craft-Dee BowZ will be happy to add to the Blog Candy for this hop.  Thank you one and all.

Donna

Vicki's Lovely Layers!

Vicki here...I'm up on the Craft-Dee BowZ Blog today sharing a card using this month's theme and colors, "Layers upon layers" with  shades of gray, black and white.  Creating cards with lots of layers is at the top of my list of favorites.  I love dimension on my cards and layers are a great way of adding a dimensional appearance to whatever you create.

"Shoes"

A few of the many layers included on my card are tags, doilies and die-cut shapes.

 I had to share a close up of the Glam Heel Die-cut from Tattered Lace that I got at CHA.  It is so intricate and now on my list of favorite die-cuts.

And, the card would not be complete without the frilly, multi-loop bow created with the amazing Craft-Dee BowZ Bow Making Tool.  It makes bow making so easy and it's always on my craft table.

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Craft-Dee BowZ Bow Making Tool
Ribbon

Play along with Craft-Dee BowZ Monthly Challenges.  Click on the Monthly Challenge tab located at the top of the blog for details and guidelines.

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He"artful" Validation of Vicki

April Blog Hop Winner

Hi Everyone,

Welcome back!!!  

Time to announce the winner of the April Blog Hop here at Craft-Dee BowZ.

However, first, I  would like to extend a huge thank-you to all who visited and commented on the posts throughout the blog hop. We loved hearing from you and we also loved being able to give you some inspiration, ideas, tips, etc. Hopefully you got some ideas to use on your sympathy cards

 Next, I want to thank our talented design team on their beautiful cards.
They really presented beautiful cards, didn't they.

Our next blog hop is scheduled for June 5-6

So mark your calendars and save that date and plan on joining us for our next blog hop for 2014

OK, OK!!!! Let me announce who the winner is:

Golden Goddess Designs

Congratulations!!!

Please contact Barbara at the email below by April 12 (one week) to claim your prize. 

bbruder@fuse.net

Alicia please provide me your name and mailing address so we can get your Craft-Dee BowZ tool out to you. 

Thanks so much for hopping with us and we look forward to seeing you again at our next hop.

Just a reminder, stop back for our weekly posts (each Tuesday) hosted by our super talented design team members.   

Craft-Dee BowZ April Blog Hop

Hi Everyone!!

Welcome to the April blog hop here at Craft-Dee BowZ. I am so glad it's spring and I know everyone else is too. This month we are spotlighting a theme that we all need to visit from time to time, Sympathy. These types of cards are needed every once in a while and we wanted to focus on this theme to aid you in designing a card for this more somber occasion. It appears that our talented designers have put together cards that are perfect for that time when you need just the right card. We all used single loop bows, which is a better choice, not too over the top. 

Since we have a small design team here at Craft-Dee BowZ, it will be easy and quick to visit all the designer's blogs in the hop.

Just a reminder, please make sure you leave a comment on each designers blog and we ask that you leave a final comment back here as well to be in the running for the prize. Since this will also be your last stop in the hop, please let us know your thoughts on the fabulous projects presented by our talented designers. 

One visitor who has left comments on all the designers blogs and here as well, will win their very own Craft-Dee BowZ tool.  The winner will be announced here on this blog on Saturday April 5. Be sure to check back here to see if you've won.

To claim your prize, you must notify us by email, (contact Barbara at bbruder@fuse.net ) by Saturday April 12. You will have exactly one week to claim your prize.

Now relax for a few minutes while you visit our talented designers blogs. First, let's hop over to the blog of the very talented Rebecca, to view her beautiful project and don't forget, make sure to leave a comment on her blog.

Here are our talented designers in this months blog hop

Rebecca
Dana
Vicki
Karen

Barbara
Craft-Dee BowZ 
(stop back here last to leave one final comment)

From all the designers here at Craft-Dee BowZ, thanks for stopping by.

Have fun everyone

April Challenge

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the April Challenge

 here at Craft-Dee BowZ

Thank you to everyone who participated in our March Challenge!!!
Oh my gosh!!! The submissions are always so creative.

It's so amazing to see what all you talented people submit. 

Everyone has such creativity.

All of the submissions were again so beautiful, I think everyone is a winner. However I had to pick the top 3 and the grand winner for the month, let me tell you, this task is always so difficult with all the talent out there. 
(Yes, I know I say this each month but it really is true.)

Just to let you all know that the Winner, the Top 3 and any Honorable Mentions are all chosen on their merits, so make sure to get your creative juices flowing and send in your best submissions.

Who won the Grand Prize for the March Challenge??  

Well, without further ado the winner is:

Peggy R. (Submission # 42)

Congratulations to Peggy R.

You will have until April 8 (that's 1 week) 
to claim your prize

Monthly Prize

One Reel (25 yards) of Ribbon

To arrange for your prize to be sent and to receive a winners badge to display on your blog  please email me at bbruder@fuse.net by February 8th. 

Please put Craft-Dee BowZ Challenge Winner in the subject of your email.

TOP 3 WINNERS

(in no particular order)

1. Gail L. (Submission #15)

2. Susan Kennedy (Submission #88)

3. Julie P. (Submission #90)

Please grab the "top 3 badge" on the sidebar here and 

post it on your blog .

We'd love it if you'd link back to our site here.

This month we have an 

HONORABLE MENTION 

going to none other than:

Lorianna's Corner (Submission  #119)

You will always be able to access the current challenge or 

view prior challenges by clicking on the Monthly 

Challenge tab at the top of the page.

The April Challenge Theme:

Anything Goes and include a HANDMADE BOW

This months code to use is CDB12

Need some inspiration? 

Here is some from our designers 

for our April Challenge

Dana Tatar

Vicki Robertson

Barbara Bruder

The link to the guidelines for playing is on the top tab.

If you have any questions please email me at bbruder@fuse.net

We are looking forward to seeing your creation here.

Don't forget, the prize is one spool (25 yards) of ribbon

The April challenge closes on April 30 at 8:00 p.m. EST

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