Thursday, January 14, 2016

Share Joy Challenge 18: Sketch & Inspiration Photo

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday! We hope you've had a fantastic week and are gearing up for a wonderful weekend.

Today we have the 18th Share Joy Challenge and we are so happy to have you joining us this week and we love hearing that YOU are sharing your cards with others! Please be sure to leave us a comment when you link up each week and share with us how you are SHARING JOY with others (AKA tell us about who and why you are sending/giving your card to)!!

The winner of Share Joy Challenge number 17 and a $15 Taylored Expressions gift certificate is:


Please email Jen here to claim your prize!

Today we have a super sparkly fun inspiration photo to go along with our sketch. Use the sketch or the inspiration photo or both together! It's up to you!


Our team has some samples to share to get your creativity going:

Sample by Lindsay Amrhein

Sample by Simone Naoum


Sample by Yuki Yoshioka


Sample by Jen Shults

Challenge Format:

Each week we will be bring you two types of challenges that you can use separately or together to inspire your creativity. One of the challenges will always be a sketch. The other challenge will vary each week. It's up to you if you want to use just one of the challenge components or both together. New challenges will be posted each Thursday.

To enter the challenge, simply follow these instructions:

  1. Create a new card or project using either or both components of the challenge posted above. Use of Taylored Expressions products is optional.
  2. Post your project on your personal blog or online gallery. Please directly link to the Share Joy Challenge blog in your post. 
  3. Add a direct link to your project using the InLinkz below by noon PST on December 9, 2015.
  4. Send or give your card to a friend, loved one, or someone who could use some joy! 
  5. Leave a comment on this post telling us who you sent your card to and why. Don't forget this one!! We LOVE hearing from you!!
Prizes:
  1. A winner will be chosen at random each week to receive a $15 Taylored Expressions Gift Certificate. Winning entries that use TE products will receive a $20 Taylored Expressions Gift Certificate.
  2. Each month, we will award a Grand Prize to a TE Share Joy Challenge participant. The more you play throughout the month, the better your chance to win!
  3. Weekly winners will be announced at the time of the new challenge launch each Thursday.
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15 comments:

  1. time to start making valentines as I send out to my nieces and nephews at college.

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  2. This is already in the mailbox (an hour ago) to go to our granddaughter for her birthday - she misses her cats while at college!

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  3. I´ll give this to my 13 years old son on Valentine. You can´t tell your kids that you love them too often.

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  4. I've no idea who my card is going to ... it's now in my stash waiting for a wedding!

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  5. My entry above (#6) is for one coworker (of multiple) that is an expectant mother! This particular card is for the first woman due. She is a first-grade teacher, and this will be her first baby!

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  6. Okay, entry #7 is another baby card... this was was made with the other first-grade teacher in mind, but I am leaning towards giving this one to the prego neighbor!

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  7. My Valentine card is for my wonderful husband. The inside reads: You're pretty much my favorite of all time in the history of ever.

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  8. My card will go to a fellow cat-lover.

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  9. My card will go to my mom of course!!

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  10. Just linked up my card #14 which I'm sending card to my daughter to give it to her best friend at university.

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    1. Just linked #15 which will also go to my daughter.

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  11. Fun sketch and inspiration challenge. Love the DT's projects. My card is going to be from my Hubby to his Mom for Valentine's Day.

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  12. Great sketch, I will use to make a card for my special girl, my daughter.
    Thank you for the challenge.

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  13. At this moment we have snow in our country, so I want to make a card with the lovely pincecone stamp set. To send this card to my best friend. Not specifiek for valentine, only to tell her that I'm thinking of her and love her in this hard day she have at the moment.
    Hugs
    Lydia

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  14. At this moment we have snow in our country, so I want to make a card with the lovely pincecone stamp set. To send this card to my best friend. Not specifiek for valentine, only to tell her that I'm thinking of her and love her in this hard day she have at the moment.
    Hugs
    Lydia

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