Deep Ocean Challenge Blog: May 2015

Hi everyone, welcome to a new challenge. Thank you so much again for so many beautiful entries we had the last two weeks. Woohoo... almost 300 entries!!! How great is this!! We love to see you joining us so numerous!

Now we want to announce our winner...

Winner of the fab prize kindly offered by The Ribbon Girl is....

That's you Renii!! Congratulations!

Please write me, Karina, to claim your prize, my email adress is on the sidebar.
You have to contact me within 7 days!!

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Spotlight entry of our 'FLOWERS' challenge and winner of a GDT spot for next challenge is:

Gunn-Eiril

wow... what a fab project!! Visit her blog to take a closer look!!!

Gunn-Eiril, please contact me to get the infos to your guest design spot. You find my e-mail addy in the sidebar. And grab your 'Spotlight' blinkie from the sidebar or the HTML code from the tab 'Get your Blinkie Code' and show it with proud on your blog.

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Now onto the top 3, wow... how hard it was again this time with so many fabulous entries. Phew!!! But... we had to make our decisions, and here they are, in no particular order:

Jules

Elizabeth

Samra

Gorgeous creations, ladies... congratulations! Grab your 'Top 3' blinkie from the sidebar or the HTML code from the tab 'Get your Blinkie Code' and show it with proud on your blogs.

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So onto our new challenge... this fortnight we have a

BINGO BOARD

for you... look below... you can use either a row of embellishments, or a row of colors, or you can even combine both... it's up to you! Have fun!!

and we are are honoured to be sponsored by

If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts!
Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

with this great prize

Thank you so much, Sandy!!!

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We are honoured to be joined by our Guest Designer from last challenge; Astrid!! Great to have you with us this round with your gorgeous creation! Please visit her blog and leave her some love.

Astrid
used Flowers, Lace and Butterfly

Now look through all the gorgeousness the DT have made and feel inspired to join our new challenge.

Gretha

used the last vertical color row

Jennifer

used Flowers, Doily, Sentiment

Yanti
using Flowers, Lace and Butterfly

Karina
used Sentiment, Metal, Tag

VICKY xx

Nicola

(top row - flowers, lace, butterfly)

Now have fun and we look very much forward seeing you joining our Bingo Board.

An InLinkz Link-up

Hello everyone Deep Ocean friends!

Welcome to our new challenge! Thank you so much to everyone who entered our latest challenge, we are so glad and proud to have again so many stunning entries! It's a big pleasure to look through all of them.

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First we ask Random.org about our winner of the generous prize from our last challenge offered from Live & Love Crafts, thank you so much Sandy! Here we go...

Congratulations Nanda you're our lucky winner!
Please write me, Karina, to claim your prize, my email adress is on the sidebar :)

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and now let's see our favourites...

Spotlight entry of our 'Shaped Cards' challenge and winner of a GDT spot for next challenge is:

Crea Astrid

Astrid, please contact me to get the infos to your guest design spot. You find my e-mail addy in the sidebar. And grab your 'Spotlight' blinkie from the sidebar or the HTML code from the tab 'Get your Blinkie Code' and show it with proud on your blog.

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...choosing our top3 was so hard again seeing all those fabulous favorite creations from you. A wow for all of you!! But we only can take 3 in our top nomination. Here they are:

Tineke

Louise

Norma

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So, onto our new challenge:

FLOWERS

and thanks sooo much to The Ribbon Girl for being our lovely sponsor again!

Welcome to The Ribbon Girl online store - we are Mother and Daughter, Mary and Andrea, and have always crafted (card making, scrapbooking, cake decorating, sewing, embroidery, soft toy making etc) but it became more and more difficult to buy very small quantities of good quality ribbon, lace, and embellishments. In 2010 we decided to open our own online store The Ribbon Girl so we could make very small (or large) quantities of top quality products available to all crafters at reasonable prices - so you can mix and match and make your craft budget go further. We only sell what we would use ourselves - Mary owns and runs the store while Andrea looks after the social side including the Ribbon Girl challenges and our mega talented Design Team. Based in the UK, we ship world wide and try to send all orders the same day whenever possible.So whether you like crafting in classic, vintage, rustic, shabby chic or modern style you'll be spoiled for choice! Ribbon Girl stocks an impressive selection of gorgeous ribbons and trims from silk to hessian, a 100 different designs of vintage style, cotton, guipure and flat lace (all ribbon and lace is sold by the metre in continuous lengths whenever possible) hundreds of charms and pendants, all available as single units. Our Flower Shop is full pretty flowers and beaded berries and we are stockists of Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt and many others, in mulberry, cotton paper, satin, organza; we have gorgeous diamante and pearl embellishments; a vast array of buttons, twine, hemp, vintage style brooches, special occasion, bridal and seasonal embellishments. Our Christmas Shop is open all year round and we also offer craft essentials such as top-stitch thread, sticky tape, Glossy Accents, Liquid Pearls and Stickles, brooch backs, hair slides, hat pins etc Small orders are always welcome at The Ribbon Girl and we hope you enjoy looking around the store - please contact us if you need advice or a sample - especially if you are planning a wedding and want to use lace or ribbons on your invitations, wedding stationery, favours or celebration cakes

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Now look through all the gorgeousness the DT have made...

We are honoured to be joined by our Guest Designer from last challenge;Ileana !! Great to have you with us this round with your gorgeous creation! Please visit her blog and leave her some love.

Ileana