Challenge #28 Winners and Midway Reminder for Challenge #29

Wow! That was a quick week - Cant believe I am writing up another LOC Winners post! Hope you all have your fingers crossed! We were, as always, blown away with the standard of entries to the last challenge #28 Ribbons and/or Flowers sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs and the team have been voting for our favourites all week.

Just before I announce the winner, we have been discussing the numbers of entrants who are entering dozens upon dozens of challenges at a time. We appreciate that we are probably not high on many participants list of challenges to enter, and realise that many people entering at LOC do so as a direct result of visiting PaperPlayful and presumably seeking out specific challenge themes from there. We would like to think that we offer excellent prizes from our fabulous sponsors and that our themes are challenging, diverse and open to crafters of all styles. We love the darker side of crafting but as past winners have proven, it's not just the LOC entries that could win the prizes. We are, therefore, imposing a new rule from challenge #30 beginning next week. There will be a maximum number of other challenges that you can combine your entry with to be considered for the top prize. We will continue to highlight this and remind you for the next few weeks. Thanks!!

Ok, with that out of the way, here are the winner and Top 5 from Challenge #28!

#43 - Carla Suto

 

Top 5

#30 - Mikha

#53 - Sheena

#57 - Mirella DK

#45 - BlackDragon

#64 - Kaija

Thank you to everyone who entered! Carla, my contact details are at the top left of the blog and everyone can take a featured artist badge for your blogs! 

 Now on to our current challenge - #29 Anything Goes with a Dark Theme!

Very much a Left of Center favourite and we're thrilled that so many of you have joined in already! I look forward to seeing what else you come up with. But first, here's a look at what Team B have created for your inspiration today! 

Lisa using Brad Nailed Zombie

Kay using Witch Splat Cupcake

Susan using Whootie-Owls

Samara using Gothic Fairy Vivadondra

Samara using Zombie Pin Up Tease

Rachel using Alice

Maureen using Zombie Pin Up Tease

I hope this has given you something to think about and some inspiration! Hope you can join in the fun!

Mo and the LOC Crew

Challenge #29 Anything Goes - Dark Themed!!

Morning Everyone! I hope this post finds you all well and enjoying the Spring sunshine that seems to have appeared... well, in Scotland for a day or so anyways! Perhaps you could leave us a comment and tell us where you are and how Mother Nature is treating your corner of the world! I'm curious!!

Anyway, onto our brand new challenge and it's a goodie - Anything Goes.... Dark Themed!!! So yes, we want you to explore your dark side, go Goth, Horror, Emo, Steampunk, Fantasy, Anime, whatever your particular edgier side is, we want to see it! Whether you make a card, Art Journal page, Altered Art, 3D item, we want to see it all!

We have two sponsors this week! Limited Runs and Smeared Ink. And here are some samples from Team A. Join us next Friday for Team B!

Keren using Limited Runs - The Count

PennyRae
Using Smeared Ink-Goth Fairy Vivadondra

 Steph using Toxic Backbend Ballerina

Catherine using Alice

Pam using Devil Boy

Eiglas using her own image

 

Thanks for joining us, we look forward to seeing your Dark Themed LOC Projects!!
Mo and the LOC Crew

An InLinkz Link-up

Anniversary Anything Goes Mega Winners Post!

Wow!!! We were blown away by the amazing amount of talent and creativity shown in our 1st Anniversary Anything Goes Mega Challenge! We have 11 sponsors, some fabulous prizes to give away and some freebies for those that want them! 

The DT have been voting, ties were broken, judges decisions are final! If you're on the list, you have till April 20th to claim your prize or a new winner will be chosen! We will be spotlighting the winners creations over on the LOC Facebook Group, please join us for that! Winners were chosen by DT Vote, sponsors names put in a hat, and chosen in order of the number of votes - eg first winner with most votes got the first name out the hat. To claim your prize contact Maureenjscott@googlemail.com or get me on Facebook!

So without further ado here are your 11 winners!

#6 - Lisa aka B.Creative

Winning $20 Gift Cert from Ike's Art

#119 - Monique

Winning 3 digis from Dilly Beans

#176 - Lucy Gregg

Winning 4 digis or 2 digis + a paper kit from Eiglassing

#71 - Corinne

Winning 4 images from Delicious Doodles

#36 - Donna Mundinger

Winning 3 images from Limited Runs

#11 - Crafting Vicky

Winning 4 images from Sassy Studio Designs

#106 - Mimi

Winning $10 Gift Certificate from Meljen's Designs

#34 - Wendy Lynn (Paper Whims)

Winning 5 iamges from The East Wind

#97 - Teresa

Winning 3 images from The Stamping Chef

#163 - Creepy Glowbugg

Winning $10 of digis from Aurora Wings

#35 - Serafeena

Winning $15 Gift Certificate from Smeared Ink

Now we have a treat for all the winners and runners up! There are no losers, everyone can claim a prize! 

The Lovely Lisa Tyrell of the LOC Crew has created four fabulous digital images that you can use on your projects - we would love to see you use them and submit your projects to our challenges! Please email maureenjscott@googlemail.com for your unwatermarked image(s). These are jpegs and for your own use, please do not sell them or share the unwatermarked images. Direct your friends to come like us or join our facebook group and they could claim their own!

A huge congratulations to all the winners!

A huge thank you to all the sponsors for helping make this event a success!

A huge thank you to the LOC Crew and all our Guest Designers throughout March for making this an enjoyable event! 

Here's to another year and we look forward to seeing your LOC makes with Lisa's images!

Mo and the LOC Crew

Challenge #27 Winners and Midway Reminder for Challenge #28

Wow! What a month March was!!! Fabulous daily inspiration from the LOC Crew and our Guest Designers to celebrate our First Anniversary! We have had a great month and hope you have too! Stay tuned for the Winners of the Anything Goes challenge later today!

Challenge #27 was themed 'Favourite Books' and sponsored by Delicious Doodles. The smaller number of entries did not make choosing a winner any easier but with the Crew voting for their favourites, we have a winner and Top 3 for you.

Our winner is #2 - Monique with this altered book

Top 3

#9 - Ike

#4 - Sheena

#3 -Teresa

Well done ladies! Grab a badge from the sidebar and if Monique can contact the 'other' Mo for prize details! Thanks!

Now on to our Current Challenge - Ribbons and/or Flowers. We are sponsored this fortnight by Sassy Studio Designs and Team B are up today with some more fabulous inspiration!

Lisa using Bella Bride

Rachel using Light Vs Dark

Kay  using Snow White pin up

Samara using NEW MOMMY

Jo using New Mummy

Susan R - using Jack and Sally Honey

Maureen with Sassy Witch

You still have a full week to get your entries in, remember to use a ribbon and/or flowers - or go LOC!

Mo and the LOC Crew!

1st Anniversary Event - The Final Day!

Please check out our Current Challenge Ribbons and/or Flowers!

Please submit your entries for our 1st Anniversary Anything Goes Challenge here!
And check out the rules here!

We are down to the final few hours of the Anything Goes Challenge to celebrate the first anniversary of Left of Center Creative Challenges! The LOC Crew and myself would like to thank everyone who has taken part in the event! We are so grateful for our guest designers who have helped make this event so fantastic! We couldn't have done it without you!

And I couldn't have done it without the LOC Crew! A big thank you to all my ladies!

We have a bumper post for you today with a shed loads of inspiration! I hope you will visit all the blogs today and leave some love for these fabulous designers!

You can get information for all our sponsors on this page - where you will also find out what prizes we have on offer! Just remember you have till midnight (GMT+1) tonight to get your entries in - 5 max!

So here goes!
First up is Cath of the LOC Crew with this fabulous Aurora Wings image! You can find her blog here!

PennyRae is also on the LOC Crew with another of Aurora Wings images! Here is her blog!

Eileen, another LOC Crew member, has created this wonderful digital project using an owl image from Dilly Beans and a tree that she designed herself, perhaps something to see soon on Eiglassing! Check out Eileen's blog for more info!

Next up we have two members of the Design Team for The East Wind! Joining us for the first time this month is Jackie Cornfield with this beautiful Asian themed card. Please check out Jackie's blog here!

And someone who is not a stranger to this event, Crafting Vicky Fortier is here today too! She is using a brand new Lucy Loo image from The East Wind and you can see more of this on her blog!

Joining us again today from the Delicious Doodles Design Team is Julia Vazquez with this fabulous card using Cranium Caresses, a new darker Delicious Doodles image. Julia's blog is over here if you want to take a look!

Another of our regular guest designers from this event is the lovely Shelley and today she is sharing another of her paperbag album pages. This uses an image from Smeared Ink and I'm sure she'll have more details on her blog!

And we couldn't finish the event without another project from Samara! She was so excited to join the LOC Crew and create projects for this event and she has another Ike's Art creation today! Please leave her some love on her blog too!

I dont know about you, but I have had a lot of fun this month with all the amazing projects to look at here at Left of Center! I hope you have been inspired to join in our regular fortnightly challenges - they always have a theme, you dont have to be a dark themed crafter to join in, but either way, we would love to see you here again!

You have only a few hours left to get your projects linked up to the Anything Goes Challenge and after that the LOC Crew will have the difficult task of choosing our 11 winners! These winners will go in a hat and prizes chosen at random. We aim to announce the winners on Friday so come back then for the Anything Goes winners AND winners from our 'Favourite Books' challenge too!! Best of luck!
Mo and the LOC Crew