Saturday, June 20, 2009

PuRpLE OnIOn DEsiGnS




OUR SPONSOR

Purple Onion Designs is a rubber art stamp company offering the finest quality unmounted red rubber. The stamps are designed for cardmaking, scrapbooking and mixed media artists. Purple Onion Designs was started in 2003 with a line of definition stamps and alphabet sets. Since then the line has grown considerably and offers a little something for everyone.

Purple Onion Designs has graciously and generously offered a 25% discount to our readers for the length of the challenge! Simply enter the code, "Caardvarks" at check and you're good to go!


THE PRIZE

A $50 shopping spree at Purple Onion Designs!


THE CHALLENGE

This time we're challenging you to create a window card! Show us what you can do and do it by July 3rd at Midnight, PST...link us ***directly*** to your blog post or gallery card via Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post. Please make sure your entry is a NEW creation.


CAARDS & MORE

Jenn took this challenge literally and created this amazing and beautiful keepsake for her girls. She altered an old window! You can find many more details and photos of her project on her blog...and remember, you can click on any image at Caardvarks to see it larger. Jenn designs for Purple Onion Designs and we knew she'd create something incredible!








Stef created a few terrific and clever projects using Purple Onion Designs large stamps. First up is a Holiday Wine Bottle Hanger. The image is stamped onto a transparency. Wouldn't this be great for wine bottles or containers of homemade oils...the simple, elegant design is just perfect for the Holiday Season.



Stef also put together a pair of gift bags using more stamped transparencies...





GUEST DESIGNERS

We are so happy to bring a few Guest Designer creations to you! We rediscovered Kelly, Gina, and Karen during our Readers' Weekend where we showcased *your* work! you can view the posts here - it was a great, eye candy-filled weekend. Here's how these three talented card artists saw this challenge:


by Guest Designer, Karen:






By Guest Designer, Kelly:




by Guest Designer, Gina:





CREW CARDS

Purple Onion Designs provided the crew with an assortment of stamps to use for our sample cards. We were thrilled to be able to browse Purple Onion Designs and choose from the amazing collection of rubber! Want to see even more POD samples from the Crew? Well............check this out - we created a full gallery of Purple Onion Designs!

Just click here to head over to our Caardvarks Flickr Gallery/Purple Onion Designs Gallery!


by Lucy:




by Jolene:




by Carrie:




by Lauren:




by Lori:




by Heidi:




by Jenyfur:




by Pamela:




by Tanis:




by Nathalia:




by Daniela:




by Mel:




by Adela:




by Michelle:



Want to see more? Just click here to see the Crew's entire Purple Onion Designs Gallery!


24 comments:

Zarah said...

Goodness gracious me...!!
0_o
Does anyone have the guts to link to their work when you've all outdone yourselves!? *smiles*

Seriously. STUNNING cards! WTG ladies! :D

...and a super fun challenge. I'll be brave!! Just have to create a masterpiece first... or at least a card :P

Eveline said...

WOW, lovely challenge, great work by all DT members and guest DT members.
Eveline.

Tiffany said...

WOWZERS! Loved all the projects by the team members and I just LOVE Kelly R's guest designing card!! Beautiful Kelly!

Enfys said...

What great samples from the fabulous DT again, thanks for this challenge, it gave me the chance to try an idea I have had floating around for ages.

paula said...

Wow what a great challenge for this week. I am really looking forward to seeing what every one makes :)

Andi (RrlScrapGal) said...

Gorgeous work you super talented people!!! Dang! How about all those windows!!!

I love your guest design team members submissions. How awesome! Karen's autos and planes are adorable..

And lastly, yeah to Purple Onion Designs! What a super generous sponsor! Both to the 'readers' and the winner! Everyone wins this challenge...

Gotta get some of those stamps that Stef used!

Nicole said...

Gorgeous work everyone!!! and a great sponsor this week. Cant wait to see what everyone does and I think I need to do some shopping at POD with the code (how sweet of them!)

Jo said...

What a fun challenge...great work from the design team. Thanks for the inspiration!

sandee said...

Great challenge! I LOVE window cards and this will get me working! Thanks again for all the creative talent to inspire us!

Jenyfur said...

Ladies, please link *directly* to your blog post, not to your main blog address. Thank you!!

Sherry said...

Great challenge this week. Wonderful inspiration from the DT.

Linda said...

What a fun challenge!!
You have all made some pretty amazing window cards!!
Love all the different little windows.
I have posted my card in Mr Linky.

Gabriele said...

omg... these designer projects are... adorable! Thanks so much for sharing...
But I also saw most of the participants' works: BEAUTIFUL!

And I just added my window card... hope you'll like it!

Jenyfur said...

Hey all -- please link viewers ***directly*** to your blog post, not your main blog address so that your challenge entry can be seen by everyone. Simply right click on the title of your blog post that contains your entry and choose "properties", highlight the url, and copy/paste it into Mr. Linky.

Thank you!

take a little piece of my art said...

Great challenge!! and beautiful projects....make for one awesome site!!!!! Can't wait to see everyone's projects!!!

mulberry station said...

Our designer have made beautiful projects. Thanks again for another wonderful challenge.

Steph Zerbe said...

goodness, love the first DT member that literally used a window.
Love those colors. I keep going back to that project. It makes me happy.

Side note: the black bkgd of this blog really bothers me.... I mean no disrespect, just thought you'd like to know. It's so harsh! Like my mama. Hee hee. Shhh, don't tell her I said so.

~Michelle~ said...

what a fun challenge! My card opens once to reveal a recipe and then opens again for a place to write your message.

http://inspirationblooms.blogspot.com/2009/06/red-white-and-blue-challenge.html

This is my first time playing your challenges! Thanks for the fun! :)

Nancy said...

wow...I just love all of the creations from the DT and Guest DT. They are awesom. What a wonderful challenge. I just loved it. Thanks for another great challenge.

Bobbi said...

wow there is a lot of talent in this DT. I finally got brave enough to post one of my creations. I hope you like it.

Bonita said...

Wow! What inspiration from the crew. My humble submission just uploaded and hope I win.

Cathy said...

This is my first time participating in a challenge here. I only have a couple PO stamps so far but thanks for the inspiration!! Loved ALL the DT's cards!

Lorena said...

Phewww!! I thought I wouldn't make on time, but I did! Love all the inspiration cards for this challenge.
Hugs from Uruguay!

Quirky said...

The cards are oh-so-lovely!!!

I'm not in time to participate but I did make a window card too :) Do drop by to have a look! :)

Thanks!