Double D Challenges: July 2024

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Basket Full of Posies

Welcome back Double D Friends!

Thanks so much for all your support! We sure love seeing all the amazing designs you all share each and every challenge! I for one am looking forward to seeing what you do with today's theme ...

BASKET full of POSIES
(basket ... posies ... or both)

Here's our inspiration board to help get you started:

Now let's take a peek at the amazing designs the teams have
come up with for even more inspiration . . .

Team DARLENE

WOW! And even more amazing designs from Team DIANE

Fantastic! What wonderful inspiration these ladies have shared!!

Be sure to pop over to their personal blogs by clicking on their names to

find more details on their creations and leave them some love!!

REMEMBER: We have a fun prize to give away to one lucky player,

which will be chosen by Random.org

Today's prize offering is:

Our rules are listed above (under the header and in our sidebar).

Please read and follow the rules and our theme as well.

It is not required, but we would LOVE to have you follow our blog
and share our blog badge to help spread the word.

In addition to the prize offered,

A Top Creative Winner and Top 3 will be chosen by the Design Team.

(Just to be clear ... Random.org chooses the prize winner

The Top Creative Winner and Top 3 are

chosen by our Design Team)

Now, it's your turn!!

You have until 8 PM Sunday, August 4th to enter.

Our winners will be announced on the Tuesday before the start of a new challenge.

Looking forward to seeing YOUR creations ...

OUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION!

With the many challenge blogs we (Diane & Darlene) run (8 to be exact), over the last several years we have made it a point to comment on every challenge entry. But starting this year we will just be sharing one BIG THANK YOU to all of you who continue to support our challenges by playing along. It has just become too time consuming.
But please know, we TRULY APPRECIATE EACH & EVERY ONE OF YOU.

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Nautical Challenge Winners

It's time to announce our winners at Double D,
thank you to everyone that played along in our
Nautical challenge,
we hope you had as much fun as we did.
As always, it was a very difficult decision to choose our winners
with so many beautiful and creative cards to choose from
but the teams have voted and the results are as follows:

Top 3

#1 Lia

#2 Margreet

#22 Francesca

Congratulations!

Please grab your Top 3 Badge from our sidebar

to display proudly on your blogs.

The TOP WINNER of our challenge goes to . . .

#38 Sonja

CONGRATULATIONS!

Please grab your WINNERS badge from our sidebar

to display proudly on your blog!

AND,

Our Random.org PRIZE WINNER is . . .

#30 Kathy A

Congratulations !

"NEW TANGIBLE PRIZE WINNER RULES"

If you live within the U.S.A., today's winner MUST contact us BEFORE July 31st
otherwise the prize will be forfeited. Please contact Diane at:
dianegreghov@att.net

with your snail mail address.

IF you are International, please grab our new 'International Random Prize Winner' Badge (found on the sidebar) and display it proudly on your blog. We are saddened by the extreme rise in postage costs making it necessary to mail only within the USA but thrilled you have come to join our challenge fun.

Thanks again to everyone who entered our challenge.

Please come back tomorrow for another
fabulous challenge and gorgeous mood board.

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Double D Nautical Challenge

Breaking News!!

We have a NEW challenge blog starting on July 13th
that will normally start on the FIRST Saturday of each month
and end on the last day of each month and it is
Love Those Pretty Patterned Papers
where the theme is to use your 'hoard' of pattern papers
you can read all about it HERE!

Hello Double D fans,
it's time for a new challenge theme and it is
NAUTICAL!

We have a fun mood board for inspiration but you can
create anything as long as the 'nautical' theme is used!

The design teams have some awesome inspiration to share with you
and to hopefully inspire you to play along!!

TEAM DIANE

Diane

Donna

Doni (RIP our friend)

Barbara

TEAM DARLENE

Birgit

WOW, what wonderful inspiration these ladies have shared!!

Be sure to pop over to their personal blogs by clicking on their names to

find more details on their creations and leave them some love!!

REMEMBER: We have a fun prize to give away to one lucky player,

which will be chosen by Random.org

Today's prize offering is:

DUE TO INCREASED SHIPPING COSTS,
WE WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO SHIP PRIZES INTERNATIONALLY
but, international designers are certainly welcome to
play for the Top winner and Top 3 honors ... we love seeing your designs!

Our rules are listed above (under the header and in our sidebar).
Please read and follow the rules and our theme as well.

It is not required, but we would LOVE to have you follow our blog
and share our blog badge to help spread the word.

In addition to the prize offered,

A Top Creative Winner and Top 3 will be chosen by the Design Team.

(Just to be clear ... Random.org chooses the prize winner

The Top Creative Winner and Top 3 are

chosen by our Design Team)

Now, it's your turn!!

OUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION!

You have until 8 PM Sunday,July 14th to enter.

Our winners will be announced on the Tuesday before the start of a new challenge.

Looking forward to seeing YOUR creations ...

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Reach for the STARS WINNERS

Hello Double D Friends!

It's time to announce our winners!
The Double D girls have voted and a very hard decision as ALL the entries
were so inspiring and creative, but it was narrowed down and our winners are:

Top 3 Winners

#3 Elle-Jeanne

#9 Johanna

#19 Nanny's Pansy Patch