Whimsical Wednesday Challenge and Blog Candy Winners

Good morning my crafting friends. Welcome to all my new friends that have joined me over the past couple of weeks. I am so excited you are all here, and I cherish each and every one of your comments. I will be announcing the winners of April Showers and the Blog Candy from the FIF blog hop at the end of this post. I was so amazed with all your suggestions for upcoming challenges, they were all so creative. Jess and I can't wait to bring them on. We will post a poll shortly with the top few request to decide what one we will do first. For now let's get onto the challenge for this week. Jess and I have a love for Alice in Wonderland, so you guessed it, this week our challenge is all about that Whimsical story. For those of you who are new all the details about the challenge is at the end of this post. I decided to use a digital stamp from Tiddly Inks

you can find this cute Alice stamp here. So I have been playing around with my prisma colored pencils and I am having so much fun with them. I think this is my best attempt at coloring a stamp thus far. It takes a lot of practice (well for me anyway), but once you get the hang of it, it is so addicting. I really need to thank my bestie, Jess, she has given me so many tips, and helped me so much with my coloring. I wanted so badly to make her proud with this, I hope I do. She has inspired me so much..so a big thanks and hug to you Jess!!! I was so concerned about the coloring of Alice, that I feel the tag got a little neglected. Oh well. For the most part I am pleased with how it turned out.
Crafting goodies used
Tiddly Ink Digital Stamp
Prisma Colored Pencils
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Tag from The Paper Company
Kelly Panacci Clear Stamp set (the set does not have a name)
Prima-Say It In Pearls
Lace, Fibers, Gromlet, Stick Pin

Here is a sneak peak of Jess's Wonderland project.  Many of you know her already, but for those of you who don't, she is my scrapping bestie and her blog is My Scrap Diary. She is super talented, and brings an assortment of crafting projects, from cards to home decor. here is a sneak peak of her project

I have not seen her finished project yet, we like to surprise each other. So when you guys see it for the first time I am too. You can head on over to Jess's blog here to see what she come up with for you all this week.

This week, Donna, from Popsicle Toes is our guest designer. Here is a sneak peak of her project

Donna is such an amazing, talented crafter. We were so honored when she agreed to be our guest designer for this week. If you are not familiar with her already, I know that you will want to head on over and become a follower. She never disappoints. You can visit Donna here.

This week we our challenging you to make an Alice in Wonderland themed project. It can be anything you want. You do not have to use a stamp, and it does not have to be Alice. You can chose any character you want...when I think of Alice I always think of mushrooms..so maybe you can work a mushroom or two into your project;) For those of you who do not wish to do an Alice themed project, you can do anything Disney. Yes, we are lenient, we really want you to have fun. So how about a give away? We will be giving away Birthday Bash to one lucky participant from the next four challenges.

 After four challenges I will combine all the names from the challenges and chose a winner. If you play along with us for all four challenges, then your name will be entered four times. For this week we are adding a little incentive, if you chose to do an Alice in Wonderland project then you will get an extra chance to win Birthday Bash, so you will get two chances for this week. So another words do an Alice project this week and then participate in the next three weeks and that is five chances. Make sense? If not shoot me an e-mail.  Here are some additional guidlines:
1.Create any type of Alice In Wonderland Themed Project..if you wish you can do a Disney project 
2. Please put in your post that you entered your project into this challenge with a link to my blog. I do not ask that you make a project just for my challenge. I know that there are lot's of fun challenge blogs out there and I encourage you to play along in as many as your want:) So go ahead and enter your project where ever you like.
3. Stop by Jess's and Donna's blog and  leave a comment under their post for this challenge
4. Become a follower of ours
5. Link your project to Mr. Linky by next Monday January 17, at midnight

Now onto the winners of the blog candy:

April Showers: The winner is.....Vicki

Vicki said:

I'm already a follower of both blogs. How about an alphabet/word challenge (card would be c=color something; a=adhesive; r=ribbon; d=distress)

FIF Blog Candy Winner: The winner is.....AJ

AJ said: Wow, Stephanie both your projects are Awesome! What a great idea and so perfect for "Hello Kitty"! Any little girl would treasure this. Thanks so much for sharing - I have been a follower for a while and always look forward to seeing what you design next. AJ - 

Thank you ladies for participating. Please contact me within a week with your addresses so I can get your crafting goodies out to.

I hope that you enjoyed your visit here today and found some inspiration. Don't forget to visit Jess and Donna for more great inspiration:) Please link your projects to Mr. Linky below. I am so excited to see what you will create. Most of all have fun!