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Friday, December 2, 2022

CHALLENGE #3: Most Magical Florals - sponsored by Kate Hadfield Designs

Welcome to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges!

What a wonderful turn out we had for our 2nd Most Magical Time of the Year Challenge, thank you so much for playing with us in November!  To give the Most Magical Design Team and I time to visit you and vote on all your entries during the busy holiday season the winners will be posted not long after the close of Challenge #3!  

See the Winner's Post for Challenge #1 here!

If this is your first time visiting us then this is how the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges came about.

My name is Cat and I've been hosting challenges at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges since January this year due to a medical issue effecting my fingers and crafty time.  I've enjoyed Paper Dragonfly so much I launched two more Challenge Blogs dedicated to 3 of my favorite subjects, Cats, Christmas and Halloween!  Crazy for Cats and Paper Dragonfly's December challenges also started today so come and play with us there too! 

Most Magical Time of the Year is now your fun Challenge Blog where you can celebrate the most magical time of the year all year whether it be Halloween or Christmas as well as fun mash-up twists of all the other fun holidays we like to craft about too!  

I hope you love the holidays just as much as me and will enjoy playing along with us each month and celebrating the Most Magical Time of the Year all year round! 

Our Challenges are monthly and start on the first Friday of each month!

All kinds of projects, products and tastes are welcome here from paper crafting, altered art, mixed media, rubber stamps and digis stamps, die cuts and cut files, sweet and cute, creepy cute, quirky and odd to spooky and scary!  Our Challenge info and rules are included in each post and are up on this Page too!  

Would you like to join our Most Magical Design Team?  Have a look out our Most Magical Design Team Call page for more info, I hope to hear from you!

Now on to our December Challenge!
Have a Most Magical day!
Cat 🐱


CHALLENGE #3
Most Magical Florals
Sponsored by
Kate Hadfield Designs

PRIZE
The main Challenge Winner wins a $10 gift certificate from Kate Hadfield Designs!*

THEME
This month's theme is Most Magical Florals!
We challenge you to create either Halloween or Christmas projects with a floral theme and if you're up for a twist, combine both Halloween and Christmas florals into one project!  Are you up to the challenge?

*NEW PRIZE RULE
Minimum of 4 entries by different people needed for the prize to be awarded.

DEADLINE  
Enter your projects in the Inlinkz link-up below following the challenge rules provided by 11:55pm pacific on December 30.


We're excited to have Kate Hadfield Designs sponsoring us this month, YAY!  
Kate Hadfield Designs is sponsoring our main challenge prize and also provided the wonderful digi images the Most Magical Design Team used on our projects today!

Kate Hadfield has a wonderful selection of Halloween and Christmas themed digi stamps both as uncolored line art stamps and pre-colored images for you to see in their shop plus they offer freebies on their blog too, pop over to see what's available and support our Sponsor! 


Now for our Most Magical Design Team projects using Kate Hadfield's Winter Flora stamps!  We are here to fright and delight you with our most magical Halloween and Christmas projects to keep you in the spirit of the season all year long! 

Christmas Florals project by Cat


Fall-o-ween Florals project by Cat


Christmas Florals project by Val


Halloween Florals project by Val


Christmas Florals project by Helen


NanaConnie has decided to step down from her design teams, we are sad to see her go so soon and wish her a speedy recovery!

Now it's your turn, we can't wait to see your Most Magical Florals projects!

CHALLENGE INFO and RULES

INFO
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the 1st Friday of each month.
  • Each challenge will have a Most Magical theme based on Halloween and Christmas for you to choose from with fun optional holiday mash-up twists.
WINNERS and PRIZES
  • Non- sponsored challenges are "just for fun".
  • Sponsored Challenges - the main Prize winner will win our Winner's Badge, the sponsored prize and invited to guest design for a future Challenge using the prize they won!
  • Minimum of 4 entries by different people needed for the prize to be awarded.
    Top 3 winners win badges and are invited to guest DT for a future Challenge. 
  • Email Cat at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com to claim prizes and arrange GDT spots.
RULES
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the first Friday of each month. 
  • Challenge themes are always Halloween and Christmas based with fun optional holiday mash-up twists.
  • There are no rules as to what you may create! 
  • Please follow our blog and leave a comment on the challenge post when you enter. 
  • You may enter up to five times per month. 
  • No limit on how many other challenges you can combine with ours! 
  • Use your project post permalink to add your project to our Inlinkz link up.
  • Projects must be blogged or shared on or after the date of the challenge, older postings and projects are not eligible. 
  • You must mention and link to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges in your post. 
  • Optional but appreciated - include the current challenge badge in your post. 
  • Optional but appreciated - display our main blog badge in your sidebar to help promote our Challenges. That's the one at the top of the right sidebar. 
  • It is OK to use another online forum such as Flickr and Instagram if you do not have a blog. 
  • If you would like us to leave a comment on your project, be sure you have comment verification turned off and/or that the site you’ve posted from does not require membership to comment etc. 
  • We respect copyright, please do not use product that have been copied without the manufacturer’s/designer’s consent, this includes but not limited to unbranded dies etc.
Have a Most Magical crafty day!
Cat 🐱

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Challenge #1 Most Magical Time of the Year - Winner and Top Picks

Welcome to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges!

Thank you so much for playing in our big October launch party, our first Most Magical Time of the Year Challenge was a huge success with over 100 entries, WOW!  Your projects were so wonderful we just could not decide on our Winner and Top 3 so for Challenge #1 I decided to change things up a bit and give out extra awards, YAY!  I picked my two favorite projects, one Halloween and one Christmas, and the Most Magical Design Team voted on multiple Top Picks instead of a Top 3!  


The main prize sponsored by LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz plus my special "Cat's Most Magical Winner" badge goes to #40 Carol J for these magical projects!


Congratulations, you've won a $10 gift certificate to spend at LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz Boutique on Etsy.  Please email Cat to claim your prize by December 9 at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com with “MMTOTY Challenge #1 Winner” in the subject.  I also invite you to be a guest designer in the near future using the prize you've won today, let me know if you are interested when you email me!

Thank you to LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz for sponsoring our big October launch party for Challenge #1 Most Magical Time of the Year!



In second place my special "Cat's Most Magical Top Pick" badge goes to #30 Paperesse for this magical project!



The Most Magical Design Team voted on these magical projects for their Top Picks!

#2 Meg


#3 Darlene Pavlick


#6 Diane H


#7 Margaret A

#8 Festive Cocktail

#24 Tee


#26 Cornelia


#41 Carol J


#47 Pauline


Congratulations, enjoy your wins and proudly display your Most Magical Time of the Year badges! All of you are invited to be a Guest Designer for one of our upcoming challenges.  Please email me to make arrangements at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com with “MMTOTY Challenge #1 Guest DT” in the subject.

See you all here on Dec 2 for Challenge #3!

Have a magical day!
Cat 🐱
xox

Friday, November 4, 2022

CHALLENGE #2: Most Magical Time of the Year - sponsored by All Dressed Up

Welcome to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges!

WOW, our first Most Magical Time of the Year Challenge was a huge success with 102 entries, thank you so much for playing with us in October!  The Most Magical Design Team and I are still busy visiting and commenting on all your entries and will have our main Winner and Top Picks post up on Nov 26!

If this is your first time visiting us then this is how the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges came about.

My name is Cat and I've been hosting challenges at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges since January this year due to a medical issue effecting my fingers and crafty time.  I've enjoyed Paper Dragonfly so much I launched two more Challenge Blogs dedicated to 3 of my favorite subjects, Cats, Christmas and Halloween!  Crazy for Cats launched Oct 24th and the first challenge is still open until Nov 25th so go play there if you love Cats! 

Most Magical Time of the Year is now your fun Challenge Blog where you can celebrate the most magical time of the year all year whether it be Halloween or Christmas as well as fun mash-up twists of all the other fun holidays we like to craft about too!  

I hope you love the holidays just as much as me and will enjoy playing along with us each month and celebrating the Most Magical Time of the Year all year round! 

Our Challenges are monthly and start on the first Friday of each month!

All kinds of projects, products and tastes are welcome here from paper crafting, altered art, mixed media, rubber stamps and digis stamps, die cuts and cut files, sweet and cute, creepy cute, quirky and odd to spooky and scary!  Our Challenge info and rules are included in each post and are up on this Page too!  

Would you like to join our Most Magical Design Team?  Have a look out our Most Magical Design Team Call page for more info, I hope to hear from you soon!

Now on to our November Challenge!
Have a Most Magical day!
Cat 🐱


CHALLENGE #2
Most Magical Shades of Fall
Sponsored by
All Dressed Up

PRIZE
The main Challenge Winner wins 2 images of their choice from the All Dressed Up Etsy shop!

THEME
This month's theme is Most Magical Shades of Fall!
We challenge you to create anything you want with either a Halloween or Christmas theme only using this Shades of Fall color palette as your guide - use all or some of these colors and you may include black and white for fun non-traditional Halloween and Christmas projects!  You can also combine Fall into your Halloween or Christmas projects from your stash of dies, embossing folders, embellishments and stamps. 


DEADLINE  
Enter your projects in the Inlinkz link-up below following the challenge rules provided by 11:55pm pacific on November 25.


We're excited to have All Dressed Up
 sponsoring us this month, YAY!  
All Dressed Up is sponsoring our main challenge prize and also provided the wonderful digi images the Most Magical Design Team used on our projects today!

All Dressed Up has a wonderful selection of Halloween and Christmas themed digi stamps for you to see in their shop!  They also have a monthly Anything Goes challenge so if your entries into our challenge this month use All Dressed Up stamps then don't forget to go play there too!

Now for our Most Magical Design Team projects using All Dressed Up's Halloween and Christmas images!  We are here to fright and delight you with our most magical Halloween and Christmas projects to keep you in the spirit of the season all year long!

Halloween project by Cat

Christmas project by Val


Halloween project by Val

Christmas project by NanaConnie


Halloween project by NanaConnie

Christmas project by Helen
Now it's your turn, we can't wait to see your Most Magical Shades of Fall projects!

CHALLENGE INFO and RULES

INFO
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the 1st Friday of each month.
  • Each challenge will have a Most Magical theme based on Halloween and Christmas for you to choose from with fun optional holiday mash-up twists.
WINNERS and PRIZES
  • Non- sponsored challenges are "just for fun".
  • Sponsored Challenges - the main Prize winner will win our Winner's Badge, the sponsored prize and invited to guest design for a future Challenge using the prize they won!
  • Top 3 winners win badges and are invited to guest DT for a future Challenge. 
  • Email Cat at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com to claim prizes and arrange GDT spots.
RULES
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the first Friday of each month. 
  • Challenge themes are always Halloween and Christmas based with fun optional holiday mash-up twists.
  • There are no rules as to what you may create! 
  • Please follow our blog and leave a comment on the challenge post when you enter. 
  • You may enter up to five times per month. 
  • No limit on how many other challenges you can combine with ours! 
  • Use your project post permalink to add your project to our Inlinkz link up.
  • Projects must be blogged or shared on or after the date of the challenge, older postings and projects are not eligible. 
  • You must mention and link to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges in your post. 
  • Optional but appreciated - include the current challenge badge in your post. 
  • Optional but appreciated - display our main blog badge in your sidebar to help promote our Challenges. That's the one at the top of the right sidebar. 
  • It is OK to use another online forum such as Flickr and Instagram if you do not have a blog. 
  • If you would like us to leave a comment on your project, be sure you have comment verification turned off and/or that the site you’ve posted from does not require membership to comment etc. 
  • We respect copyright, please do not use product that have been copied without the manufacturer’s/designer’s consent, this includes but not limited to unbranded dies etc.
Have a Most Magical crafty day!
Cat 🐱

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Friday, September 30, 2022

CHALLENGE #1: Most Magical Time of the Year - sponsored by LeighSBDesigns Digis Stamps and SVG Cutz

Welcome to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges!

My name is Cat and I've been hosting challenges at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges since January this year due to a medical issue effecting my fingers and crafty time.  I've enjoyed Paper Dragonfly so much I'm launching two more Challenge Blogs dedicated to 3 of my favorite subjects, Crazy for Cats that will launch Oct 24th and today is the big day for the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges to begin!  

My most favorite holidays are Halloween and Christmas so here's a fun Challenge Blog where you can now celebrate the most magical time of the year all year long whether it be Halloween or Christmas as well as fun optional mash-up twists of all the other fun holidays we like to craft about like Fall-o-Ween, Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), Christmas in July, Creepmas, Winter, Hanukkah, Diwali - Festival of Lights, Kwanzaa, etc!  

I hope you love the holidays just as much as me and will enjoy playing along with us each month and celebrating the Most Magical Time of the Year all year long!  I also managed to make a card for the first time in ages to celebrate, yay me!

Our Challenges are monthly and will usually start on the first Friday of each month but for our launch party we have extended dates, Sept 30 to Oct 31, so we can party the whole of October!

All kinds of projects, products and tastes are welcome here from paper crafting, altered art, mixed media, rubber stamps and digis stamps, die cuts and cut files, sweet and cute, creepy cute, quirky and odd to spooky and scary!  Our Challenge info and rules will be included in each post and are up on this Page too!  

Would you like to join our Most Magical Design Team?  Have a look out our Most Magical Design Team Call page for more info, I hope to hear from you soon!

Now on to our first Most Magical Time of the Year Challenge!

PART 3 - NEW INLINKZ FOR CHALLENGE #1
Thank you everyone for the wonderful support for our very first Challenge!  WOW, we got so many entries you maxed out our entry allotment provided by Inlinkz TWICE!  The new linky for Challenge #1 for you to use for the remainder of the month is below the other 2 link-ups right at the bottom of this post!

Have a Most Magical crafty day!
Cat 🐱


CHALLENGE #1
Most Magical Time of the Year
Sponsored by
LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz

PRIZE
The main Challenge Winner wins a $10 gift certificate to spend at LeighSBDesigns BOOtique!

THEME
This month's theme is Most Magical Time of the Year!
We challenge you to create anything you want with either a Halloween, Day of the Dead, Christmas or Winter theme! 

DEADLINE  
Enter your projects in the Inlinkz link-up below following the challenge rules provided by 11:55pm pacific on October 31.

We're excited to have LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz sponsoring us for our big launch this month, YAY!  LeighSBDesigns is sponsoring our main challenge prize and also provided the wonderful digi images and SVG Cutz set the Most Magical Design Team ladies used on their projects today!

LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz has a wonderful collection of Halloween and Christmas digi stamps and SVG Cutz files for electronic cutting machines too!  Shop at LeighSBDesigns BOOtique on Etsy.


Leigh is the Queen of Halloween and hosts an annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop each year with lots of prizes for you to win!  Be sure to pop on over to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and play in their 12th annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop starting Oct 1st as well as their October Challenge "Too Cute to Spook"! You could win more prizes while supporting our sponsor at the same time, what fun!


I'm now pleased to introduce you to our Most Magical Design Team using Digi images and SVG Cutz sponsored by LeighSBDesigns Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz!  We are here to fright and delight you with our most magical Halloween and Christmas projects to get you into the spirit of the season!

Halloween project created by Cat (me)
using the wonderful Jack o' Lanterns SVG Cutz set

Halloween project created by Val
using the wonderful Witch of Furness Forest

Halloween project created by NanaConnie
using the wonderful Witch of Furness Forest

Christmas project created by Val
using the adorable Santa Whiskers

Christmas project created by NanaConnie
using the adorable Santa Whiskers

Christmas project created by Helen
using the adorable Santa Whiskers

Now it's your turn, we can't wait to see your Most Magical projects!

CHALLENGE INFO and RULES

INFO
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the 1st Friday of each month.
  • Each challenge will have a Most Magical theme based on Halloween and Christmas for you to choose from with fun optional holiday mash-up twists.
WINNERS and PRIZES
  • Non- sponsored challenges are "just for fun".
  • Sponsored Challenges - the main Prize winner will win our Winner's Badge, the sponsored prize and invited to guest design for a future Challenge using the prize they won!
  • Top 3 winners win badges and are invited to guest DT for a future Challenge. 
  • Email Cat at paperdragonflychallenges@yahoo.com to claim prizes and arrange GDT spots.
RULES
  • Our challenges are monthly and start on the first Friday of each month. 
  • Challenge themes are always Halloween and Christmas based with fun optional holiday mash-up twists.
  • There are no rules as to what you may create! 
  • Please follow our blog and leave a comment on the challenge post when you enter. 
  • You may enter up to five times per month. 
  • No limit on how many other challenges you can combine with ours! 
  • Use your project post permalink to add your project to our Inlinkz link up.
  • Projects must be blogged or shared on or after the date of the challenge, older postings and projects are not eligible. 
  • You must mention and link to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges in your post. 
  • Optional but appreciated - include the current challenge badge in your post. 
  • Optional but appreciated - display our main blog badge in your sidebar to help promote our Challenges. That's the one at the top of the right sidebar. 
  • It is OK to use another online forum such as Flickr and Instagram if you do not have a blog. 
  • If you would like us to leave a comment on your project, be sure you have comment verification turned off and/or that the site you’ve posted from does not require membership to comment etc. 
  • We respect copyright, please do not use product that have been copied without the manufacturer’s/designer’s consent, this includes but not limited to unbranded dies etc.
Have a Most Magical crafty day!
Cat 🐱

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
PART 2 and 3 - INLINKZ FOR CHALLENGE #1
Thank you everyone for the wonderful support for our very first Challenge!  WOW, We got so many entries you maxed out our entry allotment provided by Inlinkz TWICE!  The 3rd linky for Challenge #1 is at the bottom!
 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Sunday, August 14, 2022

Welcome to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges!


Welcome to the Most Magical Time of the Year Challenges!

My most favorite holidays of the year are Halloween and Christmas and I'm sure many of you feel the same too so here's a fun Challenge Blog where you can now celebrate the most magical time of the year all year long whether it be Halloween or Christmas as well as all the other holidays and fun holiday mash-ups that happen during the same time period like Fall-o-Ween, Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), Christmas, Christmas in July, Creepmas, Winter, Hanukkah, Diwali - Festival of Lights, Kwanzaa, etc!  Join us and celebrate the Most Magical Time of the Year all year long!  

All kinds of projects, products and styles are welcome - paper crafting, altered art, mixed media, rubber stamps, digis stamps, sweet and cute, creepy cute, quirky cute, odd, vintage, spooky, scary...you get the idea - all are welcome!

Let the 365 days of celebrating the Most Magical Time of the Year begin by having a look out our Most Magical Design Team Call!  Our first Challenge will start on Friday Sept 30 at 8am pacific so that we can celebrate the whole month of October and then new challenges will begin on the first Friday of each month!


Have a wonderful crafty day!
Cat 🐱