Naughty or Nice Challenge #32 - Reminder

Here in the UK, October is whizzing by in a blur of reds, yellows and browns and fabulous golden sunshine. It hardly seems possible that we are at mid-point in the month but it's true and as a result The Troublemakers are back with more inspiration for Challenge #32, Spooky Sistahs and Wild, Wild Women.

Dotty Jo

Inside reads: 
They just care if you have wine and some really juicy gossip!

Amy

Cyndi

Lindsey

Margo

Lynne

Please come and join us... You have until Tuesday, 25th October to play along! 

September Winners!

Our October Challenge, SPOOKY SISTAHS AND

WILD, WILD WOMEN, is on now!

Fly over and play along! 

It's time to announce our picks for the September challenge, Food and Drink! Twenty delicious creations were linked up — thank you to everyone who joined us! The voting was very close this month, but the winners have been selected. 

NICE: 

TRINA!!!

Trina's card made the Troublemakers feel bubbly all over! (Or maybe that's just the wine...) Here's another look at her sweet card:

NAUGHTY:

JANE!!!

Food, cats, and a saucy sense of humour... what's not to love? Here's another peek at Jane's card: 

Thanks again to everyone who played along! Trina and Jane, you can pick up your winner badges at the end of this post. Our current challenge, Spooky Sistahs and Wild, Wild Women, is perfect for Halloween or just for fun... we hope you'll join us! 

Naughty or Nice Challenge #32 - Spooky Sistahs and Wild, Wild, Women!

Hi, it's Jo here to introduce the new challenge. For our super, fun October theme the Troublemakers are celebrating women both witchy and wild! 

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With Halloween only a few weeks away most of us have gone all spooky and witchy but your card could just as easily feature a crazy cat lady or a bunch of lively ladies on a girl's night out!

Being a Brit, I always tend to think of Halloween as an American celebration which is gaining popularity in the UK. However, after a little research I've discovered that Halloween may have started as a festival called ‘Samhain’, meaning Summer’s end, celebrated by the Celts each year on November 1st. The Celts believed that on this day, the veil between the dead and the living was at its thinnest. It turns out that trick-and-treating and carrying lanterns can actually be traced back to Scotland, specifically the poem ‘Halloween’ by Scottish poet Robert Burns.

Halloween's traces in America go back to colonial settlers but it was the second half of the 19th century where celebrations became more widespread, according to history.com. As more immigrants, particularly from Ireland and Scotland, arrived the spooky celebrations became more popular and traditions such as 'trick or treating' began.

OK, history lesson over, now let's see the fabulous cards conjured-up by my talented ghoulfriends and, BTW, we're using our top-secret witch names during this spooky and magical month. Can you guess which witch is which???

Priscilla Bugsquirter

Bertha Spiderbeater

Regina Skullcracker

Ermintrude Earwigcruncher

Prudence Wormcackler

Arabella Newtbruiser

Here's hoping you'll join us for this fun challenge!

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow our blog either via Facebook or Bloglovin, or Email or your favourite method! 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to our Mr. Linky tool. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON32 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but if you really, really want to, please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 5  CHALLENGES including ours! Our challenges are somewhat open-ended, but please don't link 20 other challenges along with ours... Spread the love! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice! 

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Naughty or Nice Challenge #31 - Reminder

Whoosh! We're halfway through September already! But you still have time to play in our current challenge: FOOD AND DRINK! 

We'd love to see your food- or drink-themed cards join our link-up gallery this month. So grab something to snack or sip on, check out our mid-month creations, and then come and play! 

Dotty Jo

Amy

Lindsey

Margo

Cyndi

Lynne

To add your creation, click HERE! 

August Winners!

Looking for a crafty snack? Come and play

in our current FOOD AND DRINK challenge! 

Running late, but here at last are our picks for the Naughty or Nice August challenge: Your Number's Up! Be sure to read right to the end of the post to see if you're the lucky winner of the August prize offered in honour of our 30th challenge!
So many great cards last month — we have such talented players! But tough decisions were made, and here are our choices for the sweet and the saucy.

NICE:
Lisa!!!! 
Lisa's sweet anniversary card maxed out the niceness for us! Here's another look at her gorgeous card:

NAUGHTY: 
Terri!!!
Terri had all the Troublemakers giggling with her cheeky card. Believe me, you need to go to her blog and read the inside sentiment to fully appreciate her naughty sense of humour! Here's a reminder of the front of Terri's card:

Congratulations to Lisa and Terri, and a heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us last month. For our picks, here are your winner badges:

But wait, there's more!!! We offered up a fun set of birthday stamps from Art Impressions to one lucky participant. Using a scientifically-tested random-number generator (Troublemaker Jo asked her husband to pick a number between 1 and 11), we calculated our winner. With appropriate drumroll noises, our winner is...

#11 — MARINA!!! 

Congratulations, Marina! Please contact Jo at dottypudding at aol dot com to arrange for your prize delivery. 

Remember there is still time to play in our current challenge: FOOD AND DRINK! 

Naughty or Nice Challenge #31 - Food and Drink.

Holy crap! It's September already?! Last night my son was even surprised by how quick time sneaks up on you...and he's only six LOL 

This month's theme is all about FOOD or DRINK. Lots of possibilities with this one, crafty friends, and we hope that you are able to join us!  Remember that in order to be chose as the naughtiest or nicest troublemaker, you MUST follow the rules (psst...pay very close attention to the one about the number of entries).

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Let's get to it and see what the team came up with this month! Don't forget that you have until September 25 to link up. We had lots of great entriest last month (thank you!) and hope to see plenty more. Cheers!



Dotty Jo

Margo

Lynne

Cyndi

Amy

Lindsey

Sara

Challenge Rules and Guidelines:

• Like and/or follow our blog either via Facebook or Bloglovin, or Email or your favourite method! 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to our Mr. Linky tool. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword NON31 so we can check out your beautiful work! You can also use online photo-sharing sites like Flickr to share your photos too! 
• Please mention and link back to this post to let people know about this fun challenge!
• Whether you are Naughty or Nice, we sure would appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but if you really, really want to, please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 5  CHALLENGES including ours! Our challenges are somewhat open-ended, but please don't link 20 other challenges along with ours... Spread the love! 
• You have until the 25th of each month to submit your creations and then the DT will pick two winners, one for both Naughty and Nice! 

An InLinkz Link-up

Naughty or Nice Challenge #30 - Reminder

We've reached the middle of August and this can only mean one thing: It's challenge reminder time!

Each time I see Danielle's graphic it totally cracks me up! And I have to say that the Troublemakers creations for this challenge have also generated plenty of giggles, chuckles and embarrassing nose-snorts! 

Our theme is all about numbers; so your cards need to be age-related or have a number or numbers on them. And don't forget, there's a prize by way of celebration of this being Challenge #30. I know milestones are usually celebrated with champagne or sparkling wine but a cute stamp set from Art Impressions is so much easier to send in the mail! Anyone entering the challenge will go into the draw for this prize.

Wanna see some great cards? Of course you do...

Lindsey

Dotty Jo

Margo

Amy

Cyndi

Lynne

Sara

So, why not join in the fun and come play along with Challenge #30!