Banana Split Sunday on Monday

Hi everyone! I'm sorry the Banana Split Sunday Challenge is late this week, but hopefully you will have fun with us anyway!

First - thanks to all the participants in last week's Warmth challenge! The creations are fantastic! Our randomly drawn winner of the House Mouse stamp is

#4 Liz Williams

Congratulations Liz! Please send me your address and I'll get your stamp in the mail to you!

This week's challenge is an inspiration challenge and your inspiration is "a tree". What can you create using a tree as your inspiration.

As usual, our fabulous design team has come up with some creative examples for you!

Cassie

Dawn

Deb

Lynette

Teresa

Wendy

Give them something to inspire them and they come up with AMAZING projects!!!

Before we send you off to create, just want to let you know a couple of housekeeping things. This will be our last challenge in 2009. We will be taking the next couple of weeks off to enjoy our families, but the next Banana Split Sunday Challenge will be January 3, 2010!

We also won't be releasing any new stamps in December and since the November release is so late, but will be up this week, we will be having a sale on all the November released stamps as well as some other items, so keep an eye on the 2RedBananas site to see new stuff on sale.

Okay, now we'll send you off to create!

Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderfully blessed holiday!

Banana Split Sunday - Stay Warm

Welcome to Banana Split Sunday and all we can say is WOW!! There are 108 entries for last week's Banana Split Sunday Challenge - the most EVER! Thank you so much for playing along in our challenges. We have so much fun looking at the entries, although I have to admit, I haven't made it through all of the ones for last week yet. What wonderful inspiration. Thank you so much!

Our randomly drawn winner of the Penny's Christmas Tree stamp is

#47 Stacie!!

Congratulations Stacie, please send me your address and I'll get your stamp out to you.

This week's challenge is to make a project that reflects warmth. Here are some examples from the design team to get you going.

Teresa

Lynette

Jeanette

Deb

Dawn

Cassie

There is a prize again this week. One randomly drawn entry from the Mr. Linky links will win this fun House-Mouse stamp.

Now, it's your turn to play along.


Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderful day!

Banana Split Sunday - Christmas/Winter Card

Good Morning! It's time for another Challenge on Banana Split Sunday! Did you see all the fabulous projects from last week's "I am Thankful" challenge?? Thanks to all who participated and shared what you are thankful for with us. We are thankful for you and your participation of our blog challenges and your support of our store :) THANK YOU!!

This week's challenge is an easy one to get us thinking about Christmas (if you haven't already started shopping:) and winter....brrrrrr! The challenge is to make a Christmas or Winter card. Easy as pie right ? There is a prize this week too. One randomly drawn entry from the Mr. Linky links will win a Penny's Christmas Tree stamp.

Here are some fabulous cards from our design team:

Dawn

Deb

Jeanette

Lynette

Teresa

I want to apologize that the November releases are so late in being released. We have had some technical difficulties, but they should be resolved very soon. Thanks so much for your patience! Until then come play along with our challenge.

Now, it's your turn to play along.


Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderful day!

Banana Split Sunday - I Am Thankful

Good Morning and thanks for joining 2RedBananas for Banana Split Sunday!! Last week's challenge was a sketch challenge and as usual the projects made with this sketch were fabulous!! Thank you so much for playing along.

We randomly drew a name for our winner and this week our winner is #13 Tammy Miller!
Congratulations Tammy - please send me your address so I can send your prize out to you. Since the November stamps haven't been released yet, you can choose a set that has already been released or you can wait for the November releases, your choice.

This week's challenge is called "I am Thankful" - Make a project that in someway says, "I am Thankful" Here are some samples from the 2RedBananas design team:

Teresa

Lynette

Jeanette

Deb

Cassie

Now, it's your turn to play along.


Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderful day!

Banana Split Sunday - A Sketch Challenge

Welcome to this week's Banana Split Challenge! Last week's recipe challenge, brought so much creativity, thanks so much to all who participated!!

This week's challenge is a sketch challenge. A randomly drawn entry from those linked by Mr. Linky will win their choice of one of the new November releases (which will be available for sale on Monday, November 23rd :)

Here is the sketch:

And here are some fun examples from the design team:

Dawn (using Falling Leaves Jack)

Jeanette (using Jack and the Snowman)


Lynette (using Winter Wishes)

Teresa (using Cookie Crumbs Tilly)

Now, it's your turn to play along.


Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderful day!

Banana Split Sunday - A Recipe Challenge

Ready for another Banana Split Challenge??? Last week's entries were fabulous! Lots of them too. Thanks to all our participants....we are lovin' all the inspiration :) Our randomly drawn winner of the "fall colors goodie bag" chosen by 2RedBananas is:

#13 - Katie Tate

Congratulations Katie! Please send me your address and I will get your goodie bag in the mail to you. Thanks again everyone for playing along in our challenges!

This week's challenge is another Recipe Challenge. I think fall brings 'fall' recipes, like soups and stews, and chilis.....YUMMY! This RECIPE is a little different than those. For this challenge we want you to use.....3 eyelets (yes, eyelets, it makes it more of a challenge:), 2 pieces of ribbon and an oval or ovals.

Here is some inspiration from our design team:

Wendy

Teresa

Lynette


Jeanette

Deb

Dawn

Cassie

Little side trip here.....while I was linking Deb's card to her blog, I read about little Henry and his family. You can go to Deb's blog to read about them and please while you are there, consider making the contribution to the cause. This is one way we as cardmakers can make a difference.

THANK YOU!!

Now, it's your turn to play along.


Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderful day!

Banana Split Sunday Color Challenge

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's challenge! We just love seeing all your talent!

It's really feeling like fall these days and since we had to move the clocks back last night, it will be getting dark even earlier. So today's challenge fits right in with fall. It's a color challenge and the colors are RED, YELLOW, ORANGE and BROWN. You only have to use three, but it you want to challenge yourself even more, use all four :)

There is a prize that will be given to a randomly drawn winner who plays along with this week's challenge. The prize is a fall colors goodie bag chosen by 2RedBananas. So, let see what you can do with these colors.

Here are some samples from the fabulous 2RedBananas design team using this month's stamp releases.

Wendy (using Autumn Leaves Penny)

Teresa (using October/November Journaling Spot)

Lynette (using Autumn Leaves Penny)


Jeanette (using October/November Journaling Spot)

Deb (using Autumn Leaves Penny)

Cassie (using Falling Leaves Jack)

Now, it's your turn to play along.


Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderful day!

A Recipe Challenge on Banana Split Sunday

Good Morning Everyone!! It's Banana Split Sunday!

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's Sketch Challenge. Your talent and creativity just amazes me - I know I learn something every week from these challenges. We hope they are helpful and fun for you as well. The randomly drawn winner of her choice of one of the October releases is

#7 - Lori

Congratulations Lori! Some of the new releases are being shown in the cards today by the design team. If you would rather wait until they all are released tomorrow to let me know your choice, that's fine too :)

Today's challenge is a Recipe Challenge. We want you to use, a SQUARE, the color RED, and 3 BUTTONS.

Here are some examples by the design team using some of the stamps being released tomorrow. :)

Dawn (using Jack and the Snowman)

Deb (using Falling Leaves Jack)

Jeanette (using Autumn Leaves Penny)

Lynette (using Penny's Christmas Tree and Winter Wishes)

Teresa (using October/November Journaling Spot)

Wendy (using Falling Leaves Jack)

Isn't it cool how you can take the same 'ingredients' and get such different results?!? I just love these ideas! Now it's your turn to play along with us.

Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderful day!

A Sketch for Banana Split Sunday

Wow, time sure is moving quickly these days! It's time for another Banana Split Sunday and it's a Sketch Challenge week. Usually our sketch challenges are for the week that we are releasing our stamps for the month, but this month our release date has been changed to next Monday, October 26th.

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's challenge, the purple, black and orange color challenge. If you haven't seen the great projects, you can still scroll down to the challenge post and click on the Mr. Linky links!

Okay, here is the sketch for this week. You can flip it, reverse it, or even change the size, but we have to be able to see the original sketch in your project. :) The prize which will be randomly drawn from the Mr. Linky entries will be the winner's choice of one of the stamps released on October 26th. So, let's see what you can do with this sketch.

Here are some ideas from our fabulous design team:

Wendy

Teresa


Lynette

Jeanette

Cassie

What fun cards!! Now it's your turn.

Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. Please link directly to your creation and mention the 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!

Have a wonderful day!