A Big Thanks to Denise and Silke

Wow - I can't believe it has been 2 months already. Today is the last day of Denise and Silke's Guest Designer positions. They have amazed us with their talent and I'm so happy and thankful that they agreed to be Guest Designers with us. Ladies - your talent is unending and I THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing it with us.

Denise and Silke challenged each other to use the Precious Bundles set and these are what they created!! So beautiful!!

Denise

Silke

Thank you again Denise and Silke and you KNOW that we will continue to follow you and your fabulous creations!

Remember to scroll down and play along in the 2RedBananas Inspiration Challenge!
Have a great day!

An Inspirational Banana Split Sunday

Good Morning and thanks for joining us for the 2RedBananas Banana Split Sunday Challenge.

Last week's challenge was to create something that made you think of summer. The projects were GREAT and definitely made us think summer. Thanks so much for playing along with us.

This week's challenge is an Inspiration Challenge. How does this picture inspire you? Do the colors catch your eye? Do you like the layout of the elements? Do you just like the fact that it's a BEACH? :) Do you wish you were the one sitting on that fun chair? However this picture inspires you, create something based on that.

This week has a prize :) One randomly drawn participant will receive an Imaginisce "goodie bag" put together by 2RedBananas. Imaginisce has some really fun products :) Remember to be eligible for the drawing, please have your project linked to this post by Saturday, July 4th.

Here are some great cards from our design team:

Deb

Jami

Jeanette

Silke

Teresa

Wendy

Your turn to play along. How does this picture inspire your creativity?

I'm working on Mr. Linky, so until you see him, please include a link to your project in the comments. Please link directly to your creation and mention 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!





Have a wonderful day!

Sponsoring the House Mouse Challenge

2RedBananas is sponsoring the House Mouse Challenge this week. It's a sketch challenge and there is a prize to be won :)

Jump over to the House Mouse Challenge blog and see what it's all about! Our design team is participating too so you'll see samples from our dt as well as the House Mouse Challenge dt - lots of eye candy :)

Have a great day!

Banana Split Sunday and Summertime :)

Good Morning and thanks again for joining us on 2RedBananas Banana Split Sunday.

Last week's challenge was the sketch challenge and we had wonderful creations and so many fun variations of the sketch! Thank you so much for playing along with us. Our randomly drawn winner is:

Shari!

Way to go Shari - congrats. Please send me your address and your choice of one of the newly released exclusive 2RedBananas June stamp sets. Thanks so much for playing along in our challenge.

Now for this week's challenge. It's an inspiration challenge. How does summer inspire you? What do you see when you think of summer?

Here are some examples of our Summer challenge from our design team:

Wendy

Jeanette

Jami
Denise

Deb
Cassie

Your turn to play along. How does summer inspire you?

Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. If Mr. Linky isn't visible, which he hasn't been lately, just link your card in the comments of this post. Please link directly to your creation and mention 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!




Have a wonderful day!

The June sets are now Available :)

Lots of pictures to look at in this post. You can see all the June releases in their complete sets along with some more incredible projects that our design team created with them!

I just love this release!

Precious Bundles

GOAL!

Play Your Game

June Journaling Spot

Remember, there is still time to hop over to the CardPositioningSystems blog and check out the challenge that 2RedBananas is sponsoring this week!


Have a wonderful day!!

More Sneak Peeks

A couple more sneak peeks of the June releases.


The first one Teresa made using the June Journaling Spot. I love the colors she used! For the June set, there are 2 different journaling images along with a couple words/sentiments.




This one, Denise made using Jami Bova's Precious Bundles. This is such a sweet image. I love the cuttlebug buttons embossing too, what a great detail!

More sneak peeks to come. The release will be Wednesday, June 17th.

Remember to play along with our sketch challenge and enter on the CardPositioningSystems blog as well.

Have a great day!

Banana Split Sunday Challenge

Good Morning!



Last week's Pattern Frenzy challenge was fabulous! Thank you so much for playing along with us and creating such GREAT projects! It's always so much fun to look at everyone's work!



This week 2RedBananas is sponsoring the challenge on the Card Positioning Systems blog. Tami Mayberry designs sketches each week for the design team there. They have a FABULOUS design team, so after you're finished here, jump on over there and see what incredible creations they have come up with. They do their challenges a little bit differently, so you will be able to see new projects using this sketch and fun stamps from 2RedBananas all week on the Card Positioning Systems blog.



We are going to use the same sketch as CPS for our challenge this week, so make your card using this sketch and then enter both here and on the Card Positioning System's blog for a chance to win the prize on each.



The prize you will be eligible for here, is your choice of one of the June release stamps that will be revealed in their entirety Wednesday, June 17th. They are lots of fun so be sure to stay tuned for that!



Here is the great sketch!



And here are the fantastic cards our design team came up with!

Deb

Jami
Jeanette

Silke

Teresa

Wendy

Now it's your turn. Let's see what you can do with this fabulous sketch.

Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. If Mr. Linky isn't visible, which he hasn't been lately, just link your card in the comments of this post. 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!

Play Your Game and GOAL!

A few more sneak peeks for you :)

Abby Westemeyer has come up with a couple fun sets for the sports fans!! A baseball/softball set called "Play Your Game" and a soccer set called "GOAL". Fun images to go along with the great players that we all know. In fact, as I'm typing this, I'm watching my LSU Tigers baseball team playing in the College World Series :) (Yep, I just had to get that in :)

This first one is made with October Afternoon papers.




Wendy added fun google eyes and precious little heart lips and eyelashes to make a girl soccer player! She also added a number to the jersey :)

I colored the uniform with Siren Smooch ink to make it shine like real soccer uniforms :)

FUN sets that will be available to order on Wednesday, June 17th.

Remember, tomorrow we will be sponsoring the CardPositioningSystems challenge!

See you soon!

Precious Bundles

It's that time again....time for Sneak Peeks of the upcoming June release stamps. Today, I'm showing you a sneak of Jami's last stamp set. It's called Precious Bundles and it is just PRECIOUS! It's packed full of sweet images and sentiments. It's going to be a busy weekend here, with the sneak peeks and the CPS Challenge so be sure to check back soon!

Wendy also has this card on her blog, so you can pop over there and get more details. Wendy's blog :)


The release will be on Wednesday, June 17th.

Sunday is the CPS Challenge that 2RedBananas is sponsoring. It's a sketch challenge so be sure to play along. You can make one card and post it to both the CPS blog and to the 2RedBananas blog for a chance to win a different prize from each.

Thanks for stopping by and watch for more peeks!

Hi everyone! I have lots of news for you today, but first I wanted to share a card I made the other night. It's kind of in keeping with the challenge for this week. I didn't use 3 different patterned papers, but I did use one patterned paper that is my focus!

Webster's Pages patterned paper is SO beautiful! I didn't want to cover any of the gorgeous images, so I made this card with just the paper, the sentiment stamp from Value of Joy and some ribbon. I embossed the butterfly with clear embossing powder just to make it shine. That's it! This card took me about 5 minutes to make. So, if you're ever in a hurry to get a card made, look into your stash of patterned papers especially ones like this by Webster's Pages.

Okay, now onto the latest 2RedBananas news :)

Due to some timing issues, our June release has been pushed back to Wednesday, June 17th. You will still start seeing sneak peeks here very soon, but the stamps will be available starting Wednesday, June 17th. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Sunday, June 14th, 2RedBananas is sponsoring the CardPositioningSystems Challenge. :) It's a GREAT sketch challenge, so Saturday morning, hop on over to the CardPositioningSystems blog and join in the challenge.

Monday, June 22nd, 2RedBananas is sponsoring the House-Mouse Challenge. Another fun sketch challenge, so be sure to plan to play along with that one as well!

I think that's it for now :)

Be sure to scroll down to see all the details for the Pattern Frenzy challenge going on this week!

Have a great day!!

Banana Split Sunday - Pattern Frenzy

Good Morning and thanks again for joining us on 2RedBananas Banana Split Sunday.

Last week's challenge was Tied Up with Ribbon and we had wonderful creations made displaying many different ways to use this fun embellishment. Thank you so much for playing along with us. Our winner of the ribbon assortment is:

Here are your random numbers:18

Dalis! Way to go Dalis - congrats. Please send me your address and I will get the ribbons in the mail to you! Thanks so much for playing along in our challenge.

Now for this week's challenge. It's called Pattern Frenzy. The challenge is to use at least 3 different patterned papers on your project. You can use papers from the same company, different companies whatever you choose, it just has to be at least 3 different patterned papers. There are so many companies that release paper lines so the papers coordinate and then if their papers are double sided, then WOO-HOO, this is easy-peasy! :) 2RedBananas has a great selection of papers from manufacturers that aren't as easily found as some of the other lines. So if you haven't checked out our paper section, please have a look!

Here are some examples of our Pattern Frenzy challenge from our design team:

Deb

Jami

Jeanette

Silke

Teresa

Wendy

Now it's your turn. Let's see what you create with at least 3 different patterned papers.

Please link your creation to this post using Mr. Linky. If Mr. Linky isn't visible, which he hasn't been lately, just link your card in the comments of this post. Please link directly to your creation and mention 2RedBananas challenge in your details. When uploading to SCS or PCP use the keyword, 2RedBananas. Thanks so much!




Have a wonderful day!