<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547</id><updated>2012-03-01T11:58:18.509-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>56</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-354539296151743446</id><published>2012-01-09T20:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T21:13:08.284-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Saying Goodbye...</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !mso]&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;style&gt; st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;"&gt;Hello, friends. I am so sorry to have been silent for so long.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;So much has happened in my life over the last six months.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I moved away from Omaha to an itty bitty little town in Nebraska and returned to working full time outside of the home.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;"&gt;Sadly, I find that it is necessary to close the Anita Be Stampin Shoppe.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;My passion for running the shoppe and challenges fizzled out quite some time ago, so it’s only natural that fate has guided me in a different direction. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;"&gt;I am so thankful for the wonderful people I have met along the way; lovely customers, beautiful artists, and amazing design team members make it so difficult to say goodbye.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I will miss you all.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Please note that I will still blog (occasionally) over at &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.blogspot.com/"&gt;my personal blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Just in case you’d like to stay in touch. ;)&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;"&gt;While the shoppe is closed effectively immediately, you are welcome to email me at &lt;a href="mailto:anitabestampin@gmail.com"&gt;anitabestampin@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; if you require assistance.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;For a limited time, you may also email me should you wish to make a special request to purchase digi images or rubber stamp sets formerly sold at &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;www.anitabestampin.com&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;"&gt;And the last item of business…the randomly selected winner of our last ever ABS Challenge (11/11 ABS challenge #26…hanging head in shame here due to the delay) is Nicole.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Congrats Nicole!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Check your inbox as I have sent you an email.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;"&gt;Wishing you all the best in 2012!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;;"&gt; With love,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Century Gothic&amp;quot;;"&gt;Anita&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-354539296151743446?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/354539296151743446/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=354539296151743446' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/354539296151743446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/354539296151743446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/01/saying-goodbye.html' title='Saying Goodbye...'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-6607585798374773021</id><published>2011-11-15T21:41:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T21:50:58.384-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Blog Hop Winner Announcement</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hey there! :)  I am popping by tonight to say hi and announce the winner of our holiday digi image release blog hop.  Soooo....what are we waiting for!?!  The winner of all of the recently released holiday digi images is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://itsallaboutcrafting.blogspot.com/"&gt;Kim Kelley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LAseqrPRYYc/TsMyOWZmA1I/AAAAAAAACR4/V8m3SDVP5e4/s1600/random_11-15-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 195px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LAseqrPRYYc/TsMyOWZmA1I/AAAAAAAACR4/V8m3SDVP5e4/s200/random_11-15-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675435177529443154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congrats, Kim!  Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Enjoy the rest of the week!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-6607585798374773021?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/6607585798374773021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=6607585798374773021' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/6607585798374773021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/6607585798374773021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/abs-blog-hop-winner-announcement.html' title='ABS Blog Hop Winner Announcement'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LAseqrPRYYc/TsMyOWZmA1I/AAAAAAAACR4/V8m3SDVP5e4/s72-c/random_11-15-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-465893783868804852</id><published>2011-11-11T07:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T07:00:15.041-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Digi Release and Blog Hop!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: left; font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;Happy Friday, peeps! There is no better day than today to honor Veterans for their service and sacrifice.  A big thank you hug to all Veterans and their families! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: left; font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am excited to announce that 6 brand spankin' new digi images were released today at &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;.   All of the new digi images are available now,  and we are celebrating by having a blog hop filled with inspiration...woot woot!   Be sure to visit all of the stops on the blog hop today, because one  lucky winner who comments on EVERY blog along the way will win the  entire digi release.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Alright...let's get hoppin'!  The first stop on the hop is my &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.blogspot.com/"&gt;peronal blog&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please leave a comment on every blog along the hop by Sunday, Nov. 13th at 12:01 am CST for your chance to win all of the ABS digi images released today.  Here is the list of all of the stops on the hop today, just in case you get lost along the way:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:120%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://goog_987677458/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;ABS Challenge Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;Anita&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://craftdeedonna.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;Dee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;Rene’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 137, 170); "&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; 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font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);   font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="  ;font-size:120%;" &gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-465893783868804852?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/465893783868804852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=465893783868804852' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/465893783868804852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/465893783868804852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/anita-be-stampin-digi-release-and-blog.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Digi Release and Blog Hop!'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-4785650562430579480</id><published>2011-11-01T07:00:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T21:53:16.544-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #26 - Anything Goes!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello friends!  Are you suffering from a post-Halloween candy coma? LOL Well, have I got the cure for you...&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; Challenge #26. ;)  This time we are challenging you to make any project with any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image.  That's right...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=" ;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Anything Goes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Make sure to pull out those &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; images and show us what you can do with them. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One lucky winner will win their choice of 5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; digi images...gotta love that, right!?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week. Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them some love. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bren&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HYkNUqkH8-A/Tq9Ro7qwvmI/AAAAAAAACQI/KUeslXhHUas/s1600/ABS26_Bren.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669840219536408162" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HYkNUqkH8-A/Tq9Ro7qwvmI/AAAAAAAACQI/KUeslXhHUas/s400/ABS26_Bren.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 284px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftdeedonna.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_RYCWu0LSME/Tq9Ro4zYUrI/AAAAAAAACQY/izomE6y0ipM/s1600/ABS26_Dee.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669840218767250098" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_RYCWu0LSME/Tq9Ro4zYUrI/AAAAAAAACQY/izomE6y0ipM/s400/ABS26_Dee.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 373px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style=" ;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Rene'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-894LT2wJODM/Tq9RpM0WD0I/AAAAAAAACQg/GhH5GH2gQhI/s1600/ABS26_Rene%2527.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669840224140005186" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-894LT2wJODM/Tq9RpM0WD0I/AAAAAAAACQg/GhH5GH2gQhI/s400/ABS26_Rene%2527.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 297px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;span d="formatbar_Buttons" style="display: block;  font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="" id="formatbar_CreateLink" style="display: block;" title="Link"&gt;&lt;img alt="Link" class="gl_link" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEBaYS72ddg/Tq9Rpcx3TEI/AAAAAAAACQo/5bwXmsC-6Rg/s1600/ABS26_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669840228424567874" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEBaYS72ddg/Tq9Rpcx3TEI/AAAAAAAACQo/5bwXmsC-6Rg/s400/ABS26_Tracy.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 318px;" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oyrwMSQvMjE/Tq9dvPIG4nI/AAAAAAAAE4s/EqD4JBApzEE/s1600/lelia+abs+ariana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oyrwMSQvMjE/Tq9dvPIG4nI/AAAAAAAAE4s/EqD4JBApzEE/s320/lelia+abs+ariana.jpg" height="251" border="0" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please leave a direct link to a new creation based on our challenge no later than Monday, November 14th at 8 pm CST. You have two entire weeks to get crafty with &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for stopping by today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;ETA The Inlinkz tool is now fixed...woot woot! The winner of last week's challenge is now posted.  Scroll down to see who the lucky lady is! Thank you for patience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=97310"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-4785650562430579480?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/4785650562430579480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=4785650562430579480' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/4785650562430579480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/4785650562430579480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/abs-challenge-26-anything-goes.html' title='ABS Challenge #26 - Anything Goes!'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HYkNUqkH8-A/Tq9Ro7qwvmI/AAAAAAAACQI/KUeslXhHUas/s72-c/ABS26_Bren.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-1330865940197685654</id><published>2011-11-01T06:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T22:30:10.745-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #25 Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_H7qINRHcJc/TrC4-bncc_I/AAAAAAAACRQ/Jso4QgWbOiw/s1600/random_11-1-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Howdy girlfriends! :) Thank you so much to those who participated in Anita Be Stampin Challenge #25! I absolutely love seeing your creations!  Are you finally ready to find out who won the $25 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; Gift Certificate (eligible for use on &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin &lt;/a&gt;rubber stamps or digi images)!?!  The lucky randomly selected winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://vannoyplainsimple.blogspot.com/2011/10/setting-record-for-october.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Melissa V.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1TIUiJjko1Q/TrC3hySHeAI/AAAAAAAACQ4/V1NgoRIDQww/s1600/_participant%2BABS25%2BMelissa.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1TIUiJjko1Q/TrC3hySHeAI/AAAAAAAACQ4/V1NgoRIDQww/s400/_participant%2BABS25%2BMelissa.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670233721920780290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_H7qINRHcJc/TrC4-bncc_I/AAAAAAAACRQ/Jso4QgWbOiw/s1600/random_11-1-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 105px; height: 136px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_H7qINRHcJc/TrC4-bncc_I/AAAAAAAACRQ/Jso4QgWbOiw/s200/random_11-1-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670235313564054514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congratulations Melissa! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please don't forget stop back and join us for our next challenge!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-1330865940197685654?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/1330865940197685654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=1330865940197685654' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1330865940197685654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1330865940197685654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/anita-be-stampin-challenge-25-winner.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #25 Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1TIUiJjko1Q/TrC3hySHeAI/AAAAAAAACQ4/V1NgoRIDQww/s72-c/_participant%2BABS25%2BMelissa.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-7196644416894670799</id><published>2011-10-26T20:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T21:47:19.158-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Design Team Call</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Looking for the current challenge post?  Hav&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;e no fear…click &lt;a href="http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/abs-challenge-25-get-spooky.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;! ;)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ohJPmaZ-lPs/TqjEyLhbHWI/AAAAAAAACM0/OmBUIiy0vFY/s1600/ABS%2BDT%2BBadge_final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 141px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ohJPmaZ-lPs/TqjEyLhbHWI/AAAAAAAACM0/OmBUIiy0vFY/s320/ABS%2BDT%2BBadge_final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667996497411251554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; is looking for a few more talented designers to join our team for a term of approximately 3 months.   Do you already maintain an existing blog with multiple posts weekly showcasing your projects?  Are you interested in participating in upcoming digi image releases featuring our fun and flirty images?  Then our team may be a good fit for you!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Design team members are expected to:&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Create sample projects using ABS digi images and post them weekly to your blog. Each team member will select a minimum of 2 images per release to work with. The minimum required number of projects per month will be 5: 3 challenge projects and 2 new release sneak peek projects (1 per image chosen).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;• Participate in Anita Be Stampin new release activities, including any release parties.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Participate in ABS weekly challenges, blog hops, PCP and Yahoo group discussion, etc.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Support your fellow design team members by following their blogs and regularly commenting on their ABS creations.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Support ABS customers by regularly commenting on their ABS creations.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;• Display the ABS DT badge and link DT members up to your blog.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Upload ABS creations to at least 2 online galleries on a regular basis, preferably at least every two weeks.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Respect the prohibition of sharing digi image files. Sharing files would be considered grounds for termination.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In return design team members will:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;• Become an important part of a fun and welcoming DT environment! &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Receive a welcome kit of digi images to get you started.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Be compensated with ABS digi images.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Receive a discount on any additional cling mounted rubber stamps AND/OR digi images that you would like to purchase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;• Be featured as a designer on the ABS website and blog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;If you’re interested in joining our team, please send an email to anitabestampin@gmail.com with "Design Team Call" in the subject line and include the following information:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;• Full name &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Location&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Tell me a little bit about yourself and why you’d like to join our team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;• A link to your blog&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• A list of the online forums that you participate in (SCS, Papercraft Planet, for example) and your user name at each forum&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This DT call won’t run long, so if you’re interested please contact me as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-7196644416894670799?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/7196644416894670799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=7196644416894670799' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7196644416894670799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7196644416894670799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/anita-be-stampin-design-team-call.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Design Team Call'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ohJPmaZ-lPs/TqjEyLhbHWI/AAAAAAAACM0/OmBUIiy0vFY/s72-c/ABS%2BDT%2BBadge_final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-7777841949482322726</id><published>2011-10-25T07:00:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T18:40:34.383-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #25 - Get Spooky!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday peeps!  I hope you are all having a fabulous week!  We are back from taking a break from challenges, and we are ready to start seeing your fabulous creations again.  I missed you all so much!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please note that there have been some slight changes to our challenge rules, which are always available in the sidebar to the right.  Starting today, an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamp or digi image must be used as the focal point of your card if you’d like to participate in the challenge. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Our lovely design team members are featuring some our favorite &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Halloween themed images today:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Broomhilda&lt;/span&gt; (available as a &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/item_19/Broomhilda--Cling-Mounted-Rubber-Stamp-Set.htm"&gt;rubber stamp set&lt;/a&gt; and just released today as a &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/item_92/Broomhilda--digi.htm"&gt;digi image&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Frankenbride&lt;/span&gt; (available as a &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/item_20/Frankenbride--Cling-Mounted-Rubber-Stamp-Set.htm"&gt;rubber stamp set&lt;/a&gt; and just released today as a &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/item_93/Frankenbride--digi.htm"&gt;digi image&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/item_11/Tabitha--digi.htm"&gt;Tabitha&lt;/a&gt; (available as a &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/item_11/Tabitha--digi.htm"&gt;digi image&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;That’s right...two of our most popular images, Broomhilda and Frankenbride are now available in digi format.  Woot woot!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Sooooo…are you finally ready for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Challenge #25!?! I sure hope so, because we are ready to see your...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: center; font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Spooky Halloween Themed Projects!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;This week we are offering a bigger than usual prize to one lucky participant, to celebrate that our challenges are starting back up and also to thank you for your patience during our break.  So tell me, who would like to play along for a chance to win a…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;$25 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Gift Certificate!?!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct link to your entry below. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! You can always join the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.Also, for a very limited time you can snag the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/category_9/For-Digi-Lovers.htm"&gt;Batty digi image&lt;/a&gt; absolutely FREE at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;www.anitabestampin.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.  This cute bat image is perfect for this week’s challenge! ;)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the ABS DT members this week.  Help us in giving a warm welcome to our new design team member &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://craftdeedonna.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; a welcome back to our former DT &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rene’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;. We are so excited to have these super talented ladies joining us!   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: center; font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.blogspot.com/"&gt;Anita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mm8TbAfMG7U/TqYUpwA3NgI/AAAAAAAACLI/E_IdS7ACMRM/s1600/ABS25_Anita.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mm8TbAfMG7U/TqYUpwA3NgI/AAAAAAAACLI/E_IdS7ACMRM/s400/ABS25_Anita.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667239888588060162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bren&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y8vfUNXbvUQ/TqYp31maCaI/AAAAAAAACME/SSBVwcTOL-E/s1600/ABS25_Bren.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y8vfUNXbvUQ/TqYp31maCaI/AAAAAAAACME/SSBVwcTOL-E/s400/ABS25_Bren.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667263220350060962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://craftdeedonna.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-auJ6KMqbjXE/TqYUpzsjniI/AAAAAAAACLQ/T-YBjdKbsF4/s1600/ABS25_Dee.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-auJ6KMqbjXE/TqYUpzsjniI/AAAAAAAACLQ/T-YBjdKbsF4/s400/ABS25_Dee.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667239889576631842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: center; font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H_TOrv6FFag/TqYUqKW-uOI/AAAAAAAACLY/NekraqZPmHI/s1600/ABS25_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H_TOrv6FFag/TqYUqKW-uOI/AAAAAAAACLY/NekraqZPmHI/s400/ABS25_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667239895660148962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: center; font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rene'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P5yXsS_7P4M/TqYUqYld1RI/AAAAAAAACLs/CBzWOU8q6hk/s1600/ABS25_Rene%2527.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P5yXsS_7P4M/TqYUqYld1RI/AAAAAAAACLs/CBzWOU8q6hk/s400/ABS25_Rene%2527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667239899479004434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sd29MUql1ZA/TqYUq3MMG0I/AAAAAAAACL0/-x-RPe76Bak/s1600/ABS25_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sd29MUql1ZA/TqYUq3MMG0I/AAAAAAAACL0/-x-RPe76Bak/s400/ABS25_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667239907694484290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please leave a direct link to a new creation based on our challenge no later than Monday, Oct. 31st at 8 pm CST. I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:110%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for stopping by today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=95121"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-7777841949482322726?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/7777841949482322726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=7777841949482322726' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7777841949482322726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7777841949482322726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/abs-challenge-25-get-spooky.html' title='ABS Challenge #25 - Get Spooky!'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mm8TbAfMG7U/TqYUpwA3NgI/AAAAAAAACLI/E_IdS7ACMRM/s72-c/ABS25_Anita.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-4537582674141321404</id><published>2011-07-12T07:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T11:46:18.695-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #24 Winner and Faves</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday, peeps! Thank you so much to everybody who participated in Anita Be Stampin Challenge #24! You took the card recipe we gave you and whipped up some gourmet cards for us. ;) We loved what you all did with the recipe challenge.  Take a look at just a few of our favorites:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/2011/07/challenge-24-at-anita-be-stampin.html"&gt;Rene'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U--WlWHDKuQ/Thx1E4IqlcI/AAAAAAAACKg/GWG2sSu6wKE/s1600/ABS24%2Bparticipant_Rene%2527.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U--WlWHDKuQ/Thx1E4IqlcI/AAAAAAAACKg/GWG2sSu6wKE/s400/ABS24%2Bparticipant_Rene%2527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628502360954934722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iKbMt3mawpY/Thx00jaRpKI/AAAAAAAACKQ/zyShTOrqunM/s1600/ABS24%2Bparticipant_Kimmy.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.paperartsy.com.au/blog/?p=1001"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Kim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iKbMt3mawpY/Thx00jaRpKI/AAAAAAAACKQ/zyShTOrqunM/s400/ABS24%2Bparticipant_Kimmy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628502080513746082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;And...the randomly selected winner of the $5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lauw-creations.blogspot.com/2011/06/anita-be-stampin-challenge-24.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ea60N9tEXII/Thx00Q5NrKI/AAAAAAAACKI/fYueVp_8Lj0/s1600/ABS24%2Bparticipant_Lau.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ea60N9tEXII/Thx00Q5NrKI/AAAAAAAACKI/fYueVp_8Lj0/s400/ABS24%2Bparticipant_Lau.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628502075543235746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congrats Lau! Your card is absolutely beautiful! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played along in the last challenge!  Please note that we are taking a short summer vacation here at the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, so there will be no new challenge posted for a few weeks.  The design team ladies are going to be taking these next few weeks of summer to soak up the sun and enjoy time with friends and family.  We'll be back soon!  Until next time...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy summer!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-4537582674141321404?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/4537582674141321404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=4537582674141321404' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/4537582674141321404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/4537582674141321404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/07/abs-challenge-24-winner-and-faves.html' title='ABS Challenge #24 Winner and Faves'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U--WlWHDKuQ/Thx1E4IqlcI/AAAAAAAACKg/GWG2sSu6wKE/s72-c/ABS24%2Bparticipant_Rene%2527.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-9221964086160769320</id><published>2011-06-28T07:00:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T09:01:16.274-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #24</title><content type='html'>&lt;div  style="Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;Happy Tuesday fellow ABS'ers!  It's time for another challenge...we hope you'll join in!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EVEnwum0h2A/TgZQFNMTtoI/AAAAAAAAEjA/icTqoeCYqbw/s1600/ABS24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EVEnwum0h2A/TgZQFNMTtoI/AAAAAAAAEjA/icTqoeCYqbw/s320/ABS24.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;Today's challenge is all about a recipe.  Nope, we won't require you in the kitchen for this one...just whip something up in your craft room and let the fam fend for themselves!  You MUST use at least 3 designer papers, 1 flower and one trim.  Trim can be any old thing your heart desires.  I.E; ribbon, lace, twine, twill, chain, thread, punched edge, etc.  We encourage you to use &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; brand rubber stamps or digi image on your creations, so that you can have a chance to win a prize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please  take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely  anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be  Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS &lt;/a&gt;images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; Challenge will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1-5 prize eligible participants=$5 prize ($5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6-10 prize eligible participants=$10 in prizes ($5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11+ prize eligible participants=$15 in prizes ($5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;  image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct  link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more  players we have the more prizes are available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t have any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; DT members this week. Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them some love...they work hard to inspire you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Times,&amp;quot;" style="Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Times,&amp;quot;" style="Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lindabscraftycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Linda&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eyUDWm6s7gY/TgjOpTFDD_I/AAAAAAAAEkc/o6pTCYB-apo/s1600/IMG_3005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eyUDWm6s7gY/TgjOpTFDD_I/AAAAAAAAEkc/o6pTCYB-apo/s320/IMG_3005.jpg" border="0" height="318" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Times,&amp;quot;" style="Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Times,&amp;quot;" style="Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brenda&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0RyDESXleIQ/TgjOoltbQAI/AAAAAAAAEkY/j0PgaawdEBM/s1600/033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0RyDESXleIQ/TgjOoltbQAI/AAAAAAAAEkY/j0PgaawdEBM/s320/033.jpg" border="0" height="317" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Times,&amp;quot;" style="Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeniflipflop.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jeni&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hRGv_unrgPo/Tgr0uL-_9XI/AAAAAAAAEk8/Fjt-NJU61nI/s1600/100MemberCelebrationABS.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hRGv_unrgPo/Tgr0uL-_9XI/AAAAAAAAEk8/Fjt-NJU61nI/s1600/100MemberCelebrationABS.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bn_YDm9ukac/Tgr1AmlTyTI/AAAAAAAAElA/STTDH_yryik/s1600/lelia+abs+24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bn_YDm9ukac/Tgr1AmlTyTI/AAAAAAAAElA/STTDH_yryik/s320/lelia+abs+24.jpg" border="0" height="237" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WzIsy9w9pjs/Tgr1BBzehNI/AAAAAAAAElE/0Gl4n3IyogQ/s1600/lelia+abs+24+inside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WzIsy9w9pjs/Tgr1BBzehNI/AAAAAAAAElE/0Gl4n3IyogQ/s320/lelia+abs+24+inside.jpg" border="0" height="201" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tracy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4cP67rceT5c/TgyWcnB1VtI/AAAAAAAAElM/QlTXMZv48ng/s1600/5879618120_f0d47f273d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4cP67rceT5c/TgyWcnB1VtI/AAAAAAAAElM/QlTXMZv48ng/s320/5879618120_f0d47f273d.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q18BBpjZ0VE/Tgr1EOLAvRI/AAAAAAAAElI/327QOwbLVUo/s1600/birdie+sig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q18BBpjZ0VE/Tgr1EOLAvRI/AAAAAAAAElI/327QOwbLVUo/s200/birdie+sig.png" border="0" height="118" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Edited to add:  The Inlinkz tool is now available for linking.  I am so sorry for the delay.  Happy stamping! :)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=65841"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-9221964086160769320?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/9221964086160769320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=9221964086160769320' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/9221964086160769320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/9221964086160769320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/abs-challenge-24.html' title='ABS Challenge #24'/><author><name>Lelia Pierce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13053393462426578347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ou7hDMhxkK0/TOKeNUPZM7I/AAAAAAAAEFI/Hh8lmW6Rl6I/S220/blog%2Bprofile%2Bpic%2Bcopy%2Bcopy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EVEnwum0h2A/TgZQFNMTtoI/AAAAAAAAEjA/icTqoeCYqbw/s72-c/ABS24.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-1663633921869895336</id><published>2011-06-28T06:59:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T06:59:00.086-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #23 - Winner &amp; Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Thank you so much to all of you who played along with us for the shaped card challenge!&amp;nbsp; We loved each and every entry!&amp;nbsp; Here are a few who caught our eye...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kurly-q.blogspot.com/2011/06/wedding.html"&gt;Heather&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ncxjtVKFPXQ/TgjPpc5RqBI/AAAAAAAAEkg/qLydDJpMHu4/s1600/100_2883copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ncxjtVKFPXQ/TgjPpc5RqBI/AAAAAAAAEkg/qLydDJpMHu4/s1600/100_2883copy.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftyblogocks.blogspot.com/2011/06/ready-for-wacky-wednesday.html"&gt;Paul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aYydkuY6300/TgjPym8TqWI/AAAAAAAAEkk/tB6oELCbom4/s1600/098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aYydkuY6300/TgjPym8TqWI/AAAAAAAAEkk/tB6oELCbom4/s1600/098.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://angelscreatieveverslavingblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/little-girl-and-ice-cream-from-karen.html"&gt;Mary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yOnOPJny-HU/TgjQGC5mZrI/AAAAAAAAEko/A1jIEWyJsqk/s1600/little+girl+DT+call+totaal.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yOnOPJny-HU/TgjQGC5mZrI/AAAAAAAAEko/A1jIEWyJsqk/s1600/little+girl+DT+call+totaal.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;And now for the lucky winner of a $5 ABS gift certificate is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-anita-be-stampin-card-for-few.html"&gt;Rene'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mUDea9Ik3C0/TgjQvSoucdI/AAAAAAAAEkw/huVrbYlKw6Q/s1600/Cherry-Special-card.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mUDea9Ik3C0/TgjQvSoucdI/AAAAAAAAEkw/huVrbYlKw6Q/s320/Cherry-Special-card.jpg" width="234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Congratulations Rene'! Please email Anita at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played, and please don't forget stop back and join us for our next challenge! :O)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-1663633921869895336?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/1663633921869895336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=1663633921869895336' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1663633921869895336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1663633921869895336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/abs-challenge-23-winner-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #23 - Winner &amp; Favorites'/><author><name>Lelia Pierce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13053393462426578347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ou7hDMhxkK0/TOKeNUPZM7I/AAAAAAAAEFI/Hh8lmW6Rl6I/S220/blog%2Bprofile%2Bpic%2Bcopy%2Bcopy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ncxjtVKFPXQ/TgjPpc5RqBI/AAAAAAAAEkg/qLydDJpMHu4/s72-c/100_2883copy.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-3222761607870688538</id><published>2011-06-14T07:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-14T08:55:05.116-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #23 - Shaped Card</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday peeps!  Are you ready for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; Challenge #23!?!  I hope so, because we are ready to see what you can do with a...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" &gt;Shaped Card!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;(optional additional challenge: Buttons)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Show us your best shaped card (and throw a button or two on it if you'd like)!  We encourage you to use &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; brand rubber stamps or digi image on your creations, so that you can have a chance to win a prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; Challenge will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;1-5 prize eligible participants=$5 prize ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;6-10 prize eligible participants=$10 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;11+ prize eligible participants=$15 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more players we have the more prizes are available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week. Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them some love. ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lD-llYdY7uM/Tfdk9QL0DNI/AAAAAAAACJE/qEoRxGKvUbk/s1600/ABS23_Bren.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lD-llYdY7uM/Tfdk9QL0DNI/AAAAAAAACJE/qEoRxGKvUbk/s400/ABS23_Bren.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618070063647296722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeniflipflop.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jeni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UsFYNdLJWTQ/Tfdk89Z9yDI/AAAAAAAACI8/4ALP8TQMwbw/s1600/ABS23_Jeni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UsFYNdLJWTQ/Tfdk89Z9yDI/AAAAAAAACI8/4ALP8TQMwbw/s400/ABS23_Jeni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618070058606381106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cbel5gMr6tM/Tfdk8fY_PoI/AAAAAAAACI0/JiURLjORikg/s1600/ABS23_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cbel5gMr6tM/Tfdk8fY_PoI/AAAAAAAACI0/JiURLjORikg/s400/ABS23_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618070050549218946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lindabscraftycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Linda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VZtbyQzL8WE/Tfdk5nVJj5I/AAAAAAAACIs/nGVJyBHoE_E/s1600/ABS23_Linda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 187px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VZtbyQzL8WE/Tfdk5nVJj5I/AAAAAAAACIs/nGVJyBHoE_E/s400/ABS23_Linda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618070001140993938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zPQx7dS_aV8/Tfdk5A1aiOI/AAAAAAAACIk/Hpm6z3KXcXY/s1600/ABS23_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zPQx7dS_aV8/Tfdk5A1aiOI/AAAAAAAACIk/Hpm6z3KXcXY/s400/ABS23_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618069990807341282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please leave a direct link to a new creation based on our challenge no later than Monday, June 27th at 8 pm CST. You have two entire weeks to create a fabulous shaped card, and remember...if you use an &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for stopping by today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=61000"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-3222761607870688538?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/3222761607870688538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=3222761607870688538' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3222761607870688538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3222761607870688538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/abs-challenge-23-shaped-card.html' title='ABS Challenge #23 - Shaped Card'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lD-llYdY7uM/Tfdk9QL0DNI/AAAAAAAACJE/qEoRxGKvUbk/s72-c/ABS23_Bren.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-1259292991183220324</id><published>2011-06-14T06:59:00.023-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-14T10:46:12.492-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #22 - Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello friends! :) Thank you so much to everybody who participated in  Anita Be Stampin Challenge #22! You blew us away with all of those  fabulous layers. Take a look at just a few of our favorites:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/2011/06/anita-be-stampin-card.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Rene'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"&gt;(waving hi to our friend and former DT member Rene'!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kBU2dJVCjU8/Tfd7h3cTTmI/AAAAAAAACJk/wp0FbJoHPYs/s1600/ABS22_participant%2BRene.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 354px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kBU2dJVCjU8/Tfd7h3cTTmI/AAAAAAAACJk/wp0FbJoHPYs/s400/ABS22_participant%2BRene.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618094881916538466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://scrapcandydesigns.blogspot.com/2011/05/birthday-wishes.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Crystal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--FV4N110AE4/Tfd7hrq38xI/AAAAAAAACJc/L2rbq8qz6kM/s1600/ABS22_participant%2BCrystal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--FV4N110AE4/Tfd7hrq38xI/AAAAAAAACJc/L2rbq8qz6kM/s400/ABS22_participant%2BCrystal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618094878756434706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://songbirds-nest.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-first-challenge-in-while.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Vicki L.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OT2Y8EruR4s/Tfd7ifI_FgI/AAAAAAAACJs/2BYmtB86P0g/s1600/ABS22_participant%2BVicki.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OT2Y8EruR4s/Tfd7ifI_FgI/AAAAAAAACJs/2BYmtB86P0g/s400/ABS22_participant%2BVicki.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618094892572939778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--FV4N110AE4/Tfd7hrq38xI/AAAAAAAACJc/L2rbq8qz6kM/s1600/ABS22_participant%2BCrystal.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twinklesglow-glowbug.blogspot.com/2011/06/whimsy-new-digi-release-elegant-fancy.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Chris Olsen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GUg4mOqtwQY/Tfd7hN6nrYI/AAAAAAAACJU/Sd7NEzk_vNA/s1600/ABS22_participant%2BChris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GUg4mOqtwQY/Tfd7hN6nrYI/AAAAAAAACJU/Sd7NEzk_vNA/s400/ABS22_participant%2BChris.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618094870769413506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://deedees-cardart.blogspot.com/2011/06/holzkiste-wooden-box.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;DeeDee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ibF1b2fJWsA/Tfd903946OI/AAAAAAAACJ8/WSOdjQ6iDJs/s1600/ABS22_participant%2BDeeDee.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ibF1b2fJWsA/Tfd903946OI/AAAAAAAACJ8/WSOdjQ6iDJs/s400/ABS22_participant%2BDeeDee.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618097407498184930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;And...the winner of the $5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2STf1dlzaYo/Tfd7WJs7WeI/AAAAAAAACJM/SXwoiOQwpXE/s1600/random_6-14-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 157px; height: 192px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2STf1dlzaYo/Tfd7WJs7WeI/AAAAAAAACJM/SXwoiOQwpXE/s200/random_6-14-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618094680659679714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tickellexpressions.blogspot.com/2011/06/cardmaker-weekly-challenges.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Teresa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UQawnRW1jzA/Tfd7isnWDAI/AAAAAAAACJ0/dXtqk2Lbvtg/s1600/ABS22_participant%2BTeresa.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UQawnRW1jzA/Tfd7isnWDAI/AAAAAAAACJ0/dXtqk2Lbvtg/s400/ABS22_participant%2BTeresa.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618094896189934594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congratulations Teresa! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played, and please don't forget stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-1259292991183220324?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/1259292991183220324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=1259292991183220324' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1259292991183220324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1259292991183220324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/abs-challenge-22-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #22 - Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kBU2dJVCjU8/Tfd7h3cTTmI/AAAAAAAACJk/wp0FbJoHPYs/s72-c/ABS22_participant%2BRene.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-6083860522531751021</id><published>2011-05-31T07:00:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-31T20:44:02.544-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #22- Layer It On Me!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UKsrj4aT7Oc/TePtO2gvFDI/AAAAAAAACG8/yiXiRXkTYjU/s1600/Layer%2BIt%2BOn%2BMe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UKsrj4aT7Oc/TePtO2gvFDI/AAAAAAAACG8/yiXiRXkTYjU/s400/Layer%2BIt%2BOn%2BMe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612590400040539186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday peeps!  I hope that all of my fellow Americans who celebrated Memorial Day enjoyed a fabulous holiday weekend.  And to all of my other friends, I hope you had a great weekend as well! ;)  It's time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #22, and this time around we are challenging you to go crazy with the layers.  That's right, I invite you to "Layer" It On Me" and show me what you can do with those layers! (so punny, huh? LOL)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of the ABS Challenge will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1-5 prize eligible participants=$5 prize ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;6-10 prize eligible participants=$10 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;11+ prize eligible participants=$15 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more players we have the more prizes are available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week. Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them some love. ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l3Ko_nGWAGI/TePoXciqKYI/AAAAAAAACG0/QMZbo7xkanw/s1600/ABS22_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l3Ko_nGWAGI/TePoXciqKYI/AAAAAAAACG0/QMZbo7xkanw/s400/ABS22_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612585050129967490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeniflipflop.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jeni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sLlwhaXK25w/TeWZI6drkyI/AAAAAAAACIE/2u0OP-g6MlY/s1600/ABS22_Jeni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 372px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sLlwhaXK25w/TeWZI6drkyI/AAAAAAAACIE/2u0OP-g6MlY/s400/ABS22_Jeni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613060888998941474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aOpjvRHAHBc/TePoWWv1VfI/AAAAAAAACGs/hc730ymVmG0/s1600/ABS22_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aOpjvRHAHBc/TePoWWv1VfI/AAAAAAAACGs/hc730ymVmG0/s400/ABS22_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612585031394743794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Linda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B_I04xCrsBY/TePoWApVP4I/AAAAAAAACGk/HjgAxqSk8l0/s1600/ABS22_Linda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 386px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B_I04xCrsBY/TePoWApVP4I/AAAAAAAACGk/HjgAxqSk8l0/s400/ABS22_Linda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612585025461895042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VvEmSz4bL1U/TePoVjjSn7I/AAAAAAAACGc/3kvLzcUrb4Q/s1600/ABS22_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VvEmSz4bL1U/TePoVjjSn7I/AAAAAAAACGc/3kvLzcUrb4Q/s400/ABS22_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612585017651929010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please leave a direct link to a new creation based on our challenge no later than Monday, June 13th at 8 pm CST. You have two entire weeks to get creative with layers, and remember...if you use an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for stopping by today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=57201"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-6083860522531751021?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/6083860522531751021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=6083860522531751021' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/6083860522531751021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/6083860522531751021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/abs-challenge-22-layer-it-on-me.html' title='ABS Challenge #22- Layer It On Me!'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UKsrj4aT7Oc/TePtO2gvFDI/AAAAAAAACG8/yiXiRXkTYjU/s72-c/Layer%2BIt%2BOn%2BMe.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-8292323081104906699</id><published>2011-05-31T06:59:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-01T11:01:36.325-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #21 - Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Well hello there! :)  I am finally here to announce the winner of Anita Be Stampin Challenge #21. I am so sorry for the delay.  Today started out crazy and well...it only got crazier from there. LOL&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much to all of the fabulous ladies who participated in our last challenge! Your gorgeous creations using lace and pearls were each so beautiful in their own way.  Please take a moment to check out just a few of our favorites:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bearlymine.blogspot.com/2011/05/awesome-butterflies.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Donna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fQotBsqnbaA/TeWUr0-ofkI/AAAAAAAACHE/8yZ_C-CxUDs/s1600/ABS21_participant%2BDonna.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fQotBsqnbaA/TeWUr0-ofkI/AAAAAAAACHE/8yZ_C-CxUDs/s400/ABS21_participant%2BDonna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613055991263821378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lauw-creations.blogspot.com/2011/05/couleurs-pastels.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jELOciVxJr4/TeWWpeXzOlI/AAAAAAAACHs/X8OICJcDQgo/s1600/ABS21_participant%2BLau.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jELOciVxJr4/TeWWpeXzOlI/AAAAAAAACHs/X8OICJcDQgo/s400/ABS21_participant%2BLau.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613058149858884178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JFIfIkdmy7w/TeWUsiU-wrI/AAAAAAAACHc/om6D7NhF6lA/s1600/ABS21_participant%2BStarla.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tbearstouch.blogspot.com/2011/05/christmas-in-may.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Trisha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-URq6KKEazTk/TeWUswkLHwI/AAAAAAAACHk/jB-HLs-uvqc/s1600/ABS21_participant%2BTrisha.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-URq6KKEazTk/TeWUswkLHwI/AAAAAAAACHk/jB-HLs-uvqc/s400/ABS21_participant%2BTrisha.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613056007258971906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://justsoducky.blogspot.com/2011/05/whimsy-june-release-blog-hop.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lori&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3R4-rjbON24/TeWUsdo3t7I/AAAAAAAACHU/Pos2TsKuO1c/s1600/ABS21_participant%2BLori.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3R4-rjbON24/TeWUsdo3t7I/AAAAAAAACHU/Pos2TsKuO1c/s400/ABS21_participant%2BLori.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613056002178398130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;And...the winner of the $5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aI47yG7bb20/TeWYlVCHv2I/AAAAAAAACH0/JP76U58t3Pk/s1600/random_5-31-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 193px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aI47yG7bb20/TeWYlVCHv2I/AAAAAAAACH0/JP76U58t3Pk/s200/random_5-31-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613060277655813986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/2011/05/pearls-and-lace.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Starla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JFIfIkdmy7w/TeWUsiU-wrI/AAAAAAAACHc/om6D7NhF6lA/s1600/ABS21_participant%2BStarla.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JFIfIkdmy7w/TeWUsiU-wrI/AAAAAAAACHc/om6D7NhF6lA/s400/ABS21_participant%2BStarla.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613056003437150898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congrats Star! Your card is beyond gorgeous! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played, and please don't forget stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Edited To Add- Yikes!!!  It was recently brought to my attention that I overlooked two prize eligible participants that used Anita Be Stampin images in this challenge.  As a result, I have awarded both &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://kiksisworld.blogspot.com/2011/05/anita-be-stampin-challenge-21.html"&gt;Kiksi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://blackbirdstime.blogspot.com/2011/05/was-ist-denn-da-nur-passiert-whats.html#comments"&gt;Blackbird&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; $5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificates.  Thanks so much for understanding, ladies!  Hugs~Anita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-8292323081104906699?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/8292323081104906699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=8292323081104906699' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8292323081104906699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8292323081104906699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/abs-challenge-21-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #21 - Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fQotBsqnbaA/TeWUr0-ofkI/AAAAAAAACHE/8yZ_C-CxUDs/s72-c/ABS21_participant%2BDonna.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-1169647138847837949</id><published>2011-05-17T07:00:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-23T19:45:13.928-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge 21</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;*Edited to add*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;- Hi peeps! :)  It's Anita here, and I am stopping by to share a bit of info today.  Starting right away, the Anita Be Stampin Challenge is going bi-weekly (at least temporarily).  We love to see your beautiful projects, and now you will have even more time to enter the current challenge.  Keep those fabulous creations using Pearls &amp;amp; Lace coming, and we'll see you next week with a new challenge to inspire you!  ~Anita    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good morning everyone and a happy Tuesday to ya!  Are you ready for our next challenge?  We decided to change it up a bit and give you a recipe challenge.  One of our latest design team members, &lt;a href="http://www.lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Linda&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, suggested this one for us...thanks, girl!  I hope you love it as much as we did!  Use PEARLS &amp;amp; LACE on your projects!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3YnXez9c42s/TdFBW6sW13I/AAAAAAAAEfc/tE_YTv6HxTA/s1600/ABS21_5-17-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3YnXez9c42s/TdFBW6sW13I/AAAAAAAAEfc/tE_YTv6HxTA/s320/ABS21_5-17-11.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;We  ask that you please  take a look at the challenge rules over in the  sidebar. Absolutely  anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to  play in the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style=" text-align: center;font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; Challenge will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1-5 prize eligible participants=$5 prize ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6-10 prize eligible participants=$10 in prizes ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11+ prize eligible participants=$15 in prizes ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;   image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct   link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more   players we have the more prizes are available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t have any ABS images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; DT members this week. Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them a little love.  You know you want to!  ;O)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ikT0NZJw7o8/TdFClixbCyI/AAAAAAAAEfk/bX6dI_w105g/s1600/001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ikT0NZJw7o8/TdFClixbCyI/AAAAAAAAEfk/bX6dI_w105g/s320/001.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeniflipflop.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Jeni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9i3umwiVLj8/TdFCnEdJpmI/AAAAAAAAEfo/Oi1u-AJQzB4/s1600/CherryNiceDay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9i3umwiVLj8/TdFCnEdJpmI/AAAAAAAAEfo/Oi1u-AJQzB4/s320/CherryNiceDay.jpg" border="0" height="293" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mMEvIIcgBf8/TdFBYGi_dsI/AAAAAAAAEfg/oqz89XfUQ00/s1600/lelia+abs+21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mMEvIIcgBf8/TdFBYGi_dsI/AAAAAAAAEfg/oqz89XfUQ00/s320/lelia+abs+21.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Linda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LpZta31qdwM/TdFCpF7nZeI/AAAAAAAAEfs/z67wQvZIXVY/s1600/IMG_2701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LpZta31qdwM/TdFCpF7nZeI/AAAAAAAAEfs/z67wQvZIXVY/s320/IMG_2701.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SWvMsTG8iII/TdHhCbsAoDI/AAAAAAAAEfw/TN4FzNM8ZRw/s1600/ABS21_TracyS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SWvMsTG8iII/TdHhCbsAoDI/AAAAAAAAEfw/TN4FzNM8ZRw/s320/ABS21_TracyS.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="259" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Thanks for stopping by today, ladies (and gents)!  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Remember...if you use an &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDVk5dB5OSM/TdKRTZx9UVI/AAAAAAAAEgI/q9OMo6IvvwY/s1600/birdie+sig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDVk5dB5OSM/TdKRTZx9UVI/AAAAAAAAEgI/q9OMo6IvvwY/s200/birdie+sig.png" border="0" height="118" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=54115" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-1169647138847837949?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/1169647138847837949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=1169647138847837949' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1169647138847837949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1169647138847837949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/anita-be-stampin-challenge-21.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge 21'/><author><name>Lelia Pierce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13053393462426578347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ou7hDMhxkK0/TOKeNUPZM7I/AAAAAAAAEFI/Hh8lmW6Rl6I/S220/blog%2Bprofile%2Bpic%2Bcopy%2Bcopy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3YnXez9c42s/TdFBW6sW13I/AAAAAAAAEfc/tE_YTv6HxTA/s72-c/ABS21_5-17-11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-5578314760142237428</id><published>2011-05-17T06:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-17T09:56:01.768-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #20 Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi ladies! :) Thank you so much for joining in our last  challenge! Check out just a  few of the fabulous entries:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://annescardchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/05/victoria-victorian.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Lstl-VvdZI/TdKLBhhT7_I/AAAAAAAACFg/sMlDX7UYnaA/s1600/ABS20_Anne.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Lstl-VvdZI/TdKLBhhT7_I/AAAAAAAACFg/sMlDX7UYnaA/s400/ABS20_Anne.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607697344323907570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fiberbubble.blogspot.com/2011/05/kickin-it-in-heels.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Nancy in Iowa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b8Ng4E07Ou8/TdKLCKm5XhI/AAAAAAAACFw/V_D5Y6U0X88/s1600/ABS20_Nancy.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b8Ng4E07Ou8/TdKLCKm5XhI/AAAAAAAACFw/V_D5Y6U0X88/s400/ABS20_Nancy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607697355353185810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know what you've been waiting for...the announcement of the lucky winner of the $5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate...woot woot! :)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The lucky winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lauw-creations.blogspot.com/2011/05/tallulah.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vneiWfymM-o/TdKLB-TDwgI/AAAAAAAACFo/VMVQN-1vyQw/s1600/ABS20_Lau.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vneiWfymM-o/TdKLB-TDwgI/AAAAAAAACFo/VMVQN-1vyQw/s400/ABS20_Lau.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607697352048755202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congratulations Lau! Your card us absolutely beautiful! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! Don't forget stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-5578314760142237428?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/5578314760142237428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=5578314760142237428' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5578314760142237428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5578314760142237428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/abs-challenge-20-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #20 Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Lstl-VvdZI/TdKLBhhT7_I/AAAAAAAACFg/sMlDX7UYnaA/s72-c/ABS20_Anne.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-2357156436943095187</id><published>2011-05-10T07:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T07:00:07.237-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge 20</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xaENThED-VY/TchCVo8znPI/AAAAAAAAEeA/vnQYdddU_7k/s1600/ABS20_5-10-2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xaENThED-VY/TchCVo8znPI/AAAAAAAAEeA/vnQYdddU_7k/s320/ABS20_5-10-2011.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Happy Tuesday, sweeties!&amp;nbsp; We at ABS hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day this past weekend!&amp;nbsp; It's time for another challenge and I  can't wait to see your take on the sketch!  We ask that you please  take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely  anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; Challenge will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;1-5 prize eligible participants=$5 prize ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;6-10 prize eligible participants=$10 in prizes ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;11+ prize eligible participants=$15 in prizes ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;  image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct  link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more  players we have the more prizes are available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t have any ABS images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; DT members this week. Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them a little love.&amp;nbsp; You know you want to!&amp;nbsp; ;O)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_41xNCLbrs/TchDEsVWD3I/AAAAAAAAEeI/OUaH47SrqtA/s1600/004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="312" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_41xNCLbrs/TchDEsVWD3I/AAAAAAAAEeI/OUaH47SrqtA/s320/004.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeniflipflop.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Jeni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X9UsDTr5tBY/TchDH_KyubI/AAAAAAAAEeU/ufvvDkiQwwo/s1600/Well%252CBlessYourHeart....jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="282" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X9UsDTr5tBY/TchDH_KyubI/AAAAAAAAEeU/ufvvDkiQwwo/s320/Well%252CBlessYourHeart....jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Vl2F_sjIkA/TchCW8_j-JI/AAAAAAAAEeE/CHqI6byv1Mw/s1600/lelia+abs20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="313" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Vl2F_sjIkA/TchCW8_j-JI/AAAAAAAAEeE/CHqI6byv1Mw/s320/lelia+abs20.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Linda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llLud1cPhv4/TchDGImI2aI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/0F9ldnRwabU/s1600/IMG_2714.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="305" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llLud1cPhv4/TchDGImI2aI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/0F9ldnRwabU/s320/IMG_2714.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fbYePI30ReQ/TchDFbxV95I/AAAAAAAAEeM/1HeYCTFz83A/s1600/5704065520_16b861bfd3_b%252Bcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fbYePI30ReQ/TchDFbxV95I/AAAAAAAAEeM/1HeYCTFz83A/s320/5704065520_16b861bfd3_b%252Bcopy.jpg" width="285" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Thanks for stopping by today, ladies (and gents)!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Please  leave a direct link to a new creation based on our challenge no later  than Monday, May 16th at 8 pm CST. Remember...if you use an &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xR5y5M3xWOc/TchER1nS6DI/AAAAAAAAEeY/f9ErmKapneY/s1600/birdie+sig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="118" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xR5y5M3xWOc/TchER1nS6DI/AAAAAAAAEeY/f9ErmKapneY/s200/birdie+sig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=52651"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-2357156436943095187?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/2357156436943095187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=2357156436943095187' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/2357156436943095187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/2357156436943095187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/anita-be-stampin-challenge-20.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge 20'/><author><name>Lelia Pierce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13053393462426578347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ou7hDMhxkK0/TOKeNUPZM7I/AAAAAAAAEFI/Hh8lmW6Rl6I/S220/blog%2Bprofile%2Bpic%2Bcopy%2Bcopy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xaENThED-VY/TchCVo8znPI/AAAAAAAAEeA/vnQYdddU_7k/s72-c/ABS20_5-10-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-416093518434910882</id><published>2011-05-10T06:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T06:59:00.169-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge Winner #19 and Favorites!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Good morning ABS fans and friends!&amp;nbsp; Thank you so much to those of you who played along with our color challenge last week...we loved seeing your take on Rachel's shirt color inspiration!&amp;nbsp; Here are a couple of our favorite entries!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/2011/05/so-much-to-do.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Starla&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pzG_H8ZGp2M/Tcg_m9kQQGI/AAAAAAAAEdw/6WPh0Q7oG-g/s1600/So+Much+to+Do.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pzG_H8ZGp2M/Tcg_m9kQQGI/AAAAAAAAEdw/6WPh0Q7oG-g/s320/So+Much+to+Do.JPG" width="274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://doodlebuddies.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/worlds-best-bud/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Naush&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fr764Co4klQ/Tcg_2-2sSSI/AAAAAAAAEd0/lA6Z-bg0BXU/s1600/dscf1046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fr764Co4klQ/Tcg_2-2sSSI/AAAAAAAAEd0/lA6Z-bg0BXU/s1600/dscf1046.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And now to announce our winner of the $5 gift certificate to the ABS Shoppe!&amp;nbsp; Drumroll, please!&amp;nbsp; Our winner this week is...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://annescardchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/05/butterfly-forever-dreaming.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Anne&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QD4nxuEQ-zM/TchAEbUaDuI/AAAAAAAAEd4/EFPt84x1hIc/s1600/Butterfly+Forever+Dreaming.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QD4nxuEQ-zM/TchAEbUaDuI/AAAAAAAAEd4/EFPt84x1hIc/s1600/Butterfly+Forever+Dreaming.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Congratulations, Anne!&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Your card is very lovely!&amp;nbsp; Please email Anita at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played along with us! Don't forget stop back and join us for our next challenge! :O)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xyt5TRdQenU/TchBJfqiC7I/AAAAAAAAEd8/2UnpUXCd7VY/s1600/birdie+sig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="118" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xyt5TRdQenU/TchBJfqiC7I/AAAAAAAAEd8/2UnpUXCd7VY/s200/birdie+sig.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-416093518434910882?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/416093518434910882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=416093518434910882' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/416093518434910882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/416093518434910882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/abs-challenge-winner-19-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge Winner #19 and Favorites!'/><author><name>Lelia Pierce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13053393462426578347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ou7hDMhxkK0/TOKeNUPZM7I/AAAAAAAAEFI/Hh8lmW6Rl6I/S220/blog%2Bprofile%2Bpic%2Bcopy%2Bcopy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pzG_H8ZGp2M/Tcg_m9kQQGI/AAAAAAAAEdw/6WPh0Q7oG-g/s72-c/So+Much+to+Do.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-3946374888001840733</id><published>2011-05-03T07:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T07:00:17.891-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #19</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vqE5Is2YuMY/Tb8DnNRr9uI/AAAAAAAACBI/xc7viVbsfOI/s1600/ABS19%2BColor%2BChallenge%2Bby%2BRachel_5-3-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vqE5Is2YuMY/Tb8DnNRr9uI/AAAAAAAACBI/xc7viVbsfOI/s400/ABS19%2BColor%2BChallenge%2Bby%2BRachel_5-3-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602200433585813218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AXc-ZoKTySQ/Tb8D-Tijr6I/AAAAAAAACBY/ov2VrpQ9kv0/s1600/Rachel%2527s%2BShirt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 196px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AXc-ZoKTySQ/Tb8D-Tijr6I/AAAAAAAACBY/ov2VrpQ9kv0/s200/Rachel%2527s%2BShirt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602200830404177826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vqE5Is2YuMY/Tb8DnNRr9uI/AAAAAAAACBI/xc7viVbsfOI/s1600/ABS19%2BColor%2BChallenge%2Bby%2BRachel_5-3-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday, girlfriends! :) I am super excited to share this week's challenge with you...it's a color challenge! Our ever  fabulous design team member, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, is challenging us to create a  project based the colors above. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;was inspired by the beautiful colors in one of her shirts...such a beautiful color combo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I can't wait to see your take on the challenge!  We ask that you please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Challenge will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1-5 prize eligible participants=$5 prize ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;6-10 prize eligible participants=$10 in prizes ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;11+ prize eligible participants=$15 in prizes ($5 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more players we have the more prizes are available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any ABS images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week. Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them a little love. ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sn0sHQOPUHM/Tb8Ce0THmYI/AAAAAAAACBA/gS7gp4SicK4/s1600/ABS19_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sn0sHQOPUHM/Tb8Ce0THmYI/AAAAAAAACBA/gS7gp4SicK4/s400/ABS19_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602199189930350978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeniflipflop.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jeni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T_S8ivJWbq0/Tb8CXxdD4cI/AAAAAAAACA4/owmDGzFNX_Q/s1600/ABS19_Jeni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T_S8ivJWbq0/Tb8CXxdD4cI/AAAAAAAACA4/owmDGzFNX_Q/s400/ABS19_Jeni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602199068907659714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bfoEiJLkflA/Tb8YVoSp_MI/AAAAAAAACBg/0UkPJF-Dpqo/s1600/ABS19_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bfoEiJLkflA/Tb8YVoSp_MI/AAAAAAAACBg/0UkPJF-Dpqo/s400/ABS19_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602223221344173250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DbPmVX34m5c/Tb8CXG_J1FI/AAAAAAAACAw/oTuWlbwNXOI/s1600/ABS19_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DbPmVX34m5c/Tb8CXG_J1FI/AAAAAAAACAw/oTuWlbwNXOI/s400/ABS19_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602199057507931218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Linda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dLS0JEutAcI/Tb8CXOCEXLI/AAAAAAAACAo/iN2RfMnhKH8/s1600/ABS19_Linda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dLS0JEutAcI/Tb8CXOCEXLI/AAAAAAAACAo/iN2RfMnhKH8/s400/ABS19_Linda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602199059399204018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://silli-silli.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Silke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Of4lLJhPfUY/Tb8CWrCsjlI/AAAAAAAACAg/aiftC1LpJHM/s1600/ABS19_Silke.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Of4lLJhPfUY/Tb8CWrCsjlI/AAAAAAAACAg/aiftC1LpJHM/s400/ABS19_Silke.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602199050006597202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Dyk7xY_5Dg/Tb8CWnQlEeI/AAAAAAAACAY/uDJdzDL_UxQ/s1600/ABS19_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Dyk7xY_5Dg/Tb8CWnQlEeI/AAAAAAAACAY/uDJdzDL_UxQ/s400/ABS19_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602199048991085026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please leave a direct link to a new creation based on our challenge no later than Monday, May. 9th at 8 pm CST. Remember...if you use an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Psst...we are having a little digi image release and blog hop at the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.blogspot.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Blog&lt;/a&gt; on Friday.  I sure hope you'll join us! :) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for stopping by today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=51062"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-3946374888001840733?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/3946374888001840733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=3946374888001840733' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3946374888001840733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3946374888001840733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/anita-be-stampin-challenge-19.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #19'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vqE5Is2YuMY/Tb8DnNRr9uI/AAAAAAAACBI/xc7viVbsfOI/s72-c/ABS19%2BColor%2BChallenge%2Bby%2BRachel_5-3-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-1016630717478432629</id><published>2011-05-03T06:59:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T06:59:00.180-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #18  Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello chickadees! :) Thank you so much for joining in our last  challenge! We had some super adorable entries last week. Check out just a  few of the creations that we absolutely loved:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/2011/05/woot.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Starla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Yajcq0KDms/Tb9irJHaVEI/AAAAAAAACB4/l0JKKaPkyKI/s1600/participant_ABS18_Starla.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Yajcq0KDms/Tb9irJHaVEI/AAAAAAAACB4/l0JKKaPkyKI/s400/participant_ABS18_Starla.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602304954793088066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://scrapcardsandstuff.blogspot.com/2011/05/sterkte.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Sanne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EnRQZXCrhWY/Tb9irTWfhyI/AAAAAAAACCA/xToCjzZXJd0/s1600/participant_ABS18_Sanne.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EnRQZXCrhWY/Tb9irTWfhyI/AAAAAAAACCA/xToCjzZXJd0/s400/participant_ABS18_Sanne.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602304957540697890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Yajcq0KDms/Tb9irJHaVEI/AAAAAAAACB4/l0JKKaPkyKI/s1600/participant_ABS18_Starla.JPG"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;It's time to announce the lucky winner of the $5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate...woot woot! :)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;The lucky winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cEO6Png_lUE/Tb9jH1zJpuI/AAAAAAAACCI/K70pKlIJcPM/s1600/random_5-3-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 189px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cEO6Png_lUE/Tb9jH1zJpuI/AAAAAAAACCI/K70pKlIJcPM/s200/random_5-3-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602305447824041698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://lauw-creations.blogspot.com/2011/04/meadow.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VKfvRsahNZQ/Tb9iqxr7QjI/AAAAAAAACBw/TKoBa8GTjGM/s1600/participant_ABS18_Lau.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VKfvRsahNZQ/Tb9iqxr7QjI/AAAAAAAACBw/TKoBa8GTjGM/s400/participant_ABS18_Lau.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602304948503790130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congratulations Lau! You have made such a gorgeous creation! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! Don't forget stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-1016630717478432629?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/1016630717478432629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=1016630717478432629' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1016630717478432629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1016630717478432629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/abs-challenge-18-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #18  Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Yajcq0KDms/Tb9irJHaVEI/AAAAAAAACB4/l0JKKaPkyKI/s72-c/participant_ABS18_Starla.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-421742338748782328</id><published>2011-04-26T07:00:00.013-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T07:58:16.085-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #18</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday peeps! For those of you who celebrated, I hope you enjoyed a fabulous Easter holiday filled with lots of love and family time. This week we have another fabulous sketch for you designed by our very own super amazing DT member, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://deconstructingjen.com/"&gt;Jen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTwHGa1zMaY/TbXHliR_-0I/AAAAAAAAB-A/T1dZJfhNwRU/s1600/ABS18%2Bby%2BJen_4-26-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 396px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTwHGa1zMaY/TbXHliR_-0I/AAAAAAAAB-A/T1dZJfhNwRU/s400/ABS18%2Bby%2BJen_4-26-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599601159376468802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of the ABS Challenge will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1-5 prize eligible participants=$5 prize ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;6-10 prize eligible participants=$10 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;11+ prize eligible participants=$15 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more players we have the more prizes are available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week. Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them some love. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-challenge-18.html"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L7Mzn6ZVKRE/TbXKXcGfpHI/AAAAAAAAB-o/Nx44ENLuZf0/s1600/ABS18_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L7Mzn6ZVKRE/TbXKXcGfpHI/AAAAAAAAB-o/Nx44ENLuZf0/s400/ABS18_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599604215734314098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://deconstructingjen.com/archives/3701"&gt;Jen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQkVZM6OjeY/Tba7TCb8e8I/AAAAAAAAB_Y/UTGpn-oHwzI/s1600/ABS18_Jen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQkVZM6OjeY/Tba7TCb8e8I/AAAAAAAAB_Y/UTGpn-oHwzI/s400/ABS18_Jen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599869122427780034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://jeniflipflop.blogspot.com/2011/04/lets-chat.html"&gt;Jeni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ubORU4TE5L4/TbXKW3eTb9I/AAAAAAAAB-g/2I7Sue16FrU/s1600/ABS18_Jeni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 365px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ubORU4TE5L4/TbXKW3eTb9I/AAAAAAAAB-g/2I7Sue16FrU/s400/ABS18_Jeni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599604205902065618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-sketch-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Joni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4UBLfpehMzI/TbYrNDKqOpI/AAAAAAAAB-w/g4ofKD1mOPA/s1600/ABS18_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4UBLfpehMzI/TbYrNDKqOpI/AAAAAAAAB-w/g4ofKD1mOPA/s400/ABS18_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599710689870101138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-challenge_26.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Linda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nC2q2F0bcWA/TbXKWi3UJGI/AAAAAAAAB-Y/0Q0aR1nSI78/s1600/ABS18_Linda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 393px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nC2q2F0bcWA/TbXKWi3UJGI/AAAAAAAAB-Y/0Q0aR1nSI78/s400/ABS18_Linda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599604200369824866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://silli-silli.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-18.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Silke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07QfIyzcY-U/TbXKWTfM2-I/AAAAAAAAB-Q/RKjgpT5NsRw/s1600/ABS18_Silke.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 358px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07QfIyzcY-U/TbXKWTfM2-I/AAAAAAAAB-Q/RKjgpT5NsRw/s400/ABS18_Silke.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599604196242152418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/?p=2008"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DpWUp_saYJQ/TbXKWEHDXHI/AAAAAAAAB-I/kkD8Yk-phoQ/s1600/ABS18_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DpWUp_saYJQ/TbXKWEHDXHI/AAAAAAAAB-I/kkD8Yk-phoQ/s400/ABS18_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599604192114334834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please leave a direct link to a new creation based on our challenge no later than Monday, May. 2nd at 8 pm CST. Remember...if you use an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for stopping by today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=49351"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-421742338748782328?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/421742338748782328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=421742338748782328' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/421742338748782328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/421742338748782328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-challenge-18.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #18'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTwHGa1zMaY/TbXHliR_-0I/AAAAAAAAB-A/T1dZJfhNwRU/s72-c/ABS18%2Bby%2BJen_4-26-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-3487951080722491630</id><published>2011-04-26T06:59:00.011-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T06:59:00.620-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #17 Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello friends! :) Thank you so much to those who participated in our last challenge. You ladies always create the cutest things!  Check out just a few of the creations that we absolutely loved:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lauw-creations.blogspot.com/2011/04/ariana.html"&gt;Lau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GIqbxuyys2I/TbYzYbHEbjI/AAAAAAAAB_A/HVLvn96u69s/s1600/participant_ABS17_Lau.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GIqbxuyys2I/TbYzYbHEbjI/AAAAAAAAB_A/HVLvn96u69s/s400/participant_ABS17_Lau.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599719681369075250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MO5uIhF__6c/TbYziJksxnI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/Eio3xN5-BXw/s1600/participant_ABS17_Anne.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://annescardchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-butterfly.html"&gt;Anne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MO5uIhF__6c/TbYziJksxnI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/Eio3xN5-BXw/s400/participant_ABS17_Anne.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599719848460207730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:medium;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); line-height: 20px; text-align: left;font-size:16px;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Who is excited to find out who the lucky winner of the $5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate is? ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The lucky winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c07iiZMxyYs/TbYzMqSy9WI/AAAAAAAAB-4/rQ9V9eTujIA/s1600/random_4-26-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 158px; height: 191px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c07iiZMxyYs/TbYzMqSy9WI/AAAAAAAAB-4/rQ9V9eTujIA/s200/random_4-26-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599719479286363490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/2011/04/fairy-pink-card.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Starla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2NRWOMLuGRI/TbYzYhcqNoI/AAAAAAAAB_I/DPP9cEUXX20/s1600/participant_ABS17_Starla.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2NRWOMLuGRI/TbYzYhcqNoI/AAAAAAAAB_I/DPP9cEUXX20/s400/participant_ABS17_Starla.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599719683070244482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congratulations Starla! Your card is absolutely adorable!  Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! Don't forget stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-3487951080722491630?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/3487951080722491630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=3487951080722491630' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3487951080722491630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3487951080722491630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/abs-challenge-17-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #17 Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GIqbxuyys2I/TbYzYbHEbjI/AAAAAAAAB_A/HVLvn96u69s/s72-c/participant_ABS17_Lau.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-9116539647129025814</id><published>2011-04-19T07:49:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T08:05:56.068-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #17</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Good morning &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; fans!  I hope you had an amazing weekend and your week was started off right yesterday!  Are you ready for the next challenge?  Well, are ya?  Huh?  Okay, okay, here we go!  Check out this sketch contributed by our amazingly talented and super sweet DT member, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://deconstructingjen.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.  Isn't it lovely?  :O) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-avKhRHNDgs0/Ta14mb_OcEI/AAAAAAAAEZo/lOq6OUIK-R8/s1600/ABS17%252Bby%252BJen_4-19-2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-avKhRHNDgs0/Ta14mb_OcEI/AAAAAAAAEZo/lOq6OUIK-R8/s320/ABS17%252Bby%252BJen_4-19-2011.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="247" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please  take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely  anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be  Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Starting  this week, we are changing the way we award challenge prizes up a bit.   The prizes for ABS Challenge #14 will vary based on the number of  players we have:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1-5 participants=$5 prize ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;6-10 participants=$10 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;11+ participants=$15 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;  image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link  to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more players  we have the more prizes are available. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;  where members have access to a free digi image.  We are getting so  close to 200 members!  Help us reach 200 members and we will celebrate  our achievement with a new free digi for group members.  Gotta love  that!  &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b-xP3zEhl4Q/Ta14ccW8jTI/AAAAAAAAEZY/aSBy03F5UCc/s1600/005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b-xP3zEhl4Q/Ta14ccW8jTI/AAAAAAAAEZY/aSBy03F5UCc/s320/005.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="311" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2PjGROseL0/Ta14j9AQjfI/AAAAAAAAEZk/UWHJHkw0Kug/s1600/lelia+abs17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2PjGROseL0/Ta14j9AQjfI/AAAAAAAAEZk/UWHJHkw0Kug/s320/lelia+abs17.jpg" border="0" width="254" height="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://silli-silli.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Silke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jVMfSIV6De8/Ta14c3HP0JI/AAAAAAAAEZc/-qrJ7bifCMc/s1600/abs%252Bmonster%252Bsketch-crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jVMfSIV6De8/Ta14c3HP0JI/AAAAAAAAEZc/-qrJ7bifCMc/s320/abs%252Bmonster%252Bsketch-crop.jpg" border="0" width="257" height="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://deconstructingjen.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7v3bJ_5lqr8/Ta14eaiYujI/AAAAAAAAEZg/iyXGIDf6RRg/s1600/JenApril19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7v3bJ_5lqr8/Ta14eaiYujI/AAAAAAAAEZg/iyXGIDf6RRg/s320/JenApril19.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="243" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;We have some talented girls, don't we?  Come play along with us so we can see your talent as well! Please  leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch no later  than Monday, April. 25th at 8 pm CST. Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--esEDwkRUhQ/Ta17ZFiiIuI/AAAAAAAAEZw/OXzUEmoNZfc/s1600/birdie+sig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--esEDwkRUhQ/Ta17ZFiiIuI/AAAAAAAAEZw/OXzUEmoNZfc/s200/birdie+sig.png" border="0" width="200" height="118" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=48146"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-9116539647129025814?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/9116539647129025814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=9116539647129025814' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/9116539647129025814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/9116539647129025814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-challenge-17.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #17'/><author><name>Lelia Pierce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13053393462426578347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ou7hDMhxkK0/TOKeNUPZM7I/AAAAAAAAEFI/Hh8lmW6Rl6I/S220/blog%2Bprofile%2Bpic%2Bcopy%2Bcopy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-avKhRHNDgs0/Ta14mb_OcEI/AAAAAAAAEZo/lOq6OUIK-R8/s72-c/ABS17%252Bby%252BJen_4-19-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-6810334200561851226</id><published>2011-04-19T07:48:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T08:09:34.724-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #16 Winners and Favorites</title><content type='html'>Thank you to all of our challenge participants from the Anything Goes challenge!  Are you ready to see a couple of our favorites?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-challenge_13.html"&gt;Linda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oePJ1_l0Ihk/Ta1_WTezW7I/AAAAAAAAEZ0/pXgclYrZGZc/s1600/IMG_2500.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oePJ1_l0Ihk/Ta1_WTezW7I/AAAAAAAAEZ0/pXgclYrZGZc/s1600/IMG_2500.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftyblogocks.blogspot.com/2011/04/oldie-but-goodie.html"&gt;Paul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HYQOsvS3dYg/Ta1_t5inbqI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/vgH0FIgj_Po/s1600/010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HYQOsvS3dYg/Ta1_t5inbqI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/vgH0FIgj_Po/s1600/010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mommyscrapsalot.blogspot.com/2011/04/soft-sweet.html"&gt;Tina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UH-mMOVagf8/Ta2ATCxRvSI/AAAAAAAAEZ8/w_y9GxttKnk/s1600/101_6585.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UH-mMOVagf8/Ta2ATCxRvSI/AAAAAAAAEZ8/w_y9GxttKnk/s1600/101_6585.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And now for our winners of the $5 &lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; gift certificates...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lauw-creations.blogspot.com/2011/04/amberlee.html"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;Lau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_eZmfZMNqt0/Ta2EKi4ExZI/AAAAAAAAEaA/8RlugtaWX7Y/s1600/2011-04-13_18%252705%252728.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_eZmfZMNqt0/Ta2EKi4ExZI/AAAAAAAAEaA/8RlugtaWX7Y/s320/2011-04-13_18%252705%252728.JPG" border="0" width="320" height="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://annescardchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-holdin-pink-flower.html"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;Anne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f654ADoCuZY/Ta2EOf420jI/AAAAAAAAEaI/kHQHKII0YAY/s1600/Anita+Holding+Pink+Flower.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f654ADoCuZY/Ta2EOf420jI/AAAAAAAAEaI/kHQHKII0YAY/s1600/Anita+Holding+Pink+Flower.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farmfreshdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/its-free-for-all.html"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;Jess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ctrkf-CgW2U/Ta2EMacAQNI/AAAAAAAAEaE/cZ0xfRLbELY/s1600/ABSThanksABunch04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ctrkf-CgW2U/Ta2EMacAQNI/AAAAAAAAEaE/cZ0xfRLbELY/s320/ABSThanksABunch04.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;Congrats, girls!  Thank  you for sharing your gorgeous cards with us.  Please email Anita at  anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again to everyone who played! I hope you will all stop back and join us for our next challenge!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a_RkWQpoWmY/Ta2Eh2vcEvI/AAAAAAAAEaM/BDx3R2mY174/s1600/birdie+sig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a_RkWQpoWmY/Ta2Eh2vcEvI/AAAAAAAAEaM/BDx3R2mY174/s200/birdie+sig.png" border="0" width="200" height="118" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Times,&amp;quot;;font-size:small;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-6810334200561851226?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/6810334200561851226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=6810334200561851226' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/6810334200561851226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/6810334200561851226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/abs-challenge-16-winners-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #16 Winners and Favorites'/><author><name>Lelia Pierce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13053393462426578347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ou7hDMhxkK0/TOKeNUPZM7I/AAAAAAAAEFI/Hh8lmW6Rl6I/S220/blog%2Bprofile%2Bpic%2Bcopy%2Bcopy.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oePJ1_l0Ihk/Ta1_WTezW7I/AAAAAAAAEZ0/pXgclYrZGZc/s72-c/IMG_2500.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-7938190412510699959</id><published>2011-04-12T07:00:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T20:59:44.082-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #16 - Anything Goes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday, peeps!  This week anything goes at the Anita Be Stampin Challenge.  How fun is that!?!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of the ABS Challenge will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1-5 prize eligible participants=$5 prize ($5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;6-10 prize eligible participants=$10 in prizes ($5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate awarded to 2 participants) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;11+ prize eligible participants=$15 in prizes ($5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more players we have the more prizes are available. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image. We are getting so close to 200 members! Help us reach 200 members and we will celebrate our achievement with a new free digi for group members. Gotta love that! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the ABS DT members this week.  Don't forgot to stop by their blogs and leave them some love. ;)   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r0Q2wGGANfU/TaPNeuXLtII/AAAAAAAAB9g/KNEjIHIaWaw/s1600/ABS16_Brenda%2Bset.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r0Q2wGGANfU/TaPNeuXLtII/AAAAAAAAB9g/KNEjIHIaWaw/s400/ABS16_Brenda%2Bset.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594541089849324674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WJ1d8PRJrT4/TaPNTszogiI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/01hlpvwhefc/s1600/ABS16_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WJ1d8PRJrT4/TaPNTszogiI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/01hlpvwhefc/s400/ABS16_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594540900453220898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Joni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-brYdpTUgvkA/TaPNTUpfelI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/htax5i_hkss/s1600/ABS16_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-brYdpTUgvkA/TaPNTUpfelI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/htax5i_hkss/s400/ABS16_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594540893968235090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cbc3Rg9IMyE/TaPNTGIO4kI/AAAAAAAAB9I/AWQTIaJBUbA/s1600/ABS16_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cbc3Rg9IMyE/TaPNTGIO4kI/AAAAAAAAB9I/AWQTIaJBUbA/s400/ABS16_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594540890070639170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cbz7Lx1Jdk4/TaRTi143dNI/AAAAAAAAB9o/NogFDGAmzHA/s1600/ABS16_Rach.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cbz7Lx1Jdk4/TaRTi143dNI/AAAAAAAAB9o/NogFDGAmzHA/s400/ABS16_Rach.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594688495147250898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://silli-silli.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Silke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W6zl4AAi5bs/TaPNTOy7fOI/AAAAAAAAB9A/zE9XPAiKxLI/s1600/ABS16_Silke.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W6zl4AAi5bs/TaPNTOy7fOI/AAAAAAAAB9A/zE9XPAiKxLI/s400/ABS16_Silke.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594540892397206754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rNcGLzsrbI4/TaPNSyAx3vI/AAAAAAAAB84/gvnESKHFALE/s1600/ABS16_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rNcGLzsrbI4/TaPNSyAx3vI/AAAAAAAAB84/gvnESKHFALE/s400/ABS16_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594540884670668530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please leave a direct link to a new creation based on our color challenge no later than Monday, April. 18th at 8 pm CST. Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for stopping by today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script  type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=46757"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-7938190412510699959?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/7938190412510699959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=7938190412510699959' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7938190412510699959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7938190412510699959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/abs-challenge-16-anything-goes.html' title='ABS Challenge #16 - Anything Goes'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r0Q2wGGANfU/TaPNeuXLtII/AAAAAAAAB9g/KNEjIHIaWaw/s72-c/ABS16_Brenda%2Bset.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-8360312310685730239</id><published>2011-04-12T06:59:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T06:59:00.068-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #15 Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Well hello there! :) Thank you so much to those who participated in our last  challenge.  Check out just  a few of our favorite creations from the challenge participants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lJ3NfLbBMc8/TaPH4w57CfI/AAAAAAAAB8w/ZQVJN-zeAnk/s1600/participant%2BABS15_Linda.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ebJLMimAlz0/TaPH4alnP9I/AAAAAAAAB8o/oLT_1AlR6G4/s1600/participant%2BABS15_Jessica.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://danasinspirations.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-fairy-from-anita-b-stampin.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Dana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eTmGFNZ8f6A/TaPH38_7sUI/AAAAAAAAB8g/OKl95INxkf0/s1600/participant%2BABS15_Dana.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eTmGFNZ8f6A/TaPH38_7sUI/AAAAAAAAB8g/OKl95INxkf0/s400/participant%2BABS15_Dana.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594534926205301058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farmfreshdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/monster-hugs.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ebJLMimAlz0/TaPH4alnP9I/AAAAAAAAB8o/oLT_1AlR6G4/s1600/participant%2BABS15_Jessica.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ebJLMimAlz0/TaPH4alnP9I/AAAAAAAAB8o/oLT_1AlR6G4/s400/participant%2BABS15_Jessica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594534934147973074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Alright who is excited to find out who the lucky winner of the $5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate is? ;)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;The winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Linda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lJ3NfLbBMc8/TaPH4w57CfI/AAAAAAAAB8w/ZQVJN-zeAnk/s1600/participant%2BABS15_Linda.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lJ3NfLbBMc8/TaPH4w57CfI/AAAAAAAAB8w/ZQVJN-zeAnk/s400/participant%2BABS15_Linda.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594534940138736114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congrats Linda!  Thank you for sharing your gorgeous card with us.  Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! I hope you will all stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-8360312310685730239?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/8360312310685730239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=8360312310685730239' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8360312310685730239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8360312310685730239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/abs-challenge-15-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #15 Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eTmGFNZ8f6A/TaPH38_7sUI/AAAAAAAAB8g/OKl95INxkf0/s72-c/participant%2BABS15_Dana.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-7922945474719962330</id><published>2011-04-05T07:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T07:00:15.794-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #15</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday, friends! :)  Is this a fabulous week, or what!?!  Of course it is.  Why you ask?  Among a number of other reasons it's because this week we have a fun color challenge for you contributed by our very own fabulous design team member, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;.  On the first Tuesday of each month we shake things up around here with a color challenge. This week Tracy is challenging us to make a creation using teal, orange, cream, and kraft or brown.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S9ZXyoOzxfs/TZpqWjwWHuI/AAAAAAAAB3w/9E8jlRMOl5Y/s1600/ABS15%2BColor%2BChallenge%2Bby%2BTracy_4-5-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S9ZXyoOzxfs/TZpqWjwWHuI/AAAAAAAAB3w/9E8jlRMOl5Y/s400/ABS15%2BColor%2BChallenge%2Bby%2BTracy_4-5-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898823121575650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Looks like fun, right? ;)  Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The prizes awarded to the winner or winners of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Challenge #15 will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1-5 participants=$5 prize ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;6-10 participants=$10 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 2 participants) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;11+ participants=$15 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the challenge, and provide a direct link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more players we have the more prizes are available. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image. We are getting so close to 200 members! Help us reach 200 members and we will celebrate our achievement with a new free digi for group members. Gotta love that! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://thesnoringyorkie.blogspot.com/"&gt;Anita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GF_pWv9MIDQ/TZpqWeMtHbI/AAAAAAAAB3o/2-q36VoLZLI/s1600/4-4-2011%2B003edited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GF_pWv9MIDQ/TZpqWeMtHbI/AAAAAAAAB3o/2-q36VoLZLI/s400/4-4-2011%2B003edited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898821629910450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Brenda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yqiInejws98/TZpqV2GI2KI/AAAAAAAAB3g/vajGrHlUL5E/s1600/ABS15_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yqiInejws98/TZpqV2GI2KI/AAAAAAAAB3g/vajGrHlUL5E/s400/ABS15_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898810864949410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;inside&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-swwjd2LzbJc/TZpqV6OriXI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/BOOjVw5DPGo/s1600/ABS15_Brenda_inside.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-swwjd2LzbJc/TZpqV6OriXI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/BOOjVw5DPGo/s400/ABS15_Brenda_inside.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898811974519154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://deconstructingjen.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eIvjt3Beh6s/TZpp9WezKyI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/J8gNnCGv9gA/s1600/ABS15_Jen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eIvjt3Beh6s/TZpp9WezKyI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/J8gNnCGv9gA/s400/ABS15_Jen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898390061591330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vQIA_VxNXvQ/TZpp9XirzkI/AAAAAAAAB3I/zLPcEJ_Sznk/s1600/ABS15_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vQIA_VxNXvQ/TZpp9XirzkI/AAAAAAAAB3I/zLPcEJ_Sznk/s400/ABS15_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898390346321474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-owhDZkvqqI0/TZpp9HbMqvI/AAAAAAAAB3A/Zc-i6O6xwAI/s1600/ABS15_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-owhDZkvqqI0/TZpp9HbMqvI/AAAAAAAAB3A/Zc-i6O6xwAI/s400/ABS15_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898386019953394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Rachel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gWitxxGauRg/TZpp9MaodNI/AAAAAAAAB24/Rd6QajBQaUA/s1600/ABS15_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gWitxxGauRg/TZpp9MaodNI/AAAAAAAAB24/Rd6QajBQaUA/s400/ABS15_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898387359757522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u1_yghNO3Rk/TZpp80cZbSI/AAAAAAAAB2w/eOkbOgjgPUs/s1600/ABS15_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u1_yghNO3Rk/TZpp80cZbSI/AAAAAAAAB2w/eOkbOgjgPUs/s400/ABS15_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591898380924710178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;You know you want to play along with us! ;)  Please  leave a direct link to a new creation based on our color challenge no later  than Monday, April. 11th at 8 pm CST.  We are going to try a new cutoff time of 8 pm CST as opposed to 10 pm CST, just to help me get my booty to bed a little earlier. LOL  Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be  Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift  certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Thanks so much for stopping by today!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=45081"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-7922945474719962330?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/7922945474719962330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=7922945474719962330' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7922945474719962330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7922945474719962330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/anita-be-stampin-challenge-15.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #15'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S9ZXyoOzxfs/TZpqWjwWHuI/AAAAAAAAB3w/9E8jlRMOl5Y/s72-c/ABS15%2BColor%2BChallenge%2Bby%2BTracy_4-5-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-8148790238982150603</id><published>2011-04-05T06:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T06:59:00.445-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #14 Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hey ladies! :) Thank you so much to all who participated in our last challenge.  You all continue to amaze me with your talent!  Check out just a few of our favorite creations from the challenge participants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://priscillastyles.ning.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fpriscillastyles.ning.com%2Fphoto%2Fyellow-girl-1%3Fcontext%3Dalbum%26albumId%3D5856131%253AAlbum%253A367834"&gt;Dawn C.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kAoE0xt7oLI/TZp6waELE7I/AAAAAAAAB4I/ZJrWCvpUet4/s1600/participant_ABS14_Dawn%2BC.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kAoE0xt7oLI/TZp6waELE7I/AAAAAAAAB4I/ZJrWCvpUet4/s400/participant_ABS14_Dawn%2BC.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591916859383026610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stamping-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://lindascraftycreations.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stamping-challenge.html"&gt;Linda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lv9XVGCoDfE/TZp6wNX_CJI/AAAAAAAAB34/2U2OjIJ8xMo/s1600/participant_ABS14_Linda.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lv9XVGCoDfE/TZp6wNX_CJI/AAAAAAAAB34/2U2OjIJ8xMo/s400/participant_ABS14_Linda.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591916855976462482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I am excited to announce the lucky winner of the $5 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate.  The winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FJ5GoarXKxQ/TZp8c6jdvGI/AAAAAAAAB4Q/rMUMsIeC7rg/s1600/random_4-4-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 190px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FJ5GoarXKxQ/TZp8c6jdvGI/AAAAAAAAB4Q/rMUMsIeC7rg/s200/random_4-4-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591918723530079330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://karynscraftingobsession.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge.html"&gt;Karyn S. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NZKsfQbqKnI/TZp6wUIx12I/AAAAAAAAB4A/p0DGOMTVYz8/s1600/participant_ABS14_Karyn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NZKsfQbqKnI/TZp6wUIx12I/AAAAAAAAB4A/p0DGOMTVYz8/s400/participant_ABS14_Karyn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591916857791731554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NZKsfQbqKnI/TZp6wUIx12I/AAAAAAAAB4A/p0DGOMTVYz8/s1600/participant_ABS14_Karyn.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Yay Karyn!  Your card is absolutely fabulous! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Thanks again to everybody who played! I hope you will all stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-8148790238982150603?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/8148790238982150603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=8148790238982150603' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8148790238982150603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8148790238982150603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/abs-challenge-14-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #14 Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kAoE0xt7oLI/TZp6waELE7I/AAAAAAAAB4I/ZJrWCvpUet4/s72-c/participant_ABS14_Dawn%2BC.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-979032917791171825</id><published>2011-03-29T07:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T07:00:13.690-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #14</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday peeps! I hope you had a fabulous Monday.  I got caught up on a gazillion things that I've been needing to do yesterday.  Gotta love that feeling, right? LOL  I had the opportunity to add a new &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/category_18/Pretty-Papers.htm"&gt;paper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; section to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Shoppe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.  Please check it out if you have a moment and let me know what you think.  I sure hope you like it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I know you must be itchin' to find out more about Anita Be Stampin Challenge #14, aren't you!?!  Check out this sketch contributed by our amazingly talented and super sweet DT member, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://deconstructingjen.com/"&gt;Jen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.  Isn't it fab!?! ;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gc9Iix4L3uc/TZFCgiioUpI/AAAAAAAAB2I/VRIEFV2uago/s1600/ABS14%2Bby%2Bjen_3-29-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gc9Iix4L3uc/TZFCgiioUpI/AAAAAAAAB2I/VRIEFV2uago/s400/ABS14%2Bby%2Bjen_3-29-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589321739338797714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now you know you must, you must...(no, not increase your bust LOL)...join us! ;)  Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Starting this week, we are changing the way we award challenge prizes up a bit.  The prizes for ABS Challenge #14 will vary based on the number of players we have:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;1-5 participants=$5 prize ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 1 participant)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;6-10 participants=$10 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 2 participants)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;11+ participants=$15 in prizes ($5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate awarded to 3 participants)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gift certificates awarded as prizes are eligible for use towards the purchase of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; rubber stamps or digi images only, and winners are selected randomly. For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below. Remember to tell your friends, as the more players we have the more prizes are available. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.  We are getting so close to 200 members!  Help us reach 200 members and we will celebrate our achievement with a new free digi for group members.  Gotta love that!  &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YU6qm82EJ80/TZFCLH2opJI/AAAAAAAAB1I/ZlkPweNMtdw/s1600/ABS14_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 351px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YU6qm82EJ80/TZFCLH2opJI/AAAAAAAAB1I/ZlkPweNMtdw/s400/ABS14_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589321371397694610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;Brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eAi5CF9DdDk/TZFCLkeBhoI/AAAAAAAAB1Q/ByHzeUCWOew/s1600/ABS14_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eAi5CF9DdDk/TZFCLkeBhoI/AAAAAAAAB1Q/ByHzeUCWOew/s400/ABS14_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589321379079095938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://deconstructingjen.com/"&gt;Jen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fQQsiRL5H18/TZFCMM7vt9I/AAAAAAAAB1Y/y_IUewxnilc/s1600/ABS14_Jen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 378px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fQQsiRL5H18/TZFCMM7vt9I/AAAAAAAAB1Y/y_IUewxnilc/s400/ABS14_Jen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589321389941176274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UL-1Dw6TF5s/TZFCMyiz4JI/AAAAAAAAB1g/P1Hyl7wavoQ/s1600/ABS14_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UL-1Dw6TF5s/TZFCMyiz4JI/AAAAAAAAB1g/P1Hyl7wavoQ/s400/ABS14_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589321400037138578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/"&gt;Kellie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kwkJ4b4WjeY/TZFCNUM6uqI/AAAAAAAAB1o/z8r2shA4INc/s1600/ABS14_Kellie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kwkJ4b4WjeY/TZFCNUM6uqI/AAAAAAAAB1o/z8r2shA4INc/s400/ABS14_Kellie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589321409072118434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wnwlgk2R4I4/TZFCgAoxMdI/AAAAAAAAB1w/DJvlzRAvtsI/s1600/ABS14_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wnwlgk2R4I4/TZFCgAoxMdI/AAAAAAAAB1w/DJvlzRAvtsI/s400/ABS14_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589321730237739474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pER2MsxBzIY/TZFCgTnLaWI/AAAAAAAAB14/4nkhIAwqhLs/s1600/ABS14_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 378px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pER2MsxBzIY/TZFCgTnLaWI/AAAAAAAAB14/4nkhIAwqhLs/s400/ABS14_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589321735331342690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ufq_IfiTAU8/TZFPBFjd3MI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/LUr-_a4bST8/s1600/ABS14_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 372px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ufq_IfiTAU8/TZFPBFjd3MI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/LUr-_a4bST8/s400/ABS14_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589335492632894658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Are you feeling inspired now? ;)  Then come play along with us! Please leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch no later than Monday, April. 4th at 10 pm CST. Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have an inspired day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=43422"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-979032917791171825?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/979032917791171825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=979032917791171825' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/979032917791171825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/979032917791171825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge-14.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #14'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gc9Iix4L3uc/TZFCgiioUpI/AAAAAAAAB2I/VRIEFV2uago/s72-c/ABS14%2Bby%2Bjen_3-29-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-2608600559605975992</id><published>2011-03-29T06:59:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T06:59:00.705-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #13 Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Well hello there! :) Thanks a million to all of the talented gals (and one guy) who participated in our last  challenge. LOL Check out just a few of our favorite creations from the  challenge participants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/2011/03/moojo.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Starla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fGOr65nL4MM/TZE-IDfflcI/AAAAAAAAB04/HXvvRzV850g/s1600/participant_ABS13_Starla.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fGOr65nL4MM/TZE-IDfflcI/AAAAAAAAB04/HXvvRzV850g/s1600/participant_ABS13_Starla.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fGOr65nL4MM/TZE-IDfflcI/AAAAAAAAB04/HXvvRzV850g/s400/participant_ABS13_Starla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589316920640771522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;And of course we had to give &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://scrapbutterfly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lena's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; fella, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://scrapbutterfly.blogspot.com/2011/03/tonys-anita-be-stampin-card.html"&gt;Tony&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, some love for his fabulous creation! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Y5wLl_fAi8/TZE-IXB1L9I/AAAAAAAAB1A/8vjYQbyK694/s1600/participant_ABS13_Tony.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Y5wLl_fAi8/TZE-IXB1L9I/AAAAAAAAB1A/8vjYQbyK694/s400/participant_ABS13_Tony.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589316925885067218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now it's time to announce the lucky $15 ABS gift certificate winner...woot woot!  The randomly selected winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SLmd-Tqdch4/TZFR_bwb5KI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/id4k7aSVqHs/s1600/random_3-29-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 191px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SLmd-Tqdch4/TZFR_bwb5KI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/id4k7aSVqHs/s320/random_3-29-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589338762768016546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://farmfreshdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/03/abs-challenge-13.html"&gt;Jess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KzNjeIVyzC0/TZE-Hj2RMqI/AAAAAAAAB0w/oNQHlxCgk70/s1600/participant_ABS13_Jess.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KzNjeIVyzC0/TZE-Hj2RMqI/AAAAAAAAB0w/oNQHlxCgk70/s400/participant_ABS13_Jess.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589316912146363042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Big congratulations, Jess! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! Mark your calendar for our next challenge. ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have a fantastic day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-2608600559605975992?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/2608600559605975992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=2608600559605975992' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/2608600559605975992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/2608600559605975992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/abs-challenge-13-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #13 Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fGOr65nL4MM/TZE-IDfflcI/AAAAAAAAB04/HXvvRzV850g/s72-c/participant_ABS13_Starla.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-10678545901756666</id><published>2011-03-22T07:00:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T09:24:19.124-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #13</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Happy Tuesday peeps!  I hope your Monday went off without a hitch. :)  Are you ready for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #13?  Check out this week's sketch, will ya!?!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKKms__j6cU/TYincf772AI/AAAAAAAABzk/Vygw-PgSpR0/s1600/ABS13_3-22-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKKms__j6cU/TYincf772AI/AAAAAAAABzk/Vygw-PgSpR0/s400/ABS13_3-22-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586899445804161026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Looks like fun, right? ;) Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up for grabs this week is a $15 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate (eligible for use towards the purchase of ABS rubber stamps or digi images only) which will be awarded to a lucky randomly selected participant! For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below.  It's easy peasy!&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Don’t have any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; DT members this week:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge-13.html"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mfi3lP9ZY3A/TYinSk1xg8I/AAAAAAAABys/OOdAicLLei8/s1600/ABS13_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mfi3lP9ZY3A/TYinSk1xg8I/AAAAAAAABys/OOdAicLLei8/s400/ABS13_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586899275321803714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://deconstructingjen.com/archives/3481"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xsDDnt8GyqM/TYinSy-emtI/AAAAAAAABy0/3PAxX47ZTto/s400/ABS13_Jen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586899279116409554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yvuby0VAhpE/TYinT6b1tTI/AAAAAAAABy8/QupAx0cE3dQ/s1600/ABS13_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yvuby0VAhpE/TYinT6b1tTI/AAAAAAAABy8/QupAx0cE3dQ/s400/ABS13_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586899298298475826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Kellie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VwlpqL2YpDk/TYinT9lVg1I/AAAAAAAABzE/sEMEwJYGrOo/s400/ABS13_Kellie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586899299143615314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/2011/03/have-cherry-nice-day.html"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ixlBgLjiP08/TYinUCjvCoI/AAAAAAAABzM/exL7db7_1E8/s1600/ABS13_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ixlBgLjiP08/TYinUCjvCoI/AAAAAAAABzM/exL7db7_1E8/s400/ABS13_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586899300479076994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/2011/03/personal-challenge.html"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-npxMe94iMoU/TYincA-2NxI/AAAAAAAABzU/Rz5IEgo3WNU/s1600/ABS13_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-npxMe94iMoU/TYincA-2NxI/AAAAAAAABzU/Rz5IEgo3WNU/s400/ABS13_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586899437494875922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/?p=1859"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xPUJgua-Mdg/TYincWP25-I/AAAAAAAABzc/ouDo2fR82Vg/s1600/ABS13_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xPUJgua-Mdg/TYincWP25-I/AAAAAAAABzc/ouDo2fR82Vg/s400/ABS13_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586899443203368930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Come play along with us!  Please leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch no later than Monday, March. 28th at 10 pm CST.  Remember...if you use any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;image you could be the lucky winner of a $15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate.  I can’t wait to see what you make! ;)  &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;May your day be filled with happiness! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=42055"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-10678545901756666?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/10678545901756666/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=10678545901756666' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/10678545901756666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/10678545901756666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge-13.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #13'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKKms__j6cU/TYincf772AI/AAAAAAAABzk/Vygw-PgSpR0/s72-c/ABS13_3-22-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-7649607661842418528</id><published>2011-03-22T06:59:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T11:05:51.512-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #12 Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi there! :) Thank you so much to our fabulous friends who participated in our last challenge!  Check out just a few of our favorite creations  from the challenge participants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://fabulouscolorfulcraftsbymel.blogspot.com/2011/03/victorian-birthday.html"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IZ2NLRAmEnQ/TYjGY6WQ24I/AAAAAAAABz0/v02o38ZJoRw/s1600/participant_Melanie_ABS12.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IZ2NLRAmEnQ/TYjGY6WQ24I/AAAAAAAABz0/v02o38ZJoRw/s400/participant_Melanie_ABS12.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586933469034896258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://lotusblommansblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/enkelt-kort-till-utmaning.html"&gt;Susan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lNkTIrUGuSU/TYjGZAPLndI/AAAAAAAABz8/5BrPGbiGGQg/s1600/participant_Susan_ABS12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lNkTIrUGuSU/TYjGZAPLndI/AAAAAAAABz8/5BrPGbiGGQg/s400/participant_Susan_ABS12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586933470615805394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Are you ready to find out who the randomly selected winner of the $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate is? The lucky winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R5cEKZ-dFRs/TYjGznqNmvI/AAAAAAAAB0E/qPG6mYFSuDg/s1600/random_3-22-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R5cEKZ-dFRs/TYjGznqNmvI/AAAAAAAAB0E/qPG6mYFSuDg/s200/random_3-22-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586933927874763506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lNkTIrUGuSU/TYjGZAPLndI/AAAAAAAABz8/5BrPGbiGGQg/s1600/participant_Susan_ABS12.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://scrapbutterfly.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge.html"&gt;Lena&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MfbxaAdPejc/TYjGYTXBzBI/AAAAAAAABzs/RImyLgD22mo/s1600/participant_Lena_ABS12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MfbxaAdPejc/TYjGYTXBzBI/AAAAAAAABzs/RImyLgD22mo/s400/participant_Lena_ABS12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586933458569120786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congrats Lena! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! Don't forget to check out our next challenge. ;)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have a great day! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-7649607661842418528?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/7649607661842418528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=7649607661842418528' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7649607661842418528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7649607661842418528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/abs-challenge-12-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #12 Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IZ2NLRAmEnQ/TYjGY6WQ24I/AAAAAAAABz0/v02o38ZJoRw/s72-c/participant_Melanie_ABS12.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-8725473387818799688</id><published>2011-03-15T07:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-15T09:52:15.348-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #12</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday peeps! :) It's time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #12...woot woot!  Take a look at this week's sketch:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OEhh9dbKl40/TX931VGn0ZI/AAAAAAAAByk/VQTnZA7oEy0/s1600/ABS12_3-15-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OEhh9dbKl40/TX931VGn0ZI/AAAAAAAAByk/VQTnZA7oEy0/s400/ABS12_3-15-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584313821044396434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Looks like fun, right? ;) Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Up for grabs this week is a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate (eligible for use towards the purchase of ABS rubber stamps or digi images) which will be awarded to a lucky randomly selected participant! For your chance to win create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below. It's easy and fun! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papercraftplanet.com%2Fgroup%2Fanitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-sketch-challenge-12.html"&gt;Brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R-1rXgv17xw/TX90Sg9bMEI/AAAAAAAABx8/soC66MZdQ8U/s1600/ABS12_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 371px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R-1rXgv17xw/TX90Sg9bMEI/AAAAAAAABx8/soC66MZdQ8U/s400/ABS12_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584309924396740674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jacquiemakescards.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge-12.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jacquie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OTSIgv7hTJY/TX90S_15r0I/AAAAAAAAByE/jXyUFT-5LFM/s1600/ABS12_Jacquie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OTSIgv7hTJY/TX90S_15r0I/AAAAAAAAByE/jXyUFT-5LFM/s400/ABS12_Jacquie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584309932686683970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/2011/03/monster-hugs.html"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XWVZGTHh-NA/TX90TazqCOI/AAAAAAAAByM/3xA52n6Xc2E/s1600/ABS12_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XWVZGTHh-NA/TX90TazqCOI/AAAAAAAAByM/3xA52n6Xc2E/s400/ABS12_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584309939925027042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--CxHl68YL6I/TX90TmyrjBI/AAAAAAAAByU/VzdZMqmG8eY/s1600/ABS12_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--CxHl68YL6I/TX90TmyrjBI/AAAAAAAAByU/VzdZMqmG8eY/s400/ABS12_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584309943142157330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/?p=1817"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bIiR07fSjgM/TX90UBErDOI/AAAAAAAAByc/L8DnTsKTu4k/s1600/ABS12_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bIiR07fSjgM/TX90UBErDOI/AAAAAAAAByc/L8DnTsKTu4k/s400/ABS12_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584309950196944098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I hope you are inspired to play along with us! Please leave a direct  link to a new creation inspired by our sketch no later than Monday,  March. 21st at 10 pm CST. Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;  image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I  can’t wait to see what you make. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Have a fabulous day! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=40610"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-8725473387818799688?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/8725473387818799688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=8725473387818799688' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8725473387818799688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8725473387818799688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge-12.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #12'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OEhh9dbKl40/TX931VGn0ZI/AAAAAAAAByk/VQTnZA7oEy0/s72-c/ABS12_3-15-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-8657584690068023751</id><published>2011-03-15T06:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-15T09:10:14.040-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #11 Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi there! :) Thank you so much to all of the lovely ladies who participated in our last challenge.  The entries last week were all so fabulous!  Please take a look at  just a few of our favorite creations from the challenge participants. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://farmfreshdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/03/stampin-on-sunday.html"&gt;Jess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wVbcF3AJ6eI/TX9v64w6UjI/AAAAAAAABxk/EDU0kBWgwaY/s1600/ABS11_Jess.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wVbcF3AJ6eI/TX9v64w6UjI/AAAAAAAABxk/EDU0kBWgwaY/s400/ABS11_Jess.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584305120423334450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://lotusblommansblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/kort-med-malad-stampel.html"&gt;Susan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7HFSr6scmpY/TX9v63W-aBI/AAAAAAAABxs/oTy5La4UTaI/s1600/ABS11_Susan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7HFSr6scmpY/TX9v63W-aBI/AAAAAAAABxs/oTy5La4UTaI/s400/ABS11_Susan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584305120046114834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;It's time to announce the randomly selected winner of the $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate.  The lucky winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cHuwpLNINuU/TX9x1X0N-hI/AAAAAAAABx0/_Tvni-ZhAeo/s1600/random_3-15-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 192px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cHuwpLNINuU/TX9x1X0N-hI/AAAAAAAABx0/_Tvni-ZhAeo/s320/random_3-15-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584307224702745106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://fabulouscolorfulcraftsbymel.blogspot.com/2011/03/all-dolled-up.html"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ub6MtXdgT18/TX9v6heWRiI/AAAAAAAABxc/9m0RmfNwpek/s1600/ABS11_Melanie.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ub6MtXdgT18/TX9v6heWRiI/AAAAAAAABxc/9m0RmfNwpek/s400/ABS11_Melanie.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584305114171459106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;" &gt;Woot woot...congratulations Melanie!  Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! I hope you will all stop back and join us for our next challenge!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-8657584690068023751?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/8657584690068023751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=8657584690068023751' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8657584690068023751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8657584690068023751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/abs-challenge-11-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #11 Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wVbcF3AJ6eI/TX9v64w6UjI/AAAAAAAABxk/EDU0kBWgwaY/s72-c/ABS11_Jess.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-5390401972618174761</id><published>2011-03-08T07:00:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T08:43:38.681-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #11</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello friends! :)  It's Tuesday...woot woot!  That means it's time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #11.  Here is the fun sketch that we have for you this week.  I hope you love it!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bJgPqhjW4uQ/TXWN34GrAkI/AAAAAAAABv0/j99BPHNk9I4/s1600/ABS11_3-8-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bJgPqhjW4uQ/TXWN34GrAkI/AAAAAAAABv0/j99BPHNk9I4/s400/ABS11_3-8-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581523304288289346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;We would love to see your take on this challenge!  Please take a look at the challenge rules over  in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is  welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Up for grabs this week is a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate (eligible for use towards the purchase of ABS rubber stamps or digi images only) which  will be awarded to a lucky randomly selected participant! For your chance to win, create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be  Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct  link to your entry below.  We heart our challenge participants! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you still want a chance to win?  Why don't you join the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access  to a free digi image?  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Take a look at the beautiful creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge-11.html"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wD248jcrb8Y/TXWN4e9rRgI/AAAAAAAABwE/2MujZcYUH5Q/s1600/ABS11_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wD248jcrb8Y/TXWN4e9rRgI/AAAAAAAABwE/2MujZcYUH5Q/s400/ABS11_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581523314719540738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://thesnoringyorkie.blogspot.com/2011/03/cherry-o-its-challenge.html"&gt;Anita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NEj-VYoj0ss/TXWN4CARRvI/AAAAAAAABv8/lQRk6fxDSKM/s1600/03-07-2011%2B007edited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NEj-VYoj0ss/TXWN4CARRvI/AAAAAAAABv8/lQRk6fxDSKM/s400/03-07-2011%2B007edited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581523306945791730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2011/03/two-in-one.html"&gt;Brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YXl38HyUDB8/TXY5Pw8p9II/AAAAAAAABwk/B4Ts91JlOLc/s1600/ABS11_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YXl38HyUDB8/TXY5Pw8p9II/AAAAAAAABwk/B4Ts91JlOLc/s400/ABS11_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581711731172439170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://deconstructingjen.com/archives/3389"&gt;Jen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wRifSB7zr_4/TXY5P0fSkgI/AAAAAAAABwc/2EUzABEVcFc/s1600/ABS11_Jen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wRifSB7zr_4/TXY5P0fSkgI/AAAAAAAABwc/2EUzABEVcFc/s400/ABS11_Jen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581711732123013634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-sketch-challenge.html"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lS0g2mUDlgE/TXWN4ZKwT7I/AAAAAAAABwM/RqR6VwIRh1U/s1600/ABS11_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lS0g2mUDlgE/TXWN4ZKwT7I/AAAAAAAABwM/RqR6VwIRh1U/s400/ABS11_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581523313163784114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/2011/03/bootiful-ghouls.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e4wXrQY8GV8/TXWN4m0xkmI/AAAAAAAABwU/FPrGMkPhAsw/s1600/ABS11_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e4wXrQY8GV8/TXWN4m0xkmI/AAAAAAAABwU/FPrGMkPhAsw/s400/ABS11_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581523316829688418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/2011/03/thans-bunch.html"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DP1-BWPTzRo/TXY5QDAL_8I/AAAAAAAABws/re_YCvlpL_Q/s1600/ABS11_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DP1-BWPTzRo/TXY5QDAL_8I/AAAAAAAABws/re_YCvlpL_Q/s400/ABS11_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581711736019091394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I hope you are inspired to play along with us!  Please leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch no later than Monday, March. 14th at 10 pm CST. Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make. Let's get craftin'! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have a fabulous day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=39201"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-5390401972618174761?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/5390401972618174761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=5390401972618174761' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5390401972618174761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5390401972618174761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge-11.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #11'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bJgPqhjW4uQ/TXWN34GrAkI/AAAAAAAABv0/j99BPHNk9I4/s72-c/ABS11_3-8-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-5747431727171548074</id><published>2011-03-08T06:59:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T08:41:47.292-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #10 Winner and Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday, peeps! :) Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our last challenge. Check out just a few of the creations from the challenge participants that really caught my eye.  You ladies continue to amaze me with your gorgeous work!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://karynscraftingobsession.blogspot.com/2011/03/victoria-takes-on-colour-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Karyn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-humlWNrFNn4/TXY9CXDxKEI/AAAAAAAABxE/P-ZqVU0QCvw/s1600/ABS10_Karyn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 397px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-humlWNrFNn4/TXY9CXDxKEI/AAAAAAAABxE/P-ZqVU0QCvw/s400/ABS10_Karyn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581715898931161154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://fabulouscolorfulcraftsbymel.blogspot.com/2011/03/little-missy.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Melanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hr6M7n6qBAI/TXY9CH6xeRI/AAAAAAAABw8/ok57QRUYWdA/s1600/ABS10_Melanie.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hr6M7n6qBAI/TXY9CH6xeRI/AAAAAAAABw8/ok57QRUYWdA/s400/ABS10_Melanie.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581715894866901266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Are you ready to find out who the randomly selected winner of the $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate is?  The lucky winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oSER2NxFyJo/TXY82W8m23I/AAAAAAAABw0/IxDluIXnWJA/s1600/random_3-8-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oSER2NxFyJo/TXY82W8m23I/AAAAAAAABw0/IxDluIXnWJA/s320/random_3-8-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581715692742695794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dani2519.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/a-new-color-challenge/"&gt;Danielle!  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PAeLXx07XyI/TXY9CTC-3AI/AAAAAAAABxM/VrM95rqlLzk/s1600/ABS10_Danielle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PAeLXx07XyI/TXY9CTC-3AI/AAAAAAAABxM/VrM95rqlLzk/s400/ABS10_Danielle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581715897854123010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Woot woot!  Congratulations Danielle! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played!  Won't you join us for our next challenge?  I can't wait to see what you have up your crafty sleeve! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-5747431727171548074?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/5747431727171548074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=5747431727171548074' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5747431727171548074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5747431727171548074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/abs-challenge-10-winner-and-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #10 Winner and Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-humlWNrFNn4/TXY9CXDxKEI/AAAAAAAABxE/P-ZqVU0QCvw/s72-c/ABS10_Karyn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-1976704196858410369</id><published>2011-03-01T07:00:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T13:30:29.863-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #10</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E2JAGvi3Qws/TW1Bo1lqzVI/AAAAAAAABt8/tDaSKx3TQz0/s1600/ABS10%2BColor%2BChallenge_Denim%2Band%2BVintage%2BLace.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E2JAGvi3Qws/TW1Bo1lqzVI/AAAAAAAABt8/tDaSKx3TQz0/s400/ABS10%2BColor%2BChallenge_Denim%2Band%2BVintage%2BLace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579187683217558866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Happy Tuesday, peeps! :)  I hope you are having a fabulous week.  On the first Tuesday of each month we shake things up around here with a non-sketch challenge. This week we challenge you to make a creation inspired by denim and vintage lace.  Please make a creation inspired by this week's challenge color scheme: dark blue, light blue, cream, brown, and additional neutral(s) of your choice.  If you are feeling really creative, why not include some actual denim or lace on your creation.  Sounds like fun, doesn't it? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Please remember that anybody using any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt; images are eligible to win our prizes. For this challenge we are giving away a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt; gift certificate (eligible for use towards the purchase of ABS rubber stamps or digi images only) to one lucky randomly selected participant! For your chance to win, create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the color scheme, and provide a direct link to your entry below. It's so easy!  Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Now please check out the fabulous creations that the ABS design team members have made to inspire you.  I hope you'll visit their blogs and show them a little comment love. ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge-10.html"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T5l0o688Wlo/TW1B62t3kJI/AAAAAAAABuE/lmbimEu4XW0/s1600/ABS10_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T5l0o688Wlo/TW1B62t3kJI/AAAAAAAABuE/lmbimEu4XW0/s400/ABS10_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579187992758030482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge-10.html"&gt;Brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dhbAd-_qcEE/TW1B6_SxfgI/AAAAAAAABuM/8YmB6A_3TLQ/s1600/ABS10_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dhbAd-_qcEE/TW1B6_SxfgI/AAAAAAAABuM/8YmB6A_3TLQ/s400/ABS10_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579187995060305410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://deconstructingjen.com/archives/3333"&gt;Jen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-feB5LVq3MpU/TW1B7OJX8bI/AAAAAAAABuU/4NuvTLW-dGs/s1600/ABS10_Jen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-feB5LVq3MpU/TW1B7OJX8bI/AAAAAAAABuU/4NuvTLW-dGs/s400/ABS10_Jen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579187999047414194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6-e96U1Srdo/TW1B7RW1FEI/AAAAAAAABuc/ol9APnOSGYo/s1600/ABS10_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6-e96U1Srdo/TW1B7RW1FEI/AAAAAAAABuc/ol9APnOSGYo/s400/ABS10_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579187999909155906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/?p=6281"&gt;Kellie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eAWAy0sEqpk/TW1B7iy5I5I/AAAAAAAABuk/4_k7cuYwNyA/s1600/ABS10_Kellie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eAWAy0sEqpk/TW1B7iy5I5I/AAAAAAAABuk/4_k7cuYwNyA/s400/ABS10_Kellie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579188004590265234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://youngstamper.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge-10.html"&gt;Kristy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bp_2Obh03R0/TW1CCuPcn_I/AAAAAAAABus/GMLbeF2WG7c/s1600/ABS10_Kristy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bp_2Obh03R0/TW1CCuPcn_I/AAAAAAAABus/GMLbeF2WG7c/s400/ABS10_Kristy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579188127921905650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4rawq4GIQcw/TW1CCy25lAI/AAAAAAAABu0/NOdbNAXS6fE/s1600/ABS10_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4rawq4GIQcw/TW1CCy25lAI/AAAAAAAABu0/NOdbNAXS6fE/s400/ABS10_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579188129161122818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/2011/03/birthday-blues.html"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JAMPOG90WUg/TW1CC_X3cPI/AAAAAAAABu8/lKMxUF6xS7U/s1600/ABS10_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JAMPOG90WUg/TW1CC_X3cPI/AAAAAAAABu8/lKMxUF6xS7U/s400/ABS10_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579188132520620274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/?p=1805"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ibekqobgybg/TW1CDPYeuFI/AAAAAAAABvE/vNP8XLmqvT4/s1600/ABS10_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ibekqobgybg/TW1CDPYeuFI/AAAAAAAABvE/vNP8XLmqvT4/s400/ABS10_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579188136818161746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I hope you'll get crafty with us and leave a direct link to a new creation  inspired by our challenge by Monday, March. 7th at 10 pm CST.  Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 ABS gift certificate (eligible for use towards the purchase of ABS rubber stamps or digi images only).  I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have a crafty day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=37752"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-1976704196858410369?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/1976704196858410369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=1976704196858410369' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1976704196858410369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1976704196858410369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/anita-be-stampin-challenge-10.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #10'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E2JAGvi3Qws/TW1Bo1lqzVI/AAAAAAAABt8/tDaSKx3TQz0/s72-c/ABS10%2BColor%2BChallenge_Denim%2Band%2BVintage%2BLace.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-3501541934440959462</id><published>2011-03-01T06:59:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T12:50:39.171-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #9 Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Eeek....I am sorry for posting last week's challenge winner so late!  Please forgive me (batting eyelashes). ;)  Thank you to the super talented ladies who participated in our last challenge.  I love visiting your blogs each week and seeing your Anita Be Stampin creations.  You make me smile!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Are you ready to find out who the randomly selected prize winner is?  The lucky lady is....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ufYIklPWEOc/TW08tbZvllI/AAAAAAAABtk/5Xy8ODXdhQ8/s1600/random_3-1-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 189px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ufYIklPWEOc/TW08tbZvllI/AAAAAAAABtk/5Xy8ODXdhQ8/s200/random_3-1-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579182264529426002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://ginasgorillaspeak.blogspot.com/2011/02/well-hello-hottie.html"&gt;Gina L.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Check out Gina's super fabulous, super sexy creation using the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/item_21/Devilish-Diva--Cling-Mounted-Rubber-Stamp-Set.htm"&gt;ABS Devilish Diva rubber stamp set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.  Such gorgeous work!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--LcnE54YGuo/TW0-oDsXs8I/AAAAAAAABt0/s5Fuc4Lpq2Q/s1600/ABS9_Gina.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--LcnE54YGuo/TW0-oDsXs8I/AAAAAAAABt0/s5Fuc4Lpq2Q/s400/ABS9_Gina.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579184371289011138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Woot woot...congrats Gina! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to all who played! I hope you will stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Crafty hugs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-3501541934440959462?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/3501541934440959462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=3501541934440959462' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3501541934440959462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3501541934440959462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/abs-challenge-9-winner.html' title='ABS Challenge #9 Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ufYIklPWEOc/TW08tbZvllI/AAAAAAAABtk/5Xy8ODXdhQ8/s72-c/random_3-1-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-5143312251168966880</id><published>2011-02-22T07:00:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T11:50:42.385-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #9</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello friends! :)  I hope you are all having a fabulous week so far.  It's that time again...time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #9!  Here is the little sketch that I think just might inspire you to make something fantastic:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rvnSTOSUa-g/TWNE-YiPZLI/AAAAAAAABtU/TzBMwZwFH4c/s1600/ABS9_2-22-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rvnSTOSUa-g/TWNE-YiPZLI/AAAAAAAABtU/TzBMwZwFH4c/s400/ABS9_2-22-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576376602143450290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Who could resist playing around with this sketch, right? ;)  Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar. Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;This week we are offering a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate to a lucky randomly selected participant! All you have to do for a chance to win is create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below. It's easy peasy! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No need to fret! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;You may notice a few new design team members this week.  Please give them a warm welcome!  Check out the gorgeous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge.html"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f1DAti6VLa0/TWNE0GYzwKI/AAAAAAAABsc/ogjxzG8pOkY/s1600/ABS9_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f1DAti6VLa0/TWNE0GYzwKI/AAAAAAAABsc/ogjxzG8pOkY/s400/ABS9_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576376425473360034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-challenge-9.html"&gt;Brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vtyU9-lo0wc/TWNE0Ze_7yI/AAAAAAAABsk/D0HOHtud0ng/s1600/ABS9_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vtyU9-lo0wc/TWNE0Ze_7yI/AAAAAAAABsk/D0HOHtud0ng/s400/ABS9_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576376430599597858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://deconstructingjen.com/archives/3281"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 387px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J6qX2kE4y00/TWNE0R0k5lI/AAAAAAAABss/FK8JkrzmHA4/s400/ABS9_Jen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576376428542617170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-sketch-challenge_22.html"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ma539XtWjQA/TWNE0k6J34I/AAAAAAAABs0/xyG_T8J7ExQ/s1600/ABS9_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ma539XtWjQA/TWNE0k6J34I/AAAAAAAABs0/xyG_T8J7ExQ/s400/ABS9_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576376433666285442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/?p=6245"&gt;Kellie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CFBAaJnTzNI/TWNE0yo-YmI/AAAAAAAABs8/v0mWrhaPA0I/s1600/ABS9_Kellie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CFBAaJnTzNI/TWNE0yo-YmI/AAAAAAAABs8/v0mWrhaPA0I/s400/ABS9_Kellie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576376437352325730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/2011/02/devil-in-me.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Rachel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 367px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-laTgiC_w7zI/TWNE-ERh-DI/AAAAAAAABtE/tvy7o-SdS-E/s400/ABS9_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576376596704655410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/?p=1798"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5rFKoMSlxw/TWNE-d1f0fI/AAAAAAAABtM/VhA0i5Gyxw4/s1600/ABS9_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5rFKoMSlxw/TWNE-d1f0fI/AAAAAAAABtM/VhA0i5Gyxw4/s400/ABS9_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576376603566395890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;I hope you will play along with us in this week's challenge for your chance to win the fabulous  prize!  You have until Monday, Feb. 28th at 10 pm  CST to leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch.  Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky  winner of a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; P.S. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; now offers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/category_17/Divine-Twine.htm"&gt;Divine Twine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;...woot woot! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; Have a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/category_17/Divine-Twine.htm"&gt;divine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; day! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=36359"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-5143312251168966880?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/5143312251168966880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=5143312251168966880' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5143312251168966880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5143312251168966880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-challenge-9.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #9'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rvnSTOSUa-g/TWNE-YiPZLI/AAAAAAAABtU/TzBMwZwFH4c/s72-c/ABS9_2-22-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-7816270490945654502</id><published>2011-02-22T06:59:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T06:59:00.475-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #8 Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thank you so much to all of the talented ladies who participated in our last challenge!   Your creations are always so fabulous.  We really appreciate your support by participating in our challenge! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;This week the randomly selected winner is....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-urm6eD9FwiU/TWM7qStby1I/AAAAAAAABsU/duxb1zJBW1I/s1600/random_2-22-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 191px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-urm6eD9FwiU/TWM7qStby1I/AAAAAAAABsU/duxb1zJBW1I/s200/random_2-22-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576366361377753938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://scrapinsweetheart.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-challenge.html"&gt;Nicole&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Woot woot...congratulations Nicole!  Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! I am running a little behind this week, so unfortunately I haven't had the chance to link up our favorite entries for this challenge. I'll be back on track and playing favorites next week...promise. ;)  I hope you will all stop back and join us for ABS Challenge #9.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have a great day! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-7816270490945654502?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/7816270490945654502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=7816270490945654502' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7816270490945654502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7816270490945654502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/abs-challenge-8-winner.html' title='ABS Challenge #8 Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-urm6eD9FwiU/TWM7qStby1I/AAAAAAAABsU/duxb1zJBW1I/s72-c/random_2-22-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-5429771038593454976</id><published>2011-02-15T07:00:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-16T19:42:25.406-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #8</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello ABS challenge lovers! :) It's time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #8.  The weeks are just flying by around here!  This week we have a lovely little sketch for you created by our fabulous DT coordinator, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8DpDBQHeGGo/TVn2ZW8CMiI/AAAAAAAABrQ/GAeIzpfAoPA/s1600/abs8%252Bsketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8DpDBQHeGGo/TVn2ZW8CMiI/AAAAAAAABrQ/GAeIzpfAoPA/s400/abs8%252Bsketch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573756929362244130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Wanna play? ;) Challenge rules are located in the sidebar off to the right. Any body using any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;For this challenge we are giving away another $15 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate to a lucky randomly selected participant! All you have to do for a chance to win is create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below. It's easy peasy, peeps! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Check out the amazing creations made by the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; DT members this week:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge-8.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge-8.html"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-62JOlFWUPBE/TVx8YuaAoLI/AAAAAAAABsI/tZNPcNR0jzc/s1600/ABS8_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-62JOlFWUPBE/TVx8YuaAoLI/AAAAAAAABsI/tZNPcNR0jzc/s400/ABS8_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574467202993660082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.brenscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;Brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cP0_0o8W_cU/TVn2nFgGb3I/AAAAAAAABr4/pSxWAhHfmxs/s1600/ABS8_Brenda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cP0_0o8W_cU/TVn2nFgGb3I/AAAAAAAABr4/pSxWAhHfmxs/s400/ABS8_Brenda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573757165199847282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CoMwEfnLAhk/TVn2ZiAly5I/AAAAAAAABrY/5ZW51G7RR5Q/s1600/ABS8_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CoMwEfnLAhk/TVn2ZiAly5I/AAAAAAAABrY/5ZW51G7RR5Q/s400/ABS8_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573756932334144402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T3cJhdMThCQ/TVn2ZyyEhzI/AAAAAAAABrg/55-V_qudocY/s1600/ABS8_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T3cJhdMThCQ/TVn2ZyyEhzI/AAAAAAAABrg/55-V_qudocY/s400/ABS8_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573756936836646706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQ0PZfkmits/TVn39Bad4WI/AAAAAAAABsA/AP5OrAyBfFg/s1600/ABS8_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 378px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQ0PZfkmits/TVn39Bad4WI/AAAAAAAABsA/AP5OrAyBfFg/s400/ABS8_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573758641571225954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N5nZK4Cd6XU/TVn2aiOM59I/AAAAAAAABrw/Oh7uqV6lkog/s1600/ABS8_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N5nZK4Cd6XU/TVn2aiOM59I/AAAAAAAABrw/Oh7uqV6lkog/s400/ABS8_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573756949571102674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8DpDBQHeGGo/TVn2ZW8CMiI/AAAAAAAABrQ/GAeIzpfAoPA/s1600/abs8%252Bsketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please play along in this week's challenge for your chance to win a fabulous prize! We need all the help we can get spreading the word about our new(ish) challenge blog, so tell all of your friends to come join in the fun. You have until Monday, Feb. 21st at 10 pm CST to leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch. Remember...if you use any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have a fabulous day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=34914"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-5429771038593454976?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/5429771038593454976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=5429771038593454976' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5429771038593454976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5429771038593454976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-challenge-8.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #8'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8DpDBQHeGGo/TVn2ZW8CMiI/AAAAAAAABrQ/GAeIzpfAoPA/s72-c/abs8%252Bsketch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-4109906890987678179</id><published>2011-02-15T06:59:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T06:59:00.366-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #7 Faves and Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi everybody! :) Thank you so much to all who played along in our last  challenge.  You ladies all make such beautiful creations.  Please take a look at just of few of the submissions from ABS Challenge #7 that we loved.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-maGnDQRcH8k/TVnyD3T-NvI/AAAAAAAABrA/ZELX_BlIOIw/s1600/ABS7_Mette.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Mette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-maGnDQRcH8k/TVnyD3T-NvI/AAAAAAAABrA/ZELX_BlIOIw/s400/ABS7_Mette.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573752162048947954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-minute-love.html"&gt;Starla B. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W1noXbsxclw/TVnyEb9nFwI/AAAAAAAABrI/eATEBkzPkto/s1600/ABS7_Starla.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W1noXbsxclw/TVnyEb9nFwI/AAAAAAAABrI/eATEBkzPkto/s400/ABS7_Starla.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573752171887269634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Are you ready to find out who won the $15 Anita Be Stampin gift certificate?  The randomly selected winner this week is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://danishstamper.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stamping.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Mette! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Woot woot...congratulations Mette! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played!  I hope you will all stop back and play along in the new challenge this week.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have a great day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-4109906890987678179?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/4109906890987678179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=4109906890987678179' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/4109906890987678179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/4109906890987678179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/abs-challenge-7-faves-and-winner.html' title='ABS Challenge #7 Faves and Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-maGnDQRcH8k/TVnyD3T-NvI/AAAAAAAABrA/ZELX_BlIOIw/s72-c/ABS7_Mette.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-1069565798061464666</id><published>2011-02-08T07:00:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-08T21:11:11.329-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #7</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello ABS challenge fans! :) It's time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge lucky #7.  Check out this week's sketch:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJYBrRPhI/AAAAAAAABog/9RyovGxtgro/s1600/ABS7_2-8-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJYBrRPhI/AAAAAAAABog/9RyovGxtgro/s400/ABS7_2-8-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571174153661267474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Looks like fun, right? ;) Please take a look at the challenge rules over in the sidebar.  Absolutely anybody using absolutely any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be  Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win  our prizes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Up for grabs this week is a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift  certificate which will be awarded to a lucky randomly selected participant! All you have to do  for a chance to win is create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;  image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to  your entry below. It's easy and fun! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries!  Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where  members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now please take a moment to check out the fabulous creations made by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; DT members this week: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge-7.html"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge-7.html"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJYdWx7II/AAAAAAAABoo/cnfaDtzWe4c/s400/ABS7_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571174161091521666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jacquiemakescards.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-challenge-7.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jacquie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVHrg1A1JtI/AAAAAAAABpI/6-HfSCTJ08A/s1600/ABS7-Jacquie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 334px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVHrg1A1JtI/AAAAAAAABpI/6-HfSCTJ08A/s400/ABS7-Jacquie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571493163252917970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/2011/02/love-moo.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Joni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJYnyjDJI/AAAAAAAABow/7iRt5v3bxzc/s1600/ABS7_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJYnyjDJI/AAAAAAAABow/7iRt5v3bxzc/s400/ABS7_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571174163892341906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/2011/02/sexy-valentine.html"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJY0ZE7rI/AAAAAAAABo4/ZLqlxIqCAFQ/s1600/ABS7_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJY0ZE7rI/AAAAAAAABo4/ZLqlxIqCAFQ/s400/ABS7_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571174167275171506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/2011/02/cherry-nice-day.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Rachel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVIFUnCNN1I/AAAAAAAABpQ/I0-1f770oTY/s1600/ABS7_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVIFUnCNN1I/AAAAAAAABpQ/I0-1f770oTY/s400/ABS7_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571521540644484946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/?p=1696"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJZCti3-I/AAAAAAAABpA/m15zAwsjFAY/s1600/ABS7_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJZCti3-I/AAAAAAAABpA/m15zAwsjFAY/s400/ABS7_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571174171119116258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please join this week's challenge for your chance to win the fabulous prize! We need all the help we can get spreading the word about our new(ish) challenge blog, so tell all of your friends to come join in the fun. You have until Monday, Feb. 14th (Happy Valentine's Day!) at 10 pm CST to leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch. Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. I can’t wait to see what you make. Let's get crafty! :) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;P.S. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; is having a mini digi release and blog hop on Saturday, Feb. 12th!  You won't want to miss it!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have an inspired day! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=33567"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-1069565798061464666?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/1069565798061464666/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=1069565798061464666' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1069565798061464666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1069565798061464666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/anita-be-stampin-challenge-7.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #7'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDJYBrRPhI/AAAAAAAABog/9RyovGxtgro/s72-c/ABS7_2-8-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-8138596203059742301</id><published>2011-02-08T06:59:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-08T06:59:00.312-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #6 Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDBuyYYBtI/AAAAAAAABoY/7mcgCANpkfE/s1600/ABS6_Gina.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi there! :)  Thank you so much to all who played along  in our last challenge.  There were some fabulous pretty in purple creations submitted for our color challenge.  Take a look...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://songbirds-nest.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-love-saturdays.html"&gt;Vicki L&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDBubohGfI/AAAAAAAABoQ/11SjonHfiY8/s1600/ABS6_Vicki%2BL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 388px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDBubohGfI/AAAAAAAABoQ/11SjonHfiY8/s400/ABS6_Vicki%2BL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571165742493145586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://ginasgorillaspeak.blogspot.com/2011/02/witchy-in-purple.html"&gt;Gina L. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDBuyYYBtI/AAAAAAAABoY/7mcgCANpkfE/s1600/ABS6_Gina.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDBuyYYBtI/AAAAAAAABoY/7mcgCANpkfE/s400/ABS6_Gina.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571165748599457490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;And the randomly selected winner this week is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://ginasgorillaspeak.blogspot.com/2011/02/witchy-in-purple.html"&gt;Gina L.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Woot woot...congrats Gina! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! Please join us for our next challenge.  This week we are gettin' sketchy again! ;)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-8138596203059742301?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/8138596203059742301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=8138596203059742301' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8138596203059742301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8138596203059742301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/abs-challenge-6-winner.html' title='ABS Challenge #6 Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TVDBubohGfI/AAAAAAAABoQ/11SjonHfiY8/s72-c/ABS6_Vicki%2BL.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-830883219234598066</id><published>2011-02-01T07:00:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T07:00:06.715-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #6 - Pretty in Purple</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeBhB8mRbI/AAAAAAAABmg/FKFCFcINAdM/s1600/ABS6%2Bcolor%2Bchallenge_2-1-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeBhB8mRbI/AAAAAAAABmg/FKFCFcINAdM/s400/ABS6%2Bcolor%2Bchallenge_2-1-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568561868725175730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday,  friends! :)  I hope you are warm and toasty wherever you are.  Here in Nebraska it's a bit of an icy, snowy mess.  It's all good though, because we have another fabulous Anita Be Stampin Challenge for you...woot woot!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;On the first Tuesday of each month we shake things up around here with a non-sketch challenge.  This week we challenge you to make a creation using dark purple, light purple, light yellow or cream, kraft, and any additional neural color of your choice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please remember that anybody using any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes. For this challenge we are giving away a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate to one lucky randomly selected participant! For your chance to win, create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the color scheme, and provide a direct link to your entry below. It's easy peasy...I swear! ;) Don’t have any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now please check out the cute stuff that the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; design team members have created to inspire you.  These projects are pretty in purple, don't you think?  I hope you'll visit their blogs and show them a little comment love. ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Angela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeN1J74M5I/AAAAAAAABmo/eynv-wDpAvA/s1600/ABS6_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeN1J74M5I/AAAAAAAABmo/eynv-wDpAvA/s400/ABS6_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568575408606557074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://thesnoringyorkie.blogspot.com/"&gt;Anita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7lLpnxLI/AAAAAAAABmQ/EJqn_y_IE7k/s1600/ABS6_anita.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7lLpnxLI/AAAAAAAABmQ/EJqn_y_IE7k/s400/ABS6_anita.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568555342979646642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7j7-9ZJI/AAAAAAAABl4/2RMyeqyoMuA/s1600/ABS6_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7j7-9ZJI/AAAAAAAABl4/2RMyeqyoMuA/s400/ABS6_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568555321594307730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7k9o5owI/AAAAAAAABmI/Rykbs-Io8tE/s1600/ABS6_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7kFV5auI/AAAAAAAABmA/HnHGmvviEYg/s1600/ABS6_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7kFV5auI/AAAAAAAABmA/HnHGmvviEYg/s400/ABS6_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568555324106435298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Rachel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeZxtFBknI/AAAAAAAABnI/i669e3CX5Zw/s1600/ABS6_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeZxtFBknI/AAAAAAAABnI/i669e3CX5Zw/s400/ABS6_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568588543460217458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7k9o5owI/AAAAAAAABmI/Rykbs-Io8tE/s1600/ABS6_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUd7k9o5owI/AAAAAAAABmI/Rykbs-Io8tE/s400/ABS6_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568555339218526978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;You have until Monday, Feb. 7th at 10 pm CST to leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our challenge. Remember...if you use any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate. Yup, it's true! I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Have a warm and cozy day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=32244"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-830883219234598066?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/830883219234598066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=830883219234598066' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/830883219234598066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/830883219234598066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/abs-challenge-6-pretty-in-purple.html' title='ABS Challenge #6 - Pretty in Purple'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeBhB8mRbI/AAAAAAAABmg/FKFCFcINAdM/s72-c/ABS6%2Bcolor%2Bchallenge_2-1-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-3313472617392641337</id><published>2011-02-01T06:59:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T06:59:00.722-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #5 - Faves and Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi there! :)  Thank you so much to all of the lovelies  who participated in our last challenge.  Check out just a few of  our favorite creations from the challenge participants.  These creations just blew me away!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeSarFIzDI/AAAAAAAABnA/oh0RhPAQ9Hg/s1600/ABS5_Vicki.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2011/01/thinking-of-you-abs-challenge.html"&gt;Brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeR9lu8TVI/AAAAAAAABm4/ba5b9wqrvD4/s1600/ABS5_Brenda.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeR9lu8TVI/AAAAAAAABm4/ba5b9wqrvD4/s400/ABS5_Brenda.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568579951553957202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://mrsweyremaster.blogspot.com/2011/01/getting-sketchy-with-anita-be-stampin.html"&gt;Suzi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeR9Q6FQrI/AAAAAAAABmw/UFObVQZfhtk/s1600/ABS5_Suzi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeR9Q6FQrI/AAAAAAAABmw/UFObVQZfhtk/s400/ABS5_Suzi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568579945963537074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Are you ready to find out who won the $15 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gift certificate?  I am excited to announce that the randomly selected winner is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://songbirds-nest.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-challenge.html"&gt;Vicki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeSarFIzDI/AAAAAAAABnA/oh0RhPAQ9Hg/s1600/ABS5_Vicki.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeSarFIzDI/AAAAAAAABnA/oh0RhPAQ9Hg/s400/ABS5_Vicki.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568580451205434418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I just had to share &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://songbirds-nest.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-challenge.html"&gt;Vicki's creation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; with you too.  She used the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/item_24/Autumn--digi.htm"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Autumn digi image&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; in such a clever way, didn't she!?!  I just may have to borrow that idea.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Big congratulations to you, Vicki! Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! I hope you will all stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-3313472617392641337?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/3313472617392641337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=3313472617392641337' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3313472617392641337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/3313472617392641337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/abs-challenge-5-faves-and-winner.html' title='ABS Challenge #5 - Faves and Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUeR9lu8TVI/AAAAAAAABm4/ba5b9wqrvD4/s72-c/ABS5_Brenda.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-106571962388795614</id><published>2011-01-25T07:00:00.012-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-26T13:45:28.975-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #5</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello ABS challenge lovers! :) It's time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #5  already.  We're growing up so quickly around here, aren't we? LOL  Here  is a fun little sketch for you this week:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6LE5H9tHI/AAAAAAAABf8/OzutKaa6kC4/s1600/ABS5_1-25-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6LE5H9tHI/AAAAAAAABf8/OzutKaa6kC4/s400/ABS5_1-25-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566039105646474354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Wanna play? ;)  Challenge rules are located in the sidebar off to the right.  Any body using any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;For this challenge we are giving away another $15 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate to a lucky randomly selected participant! All you have to do for a chance to win is create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below. It's easy peasy, peeps! ;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Check out the amazing creations made by the ABS DT members this week:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2011/01/anita-be-stampin-weekly-challenge-5.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Angela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6IJIMHFMI/AAAAAAAABfk/4I-JmNKfn_g/s1600/ABS5_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 365px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6IJIMHFMI/AAAAAAAABfk/4I-JmNKfn_g/s400/ABS5_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566035879874991298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thesnoringyorkie.blogspot.com/2011/01/abs-challenge-5-hey-hottie.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Anita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6H6nF72tI/AAAAAAAABfU/J8FpAWEIcrQ/s1600/1-25-2011%2B014%2Bedited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 378px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6H6nF72tI/AAAAAAAABfU/J8FpAWEIcrQ/s400/1-25-2011%2B014%2Bedited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566035630472551122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jacquiemakescards.blogspot.com/2011/01/sketch-challenge-for-anita-be-stampin.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jacquie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUB1IFROWJI/AAAAAAAABgs/DypZWFbTegs/s1600/ABS5_Jacquie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TUB1IFROWJI/AAAAAAAABgs/DypZWFbTegs/s400/ABS5_Jacquie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566577921143756946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/2011/01/abs-sketch-challenge_25.html"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;Joni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6IJo9r-OI/AAAAAAAABfs/_WrtXc68DZI/s1600/ABS5_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6IJo9r-OI/AAAAAAAABfs/_WrtXc68DZI/s400/ABS5_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566035888672864482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-shoes-cure-blues.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lelia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6IJ3_T_UI/AAAAAAAABf0/L2-qL9V9F6o/s1600/ABS5_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6IJ3_T_UI/AAAAAAAABf0/L2-qL9V9F6o/s400/ABS5_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566035892706213186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6IJIMHFMI/AAAAAAAABfk/4I-JmNKfn_g/s1600/ABS5_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/?p=1582"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Tracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6H6na-JAI/AAAAAAAABfc/AcfrF2NC1OI/s1600/ABS5_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 367px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6H6na-JAI/AAAAAAAABfc/AcfrF2NC1OI/s400/ABS5_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566035630560781314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6H6nF72tI/AAAAAAAABfU/J8FpAWEIcrQ/s1600/1-25-2011%2B014%2Bedited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); line-height: 20px; text-align: left;font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:19px;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please play along in this week's challenge for your chance to win a fabulous prize!  We need all the help we can get spreading the word about our new(ish) challenge blog, so tell all of your friends to come join in the fun.  You have until Monday, Jan. 31st at 10 pm CST to leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch. Remember...if you use any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate.  I can’t wait to see what you make.  Let's get crafty! :) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;P.S.  &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; is releasing new rubber stamps on Saturday, Jan. 29th!  Please swing by the &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.blogspot.com/"&gt;ABS Blog&lt;/a&gt; for sneak peeks of the brand spankin' new rubber stamps starting on Thursday, Jan. 27th.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;See ya there! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=31364"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-106571962388795614?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/106571962388795614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=106571962388795614' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/106571962388795614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/106571962388795614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/abs-challenge-5.html' title='ABS Challenge #5'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6LE5H9tHI/AAAAAAAABf8/OzutKaa6kC4/s72-c/ABS5_1-25-2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-479273157839765728</id><published>2011-01-25T06:59:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-25T06:59:00.283-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #4 - Faves and Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Thank you so much to all of the fabulous ladies who participated in last week's challenge!  Please take a look at few of our favorite creations from challenge participants this week.  Aren't they beautiful!?!  Your creations so make me smile! :) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dawn-timetocreate.blogspot.com/2011/01/lets-go-shopping.html"&gt;Dawn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6CEUqeLmI/AAAAAAAABeU/R9bnmFnjndo/s1600/ABS4_Dawn.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6CEUqeLmI/AAAAAAAABeU/R9bnmFnjndo/s400/ABS4_Dawn.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566029200254447202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/2011/01/abs-4-sketch.html"&gt;Starla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6CEpfqG9I/AAAAAAAABec/5iBcH0NZ5JM/s1600/ABS4_Starla.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6CEpfqG9I/AAAAAAAABec/5iBcH0NZ5JM/s400/ABS4_Starla.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566029205846236114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now, I am excited to announce that the randomly selected winner of the $15 ABS certificate is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6FAb0jcmI/AAAAAAAABes/NTgkE4rWRKY/s1600/random_1-25-2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 171px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6FAb0jcmI/AAAAAAAABes/NTgkE4rWRKY/s200/random_1-25-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566032431991190114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Starla!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Congratulations Starla!  Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played! I hope you will all stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-479273157839765728?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/479273157839765728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=479273157839765728' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/479273157839765728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/479273157839765728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/abs-challenge-4-faves-and-winner.html' title='ABS Challenge #4 - Faves and Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TT6CEUqeLmI/AAAAAAAABeU/R9bnmFnjndo/s72-c/ABS4_Dawn.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-2160715611265271688</id><published>2011-01-18T07:00:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-18T07:00:11.547-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenges are Back!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;....and we're back! :)  Well, hello there.  I missed you!!!  I am so excited to announce that Anita Be Stampin weekly challenges are resuming today....starting right now.  Are you ready to get crafty using the ABS Challenge #4 sketch?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUsaQfNx9I/AAAAAAAABcU/f4j2Rr88dNA/s1600/ABS04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUsaQfNx9I/AAAAAAAABcU/f4j2Rr88dNA/s400/ABS04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563401744300230610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;Remember...anybody using any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="color: rgb(244, 146, 159); text-decoration: none;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes. For this challenge we are giving away a $15&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="color: rgb(244, 146, 159); text-decoration: none;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;gift certificate to a lucky randomly selected participant! All you have to do for a chance to win is create a new project using any&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="color: rgb(244, 146, 159); text-decoration: none;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below. It's easy peasy, peeps! ;)&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;  Don’t have any&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/" style="color: rgb(244, 146, 159); text-decoration: none;"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin" style="color: rgb(244, 146, 159); text-decoration: none;"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;where members have access to a free digi image.  Now please check out the fabulous creations by the lovely ABS design team members.  I just love these ladies!  I hope you'll visit their blogs and let them know what you think of their fabulous creations. ;)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-size:120%;" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2Ky9AVI/AAAAAAAABcc/GppSOt4Bm-M/s1600/ABS4_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2Ky9AVI/AAAAAAAABcc/GppSOt4Bm-M/s400/ABS4_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563403323320369490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:120%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://thesnoringyorkie.blogspot.com/"&gt;Anita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUy1IeWPcI/AAAAAAAABdM/6nepFh45tm8/s1600/ABS4%2Bby%2Banita.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUy1IeWPcI/AAAAAAAABdM/6nepFh45tm8/s400/ABS4%2Bby%2Banita.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563408803075341762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2OgrdXI/AAAAAAAABck/N79g0LLYPTQ/s1600/ABS4%2Bby%2Banita.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jacquiemakescards.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jacquie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2e9GmUI/AAAAAAAABcs/SLyHzIu_Xzg/s1600/ABS4_Jacquie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2e9GmUI/AAAAAAAABcs/SLyHzIu_Xzg/s400/ABS4_Jacquie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563403328731650370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2bvNxAI/AAAAAAAABc0/i9koV4sSijw/s1600/ABS4_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2bvNxAI/AAAAAAAABc0/i9koV4sSijw/s400/ABS4_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563403327868093442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2g3QTrI/AAAAAAAABc8/ZUKP0vh8-jk/s1600/ABS4_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt2g3QTrI/AAAAAAAABc8/ZUKP0vh8-jk/s400/ABS4_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563403329243991730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt8k-FoII/AAAAAAAABdE/9cLNru752pk/s1600/ABS4_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUt8k-FoII/AAAAAAAABdE/9cLNru752pk/s400/ABS4_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563403433425608834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-size:120%;" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;You have until Monday, Jan. 24th at 10 pm CST to leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch. Remember...if you use any Anita Be Stampin image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 ABS gift certificate. Gotta love that! I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:120%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- start InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=30664"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-2160715611265271688?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/2160715611265271688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=2160715611265271688' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/2160715611265271688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/2160715611265271688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/abs-challenges-are-back.html' title='ABS Challenges are Back!'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TTUsaQfNx9I/AAAAAAAABcU/f4j2Rr88dNA/s72-c/ABS04.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-7454699118398470982</id><published>2010-12-14T07:00:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-14T07:00:15.040-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Holiday Hiatus</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi there! :)  I hope you are all doing well.  Are you surviving the hustle and bustle of the holiday season?  This seems like the busiest time of year, but I love every single minute of it!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Today we are announcing that Anita Be Stamping Challenges are going on holiday hiatus.  We are putting our challenges on hold temporarily to make sure that our design team and challenge participants have even more time during this holiday season to spend with their beloved families and friends.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TQbxhdUjDAI/AAAAAAAABZs/5JUuSOXTjag/s1600/CIC88%2Bby%2Banita.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 376px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TQbxhdUjDAI/AAAAAAAABZs/5JUuSOXTjag/s400/CIC88%2Bby%2Banita.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550389147889503234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;I hope you will join us again some time after the new year for future challenges.  Please stop back here for announcements on when we will be hosting our next challenge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Most importantly, have a fabulous holiday filled with food, fun, and family! :)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Holiday hugs, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-7454699118398470982?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/7454699118398470982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=7454699118398470982' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7454699118398470982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/7454699118398470982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/12/holiday-hiatus.html' title='Holiday Hiatus'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TQbxhdUjDAI/AAAAAAAABZs/5JUuSOXTjag/s72-c/CIC88%2Bby%2Banita.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-1915004014587691151</id><published>2010-12-14T06:59:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-14T06:59:00.570-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #3 Favorites</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday, friends! :)  Thank you so much to all of the fabulous ladies who participated in last week's challenge!  Check out a few of the amazing creations from our challenge participants this week, will ya!?!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2010/12/abs-color-challenge.html"&gt;Brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TQbsWSmoL9I/AAAAAAAABZU/RuxRBKQqqrg/s1600/ABS3_Brenda.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TQbsWSmoL9I/AAAAAAAABZU/RuxRBKQqqrg/s400/ABS3_Brenda.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550383458475847634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://ginasgorillaspeak.blogspot.com/2010/12/anita-be-stampin-challenge.html"&gt;Gina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TQbsWhOxDUI/AAAAAAAABZc/CvGRp6WJBUk/s1600/ABS3_Gina.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 378px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TQbsWhOxDUI/AAAAAAAABZc/CvGRp6WJBUk/s400/ABS3_Gina.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550383462402297154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Please visit their blogs and tell 'em what you think about their gorgeous pink and green creations.  Challenge participants may email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com to claim their not yet released &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; digi image.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for playing! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;img style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-1915004014587691151?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/1915004014587691151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=1915004014587691151' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1915004014587691151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/1915004014587691151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/12/abs-challenge-3-favorites.html' title='ABS Challenge #3 Favorites'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TQbsWSmoL9I/AAAAAAAABZU/RuxRBKQqqrg/s72-c/ABS3_Brenda.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-945244231958919390</id><published>2010-12-07T07:00:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T10:00:44.175-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anita Be Stampin Challenge #3 - Colorful Tuesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RZtDX6lI/AAAAAAAABXM/whS3tvK6Rpk/s1600/_ABS3%2BColor%2BChallenge_12-07-2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RZtDX6lI/AAAAAAAABXM/whS3tvK6Rpk/s400/_ABS3%2BColor%2BChallenge_12-07-2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547750186766821970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi there! :) It's Tuesday, and that means it's time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #3...woot woot!  We have decided to change things up once a month with a non-sketch challenge.  This week we are challenging you to use pinks, greens, and a neutral color of your choice.  What do you think of this color combo?  I absolutely love pink and green together! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Remember...anybody using any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes. For this challenge we are giving away a special prize to EVERY participant that uses &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images!  (Shhh...don't tell, but I heard it through the grapevine that the prize may be a not yet released digi image.)  Gotta love that! ;)  Just create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image (rubber or digi) and the colors above, and provide a direct link to your entry below. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now please check out the creations from our lovely DT this week.  Aren't they fab!?!  Don't forget to swing by the DT blogs and tell 'em all about it. :)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP5Y4jjM3lI/AAAAAAAABYE/ZmUlvNLR0Jc/s1600/ABS3_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP5Y4jjM3lI/AAAAAAAABYE/ZmUlvNLR0Jc/s400/ABS3_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547969519605833298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RZ3Z3ZDI/AAAAAAAABXU/6TTIa1kpRy0/s1600/ABS3_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RZ3Z3ZDI/AAAAAAAABXU/6TTIa1kpRy0/s400/ABS3_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547750189545514034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RZ2ZHm8I/AAAAAAAABXc/_dco6MJG97U/s1600/ABS3_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RZ2ZHm8I/AAAAAAAABXc/_dco6MJG97U/s400/ABS3_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547750189273947074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP5Y4-vl07I/AAAAAAAABYM/qRaJRnz28Gw/s1600/ABS3_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP5Y4-vl07I/AAAAAAAABYM/qRaJRnz28Gw/s400/ABS3_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547969526905557938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rene'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RadBcspI/AAAAAAAABXk/HtY-DWGftwg/s1600/ABS3_Rene%2527.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RadBcspI/AAAAAAAABXk/HtY-DWGftwg/s400/ABS3_Rene%2527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547750199643648658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.justlovestamping.blogspot.com/"&gt;Suzanne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RjKX52NI/AAAAAAAABXs/s1q_dSCyPJM/s1600/ABS3_Suzanne.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RjKX52NI/AAAAAAAABXs/s1q_dSCyPJM/s400/ABS3_Suzanne.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547750349256382674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RjaMx3XI/AAAAAAAABX0/d9Z-3rnRqFY/s1600/ABS3_Suzanne%25281%2529.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RjaMx3XI/AAAAAAAABX0/d9Z-3rnRqFY/s400/ABS3_Suzanne%25281%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547750353504689522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:120%;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP5Y5G2hxCI/AAAAAAAABYU/GXuKgsUi2tc/s1600/ABS3_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 345px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP5Y5G2hxCI/AAAAAAAABYU/GXuKgsUi2tc/s400/ABS3_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547969529082135586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;You have until Monday, Dec. 13th at 10 pm CST to leave a direct link to a new creation using pinks, greens, and your choice of neutral color.  Remember...if you use any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image you will receive a special treat in your inbox. ;)  I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Crafty hugs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;img style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=26574"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-945244231958919390?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/945244231958919390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=945244231958919390' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/945244231958919390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/945244231958919390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/12/anita-be-stampin-challenge-3-colorful.html' title='Anita Be Stampin Challenge #3 - Colorful Tuesday'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2RZtDX6lI/AAAAAAAABXM/whS3tvK6Rpk/s72-c/_ABS3%2BColor%2BChallenge_12-07-2010.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-811503515965668284</id><published>2010-12-07T06:59:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T06:59:00.814-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #2 Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Happy Tuesday peeps! :)  I you are having a fabulous week so far.  I am super excited to announce the winner of Anita Be Stampin Challenge #2!  The winner of the $15 ABS gift certificate is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2My9_485I/AAAAAAAABXE/2mqq3UZ7fjY/s1600/Anita%2BBe%2BStampin%2B%25232-softened.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2My9_485I/AAAAAAAABXE/2mqq3UZ7fjY/s400/Anita%2BBe%2BStampin%2B%25232-softened.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547745123254203282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Dar of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://darscraftycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dar's Crafty Creations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;...woot  woot!  Congratulations! (Are you surprised, Dar? LOL)  Please email me  at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the gorgeous card that Dar made for our challenge.  Isn't it adorable!?!  Dar is a total sweetheart too.  If you haven't been by her blog yet, please stop by and leave her a little love.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Thanks so much for playing! :) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;img style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-811503515965668284?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/811503515965668284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=811503515965668284' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/811503515965668284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/811503515965668284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/12/abs-challenge-2-winner.html' title='ABS Challenge #2 Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2My9_485I/AAAAAAAABXE/2mqq3UZ7fjY/s72-c/Anita%2BBe%2BStampin%2B%25232-softened.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-5550142084185661204</id><published>2010-11-23T07:00:00.011-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T19:50:26.172-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to ABS Challenge #2</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hello friends! :)  It's time for Anita Be Stampin Challenge #2...woot  woot!  I sure hope you like the sketch we've created to inspire you. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyINxTJxI/AAAAAAAABUI/cHXSvkWTizI/s1600/ABS02_11-23-2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyINxTJxI/AAAAAAAABUI/cHXSvkWTizI/s400/ABS02_11-23-2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649251870484242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Remember...anybody using any image is welcome to play in the Anita Be Stampin Challenge, but only those using &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images are eligible to win our prizes.  For this challenge we are giving away another $15 &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; gift certificate to a lucky randomly selected participant! All you have to do for a chance to win is create a new project using any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image (rubber or digi) based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below.  It's easy peasy, peeps! ;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t have any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;ABS&lt;/a&gt; images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries!  Just join the the &lt;a href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt; where members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The ABS DT really knocked my socks off this week with their fabulous creations!  Check 'em out, will ya!?! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyIRDrJBI/AAAAAAAABUQ/Q1Cb4dZ88qg/s1600/103_0402_picnik.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyIRDrJBI/AAAAAAAABUQ/Q1Cb4dZ88qg/s400/103_0402_picnik.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649252752860178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://thesnoringyorkie.blogspot.com/"&gt;Anita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyIz5dR-I/AAAAAAAABUY/m7mF6h4S_yE/s1600/11-22-2010%2B002edited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark%2Bresized.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 354px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyIz5dR-I/AAAAAAAABUY/m7mF6h4S_yE/s400/11-22-2010%2B002edited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark%2Bresized.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649262105249762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://jacquiemakescards.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jacquie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyI9JjOXI/AAAAAAAABUg/J5bJvy0OxYk/s1600/1123ABSchallenge-JacquieN.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyI9JjOXI/AAAAAAAABUg/J5bJvy0OxYk/s400/1123ABSchallenge-JacquieN.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649264588667250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyJD5tKRI/AAAAAAAABUo/iB1j0HZnMrU/s1600/Hey%252BSugar.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyJD5tKRI/AAAAAAAABUo/iB1j0HZnMrU/s400/Hey%252BSugar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649266401257746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Joni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2R5h9PeEI/AAAAAAAABX8/Vqiz77H0NXI/s1600/ABS2_Joni%25281%2529.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TP2R5h9PeEI/AAAAAAAABX8/Vqiz77H0NXI/s400/ABS2_Joni%25281%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547750733544126530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyqIakAUI/AAAAAAAABUw/djHwwrZ2uTM/s1600/lelia%252Babs%252Bchallenge%252B2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 397px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyqIakAUI/AAAAAAAABUw/djHwwrZ2uTM/s400/lelia%252Babs%252Bchallenge%252B2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649834548494658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyqQpyalI/AAAAAAAABU4/5ZpXke8yeOw/s1600/Let%252Bus%252BSkate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyqQpyalI/AAAAAAAABU4/5ZpXke8yeOw/s400/Let%252Bus%252BSkate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649836759837266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="" trebuchet="" href="http://www.stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rene'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyrFiT6nI/AAAAAAAABVA/7-9Dg4JVJZo/s1600/ABS02%252BCard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyrFiT6nI/AAAAAAAABVA/7-9Dg4JVJZo/s400/ABS02%252BCard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649850955557490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.justlovestamping.blogspot.com/"&gt;Suzanne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyrRGe6RI/AAAAAAAABVI/vltsUOhIMDA/s1600/Hey%252BSugar%2B%25281%2529.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 357px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyrRGe6RI/AAAAAAAABVI/vltsUOhIMDA/s400/Hey%252BSugar%2B%25281%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649854060062994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://her.guppystorm.com/"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyrpyPlKI/AAAAAAAABVQ/rDWFbDtTTDw/s1600/an%252Budder%252Bbirthday.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyrpyPlKI/AAAAAAAABVQ/rDWFbDtTTDw/s400/an%252Budder%252Bbirthday.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542649860686058658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 35, 9); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;font-family:'trebuchet ms';font-size:16px;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;We have decided to run this challenge for 2 weeks due to the Thanksgiving holiday (in the U.S.)  That way there's plenty of time for everybody to play in our challenge, and it will give our lovely DT a little holiday break as well.  You have until Monday, Dec. 6th at 10 pm CST to leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch. Remember...if you use any Anita Be Stampin image you could be the lucky winner of a $15 ABS gift certificate. Gotta love that! I can’t wait to see what you make!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://www.inlinkz.com/cs.php?id=24919"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-5550142084185661204?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/5550142084185661204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=5550142084185661204' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5550142084185661204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/5550142084185661204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/11/welcome-to-abs-challenge-2.html' title='Welcome to ABS Challenge #2'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtyINxTJxI/AAAAAAAABUI/cHXSvkWTizI/s72-c/ABS02_11-23-2010.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-8897512809636901277</id><published>2010-11-23T06:59:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T19:14:01.174-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ABS Challenge #1 Favorites and Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Hi there!  Thank you so much to all of the fabulous ladies who participated in our first ever challenge!  I hope you had fun playing in our challenge and will come back to Be Challenged often. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;We thought it would be really fun to recognize some of our favorite challenge entries each week.  Eventually we hope to feature the top 5 projects once challenge participation grows, but in the meantime we will be picking 1 or 2 favorites each week to give a shout out to. It was so difficult to pick since all of the entries were so fabulous, but we wanted to give a little shout out to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-be-stampin-challenge.html"&gt;B&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-be-stampin-challenge.html"&gt;renda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtuJH8FwRI/AAAAAAAABT4/teNxiR-L9hc/s1600/001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtuJH8FwRI/AAAAAAAABT4/teNxiR-L9hc/s400/001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542644869438488850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://brenscraps.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-be-stampin-challenge.html"&gt;Amanda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtuJesrTtI/AAAAAAAABUA/-i5pLGlnI_I/s1600/111_1199-1%2Bcopy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtuJesrTtI/AAAAAAAABUA/-i5pLGlnI_I/s400/111_1199-1%2Bcopy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542644875547856594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Now...are you ready for this? :)  Without further ado the randomly selected winner of the $15 ABS certificate is...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtqfAZK1wI/AAAAAAAABTo/BR8xZWDkwN4/s1600/random_11-23-2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 163px; height: 189px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtqfAZK1wI/AAAAAAAABTo/BR8xZWDkwN4/s400/random_11-23-2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542640847323584258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Dawn at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://dawn-timetocreate.blogspot.com/"&gt;Time To Create&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;...congratulations Dawn!  Please email me at anitabestampin@gmail.com within one week to claim your prize.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again to everybody who played!  I hope you will all stop back and join us for our next challenge! :)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://anitabestampin.com/images/bf/anitasig.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1887903488829059547-8897512809636901277?l=anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/feeds/8897512809636901277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1887903488829059547&amp;postID=8897512809636901277' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8897512809636901277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1887903488829059547/posts/default/8897512809636901277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anitabestampinchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/11/abs-challenge-1-favorties-and-winner.html' title='ABS Challenge #1 Favorites and Winner'/><author><name>Anita</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0EPYbUz6ik/Tqy3PxUOnDI/AAAAAAAACPQ/_msCgZC_apY/s220/avatarpicedited200-1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOtuJH8FwRI/AAAAAAAABT4/teNxiR-L9hc/s72-c/001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1887903488829059547.post-752093668939635419</id><published>2010-11-16T07:00:00.008-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-16T16:34:53.038-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Be Challenged with Anita Be Stampin</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Welcome to the brand spankin' new Anita Be Stampin Challenge…woot woot!   While our weekly challenges are for absolutely everybody, if you use an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be  Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image you become eligible to win our fabulous prizes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;One randomly selected challenge participant this week will win a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;$15 Anita  Be  Stampin gift certificate&lt;/span&gt;! All you have to do for a chance to win is   create a new project using any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; image (rubber or digi)   based on the sketch, and provide a direct link to your entry below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Don’t  have any ABS images yet, but you want a chance to win?  Don’t fret.   Just scoot on over to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.papercraftplanet.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/anitabestampin"&gt;Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; to  join us.  Members have access to a free digi image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHTHui_cRI/AAAAAAAABQw/Pscci2kIJAE/s1600/Sketch%2BABS01_11-16-2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHTHui_cRI/AAAAAAAABQw/Pscci2kIJAE/s400/Sketch%2BABS01_11-16-2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539941146349760786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Take a peek at this week's sketch.  Well, do you love it or what!?! ;)  I am so excited to have the opportunity to not only inspire you but also be inspired by you.  I'm sure our challenges will knock your socks off, especially when you see all of amazing DT creations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out all of the fabulous creations that the Anita Be Stampin DT have made to inspire you.  I could just crumble from all this cuteness! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://inmyquiettime.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-b-stampin-dt-first-challenge.html"&gt;Angela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYKfQ1wJI/AAAAAAAABQ4/LvPf-cYIsY8/s1600/ABS01_Angela.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYKfQ1wJI/AAAAAAAABQ4/LvPf-cYIsY8/s400/ABS01_Angela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539946691344842898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://anitabestampin.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-be-challenged.html"&gt;Anita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOIOlqUx-8I/AAAAAAAABR4/1MyVjgxXa2c/s1600/11-15-2010%2B006edited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOIOlqUx-8I/AAAAAAAABR4/1MyVjgxXa2c/s400/11-15-2010%2B006edited%2Bwith%2Bwatermark.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540006531798531010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jacquiemakescards.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-be-stampin-first-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Jacquie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOIOlWFmhjI/AAAAAAAABRw/73pB6jJQr0g/s1600/ABS01_Jacquie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOIOlWFmhjI/AAAAAAAABRw/73pB6jJQr0g/s400/ABS01_Jacquie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540006526366156338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://joni52.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-be-stampin-blog-hop.html"&gt;Joni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYKVu3wCI/AAAAAAAABRA/vjMVKx0lC50/s1600/ABS01_Joni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYKVu3wCI/AAAAAAAABRA/vjMVKx0lC50/s400/ABS01_Joni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539946688786448418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/2010/11/cherry-o.html"&gt;Lelia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYKug93zI/AAAAAAAABRI/fQhZ7fC7eqs/s1600/ABS01_Lelia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYKug93zI/AAAAAAAABRI/fQhZ7fC7eqs/s400/ABS01_Lelia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539946695439015730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hopestampseternal.blogspot.com/2010/11/hey-sugar.html"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYLMRet7I/AAAAAAAABRQ/y1-F1C98daw/s1600/ABS01_Rachel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYLMRet7I/AAAAAAAABRQ/y1-F1C98daw/s400/ABS01_Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539946703427123122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-be-stampins-first-challenge.html"&gt;Rene'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYLUbtnKI/AAAAAAAABRY/2gUbbCPyDmQ/s1600/ABS01_Rene%2527.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYLUbtnKI/AAAAAAAABRY/2gUbbCPyDmQ/s400/ABS01_Rene%2527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539946705617525922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://justlovestamping.blogspot.com/2010/11/anita-be-stampin-challenge-1.html"&gt;Suzanne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYZIxiQ1I/AAAAAAAABRg/q0HUlzQVX04/s1600/ABS01_Suzanne.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYZIxiQ1I/AAAAAAAABRg/q0HUlzQVX04/s400/ABS01_Suzanne.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539946943005999954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://her.guppystorm.com/?p=1182"&gt;Tracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYZTlFZJI/AAAAAAAABRo/7R2NRy63QpY/s1600/ABS01_Tracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kivu6GdMtFw/TOHYZTlFZJI/AAAAAAAABRo/7R2NRy63QpY/s400/ABS01_Tracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539946945906566290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:120%;"&gt;You have until Monday, Nov. 22nd at 10 pm CST to leave a direct link to a new creation inspired by our sketch.  Remember...if you use any &lt;a href="http://www.anitabestampin.com/"&gt;Anita Be Stampin&lt;/a&gt; image you could be the lucky winner of a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;$15 ABS gift certificate&lt;/span&gt;.  Gotta love that!  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