Recipe #16

A very warm welcome back to the SOUP bowl one and all. We hope you have enjoyed your week, or at the very least endured it, and are all set for some Friday night inspiration. We have something a little different to inspire you this week - a photograph taken by our Clare of a gorgeous vintage sign in Rome.


Clare took this photograph "because I loved the shapes and the colours and it inspired me!" We hope it will do the same for you, and look forward to seeing your creations. As always please link to your layout or card or project by posting a comment on this post and we will enter you into our monthly prize draw. You have until midnight GMT on Wednesday November 3rd to play along!

Here are your crafting examples for this week to inspire you along with the recipe above. Enjoy!

A Card from Andrea


A Card from Clare


A Card from Heather


A Layout from Kate


A Layout from Mel


An altered tin from Mandy


A Canvas from Louise


A Card from Lousette


A Layout from Ann


See you all again next week!

Recipe #15

Oh yes it is SOUPer time again! Welcome back, or just plain welcome if this is your first visit to our site! Do spread the word and share news of our challenge blog with your other crafty friends and if you haven't already you can join us on Facebook too - simply search for ChickenSoupDT. Our challenge blog here isn't purely for scrapbookers and cardmakers - the DT examples this week show how our inspiration can take all manner of directions!

So have you ever FELT the need to step outside the paper zone and play with other materials? We trust that this week's recipe will have you doing exactly that. Just take a look at what our cooks came up with this week - oh and join us is warmly welcoming the newest additions to the team who all played along this week!

A felt iPhone cover by Ann

A door sign by Annette

A Layout by Christine

A Layout by Heather

A card by Kate

Felt decorations by Louise

A little angel by Lousette

A card by Mandy

Wow! So there you have it, hopefully plenty to inspire you this week, maybe get you crafting those Christmas cards (we can never start too soon) or making some decorations for the tree! On the subject of the season of goodwill we have 12-days of very special inspiration lined up for you all in December! More news to follow!

As always leave us a comment with a link to your creations and we will enter you into our prize draw for the month to win something crafty from our October sponsor Craft Obsessions.

Have a great weekend SOUPers and happy crafting from all of us.

And the winner is....

October is here and September has been and gone, but not before we had 39 stunning entries into our monthly challenge draw. If you undertook a craft project using one of our September recipe’s (10-13) AND left us a comment linking to an image of your creation then we have entered your name into our draw. Before we announce who the winner is it is time to take a trip down mutual appreciation avenue and have a look at the delicious cards, layouts and other crafty items you have all been creating during September.

ChickenSoup Sept Gallery - slideshow with music

Using Random.org to select a winning entry from the 39 received we are please to reveal the winner the September ChickenSoup prize, kindly sponsored by The Craft Emporium is

CONGRATULATIONS CLAIRE!

Please send your contact details to Lynn at The Craft Emporium who will arrange for your prize to be sent out to you! Many thanks to Lynn for sponsoring us in September! Here is Claire’s stunning card based on our 13th recipe – certainly not unlucky for some eh?!.


We will see you again on Friday, usual time 7pm GMT for our next recipe reveal and some inspiring creations from the new cooks!!

Recipe #14

Happy 1st of October to you all and welcome to another month of inspiration from ChickenSoup.

We are delighted to announce a new sponsor for the month, thank you to David & Brenda for agreeing to donate a prize for the lucky winner of our October draw.

Here is our recipe for this week, provided by the lovely Clare. Whether you are a fan or not you cannot deny that this album cover contains plenty of inspiration for a crafter! Will it be the paperclips, the bulldog clips, the union jack or maybe the UK or music in general.

This week the cooks were inspired to create a diverse set of examples to help kick start your creativity. (don't you find it interesting how one image can be interpreted in so many different ways?)  Can't wait to see what you come up with :)

Ann

Clare

Debbie

Debs

Kate

Announcing the new ChickenSoup Cooks!

It is time!

After much deliberation these last few days the existing cooks have chosen a talented four crafters to join us in providing inspiration based on our weekly recipe's - this taking our design team to a bakers dozen!. We would like to take another opportunity to thank each and every one of you who applied. It has been a pleasure viewing your submissions and you have certainly contributed towards a very difficult decision in choosing our new dt members.

So without further ado, and in no particular order we are pleased to welcome to ChickenSoup

MANDY BRENNAN

LOUISE CONNELL

CHRISTINE EMBERSON

ANNETTE TAYLOR

Many Congratualtions ladies!! We can't wait to see your inspirations starting from next week!

We hope you will all join us again tomorrow for our first recipe for October, and don't forget to finish off any September recipe's and leave us a comment on the relelvant post by Sunday evening to be in with a chance to win Septembers sponsored prize from The Craft Emporium.

Our DT call has now closed

Thank you so much to those of you who have taken the time to apply to join our SOUPer family here. You have certainly made the job of choosing our new Chefs very difficult!!
Needlesstosay we will be pondering over the applications these next few days and announcing our new members by the end of the month!
Excited?
We all are! Pop back later this week as we reveal the new Chefs joining our established team.

Recipe #13

Unlucky for some 13, but not for us here at ChickenSoup! Happy Friday blog readers, and welcome back!

Here we are again with another inspiration for you, to kickstart those creative juices flowing, to sooth your poorly crafty mojo, or to just inspire you to think outside the box.

This weeks inspiration came from Ann and her observation that the fashion industry has seen a ruffles and lace trend over the summer. With plenty of frills and spills and gorgeous femine colours how will you be inspired this week? Maybe you will stray from paper this week and incorporate some materials or lace into your projects!

As always our design team were inspired to create a diverse set of examples for you to peruse.

Andrea created this spooky cute card

Ann created an Anniversary card with a coordinating gift bag

Another card from Debbie, plenty pink!

Heather was inspired to create this gorgeous layout

Kate was inspired to create this stunning layout
This is our final recipe for September and you have until the 30th to share your creations with us to be in with a chance to win with The Craft Emporium.

Next month sees five more challenges, a new sponsor not to mention new ChickenSoup designers to bring you even more inspiration!! The deadline for our dt call is this Sunday September 26th 2010 at midnight GMT. International applications are welcome as are submissions from digital scrapbookers, indeed if you feel you can take inspiration from a recipe and create something from scratch, apply to join us! All entry details can be found here - we can't wait to hear from you!

Have a crafty week everyone!