Just a quick post to let you all know that Feline Playful (and little ol' me) is in the spotlight today over at ABC Christmas Challenge. Go by and check it out!
As well, I wanted to remind you to check out the Blog Hop and Blog Candy pages if you haven't done so lately. You won't see anything in your email, blog roll or readers but updates are made to both these pages all the time! Do you have a blog hop or candy to add? Just send us an email and we'll add it.
Smiles and a happy Spring to you all!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
A warm welcome to our newest team members!
Please join me in welcoming Nancy (Nancy in Iowa), Audrey (Hippieaud (aka Audrey)) and Leesa (~♥~The Navy Wife~♥~) who have all agreed to join the Feline Playful family and help us out on posts! I expect many of you are already familiar with these ladies through their frequent appearances on the Winners' Lists as well as through their wonderful entries into so many challenges. Their names have been added to our sidebar along with a link to their personal blogs - I encourage you to visit their blogs and say "Hi".
Nancy will be providing some much needed vacation coverage so that our regular daily posters can have a day off every now and then. Audrey will be taking over the Friday and Saturday winners' posts starting in April. And Leesa will be looking up all of those "not posted yet" challenges & winners so that the lists are complete as well as helping with the Blog Hops and Blog Candy pages.
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
Nancy will be providing some much needed vacation coverage so that our regular daily posters can have a day off every now and then. Audrey will be taking over the Friday and Saturday winners' posts starting in April. And Leesa will be looking up all of those "not posted yet" challenges & winners so that the lists are complete as well as helping with the Blog Hops and Blog Candy pages.
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Helping Out ...
Feline Playful Challenge Team Member Call:
Just a quick post to mention that we are currently looking for a couple of new team members here at Feline Playful. If you would like to help out, check out the DT Calls page for all the details.
Random Acts of Kindness:
And on the subject of helping out, crafters have got to be the most caring and generous group anywhere! Whether it is sending cards to a sick child, raising money for disaster relief, or providing much-needed encouragement to our troops, there are just so many wonderful causes that crafters are a part of. What's even better, in my humble opinion, is that we can support these causes by doing what we love - making cards and buying crafting supplies.
As a way to further help these causes we've added a new page to Feline Playful called "R.A.K." (for Random Acts of Kindness). Please take a few minutes to check out these wonderful causes! And if you are involved in a fundraising activity or card drive that you would like added, then let us know so we can add you.
And on a final note:
Thank you to all of our wonderful Feline Followers for your continued support of the team. Your comments and emails mean so much to our entire team! Thank you for being part of the Feline family!!!
Just a quick post to mention that we are currently looking for a couple of new team members here at Feline Playful. If you would like to help out, check out the DT Calls page for all the details.
Random Acts of Kindness:
And on the subject of helping out, crafters have got to be the most caring and generous group anywhere! Whether it is sending cards to a sick child, raising money for disaster relief, or providing much-needed encouragement to our troops, there are just so many wonderful causes that crafters are a part of. What's even better, in my humble opinion, is that we can support these causes by doing what we love - making cards and buying crafting supplies.
As a way to further help these causes we've added a new page to Feline Playful called "R.A.K." (for Random Acts of Kindness). Please take a few minutes to check out these wonderful causes! And if you are involved in a fundraising activity or card drive that you would like added, then let us know so we can add you.
And on a final note:
Thank you to all of our wonderful Feline Followers for your continued support of the team. Your comments and emails mean so much to our entire team! Thank you for being part of the Feline family!!!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Adding new challenges
First, I want to thank all of our Feline Followers for your continued support of Feline Playful. It is so great reading your positive comments about the blog and we're just thrilled to see the number of followers continue to rise. Hearing that you found a great new challenge or that you found out you were a winner because of our lists can be so motivating to the team!
Did you know that we are currently tracking over 360 challenge blogs? And that number is increasing weekly as we hear about other challenges. If you own a challenge blog or are part of a design team and want your challenge added, all we ask is that you answer the following questions so that we have all the necessary details for the listing:
Thanks again and keep up the crafting!
Feline smiley,
Shelley
Did you know that we are currently tracking over 360 challenge blogs? And that number is increasing weekly as we hear about other challenges. If you own a challenge blog or are part of a design team and want your challenge added, all we ask is that you answer the following questions so that we have all the necessary details for the listing:
- What is the name of your challenge?
- What is your website address?
- Is your challenge weekly, bi-weekly or monthly?
- What is the posting day of your challenge?
- What kind of projects (cards, scrapbook layouts, altered items, ATC, etc) does your challenge allow?
- Does your challenge select winners? If so, how many and what is the reward (blog badge, prize, etc).
- How do you choose the winner?
- What is the maximum number of entries per challenge?
- Can the players combine their entry with other challenges? If so do you have a maximum number?
- Does your challenge have any special conditions or restrictions (such as using a product/image from a specific company)?
- If you set your challenge schedule in advance, would you care to provide us with the schedule? We promise that no challenges will be posted in advance of their regular posting date.
Thanks again and keep up the crafting!
Feline smiley,
Shelley
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Announcement... Karen is retiring!
Hi everyone! As some of you may already know, my true passion is making cards for Operation Write Home and so I’ve decided to retire from Feline Playful and follow my true calling. I’m very happy and excited to share with you that Feline Playful's Lead Challenge Coordinator, Shelley Dureau, has graciously agreed to take over Feline Playful and is the new owner. Shelley has been the motivation behind Feline Playful for some time now and has many amazing things planned that I’m sure you will love.
I sincerely hope that you will continue to help out and will wholehearted give Shelley your full support. Although I will no longer be involved with the blog I will be working behind the scenes with Shelley to transition the blog and ask that going forward you kindly direct all questions and concerns to Shelley. I’ve already updated the email address on the blog so that future emails go to Shelley but will continue to forward to her any emails that may come my way.
Thank you so much for everything you’ve done for me and Feline Playful, I truly appreciate it!
Hugs, Karen
I sincerely hope that you will continue to help out and will wholehearted give Shelley your full support. Although I will no longer be involved with the blog I will be working behind the scenes with Shelley to transition the blog and ask that going forward you kindly direct all questions and concerns to Shelley. I’ve already updated the email address on the blog so that future emails go to Shelley but will continue to forward to her any emails that may come my way.
Thank you so much for everything you’ve done for me and Feline Playful, I truly appreciate it!
Hugs, Karen
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Welcome... CHALLENGE Coordinators
Hi everyone! One of our challenge coordinators, Mari, had to step down due to medical reasons and although we are sad to see her go and pray for her quick recovery we are excited to welcome our newest members to the team. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to our new Challenge Coordinators:
Berenice, Challenge Coordinator
Sweet Escape
Erum, Challenge Coordinator
VIBGYOR Krafts
Juliet, Challenge Coordinator
Sweet Escape
Erum, Challenge Coordinator
VIBGYOR Krafts
Juliet, Challenge Coordinator
We hope you will take a few moments to visit their blogs to congratulate them and leave them lots of love! A HUGE thanks to Berenice, Erum, Juliet and Linda for their heartfelt generosity! You ladies are truly the BEST!!!
The TEAM
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Welcome... WINNERS Coordinators
Hi everyone! Please join us in extending a warm welcome to our new WINNERS Coordinators! They are graciously donating their time to bring you the recent winners for all your favorite challenges.
We hope you will take a few moments to visit their blogs to congratulate them and leave them lots of love! A HUGE thanks to Abi, Jennie and Annemaritta for their heartfelt generosity! You ladies are truly the BEST!!!
The TEAM
Abi, Winners Coordinator
Jennie, Winners Coordinator
Annemaritta, Winners Coordinator
We hope you will take a few moments to visit their blogs to congratulate them and leave them lots of love! A HUGE thanks to Abi, Jennie and Annemaritta for their heartfelt generosity! You ladies are truly the BEST!!!
The TEAM
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Looking for a WINNERS team...
Hi everyone! We are seeing lots of signs that Feline Playful is growing by leaps and bounds and have tried streamlining some of our processes but still need more help. We've recently added the WINNERS posts and this has doubled the amount of time the coordinatators spend researching and updating the blog. On average it takes about an hour to update each post.
We are looking for 3 volunteers who are each able to commit to 2 or 3 days a week to be part of our WINNERS team. The winners team will be responsible for the daily winners posts. Each volunteer will be assigned specific days and on those days will visit the challenge blogs to note who the recent winners are then will post them here on Feline Playful. We also know that life happens and ask the team to be open to backing each other up occasionally. Please know that you won't have to add links for all the challenge blogs each day, we have a really easy way of doing so that we'll share with you!
If you are interested in joining the WINNERS team please email us at howardkm@charter.net and note for us if there are certain days of the week that work best for you or days that you are not available. This will help us select a team that will be able to cover the entire week! We would like to get the WINNERS team going as soon as possible and may send invites to those who make the team as early as this weekend! We'd love to have you join the team and hope you will consider it!
The Team
We are looking for 3 volunteers who are each able to commit to 2 or 3 days a week to be part of our WINNERS team. The winners team will be responsible for the daily winners posts. Each volunteer will be assigned specific days and on those days will visit the challenge blogs to note who the recent winners are then will post them here on Feline Playful. We also know that life happens and ask the team to be open to backing each other up occasionally. Please know that you won't have to add links for all the challenge blogs each day, we have a really easy way of doing so that we'll share with you!
If you are interested in joining the WINNERS team please email us at howardkm@charter.net and note for us if there are certain days of the week that work best for you or days that you are not available. This will help us select a team that will be able to cover the entire week! We would like to get the WINNERS team going as soon as possible and may send invites to those who make the team as early as this weekend! We'd love to have you join the team and hope you will consider it!
The Team
Monday, February 7, 2011
Message from The Team
Hi everyone! We want to take a moment to share with you some of the exciting things we’ve recently added to Feline Playful!
We’ve created some fun quick reference buttons on the sidebar to help you find what you are looking for! For a list of challenges click on the CHALLENGES button and once you’ve entered a few challenges don’t forget to click the WINNERS button to find out if you are a recent winner. Did you notice that we said WINNERS! Yes, we are now listing who the recent winners are of all your favorite challenges. We encourage you to visit the winners and congratulate them on their recent win.
We’ve also added a page to keep track of DT CALLS. If you’ve recently posted or know of a Design Team Call that is not already listed on the page we’d love to hear from you, simply email Karen at howardkm@charter.net with a direct link to the Design Team Call post and we’ll add it to the list.
We will also be adding a page you are all sure to love, BLOG CANDY. In order to get this going though we need your help! If you are offering blog candy or know of another follower who is we’d love to hear from you, simply email Karen at howardkm@charter.net with a direct link to the blog candy post and we’ll add it to the list.
We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your ongoing support and all the encouraging comments! They really mean a lot to us. A HUGE thanks to all the challenge blogs who are taking time to send us updates, we hope that you will continue to do so. If you are a challenge blog and would like to help out by sending a list of upcoming challenges please email us at howardkm@charter.net with your challenge blog name and URL.
Finally, we encourage everyone to become a follower and grab our badge to help spread the word. We have many more exciting things coming to Feline Playful and hope you will share the journey with us!
The Team
We’ve created some fun quick reference buttons on the sidebar to help you find what you are looking for! For a list of challenges click on the CHALLENGES button and once you’ve entered a few challenges don’t forget to click the WINNERS button to find out if you are a recent winner. Did you notice that we said WINNERS! Yes, we are now listing who the recent winners are of all your favorite challenges. We encourage you to visit the winners and congratulate them on their recent win.
We’ve also added a page to keep track of DT CALLS. If you’ve recently posted or know of a Design Team Call that is not already listed on the page we’d love to hear from you, simply email Karen at howardkm@charter.net with a direct link to the Design Team Call post and we’ll add it to the list.
We will also be adding a page you are all sure to love, BLOG CANDY. In order to get this going though we need your help! If you are offering blog candy or know of another follower who is we’d love to hear from you, simply email Karen at howardkm@charter.net with a direct link to the blog candy post and we’ll add it to the list.
We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your ongoing support and all the encouraging comments! They really mean a lot to us. A HUGE thanks to all the challenge blogs who are taking time to send us updates, we hope that you will continue to do so. If you are a challenge blog and would like to help out by sending a list of upcoming challenges please email us at howardkm@charter.net with your challenge blog name and URL.
Finally, we encourage everyone to become a follower and grab our badge to help spread the word. We have many more exciting things coming to Feline Playful and hope you will share the journey with us!
The Team
Monday, January 10, 2011
Give a comment, receive a comment...
Hi everyone! Many of you are probably familiar with this idea from SCS but since not everyone is a member of SCS thought I'd give it a try here and have also added a fun new twist! The idea is basically to give a comment, receive a comment as well as become a follower, gain a follower except multiply this by 10, 100 or however many are willing to join in the fun!!!
To get started we first form a group with as many bloggers as possible then we'll visit each other over a 10 day period to leave some love and become followers. For example, on day 1 we'll visit and become followers of all the blogs with links ending in the number 1 (i.e. 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, etc.) On day 2 we'll visit and become followers of all the blogs with links ending in the number 2 and so on. To keep things simple let's say day 1 is January 1, 2011.
If you are interested in joining in the fun simply enter your name using the linky widget below. You will have until midnight on December 31st to join in the fun (see linky widget below for remaining time to enter). Please link using your main blog URL so we are able to see your most recent posts when visiting, thank you and enjoy! This post will remain at the top until then, please scroll down for daily posts!
To get started we first form a group with as many bloggers as possible then we'll visit each other over a 10 day period to leave some love and become followers. For example, on day 1 we'll visit and become followers of all the blogs with links ending in the number 1 (i.e. 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, etc.) On day 2 we'll visit and become followers of all the blogs with links ending in the number 2 and so on. To keep things simple let's say day 1 is January 1, 2011.
If you are interested in joining in the fun simply enter your name using the linky widget below. You will have until midnight on December 31st to join in the fun (see linky widget below for remaining time to enter). Please link using your main blog URL so we are able to see your most recent posts when visiting, thank you and enjoy! This post will remain at the top until then, please scroll down for daily posts!
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