Top Tip Tuesday #36

Good Top Tip Tuesday morning to you all :)

Thank you to each one of you who entered last weeks challenge - we wish we had a prize for each and every one of you!

 

 

 

Unfortunately we don't, so have you checked to see if you are one of our lucky winners this week?

 

 

 

 

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Time is running out to apply for our DT - Hurry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't forget over at TTT we love to hear your Top Tips

...that's why we're called Top Tip Tuesday!
If you make a card for our challenge and have any tip to add to your post, please do so - you've only got to mention the tip is for TTT and you'll get put into another prize draw...just remember to write 'TIP' next to your name in Mr Linky.
You can link up just a tip if you want to .....you don't have to make a project too!

Let's get those TIPS out there!


Please ensure you add (TIP) after your name on Mr Linky when you add a tip.
Only Tips with (TIP) on Linky may go into the Top Tipper Draw :(

 

On to this week.....

 

 

Eiglas has done a fantastic tutorial on a Maze Book

 

 

 

and we have more gorgeous sponsors for this weeks challenge.......

Pink Gem Designs

4 digi images of winners choice

AND

 

Digital Delights by Louby Lou

 

How great are those prizes!

To be in with a chance of winning one all you have to do is join in with this week's challenge which is...

'Wrap It With Ribbon'

 

Use ribbon on your project

 

Here's my 'Wrap it with Ribbon' offering...............

 

I've used a gorgeous image from

Digital Delights called 'Bride & Groom'

 

 

 

 

Get those ribbons out and use them on your creation - we can't wait to see them.............

 

ABC Christmas...2nd Guest Design Spot

Good Morning crafters :)

Remember I told you 2 weeks ago I'd won a Guest Design Spot over at ABC Christmas Challenge...

well this morning is part 2...

This fortnight's letter is K

And today K is for Kraft and Kids!

ABC Christmas Challenge have some gorgeous sponsors for this challenge.....LOOK!

My card incorporating Kraft & Kids is....

Isn't that image the sweetest - it's from one of this week's sponsors

 Karen's Doodles and is called 'First Snowfall'

I printed it onto Kraft card and coloured it with PrismaColours - I just LOOOOVE using those pencils on kraft. However, I have a long way to go yet before I get results like some I see out there in BlogLand....but I keep practicing!

Please make sure you pop over to ABC Christmas Challenge to see what the rest of the DT and GDT have done.

I'd like to say a huge thank you to you all at ABC Christmas Challenge for asking me join you for the last 2 challenges - I've loved it and will be on the lookout for more GD's spots with you.....if you'd have me back!

Some Challenges....

Creative Inspirations - Christmas in May

Top Tip Tuesday #35

Good Top Tip Tuesday morning to you all :)

What a gorgeous selection of 'One For The Kids' we had last week :)

They were amazing!

Have you checked to see if you are one of our winners?

Don't forget over at TTT we love to hear your Top Tips

...that's why we're called Top Tip Tuesday!
If you make a card for our challenge and have any tip to add to your post, please do so - you've only got to mention the tip is for TTT and you'll get put into another prize draw...just remember to write 'TIP' next to your name in Mr Linky.
You can link up just a tip if you want to .....you don't have to make a project too!

Let's get those TIPS out there!


Please ensure you add (TIP) after your name on Mr Linky when you add a tip,
so many people didn't last week!
Only Tips with (TIP) on Linky may go into the Top Tipper Draw :(

On to this week.....

 It's Maggie's turn this week and she's prepared a tutorial on

Kissing Technique

and all you'll need is 2 ink pads, 2 stamps and a piece of card!

We have 3 great sponsore this week......

Stash Books

who is offering our featured tipper an amazing book:

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Limited Runs

3 images of your choice

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Pizzazz Aplenty

  is offering this fabulous stack of goodies..

WOWZERS!!!

How great are those prizes!

To be in with a chance of winning one all you have to do is join in with this week's challenge which is...

'2 or More Stamps'

These can be rubber stamps, Digi or an assortment!

Here's my sample using x2 Digi Images from Limited Runs

Please pop over to TTT to check out the rest of the '2 Stamp Samples'



2 Little Fishes!

Hi Everyone!

Have you been over to TTT and checked out the DT Call yet?

Even if you don't want to apply to become one of our Team you can still join in the mini Candy!

I 've been very slack with my challenge cards recently - I wish my numbers would come up so I didn't have to go to work so often!

Even tho Challenge cards are not right at the top of my 'To Do' list at the moment there is one challenge that always is....Less is More!

This week is the 'One Layer' Challenge and here's my effort....

These Sweet little Pink Petticoat fishes are from a FREE set of stamps from Papercraft Essentials Magazine - aren't they great?

I stamped directly onto the card blank and coloured them lightly with my PrismaColours. I added dots of Crackle Glaze (that was all that was to hand when the urge took me!) and dusted with Glamour Dust.

Aaarrrrhhhhh! I didn't do EMBOSSING! I just got carried away with the 'One Layer'!

I'll have to do another one ;)

To finish off I was just wondering if anyone wanted to be my new best friend?????

Yep! that's 15 Take That Tickets you can see....8 for Cardiff and 7 for Wembley!

They're not ALL for me - although I will be going to both Cardiff AND Wembley to see them!!!

And I managed to get George Michael Tickets yesterday too :)

Top Tip Tuesday #34

Good Top Tip Tuesday to you all :)

What a gorgeous selection of Flower Frenzies we had last week :)

FABBY!

Don't forget over at TTT we love to hear your Top Tips

...that's why we're called Top Tip Tuesday!
If you make a card for our challenge and have any tip to add to your post, please do so - you've only got to mention the tip is for TTT and you'll get put into another prize draw...just remember to write 'TIP' next to your name in Mr Linky.
You can link up just a tip if you want to .....you don't have to make a project too!

Let's get those TIPS out there!


On to this week.....


It's my turn this week and I'm sharing a tutorial that I wrote, well took the photos for, a long time ago but never had the opportunity to pass on! Yeah that's how mad I am - I was writing tutorials before I even had anyone to tell!!!
When Leanne asked me to join TTT I knew these pictures and a write up would at last see the light of day!
And today is that day!



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What about this week's prizes?????

We have 2 awesome sponsors again this week...

Random.Org prize for projects following the theme is:

who are offering one lucky winner a £10 gift voucher to use in their shop.

and our 'Top Tipper' this week will win:

Some fabby images from...

http://www.softpencilstudios.com/

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This week's theme for the challenge is...

'One For The Kids'
Make any project for a child.


My tutorial to go with this theme is something I just LOVE making...

Nappy Cakes....

There is a page tab at the top of my blog that will take you to a selection of my Nappy Cakes - but I've never shown how I do them!!!!!! (Not that it's a big state secret mind!)

So go on then..................you know you want to................go see............

ABC Christmas Challenge - GD

Morning All :)

A couple of weeks ago I won 1 of 3 Guest Designer Spots over at The ABC Christmas Challenge Blog - I was sooooo chuffed when they picked me - how wicked is that!!!!

Today over at The ABC Challenge Blog it is the turn of the letter J.....

(do you know how many years of watching Sesame Street I've wanted to say something like that!!!)

This challenge the 'Ever-so Talented' Helen has written a tutorial on how to make a

Joy Fold Card

...and it's fab!!!

Simon Says Stamp are sponsoring the Joy Fold Card Challenge ...pop over to The ABC Christmas Challenge Blog for more details.

Here's my Joy Fold.....

I've used Mo Manning's 'Kai in the Snow', Dovecraft 'WinterWonderland' Papers, some Mirror Mosaic Tiles and a Snowflake Brad for the 'closure'.

Please pop over to The ABC Christmas Challenge Blog to check out the talented DT card and of course Helen's fab Tutorial.

I'm soooo looking forward to my next GD Card on the 25th

......a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,... I wonder what it could be?????

Top Tip Tuesday #33

Good Top Tip Tuesday to you all :)

What gorgeous creations you all made last week for our 'Open Challenge'
...have you popped over to see if you're one of our winners?



This week we have a gorgeous Tutorial by our very talented Samantha

Pop over to see how to make Candy Flowers!

This week our

Flower Frenzy Challenge

is sponsored by some great companies....

Robyn's Fetish!

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More

is proud to sponsor this challenge, and they are offering our lucky winner 4 stamps of their choice!

AND

Ooh La La Creations is offering you any 1 of their CDs!



My Flower Frenzy card........

I've rubber stamped the flowers onto Shrink Plastic and the center image is a Digi from Robyns Fetish called Spring Flowers. All flowers were coloured with Promarkers before 'shrinking'!



...get those flowers blooming and let those petals flow...
we want to see your Flower Frenzy cards!!!!

Some Challenges I'd like to enter my card into....

Stamp Something - Digi

Less is More - White on White

Good Evening all :)

Firstly I'd like to say a huge Thank You for all of the fantastic friends who sent me beautiful birthday cards for yesterday - they mean so much :)

I've had a very 'quite' Birthday Weekend - well other than Friday night when a few girlies from work came round and we didn't stop laughing till stupid o'clock!

I hope you've all had a good weekend too have enjoyed whatever you've been doing.

Right then, on with business....

This week the fantastic Chrissie and Mandi over at Less is More have challenged us to

White on White!

Here's my effort...

I'm afraid to say I don't know what embossing folder this is as it was sent as a RAK!

It is embossed onto Pearlised white card hence the different in whites!

I added a few clear glitter dots and some white Stickles to add a bit of interest.

If you've not yet seen the amazing entries for LiM this week you must pop over and have a look -  if you could leave some comments on some entries too that would be amazing :)

Wedding Memories....

Evening bloggers - I hope you're all getting back to normal after all of the lovely long weekends we've just had! I'm still getting used to being back in work after 11 days off -  It takes me at least 2 weeks back in work to get up to pace!

 

Tonight I thought I'd share a Wedding Memories Book I've done for a Wedding a friend is attending at the weekend - I am quite happy that no-one will see it here so couldn't wait to share!!!

 

I got the idea of these Memory Books when, at the end of last year, another friend said she was going to a very small wedding (only a dozen people) but wanted to give the couple something they could look back on.

I came up with this variation on a Guest Book.

I hate the thought of people writing directly into a 'guest book' (a little OCD there me thinks!) so I included Die Cut cards for the guests to write on - that way the book would be kept neat. This then evolved into a 'kit' for the bride to decorate the pages with once she's added the cards.

When I took this first Wedding Memories Book into work I had orders for more - and they were for big Weddings! The kit and what's included has changed each time as I think of other things that would work well - I now included a gift card with the kit explaining to the couple what the bits are for and include some decorating ideas.

 

Here's a couple more pics...

I still have loads of ideas to try and include in these books and everyone who orders them says how nice it is that everyone of them is so different - not just in how they look but everything that's included!

I'd like to enter my Wedding Memories Book into the following challenges...

Diva's By Design - FIRST CHALLENGE - Anything Goes!

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes!


Pollycraft - Anything Goes!

Top Tip Tuesday #32

Good Top Tip Tuesday to you all :)

What a gorgeous array of makes you all entered last week - have you popped over to see if you're one of our winners?

This week over at Top Tip Tuesday we are having a very

special 'Tip-Tastic'

Open Challenge!

That means you can make anything you want to!!!!!!

This week tho we really want to see those Top Tips linked - so make sure you write your Top Tip on your blog and link it to Mr Linky with 'Tip' after your name - how easy is that!

You can also go through the links this week to find all of those great Top Tips - it'll be easy to spot them as they'll have 'Tip' written after their name.

 

This week we have 2 great sponsors:

 

Random.Org prize for one of the linked projects into this week's Open Challenge...

Prize - 2 Digi Images

 

AND

 

This week's Top Tipper will win...

 

As this week we are focusing on 'Tips' all of the DT have posted one of their favorite 'Top Tips' along with their 'Open Challenge' make.

Pop over to Top Tip Tuesday to check them all out!

My Open Challenge for this week is a bag made from a pair of jeans.........

The idea, I'm afraid to confess, wasn't one of my own....it came from issue 1 of 'Simply Homemade'

If you've not yet seen this magazine you have to look out for it next time you're in the Supermarket - it covers so many crafts and is a fantastic read as well as 100 pages of inspiration!

I did add the 'CarolJenks' twist to my bag by making the handle adjustable - I hate it when you are limited by a one-length-only handle!

The 'Top Tip' I'm sharing with my bag is......

Need some material for making those little projects? Then don't go to the fabric shops....go to the charity shops! The material I have lined my bag with was a dress I paid £3 for - and there's loads left for other projects too!

I bought a few shirts, a lacy skirt and some children's denim skirts to alter!

But that's for another time!

I've made a little charm for my bag using 'Teddies' by DigiSparkle - one of our sponsors this week.

I printed it onto Shrink Plastic, coloured with Prisma Pencils and added some bits of an old necklace!

To print on Shrink Plastic...... Print a 'dummy run' of your image onto a piece of card - attach the Shrink Plastic with sticky tape OVER the printed image (top and sides only, don't tape all 4 sides) and then run through the printer again but this time on DRAFT.

I hope you've enjoyed looking at my Jeans Bag as much as I enjoyed making it!

I'd like to enter my bag and charm into the following challenges....

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes!

Pollycraft  - Anything Goes!


Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes!

Less is More.......

Good evening everyone - I hope you've all had a wonderful couple of Bank Holiday weekends and some extra time off work! I have...I was one of those people to have 11 days off for only 3 days leave! But back tomorrow :(  Oh well, I have to pay for my stash somehow!!!

I had a fantastic week with my mum staying, so didn't get as much crafting done as I could have....but we did get the sewing machine out.....come back at 8.30 in the morning to see what I made ...and I am sooooo chuffed with it!!!

Anyhow, I've made this Wedding card tonight as part of an order for a girl in work. I've almost finished the 'Wedding Memories' Book to go with it and will upload that very soon. I know that there is no risk of Kayti or Christian seeing this before their big day.....

As this card is to match the 'Wedding Memories' Book I wanted to keep it quite CaS, so an obvious choice was to pop over to Less is More and see what their challenge was for this week!

...Well, to be honest I already knew it was 'Congratulations' or 'Thank You' as it's the first place I go on a Saturday Morning!

I must admit to getting my inspiration for this card from Mandi.

She's used a fab font too - which I have now downloaded - Thanks Mandi :)

Make sure you pop over to see all of the fantastic entries into Less is More - do a little hopping too, they are a generous group of participants :)

I'd also like to enter this card into....


Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes