Top Tip Tuesday - #61

Good Top Tip Tuesday Morning

What fabulous Tags you showed us last week - were you one of our lucky winners?




This week we have an amazing Tutorial for you...


By our very own Janette, she is showing us how to make a Tri-Fold Shutter Card.





If you want to know how to make this amazing card pop over to Top Tip Tuesday now!




So this week's challenge is...





More Than 1 Fold

Our Sponsors are:

1st Prize
Simon Says Stamp




Simon Says Stamp is offering a $20 gift voucher to spend in their store!!

2nd Prize
 Sew Sweet

The lovely Emma from Sew Sweet is offering 1 lucky entrant
a £10.00 voucher to spend at her yummi shop.

And our Top Tipper Prize


 Stash Books





who are offering our featured tipper this brilliant book:

Calling Cards—Connect with Style

Here's my 'More Than 1 Fold' offering.......

An Exploding Box.

This one is a Wedding Day Gift from a Groom to his Bride, and I'm sure they wont mind me adding it here as they are in Mexico getting married at the moment!

Can't wait to see your folds this week ;)

Top Tip Tuesday #60 - Tags!

Good Top Tip Tuesday Morning

I've had a little Top Tip Tuesday holiday recently but am now and all 'chilled out' and raring to get back! Pity I didn't feel the same about work ;)

Gorgeous 'Anything Christmas' creations this week - and so many of them too - thank you to each of you who takes the time to join in with our challenges - we wouldn't be what we are without you :)

This week we have one of our favorites....

Tipper Week!

As usual we have some amazing sponsors this week too...

Pink Cat Studio are offering one lucky winner 5 digis of their choice.

and

Glitterbabe Greetings is offering our featured Top Tipper 2 images of their choice from their shop!

To go with our Tipper Week we'd like to set this week's challenge for you to...

...use a Tag in your project

or

Make a Tag as your project!

My 'Tagged' project this week is a very simple but effective (I hope!) gift box....

My Top Tip to go along with my project this week is...

Gift boxes don't have to be elaborately decorated to look good!

Make a simple 'Paper Folded Box' in contrasting colours, use ribbon to give the box some style (this also covers the creases you get when making these ultra-easy boxes).

Add a matching tag and you have a perfect box, fit for that extra special gift!

If you'd like to see how to make one of these boxes pop over to  Craft & Creativity for a fab little 'How To' - an amazing site by the way!

Pop over to Top Tip Tuesday to see the rest of the DT's Top Tips for this week.

Don't forget we want your Top Tips.....so many of you are leaving Top Tips in your posts without realising! 

Once you've written your post, re-read it to see if you can identify a particular Top Tip in it....edit your post to mention your Top Tip is for Top Tip Tuesday and YOU could win our Top Tipper prize!

We look forward to seeing those Tags this week :)

Top Tip Tuesday #58

Good Top Tip Tuesday Morning

Did you all have a 'Spooktacular' Halloween last night - I hope so and if your Trick or Treat projects last week were anything to go by you all had fun too :)
We hope you enjoyed out Tipper Week too - we do love to share our Top Tips with you all.

This week our Challenge for you is....

'Make Your Own Papers or Background!'

Our wonderfully talented Samantha has written a fun tutorial for you
...Background papers with Impressibilities!

Pop over to Top Tip Tuesday to check it out now!

Our fab sponsors for this week are...

The Crafty Pad Designs

Prize - 2 Digi Images

and

Karen's Doodles


Winner will receive 3 digis from Karen's doodles of their choice.

We had some gorgeous Digi images to play with this week from Karen's Doodles and I chose the gorgeous Fairy Fun for my card.......

She's not s'posed to be a Christmas Fairy but dressed in the right colours she looks pretty seasonal, don't you think?

I made my background with a wad of 'Bubble-Wrap' as a stamp! How cool is that!

I used Brilliance Ink in 'Moonlight White'. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out too!

...and of course I just had to write a suitable sentiment in Word!

The sweet little Digi fairy was coloured using Promarkers and I'm just loving the extra fine nibs you can now buy for them - thing is I've only got 6 at the moment so have to be selective with my fine colouring until I get more!!!

So get those inks/chalks/mist sprays/etc out and start making some backgrounds - we can't wait to see them!

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

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Pollycraft Monday - Anything Goes

Papertake - Anything Goes

Carisma Cardz - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - CaS Christmas

PCJ - Use a Digi