Inspiration from Lynne

Good morning I hope you are all enjoying the Summer weather.

Today we have some inspiration from Lynne who is sharing two of her favorite creations from the past year and she has written a lovely post so I will hand over to her.......................

The first of my favourite creations from the past year or so was easy to choose: the altered mirror which I posted on my blog in February here.

The main reason for choosing this was the sense of achievement I gained from actually having completed the project! I had had the mirror in my stash for several years, and kept promising myself that I would get round to using it at some point. It took a while, but I did it in the end. I think it was the pretty Botanica papers (from Craftwork Cards) that finally spurred me into action, as the subject matter really appealed to me.

I still have two more blank mirrors, but I am making no promises as to when they might find themselves transformed!

My favourite project is often the one I am currently working on or have just finished, so I had to think a bit harder about my second for this post. I eventually decided on the altered domino pendants I made for pay-it-forward gifts, in November last year. I described them on my blog here.

Again, I had had the blank dominoes for years, longer even than the mirrors! I guess I was waiting for a reason to use them! I like making things in miniature, especially little scenes and landscapes. I think that stems from years of having to work in a room barely bigger than a cupboard, with a space of about 6 square inches on my desk to craft in. I have a lot more space now, but still tend to work on a small scale. I think a large blank canvas would scare me!

I also love working with alcohol inks, and jewellery making, which both came together in this project.

Thank you so much Lynne I am sure everyone enjoyed your post as much as I did.

June challenge

Welcome to our June challenge and this month our theme is............

******Animal Antics******

Whatever your style of crafting I am sure you have a stamp to fit the theme and we are looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

As always you can enter up to three times, combine with other challenges, all we ask is that as our name suggests we do want to see some stamping as a focal element of your work, entries not fitting that requirement may well receive comments from the DT but those entries will not be eligible for the prize and Top 3 spots.

Our sponsors this month are Crafty Individuals. Crafty Individuals are an exciting web based venture into the creative world of crafts and altered art products and produce an eclectic range of unique and top quality art rubber stamps, cutting dies, masks/stencils and paper craft products. They are offering our winner a £35 voucher to spend on whatever goodies they would like from the Crafty individuals web store! They have some wonderful new stamps and products out too, and you can read all about them on their blog. Co-owner and manager, Jean Hardy, has made this stunning card to fit with our theme.

Next is some inspiration from the Design Team and Rachel our  Guest Designer who had some lovely inky fun creating this beauty for us...........

Brenda


A rather tenuous link to the theme, embossed butterflies and tiny birds in the sky but I did want to share a card using a stamp from our sponsors called Field of Poppies 95276N, a lovely wood mounted stamp a good few years old but still a firm favorite.


Eret

Francesca

Lynne
 Using Crafty Individuals CI-209 & Miniatures Book "Nature's Beauty"

Maddy

Pinky

Sally
using CI-390 and CI-170

Tracy

Good luck to you all, myself and the DT look forward to checking out all your lovely entries.

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May winners

Time to announce the lucky winner of our May challenge, but not before saying a huge thank you for all your wonderful entries which topped the 300 mark, wow that really is going some.

So the lucky winner of that fabulous collection of goodies is...............

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Joan

Congratulations Joan, please mail me with your full postal addy so I can post your prize off to you.

And our Top 3..........

Anita

Dora

Karen

Well done to you all, please go collect our Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

Please pop back Sunday for our new challenge.

Our Prize for May and Mid Month inspiration

Good Morning! Thank you for all your fabulous entries so far, for our 'Anything Goes' challenge this month. You have plenty of time (until 28th May) to join in the fun if you haven't already entered. It is time to reveal our lovely prize for May. Feast your eyes on these goodies!

Our DT have been busy creating some more beautiful work to inspire you to get those stamps out and get making. Please remember we are a stamping challenge so the focal element of your entry must be stamped, but it can be anything you wish, you can enter up to three times and combine your entry with other challenges. Our challenge rules can be seen in detail here.

 

Brenda

Decorated and stamped tiles/coasters, lantern and bottles all from Barker Ross who have kindly provided some of the goodies in this months prize bundle

Eret

Lynne

Sally

Tracy

Good luck and we look forward to seeing your entries!

Sally xx

May challenge

Welcome to or May challenge where our theme is a nice and easy one.................

******Anything Goes******

The only thing you need to remember is we are a stamping challenge so the focal element of your entry must be stamped, but it can be anything you wish, you can enter up to three times and combine your entry with other challenge.

So what's with the box I hear you all ask, well this months prize is a mystery prize but what I can tell you for sure is that it will be a lovely collection of crafting goodies and all will be revealed later in the month.......don't we all love a bit of mystery every now and then ?

Elaine is our Guest Designer this month with this very pretty card, reminds me of some rather special china.............

Brenda

Eret

Francesca

Lynne

Maddy

Pinky

Sally

Tracy

Good luck everyone and we look forward to seeing all your lovely creations.

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April winners

It's time to announce our April winners and goodness me it really was it a difficult task for the DT with so many fabulous entries, almost 30 of you sharing all the imaginative things you can do with dies and punches, a huge thank you to each and every one of you for joining in and making it such a great month.

The lucky winner of the £40 shopping spend with our lovely sponsor PDA Card and Craft is.............

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Samantha

Super use of dies and stamps making a lovely scene

Congratulations Samantha, please mail me with your full name and postal addy so I can arrange your prize and don't forget to grab out winners sidebar badge (but please bear with me getting back to you as I am in hospital for a few days).

And our Top 3...................

Cinzia

So many dies combined beautifully in this pretty creation

Hilda

Lots of lovely texture and cog dies used to great affect

Louise

A super fusion of colours and delicate dies

Well done to you all, please collect our Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

See you all Sunday for our May challenge.