Crafting for Gold - Day 7
03/08/2012
A very warm welcome to you all today. Before we start the Crafting for Gold, I would like to thank everyone for their warm good luck wishes. All went well with Alis operation yesterday, she is well strapped up and feeling very sore, but it appears that everything was successful. Her radial nerve was trapped in her forearm and wrist and was causing pain in her thumb and hand - not nice.
Thankfully Ali was ahead with making creations for this event and with several of the posts, so over to Ali for todays details.
Today the design team had to use stitching real or faux. For todays fab prize given to us by Crafts & Me check out our Inspiration Blog here.
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I was sent this image from my teamie Cebelica once again beautifully coloured, all I had to do was dream up a design that included stitching!
Cebelica's swing image was so sweet that I felt I had to make it swing. I had a three fold card that for some reason had an aperture in two sides!! So I attached the image with ribbon and sandwiched it in-between the two folds of card. I used chalk to colour the white card blueish like the sky in Cebelica's image. I faux stitched around the inside of the card and the aperture. As for the ribbons it was really a no brainer, it had to be the NEW Candy Saddle Stitch here I threaded both turquoise and the red through the hole in the back of the "I Love You" button here. To finish the card i used our Saddle Stitch Happy Birthday ribbon here in red.
I think thats enough stitch!
Please do not forget to check out the Inspiration Blog here to see the other design team creations plus to add your name for todays prize.
Joint effort from Tony and Ali x
Crafting for Gold - Day 6
02/08/2012
Welcome to our Crafting for Gold, todays event is to use punches and our sponsor is Crafts & Me...................
Hello everyone,
We are a small family Craft business that came about when as a card making family, my daughters and young granddaughters and I that is! Not our men who do not make cards, although my husband has had a go....Could never find the stamps and crafts that we had seen advertised!
So, in the end we decided to start up Crafts and Me, so that we could get the products we wanted not only for us, but to offer to other crafters like you.
We love the different ranges of stamps and crafts that we get from all over the world and we hope you will love them too....
Our aim is to give you the best possible customer service that we can, and to treat our customers just as we would want to be treated ourselves.
So, enjoy looking at our shop and if you cannot find a product you would like, or if you have any suggestions about our shop we would love to hear from you, just email us at info@craftsandme.co.uk as we are always looking for ways to improve our site.
For today fab prize given to us by Crafts & Me check out our Inspiration Blog here.
Punches I have, but I was missing an image, so my teamie Cebelica came to my rescue once again with this fab image, all beautifully coloured.
I used punches to shape the corners on the three layers of the image with a corner punch. The dream, Love and Live were punched out with a flower punch (the one I use to photograph our silk ribbons!) and then finally I punched three circles to place over the top of my buttons. The buttons came from our button boxes here. The girlie ribbon is in our Summer Sale and you can find it here at only 50p per mtr is a BARGAIN!
Thank you for all your comments yesterday, I also thought my crafting buddies deserved a GOLD for their creations.........................
.............thanks for all the fun guys. Onto to some other news, I had a call from my consultant yestesday to give me the results of my MRI. By the time you read this I will be in hospital having an operation to (hopefully) stop the pain in my thumb and hand. My wonderful Tony has said he will carry on posting for me during the Crafting for Gold as I will be out of action for a few weeks.
Please wish me luck, feeling rather scared.
Crafting for Gold - Day 5
01/08/2012
Morning everyone and welcome to todays event in the Crafting for Gold which is Paper Piecing. Todays sponsor is Ladybug Crafts Ink
Ladybug Crafts Ink is the brainchild of me, Kerry, wife of one and mother of 3. I started making cards in December 2000 and never in a million years did I think I would have my own online store let along my own line of cling stamps. But here I am almost 10 years later having both!
I was a bit disillusioned with the stamps on the market .... same old same old and anything 'new' was just a variation on the 'old'. Last year I decided it was time to shake things up a bit, found myself an illustrator, Allan McConnachie, to get my ideas on paper and Nikki was born. I also found myself another illustrator, Moira Munro, when I wanted another character and Ruby Fairies entered the stamping world. |
You should all know what to do by now to enter for todays prize - visit our Inspiration Blog here
Ladybug Crafts allowed us to pick a digi image to use for todays event and I picked Cat Flap Magnum, not having any idea what paper piecing was all about. So I came to make todays card and asked Mandy for help to explain paper piecing to me - this was her reply email.......
"Paper piecing is where you stamp/print the image out then you do the same again but on patterned paper and then say the image had a waistcoat you would cut the waistcoat out of the patterned paper and stick it over the other one in the same place so now your image is coloured in but has a patterned waistcoat,hope that makes sense....."
......................yep as clear as mud! So here goes with my card, remember I had to print and colour and paper piece this card!!!
What do you think maybe a bronze? But I think Crafty Ribbons will get a Gold in ribbons - do you see the Keep Calm and carry on ribbon on my card? It is a NEW colour!!
You can find all the new colours - Apple Green, Turquoise and Royal here. As a bonus prize leave a comment onto this post and you could win ALL the ribbons in the Keep Calm and Carry on collection.
I was so unsure how I would get on colouring in my image, that I printed out a sheet of them. Since the school holidays started I have done very little crafting on my own, normally I have one or even two little helpers. I have a very long crafting desk, but yesterday I was pushed right to the end of it, having about a A4 size work space - why because I had not 1, not 2 BUT 3 little crafters!!!! They all wanted to colour the cat, Mollie told me off because I would not share my colouring pens and that hers were rubbish. Sam complained that the double sided tape was not sticking - he had not removed the backing paper. And Syd was rather put out that the other two were there!!!
Anyway, would you like to see their creations.....................................In order of age!
Sydney aged 7 with tabby cat and her pop out card.
A side view to show the construction of her pop out card.
Sam aged 4 - started to draw on my jigsaw picture frame before I had a chance to remove it!!
Mollie aged 3
These cards were made by the children, I gave them no help.
Hope you like todays creations
Crafting for Gold - Day 4
31/07/2012
Welcome all to day 4 of our Crafting for Gold. Todays event is Flowers. So what better sponsor to have for this event than.........
MULBERRY CRAFTS
MuberryCraftsUK online shop is a Home-Based business run by Bev . Who juggles caring for her family and running this business from home.
At the moment we are focussing on providing miniature flowers made from genuine mulberry paper for crafts use - although we have a small selection of non -paper crafts too. Why mulberry paper? Because they are robust, realistic look and last longer than ordinary paper and it provides a sustainable income for people in the cottage industry. In due course we will be introducing more of other craft materials which is not related to mulberry paper.
You should all know what to do by now to enter for the prize - visit our Inspiration Blog here
This is my entry for todays event.
Not my normal style, but then crafting is all about trying different things. I used our flower sheer ribbon here behind my posy of flowers. I raided the childrens craft boxes for the gems, I thought the circle looked a bit blank without them. Boy were they a pain to glue in place, I just could not hold them!!! Then I slipped my signature ribbon tag into the flowers using our NEW Sentiment ribbon here.
Quite a pretty card, although I would aim to hand deliver it, not sure I could trust Mr Postie not to crush it!
Check out the design teams wonderful flower creations here. It is amazing what you can do with flowers!
Have a great day
Crafting for Gold - Day 3
30/07/2012
Hi everyone and welcome to day 3 of our Crafting for Gold. Todays event is to use buttons.
Our sponsor today...........................can you guess.....................yes it is Crafty Ribbons with a fab prize of...........
.................3 button boxes. For a chance to win these fab buttons you have to visit our inspiration Blog here
As you can imagine I had very little problem with this event, apart from deciding which ones to use!!! So to my creation for today, buttons..............
I think the gold has slipped through my fingers again today, I could have got those buttons closer to the side edge to hide my cardboard shape. Not fully fit, trying to use my glue gun with my right thumb!!
Looks a bit better in this photo. Must try harder Ali with tomorrows event, we are looking for a Gold!
My creation was very different from those of my team mates, go and check their creations out here.
Now for some more goodies from our Ribbon Challenge. Kara made the card below while England was still in Euro Football, but I think we could convert it to an Olympic football card.
Super use of the Candy Saddle Stitch ribbon here Kara, and what craftmanship cutting all those footballs out - amazing. This card really made me smile when I took it from the envelope.
This ribbon makes great rosettes, perfect for the Olympics too Kara, your colour combo is wonderful. Thank you for joining our Challenge Kara, we hope you enjoyed playing with the ribbons.
Don't forget to leave your name on the Inpiration Blog here for a chance to win the buttons. I am off to practice my event for Wednesday, never done it before!! So you may be in for a right giggle.
Have a great day
Crafting for Gold - Day 2
29/07/2012
Welcome to Day 2 of our Crafting for Gold Event. Todays event was create your own background, and todays sponsor is:
Quintessentially English rubber stamps, with unique and highly detailed deep etched designs – all made in England.... IndigoBlu is a web based Company who supply their fabulous stamps and products to lots of Brick & Mortar shops...It is based in Retford,Nottinghamshire and is run by a Husband & Wife team....
Please checkout their fabulous stamps on their IndigoBlu website
To find out the prize details from Indigo Blu check out our Inspiration Blog, have a look at the design team creations and Oh put your name on the list for a chance to win the prize!
OK back to background..................can you guess what I used? Yes ribbon!!
The image is from Indigo Blu which I have cut around and mounted onto black card. I covered the white card with black and white dotty ribbon here. For the sentiment at the base of the card I used three layers of ribbon finishing with our NEW Sentiment ribbon here . Do you think I would be in the running for a Gold with this card?
Please do not forget to make a visit to the Inspiration Blog here
Have fun.
Crafting for Gold - Day 1
28/07/2012
Welcome to our first day of Crafting for Gold, our event for today is embossing and our sponsor is...............
We are a small company bringing you a selection of Clear Polymer Stamps, Digital Images, Digital Papers and exclusive Rubber Stamps with a few essential supplies.
We do have a prize from Crafty Sentiments, but for some reason I am unable to find what it is - sorry. But for a chance to win you need to pop over to our Inspiration Blog and leave your name.
Now I have to admit to you all at this stage................ummmmm.................what's embossing? Go on have a good laugh.
Rachie came to my rescue, she had a small embossing folder that she had been given as a freebie. That will do nicely thank you..............
...............only problem is that the picture has not picked it up very well. It is the little lilac tag just below the bow. If you look hard you can just make out the raised To and the F of From - sorry!
I do not think I will be getting a GOLD for my photography today, but the card shows good effort! My teamie Cebelica stamped and coloured the image for me, but I did the rest. I used my "nesties" to cut the image, I had them for my birthday 3 years ago and had never taken them out of the packet!!! The ribbon is from our lots of dots range here
We had a very constructive day in the warehouse yesterday - we restocked our bargain roll aisle and photographed them AND put them on the site!! Over 60 NEW Bargain rolls from 15mm wire edge taffetta to 23mm grosgrain to 39mm satin you can find them all here. Remember that these bargain rolls are either 10 or 20mtr rolls and are only 10p per mtr, that is such good value it is unbelieveable!!!!
To coincide with the launch of the games yesterday we have this fab offer...........................
Just enter GOLD into the voucher section to receive a massive 20% discount.
This applies to ALL orders over £20 (excluding postage).
Offer expires midnight on Sunday 29/07/12
...........................yippee, so all those ribbons you have been thinking about, or may even be in your basket - they could be yours for even less this weekend.
Don't forget to have a look at the design teams creations you can find them here
Have a fantastic day, Tony has a flight in a Tigar Moth Plane today, a birthday prezzie from last year. But we have been waiting for good weather!
Crafting for Gold - Opening Ceremony
27/07/2012
Today is the day it all starts. There are so many restrictions on what words we can use for this mass event that starts today, so we have decided not to use any!! But we are sure you will understand, we are holding an alternative event to the one that starts today. So if you get a little bored of watching ALL 24 channels the BBC are offering, then pull out your scissors, pots of glue and colouring pens and join us with Crafting for Gold.
Over the next two weeks we have different sponsors who have awarded us fantastic prizes, to win these prizes you need to visit our Inspiration blog here
Just follow the instructions on the blog to enter for the prizes. You can enter everyday and the winners will be picked by random org after the Closing Ceremony. You will have to check that you are a winner, we will NOT contact you.
Let's start the Crafting for Gold fun, our event for today is RIBBON.
We have a truly wonderful sponsor - the best in the ribbon world........................
That's right, it is Crafty Ribbons - yeah, as we hear the crowd roar as we enter the stadium - Team CR has arrived!
You could win a whopping £25 to spend on our website, just for putting your name on the list! Our design girls have come up with some super creations for this Opening Ceremony, please pop over to the Inspirtation blog just to have a look.
This is my creation - just from ribbons and a button.............
I think Team CR, with it's youngest team member, Mollie, could be the winner of the first gold medal......................
Look how pround Mollie is of her medal as she holds it up to the camera.
Pure gold medal - ribbon gold that is! I glittered one of our heart buttons here and used bits of gold ribbon. The instructions for this medal can be found here. Mollie loved her medal so much that Rachie rang me last night to say that Mollie insisted on taking it to bed with her!! How wonderful.
Please feel free to share your Ribbon creations on our facebook page here, or join in with our current Challenge here. We love to see what everyone makes, with the school holiday upon us, why not get the children crafting. Our 3 monsters love to craft!
We hope you enjoy our Crafting for Gold event, it will be running until the 12 August. Check back to see what event it is tomorrow and of course what prize is up for grabs.
Ribbon Beach Huts
26/07/2012
Oooh I do like my beach huts, and what a super job Tracey or Paul have made of crafting these ribbon beach huts. Aren't they stunning. This is a really clever design. The saddle stitch ribbon looks like planks of wood. Very taken by this card Tracey and Paul.
Not only have Tracey and Paul given us beach Huts but they have also provided the sunshine - how amazing is that! Super cards and thank you for taking part in our challenge. Sorry they have taken a while to appear on the blog.
Just a quickie post for me today, I am back to the hospital again with my thumb. No nasty injections this time but a MRI scan - I am feeling a little bit "liquorice allsorts" over it!!!
Wish me luck.
Hello wednesday - ribbon embroidery treat
25/07/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
I think you all know that Ribbon Embroidery is a passion of mine, and that sadly my damaged thumb has not allowed me to sew for a long while. So it was a real treat when I received an email on Monday from Alison.
Ooooh how I miss it. Alison your work and that of your sister is divine. There is just nothing else like Ribbon Embroidery, the silk ribbon just flows. The photos were sent with this fab email
"Hi
I just wanted to say how much I love your silk ribbons. And how great your service is, always very quick and the quality of the ribbon is lovely.
I have enclosed a couple of photos of the silk ribbon cards my sister and I make, so you can see how good your ribbons look when doing this style of embroidery.
Thanks again and I hope you enjoy the photos.
Regards"
What more can I say - thank you Alison for sharing your great designs with us all.
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