Monday, 19 November 2012

Autumn: Vellum

Good morning all and welcome to another challenge at Make My Monday - we have a lovely challenge for you today as we are continuing our
AUTUMN SUPPLIES
theme. This week we want to see projects including
VELLUM.
Don't for get we have a sponsor this month
Vee Cassidy

is offering this month's lucky winner a £10.00 voucher for
Joanna Sheen

Take a look at this week's DT and GDT line up

Suzanne

Sunday, 18 November 2012

Kraft & String (Twine) Top 3

Here are the lovely winner of the Kraft & String (Twine ) Challenge




Congratulations ladies please feel free to copy and paste the winners badge from the side bar.


Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Mid Week Motivation Faux Stitches

Hi everyone it's Suzi B here with this weeks Mid Week Motivation.
I thought I'd share with you how I made the leaves on this weeks DT piece.

 Supplies







I used TH tattered Leaves die to cut the leaves from an A4 DP from Chocolate Baroque






I ran the sewing/marker wheel along the leaves. This makes the paper bend and crunch which all helps to the look of an a Autumn leaf. I find the 50p Ikea mouse mat ideal when using the marker wheel
 I mark out the holes first with a fine liner, its not always necessary to do this but I think it gives a better look I then join up the dots. Don't worry if you miss a bit it all works out OK in the end.
Once this is done I shaded the leaves with TH DI's  until I had the desired effect, this also adds to the crinkled look as the points girl in etc.... Wed 11.06... just spotted girl! should read curl of course, like you wouldn't have guessed.... lol... Didn't correct it, I thought it might make you smile....it did me :o)

 I also shade the reverse
I hope you find this technique helpful and you are able to use it  in your projects.
 Suzi B


Monday, 12 November 2012

Autumn: Stitching--Real or Faux

Good morning all and welcome to another week at Make My Monday. We are continuing our
AUTUMN SUPPLIES
theme and this week we want to see some
STITCHING - REAL OR FAUX.
Don't forget we have a sponsor this month
Vee Cassidy

Vee is offering our winner this month a £10.00 voucher for
Joanna Sheen

Here are the DT cards for this week - the first two are our Guest Designers for this month

Suzanne


Saturday, 10 November 2012

A Very Late Top 3 and Monthly Winner

So sorry these are so late but here they are - the winners from the French Feminine Romance Challenge:




Congratulations ladies please feel free to copy and paste the winners badge from the side bar.
Our monthly winner and possible guest designer for December is
Congratulations Yvonne - please e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com for details of the December challenges.


Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Midweek Motivation - Autumn Kraft Card and Twine

Hello folks, it's Fliss here today to share a little inspiration for the current challenge featuring my favourite time of year as I really love to see the trees turning gorgeous shades of amber and rust, to me as great as seeing the first green leaves of Spring.
My creation is a simple tag made with the Tim Holtz cabinet die for a very different and slightly more unusual shape.


I die cut the shape using kraft card and embossed it with the Darice fall leaves folder perfect for this time of year.
I stamped the beautiful bird with berries (Gordiano by Joanna Sheen) with Memories creamy coffee chalk ink and then coloured up with watercolour pencils. I cut out the image to leave a contrasting cream border.
I added a scrap of corrugated card painted a deep rusty red near the base, popped on the image with foam tape, added a rustic string tie and the top and there we have a finished tag - very easy if like me you did the watercolouring whilst watching TV!

Hope you like this.
Fliss xx

Monday, 5 November 2012

Autumn: Kraft & Twine

Good morning crafters and welcome to a new month of crafty challenges. We are celebrating
AUTUMN
and we are also having a
USE YOUR SUPPLIES
month.
This week we want to see your crafty projects incorporating
KRAFT AND STRING (TWINE)
Phew - have you got all that? Also this month we welcome the return of one of our past DT members - Suzanne plus last month's winner Avril - check out their creations below.
Also - and here's the best bit we have a prize this month.
Vee is offering this month's winner a £10.00
Voucher - how cool is that just before Christmas?
Please make sure you follow all our rules to qualify for this wonderful prize.
Now take a look at our DT line up for this week.




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