Midweek Motivation - Add Some Dimension

Hello again, everyone, Rosie here again.  I do hope you are enjoying our challenge this week and have been inspired by our DT makes.
For a little more inspiration, I have created a pendant I wanted to share with you.  I do hope you will enter your beautiful dimensional pieces this week,

Rosie x



Add some Dimension - 3D elements

Good Morning, today our challenge theme has been set by me, Rosie, and I would like to see your projects with some dimension.
This could be 3D Elements, Altered Objects, Decoupage or any other interpretation as long as it contains some dimension.
I hope you will be inspired by our Design Team's Projects and look forward to seeing your beautiful entries.



Rosie x

Caz

Fliss

JAN

Laura

Jacqueline

Paper Piecing Top 3

Hello everyone, hoping you're all having a lovely weekend. I'm here today with the Top 3 for my Paper Piecing challenge and boy, did we have a difficult task this week with so many gorgeous entries which made it really hard to narrow it down but there could only be 3 so here they are in no particular order:

Bev D

Ellie Knol

CG

Many congratulations everyone and you'll find your badge on the right side bar.

Thanks to everyone who entered and sorry you couldn't all be winners. Hope to see you again soon.

Fliss x

Silhouettes - Midweek Motivation

Morning all - are you enjoying my challenge for you this week? I love silhouette cards as they are the perfect excuse for getting out my brayer. The card I have for you today uses just that technique - take a look

My white card has been brayered with a pale yellow ink first and then a post it note sun was added. Varying shades of red and orange inks were then brayerd to give a graduating effect and the post it note mask was removed before the black foliage was stamped - a little black ink was sponged around the edges and the bottom to finish it off.

This effect can also be achieved through sponging or using a large soft brush and there are lots of tutorials to be found on Youtube and Google. You may want to start with Michelle Zindorf as I used her tutorials as inspiration for both my cards this week.

I hope this has inspired you to take part this week - details of the challenge can be found by clicking the 'challenges' button in the side bar.

Photo Inspiration Top 3 Winners

Here are the 3 lovely winners from our Photo Inspiration Challenge

Aquarius

Joan W

Pooja

Congratulations ladies please grab your winners badge from the side bar.

Silhouettes

Good morning all and welcome to another challenge here at Make My Monday. This week it's me Jacqueline with the weekly theme and I would like to see cards and projects featuring some

SILHOUETTES

The DT have had great fun with this - come and take a look at what we have for you today.

We would love you to stop by our blogs too - just click on our names to hop on over

Jacqueline

Laura 

Caz

JAN

Rosie x

Fliss

Mid Week Motivation - Paper Piecing

Hello there, Fliss here today with a little inspiration for the current challenge theme of Paper Piecing chosen by yours truly in the form of a tag using one of my favourite stamps at the moment, a Prima doll by the very talented collage artist Julie Nutting. Hope you like it.

I made the tag for this myself using the rather natty tag style packaging that comes with the doll as a pattern to cut my tag from thick white card. This is mainly because the doll is an amazing 19cm tall so needs something quite large as a base.
I coloured the tag by applying Peacock Feathers Distress ink to some crumpled wax paper, spritzing on a little water then swiping the tag over until it was covered in the slightly diluted ink. I then applied more of the ink direct from the pad with a sponge using my favourite Prima stencil (Flourish).
I stamped some of the borders from the Prima Welcome To Paris cling set with Memories black ink and added a couple of rows of faux stitching made with theTim Holtz ruler and a fine black pen.
I stamped the doll on thick smooth cartridge paper and just the frock element on some Crate Paper decorated paper from the DIY Shop paper pad with black ink. I coloured the doll parts with Aquamarkers then cut her out along with the frock and added the frock to the image with double sided tape.
I made a layered flower with some plain Prima flowers and a patterned one using the same paper die cut using a Hot Off The Press Bodacious Blooms die set. I added a small paper rose to the centre.
I assembled the tag as you see, adding some cream crochet lace, a dotty black bow and some Paper Artsy text with some hessian type wired leaves.

I hope you're now inspired to enter if you haven't done so already as it really is very easy to paper piece!

Fliss xx