Monday, 28 November 2011

MMM - Week 26

Good morning and welcome to week 26 at the Make My Monday challenge blog. We had a record amount of entries last week - thank you so much, please come back tomorrow to see if you came top 3.
Our challenge this week is a
DECORATED BOX (IN A CHRISTMAS STYLE)
Here are the samples from the fabulous dt







Please click on the names to visit the blogs and please upload your new projects (no back links please) in the linky below. Please link your blog post only and not your whole blog and please put a link to us in your post.

Sunday, 27 November 2011

New DT Members

Hello everybody - just a quick post to let you know who we chose as new members of the Make My Monday Deezine Team.
Firstly - she proved such a fantastic Guest Designer that we just couldn't let her go - Mynnette.
And secondly the hugely talented Val.
Pop back for proper introductions later in the week.
Thank you so much to those that entered the DT Call - it was a tough decision to choose just 2 - Jacqueline.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

MMM Mid-week Motivation - Snowflakes

Good afternoon, here's a card I made to fit in with our Flowers, Foliage or Snowflakes theme for this week, don't forget that we are still focusing on Christmas


It's a square card base with some blue card stock layered on the top. The white card stock was put through my Cuttlebug first to cut out the rectangle and then in a snowflake embossing folder. Snowflakes were punched from thin card stock, sponged with blue ink and glittered before sticking over the aperture. A pale blue ribbon was added to the side with some silver elastic cord and various beads and sequins.
Hope this inspires you to create something for our challenge this week - pop back in a couple of days to see who we have picked to join our Deezine Team - Jacqueline.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Top 3 Winners

Good evening all - sorry for the lateness of this post but here they are - the Top 3 CAS Christmas Cards




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

Monday, 21 November 2011

MMM - Week 25

Good morning all and welcome to week 25 of the Make My Monday Challenge blog. We are well into the Christmas spirit now and we had some lovely CAS cards entered last week - pop back tomorrow to find out who has made the top 3.
This week we want to see more Christmas but with the added extras of
FLOWERS, FOLIAGE OR SNOWFLAKES

Just a quick note about the monthly Guest DT spot - in order to get organised and tell the Guest designer about the December challenges this is the final week that you can apply. So please if you are interested put GDT after your name in the linky box.

Here are our DT samples starting with this month's Guest - Mynnette






Fliss

Cath

Jacqueline

Please click on the names to visit the blogs and please upload your new projects (no back links please) in the linky below. Please link your blog post only and not your whole blog and please put a link to us in your post.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

MMM Mid-week Motivation - CAS Christmas Cards.

Our DT Call has now closed, thank you to all who entered - we will be letting you know by e-mail soon if you have been successful.

Mid-week Motivation has returned and I have a quick step by step tutorial on creating a Clean and Simple card with the emphasis on the sentiment.

 Take piece of white card stock and stamp a Clarity Stamps sentiment in Versa Color Green Tea ink, then emboss it using Silver Pearl embossing powder.
I'm sure that the same effect could be achieved by printing your sentiment on the computer and I know that there are products on the market that allow you to print and then emboss.
 The embossing over the green ink has given it a very subtle sheen but any embossing powder could be used or you could just used ink.
 Use some Versamark ink to stamp poinsettias on to some vellum paper. This is another of my freebies from the Craft Stamper mag which was also embossed using the Silver Pearl. Take great care when heating vellum as it doesn't take much for it to burn!
Select which parts of the image you want to use and colour them in.
Carefully cut out your coloured images making sure that the inks have dried. I used some brush tipped markers and they took ages to dry and I ended up having to blot them on tissue. I don't know how Promarkers would work on vellum but the may dry quicker.
Layer up your images and secure with a brad. I also attached the brad to the white card stock before mounting on to green card as this then hides the legs of the brad on the back.









To take part in this week's challenge click here - see you next week - Jacqueline.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Top 3 and October Winner

Our Top 3 for the Vintage/Traditional Christmas challenge is:




Congratulations ladies please feel free to copy and paste the winners badge from the side bar.
Our monthly winner for October is
Congratulations - please e-mail me your postal details (deezinesart@gmail.com) and I will find a little something to send you. - Jacqueline
Who would like to see their card on Facebook? Just like our page, enter the challenge and wait and see! Our Facebook badge is in the side bar.