Make My Monday: 2011

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Just a little reminder that our final challenge of the year will carry on 'till midnight on New Year's eve.

The Deezine Team at Make My Monday would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank you to all our followers, visitors and contributors who have supported us so far - we look forward to seeing you again in 2012.

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Top 3 Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered last week's Red Ribbon challenge - there were some very fine entries and here are our top 3 favourites

7 - Cathy D

14 - Victoria

21 - Daniele

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

Monday, 19 December 2011

Morning all and welcome to the final challenge of 2011 at Make My Monday. There will be no challenge next week and this challenge will end on New Years Eve - so you have two weeks to get your entries in.
Our challenge this week is to include a

SEASONAL TAG

Here are some beautiful projects from the DT including our Guest Designer - Valerie

Caz

Val

Mynnette

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, 14 December 2011

MMM - Mid-week Motivation - Red Ribbon.

This week's post is a bit of a cheat really - here is what I have to show you

This is a hanging decoration - using red ribbon as the hanger. What you do is pull the bead up to the knot in the ribbon and the decoration un-folds. The bead is then pushed back and the decoration looks like this

OK - so the reason this is a cheat is..................... there will be a tutorial on how to make this decoration but as it is the subject of a workshop I am doing tomorrow night it won't be available till 7.30pm tomorrow night. You will be able to find it here on my Craft Club blog (you may be lucky and find it sooner - it just depends on how organised I am between now and then!)
The latest challenge can be found here and if you continue scrolling down from this post you will find the top 3 winners and our November prize winner - Jacqueline.

Top 3 winners

We had some really lovely glitter creations last week and here are our top 3 favourites

5 - Holly

10 - Julie P

38 - Claire C

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

Our November winner is MEGGYMAY - please e-mail me your details and I will organise posting this lovely prize to you generously donated by Suzi B.

Monday, 12 December 2011

MMM - Week 28

Good morning all and welcome to week 28 of the Make My Monday challenge blog. Please remember that there are only 3 challenges this month - no challenge on the 26th.
Continuing our SEASONAL theme this week we would like an added element of

RED RIBBON

Here is some festive inspiration for you from the dt including this week's fabulous Guest Designer - Val Wallis. Thank you to Vicky for last week's GDT project.

Val Wallis - Aquarius

Mynnette

Suzanne

Fliss

Cath

Caz

Suzi B

Val

Jacqueline

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

MMM - Mid-week Motivation - Glitter.

Hello all - this week we are asking for our Seasonal projects to include some glitter. I LOVE glitter so I thought that I would show you something I've been playing at this week.
I took some scraps of card stock and covered them with double sided tape - like this

I then SMOTHERED it in glitter and took a punch and punched a shape - like this

I then continued to glitter scraps and punch and made a seasonal topper - like this

Hope you like it - Jacqueline

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Top 3

Our top 3 for the Christmas Box challenge is

3 - Joan

6 - Fixi

10 - Meggymay

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

Monday, 5 December 2011

MMM - Week 27

Good morning all and welcome to week 27 of the Make My Monday challenge blog. OK - I have alot to tell you today so please make yourselves comfortable and I will begin.
Thank you to Suzi B for choosing our challenges last month - weren't they fab? This month it's my turn again and we are going

SEASONAL.

By seasonal I mean Advent, Christmas and other faith festivals, New Year, Winter etc and each week there will be an added element to go with the Seasonal theme. This week we want you to

ADD SOME GLITTER.

This week our two new designers are joining us - Val and Mynnette and as a special Christmas treat we have three Guest Designers - one each week. Which brings me neatly on to this piece of info - THERE ARE ONLY THREE CHALLENGES THIS MONTH - NO CHALLENGE ON 26th DECEMBER.
Also we have decided to change our rules a little. From today you will be able to enter as many challenges as you wish but PLEASE make sure you follow the set theme.
Whew - are you still with me - I hope so 'cos now here are our dt projects from my fabulous Deezine Team. Drum roll please.............................

Guest DT - Vicky Hayes

Val

Caz

Thursday, 1 December 2011

MMM - Mid-week Motivation - Decorated Christmas Box.

Hello all - sorry I'm a day late this week with the Mid-week Motivation but before I get into that please do take a look in the Deezine Team section in the top bar or click here to see our two fabulous new DT ladies Val and Mynnette. They will be debuting as fully fledged designers on Monday morning when our theme for December starts.

Do you remember the box I made Monday? Here's a reminder

What you may not know is that it was very unfinished and looked like this inside

As you can see it's meant to be an Exploding Box and I am pleased to announce that it is finally completed - take a look

I started with some 12" x 12" Kraft card and on the inside of the first box is a Christmas sentiment. The second box has been decorated with some Christmas bunting and when that box is opened.........................

...................there is another box decorated with Christmas trees. This little box opens up to reveal......................

...........a little hand made tree decoration. This is made with six punched Christmas tree shapes that have been folded and glued together with some ribbon in the middle to make the hanger.