MMM - Mid-week Motivation - 3D Flower Tutorial.

This is the last week for THINGS WITH WINGS and we had a photo inspiration challenge for you - see here for more details. But first - top 3 results for last week are as follows

2 - Mynnette

3 - Bev D

4 - Hilda.

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

For my dt piece I made some 3D flowers

The flowers are very easy to make and you will need a small scallop circle punch or Nestability die, some brads, a pokey tool and some coloured paper.
Take a look at this picture and I will explain all

From the top left hand corner - punch out 8 circles with your punch, scrunch them up tightly and then unravel them. Place them all on top of one another, pierce a hole in the middle and secure with a brad. Then start to scrunch the petals back up around the brad. The brad will be completely hidden and you should end up with a flower like the one in the bottom right hand corner of the pic.
If you put these flowers on a card it will make it very difficult to put in an envelope - I must admit the I only use them for special occasions where I can hand deliver my card. However I always make a pretty box to put the card in  - like so

Hope you've enjoyed my little piece this week - can't wait to see all your challenge entries! Don't forget that next week we will be announcing our monthly winner, so what are you waiting for - get creating!- Jacqueline.

MMM - Challenge 13 - Photo Inspiration.

Good morning crafters and welcome to week 13 of the Make My Monday challenge blog.
So sorry - I am unable to announce this week's top 3, please pop back on Wednesday for the Mid-week motivation spot and I will do it then.
So - this is the last week of August, it seems that you didn't like our acetate challenge - perhaps you will like this better. Take a look at this photograph

We would like you please to use this photograph for your inspiration this week. Please do not forget that we are still on THINGS WITH WINGS - but you can use the picture literally or just take elements from it - just have fun and enjoy yourselves!
But first, before you all rush off to create please take the time to look at the gorgeous array of projects my dt have come up with for you this week. Don't forget to click on the names to visit the blogs

Suzi B

Suzanne

Fliss

Cath

Caz

Me - Jacqueline

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE TOP 3 - YOU MAY ONLY ENTER 5 CHALLENGES PLUS THIS ONE.
Please link your new entries in the linky tool below and please remember to link your blog post and not your whole blog. Please turn off WV  and remember you MUST link your entries to this blog and you MUST put a link back to this blog in your post. Our rules are HERE  if you need them - Thank you.

You have until midnight on Saturday September 3rd to take part.

MMM - Challenge 12 Mid-week Motivation - Shaker Card.

Before I begin with this week's Mid-week Motivation I would like to announce the Top 3 for this week - they are

14 - Bev D

15 - Paula

27 - Hilda

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

This week our added extra to the THINGS WITH WINGS  is ACETATE. one of my favourite things to do with acetate is Shaker Cards. A small aperture is made, filled with sparkly things and enclosed with a window of acetate. Take a look

I took a 5" x 5" cream card base and stamped a frame around the edge using Stampin' Up's Vintage Vogue. In the middle was placed the butterfly on 3D foam pads. Around this was placed a double layer frame of 3D foam tape. Some glitter fibres were tipped into the middle. I then took a piece of cream card stock big enough to cover the 3D foam tape and cut a piece from the middle. It was stamped - again using the Vintage Vogue and then a piece of acetate was stuck to the back with double sided tape. I then removed the backing from the 3D foam tape and stuck down the window. I then decorated the rest of the card with flowers stamped using Vintage Vogue.
Don't forget to join in with this week's challenge here - Jacqueline.

MMM - Challenge 12 - Things With Wings Using Acetate.

Good morning and welcome to Make My Monday Challenge 12. This week we would still like to see

 THINGS WITH WINGS 

but with the added extra of

ACETATE.

To help you along a little here are some fabulous examples from the equally fabulous Deezine Team.
Remember to click on the names to visit the blogs.

Caz

Fliss

Suzi B

Suzanne

Cath

Me - Jacqueline

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE TOP 3 - YOU MAY ONLY ENTER 5 CHALLENGES PLUS THIS ONE.
Please link your new entries in the linky tool below and please remember to link your blog post and not your whole blog. Please turn off WV  and remember you MUST link your entries to this blog and you MUST put a link back to this blog in your post. Our rules are HERE  if you need them - Thank you.

You have until midnight on Saturday August 27th to take part.

I am away at the moment so please pop back for the Mid-week Motivation spot to see the Top 3 winners.

MMM - Mid-week Motivation - Fairy Key Chain Mini Album.

This is a project that started life as a humble chewing gum packet like this

I got my idea from a video I found on You Tube ages ago by Laura at Follow the Paper Trail - if you are interested pop over and take a look here.
So what I did was to remove all the gum, open the box out and cover it with decorative papers

I then cut out some tag shapes on my Cuttlebug - I only used thin card stock as they are then covered both sides with decorative papers. I used a mixture of Papermania and Docrafts papers with various fairy designs on them

The tags are then joined together with a ball chain which is then threaded through the side of the box. The tags fit inside and it looks like this when it's closed

A couple of little fairy charms were added to the chain to finish it off.
To take part in this week's challenge and be in with a chance of winning the fabulous monthly prize generously donated by Suzanne please click here to take part. - Jacqueline

MMM - Challenge 11 - Fairies or Angels

That's right your challenge this week should you accept it is to create a card or project featuring

Fairies or Angels.

But first our Top 3 from last week are

11 - Ellie Knoll

18 - Minnette

20 - Meggymay

Congratulations ladies please feel free to copy and paste the winners badge from the side bar.
And now to our DT samples - please remember to click on the names to visit the blogs.

Cath

Caz

Fliss

Suzi B

Suzanne

Me - Jacqueline

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE TOP 3 - YOU MAY ONLY ENTER 5 CHALLENGES PLUS THIS ONE.
Please link your new entries in the linky tool below and please remember to link your blog post and not your whole blog. Please turn off WV  and remember you MUST link your entries to this blog and you MUST put a link back to this blog in your post. Our rules are HERE  if you need them - Thank you.

You have until midnight on Saturday August 20th to take part. The top 3 next week will be posted a little later than usual, the new challenge will go up as normal but please pop back Tuesday morning to see if you have made the top 3.

MMM Mid-week Motivation - Digital Images.

I'm a bit late posting today as I have a sick kitten - chewed something he shouldn't no doubt!
Anyway this week's theme is Birds or Bugs - I don't do bugs as a rule - too many legs but here is a cute digital image that I downloaded off the Internet a while ago.

The images are from the Digi Stamp Boutique and you are able to print them off any size you like and treat them the same way that you would treat any stamped image.
I coloured mine with Promarkers and then cut it to size

To make my card a little more interesting I made it into an easel shape. I took a 5" x 5" card base and diagonally scored the one half. I then took another and cut off half

I then decorated the single panel with some card and decorative paper, mounted my image and added some flowers

This was then mounted onto the scored half of the card base which was also decorated with card, paper and flowers. A few butterflies were added randomly

Thanks for looking - hope this inspires you to have a go this week - you have until midnight on Saturday and you never know you could be one of our weekly Top 3.

MMM Challenge 10 - Birds or Bugs.

Good morning crafters and welcome to the 10th Make My Monday challenge. Did you all enjoy last week's challenge - we certainly had a record amount of entries which in turn made choosing our Top 3 extremely difficult. However the decision was made and they are as follows

9 - Debbie R

!0 - Aquarius

31 - Bev D

Congratulations ladies please feel free to copy and paste the winners badge from the side bar.
Now you really all ought to know the format by now and we continue our THINGS WITH WINGS  theme with the new challenge that is

BIRDS OR BUGS

- please not too many creepy crawlies, especially of the 8 legged kind or you may find me commenting whilst cringing in a corner!!
Of course my Deezine Team have been working terribly hard and have produced some amazing projects to inspire you - please take the time to look closely and remember if you click on their names you can visit the blogs.

Suzanne

Cath

Caz

Fliss

Suzi B

Me - Jacqueline

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE TOP 3 - YOU MAY ONLY ENTER 5 CHALLENGES PLUS THIS ONE.
Please link your new entries in the linky tool below and please remember to link your blog post and not your whole blog. Please turn off WV  and remember you MUST link your entries to this blog and you MUST put a link back to this blog in your post. Our rules are HERE  if you need them - Thank you.

Now go away and get creating - you have until midnight on Saturday August 13th to take part.

MMM - Mid-week Motivation - Dragonflies.

We have kicked off the month of August with a cracking new theme of THINGS WITH WINGS and the first challenge is BUTTERFLIES OR DRAGONFLIES. I love things like this and as I had done a butterfly card for the dt on Monday I thought I would try dragonflies today. So I gathered a few bits and pieces together and had a play.

As you can see I had paper, card stock, stamps, inks and a bit of embossing powder. The first thing I did was to sponge a piece of white card stock with some green and some pale blue ink. I use some sponges that I picked up in an art shop. They are round but when cut into wedges (I make about 8) they are the perfect shape for sponging - take a look

Colour co-ordination is very important to me and I use Stampin' Up card stock and inks because they match. As you can see my sponges are all individually labeled to match each colour - it also means that I don't have to spend ages looking through my sponges to find the right one.
When I had sponged my card I then stamped my images - a flower head and dragonfly

To make the flower head stand out a bit more against the green I went over it with a fine glue pen and sprinkled it with some white embossing powder. I did the same to the dragonfly wings but used a holographic powder instead - they were then set with a heat gun

I then set about making the card. I took some thin blue card and mounted it on to a 5" x 5" white card blank. That was then covered with a piece of graph paper which I had stamped with one of my favourite flourish stamps (it's from Hot off the Press)

Finally I mounted the card stock with the flowers and dragonflies on to the card and added a few finishing touches - hope you like it and found this tutorial helpful - bye for now - Jacqueline.

Card Stock - Stampin' Up - Baja Breeze and Whisper White
Paper - Graph
Inks - Stampin' Up - Baja Breeze and Old Olive
Stamps - Stampin' Up - Organic Grace and Just Believe, HOTP - Flourish