MMM - Mid-week Motivation

Morning all - this week as I am quite busy Caz has very kindly provided us with some fantastic inspiration - take a look

For the mid week motivation I would like to ask you to

please pass the salt and water for a short tutorial, any 3 colours of dye based ink will do.

These are the ingredients you will need.

First cut a piece of card to make a tag, or you can use whatever size sheet of card to use for more than one project, I have managed to get four cards of various sizes from an A4 sheet.

blend 3 colours of dye based inks on your card, to completely cover it. place on a sheet of spare paper.

Spray with water until completely wet. Sprinkle the salt in patches onto the wet card. The water will disperse the inks. The salt will draw out some colour in pockled patches. leave to dry as naturally as possible for at least one hour.

When dry gently rub off the salt, I find my fingers are better than any tools, you can immediatley see the magic results once you have removed the salt. Some areas even have a bling effect.

You can then stamp onto your tag, add some pretty ribbons or fibres. A tag could be wrapped around a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates or another gift. We can even add a tag to a card as an embellishment. I have left embellishments off this tag so you can hopefully see the effects of the salt.

Butterflies and Dragonflies Top 3

Thank you for all your fabulous entries last week - here are our top 3 favourites

Yvonne G

Joan

Meggymay

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

MMM - Week 35

Morning all and welcome to week 35 at Make My Monday. This week our theme changes, we have a brand new theme picked by Suzanne which is

ROMANCE - how can it be anything else.

We are especially pleased this month as we are being sponsored, our prize this month is generously donated by

Marianne Designs

take a look at the fab prize on offer

As we have such a lovely prize this month it is very important that you follow both the theme and the weekly challenge.

This week our challenge is

LOVE LETTERS - SCRIPT OR VERSE

Here are the contributions from the dt including our November winner Meggymay (Yvonne) who is this month's Guest Designer

Meggymay

Suzanne

Suzi B

Val

Mynnette

Cath

Caz

Fliss

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.

MMM - Mid-week Motivation - Recessed Window Card Tutorial

I was asked to do a tutorial for the card I made for Monday's dt line-up. So here it is - hope you like it.

 Take a piece of card stock 5" x 101/4". Score your card stock at 5" and 51/4". Fold your card and crease well with a bone folder

 Open your card and on the inside draw in the diagonal lines with a pencil. Decide how big you want your aperture to be and draw in the square. Now draw a second square inside the first 1/4" in from each side. Score both squares with an embossing tool.

Now cut on the diagonal lines ONLY within the two squares. You can now rub out all of your pencil lines.

Bend the outside score lines in and then fold the second score lines the opposite way. Crease these folds well with a bone folder.

Take a piece of card stock a cut to the size of your front aperture - you may need to trim it a tiny bit smaller for it to fit comfortably.
Your Recessed Window Card is now ready for decorating.

Flowers and Leaves Top 3

We had some lovely entries for our Flowers and Leaves challenge last week - here are our top 3 favourites

Joan

Debbie S

Sylvia - Anne

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

MMM - Week 34

Good morning all and welcome to week 34 at Make My Monday.

This week we want to see your

BUTTERFLIES AND DRAGONFLIES

We want to see projects with Butterflies or Dragonflies or both together - it's up to you. I would please like to remind you that Fliss who has chosen this month's theme and challenges is very generously donating the monthly winner's prize and the theme is

NATURE

To be considered for our prize and top 3 you must follow the theme and challenge rules correctly.

Here are the contributions from the dt
Suzanne

Caz

Fliss

Mynnette

Suzi B

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.

MMM - Mid-week Motivation - Upcycling

This week I have a little tip for you - before you throw away spent envelopes from your morning post - check inside.
Look what I found this morning

This gorgeous leaf pattern was inside an envelope  - nearly thrown away!!
Here's what I made with it

Jacqueline