MMM - Week 32

Morning all and welcome to week 32 at the Make My Monday challenge blog.

This week we are challenging you all to

CREATE A SCENE

We want to see land scapes, sea scapes, garden and lakes - all containing trees, plants, animals, birds or insects.

can I please draw your attention to the overriding theme this month which is

NATURE

Nature being 'a primitive state of existence untouched and uninfluenced by civilization or artificiallity'

Here are the scenes created for you by the design team this week

Caz

Fliss

Mynnette

Suzanne

Suzi B

Val

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. 

Please remember to follow the both the weekly challenge and the the monthly theme the challenge relates to - thank you.

MMM - Mid-week Motivation - from Suzanne.

Suzanne here with this week's mid-week motivation. Bearing in mind that it is Fliss' month of challenges (Nature) and knowing that Fliss enjoys DIY crafting I have decided to show hand-made rosette flowers. There are dies available to help make these but some of us cannot have every single piece of stash and have to make do....that's me!

Please forgive the quality of my photographs...I go to work in the dark and return in the dark so photographs are very poor due to the artificial light.

I coloured a piece of card with distress inks and then spritzed with water. 

When dry I punched two edges with an EK Success border punch. You could just tear the paper edges for a ragged rosette if you have no border punches.

I then cut two different widths from each edge which had been punched. 
Using a score board (or you could just use ruler and embossing tool) - score at even intervals. This is down to your preference.

Concertina/fan - then adhere the edges making a circle. My recommendation is to use a tacky wet glue or glossy accents. Tape or glue stick could be used but this is more messy and there is a risk of your rosette coming undone. I also place my adhesive in the middle of the rosette to make extra secure.

The same is done to the narrower piece of punched card making a smaller rosette for layering.

A button completes ...you could use pearls, gems, bottle top etc etc.

Suzanne ~x~

Birds - top 3

Hello All - we had some really wonderful Bird creations last week - here are our top 3 favourites

Sharon

Stephinka

Sandra

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

MMM - Week 31

Good morning all and welcome to week 31 at Make My Monday.

We are continuing our NATURE theme this week and the challenge is to use

ANIMALS

in your projects.

Here are the contributions from the DT

Suzi B

Val

Mynnette

Fliss

Caz

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 - Make your own background paper.

DT member Fliss has chosen a lovely theme for us this month with Nature and I am simply loving the Bird challenge this month.
Fliss is also a fan of DIY crafting so this week I am sharing with you a card I made using some hand made background paper.
Firstly I took a piece of white card stock cut to fit the card blank I'm using. I took a stamp and stamped it all over the card stock filling as much of the card as I could

Using a Promarker I then randomly coloured in some of the eggs - the Promarker colour is very similar to the ink used to stamp the eggs.

With a sponge I added some subtle colouring to the card. I then took an old pair of scissors (never use good ones for this technique) and distressed my edges

After inking these edges with a dark brown ink I then made my card .
Don't forget that you can add glitter or embossing to your shop bought backing papers too to make them both personal and unique.

Tag Top 3

We had some lovely tags entered into the challenge over the festive period and here are our top 3 winners

Anita

Debbie R

Hilda

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

MMM - Week 30

Welcome to week 30 at Make My Monday and a Happy New Year to you all. We kick off the New Year with a fabulous new theme

NATURE

and a brand new set of challenges chosen for us by Fliss. Fliss has also very generously donated a prize for this month's winner - take a look

I would also like to add that our winner this month will also be offered a Guest Designer position for the month of March.
There are some changes - we have brand new blog buttons designed especially for us by Mynnette - please feel free to display one on your own blogs, those of you who been been mentioned as Top 3 winners can update their buttons if they wish. I will also be listing our future challenges in the side bar for those of you who wish to get a head start this year.
So our first challenge for 2012 is

BIRDS

Here is some inspiration for you from the DT

Suzanne

Fliss

Caz

 Cath

Suzi B

Mynnette

Val

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.