Midweek Motivation - Autumn Kraft Card and Twine

Hello folks, it's Fliss here today to share a little inspiration for the current challenge featuring my favourite time of year as I really love to see the trees turning gorgeous shades of amber and rust, to me as great as seeing the first green leaves of Spring.
My creation is a simple tag made with the Tim Holtz cabinet die for a very different and slightly more unusual shape.

I die cut the shape using kraft card and embossed it with the Darice fall leaves folder perfect for this time of year.
I stamped the beautiful bird with berries (Gordiano by Joanna Sheen) with Memories creamy coffee chalk ink and then coloured up with watercolour pencils. I cut out the image to leave a contrasting cream border.
I added a scrap of corrugated card painted a deep rusty red near the base, popped on the image with foam tape, added a rustic string tie and the top and there we have a finished tag - very easy if like me you did the watercolouring whilst watching TV!

Hope you like this.
Fliss xx

Autumn: Kraft & Twine

Good morning crafters and welcome to a new month of crafty challenges. We are celebrating

AUTUMN

and we are also having a

USE YOUR SUPPLIES

month.

This week we want to see your crafty projects incorporating

KRAFT AND STRING (TWINE)

Phew - have you got all that? Also this month we welcome the return of one of our past DT members - Suzanne plus last month's winner Avril - check out their creations below.

Also - and here's the best bit we have a prize this month.

Vee Cassidy

Vee is offering this month's winner a £10.00

Joanna Sheen

Voucher - how cool is that just before Christmas?

Please make sure you follow all our rules to qualify for this wonderful prize.

Now take a look at our DT line up for this week.

Suzanne

Avril

Mynnette

Caz

Jacqueline

Fliss

Suzi B

Midweek Motivation - Feminine/Romance Challenge

Hello all, Fliss here today with a little bit of ooh la la inspiration for the current challenge theme which I hope you'll like.
I've gone for a vintage look after a good rummage through my experiments box and came across a piece of background paper made using the vaseline resist technique which was happily perfect to go with the image I wanted to use.
Here's my creation:

The background paper uses Vintage photo Distress ink with the resist technique and gives a lovely shabby chic effect.
The elegant showgirl is by Kanban and I stamped her with Memories artprint brown then coloured the image with Promarkers and watercolour pencils and die cut the panel.
I made a border using corrugated card recycled from a takeaway coffee cup holder which I painted with acrylics and then sprinkled with tarnished gold embossing powder and heated to melt.
The fleur de lys embellishment was made by stamping the image and embossing with Frantage aged green embossing enamel then cut it out.

I'm hoping that we get a few more entries this week as it's the final week of the French theme and I would like thank those of you that rose to the challenges so magnificently.
Fliss xx

Top 3 Winners for Tricoleur Challenge

Thank you so much to those of you that took up the challenge and made such beautiful entries. Unfortunately we can only have 3 winners and this week those ladies are:

Yvonne

Avril

Valerie

Many congratulations to you all and please feel free to copy and paste the winners badge from the side bar.

French Theme: Feminine/Romance

This is our final week of French themed challenges and we want you to go all out and create something that incorporates the French theme and Feminine Romance - here is some inspiration from the DT and our final card from our GDT - thanks so much Julia it's been great having you you join us this month.

If you would like to be a Guest Designer in the New Year - just join in our challenges, follow the rules and it could be you - now here are the DT cards

Julia

Mynnette

Suzi B

Jacqueline

Fliss

Caz

Meet the Guest Designer

This month our Guest Designer is the brilliant - Julia - here's what she had to say about herself

"I was delighted when asked to be the Guest Designer at Make My Monday and I feel honoured to see my work amongst such talented ladies.

I'm a retired teacher with just over 23 years experience and now have time to indulge in my passion for all things inky! My favourite techniques are stamping, any kind of embossing and creating texture in my projects. I've recently ventured into altering pieces and have just finished an on-line paint techniques course run by the amazing British Artist, Andy Skinner. I love many of the Tim Holtz products but will happily improvise in the absence of supplies dictated by his work! 

In addition to my paper crafting, I love to sew and embroider and in the last few years I've learnt how to knit home made socks which was something I'd always promised myself I'd have a go at. My other love is my garden but time is now stretched very thinly between all these activities! I'm Mother to one 20 year old daughter and I'm married to a very understanding man!

I look forward to sharing the beautiful projects you will all produce this month - best of all, I can visit each and everyone of you and say hello."

Here are a couple of Julia's works of art

These are fabulous pieces but there is even more over on Julia's blog please do go and take a look.

Top 3 Winners

Running a bit behind this week but here are the winners of our Fleur de Lys challenge

Yvonne G

Avril B

Nonni

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