Saturday, 22 March 2014

Saturday Inspiration for Our March Challenge

Hi Everyone, We are back again  Today to treat You to some more Inspiration from one of Our DT Members Eithne!!
The Theme this Month is:-



Eithne has made a Beautiful Headband



To see more Details on this Project visit Eithne's Blog.
We would Love if You could join us for some CRAIC!!!
To Enter Your Project CLICK HERE
Thanks for popping by,
Happy Crafting,
Eithne and Michelle :-)

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Wednesday Inspiration for Our March Challenge

Hi Everyone, We are back again with a quick post to give You some more inspiration!!
The theme this month is
 
Today We have a Card from DT Member Michelle.

To see more details on this visit Michelle's Blog !!!
 
Why not come over and join us for some CRAIC!!
We already have some Wonderful Entries, and the numbers are rising Daily :-) 
To enter Your project CLICK HERE
 
Be sure to check back on Saturday when We will have another project from Eithne!!
 
Thanks for popping by,
Happy Crafting,
Eithne and Michelle :-)
 
 

Monday, 17 March 2014

Lá Fhéile Pádraig


Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone :) Hope you have the luck of the Irish today and for the rest of the year ;) What will you be doing to celebrate the Irish's Patron Saint's Day? I am bringing the little girls to my town's parade. :)
If you are crafting, why not join in in our challenge? For this month it is "Something that includes Green".

Have a great Irish day, and remember it is St. Paddy's Day go wild! ;) (NOT St. Patty's!!!!!!)

Lá Fhéile Pádraig,
Happy Crafting,
Michelle and Eithne

Saturday, 15 March 2014

Saturday Inspiration for March Challenge

Hi Everyone, We are back today to treat You to some more Inspiration from one of  Our DT Members Sylvie :-)
As You know the theme this month is
Sylvie has made this Beautiful Altered Box
To see more detail on this project, visit Sylvie's YouTube Channel.
We have had lots of wonderful Entries so far:-)
Why not come over and join in the CRAIC.
To Enter Your project CLICK HERE
Be sure to Check back on Wednesday for another Project from Michelle.
To keep up to date with all the latest news, be sure to Follow us and LIKE us on Facebook :-)
Thanks for popping by,
Happy Crafting,
Eithne and Michelle :-)

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

More Inspiration for Our March Challenge

Hi Everyone, We are back today to treat You to some more Inspiration from one of  Our DT Members Geraldine :-)
As You know the theme this month is

 
Geraldine has made this Beautiful necklace
To see more details on this project, visit Geraldine's Blog.
 
We are thrilled with all of the Entries so far:-)
Why not come over and join in the CRAIC.
To Enter Your project CLICK HERE
 
Be sure to Check back on Saturday for another Project from Sylvie.
 
Thanks for popping by,
Happy Crafting,
Eithne and Michelle :-)
 
 

Friday, 7 March 2014

March Challenge - Something Green

Hello! Thank you so much to all our entrants from our February challenge. We are overwhelmed by the number of entrants and the talent. Thank you so much :) Before we show our beautiful DT's projects, we will announce our Top 3. It was with extreme difficulty that we chose:

1st: Angelica
Shared 3rd: Polka Dot Craft Club 
Well done! Please take the badge from the side to display it on your blog!


March is our/the Irish month for celebrating our Patron Saint - Saint Patrick. As preparations get underway worldwide for parades on 17th March, we decided to keep in line with this.
Our theme this month is:

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, baking, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

For this months challenge, Katya made a recycled eco style card with natural green elements.


Sylvie has made a Mixed Media Canvas, for this months challenge, using lots of embellishments and green materials!




For this months "green" challenge, Emily painted this picture on heavy watercolour paper using mixed media.



Geraldine has been admiring the watercolour cards trend around lately and decided to let the Something Green happen where two inks meet! 



Pixie created a Matchbox book with bookmark (Check out Pixie's blog for a tutorial and to see who is hiding inside!)



Michelle made an Altered box (check out Michelle's blog for a step by step!)


                          Eithne made this Pretty Card Holder

So that's our beautiful Design Team's inspiration :) 

To see more photos and details on each of the projects, just visit our blogs! Why not give the challenge a go? 

We would love for you to join in our challenge, remember anything that encourages, motivates or promotes your creativity, if it has GREEN included on it we would LOVE to see it ;) Our challenges start the first Friday of the month, and ends the last day of the month (so this month's finishes March 31st)

We are pretty easy going about rules, but if you'd like, read this page.

Thanks for popping by, hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Happy Crafting,
Michelle & Eithne :)

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Craft for the Craic Design Team

Happy Thursday to you! Thank you so much for all the fantastically, beautiful projects. We were all blown away by the talent, and by everyone's taking part in a bit of 'crafting for the craic'! ;) Our 2nd challenge will go live tomorrow (first Friday of the month), so please check back to see what the next months challenge is and, of course, who got top 3 in our February/Hearts challenge.


Before our next challenge starts, Michelle and I would like to introduce ourselves and our wonderful design team -


Eithne


Hi, my name is Eithne. I stay at home minding my two little girls, having previously worked in graphic design and print. I live in county Kildare. I love colours and paper, which merges over into card making, making albums and other paper items, scrapbooking, photography, crochet, knitting and baking. I blog over at Card Room Delights.
I created this challenge blog, as I thought it would be great to showcase all different crafts and art projects at all different level of skills on the one blog. Michelle and I are running the challenge blog, and we are so delighted to have so many other wonderful crafters on board. :)






Michelle
Hi, My name is Michelle. I am a wife and mother. I stay at home minding my little boy Evan! :-)
I LOVE Crafting and when time permits, I like to get inky in My Craft Room!! I like lots of different
crafts, Scrapbooking, Mixed Media, Altered Art, Mini Books, Cards and Baking to name a few!! :-) 
I blog over at Cozy Craft Room. Would Love to see You there!! :-)
I am delighted to be running this Challenge Blog with Eithne, and look forward to working with all of the other talented DT Members. It will be very exciting seeing all of the wonderful challenge entries every month!! :-)






Emily
Mother of five – soon to be six – I am an artist, homeopath, and blogger and live in the midlands. I home-educate my children (for my sins), and survive on a diet mainly composed of strong tea and home baking that’s made to placate the hungry hordes.
In my ‘spare time’ (ha! most creative endeavours are done with at least one child ‘helping’) I paint, make Waldorf dolls and art dolls, crochet and sew.
I blog at The Nest, and, when I inveigles my children away from the computer, waste far too much time on Facebook and Pinterest.




Katya
Hi, I am Katya. I am a recruiter by day and a cardmaker by night.
I am originally from the north-east of Russia and I have been living in Ireland for about 13 years. I have been crafting for just over two and half years. My overall crafting style is quiet feminine- I love using flowers, lace and pearls.
I also like to use stamping techniques and heat embossing. I can’t imagine crafting without my Cuttlebug and sewing machine. I am big into using recycled materials as well as non scrapbooking bits and pieces that I find.



Geraldine
Hi, I’ve been papercrafting for about 5 years now and still addicted! I love browsing other people’s blogs, I find them so inspiring and crafty people are so generous with their ideas.
I don’t think I have one particular style of crafting, I happily switch from distressing everything to Clean and Simple. I love making cards but also enjoy the occasional mini album, and sometimes do a little sewing or crochet.
I’m looking forward to visiting all your blogs and seeing what you create each month. Ger x





Pixie (Margaret)
Pixie here saying hello to you all. My name is Margaret. 
I can’t even remember a time when I wasn’t drawing, painting, sticking, glittering and generally creating a mess. I hope my skills have developed since those early happy childhood times spent at the kitchen table in my parents home.
I’ve tried my hand at all sorts of things- knitting, embroidery, patchwork, cross-stitch, latchhook rugs and cushions - but I just keep coming back to paper crafting. I would probably describe my style as simple, I love embellishments but try not to distract too much from the main image. I blog over at http://pixieflutterbycreates.blogspot.ie would love if you had time to hop over and say hi.





Sylvie
Irish Scrapper Hi this is Sylvie Sims. I have been dabbling with crafts for most of my life and find it a great way to relax and unwind after a long day. I wholeheartedly believe everyone has the ability to create and very little investment is needed to get started, just an open mind and some encouragement.
 I love to look around for items to recycle, When you create something from nothing it gives a great sense of satisfaction.
I love the idea of mixed media crafting and as another passion of mine is photography I often incorporate my photos into my creations, but it doesn’t stop there, if you like painting, calligraphy, poetry writing or sculpture all can be combine to create a masterpiece: your imagination is your only limitation. You can follow me on youtube.



Well that's all of us here at Craft for the Craic. Why not pop back tomorrow and check out our new challenge? For more updates, make sure to find us on FACEBOOK!

See you on Friday for a new challenge!! :)

Happy crafting,
Eithne & Michelle