Friday, 4 December 2015

Christmas Cheer!!!


It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Can you believe it’s December, not long now until the big day!! Hope you are enjoying the build up to Christmas. It is indeed, my most favourite time of the year!

Thank you so much for entering November’s challenge. We had great difficulty choosing a top 3, but with a great deal of effort our DT chose:
1st - #75 Paper Profusion
2nd - #80 Samra
3rd - #6 Carrie

Thank you so much, as always, for entering our challenge. We love to see all the entries, and they inspire us so much. Please take the badge and display it proudly on your sidebar.

This months challenge is "Christmas Cheer".


We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

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

Here is the beautiful DT's inspiration: -

 




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

Our challenge is open until midnight Saturday 2nd January 2016. Please note, because it is Christmas time, we may not be able to comment on all blogs, but we will endeavour to do our best!!


Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
Wishing you and your family a very happy and peaceful Christmas, and wish you a prosperous New Year!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations, and our new January challenge will go live on January 8th 2016.
Eithne & Michelle :)



Friday, 6 November 2015

Something Glittery for November!!

Hello! Hope your Friday morning is going well. Thank you so much for dropping by. Today is the first day of our challenge for November. Is it just me, or is Christmas earlier each year?!! In my town there are Christmas windows decorated already (well actually they were decorated before Halloween!) Crazy!

Anyway, thank you so much for all the beautiful entries for October. It was difficult, but our DT chose the Top 3 as follows:
1st - #7 Susanne
2nd - #24 Ciara Griffin Lee
3rd - #12 Dewi


Well done everyone and please take the badge and display it proudly on your sidebar. Thanks again to all who took part!

This months challenge is "Something Glittery".
We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

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

Here is the beautiful DT's inspiration: -
 
 





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

Our challenge is open until midnight Monday 30th November 2015.


Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
We will be back with mid-month inspirations, until then hope you enjoy your Sunday.
Eithne & Michelle :)


Friday, 16 October 2015

October mid month inspiration :D

Hello and happy Friday to you! Hope you are keeping well and warm on these crisp Autumn days :)
Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries so far. This month's theme is 'Inspired by Music' and if you wish to play along, please enter here.

This month our challenge is "inspired by music". You can interpret the theme any way you wish.
We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

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

Today we have some beautiful mid-month inspiration.
I should follow Geraldine's lead and start preparing for Christmas. Check out her beautiful Christmas card.


Check out Joanna's beautiful card, and all the fab musical elements.

Almost at the end of Birthday Season in my house, this is the card I made for my daughters birthday (not *actually* inspired by the song, but a favourite nonetheless in our house "Sarah" by Thin Lizzy)

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

Our challenge is open until midnight Saturday 31st October (Halloween).

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
We hope you enjoy your Friday!
Eithne :)

Friday, 2 October 2015

October Challenge - inspired by music!

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Can you believe it is October?! Where is the time flying by to!
Thank you to everyone who took part in last months challenge, anything but a square or rectangle. We would like I to award top 3 to all of them, but with great deliberation we chose-
1st place - #56 Samantha
2nd place - #8 Tip Top
3rd place - #33 Paper Profusion

Please take the badge from the sidebar and display it proudly!

This month our challenge is "inspired by music". You can interpret the theme any way you wish.
We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

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

Here are the DT's inspiration for you





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

Our challenge is open until midnight Saturday 31st October (Halloween).

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
We will be back with mid-month inspirations, until then hope you enjoy your Friday.
Eithne & Michelle :)

Friday, 4 September 2015

Septembers Challenge :)


Hello and happy Friday to you!! Wow, September already. Where is the year going to!
Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries for August's photo inspiration challenge. With great difficulty we choose the top 3:
1st - # Julie
2nd - # Tofa
3rd - # Hildenkraft

This month's challenge the theme is: Anything but a square or rectangle. (No squares or rectangles!!)

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

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




Check out the beautiful projects for the challenge theme from our DT:



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

Our challenge is open until midnight Wednesday 30th September.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
We will be back with mid-month inspirations, until then hope you enjoy your Friday.
Eithne & Michelle :)

Friday, 28 August 2015

End of month inspiration

Hello! Hope you are enjoying the last Friday in August! Can't believe it's nearly September!
For the end of month inspiration, Angela and Eithne have two beautiful cards inspired by the photo inspiration.

It is my (Eithne's) garden, which is the wild side of the garden! I discovered a bees nest under the flower bed in against the wall, so it was abandoned this summer! Despite the lack of attention, the beautiful green ferns against the purple wall always lifts the garden, even on the wet day, of which this summer we have a lot! You can interpret the picture any way you like - a garden, the colours, the flowers, the wildness etc etc. but you will be disqualified if you look for the weeds! (only kidding ;) )

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!
This week Angela made this beautiful card, check out her blog for more details.
Eithne made this card, check out her blog for more details!

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

Our challenge is open until midnight Monday 31st August.

If you are crafting this weekend, why not give the challenge a go!
Eithne

Friday, 14 August 2015

Mid month Inspiration :)

Hello! Hope your Friday is going well. Thank you for such beautiful entries so far.
Today we have some beautiful mid month inspiration to share with you.

Suchi


Geraldine made a beautiful summer birthday card -




Joanna made a beautiful card -



Henryka




Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!
Our challenge is open until midnight Monday August 31st.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
Hope you enjoy the weekend.
Eithne & Michelle :)

Friday, 7 August 2015

August Challenge - Photo Inspiration

Hello, and happy Friday to you! Hope the summer where you are is better than the Irish one, it has been a bit of a wash out so far. Here's hoping the remainder of the month improves.
Thank you so much to everyone who took part in our July's challenge. We were thrilled to see so many beautiful creations. With a lot of effort and decisions our DT came up with -
1st - #3 Paper Profusion
2nd - #42 Ela17
3rd - #2 Samra

Well done everyone and please take the badge and display it proudly on your sidebar. Thanks again to all who took part!


This months challenge is a photo inspiration challenge.

It is my (Eithne's) garden, which is the wild side of the garden! I discovered a bees nest under the flower bed in against the wall, so it was abandoned this summer! Despite the lack of attention, the beautiful green ferns against the purple wall always lifts the garden, even on the wet day, of which this summer we have a lot! You can interpret the picture any way you like - a garden, the colours, the flowers, the wildness etc etc. but you will be disqualified if you look for the weeds! (only kidding ;) )

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

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




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

Our challenge is open until midnight Monday 31st August.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
We will be back with mid-month inspirations, until then hope you enjoy your Friday.
Eithne & Michelle :)

Friday, 24 July 2015

July's Mid Month Inspiration :)


Hello! Hope your Friday is going well. Thank you for such beautiful entries so far.
Today we have some beautiful mid month inspiration to share with you.
Geraldine made a beautiful summer birthday card -


Joanna made a beautiful summer card -


Eithne made a beach scene summer card -



Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!
Our challenge is open until midnight Friday July 31st.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
Hope you enjoy the weekend.
Eithne & Michelle :)

Sunday, 5 July 2015

July Challenge - Summer Time!

 Hello! Hope your Sunday morning is going well :) Yes we are two days later with our new challenge this month, we were all too busy holidaying ;)

Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries for June's challenge. It was very hard to choose a top 3 from 55 beautiful projects! With great deliberation, our DT chose:
1st - #35 Little K Smith
2nd - #29 Grá O'Neill
3rd - #18 Sharon


Well done everyone and please take the badge and display it proudly on your sidebar. Thanks again to all who took part!
This months challenge is "Summer Time" (whatever you associate with summer )
We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

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

For the next 6 months, we have 2 Guest Design Team members :) Please welcome Manuela and Suchi.


My name is Manuela, I am 29 years old and I am from Austria. I am stamping since a few years now and it's a wonderful hobby beside my job as a teacher. I love different styles, at the moment I am a fan of the Clean & Simple style. I am a paperhoarder, I love each single sheet ;) Silhouette and Cuttlebug are good friends of mine, Sequins are my actual love. If there's enough time left I really like to do minialbums and scrapbooking layouts. They are a gorgeous way to keep memories!
I am blogging at http://butterkipferl.blogspot.com and I am so happy to be your guestdesigner :D




Here is Manuela's beautiful card for July's Challenge -


Suchi  
Hi Sweet Crafters! I am Suchi and I have been married to a wonderful guy since past 2yrs. I am working as a software tester by day and a crafter by night! I have been painting and crafting most of my life but I am relatively new to the blogging world. I love versatility - playing with papers, stamps, stencils, mixed media , canvases, scrapbooking; can't get enough of them! :) Blogging has made me connect with the world and I made a lot of friends out there. I have never looked back since then. Thanks Eithne and Michelle for giving me this wonderful chance! I am looking forward to work with all the talented DT members! My blog over suchizcardstock awaits your dear presence! :)




Here is Suchi's beautiful card for the challenge - 
Please join us in welcoming our GDT :)

This month for the new challenge, Geraldine made a beautiful sunny card! More details at her blog.

Yvonne made this beautiful Afternoon Tea card. Check out her blog to see more details.

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

Our challenge is open until midnight Friday 31st July.

Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!
We will be back with mid-month inspirations, until then hope you enjoy your Sunday.
Eithne & Michelle :)