August Challenge

Hello!
Hope you're enjoying your morning wherever you are! My, how the summer months are flying by so quickly.

Thank you so much for all the lovely entries for July's challenge - "Project must have handmade flowers, not a card"
We received some beautiful entries and we choose a top 3.
1st - #1  Liesbeth

2nd - #5 Katrina Bulton

3rd -  #3 Susanne

Please take the badge at the side, and display it proudly!

This month's challenge is "Must include a Triangle Shape"

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!

Leslie made a girly friendship card, with a triangle layer.

Geraldine made a beautiful triangular gift box.

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 September 2017. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

Have a great Friday!

Eithne and Michelle

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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!

 Yvonne

Manuela

Pixie

Suchi.

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 :)

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August Challenge Inspiration

Good morning and hope your Sunday is going well :) Today we have some beautiful August inspiration from Henryka - 

Henryka for the August challenge made a beautiful Photo Album for a Christening gift. 

Henryka never used her new set of punches from Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page™ Set, Cherish.

Check out Henryka's blog for more photos and close ups of this beautiful gift.

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!

August's theme is:

Hope you have a wonderful Sunday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

Happy Crafting,

Michelle and Eithne :)

August Challenge #7 - A Craft Item you have never used before

Hello! Hope you are having a lovely Friday. This is the beginning of our Irish August Bank Holiday. We are having a beautifully warm Summer, unusual for Irish weather ;)

Thank you so much for joining in our challenge last month. With great difficulty we choose our winners, there was a 4 way tie this month, so our 4 joint winners are as follows :-)

Joint 1st - # Lidya

            Joint 1st - # Jenyoung808

        Joint 1st - # Deonna B 
 Joint 1st - # Gail L

Thanks again to all who played along with Craft for the Craic, and congratulations to our Top 4!

Please take the badge from the side to display it on your blog!

For August, the theme is "A Craft item you have never used before". Maybe it is the pack of paper that has been too pretty to open, or the roll of washi tape that wandered under the desk! Whatever it is, we would like to see something that has never been used before. Please be sure to mention what the item is! 

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 what our Design Team have to show you:

First up This Month we would like to introduce You to our newest team Member

Sylwia

Hello Arty Souls!!!

This is my first post as I have joined this wonderfully creative DT recently:)

I wanted to show you something FUN today- my altered brush!!! This is huge brush, which I never used. It was sitting in my craft room forever and I decided to use it first time but as a surface to paint on:) Its really fun project and you can use your imagination and alter it with scraps of paper, flowers, beads etc. Check out Sylwia's blog post HERE

Sylvie

This month Sylvie has been crafting with Tin Foil :-)

Check out her VIDEO to see how she made this lovely card.

Katya

Hi everyone. This month challenge was a hard one =)  I dont tend to buy something and not use it straight away. So I was frantically searching through my stash and found a pearl dabber! I have used it all over flowers and add some sparkle. 

Michelle

This month Michelle has made a Mini Album, using a paper collection she has had in her stash for at least a couple of years :-) check out her post HERE

 

Angela

My version of the unused craft item.

This is a T-shirt with a 'bleach dyed'  skull pattern using a cut-out skull shape and stamped with a selection of stamps from my stash. Simples.

A second attempt same technique, but stamping over the bleached areas using inks suitable for fabric. ColorBox / StazOn.

Eithne

I made a card with a lot of papers and embellishments that I never used before - The pink paper at the left side, the black irridescent board and the beautiful felt flowers.

So that's our Design Team's beautiful 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 something you have never used, we would LOVE to see it ;) Our challenges start the first Friday of the month, and end the last day of the month (so this month's deadline is Sunday 31st August)

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

Thanks for popping by, don't forget to come back mid month for more inspiration!

Hope you have a wonderful bank holiday weekend.

Happy Crafting,

Michelle & Eithne :)

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