June challenge - Something Masculine!

Hello! Summer is here in Ireland :) Wherever you are, hope the sun is shining on your day!

Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries. We chose our top 3 with great difficulty!

1st - Higgledy-Piggledy
2nd - Steffi
3rd - Srebrnolistka

This month, in Ireland we celebrate Fathers Day. So to tie in with this, our theme this month is "A Masculine Card" chosen by our DT member Pixie.

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 Pixie's beautiful card for our Masculine theme -

Here is Geraldine's beautiful project to fit the theme - 

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 Thursday 30th June 2016. 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,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne & Michelle :)

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May's Mid Month Inspiration

Hello! Hope this Friday morning finds you well, and welcome back to our mid month inspiration! This month our theme is "A step back in time" influenced by our historic year. This theme can be interpreted anyway you choose (vintage, historic etc etc)

This month our challenge is influenced by our centenary celebrations of the 1916 Rising.

The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798, and the first armed action of the Irish revolutionary period. (Thanks to Wikipedia!)

Today we have beautiful mid month inspiration from Sucheta

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!

If you are crafting and it meets the theme, why not give it a go?

Hope you have a great weekend,

Happy crafting,

Eithne :)

Oh Happy May!

Hello! Happy Friday to you :) Hope you are enjoying the first week of May, no matter where you are! It certainly feels like summer is on the way here in Ireland. The sun has finally found us ;)

Thank you so much to everyone who entered last months challenge. It was wonderful to see all the creations for Anything but a card. With great difficulty, as always (!) our DT chose the top 3 -
1st - Linda #64
2nd - Ellapu #4
3rd - Pamellia #20

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

This month our challenge is influenced by our centenary celebrations of the 1916 Rising.
The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798, and the first armed action of the Irish revolutionary period. (Thanks to Wikipedia!)
So influenced by our historic year, our theme is "a step back in time". This theme can be interpreted anyway you choose (vintage, historic etc etc)

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 Geraldine's beautiful project to fit the theme - 

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 Tuesday 31st May 30th 2016.  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,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne & Michelle :)

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March Top 3!

Hello and happy Tuesday! I'm back today with the Top 3 from the March challenge, a little later than planned but easy know the school runs are back after Easter holidays!!

Without any further ado, here are the top 3 our DT chose:-

#11 - Judy McKay
#29 - Carries Custom Cards
#32 - Alicia O'Bryant

Well done to our top 3, please take our badge from the sidebar! Thanks to everyone for taking part!
"Anything but a card" is Aprils challenge, which you can enter here.

If you are crafting why not give the challenge a go?

Thanks for stopping by,

Have a great day,

Eithne

April's Anything but a Card!

Hello! Happy April Fools Day! Hope you haven't gotten caught out yet ;) hope you have all recovered from the over indulgence of Easter Eggs!! Delightful Easter Eggs, yum!

Thank you for all the beautiful March entries. We really enjoyed looking at all projects relating to our theme, Luck of the Irish. As our challenge only ended last night at midnight, our DT have not had a chance to look at all entries. Please check back over the weekend to see our top 3!

For April our challenge is "Anything but a card". As usual you can interpret the theme any way you like!

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: -

Geraldine made some beautiful shaker bookmarks!

Suchi did a mixed media project

Pixie made some tasty treats, they're making me hungry!

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 30th April 2016.  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,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne & Michelle :)

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March's mid month inspiration :)

Hello! Hope this Saturday morning finds you well, and you have recovered from St. Patricks celebrations!

Today we have beautiful mid month inspiration from Geraldine and Pixie, for our theme "Luck of the Irish"
Geraldine

Pixie

If you are crafting and it meets the theme, why not give it a go?
Hope you have a great weekend,
Happy crafting,
Eithne :)

Luck of the Irish! Happy St. Patrick's Day :)

Hello! Wow, it’s March already! We are having little glimpses of Spring, here in Ireland, and it is so nice to see all the Spring flowers blooming. It gives such a glimmer of hope for a lovely summer ahead.

This year, March is a busy month - this Sunday is Mother's Day, so wishing all Mammy's out there, a lovely Mothering Sunday!! In the middle of March, we celebrate our Patron Saint's feast day - St. Patrick. Wherever you are, I hope you enjoy St. Patrick's Day (or Paddy's Day, but *NOT* Patty's Day ;)  ) In the words of my kiddies favourite film (Flight of the Doves)

"You don't have to be Irish to be Irish"!!

And then near the end of March it's Easter. Phew, busy month!

Thank you for all the beautiful February entries. We really enjoyed looking at everything that makes YOU smile. Our DT chose
1st - 65 Angelique
2nd - 58 Paperesse
3rd - 39 Sweet Kobylkin

  

St. Parick is the patron saint of Ireland, on we celebrate this day on March 17^th. Inspired by this day, our theme for March is “The Luck of the Irish”. You can interpret this 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 is the beautiful DT's inspiration: -

Suchi

 Eithne

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 Thursday 31st March 2016.  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,

Have a great Friday!

Lá Fhéile Phádraig,

Eithne & Michelle :)

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