October Elemental Inspiration Challenge

Hello. It's Miri here this time.

Thank you for sharing your "tourism cards“ with us last week! 

We enjoyed our virtual tour around the world a lot.

It’s already October and I’m looking forward to some cosy golden autumn days.

Here is the inspirational picture I picked:

Please use at least three items from the moodboard on your card.

Here you can see some lovely examples from our design team:

Miri (hedgehog, leaves, plaid pattern)

Nat (someone in a hood, a furry animal, something knitted, and woodgrain)

Kathy  (Leaves, Woodgrain, Capital Letters, Colours)

Ruth  (an animal, leaves, pattern and something grown (mushrooms))

Dawn (colours, woodgrain, leaves)

Shabneez

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World Tourism Day

Happy Friday!

It's Shabneez here and I'd like to thank you for joining in with the numbers challenge last week.  Google informed me that it is in fact World Tourism Day today and it's role is to raise awareness of international tourism.  So I thought what better way of aiding tourism than by showing off creations which make us think of other countries.

For this challenge I would like to see something from another country or culture so for example a cherry blossom from Japan, a henna pattern from India or even a cactus from Mexico!  I look forward to seeing your creations and here is some wonderful inspiration from the Design Team.

Shabneez

Kathy 

Joanne

Dawn

Ruth

Nat

Miri

Svenja

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Got Your Number

Thank you to all who joined in with last week's dare set by Dawn.  This week it is my turn, Ruth, to set the challenge.

Both my boys have Birthday's in September and my eldest has turned 16.  So my challenge to you is to create something with a number on it!

And it doesn't need to be a Birthday number :)

Over to the team to see what they have created:

Kathy

Dawn

Ruth:

Miri

Svenja

Shabneez

Joanne

Nat

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Special Thoughts

Hello everyone and a big thank you for joining in last weeks Elemental Inspiration challenge.  

It's Dawn here to host this week's challenge.  

Special Thoughts

The challenge I have set is a personal one for me.  I recently lost my Dad to cancer after a 9 year battle.  My Dad was my hero and I miss him so much.  So I want you to create a card for that special person, in memory of someone special or just to let a friend know you are thinking about them.

As a family we received lots of cards after Dad passed away and it was comforting to know how much people cared.

Let's see how the Design Team were inspired this week.

Kathy

 

Joanne

Dawn

Svenja

Miri

sentiment: I miss you

Shabneez

Ruth:  

Nat

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September's Elemental Inspiration Challenge

Hello there Crafters!

Thank You to those who joined in with Nat last week and shared your fab ideas for using Resit Techniques - they were a real inspiration.

As usual our first challenge of the month is an

Elemental Inspiration Challenge 

For September we have this colourful mood board chosen by Ruth

Remember, you just need to pick a minimum 3 elements  from the picture to use when making your card.  If you choose to use the colour palette, then that would count as one of your elements

 

Here's how our fab team were inspired by this month's board

Kathy 

 

  

Nat

Miri   

 

Joanne

Svenja

Ruth

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Resist!

Hello everyone!

It's Nat here bringing you this week's challenge.

First though, thank you to everyone who joined in with Svenja's under the sea dare last week. It was a feast for the eyes! :D

This week I'm challenging you to embrace one of my favourite techniques of the moment: the resist technique.

You can accomplish it in a variety of ways using:

• Heat embossing to resist ink, watercolour or other media
• Masking paper or post-it notes with die cuts or even masking tape
• Resist spray on its own or in combination with stencils
• Masking fluid or a masking pen with watercolour
• Wax crayons

I'm sure there are other methods you'll think of! :)

To get you started here are some of the ideas the Design Team came up with:

Joanne (debossed die resist)

 

Kathy (hot foil + ink)

Nat (ink wash background + heat embossing)

Miri (ink blending + heat embossing)

Ruth (crayon resist)

Dawn

  

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