Blogaversary Blog Hop at CRAFT Challenge this week!

Wow! It doesn't seem like a year since C.R.A.F.T  Challenge was born, a lickle, new baby blog.....aaahhhhh!...........all pink and cuddly and smelling of embossing powder.....

And here we are now, a year later, lots of followers, but still having loads and loads of fun.


So, it's our birthday and we’re celebrating in suitable style by having a fun blog-hop as well as our usual Challenge which, this week, is Birthday or Celebrations. You should have arrived here from Enola's blog.

To give you some inspiration for the challenge, here is my project for this week:

I have made two projects this week, one is a lovely pyramid box from Toucan Scraps from the 'Butterfly Kisses' range. I have printed this kit out a few times so the flowers and butterflies could be in 3D decoupage. This lovely kit is for sale at her shop at Stitchy Bear. You could also be in with a chance of winning this kit on this stop as Angela, aka Toucan Scraps is the sponsor on my blog stop. The prize here is one of 6 digi paper packs OR one of the boxes from her Stitchy Bear shop. The winner's choice.

Read on for further details on how to win.

The second part of the project is a card made using papers from Angela aka Toucan Scraps again, this is from her new kit 'Pink n Wild' and you can find this kit and many more at her shop at 3scrapateers. The sketch is from one of my fellow trimmies, Rozzy, the image is from Designed2Delight and will also be entered in that challenge. (Her shop is here)

Here are some close ups of the box and card:

Your prize for the Challenge this week is a lovely set of Papermania 'Henbury Lane' DesignerPapers and accessories, including beautiful adhesive gems, gorgeous blooms and a wonderful wood-mounted rubber stamp!

Now what d'you think of that! - Fabulous eh?!

We have lots of lovely individual sponsors for our Blog Hop too!
It’s going to be a lot of fun with prizes and draws at each stop and a final winner at the end, so don’t be a square—be there! -and be in with a chance to win!

Our blog-hop order is this:-

1) You start on the C.R.A.F.T Challenge blog and you visit each Design Team Member’s personal blog and leave a comment.

2) At each stop there will be a RED word associated with crafting for you to collect

3) We’re staying with our customary alphabetical list for the team so Andrea is the next stop after the C.R.A.F.T Challenge blog.
Andrea will give you the link to the nest DTM and so on.

4) At the end, we want you to get back to C.R.A.F.T and leave us a comment with the nine words you pick up! If you can make a sentence so much the better!

Just to make it clear for you to follow - here is our DT in alphabetical order.

Andrea
Claire
Eileen
Enola
Jo (that's me)
Magda
Rose
Suzi
Tigerlover


We're SO Looking forward to seeing who comes up with the correct sentence as we have a really fabulous new sponsor for that - QVC's Scrapbooking Expert, Rosemary Merry!
She is kindly having a good look through her stock at Crabapple Crafts to find something lovely for that clever crafter (who will be chosen from the corrrect answers by random generator) who gets the sentence right! Now how cool is THAT!

And that is in addition to all the prizes available at our Design Team Members' own blogs! My sponsor as said is Angela aka Toucan Scraps, you can find her shops at 3scrapateers and at Stitchy Bear. The prize on offer: one of 6 packs of digipapers OR boxes from her Stitchy Bear shop of the winner's choice. All you need to do is leave me a comment and become a follower of my blog. (don't worry if you don't have a blog, you can still leave a comment) The winner will be chosen randomly.

Now for some serious business:

The word you are looking for on my blog is SCISSORS and your next stop is Magda. If you get lost along the way, just return to the CRAFT Challenge blog and pick up where you left off.

Enough said! So off you go! Enjoy - and have yourselves some crafty fun - it's gonna be GREAT!

And obviously: good luck to you all and have a great weekend!

Love,

Jo.

 

FUNKY FAIRYS CHALLENGE 11 - DARE TO BE SQUARE! entry.

This is a very quick entry into the challenge at Funky Fairies at the moment. I didn't have a lot of time, but didn't want to let it go unnoticed. For this challenge, which you can find at http://funkyfairyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/funky-fairys-challenge-11-dare-to-be.html, you need to create a project using at least one of their papers with the theme square.

For this project I have used several of their papers (6 to be exact) and made them into a template for a little cube. I then printed this off on A4 paper, which had a back ground paper from Arty Miss on the other side of the paper.

It was then cut out and stuck together with double sided sticky tape.

For papers used and template, see below.

Above you can see the template for the cube that has been used. Each square is made up of a different Funky Fairies paper. The top one is from their purple Christmas range, as is the one below on the right. (papers h and 40 respectively). The one to the right and below the top one is from the dmaddon2 range, paper 12. Next to that is paper 15 from the dmaddon1 range.

Below this is paper 16 from the birds range and below this paper 6 from the new feeling sweet range.

For the inside of the cube I have used an Arty Miss paper, bfly0103, a free download, just as the ones from Funky Fairies.

Here are some views of the cube. The first one to mainly show off the inside.

And all the following views are to show off all its sides.

Just turned it upside down to show its bird side to its best potential.

Also a view of the bottom side.





And another side view.



Showing off the top of the cube with the feeling sweet paper. I think I'm starting to get hungry now.




And another side view.




And a last view of the cube. I hope you like it. It was quite fun to make it and to resize the papers to fit the squares. To make it function best you do need a sturdy white cardboard to use.

Now it can be used as a little trinket box or if I would add some numbers, it would make a nicely decorated dice.


Good luck to all others entering the challenge and have a lovely Easter!