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Edwin has a big RED hug for YOU!

January 15th, 2011 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 95 Comments »

Hi Everyone,

We are back again for our SECOND Make it Colourful challenge and this week we are challenging you to colour with RED!

I was having trouble deciding what I was going to do and because I had left it to the last minute I began to get a little worried as I saw the INCREDIBLE creations rolling in from the rest of the team! Gosh these women have me on the edge of my seat drooling all over my keyboard!

The images I combined for this scene are Valentine’s Bear (Free Digi illustrated by our very own Barbara), Edwin wants a hug and the Tree of Love from Make it Crafty.

The whole image is coloured with copic markers. I am now sitting here trying to recall what all the colours are that I used.

Reds: R22, R24, R29, E19

Tree
Leaves: Y17, Y38, YR04, R24, R29
Trunk: E31, E33, E37, E17. E29, YR24

Sky: B000, B00, B02

Bear: E41, E43, E44, E47, E49

Edwin
Pants: C02, C04, C05, C07, C09
Shirt: C01, C02, C04
Skin: E000, E01, E11

I am thinking of making a collection of little tag rubber stamps that can be hidden in amongst flowers or off the page. What do you think?

I know my perspective and sizing is all out of whack but I don’t care at the moment. LOL It’s a WHIMSICAL lovey dovey card. hahahaa

I actually cut the pillow away from the bear so he could be leaning up against the tree. Also I chopped the whole top of the tree off to make the trunk the main feature of the background.

The papers I used are from the Basic Grey Max & Whiskers pad and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Craft.

I was inspired by Mary last week using acetate for her pop up card. I thought it was a great idea to use something clear to elevate Edwin. I also used it on the bear and the great thing about acetate is that when you fold it you can fold it on an angle which can give you a different kind of dimension. So the bear is actually angled with his legs higher than his head.

I hope you will join us this week and get yourself all colourful with RED! Be sure to drop over to the challenge blog to have a droooool. heehee

I would like to share this card with the following challenges

  1. Just Magnolia – My Favourite Things (COPICS & COLOURING!!  heehee)
  2. Lexi’s Creations – Say it with Love
  3. Southern Girls Challenge – Totally Loved Up
  4. Bunny Zoe’s Crafts – Love is in the air
  5. Scrap Creations – Love is in the air
  6. Stamp Something – Anything Goes
  7. Scrappy Frog Challenges – Sentimental

I know I still need to answer some of your questions. Just trying to do everything at once. :) Next post I promise!!!

BIG Squeezes! Thanks so much for popping by.

Zoe xxxooo

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Make it Colourful – Ch#1 – Warm or Cool Colours

January 8th, 2011 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 18 Comments »

Hi Everyone,

I am so excited that the new challenge blog MAKE IT COLOURFUL has finally begun! Thank you so much to the many of you who have spread the word because you love to colour too!

We hope that you will enjoy playing along with our challenges and be inspired by the creative team of ladies from around the world!

Update as I write this: Haahaa
I am having a little freak out moment as I am writing this 8 minutes prior to when the post is supposed to go live.Plus my scheduled post on the colourful blog now has not gone live and so I am ripping my hair out trying to push it through!! Nothing ever runs smoothly right? tee hee

On to my card!

I had such trouble trying to decide what images I would use and at the last minute completely went in a whole different direction which has left me scrambling!!

In the end I decided to go with a manly theme using predominantly Cool Colours.

I thought I would have fun showing how Aussie Santa can be turned into a regular Aussie Joe. We have just had an Aussie BBQ designed to compliment Aussie Santa. Of course it features a number of the traditional foods found on our BBQ’s, with some prawns thrown on, a big steak and of course some snags!

Here is a close up of the image

As mentioned earlier in my post, I decided to go with cool colours. Aussie Santa is wearing a traditional workman’s blue singlet (unfortunately it’s a bit bright really) with his khaki shorts and blue rubber thongs. He’s wearing an Akubra hat and of course he’s drinking a Vic Bitter beer!

I have included some information on the challenge post that helps show the warm and cool colour choices.

Here’s a list of the Copic Marker colours I used:

Hat: E30, E33, E17, blender
Skin: E000, E01, E11
Singlet: B21, B24, B26, B28, B93, B95
Shorts: YG91, YG95, YG97
BBQ: C02, C04, C05,C07,C09
Prawns: Eo1, E11
Sausages/handles: E13, E17, E19

Beard… ummmm too many, mixture of greys, browns and yellows

Thanks so much for stopping by and I do hope you will join us over at Make it Colourful!

Hugs & take care

Zoe xxooo

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Technique Challenge – Distressing

October 13th, 2010 | Posted in: Challenges | 7 Comments »

Hi everyone,

I am excited to be back with the SECOND Technique Challenge. The technique challenges are where you can learn or improve on a technique and we will provide you with genuine constructive feedback.

I received great feedback from the first technique challenge on Creating a Scene. Those who participated really appreciated and looked forward to our feedback so I am really happy to know that this type of challenge has been welcomed.

Welcoming news!

I am really happy to announce that we have some new faces joining the team to play along with us during our fun challenges and on occasion they may even have some inspiration for the technique challenges.

Please welcome

Annika,

Barbara,

Beccy, &

Sheila

to the team!

Drop by with a hot cuppa in hand and kick back and let your jaws drop! hehehe
These lovely ladies will be designing up a storm of inspiration for you for our next fun challenge!

The Technique Challenge!

Over the following two weeks our delightful, and charmingly French, ‘Mag la Magnifique’ will be hosting and sharing one of her fabulous techniques on creating a distressed background using water based distress inks.

Distressed background Tutorial: You can find all the details on Mag’s tutorial in our techniques section.

The challenge itself is to create a project that has distressed elements on it. Whether it be using the technique Magali has shared, distressing the edges of your paper with a tool or inks or sanding your card stock; anything that displays an old vintage distressed look.

A new group will be set up in the ‘Learning Community‘ where you can join and ask questions about distressing, share ideas and request feedback before submitting your project to the challenge. You can also use the gallery there if you don’t have a blog or would prefer our ‘real feedback’ is private and not on your personal blog.

Where ever you post your creation just make sure you link to it here using the Inlinkz at the bottom of this page.

PLEASE NOTE:
ALL PROJECTS ADDED TO THIS CHALLENGE WILL RECEIVE
GENUINE CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK ON THE TECHNIQUE.

This means that you may receive feedback that you were not expecting or even wanting to read.
The designers will try their best to offer their suggestions in a respectable understanding manner.

Let’s get Inspired!!

Many of the ladies this week tried Mag’s tutorial on distressing the background and WOW what awesome results. It was new to all of us and we had a ball.

Mag

View Mag’s Tutorial on how to create this fabulous background

Distress inks, Fancy Tags

Leah

Free Halloween Zombie, Crooked Picket Fence, distress inks

Jill

Whimiscal Mushroom, Magical Sapphire, Distress Inks

Sandy

Aussie Outback Shack, Distress Inks

Beccy

Distress Inks

Carisa

Distress Inks, Color Me Crazy White Flowers

Maria

Distress Inks, Halloween Charms

Maria is also giving away this fabulous card as part of her blog candy!
Make sure you drop by to find out all the details.

And of course we need some prizes don’t we!!

Being a technique challenge there will be a few prizes up for grabs!

I am very excited to be offering an…

Encouragement Award!

To be eligible for the encouragement award you must be a member of the ‘Distressing’ group in the learning centre and have requested assistance in learning the technique. I hope that this will encourage those of you who are umming and ahhing about whether you should ask for advice. :)

  1. The winner will receive a surprise gift plus a special ‘I learnt it’ badge.

I am also going to have a ‘Zoe’s Pick’ award

These will be designs that grab my attention for one reason or another. It could be that I find it very appealing to my eye or it could be because you wrote about your experience in learning about the technique and I thought the result was fantastic. I need to see what happens but I will not be using random.org to select winners during the technique challenges.

  1. Winner will receive a Tim Holtz paper Distresser and Aged Mahogany Distress Ink pad plus an ‘I won it’ badge
  2. An additional top 2 who will each receive 1 digi stamp of their choice plus an ‘I topped it’ badge

Winners Prize


Last things to remember before entering

IMPORTANT BEFORE ENTERING: If you do not want to receive feedback that you may not particularly like. DO NOT ENTER!

  1. All projects must be new and follow the theme of ‘Distressing’
  2. A maximum of THREE entries are allowed (additional entries will be deleted)
  3. You must link back to this blog and mention us in your post if you are entering via your blog.
  4. You can enter as many other challenges as you like.
  5. You can use any stamps you like – you do not have to use Make it Crafty digi stamps
  6. Be prepared to receive constructive feedback on your work – If you do not want to link directly to your blog (for feedback) you can upload your project to the Learning Community Gallery and copy and paste the link to your uploaded photo.
  7. Submissions end October 26th at 11:59 AEST (Australian time)
We are all looking forward to seeing what you share with us over the next two weeks!

Happy distressing!!

Hugs

Zoe xxoo

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Welcome New DT plus Celebration CANDY!!!

September 1st, 2010 | Posted in: Challenges, News | 64 Comments »

Hi everyone,

Well the day has come where I am very excited to announce the ladies who will be playing along side each other for Make it Crafty. I had so many wonderful ladies to choose from and am so honoured that you applied to be a part of this new exciting technique challenge idea of mine. I would have loved to give everyone a position and I will be contacting a few of you to ask if you would like to join as a guest over the coming months. BIG THANKYOU!!

The team I have selected all bring something different that they will be sharing with you over the next few months so I do hope you’ll follow along and share this experience with us.

Without further ado I would like to introduce you to the team.

I am so honoured to have you all to play with ladies. Thank you for trusting in my new idea and for your support and excitement thus far. BIG HUGS!!

Please stop by the team’s blogs as I have heard whispers that a few have had time to whip something up to share with you today!! :)

Update: WINNER ANNOUNCED!

Sooo… I figured with this exciting news we needed to CELEBRATE with some CANDY!!

I have put together a collection of lots of different yummies!

Included is:

  1. $10 to spend on any Make it Crafty digi stamps
  2. Tim Holtz embossing folders – checkerboard & cracked set
  3. Tim Holtz on the edge ‘Brackets’ die (one of my FAVOURITES!!)
  4. Cuttlebug Forest Branches embossing folder
  5. Pack of 10 A5 Xpress-It Blending card
  6. 6mm X-Press-It double sided tape
  7. 3 packs of charms
  8. Websters trimmings
  9. Sticky Stitches
  10. Prima Pearls Flourishes
  11. Prima Flowers
  12. Color me Crazy white flowers
  13. Kaisercraft clear script background stamp (perfect for stamping on the flowers!!)
  14. Copic 0.3 black multiliner
  15. Copic Spica clear glitter pen
  16. Pink Copic Ciao markers – RV10, RV04, RV06

Because I LOVE birthdays, I have decided to draw the winner of the candy on my birthday!!

So you have until 11:59pm September 26th to enter! AND I will announce the winner on the 27th!!

How to enter:

If you HAVE a blog

  1. Become a follower if you are not already (this is so you can hear about the challenges!! I don’t want you to miss out!!)
  2. Add the thumbnail candy to your side bar and optionally mention it in a post.
  3. Return and add a link to your blog below
  4. Make sure you remember to return to see if you have won!

If you DON’T have a blog

  1. Become a follower if you are not already (this is so you can hear about the challenges!! I don’t want you to miss out!!)
  2. Mention the candy and challenges to a friend via email or on a group where allowed
  3. Enter your name below linking to www.makeitcrafty.com.au
  4. Make sure you remember to return to see if you have won!

Note: Candy will be redrawn if I do not hear from the winner by August 4th.

CANDY IS OPEN TO EVERYONE!! SPREAD THE WORD!! :)

Here is the Sidebar Candy Image

Thanks for all your support everyone and I can’t wait for our FIRST CHALLENGE this time NEXT WEDNESDAY!! Mark your calendars!!

Hugs and I wish you all the luck in winning some candy.

Zoe xxoo

Enter Your Link HERE!!

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Exciting New Challenge plus CANDY!

August 23rd, 2010 | Posted in: News | 1 Comment »

That’s right you saw it in the title. CANDY! and Yummy CANDY at that!!

I am really excited to share with you a new monthly challenge “The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges” that I will be a part of. Some of my fav girls have been preparing an awesome challenge blog where it’s all about CRITTERS! All those cute Stamping Bazaar, House Mouse and anything furry will be a part of this challenge site!

You’ll enjoy seeing some amazing creations by the very talented team:
Kellie, Stephanne, Kylie, Sue, Marley & Myself!

The first challenge is going to take place on September 3rd so mark your calendars!

But we need your help to spread the word far and wide and of course we wanted to make it worth your while so we have a super duper Candy to share!!

Up for grabs is:

*$30 (AUD) gift voucher from Tickled Pink Stamps
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*Two digital stamps of your choice and an unmounted
Hansel rubber stamp from The Stamping Bazaar

The Stampin Bazaar

*$15 (AUD) digi stamp gift voucher from Make It Crafty

*One Popcorn Bear set – Golfing Popcorn

*One TGF Marlene Stamp

I told you it is AWESOME!! To help spread the word jump over to “The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges” blog and check out all the deets to see how YOU could win this Fantabulous Candy!!

The winner of the Candy will be announced Sept 3rd so you best get cracking and start spreading the word to get your chance to win!

Hugs all and I hope you are looking forward to playing along!

Zoe xxoo

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Weekend Challenge with Flowers

August 7th, 2010 | Posted in: News | 2 Comments »

Hi Everyone,

I am having a little weekend challenge for those of you who LOVE your flowers! Create any type of project, whether it be a card, scrapbook page or altered item and incorporate hand made or altered flowers and then pop on over to facebook and upload your project to the wall or add a link to your blog.

It’s that simple! Then Monday night I will randomly select a winner to win a pack of Color me Crazy flowers.

Challenge is open to everyone world wide. Come play!

Hope your weekend is full of crafty time!

Hugs

Zoe  xoo

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Stitch it Up with Karen’s Doodles

May 24th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | No Comments »

This week the KD girls have been playing with stitches whether they be real or faux and we want you to come play too!

Unfortuantely I don’t have a card to share with you this week. I had to go away for a few days and although I tried, I just couldn’t create one of my special Karen’s Doodles cards in time before leaving. (As this post posts I will be sitting on a plane on my way home! yay)

But the fabulous team have plenty of gorgeous cards to get your juices flowing! Jump on over to see all the action and then grab your Karen’s Doodles image and stitch it up!

Hope your weekend was fab and you had some ‘ME’ time to play with your crafts. I’ll be a bit jealous and will be hanging out to come home to play with my copics! heehee

Hugs, take care.

Zoe xxoo

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Play Pink & Purple & you could win Honey Tilda!

May 8th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 1 Comment »

This month at The Townscrapper we are having a special month of Mother and Daughter teams. We have some special guests joining us which we are all very excited about.

This week Phebe and her daughter Catrina have joined us, and they set the Challenge of Pink and Purple!

The design team have outdone themselves this week, although it seems we were all very excited about using the new image of Sophie Rock star. But of course we did! She is perfect for a pink and purple layout!!  hehehe

Here is what I came up with this week.

I am just loving this new technique of leaving sections of the image outside the nesties. I had asked Maria how it was done without folding the image and she pointed me to this site.  However I found that if you want to have more than one part of the image outside of the circle like in my image above, rather than mark the outside of the nestability die, mark the inside. You need to do this to be able to slide the nestability in and then curve your other areas inside and slot in to place.

Then once cut I just add some regular tape behind the cuts and smooth them back into place.

I was having trouble with my layout this week. Nothing was coming to mind. In the end I decided to cut around the scalloped nestie so you could see part of the inside of the card. It turned out better than I had imagined.

I am just loving my new copic colours for Auburn/red hair. E13, 17 & 19.

So pop on over to play this week with Pink and Purple at The Townscrapper and you could win Honey Tilda!

Thanks for stopping by today and getting to the bottom of this post!!

Hugs, and take care. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Zoe xxoo

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Introducing Victoria Case stamps!!!

March 5th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 13 Comments »

We are very excited to announce this week that
Phebe from The Townscrapper
has been working behind the scenes with the very talented
Victoria Case
to design a new series of stamps exclusively available from The Townscrapper!

Victoria Case has been illustrating for over 25 years and we are so happy and excited to be able to bring her gorgeous designs to you on rubber!

The design team have been lucky enough to have a chance to play with these stamps and I must say that they are an absolute dream to colour and are very versatile.

There are six stamps in the first series with a mixture of boys and girls to get your creative juices flowing.

It’s also FRIDAY’s CHALLENGE time

Of course it’s Friday today and so there is a challenge as well! This weeks challenge is “WARM WEATHER“, spring, summer, warm weather activities, bright colours, flowers – wherever your imagination takes you!

Somehow I think I might have missed the bright colours memo, but I do have birds and butterflies!! hehehe

Meet Sophie and her Birdiful birdies!!!

Coloured with my Copic markers on Gina K card stock.

Sophie also comes with the sentiment “You are so birdiful”

This week I was so happy when I received a vintage swap from my good friends at the Scrapboxx. The girls are so creative and I had a wonderful time arranging the embellies to create this vintage style card this week.

I added a birdie brad and I had a little birdhouse charm that worked so well with the birdiful theme.

CONTEST WINNER!

We’ll also be announcing the winner of the contest we have been running leading up to the big unveiling.

Make sure you head over to
The Townscrapper challenge blog
to see what all the amazing design team have created to show off the
new range of stamps by Victoria Case!!!

I would like to share this design with the following challenges this week:

  1. Lexi’s Creations – Anything Goes
  2. Crafty Creations – One Colour
  3. Totally Gorjuss – Something for mum
  4. Simon Says Stamp – Mother’s Day / Girly
  5. My Time to Craft – Just for mum
  6. Flourishes Timeless Tuesday – Scallops – could be stretching it this week ladies – but the lace is scalloped. :)
  7. C.R.A.F.T. – Mothers Day / Flowers

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I am sure you will love the Victoria Case stamps as much as we do. Phebe is currently working on her online store but you can contact her via info@townscrapper.com or by phone at 519-882-0623.

Take care and I hope you have a fabulous weekend.

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Humble Pie Challenge plus NEWS!

February 27th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 2 Comments »

This week the Humble Pie bakers had me on the ropes trying to make my first ‘Easel Card’. I hadn’t created one before and thankfully Lisa created an Easel Card  tutorial explaining how easy it really is.

Humble Pie Easel Card Challenge

There are some FANTASTIC prizes up for grabs this week and returning by popular demand we are giving away the Angel Maggie digi to every participant. So make sure you leave your email address so we can contact you.

I decided to use Angel Maggie (really any excuse will do) and came up with a concept of her floating on clouds.

To be honest however… I am not thrilled with how my card turned out this week. I think I was having mid-week designers block. I actually coloured Maggie 4 times before finally selecting one I was happy ‘enough’ with. Then my clouds didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted and well it was all downhill from there. lol I am laughing now but I wasn’t at the time.

Do you ever get those moments when nothing is working for you?? Argh it just makes me so frustrated.

Anyhow… Here is my creation for this week.

And here is the gorgeous Maggie close up.

I have also created a downloadable digi of my cloud template that you are welcome to save and use. Download Here.

So hop on over to Humble Pie and show us your Easel Cards! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

But wait…. before you go… my exciting news!!!

I am excited to announce that I will be continuing my design position at Humble Pie and have been invited to join the Senior Bakers. I have enjoyed baking along side the girls and I look forward to more cookery in the kitchen! PLUS I am so excited about some fantastic news that is coming up that I am about bursting at the seams! But I can’t tell you that bit of news yet. So you’ll have to wait and see… hehehe

Take care all. Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

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