Midweek Papercraft Party (32)

Hello and welcome to another papercraft party!  Our theme for this week is Home and/or Family!

Before we get down to creativity, let me announce last week's winner, who are:

Andrea and Joanne

Well done! You both win three digital stamps of your choice from the Handmade Harbour store. Please email wendy@handmadeharbour.co.uk with your choice of images.

Home and Family is our inspiration and challenge this week and here's what the design team has rustled up for you...

I love this card by Lynne - the way just one of the houses is coloured in is really effective.  The sentiment comes with the image - it's one of the new digital stamps only just released this week.

Rachel's card uses the same image and a similar idea with the sparing use of colour...

Aleksandra used the Cat in window box stamp - a fabulous, fun image for any cat lover and definitely conjuring up feelings of home and family!  A perfect image for this challenge!  That cat looks contented!

As usual, we'd love to see what you've been making.  By joining in, you get the chance to win 3 digital stamps of your choice from the Handmade Harbour shop.

If you use Handmade Harbour images, it increases your chance of winning.  You can buy digital stamps from the website, or you can get free digis to try them out!

OK, so it's over to you if you're playing along this week...

An InLinkz Link-up

Handmade Monday 130

Hello and welcome to Handmade Monday!

I've been a bit wrapped up this week with setting everything up for the new Handmade Harbour design team, and now it looks like we are ready to roll with a brand new midweek papercraft challenge.  It will be weekly (every Wednesday), anyone can join in and the design team will be picking a winner every week, who will get a free digi stamp and a winner's blog badge (for bragging rights)!  To be in with a chance of winning, you'll need to use a Handmade Harbour digi stamp (this free digistamp of a cupcake will do!).

birthday boy digistamp

I'm hoping it will work in a similar way to Handmade Monday - you'll be able to link up in the same way and visit other bloggers.  It's called the Midweek Papercraft Party and each week there's a theme (although the first couple of weeks, the theme is "Anything Goes" which is kind of not quite a theme!).  If you're into papercraft, you are more than welcome to join in with your latest project!

Meanwhile,  it's still Christmas in August here. I've been working on making a snowglobe for Craftseller magazine and the snow gave me a few problems on this one!  Do you know how hard it is to track down white glitter in August? (Maybe that's a year-round thing, I don't know...) I trailed round art shops, pound shops, stationery shops.  Even my local (very large) Hobbycraft has a very limited supply of the stuff.  I didn't order it online as my deadline was so tight, but I wish I had done - I would have much preferred larger glitter (if you know what I mean) rather than the superfine stuff I bought from Hobbycraft.

the polymer clay cottage for inside the snowglobe

Keeping everything crossed just about worked out this time -  my superfine white glitter kind of looks and acts a bit like snow and - huge bonus!! - the parcel arrived safely intact at Craftseller (posting a glass jar full of glittery water and a glued-down polymer clay model somehow seemed to be asking for trouble!).

What has your week been like?