Midweek Papercraft Party (15)

It's time for another papercraft challenge!  Are you ready?

Last week's winners are:

Nadja and Teresa

Well done both!  Please email me with your choice of 3 digital stamps from the Handmade Harbour store.  Also, feel free to add the winner's badge to your blog - you'll find it in the left hand sidebar <---

This week's challenge is:

Winter Fun...

and the design team as usual have come up with some gorgeous projects for you - they've all used Christmas-themed digistamps from Handmade Harbour this week.  Don't forget if you use a Handmade Harbour digistamp too, you'll double your chance of winning.

It's definitely feeling like winter here in the UK and I'm getting used to wrapping up warm, so our theme this week feels very appropriate.  Kel kicks off with a penguin in his winter hat and scarf.  She also coloured some of her white snowflakes blue for this lovely card...

Valerie used Snowman Family and added little spots of Stickles Glitter Glue to make it look like the happy snowman family is enjoying a nice snowfall.  I love Mrs Snowman's pink hat and scarf!

Laura used  Christmas Tags and had fun with her white gel pen making stitches.  The top striped layer is vellum, which she had never worked with before but says she found it surprisingly easy to work with.  These make great gift tags!

Connie made a gorgeous 6x6 card - I love the doily background and the understated colours!

Mary's card is a simple but stylish and effective card, using one of the Christmas digital tags and sentiments 

 Anita used the penguins in two gorgeous cards (and one of the tags snuck in there too!) 

I love all these cards - what about you?  Have you been making something that fits our winter fun theme?  We'd love to pop along and have a look, so you know what to do...

Midweek Papercraft Party (13)

Welcome to this week's papercraft challenge!

Last week's winners are:  Jo and Helen

Congrats to you both, you win three digis of your choice - please email at wendy@handmadeharbour.co.uk with your choice of three digital stamps from the Handmade Harbour digistamps store.  You also get the right to display the winner's badge on your blog - feel free to grab it from the left-hand sidebar...
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This week's challenge is: Christmas is Coming!

Would you like a peek at what the design team have been doing with this theme?  They all used images from the Christmas digital stamps selection -and I just love what they did with them.

Valerie used Reindeer with Santa Hat.  Valerie said: "I chose to keep my card simple this time, so the focus would be on this really adorable reindeer image".  I love what she did here, don't you?

Laura used the Cute Christmas Robin digi and said "I think this little Robin is so sweet, even though I colored him more like a canary color. :-) "

Actually, I think he looks like a gorgeous robin and not at all like a canary!!  He may be slightly pale, but he's instantly recognisable!!

Connie made a gorgeous scrapbook layout, and showed us that the Christmas digistamps are perfect for Christmas-themed layouts.  I love the mix of bright Christmassy colours with the subdued naturals here..

Mary made a super sweet gift tag using one of the Christmas tags and sentiments that come all as one digital stamp

Back to cards with Anita, who made quite a few, all of which are very lovely indeed!  Christmas is definitely the time for multiple card making!

Last (but definitely not least) kel  made some super-sweet blue Christmas robins - I love them in this colour!

 

If you fancy taking part in our challenge, all you need to do is link up your latest blog post with your Christmas-themed papercraft project - we'd love to see what you've been making!  

If you use a Handmade Harbour image, you double your chances of winning, so do pop over and see the Christmas digital stamps - they are instant downloads so you could get making right now!

If you are playing along with us this week, you know what to do...

Midweek Papercraft Party (11)

It's time for a papercraft challenge again here at Handmade Harbour.  This week's challenge theme is:

Having Fun!

The winners from last week are:

Roberta and Cathy

Yay! Well done - please email wendy@handmadeharbour.co.uk with your choice of three digistamps from the Handmade Harbour store.  Also, feel free to grab the winner's badge from the left sidebar of this blog!

OK,  just in case you might like a little inspiration this week, here's what the design team have been busy doing with the Having Fun theme...

Valerie used Robin Family on a Branch digistamp, using a 3D layering technique - I love the bright colours in this card, which gives it a real sense of fun!

I know a lot of cardmakers are completely immersed in Christmas cards at the moment - so it's no surprise that we have not just one but two Christmas cards from the team this week.

Anita's card features the penguin with presents digi and the delicate colours she's used here look just delightful...

This Funky Monkey digital stamp obviously has a sense of fun as he turned up on no less than three different designers' cards this week!  Here's what  Laura did with him: 

And here's what kel did:

And here he is again courtesy of  Mary

Connie made a tag just in time for Halloween.  She says: "I found my inspiration from Angie Blom.  I met her at a crop and I recreated and added to a tag she had as a make and take. I added 2 of Wendy's stamps to this tag."

It's a gorgeous tag, isn't it?

Have you been creating anything that fits in with our Having Fun theme?  We'd love you to join in with our challenge!  The only requirement is that it's made from paper.  If you use a Handmade Harbour digital stamp you'll double your chance of being a winner, so with that in mind...

• there are free digital stamps here and 

• there's a bigger choice of digital stamps here!

Enjoy!  The design team and I are looking forward to seeing your makes this week!

Handmade Monday 140

Hi and welcome to Handmade Monday!

I've been looking forward to this month's Craftseller magazine, not just because some of my projects made it onto the pages, but because one of those projects is very close to my heart.

This vintage-styled handbag (purse for those of you across the pond) has a very special face on the front - my lovely Grandma as a young girl.  I'm told this picture was taken sometime after the first world war - in any case it was well before my dad was born in 1928!

You may remember I blogged about making this bag a few weeks back.  It uses a nifty little fabric that you can print directly onto using your ordinary inkjet printer and the resulting printed fabric is even washable (I've not tested its washability, but the printed fabric is excellent).  I bought mine from Crafty Computer Paper - and I've since been back for more as this project has given me a bucketload of ideas!

My Grandma would have been so proud - not just because her own face was in a magazine, but because she was always very proud of all her grandchildren's achievements (no matter how small).

Also in this issue are a couple of my cards which use Craftseller's free papers.

a sleepy owl...

...and a Russian doll

If cards are your thing, you may be interested in my new Christmas digital stamps, which I've uploaded this week.  I think this robin might be my favourite...

...but I do want to get some more Christmas digis drawn and uploaded very soon.

It's over to you now for Handmade Monday.  Are you making for Christmas, or still making for Halloween?
Or maybe your mind is on something else altogether?  Tell us about it...

New Digital Stamps for Christmas!

I've been busy designing some new digital stamps for Christmas, and while you can click on the link to see the Christmas range, I thought I'd give you a little preview here...

this cute little robin is waiting for Santa, with his little hat keeping his head warm and his stocking ready to be filled with exciting presents!

And here's a whole family of robins...

Christmas is a time for families, so there's another family too - this time they a snowman family (although I'm not sure snowman family is the correct terminology as one is definitely a snow woman and two are snow children!).  Whatever you want to call them, they do look cute and jolly!

If you would like to see more in the seasonal range, the Christmas digital stamps (including the images shown above) are available for immediate download from the website now.  

But I will be adding more in the next few weeks, so do pop back!