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 139

Welcome to another Handmade Monday!

Well, this unruly mess of ribbon, string, paper and glue can only mean one thing...

... more cards for Craftseller magazine.  More Christmas cards, to be precise.

The cards I make for them are of course to showcase the free craft papers they give away every month, but I can never resist adding a little something to the papers when I'm making a card...

I think being able to add texture and depth is one of the really great things about handmade cards - it definitely separates the finished product from mass-produced and creates a much more luxurious feel.  Plus it's so much fun to do!

Seriously - aren't those Craftseller papers just gorgeous?

Enough of me and my cards - the full reveal will have to wait.  It's over to you now...