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...

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?