Midweek Papercraft Party (24)

Welcome to another papercraft challenge!  This week's theme is BRIGHT AND HAPPY!

Congratulations to last week's winners:

Naomi (Mad Moose) and Very Belle Makes

You both win your choice of three digital stamps from the Handmade Harbour store - please email wendy@handmadeharbour.co.uk with your choices and I'll get them to you as soon as I can.  You also get to grab the winners' badge for your blog- you'll find it in the left hand sidebar.

This week, Lynne has made a gorgeously bright and happy card, using the vintage caravan digital stamp - I love what she's done with colour and pattern here!

Rachel played with the funky monkey digital stamp and created this very impressive napkin fold card that opens up when you pull the tab!  I'm full of admiration for the skill and time that went into this card - a true feat of engineering!

Bright and happy is a theme I can warm to - a feeling that might cheer some of us up in a damp British winter - and those of you in a warmer(or indeed drier) climate could perhaps share some of your sunshine with us via the internet!  If you haven't got sunshine, then the bright and happy theme might mean you can fake it!

As I type, I'm bundled up in scarf, duvet and blanket, waiting for an engineer to fix my central heating boiler - it's just 5 degrees outside and possibly slightly warmer inside!  So do please share your bright and happy cards or other projects with me!!

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Midweek Papercraft Party (23)

It's time for another papercraft challenge - and this week's theme is LOVE.  This is an easy one as we approach Valentine's Day, but I think love is the background motivation for so many cards anyway.

The winners for last week are:

Susie and Gail

and both winners get to display the winner's badge on their blog (you can grab it from the left hand sidebar of this blog) as well as choose three digistamps from the Handmade Harbour shop.  Susie and Gail, please email wendy@handmadeharbour.co.uk with your choices and I'll send them over to you.

This week the design team has been playing with the theme of love... Lynne made two gorgeous cards with the I heart you digistamp - these balloons floating in the sky are a lot of fun and proving popular!  To see how Lynne made these cards, pop over to see her card making process.

Lynne's Card - Using Pastels - Blog post to follow

Lynne's Card - using Silks to paint the images and liquid pearls like paint... LOVE this one

Connie at Times To Cherish made this super sweet heart wedding Mini album with the Wedding Couple digi

I love it - there's lots of space to add pictures or keepsakes

Laura's Card is a beautiful example of the Clean and Simple look.  This adorable Momma Owl and Baby Owl shows the strongest love of all - between mother and child!  Who wouldn't be thrilled to receive this card?

kel used the lovely cute hedgehogs digital stamp to make her gorgeous with love card.  A perfect example of using the LOVE theme for something other than Valentine's cards!

It's your turn now - if you've been making cards or other papercraft projects with the LOVE theme, we'd love to take a peek!  Add your link below and we'll pop over and have a look.

Midweek Papercraft Party (20)

Hello and a warm welcome to the latest papercraft challenge!  This week's challenge theme is:

Health and Happiness - it doesn't need to be both, it could be health or happiness.  But I think they are fitting things to be thinking about in what is still a brand new year, don't you?

The design team has come up with a few designs which I love - hope you do too!  If you'd like to join in this week, you can find more information on the papercraft challenge page, but it's pretty simple - the main thing is, just leave your blog link below - we'd love to visit you and see what you made!

Before we start, let's have a little drumroll for last week's winners:

Fiona S and Sarah

Well done to you both!  You both win three digistamps of your choice from the Handmade Harbour store.  Please pick your stamps and email wendy@handmadeharbour.co.uk with your choices.  I'll then get them to you as soon as possible.

Winners also get to display the winner's badge on their blog, which is to be found in the left hand sidebar, somewhere over that way <----

OK, are you ready?  I love this first one!  Lynne made a 5" x 7" canvas with the brand new girl in windy weather digistamp - this canvas would look fabulous hanging on the wall!  It took my breath away when I saw it - I adore all the colour and feeling of excitement in this one!

Zoe used another brand new image - the do what you love digital stamp - to make this superb card.  A great sentiment to be starting the new year off with, don't you think? Do what you love and love what you do...

Rachel plumped for the popular wine o' clock digital stamp to make her gorgeous card. Of course, red wine is supposed to be good for you (in moderation!) and the feel-good factor of a little tipple certainly fulfills the happiness part of this challenge!  I think you could add in the smile that this card will raise!  

What have you been making that might fit our health and happiness theme?  Or perhaps you want to make something especially for the theme? There are two winners every week, and remember that if you use a Handmade Harbour digital stamp in your project you significantly increase your chances of winning!

To join in, please leave your link below - and it would be lovely if you could visit a few of the other entrants and leave some comment love - this is a party, after all!!

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 (9)

Hello!  It's time for another papercraft challenge and a peek at what the design team have been up to!

First though, here are last week's winners:

Pat and Elizabeth (click on their names to be taken to their winning blog post)

Congratulations on your win ladies! - if this is you, please email wendy@handmadeharbour.co.uk with your choice of three digistamps from Handmade Harbour. You can also grab the winner's badge from the left-hand sidebar to proudly display on your blog!

This week's theme is Something Pretty.  I think the vast majority of handmade cards I see on blogs would fit this theme!  The design team came up with a pretty diverse collection of very pretty cards!

I am always reluctant to leave summer behind when it comes to cooler days, dying leaves and darker nights, so this card from Laura just delighted me!  This new beach hut digital stamp was something I drew very recently on a whim, recalling our summer stay in Somerset.  We walked along the beach one day for about eight miles (yup, we were exhausted, sunburnt and really enjoyed our pub lunch at the end with a large jug of water!! We caught a steam train back, but that's inspiration for another day!) and saw a long row of adorable beach hut-style chalets at Dunster Beach.  They inspired this image - and the double easel card Laura made from my image is just awesome - look at that picket fence!  I think I want to live there...

And look - it all folds up for sending to someone special!

By Laura at CraftyLawyerCreates

Valerie used the Tea Shop stamp with a little bit of some quick Zentangling/doodling/free-hand sketching around the border, which I love!  It certainly fits our pretty theme!

Connie made this adorable (and very pretty) scrapbook page using the new girl with bunting digi 

Mary went with the rose digistamp to create this gorgeous card.  I love the mix of plain white rose, red background and music sheet.  Simple but very pretty.

Have you been inspired this week?  Have you made something pretty?  Please do join in with this week's challenge by leaving us a link to your blog - just by joining in you have a chance of winning three digistamps of your choice from the Handmade Harbour store.

Handmade Monday 131

Welcome to another Handmade Monday.

This Christmas in August lark sure has dragged on!  I'm not complaining, though ... this is another commission for Craftseller magazine.  I needed to make two Christmas cards for them using the free craft papers that they give away with the magazine.

When you are designing using free papers that aren't actually going to be published for a few months yet, they need to email you the papers, which you then of course print before you use them - exactly like using digital stamps and papers, really!

Some commissions are so much fun and this was one of them!  I really enjoyed the process of chopping up paper and sticking it in place (it's kind of relaxing and therapeutic, I think).   I introduced a bit of depth with some of the elements...

In other news, I'm thrilled with how the design team work for Handmade Harbour is coming together.  There's a brand new weekly papercraft challenge started this week - in which I show off the design team's work first, but (a bit like Handmade Monday) anyone is welcome to join in by linking up!

I'm also interviewing the team one by one so you can meet them and find out more.  Lynne and Zoe have been interviewed so far with more to come.  I just love that this team brings together like-minded people from all over the world.  And I love seeing my images becoming a part of someone else's creative project - it's just completely amazing!

I love what Lynne did with my beach huts digi stamp

(this card also makes the perfect antidote to Christmas in August!)

With everything that's been going on in my little corner of the world, I've found it difficult recently to find time to leave comments on all your blogs - it's been quite a juggling act (my third-world-speed internet connection hasn't helped) and I'm sorry - but I always read as many of your blog posts as possible.  I always look forward to seeing what's going on in other creative households!

Over to you for Handmade Monday!