Hello everyone!
How you doing this week? Looking for an easy challenge to get your creative juices flowing? Well then, stop right here we have a great one for you this week!
Before I share with you the tutorial and the challenge, I just need to mention that sadly, a few of your wonderful entries had to be removed as they did not follow the rules. You can only submit 3 cards into our challenge, any more will mean that they are removed from the challenge. I hate doing that, but to make it fair to everyone, I have to remove them. Please, only enter up to 3 times - thank you!!
Its my turn, Leanne, to share a tutorial with you, so this week I am going to show you how to make your own flowers out of hearts! Therefore, our challenge this week is:
Fabulous Flowers!
As long as your creation has a flower on it, whether its 1 or 101, then you can enter this challenge! It can even be a flower on the DP you use! Lets show the crafting world our Flower Power!!
So, I absolutely adore flowers and am always looking to find a way to make my own flowers as over here in Dubai, there is only one craft shop and its sooooooooooo expensive! So after some playing around with some shapes, I came up with using hearts to make a flower!
1. You need heart shapes in 3 different sizes. I have gone for 1.25 inches, 1 inch and .75 inch. You need 3 of each size (I have also made these flowers using 5 different sizes for a really great bulky flower).You also need a pokey tool and a brad that has a long stem on it. Its good if you use double sided card, but thats up to you!
2. Next, poke a hole just a bit up the heart away from the point, this will be for your brad to go through.
4. Next, open them out and then start layering them onto the brad. Start with the smallest heart size first, then the next size, then the next until it looks like this....
5. Now its starting to look like a flower!! I love more grungy looking ones, so its up to you if you stop like it is or carry on. Next, I squish each separate heart shape around the brad - like this...
6. Now open it out - it will look like this...
7. Now you can keep scrunching the flower, add glitter, anything you like till you are happy with it! How easy is that? I love to be able to make these in the same colour that I have used on my cards. Here is the finished one!
Hope you liked it!
This week we are lucky to have 2 brand new sponsors and 4 prizes to give away!!!
Wink Wink Wink are offering 3 prizes of 3 stamps (up to $15) of the winners choice!
A bit about Wink Wink Wink: *Wink *Wink Ink is a brand new digital stamp company as of January 2010. Our images are original, well drawn, and clear with a style you won't find anywhere else! If you like animals, children and fantasy creatures you will love our stamps! New stamps are added to our store weekly, so there is always something new to see! All images are 300 dpi and come in 3 versions- black and white jpg for coloring, transparent png for layering on all your digital creations, and a colored jpg for use as a coloring guide or print and embellish for quick beautiful projects in no time flat! We hope you stop on by and visit us soon at www.winkwinkink.com!
Our featured tipper prize this week is
Michelles Scrapbooking & More who is offering our featured tipper a $15 voucher to spend in her store
A little bit about Michelle: Michelles Scrapbooking & More is the home of The Pixie Cottage Stamps. In addition, we carry a wide variety of paper crafting products, including Copics, Spellbinders, Magnolias, Basic Grey, Kaisercraft, Sizzix, Provocraft and much more. Customer service is a priority for our store. Stop by and see what we have to offer!
Here is some inspiration from the DT Team 2
Vee
Maggie
Samantha
Carol
Paula
Heike
Remember, all you have to do to win a prize is:
- Create something using the theme of the challenge
OR - leave a tip (using the comment section)
OR - do both!!
You can now only enter the challenge 3 times - just as long as its a new creation - any back dating creations (before today's date) will be removed.
You must also do a link to Top Tip Tuesday on your creation post.
Only someone leaving a tip can win the featured tipper prize - you can leave your tip via the comment section of the post.
Remember, there is also the chance to be one of our Top 3 creations as well!!
Thanks for stopping by and we can't wait to see your fabulous creations!!!
You have until 11pm (UK Time) on Monday 31st January to enter - so go on, get creating!
You have until 11pm (UK Time) on Monday 31st January to enter - so go on, get creating!
