Ho Ho Ho! Happy 1st Friday of Advent :)

Ho Ho Ho! Happy 1st Friday of Advent :) Wow, can you believe it's December already? Where has that year gone to? We are experiencing a few weeks of cold, foggy weather in Ireland, and it's looking sooooo Christmassy!!!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our November challenge. It was wonderful to see all the beautiful projects. Because the deadline was very close to the new challenge, we will have the results in on Sunday morning.

This month our challenge is " Christmas - Anything but a Christmas Card". We are looking forward to seeing all your beautiful Christmas projects.
Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

This month Leslie has the most beautiful Onesies cards!! Perfect for baby's first Christmas! 

Leslie made this beautiful set:

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Tuesday 3rd January 2017, just to give you a bit of extra crafting time over the season!. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne and Michelle

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October Top 3

Hello! Happy Sunday to you. Today I'm bringing the Top 3 for our October Challenge.
With great deliberation, our DT chose
1st - #7 Lizzies Crafting Retreat
2nd - #17 Indy
3rd - #20 Toni

Thanks again to everyone who took part in our October challenge. We look forward to looking at all your beautiful entries for November.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Wednesday 30th November 2016. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Sunday!

Eithne and Michelle

November challenge - 2 colours

Hello! Happy Friday to you :) In Ireland, you can feel the winter coldness! Within a week, the weather has turned cold and blustery. The colours in the countryside here, are fabulous. Such vibrant rust golds and orangey yellows. Amazing to see the turn of colours.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our challenge. It was wonderful to see all the beautiful projects. We will have the results in on Sunday morning.

This month our challenge is "Use Two Colours". (Excluding white or black) We are looking forward to seeing all your beautiful projects, 
Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

This month Leslie and Geraldine are getting Christmas ready!! Both have made beautiful cards that fit in with the two colour theme perfectly!
Geraldine's made this beautiful Christmas card:

Leslie made this beautiful Christmas card:

Eithne made a card for a friend.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Wednesday 30th November 2016. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne and Michelle

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Autumnal Twist!

Hello! Happy Friday to you :) We are back after a two month long challenge. Thank you to everyone who participated in our challenge. It was wonderful to see all the beautiful projects.

With great difficulty we choose our top 3:
1st - Agnieszka #9
2nd - Lizzie #6
3rd - Laura #29

This month our challenge is "Autumnal Twist - Must include Kraft product/colour". We are looking forward to seeing all your beautiful projects, 
Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

This month Geraldine has a beautiful card made, that fits in with the theme perfectly!

We also have a new DT member Leslie! We are delighted to welcome Leslie on our GDT, and we all look forward to crafting alongside her. For this month, Leslie has made this fabulous twisted accordion pop up card.

Eithne made a card for a 7th Birthday

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Monday 31st October 2016. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne and Michelle

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July Winners!

Hello! And Happy Sunday to you :) Hope where ever you are, you are having a lovely day. I don't know about you, but I've been completely engrossed in the Olympics, so much so I forgot to post the winners for July! Oops ;)
In the Olympics 2016, Ireland won a *few* medals,  but the highlight for me is the O'Donovan brothers silver medal and their hilarious interviews. "#pull like a dog" Check out one here. Well done to all Olympians who participated and those who won medals.

Apologies again for the delay in posting the results and thank you for all the beautiful entries for our July challenge. With great deliberation, as always, we chose a top 3:
1st - #15 A Creative Life
2nd - #40 Tones Scrapperom
3rd - # 13 Lizzies Crafting Retreat

Please take the badge at the side, and display it proudly! Thank you to everyone who entered our July challenge.
Everyone is still in holiday mode, so our August challenge is going to be extended until Friday 30th September. We will be back at the beginning of September with some more themed inspiration. Until then, hope the last few days before school starts back goes well.

Have a lovely Sunday,

Happy Crafting :)

Eithne

August challenge :) Photo inspiration!

Hello! Happy August to you :) hope you are enjoying the summer so far. (I know, I know it's technically Autumn, but I'm still in denial, it's Summer to me ;) )

Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries for our July challenge. We will be back at the weekend for our top 3.

This months challenge is a photo inspiration by Alisha Reynolds. Make sure to check out her Instagram account.

Thank you for this beautiful photo -

You can Interpret the photo, anyway you like - texture, colour, water balloons. Looking forward to seeing your entries.

This month Geraldine has made a beautiful card,inspired by the photo.

Here is Geraldine's beautiful project to fit the theme - 

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Wednesday 31st August 2016. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne & Michelle :)

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July Challenge - Summer Breeze!

Hello, and Happy Sunday to you. We are a few days later than usual, we are in summer holidays mode! Hope the start of your July is going well. Happy 4th of July to all our American followers for tomorrow.

Thank you for all the beautiful entries for our June Masculine challenge. It was very difficult to choose a top 3, but with great difficulty we chose
1st : #7 Kama
2nd : #35 Kevin
3rd : #5 Susan Kennedy
Please take the badge at the side, and display it proudly!

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our new challenge for July, is "Summer Breeze". You can interpret the theme anyway you like.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Here is Geraldine's beautiful card for our theme -

Suchi's beautiful card to suit the theme -

Eithne was inspired by colours for summer breeze, and crocheted a baby blanket-

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Sunday 31st July 2016. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

This is Suchi's last month on our Guest Design Team, for Craft for the Craic. I would like to thank her for all her hard work, dedication and commitment and wish her all the best in the future. We will miss you!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Sunday!

Eithne

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Mid month inspiration!

Hello! Today we are showing mid month inspiration from our lovely Guest DT Suchi. She made a beautiful monochromatic card for our June's theme - "Something Masculine".

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

If you are crafting and it meets the theme, why not give it a go?

Hope you have a great weekend,

Happy crafting,

Eithne :)

June challenge - Something Masculine!

Hello! Summer is here in Ireland :) Wherever you are, hope the sun is shining on your day!

Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries. We chose our top 3 with great difficulty!

1st - Higgledy-Piggledy
2nd - Steffi
3rd - Srebrnolistka

This month, in Ireland we celebrate Fathers Day. So to tie in with this, our theme this month is "A Masculine Card" chosen by our DT member Pixie.

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Here is Pixie's beautiful card for our Masculine theme -

Here is Geraldine's beautiful project to fit the theme - 

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Thursday 30th June 2016. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne & Michelle :)

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May's Mid Month Inspiration

Hello! Hope this Friday morning finds you well, and welcome back to our mid month inspiration! This month our theme is "A step back in time" influenced by our historic year. This theme can be interpreted anyway you choose (vintage, historic etc etc)

This month our challenge is influenced by our centenary celebrations of the 1916 Rising.

The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798, and the first armed action of the Irish revolutionary period. (Thanks to Wikipedia!)

Today we have beautiful mid month inspiration from Sucheta

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

If you are crafting and it meets the theme, why not give it a go?

Hope you have a great weekend,

Happy crafting,

Eithne :)

Oh Happy May!

Hello! Happy Friday to you :) Hope you are enjoying the first week of May, no matter where you are! It certainly feels like summer is on the way here in Ireland. The sun has finally found us ;)

Thank you so much to everyone who entered last months challenge. It was wonderful to see all the creations for Anything but a card. With great difficulty, as always (!) our DT chose the top 3 -
1st - Linda #64
2nd - Ellapu #4
3rd - Pamellia #20

Please take the badge at the side, and display it proudly!

This month our challenge is influenced by our centenary celebrations of the 1916 Rising.
The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798, and the first armed action of the Irish revolutionary period. (Thanks to Wikipedia!)
So influenced by our historic year, our theme is "a step back in time". This theme can be interpreted anyway you choose (vintage, historic etc etc)

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Here is Geraldine's beautiful project to fit the theme - 

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Tuesday 31st May 30th 2016.  Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne & Michelle :)

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March Top 3!

Hello and happy Tuesday! I'm back today with the Top 3 from the March challenge, a little later than planned but easy know the school runs are back after Easter holidays!!

Without any further ado, here are the top 3 our DT chose:-

#11 - Judy McKay
#29 - Carries Custom Cards
#32 - Alicia O'Bryant

Well done to our top 3, please take our badge from the sidebar! Thanks to everyone for taking part!
"Anything but a card" is Aprils challenge, which you can enter here.

If you are crafting why not give the challenge a go?

Thanks for stopping by,

Have a great day,

Eithne

April's Anything but a Card!

Hello! Happy April Fools Day! Hope you haven't gotten caught out yet ;) hope you have all recovered from the over indulgence of Easter Eggs!! Delightful Easter Eggs, yum!

Thank you for all the beautiful March entries. We really enjoyed looking at all projects relating to our theme, Luck of the Irish. As our challenge only ended last night at midnight, our DT have not had a chance to look at all entries. Please check back over the weekend to see our top 3!

For April our challenge is "Anything but a card". As usual you can interpret the theme any way you like!

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Here is the beautiful DT's inspiration: -

Geraldine made some beautiful shaker bookmarks!

Suchi did a mixed media project

Pixie made some tasty treats, they're making me hungry!

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Saturday 30th April 2016.  Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne & Michelle :)

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March's mid month inspiration :)

Hello! Hope this Saturday morning finds you well, and you have recovered from St. Patricks celebrations!

Today we have beautiful mid month inspiration from Geraldine and Pixie, for our theme "Luck of the Irish"
Geraldine

Pixie

If you are crafting and it meets the theme, why not give it a go?
Hope you have a great weekend,
Happy crafting,
Eithne :)

Luck of the Irish! Happy St. Patrick's Day :)

Hello! Wow, it’s March already! We are having little glimpses of Spring, here in Ireland, and it is so nice to see all the Spring flowers blooming. It gives such a glimmer of hope for a lovely summer ahead.

This year, March is a busy month - this Sunday is Mother's Day, so wishing all Mammy's out there, a lovely Mothering Sunday!! In the middle of March, we celebrate our Patron Saint's feast day - St. Patrick. Wherever you are, I hope you enjoy St. Patrick's Day (or Paddy's Day, but *NOT* Patty's Day ;)  ) In the words of my kiddies favourite film (Flight of the Doves)

"You don't have to be Irish to be Irish"!!

And then near the end of March it's Easter. Phew, busy month!

Thank you for all the beautiful February entries. We really enjoyed looking at everything that makes YOU smile. Our DT chose
1st - 65 Angelique
2nd - 58 Paperesse
3rd - 39 Sweet Kobylkin

  

St. Parick is the patron saint of Ireland, on we celebrate this day on March 17^th. Inspired by this day, our theme for March is “The Luck of the Irish”. You can interpret this theme any way you wish!

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Here is the beautiful DT's inspiration: -

Suchi

 Eithne

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Our challenge is open until midnight Thursday 31st March 2016.  Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Lá Fhéile Phádraig,

Eithne & Michelle :)

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February 2nd Birthday Challenge!

Hello! Phew, we all survived January! ;) Hope wherever you are you are enjoying the beginning of Spring.  February marks the 2nd Birthday for Craft for the Craic. I would like to thank all of the Design Team for their continuous hard work and wonderful inspiration. Without them we would not be able to continue to hold challenges and to keep the blog alive. We would also like to sincerely thank each and every one of our participants over the past 2 years, without whom the challenge would not have been as enjoyable or exciting. We will be having a Birthday Giveaway later in the month as a thank you, so be sure to check back in with us!

Thank you so much for all the beautiful January Blues entries. We really enjoyed looking at all the talented and beautiful projects. It was very hard to choose a top 3!

1st - #35 Grá O'Neill

2nd - #20 Paper Profusion

3rd - #26 Deborah Deruyck

Thank you so much, as always, for entering our challenge. We love to see all the entries, and they inspire us so much. Please take the badge and display it proudly on your sidebar.

Pixie chose this months challenge, and she chose "Something to make you Smile". You can interpret this anyway you wish!

We look forward to seeing your wonderful entries. Please note some blogs we are unable to comment on, as we don't have a subscription/membership.

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Here are the beautiful DT's inspiration: -

Suchi

Geraldine

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, cake decorating, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

Once again, thank you to each and everyone of our wonderful entrants over the past 2 years. We look forward to another year of challenges and great entrants.

Our challenge is open until midnight Monday 29th Febraury 2016. (It’s a leap year!!) Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

We will be back with mid-month inspirations,

Have a great Friday!

Eithne & Michelle :)

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