Foamiran Tutorial with Yvonne

Hello,
Hope you enjoyed a lovely Easter break. Our April's challenge is "Easter - Anything but a card". You can enter our challenge here.

For today's mid month inspiration, we have a lovely tutorial. Here in Ireland, Foamiran has become very popular, and there are often classes locally to attend. If you are not able to find a class local to you, don't worry! Yvonne has a beautiful tutorial of flowers to show with Foamiran. Check out her tutorial here.

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 30th April 2017. Hope you have a wonderful Tuesday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

Happy Crafting!
Eithne and Michelle :)

Happy April to you :)

Hello! Happy Friday to you!I Hope your March went well. Here in Ireland, the saying “March of many weathers” certainly held true for us! We had snow (a rare sight in Ireland) and 18 degree (Celsius, another rare thing in Ireland ;) ) all in the one week.

Thank you so much for all the beautiful entries for March. It was a difficult job, but with great deliberation we narrowed it down to our top 3. Our top 3 are:

1st - #2 Cartai

2nd - #14 Light Whimsy

3rd -  #17 Ike

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

For our April theme, to incorporate Easter, it's "Easter - Anything but a card". You can interpret the theme any which way you wish!

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 made a beautiful shabby chic gift bag!

Eithne, with help from her children, made these two gift bags for their teacher's Easter gifts!

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 30th April2017. Hope you have a wonderful Friday, and if you are doing some crafting, why not enter for the craic?!!

Have a great Friday!

Eithne and Michelle

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April's Challenge - Die-ing for Spring or an Easter theme.

Hello! Easter is only a few days away, where is the year going?! Hope this Good Friday finds you well :)

Thank you so much to everyone who took part in our March's challenge. With great difficulty our design team chose :

#1 -  112 Zubmomi

#2 -  125 Norma

Tied #3 - 61 Liftowanie and 41 Paper Profusion

Please take the badge and display it proudly on your sidebar. Well done to our top 3 and to everyone who took part.

For April's challenge, Geraldine chose the theme. It is:

"Die-ing for Spring (use a die cut) or an Easter theme"

Thank you 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!

Here is what some of our talented Design Team members have to show you, with their take on the challenge theme -

Geraldine

Yvonne

Sylvie

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 April 30th.

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, until then a very happy Easter to you and yours. Enjoy the chocolate buzz ;)

Eithne & Michelle :)

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April's Challenge - Something for Easter or Spring

*Something for Easter or Spring*

Hello! Hope you are having a wonderful Friday. Wow!! We had 119 fabulous entries for last months challenge. Boy was it hard to choose our top 3! Our design team chose:

1st: Liam (#27)
2nd: Ciara Lee (#111)
3rd: Katie Tate (#102)

Well done to all entrants and especially our winners. Please take the badge from the side for your blog :)

This month we also would like to wish Emily the best as she steps down, temporarily, from our DT. Emily is due her 6th baby in a couple of weeks, and is going on 'maternity leave' ;) ;) ;)
We would like to introduce two new DT members to Craft for the Craic -

Hi, my name is Henryka. I am working full time in pharmaceutical company and on my free time I am addicted card maker and scrapbooker. I am originally from the south of Poland, from the most beautiful city Krakow. I am living in Ireland, Dublin from 2004, so I'm already 10 years here. My journey with card making started 2 years ago. My style is a little bit of shabby chick, I love ribbons, laces, pearls, flowers and light, pastel colors. Occasionally I make some albums and paper gifts. I also love baking. You can visit me on my blog page or follow me on my FB fun page.

and

Hi my name is Marleen and I come from Denmark. Im married to my best friend and ever supporting husband, Kevin. We have 3 children and live in Ireland in Kevins hometown in Co. Donegal.

I've been crafting ever since our eldest was born. Being a stay-at-home mum, I needed something to keep me entertained when Emma was sleeping. I started by making cards but after our son Michael was born 2 years later and a toddlerhood in and out of hospital, I started doing scrapbooking.

Since then we added our little ray of sunshine to the mix, Abbie now 3. All our chidren love crafting and we spend many hours crafting together.

I am and has been very lucky to be on several Design teams over the last few years. Im also very lucky to be invited to do craft demonstrations as well as evening classes fro my local craft shop. Its my dream to be a full time demo/teacher when our babies gets a bit older.

If you wish to see more of my crafty work, why not visit my blog or why not pop by my FB page.

So, Easter is in April this month, and we hope the Spring weather continues! Our theme this month is:

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

On to the beautiful creations by our Design Team!

Thinking of the bright colours of Spring, Geraldine was inspired and made this beautiful die cut butterfly card. Pop over to her blog to find out more details of this beauty -

For Pixie, nothing says spring quite like daffodils. Check our her beautiful aperture card with some exquisite everlasting florals -  

          

For her first challenge. Marleen made a beautiful birthday card. Look at the fabulous shape and colours -

This being Henryka's first challenge, she made an amazing project with such beautiful flowers and colours -

Look at Katya's fabulous Easter card, with such a beautiful nest -

Sylvie made a beautiful Easter card, with a wonderful selection of flowers -

Michelle has made a Mixed Media Picture using lots of Punches :-)

For a step by step on this project visit Michelle's Blog 

Eithne used some delicate pink tones to balance with the crude greyboard on her card -

Why not give the challenge a go? 

We would love for you to join in our challenge, remember anything that encourages, motivates or promotes your creativity, if it something for Easter or Spring incorporated onto it we would LOVE to see it ;) Our challenges start the first Friday of the month, and ends the last day of the month (so this month's finishes April 30th)

We are pretty easy going about rules, but if you'd like, read this page.

Thanks for popping by, hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Happy Crafting,

Michelle & Eithne :)

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