Challenge No #5 sponsored by Chocolate Baroque

Another month is upon us and we are pleased to show you the winner and top 3 from last months challenge:

Winner:

320 - Cathy D

Well done Cathy please contact Indigo Blu with CBN Challenge winner in the title to claim your prize (your choice of A5 stamp set) 

Top 3

34 - Laine

307- Debbie S

321- Marianne's Craftroom

Great job to you as well, please feel free to grab the top 3 badge from the sidebar to display on your blogs.

And now on to our challenge for this month, sponsored by the wonderful people at 

Chocolate Baroque

Chocolate Baroque is a small independent art and craft company, based in the historic market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham in the North-East of England, run by husband and wife team, Glenda and Adrian Waterworth.

We design and manufacture our own range of natural rubber art stamps as well as a range of paper-craft CDs that provide background paper designs, frames, tags and other artistic elements for you to print out and use in your greetings cards, scrapbook pages and other mixed media artwork. We also design digital art for you to download and use in your own art and craft projects.

They are offering a prize of  a clear stamp set of your choice (value £16.99)  

so onto the challenge:

Christmas Anything Goes :)

Ger 

Supplies

Chocolate Baroque Stamps

WOW Vanilla White

Black Card Stock

Own Ribbon

Ang

Supplies:

Chocolate Baroque Stamps

Perfect Pearl mist

Distress ink

WOW gold embossing powder

Kaz

Supplies:
Chocolate Baroque Stamps
Cream pearl card
Memento Ink Black
Liquid pearls Bisque
Spellbinders die
Tim Holtz paper Rosette Die.

Geraldine M

Supplies:

Chocolate Baroque Stamps

Silver Embossing Powder

Silver Uniball Signo Broad Pen

Perfect Medium

Card: Cream, Green, Red

Red Pearls, Ribbon

Caz

Supplies:

Chocolate Baroque Stamps

Card: Craftwork Cards Stardust Calcutta and Dovecraft Mirror Card

Papers: DCWV Pink Christmas 6x6 papers

Ink: Versamagic Pink Petunia & Midnight Black, Brilliance Graphite Black & Platinum Planet

Embellishments: Bazzill Tulle, Bakers Twine

Sarah

Supplies:

Chocolate Baroque Stamps

Espresso, Vanilla and Kraft Card stock
Stampin Up Christmas paper
Black Stazon
Selection of promarkers
Stampin Up ribbon binding
Foam pads

Homemade Daybook Tutorial...

Having recently fallen in love with the Amy Tangerine Daybook, I decided that I wanted to have a go at making my own....after all that is how Amy came up with the idea of the books...she made one with scraps left over from a demo she was doing at CHA...

So the first step is to make a cover. I use Bazzill Kraft cardstock and a piece of overlay/acetate.

This book measures 7.5 x 5.5 inches. The overlay/acetate measures 5.5 inches deep and is very slighty shorter that the cover so that it doesn't hang over.

The inside pages are made from double sided papers...if they are a little thicker than paper that is better as it gives the pages more support. Cut them in a variety of sizes smaller than your cover.

As you can see I have included some envelopes in my book, plus used some decorative edges to the pages...plus some washi tape and stickers.

More of the inside pages...

More of the inside pages, envelopes and stickers...

Now back to decorating the cover. I added some washi tape to the inside and sticker that goes with the paper range I used. I stuck the sticker over the busy overlay/acetate on the front so that it created a place to put the title of the album at a later date.

The inside of the cover is decorated with more washi tape and another sticker.

Now the cover and insides are ready I added the clips to hold all the pages in place ready to make the holes for hand sewing the book together.

As you can see in the picture I have added holes down the centre fold of the album using an embroidery needle and foam mat.

When I start sewing from the second hole down and then back one hole and forward two holes....it means you over sew, but it makes the binding nice and strong.

More of the sewing...

A close up of the sewing.

Further down and you can get more of an idea...

Sewing all done, and as you can see you get a neat(ish) sewn line down the centre of the daybook.

Here is the sewing from the outside...

And finally the finished daybook with a paperclip added to hold it together neatly.

I hope this explains everything, and inspires a few of you to have a go at your own book. It is a great way to use up all the pieces of patterned paper you have laying around. Also it is a great saver as the Amy Tangerine Books cost between £6.99-£9.99, and I have estimated that this book cost me about £4 to make and it is utterly unique. If you are a cardmaker with mainly 6x6 pads laying around then don't think you can't have a go at this...I have made another album that is just 6.5 x 4.5 inches and all the pages inside are made from a 6x6 paper pad.

Challenge Number #4 sponsored by Indigo Blu

Well it's time for our 4th challenge :D thank you to everyone who entered last month once again it has been a tough job to decide the winners, but here are our choices

The Crafters Companion prize goes to:

Number 11: Nat

please email us at craftybn@gmail.com to claim your prize.

And our top 3 chosen by the design team are:

 24:  Alyce 

 38:  Spyder

43: Marie

Congratulations girls, please feel free to grab the top 3 badge on the right to display on your blogs

Challenge Number 4

Now onto our challenge for this month which is sponsored by Indigo Blu

The prize will be an A5 stamp sheet chosen by the winner

 

Indigo Blu Rubber Stamps

Indigo Blu Stamps

Quintessentially English rubber stamps, with unique and highly detailed deep etched designs – all made in England. Do have a look in our shop where we’re adding exciting new stuff all the time. Please sign up for our e-newsletter to enter our weekly draw for an individual stamp of your choice, and we’ll keep you up to date on all that’s happening in IndigoBlu World, especially the new designs which we are constantly working on…

The challenge is  Anything Goes, thats it, so it can be anything you like, card, scrapbook layout, ATC or altered project.

You may also notice we have a new addition to the team Geraldine McCormick who we sneaked in last week for Design Team Inspiration Monday, I'm sure you'll join us in giving her a warm welcome to the team :D

Here are the design team's projects for you:

Ang

 

Supplies:

Indigo Blu stamp set: Here Comes Santa

Guilding flakes

Flitter Glue Kit

That Special Touch Mask: Skyline

Distress ink: Chipped Saphire and Stormy Sky

Spray and Sparkle Gold

Gold embosssing powder

Momento Ink: tuxedo black

Clear embossing powder

Ger

Supplies:

Docrafts Happy Days 12x12 Papers

IndigoBlu Flitter Glue and guilding flakes

IndogoBlue Nature 1 Stamp Set

Momento Ink- Potters Clay

Karen

Supplies:

Indigo Blu Retro Christmas 

Memento ink Lady Bug

Ribbon

Twinkling H2o's Irish Mist

Papermaina Christmas time vellum

Spellbinders Dies

Gems. 

Caz

Supplies:
Indigo Blu stamps - Wild Meadow
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists - Pink Taffy, Juniper & Jack O'Lantern
Craftwork Cards Stardust Cardstock - Calcutta
4" paper doily
Tulle
Versafine Black Ink
Foam Pads

Geraldine M

Supplies:

Image: Wee Stamps

Medium: Promarkers

Papers: Echo Park Country Drive

Sentiment: Computer Generated

Ribbons: Papermania

Stick Pins: Creative Expressions

Stickles 

Sarah

 Supplies:
Indigo blue stamp:Poppy Meadow
 Prima, 7 Gypsies, and Stampin up patterned paper
Brown, red, green and cream cardstock 
Red binding ribbon
Foam pads
Black stazon

Challenge # 3 September

Well it's time for our third challenge :D thank you to everyone who entered our 2nd one, once again it has been a tough job to decide the winners, especially as we had to pick 2 of you!

The Cullen Crafts prize goes to:

Number 8: Suzie McFloozy

please email us at craftybn@gmail.com to claim your prize.

The Sassy Studio digis go to:

Number 3. Cathy

 

  Please email Sara to claim your prize (click the link)

And our top 3 chosen by the design team are:

  17. Shari 

  23. Sarah  

  24. Nat 

Congratulations girls, please feel free to grab the top 3 badge on the right to display on your blogs

Challenge Number 3

Now onto our challenge for this month which is sponsored by the lovely Sara at Crafters Companion (who will be our guest blogger this month :-) )

Sara has made this wonderful card:

Supplies:

Centura Pearl Cardstock for Base Card 

Coredinations Contemporary Christmas

Paper - SWALK CD1

Image and Sentiment Stamp -  A Little Bird

Coloured with Spectrum Noir Pens

Darice Border Embossing Folder and Flowers from stash

and the prize is most of the supplies she used to make it.

The challenge is Purple, thats it, so it can be anything you like, card, scrapbook layout, ATC or altered project, or anything else you can think of just so long as it is or has purple in it.

Here are the design team's projects for you:

Ang

Supplies:

Docrafts Thankyou stamp and die

Spellbinders Labels 28

Honey Blossom Sprig die from Memory Box

Divine swirls embossing folder

Dusty Concord distress ink

Card, gems and ribbon.

Ger

Supplies:

Docrafts Textured Card stock

Country Cottage Rocking Horse Die

Spellbinder Die

Sizzix Embossing Folder

Flower Punches

Sarah

 

Supplies:
Bazzil Basics 12 x 12 Cardstock: Purple & Lilac Kaiser Craft Pattern Paper: Magic Happens Kaiser Craft Rubons: Magic Happens Paper Roses Tilda Winter birds diecuts Stampin Up Bigshot embossing folder: Manhattan flower

Karen

Supplies:

Saturared  Canary image Canary Love

Promarkers

Cheery Lynn corner die

Cuttlebug embossing folder

backing paper dovecraft

gliter,ribbon,flowers, & gems.

Caz

Supplies:
Fizzy Moon Birthday Wishes Decoupage & Paper Pad
Craftwork Cards Sentiment
Pink stitched Grosgrain ribbon

We are extending the Design team call for the month of September:

Please add your challenge entry below (If you are interested in becoming part of our design team please include the initials DT after your name)