Hello and Welcome!

Thank God it’s Friday – we have a right heatwave here in Germany and I can’t wait for the weekend to begin.

All your wonderful summery cards last week made the heat a little easier to bear – and now we all have tons of inspiration for the next summer weekend ahead – yay!

But don’t let the sunshine keep you from crafting. Of course we have a challenge prepared for you:

Welcome Cards

A while ago we had Farewell Cards as a theme, so let’s go for the opposite now! Maybe a new baby has arrived or you want to welcome a new co-worker? Or maybe someone has been travelling and you’d like to welcome them back? Never miss an opportunity to tell someone “Hey, welcome, I’m glad you’re here!” So, who are you happy about right now?

Or maybe you want to take a look at the extra inspiration the Design Team members have prepared for you:

Dawn     

Sylvia  

 Ruth

Kathy

Svenja

(nightshift)

Joanne

Miri

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The Great Outdoors

Thank you for all your sporty cards last week.

This week after lots of sunshine and hot weather I’m in a very summery mood. So let’s enjoy all the positive aspects of summer. And one of them is definitely being outdoors (at least for me).

Go outside - it's summer !
Let's celebrate spending time outside in the sunshine! What can you do outside in the summer? Show us on your cards: Swimming, having a BBQ, walking around in flipflops or barefoot, reading a book on a deck chair, eating ice-cream, lying in the park, having a picnic etc.

Here are some ideas from the Design Team members.

Shabneez

Joanne   

Dawn

  

 Kathy

Sylvia

Svenja

Miri

Ruth

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A Sporting Chance

Hello - Happy Friday!

We hope you are ready for a new cardmaking challenge.

First though, we'd like to thank you for sharing the cards you made last week inspired by our July mood-board, it really was a sunny, inspiring collection. 

A Sporting Chance

There are masses of different sporting events going on over the summer; local, national, international or just in your own back garden!  So this week's challenge is all about sport. Make and share a card with a sporting element of any kind.  Sadly, card-making is not a sport or we'd all be winners, wouldn't we!

You know what they say, "it's all about the taking part", so join in and have fun

Joanne 

Sylvia

Dawn     

Ruth

 

Kathy

 

 
Svenja

Shabneez

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July's Elemental Inspiration

Hello, Happy First Friday of the Month!

Thank you so much for joining in with Ruths's gorgeous Weddings and Anniversaries challenge, it was good to see those wonderfully romantic cards!
Today we are very happy to introduce Sylvia our lovely new Guest Designer.  Sylvia makes such beautiful cards, we are sure you will enjoy seeing them - don't forget to pop across to her blog to see more!

It's Enfys here today hosting this challenge and as its the First Friday of the Month it's an Elemental Inspiration Picture which we hope will inspire your crafting this week.I've chosen a mood-board with lots of Summery yellows for you this time

Just choose a minimum of THREE elements from the mood board to use when you make your card.

Suggestions: circles, triangles, rectangles, peeling paint, shoes, foliage, flowers, colours, windows, doors, jars and bottles

Sylvia 

 

Ruth 

Joanne    

Miri  

Dawn

Kathy

 

Enfys    

Shabneez

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Weddings and Anniversaries

Hello!

It's Ruth here to set the challenge this week, buyt before I tell you what it is, we'd like to thank you so much for joining in and sharing your cards for Kathy's challenge, based on the Louis Armstrong song "What a Wonderful World" - What a Wonderful array of cards we got to see!

We are well into the Wedding Season now, so let's have a bit of romance this week!  I'd like you to make and share cards with a theme of 

Weddings and Anniversaries.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you make!

Here are some from the design team to get everyone in the mood

Joanne

Svenja 

 

Dawn
 

Kathy

 

Shabneez

Miri

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What a Wonderful World

Hi There, Happy Friday!

Thank you so much for joining in with Joanne's challenge last week - it was such a good reminder that card bases don't have to be white!  What a lovely array of cards we saw.

It's Kathy here this time, and I'd love for you to use one of my all-time favourite songs to inspire your card-making, it's

What a Wonderful World

by Louis  Armstrong

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves to cherish the wonderful world we live in. I inherited a love of this song from my dad and I'd love you to choose something from the lyrics to use on your card, or maybe you'll try to encapsulate the whole thing!  

Don't forget to click on the link so you can sing along with Louis!  I can't wait to see what you come up with

What a Wonderful World

I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom for me and you

And I think to myself what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

And I think to myself what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow so pretty in the sky

Are also on the faces of people going by

I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do

They're really saying I love you

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow

They'll learn much more than I'll never know

And I think to myself what a wonderful world

Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world

Songwriters: George Douglas / George David Weiss / Bob Thiele

Kathy

Shabneez  

 

Dawn    

  Miri

Joanne

Ruth

Enfys 

Svenja

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ABW!

Thanks for going tropical with us in Shabneez's dare last week - our weather in the Northern hemisphere may not be quite up to tropical standard but at least we saw some lovely sunny creations!

It's Joanne here with this week's challenge and I'd like to see you using 

ABW - Anything But White! 

Using white as a card base is a really easy habit to slip into so I'd like to see what else you can come up with. It could be a chalkboard technique on black cardstock, metallic or opaque embossing powder on a coloured base, coloured pencils on kraft or something like the Joseph's Coat technique.

What will you decide on to make your base other than white? Here's what the team came up with:

Joanne

Dawn

Kathy

Shabneez

Ruth

Enfys 

Miri

Svenja

(and also... we spend way too little time by the sea)

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