September Challenge

Welcome to September.

This month sees the start of the autumnal equinox in this part of the world.

Your challenge is to use this picture from here as inspiration. It can be the colours, the ladies or anything else that inspires you.

Your prize this month is the following selection of flowers in colours to match the colour palette from the challenge.

I also provided the design team with some flowers from the colour palette above and let them loose
 with their imagination.

Carlyann


I was thrilled to have been able to use some fantastic blooms and beautiful butterflys from The Craft Garden shop for my DT Card this month! If you've not visited the shop omg! where have you been! get over there!!! hehe!
I've gone for the colours of the picture for my card this month & throughly enjoyed making it!!

Melly

I loved these colours and knew my Prima Madeline Papers would be perfect with the gorjuss BLOOMS from the fab shop!



Helen

Well my eyes just grew when I saw the beautiful butterfly and flowers Kerry sent for this months challenge. I knew that they were going to be used on more than one project and so set about crafting straight away! The first project is a mdf book for my nephew's 21st, I used several flowers inside but also used the butterfly and this cream flower which I stamped for the back cover. Being a lad I have had to make the book simple but still decorative, this butterfly set the page off beautifully, I am sure he will find a suitable photo to add to it.

I was in the process of making this tag when Kerry's flowers arrived and they just finished it off so perfectly. I just love the overall feel of this piece and the flowers give added texture. The wings are stamped and then crackle glazed.

The above page is for a wedding album I am making as a gift. The paper is very pretty but needed a title and I decided to to it in the form of a tag. I love the stitching details on the flower and leaf embellishment.

Kevin

Kerry:

Tiffany

Again we had lots of lovely entries for the August challenge and the random number generator chose number 20

which is DonnaT with this entry

Donna please can you get in touch at craftgardenshop@gmail.com to claim your prize.

August Challenge

Welcome to the August challenge - where did the rest of the year disappear to?

August is the month of the Notting hill Carnival

The challenge this month is bold, bright and loud. 

I found this website with an amazing picture which sums it up

Here is what the design team created:

Helen

When I think about carnivals I think about a real eclectic mix of styles, colours & objects & with this in mind I created the frame above. I used glimmer sprays to give a really brighy & shimmery feel to the background  and then I just put a collection together of my favourite bits and pieces from my stash

Kevin

Tiffany

Carlyann

I recenetly went to a very french themed carnival not far from me! so thought i'd create a card that followed this it was full of colours but the main being pink and black!

Melly

I decided as it was Summer to make the card extra bright and bold but also having what we all want on a warm day, ICE CREAM!!

Your prize this month is a RAK from my own stash of a packet of card blanks, envelopes and some ribbon.  Entry is open now via the inlinkz button below until 23:59 GMT on 31st August.

Last month we had a whopping 62 entries which was amazing.  There can only be one winner though and that is number 38.

number 38 was scrappy scatty jan with this adorable duck



Jan if you can email me at craftgardenshop@googlemail.com with your details and I will get your prize out to you asap.

Sponsorship For Our Next DT Term

Starting in December I have some slots available for sponsorship of our challenges.  If you are interested in sponsoring us and are willing to provide either a prize and/or products for the design team to work with please email craftgardenshop@gmail.com

August Guest Designer

Our August guest designer is the lovely Karen from Butterfly Crafts

I love her interpretation of the BOLD BRIGHT and LOUD challenge

To enter in the challenge this month please see this post for full details.