Love is in the Air @ Pins HQ

Its not long until Valentine's Day so here's a love inspired picture for this week's Pinspirational Challenge:

Pretty simple inspiration this week, but it does say a lot and you can take inspiration from this and be creative inside and outside the box!

Here's my 'love inspired' card:

My caramel linen cardstock was used as a base, embossed with the Crafty Too You Hearts embossing folder. I layered a piece of paper from the Pink Paislee Vintage Market collection and tied a piece of thick parcel string around the bottom. The hearts behind the Greeting Farm are from our sponsor, and the Greeting Farm stamp is Sweet Anya. I rounded the corners of the card and added a border behind the sentiment which is the Sizzix Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die - Lace Scallop. Simple but cute card!

Our sponsors this week are:

Team 1 - Eureka

Prize - 5 digis for the winner

Team 2 - The Pink Petal

Prize: 3 packages of ribbon to the winner

As always, please check out our blog for more inspired projects and makes from our amazing Design Team. And if you would like to be on the Pins Design Team, please add 'DT' to your entry.

Challenges starts today - Tuesday 5th Feb 2013 and ends: Monday 11th Feb 2013 @ Midnight New Foundland Time.

Valentine's Treat Bag - Pins DT

Welcome to another awesome challenge task at Pinspirational Challenges! Be inspired and have a look!

First of all, one of our DT is sadly leaving us - the lovely Lynn! I shall very much miss you Lynn and I know the Team will as well! Awesome crafter, card maker and lovely person! We hope to see you in blogland soon! :) xx

On that note, we are looking for another DT Member, so please add the 'DT' to your entry if you would like to be part of the Pins DT Team! :)

So... It's another week and a brand new challenge at Pinspirational Challenges! So let's get down to it! Here's your picture for this week's challenge!

 

And as it's nearly (well two weeks) until Valentine's I thought I would go down this lovely route - I've made this sweet little Treat Bag:

So this one was a bit of a 'trial and error' project. I'd been wanting to do something similar, but wasn't quite sure how to go about it as I don't have enough dies (especially Sizzix) to make anything like how I wanted to! But it turned out well!

I bought some burlap material from Ebay UK, cut two pieces to make the bag into a rectangle that measures 4 x 6 inches (approx) I then used a Tim Holtz Alterations 'On the Edge' Brackets die and then glued the two burlap pieces with fabric glue. I used paper from the My Mind Eye Lost and Found paper collection and another piece from the Glitz Pretty in Pink 6 x 6 paper pad to decorate the treat bag. I attached these onto the burlap with super glue. I also placed two pieces of paper inside the bag so that the glue didn't leak through. I used a doily as the 'cover' for the bag at the top and made the long tag using the caramel linen cardstock embossed with the Crafts Too You Hearts embossing folder, the image is from one of our Team's sponsors. I fussy cut a tag from the Prima Botanical 6 x 6 pad and self adhesives gem stones from Papermania, the ribbon attached to the long tag is from the Smirk Love and Friendship collection.

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Our sponsor this week for the teams are:

Team 1: Gingerloft 

(Prize: 3 digital stamps to the winner)

Team 2: Pink Cat Studio 

(Prize: 3 digital stamps for the winner)

 

So... what are you waiting for? Join in our challenge this week and you could be a winner! Check out both Teams creations and take part in our awesome challenge!

Challenge ends: Midnight on Monday 4th Feb 2013 (Newfoundland Time)

Aud Sentiments Design Team Call

 Here's our little blurb and info about joining our DT Call

 

 We are are looking for people who love crafting for the sheer fun of it!  We are not looking for people with lots of experience - as long as you enjoy creating then you are in with a chance!  We don't mind if your first craft is cardmaking, altered art, scrapbooking - whatever floats your boat! 

 You will be expected to create an item for our challenges - these run over two weeks, so one project every fortnight.  Sometimes our wonderful sponsors give us images to play with, so this is a great opportunity to play with images from lots of different companies!  Although, we don't get images from all our sponsors (they need to watch the pennies too and are already generously sponsoring a prize!).  

You will also be expected to visit entries to the challenges and leave a little love comment for them - you don't need to visit all of them as we share the love between us all.  And on your visits you get to choose your top 3 to put forward to win - we are very democratic! 

We have a great team of crafters for you to join and can't wait to get to know you.  We always understand that life can get in the way of crafting, so we never get miffed if you can't create for a particular challenge.

If you would like to enter the DT call (go on, give it a try!) then just add DT to your name on the challenge entry linky!  

Entry closes 18th December. Good Luck!

December Christmas @ Pinspirational Challenges!

It's December, totally love the holidays and I'm getting into that crafty, christmas spirit!

Here's another challenge at Pinspirational Challenges - and don't forget our Design Team Call - which you can apply for within! Check out the post 'Design Team Call'

Here's this week's Pins image for you to be inspired by...

 

We have two sponsors this week: 

QKR Stampede & The Pink Petal

           

Prizes: 3 images from QKR Stampede and 3 ribbons from the Pink Petal

This is my creation below:

I used the Lacy Ovals Spellbinders die cut set, with a Gretting Farm image from the Christmas - Xmas Sweeties set, the paper used is from Back to Basics Christmas set from Dovecraft and the ribbons is from Paperchase. The base is a caramel linen cardstock. Simple and sweet with lovely blue tones.

So, I hope that this has inpsired you to create something based on our image. Looking forward to seeing your entires into this week's challenge!

Check out our main blog to check out what our awesome Design Team have created and join in our challenge this week.

Challenge ends Monday 10th December at midnight - Newfoundland time!

Too Cute! @ Pins HQ

Another Tuesday Challenge at Pinspirational Challenges this week and lovely welcome to Tammy, Pam, April and Athina for joining our awesome DT at Pins! We are still looking for more DT members, so check out this blog post *Design Team Call* from last week for our Design Team Call at Pinspirational Challenges!

Here is this week's inspiring picture for you...

 

The dog is just toooo cute! Love it!

Here's my creation based on this image and an image used from our sponsor...

 I love the owl with the glasses... so sweet!

I used kraft cardstock as the base for my card, then layered it with paper from a K and Company collection in my stash, using a bow easy, I made the pink bow to put on top of the card, I also layered some scalloped edged stripey brown card from Desert Blooms First Edition paper 8 x 8 pad. I mounted the sponsor image on a Spellbinders die - Eyelet Circles. I coloured in the owl with Promarkers and added some Papermania bling. Hope you like the cuteness! Sweeet! :)

Our sponsor this week is: 2 Cute Ink

 

Has our Pinspirational image inspired you? Hope so! Make sure you enter in our challenge to be in with a chance of winning! Check out our wonderful DT team's creations via our blog too :)

Challenge closes: Monday 3rd December 2012 at Midnight (Newfoundland Time) 

Design Team Call - Pinspirational Challenges

Currently at Pinspirational Challenges we have a Design Team Call!

So if you would like to join our awesome Design Team, then you can do so by entering our weekly Pinspirational Challenges via our blog and when you do enter your card or project into our challenges, please add the word 'DT' to your entry and Deanne - our brilliantly awesome Blog host and DT Leader will pick a few more members to join our DT team starting in January!

The Design Team Call will close on: 

Tuesday 11th December 2012

So make sure you come join us and enter in our challenges and no doubt 2013 will bring on double the creativeness for Pinspiration Challenges! :)  

(Pin)Spirational Challenge #8

I've only recently discovered Challenge Blogs for cardmaking and crafts and thought I had the ability to enter every one of them! I'm pretty realistic about that! Or is it more optimistic? Who knows, but I thought I would dabble in more creative awesomeness and enter a few more challenges!

So I came across this one from (Pin)Spirational Challenges! They've started a few challenges so far, but need a bit more of a wider audience! So here I am plugging it a little :) Here's my card below for their latest challenge!

The image I used is from Tiddly Inks and the theme of Orange, Black and White is based on a picture posted on the (Pin)Spirational Challenge Blog. The idea of the blog is that the DT team find an image on Pinterest and they ask their readers and fellow crafters to make a card or project based on the image. The image for this challenge is this one:

 

So my card is based - using the colour scheme - on this image - using orange, black and white. Hope you like it. The three colours I would never use normally, as I'm more of a 'Pink' girly-girl at heart, but definitely a challenge for me and waaaay out of my comfort zone - but then I think that's a good thing!

You can enter the challenge via this link - (Pin)Spirational Challenge - it's also a DT Call too! :)