Congrats and THANKS to everyone who entered the April Challenge - Home is Where the Heart is.

Please head to the Gallery to check out the fabulous entries and leave comments to encourage the crafters. We all love positive feedback. And check the blog again tomorrorw to find out what the next challenge will be.

1) Overall Challenge Winner

Congrats to Deborah Watson. Deborah entered 3 projects and we particularly loved the House Shadow box showcasing the things she loves.


She's also lucky to have her own scrap spaces. She writes: "Without question, the summerhouse I brought for my Scrapbooking room is my favorite place to be."


Deborah has won a $50 prize pack of home decor products!

2) Sketch winner

Congrats to Lara Moss for her take on the sketch. We love the simplicity and the way she's given it her own twist (90 degrees anti-clockwise by the looks of it).

Lara is also a first-time entrant! You've won a $30 pack of Kaisercraft's new Needle and Thread products.

3) New entrant winner

Congrats to Julia Prentice. Julia submitted a layout for the sketch showing a piccie of her garden - and it looks so healthy! It's her first time entering the Artfull Crafts Challenge. Congrats ....  you've won a $20 gift voucher from Artfull Crafts.

Morning all! Teresa here with a cute little project using KaiserCraft's Needle and Thread range. This collection really lends itself to sewing themed projects, so I thought I'd make something practical:

I cut some calico to size with pinking shears to use as 'pages' then used my sewing machine to stitch them into the spine of the book.  The outside of the book was embellished with paper from the Cotton sheet of paper, a wooden spool and bits and bobs from the Collectables pack.

Thanks for looking!

Hello Tracy here on this overcast Sunday. After water blasting the house I have managed to make a card using Kaisercraft collection - Hopscotch. Apart from the paper, I have also used Hopscotch Collectables and Rub Ons


Hope you are all having a great weekend

Hi there - Teresa here! On Wednesday I showed you a bright set of cards I made using KaiserCraft's Hopscotch range. You can see that post here.

Today I have another set of cards from the same range of paper, but this time I have pulled all the neutral elements from the range and made a completely different set of cards:


These papers are from the paper pad, the scallop border from the die cut sheet at the back of the pad, and the bird and combi van are from the sticker sheet.


The next card has a couple stylised flowers are from the Collectables pack:


and the chevrons on the last card were cut out of the chevron sheet of paper out of the paper pad.


It's almost hard to believe these cards came from such a bright range!

Thanks for dropping in for a look today :)

Hi Everyone in "Scrappy" Land
It is me...Robbi...the lost DT member, I promise I didn't really got totally AWOL, just a little sideways
I have been busy creating some goodies for something very special in July and I am very excited about it and unfortunately they have taken all my time....but more on that at another time!

Anyway I have also been busy with the awesome papers from the wonderful Kaisercraft and their range of Base Coat papers, I must admit when I received them from Liz I instantly thought of Boy/Male layouts but
kind of got it to swing in favour of having some flowers, ribbon and of course a little Tim!

This first Layout was created after a horrible game of rugby that the Boys really should not of lost, however these things happen and the papers from this Base Coat Collection. also used was one of the Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Word Dies, I find these wonderful for that different title and there is some very cool words, like Imagine, Moments, Family, Journey, Friends and Dream. I'm sure If you were interested Liz could source some for you. Also used is the new Photo Wheel die from Tim's latest collection of goodies.

Anyway I layered the different elements on this page and distressed the photos, used some old die cut tags and think it doesn't look to bad (Okay and it has a couple of token flowers)


and here is a close up of the right hand embellie

Good morning and a what a bit of a mix of weather for us this Anzac day, Jo here with my Anzac page.  Both my daughters have represented their schools at the RSA speech competitions, this is Sam's page, she was placed third for the Waikato Bay of Plenty competition, which was fantastic.  Her speech was about family that had served in all the different wars, and her uncle turned up to watch and he was in the speech, so it was special for both of them.  No one had ever mentioned Malaysia and the soldiers that fought there before, so it was very memorable.  So I had to use this range from Kaisercraft Remember me.  

This range was perfect for this project.  The poppies and the We Remember were really important, and as for this flowers that look like poppies, they are red roses, that I squashed and then I found a large white brad and I cut a black circle and adhered to the top, and then added some black kindy glitz. I think they look like poppies. The world is a Kaisercraft wooden flourish that I inked brown.



   

Hi all! Teresa here with some cards using the beautiful Hopscotch range from KaiserCraft:



Here they are one by one:



For this second card I used some pieces from the Collectables pack, some of the sheets and die cuts from the paper pad, and a little piece of ribbon and some twine.

Hello all - Betsy here this morning, with a very quick post, to share three cards I have made for orders.




The colours are my favourite - brown and teal! I do enjoy making different shaped cards. This was cut out using the Grand Labels 23 for the main card then Beaded Ovals. A Webster Cameo and the flowers are made using Kaisercraft's paper flowers, put together with a brad then crushed up. Love the effect!




This card is really quite self explanatory. I joined the three strips of paper together using the zig zag on my sewing machine, lovely Prima flowers and the Cherry Lynn Fancuful Flourish die. Do hope Thea approved of her birthday card!



An Anniversary card for Rema and Tony. A Martha Stewart punch was used for the bottom border, Spellbinders Labels 16 for the sentiment label and I made the flower using the Retro Flower Punch, moulding it then adding  a small flower in the centre. The leaves are Spellbinders Foliage Die.

Off for morning tea with a friend, so will make that do for today.

Do hope you enjoy the viewing, happy crafting all and many blessings,

Betsy.

Hi, it's Sandy with a retro style card and tag for you today. When I saw the Cosmo Cricket Grab Bags in the store I knew I wanted to do something with the cool, graphic images and the nostalgic style lettering from the Social Club papers.


For this tag, I cut out the girl image and layered it onto a mini-tag. Then I added some wood veneers and opaque black rhinestones for texture. Everything is finally matt onto a larger tag.


For my card, I cut the couple image and layered it onto a background made up of a series of journal cards. To fill the blank space at the bottom I randomly placed some alphas, treating them as graphic shapes.

Hello remember our monthly challenge at Artfull Crafts, theme is "Home sweet home"??? Well there is still plenty of time to enter and get in the draw for lots of yummy prizes. Today I have a card that I had lots of fun creating.

That is so cool! Love the video! (Clare) 

Great little video, and yes indeed a catchy tune (Karen)


HAVE YOU SEEN THE VIDEO CLIP?
Tap your toes and remind yourself why you love this craft...

Click the image below:

In a little over 2 weeks the announcement will be made for the winner of the South Canterbury Regional Promotion. By watching the clip above you're helping us reach our goal of winning!

Many thanks for your support. :-) Liz and the Team Artfull Crafts 24 George Street, Timaru (03) 688 8566 info@artfullcrafts.co.nz