Blog Challenge!!! UPDATED.

Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all having a good week and if not don't worry it'll soon be the weekend. Michele and I would like to invite you to join in with our blog challenge - we've had a long break so thought it time to start challenging each other and you to dig deep in our stashes and make some cards/projects! This month we've decided to use the gift that's free with issue 173 of Simply Cards & Papercrafts magazine which is currently in the shops priced £5.99. There are a couple of free downloadable images that go with the covergift so feel free to use those in your cards. The challenge is in two parts, the first is to make any card you like using the free gifts and basics from your stash (card, backing papers etc) and the second part is to CASE a card using the free gifts either by Copying and Sharing Everything from a card in the magazine (please give the designer name and page number details) or if you've seen the free gift used on any sort of social media - Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest etc then please provide a link so we can all see where you got the idea from. Ideally the cards should be as near to the original as possible but don't be afraid to add your own twist if you want to (more of a scraplift card than a CASE one) especially if you don't have the exact materials as the ones used in your inspiration card. I am very excited to see what everyone comes up with and love the idea of a CASE element as I rarely copy exactly. Please please though remember to credit the original designer as intellectual theft is as bad as physical theft and I'm sure none of you would do that!

UPDATE: I suddenly realised while watching the tv that I'd not actually added a closing date for the blog challenge - it's in just over two weeks 14/02/18.

Are you up for the challenge??

For some extra inspiration check out the lovely Christina Griffiths
AKA Card-Making-Magic.com's video over at YouTube as she shares a couple of ideas using this free gift and a full tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEj1cIsOECU&t=6s

I hope you'll join in with our blog challenge, I'm afraid there's no prizes (who knows if people actually join in we might get some companies interested in sponsoring a prize or two!) at present just the satisfaction of taking part and crafting. I really hope you do, as always if you have any questions then please leave them in the usual places and of course a link to your blog (drop me an email using the form in the side bar if you don't have a blog but want to join in) if you take part and until next time - keep crafting!

Love and crafty hugs,

Sarah xxxx