Challenge #3 - Halloween

Welcome to Craft Blogging Central's third challenge, it is great to have you here!  We are so excited to see what you create this month with our halloween theme. First of all why not see what fabulous creations the Design Team have come up with. 

The theme this time is Halloween and you can enter any craft you like, not just cards or papercrafts, in fact the more the better! 


First of all ... The Rules!

1.  Anyone can enter as long as you are a follower of our blog.

2.  You can enter up to 3 times per challenge.

3.  You must have fun!

And that is as complicated as it gets!

The challenge will run from 1pm GMT on 1st September 2013 until 8am GMT on 28th September 2013

The winners will be announced here on the blog at 8am GMT on 30th September 2013

There will be 2 winners - The first will be chosen by us here at Craft Blogging Central HQ and the second will be chosen randomly.  Both winners will get a badge to proudly display on their blog and who knows where else you might get to see your work published!! 

Here is some gorgeous inspiration from our Design Team:

Claire

Heather

Sarah

Katie

Now we would love to see your entries!  Simply add your post to the linky below and we really look forward to seeing what you've been creating xx

Claire's Mini Album Tutorial

Hello , fellow paper crafters!!!

I hope you are enjoying the first blog challenge ??? I am really enjoying seeing everyone's interpretation of "anything goes" for this challenge i created a mini album using a 12 x 12 paper and used up some paper scraps and embellishments..

This is the mini album, today i am going to show you how you can make your own, really simple!!

Lets get started ...

you will need 

12 x 12 card (mine was patterned on both sides)
double sided tape
paper trimmer
bone folder
paper scraps and embellishments

Cut your card at 6" , then score along the card at 4" do this on both the 6" strips.

Use your bone folder to fold the creases, fold in a concertina fold.

Decide which will be the front.

Use double sided tape to  stick both strips together.

And that's it , the construction is complete..

Now go grab your paper scraps and embellishments and make it your own :)

I like to include plain white card into these albums for journalling....

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and are inspired to make your own mini album !! They make great gifts too :)

Happy Crafting, Claire 

Design Team Call ...

Due to our blog taking off at a great rate here at Craft Blogging Central we need to add to our existing Design Team!

There are exciting times ahead at Craft blogging Central. Over the coming months we aim to be the biggest resource for crafters who blog. In order to do this we need a larger Design Team of talented crafters. This design team is going to be different than the rest, we want any type of crafter, as long as you blog!!

 So what are we looking for?

 Well, all we ask is that you:

 Have an active blog that you use on a regular basis.

Create a project once a month for our themed challenge and blog about it twice in that month.

Write a post for our Craft Blogging Central Blog once a month.

You don’t have to have been on a design team previously.

 In return you will get:

Great publicity for you and your blog

From time to time items to work with from our sponsors

Working with a team of great people, very experienced in the craft industry.

The term will run for 6 months with the chance to reapply after that time.

To apply please send us a short bio about yourself and your crafting, photographs of three of your favorite projects, a link to your blog, any social media you use, any Design Teams you already belong to and tell us why you would like to be part of our team.

 Send all applications and enquiries to: craftbloggingcentral@gmail.com

 Closing Date: 21st September 9am GMT.

Challenge #2 Back To School

Welcome to Craft Blogging Central's second challenge, it is great to have you here!  We are so excited to see what you create this month after Augusts fantastic entries. First of all why not see what fabulous creations the Design Team have come up with. 

The theme this time is Back To School and you can enter any craft you like, not just cards or papercrafts, in fact the more the better! 


First of all ... The Rules!

1.  Anyone can enter as long as you are a follower of our blog.

2.  You can enter up to 3 times per challenge.

3.  You must have fun!

And that is as complicated as it gets!

The challenge will run from 1pm GMT on 1st September 2013 until 8am GMT on 28th September 2013

The winners will be announced here on the blog at 8am GMT on 30th September 2013

There will be 2 winners - The first will be chosen by us here at Craft Blogging Central HQ and the second will be chosen randomly.  Both winners will get a badge to proudly display on their blog and who knows where else you might get to see your work published!! 

Here is some gorgeous inspiration from our Design Team:

Claire

Heather

Sarah

Katie

Now we would love to see your entries!  Simply add your post to the linky below and we really look forward to seeing what you've been creating xx

Challenge #1 Winner ...

First of all I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who took part in our first challenge.  Every single entry was fabulous, we certainly have a talented bunch of crafters here!!

Tomorrow see's the new challenge start and a blog post will go live to announce the details.

Now on to our two winners:

Jill - With her amazing cake

Kathryn - With a beautiful canvas

Now, I now we said 2 winners but we also loved another entry and so we have 3 winners!!

Linda - With such a pretty bracelet.

If you could all email me at craftbloggingcentral@gmail.com and I will send over your blog badges.

Again, thank you to everyone of you for your wonderful creations.

I will be back soon with our new challenge!!

Katie x

Sarah's Pinwheel Tutorial

 Hello all our crafty friends! I hope you're all enjoying our new blog challenge. I really enjoyed making my inspiration card for this challenge, it was lovely and summery and finished off with a spinning pinwheel. I had never made one before and decided to do a little tutorial on it so you could make one too! Here goes......

Firstly you need to decide on a paper to use. A double sided paper looks best and it needs to be quite lightweight so it bends into shape easily. Decide what size you would like to pinwheel to finish (I went for 3 inches) and cut a square of paper that size. Punch a hole in the centre.

Draw a line from each corner into the centre of the paper, stopping half an inch from the hole and then carefully cut with a craft knife or scissors. Punch holes in all 4 corners, making sure that you punch the hole in the same corners, either left or right of your cut lines.

To make the pinwheel stick cover a straw with a strip of pretty paper. It's best to put some double sided tape on the strip of paper and then carefully wrap around the straw. Punch a small hole about half an inch from the top.

Take a pretty brad that matches your paper and fold each corner into the centre so that all the holes match up and push the brad through to secure.

Finally, push the brad through the hole in the top of the straw and push the brad ends apart loosely so that everything holds in place but the pinwheel and still move around. Match your card elements to your pinwheel and then get creating!

I hope you find this useful and I will be back soon with some more ideas for you.

Happy crafting!

Sarah xx

Christmas Wreath Card Tutorial

Good Morning.

Welcome to Heather's first Design Team tutorial.  Today Heather has created this wonderful Wreath Card  made with funky Spots & Stripe Papers.

To find out how she has made this, follow her simple tutorial.

1. Using the X_Cut nesting circle dies, cut out a circle in 'Festive Spots and Stripes' by do crafts.  Make it large enough the cover your card underneath.

2. Cut out a further 6 medium circles and 6 of the smallest in contrasting papers.  Distress the edges using ink (I have used Tim Holtz Mown Lawn) or pierce around the circle.

3. Using two of the dies, cut out a hollow circle to fit within your large background and affix.

4. Place 5 of the medium circles onto the hollow circle to check they fit.  If you like, you can add small bunting like I have on the left of the card.  Fix the 5 circles down.

5. Take the smallest circle and die-cut an aperture so you can then add the remaining medium and small circle to the inside of the card, carefully ensuring when the card is shut you can see the sentiment.  I have inked a Happy Christmas sentiment onto mine using the free Lucy Cromwell at Christmas stamps that came with the July issue of Creativity Magazine by do crafts.

6. Layer up the remaining smaller circles onto the front of the card using buttons, flowers or ribbons.

We would love to see any creations you make using our tutorials and we would love to feature some of them here on our blog.  Please email us any pictures you have.

To see Heathers other fabulous creations you can visit her blog here.

Until next time ... Happy Crafting x