Making a pretty flower pin

Good morning folks, Claire C here with a tutorial on how to make a pretty little flower pin. I've used one of the gorgeous backing papers from the Here Comes Christmas CD and printed the paper on some printable canvas that I've had for years (if you struggle to get it to print try using some DST to stick it to a sheet of copier paper, leaving a tiny bit of paper to go through the printer first). You'll also need flower die (I've used Sizzix Tattered Florals), some strong glue, a hole punch, a button, some faux berries (or you could use beads), a button, a needle and thread, a brooch back and some twine.

First die cut an assortment of different flowers from the printed canvas

Curl the petals and layer them up (use as many or as few as you like) and add a little strong glue between each layer.

Add another flower on the reverse to keep the back tidy

Once the glue has dried, use a pen to mark the holes for the brooch back 

Use a crop-o-dile or a pokey tool to make the holes so you can stitch the brooch back in position

Make sure you fasten the ends on the inside

I wanted my pin to look a little shabby and distressed so I gave it a very light spritz of water and scrunched it up

Here's a pic of the back

Lastly add a pretty button with a twine bow to the centre with some glue and pop some faux berries or beads around the button, again using some strong glue

If you want some more ideas for some gorgeous Christmas gifts, scroll down to this weeks PolkaDoodles Challenge as my teamies have created some stunning projects to inspire you

thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Week 49 - Polkadoodles challenge... Make a gift for Christmas

Welcome to another challenge everyone!

Just before we get to our weekly business - we've been wondering why we only had 2 entries to last week's challenge and I realised I'd confused things! Last week it looked like you had to follow our sketch but 
each week our challenges are now ANYTHING GOES with a little twist -
 so you can still enter the challenge with an Anything Goes make but we would love you to use 2 elements from the sketch if you can (this is optional!)...you can still enter the challenge here and we will extend the deadline until Tuesday for you to enter!!
Sorry for the confusion!!

Before we get to our theme and the inspiration, there is still time to enter our

DESIGN TEAM CALL!

We are looking for someone talented to join our fabulous team. 

If you love creating cards, journals, scrapping, whatever it might be, we would love to hear from you! This is open to both UK and International crafters. 

You must be: Committed for at least 6 months

BE able to use digital products and enjoy stamping and papercrafting

A regular BLOGGER and on Facebook and participate in social media promotions

You will be expected to post a minimum of every other week PLUS one tutorial per month. 

You will be required to comment and vote each week on a rota basis

Able to make physical samples for products to be shown on TV and in shows around the UK as & when required.

We will give you: Plenty of lovely stash to use and keep during your term

Exposure for your blog and your makes

A discount for the Polkadoodles store

Lots of fun and laughter along the way!

CLOSING DATE 15th December (please note: we cannot acknowledge all the emails but you will receive a reply no matter what the outcome once we have picked the team)...We look forward to receiving all your emails! x

So, let's announce last time's winners!...

So our randomly chosen winner for Week 47 is ..... number 5 Leona

Well done, email us to claim your prize!

In addition, the Design Team have picked their favourite Top 3 and these are:

No 5 Leona, No 13 Inger, and No 17 Jane

Well done everyone! Grab your blinkies from the sidebar!

Now onto the theme for this week which is:

Make a gift for Christmas

Although we set this challenge for the team, this week we've decided that 

you can enter ANYTHING GOES as a theme for Christmas.

Have a look at the fab samples from the Design Team.  Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 15th December at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you! 

Claire C I've made a pretty flower pin using printable canvas and one of the beautiful papers from Here Comes Christmas Cd, I loved the paper so much I printed some more off and used it to decorate a little gift box and a card. The image is also from the same cd, isn't she adorable? I've coloured her up with Graph'It Markers. I'll be back tomorrow with a quick tutorial on  how to make the flower pin 

Zoe - I've made a small gift card set using the gorgeous Home For Christmas collection. Many of my friends have younger children so this makes a perfect gift for them as they always send 'Auntie Zoe' a thank you card! I took papers and embellishments from the collection into Serif Craft Artist to design the note cards and to print paper to cover the box. I love recycling packaging & this box was perfect! I tied ribbon around the gift and finished it off by adding tickets from the cd tied on with twine.

Karon - I decided to make a gift for chocolates, so made this lovely 4-drawer easel card.  My papers and elements are from the A Home for Christmas CD collection.  The red polka dot paper is from Sundae of Seasons.  I inked up all the edges of all the layers, added some pop dots to add a little depth. And there you have a great "sweet" gift.

Sally - Our challenge this week is to make a gift.  So I thought it would be nice to make a box with Thank you cards in it.  I already had a template for this card box, I used two pieces of A4 cardstock for the box, drew around the template and cut it out and put the box together.  I then chose some backing papers and an image from The Angelberry CD Rom.  I matted and layered the Rudolf paper on red cardstock and covered the front, back and sides.  I then made 6 cards, same design but with different backing papers. I then used my peel off "thank you's" and matted and layered the Rudolf image.  There it is! What a nice gift to give someone!

Miria This is my take on the challenge: a quick and easy festive bookmark. I used paper and digis from A home for Christmas , the tickets are my fave from Picknix Collection 2 Gingerbread twist. I distressed them all and just added a ribbon. On picture two you can see how it works on the page.

Alethea- I am making fudge for the teachers presents this year and was too sure what to present it in, so I quickly made up this little bag!!! I used a border from the Angelberry CD Rom,  and a sentiment and pre-coloured image from the A Home for Christmas CD collection. I then just added the eyelets and ribbon!! Simple but perfect for what I wanted!!

Rebekah - Hi everyone! I chose to make a recipe book as my gift for Christmas. I have used papers and elements from the Here comes Christmas CD, this includes the cute gingerbread digi, the frame for my title and the tag on the side. Sometimes you just need a book to keep all those festive recipes in for this time of year!

Asha - I made this cute little purse with paper and a Santa digi element from the A Home For Christmas CD. Super simple to make and just the perfect size to house 3 succulent Mon Chéri chocolates - my kinda Christmas gift! Pop by my blog for measurements... chocolates not included!

   

Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 15th December at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you!

Rules: 

1. No backlinks

2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

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Digi Choosday...Wk 7 - Christmas Cheer!

Hi everyone, time for another Digi Choosday challenge!

Firstly, let's get straight to our winners! 

The random winner of our Week 5 challenge, Craft, is

No 15, Soma! 

Congratulations Soma, email us here to claim your prize, you've won a download bundle!

Our Top 3 favourites for this week are: 

No 3 Mags, No 5 Deanne and No 12 Kym - well done, we loved all your work this week, feel free to grab your blinkies from the sidebar. 

So onto this week's challenge...

Christmas Cheer

We are well and truly in the Christmas shopping season now - all the trees are going up and it's starting to feel really festive everywhere, so show us your Crimbo makes!

You have until 12th December to enter and the winner will be announced on 17th December.

The winner of this challenge will win £5 of downloads from the store!

Before we forget, make sure you checkout the Polkadoodles store this week as there is a sale event with 15% off everything - a great opportunity to grab a bargain! 

DESIGN TEAM CALL!

We are looking for someone talented to join our fabulous team. 

If you love creating cards, journals, scrapping, whatever it might be, we would love to hear from you! This is open to both UK and International crafters. 

You must be: 

Committed for at least 6 months

Be able to use digital products and enjoy stamping and papercrafting

A regular BLOGGER and on Facebook and participate in social media promotions

You will be expected to post a minimum of every other week PLUS one tutorial per month. 

You will be required to comment and vote each week on a rota basis

Able to make physical samples for products to be shown on TV and in shows around the UK as and when required.

We will give you: 

Plenty of lovely stash to use and keep during your term

Exposure for your blog and your makes

A discount for the Polkadoodles store

Lots of fun and laughter along the way!

CLOSING DATE 10th December (please note: we cannot acknowledge all the emails but you will receive a reply no matter what the outcome once we have picked the team)...We look forward to receiving all your emails! x

Scatty Jan For todays project I have made a door hanger using - The Christmas Joy Download bundle Which I absolutly love  - there is so much on there it gives me lots of inspiration - This will hang proudly on my Granddaughters door handle  :-)

Zoe - This week's DT challenge made me think of shopping. The happiness of hearing Christmas songs in the shops and, if you're a bit daft like me, the enjoyment of trying on Christmas jumpers & accessories!! So I used the fun Emman Canning Deer Girl image and some papers from the Angelberry Collection. I took them into Serif Craft Artist Pro to create this double sided folded project. It's a list or reminder for when I go Christmas shopping to write down what I still need to buy! Once printed out, I coloured the digital image with a mix of markers including Graph It's.

Anjie - For my card this week I have used the Christmas Joy Download Bundle which is available as an instant download so you can get crafting straight away! This kit contains 13 coloured embellishments, 10 sentiments, 2 borders and 13 A4 backing papers. So is amazing value at just £3.99! 

 

Debbi - For this weeks challenge I have made a bottle gift tag using the Christmas Joy bundle, which also incorporates a little pocket to add a little extra gift...well it is Christmas :)

Sarah - I thought I'd try White on White this week, it's a lovely image and thought it didn't really need any papers distracting from it! The image is Angelberry Hugs, coloured with my ProMarkers and I then used various dies, embossing folders, glitter on her wings and some ribbon to finish the card.

Susan - This week it feels a lot like Christmas on Digi Choosday. The theme is Christmas Cheer and what could be better than a glass of pink champers (well one can dream) I have used Fredericka Debutante this week and coloured her with Graph'it markers and the papers are from Christmas Joy bundle. For the full list of what I used please pop over to my blog, Hugs and Happy Crafting xxx

Jo- For my project this week I used the Deer Girl digi from Emma Canning, coloured with my ProMarkers, and two of the more traditional papers from the Christmas Joy bundle. The sentiment comes with the Christmas Joy kit too! I had to add the jingle bell as it is pure Christmas cheer xx

Kevin For my project this week I have used this gorgeous Topper and papers from the Christmas Joy Download Bundle

Sally - Hi there.  Christmas Cheer is our challenge this week. So I thought I would use one of the Greetings from Here Comes Christmas CD Rom, backing paper from Home for Christmas CD Rom and part of Emma Canning's digi images Time for Tea.  I Printed off the sentiment and coloured the holly in, pan pastelled around the edge. Cut out the head and hands, coloured him in using Promarkers, attached him to the sentiment, matt and layered it on to a Spellbinder die cut and then adhered it to the backing paper.  There we have it.

So there's the inspiration for today! 

I'm sure you'll agree that they're all superb makes again this week, love love love all the work these guys have put in!

Remember you do NOT have to use our products (although obviously we would love it if you did) , just add your entry to Mr Linky below (you have until Tuesday 19th Nov to enter and the winner will be announced on our Week 6post Tues 26th Nov) and pinch our badge for your blog sidebar - we'll see you back here on Friday for our usual Polkadoodles challenge....

Rules: 
1. No backlinks
2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

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