March Challenge - Clean and Simple

February saw so many talented crafters visit our challenge blog - thank you for stopping by and a massive thank you to all of you who took our challenge and came up with a stunning selection of embossed projects.... watch this space for our winners announcement between the 6th and the 8th.

This month we want to challenge you to get creative and make us a project that is
 Clean & Simple
It can be any type of project that you like but it must be clean and simple. Please check out our challenge rules in the sidebar..... and please note that we only allow one entry per crafter per challenge.

We are lucky to have the uber talented Lindsay from LEJ Designs sponsoring us this month

 LEJ Designs

Lindsay is kindly offering one lucky winner a prize of:

4 images of their choice. These images are currently not for sale,
the only way you can snag them is to win them as a prize
or to find a freebie on the LEJ Designs Challenge Blog!

I have made a couple of cards to get the inspiration going this month, but remember to stop by and check out all the things that my wonderful Design Team have been creating (I've had a few sneaky peeks and I think you are going to love what they have been up to!).

Here are the cards I made,

So, over to you..... remember to check out the rules and please follow the theme - Clean and Simple. We are really looking forward to seeing what you make this month.

Happy crafting
Nikki x

February Challenge - embossing

Thank you for coming to play along with our challenge last month - you are all so inspirational and have such wonderful blogs and creations for us to look at.
All the Design Team love to look at your craftyness that you share with us - thank you for sharing your creativity.

This month the theme for our challenge is embossing.... Now this can be dry embossing or heat embossing.... in fact any type of embossing that you like. But your project must have embossing on it.
Please read over our other challenge rules before you enter any projects.

We are very lucky this month to be able to offer you a prize of 6 pots of WOW! embossing powders as WOW! is our sponsor this month.

Not only to WOW! create some of the most amazing powders that I have ever seen but they also have stamp sets (watch out for some new designs coming very soon), ring bases, embossed paper and silicone moulds!!!! You can find their shop HERE if you want to take a  peek.....

Here are a couple of projects showing you some techniques with embossing powders.

You can find out a little bit more about these projects by popping onto my blog, here....

Now it's over to you - looking forward to seeing all your embossing projects x

Happy Crafting
Nikki x

December Challenge - Working With A Sketch

Wow - how on Earth did we get to December already!
What a busy year - but oh so much fun as well!
Before we get started on this months challenge I wanted to say a massive thank you to all of you.... thank you for stopping by our little space in the blog world, thank you for leaving lovely comments on our posts (we always appreciate you taking the time out to do that) and thank you for entering our challenge every month. You are all really talented and you all inspire us too. So thank you x
I also wanted to say a massive thank you to my design team, they are a very talented bunch. Over the year we have seen a few changes - and over the next month you will see the new dt members popping by with their inspirational projects, so do keep popping back as they introduce themselves. I know they are all very excited and really looking forward to working with the team.
I also wanted to say a massive thank you to all of our sponsors this year.... we have had wonderful images to work with and have enjoyed working with them all x

So for this months challenge our sponsor is ....... me!
I have designed a sketch or 4 for you to work with.... all you need to do is pick one of these sketches and use that as you template/guide to create your project.
Here are the sketches....

I have used sketch number 3 on my inspiration card...
You can twist the sketch around and add some extra bits too.....
Here is my card.....

The prize this month will be a goody bag of crafting goodies....
So, now over to you..... pick your sketch - have a look at the rules (check them out in the side bar) - create your project and then link it to your blog post here....
Remember to let us know what sketch you have used (you can do this by putting the sketch number with your name when you enter.

I am really looking forward to seeing what you create with the sketches.
Happy crafting
Nikki x

An InLinkz Link-up

Thank you

Hi there, Nikki here, and today I get to introduce myself and share a project with you.
I am a crafter through and through and I love to try all different kinds of crafts. (well I'll try anything at least once!)
I adore papercrafting and sharing my ideas with everyone too.
A year or so ago I came up with the idea of the Crafting Cafe on Facebook (if you are on Facebook, make sure you come on over and join us)... you will find us HERE...
The idea behind it was to create a friendly place for crafters to share their blogs and projects.
The cafe is a wonderful place where so many friendships have been made.
This year, I decided to expand on the cafe and here we are - The Crafting Cafe blog was born.

This month we are being sponsored by LEJ Designs, and over the next few weeks as the Design Team introduce themselves to you, you will be able to see the projects they have all created with Lindsay's wonderful designs.
I choose to work with the daisy, this is what I created...

I love this digi, you can resize it to any size that you want . I thought I would keep my design black and white as I love that classic combo.
The theme for this month is anything goes - and we really would love to see what you create.
Remember to add your link to our launch post and we will pop on over to visit you.
Pop back over the course of the month to see what the rest of the Design Team has created.
Happy crafting,
Nikki x

D.T

First of all we wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who emailed or contacted us about the Design Team call that we have just held.
We were amazed at all of your wonderful blogs and the fact that so many of you wanted to join us in this new adventure.
Please do not feel disheartened if you are not on our DT at this moment, there were so many wonderful blogs and you are all so talented... it really has been a very hard thing to decide on!
We do hope that you will still come back and join in with our crafty challenges and blog hops.

So please find below (in no particular order) the people that we would like to offer DT positions to.....

1. Neil

2. Amanda

3. Michelle

4. Mags

5. Claire

6. Claire

7. Marlene

8. Ria

9. Debbie

10. Marleen

11. Lyndi

12. Sylvia

If you would like to accept the DT position, please email me on Nikki

We hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks again to everyone who shared their blogs with us - stunning doesn't even cover the talent you all have!
Nikki x