Eyes Down for Bingo - Midway Reminder

Hello everyone. It's Annette back here today to bring you some mid-way inspiration for our 'E for Eyes down for Bingo' challenge.

You can choose a strip of 3 running across, down, or diagonally across the grid, or, if you're feeling adventurous, you can even attempt a full house!!  

The choice is yours, but please don't forget to tell us what you've picked!

Here's the grid:

Our generous sponsors for this week are :

Stampfary Digis

"Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010. Gerda Burghardt, artist and owner, creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats. You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls, fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters. Stamp Fairy has new releases along with a free image every Friday. Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images. We hope StampFairy’s images inspire YOUR creativity." 

and also we have Shape EZ templates who are offering a fab prize:

Shape EZ templates will enable you to create unique shaped projects for that quick and simple or enhanced special one of a kind projects.

These templates and cut files come in JPEG,PNG,PDF and SVG formats. Whatever your preference, they're 300 dpi formats will print perfectly on any paper whether you cut them out yourself or create via your cutting machine.

These templates come with options, empowering you to choose to include extras such as windows, pockets, hats, or even inserts of designer paper that will perfectly fit inside the base form. They're a real cut above the ordinary shaped card projects.

Shape EZ is an exclusive product you can use over and over again from TLC with Whimsy - an affordable way to create in your way.



Here are the fab creations from our design team to tempt you to join us in our second week....
Annette using 
Shape Ez Snowflake Cardand Barry Winter 1(all BINGO items, except Flowers & Lace)




Chris using 
George Wintertime 1
Bingo - diagonal : not a square, blue, die cuts (snowflakes)


Wilma  
Bingo : Ribbon, Animal, Die cuts


Jennifer 
using Shape EZ Tea Cup Flip Card Bingo: Not a Square, Flowers, Glitter


(inside)



Bettina 
using Shape Ez Snowflake Card
Bingo: Not a square, pearls and ribbon

Helen  
Ribbon - Animal - Die Cuts


Emma 
Ribbon - Blue - Glitter


   Dorte 
Ribbon-Animal-Die CutsRibbon-Blue-GlitterNot A Square-Blue- Die Cuts


 Angela
Bingo : Pearls -Blue - Lace


Lacey
Ribbon, Animals, Die Cuts

Please add a link to your creation with the linky below - this challenge ends at 6pm GMT on Tuesday March 19th

Now it's your turn! Remember, your project must have a Christmas theme.

Midway reminder: R for Recycling

Good morning, Miria  here with some more inspiration for the  theme 
 R for Recycling 
so we want you to recycle something, paper, buttons, ribbons, etc. and we'd like you to tell us what it is in your post. 


Fabby sponsors are:

The lovely Heidi at Simon Says Stamp are offering one lucky entrant

A $15 voucher to spend in her store

and

In 2 Stamps

Prize

    

And now for some more fab samples from the DT:

Annette
Another 'tasteful' skirt
(Dusky pink mini-skirt this time. I dread to think how old this was!)

made into a little baggie.

I also recycled a ribbon from a very yummy box of chocs
and also the pink backing card was from an old office file divider.

And matching card, again using the old office folder divider

for the pink matt behind the image and die cut.

Dorte

We celebrated our niece's confirmation

at the beginning of September.

And I brought home some parts of the table decorations. (I did ask!)

Recycled flowers, ribbon and the silver paper

from the placements cards.

Wilma

I used a big matchbox

 

Helen - Wrapping Paper

Samantha 
What better to go with the toilet rolls than Poop!

Miria (wrapping paper)

 You can find lots more examples, and the linky to add your entry on this post

Mid-way Reminder - Q is for Quilting

**Scroll down this post to see a Quilted Tutorial using a sewing machine**

It's Helen here with some more inspiration for our current challenge, where the theme is:

'Q is for Quilting'

Make a patchwork 'quilt' effect on your card/project.

Here's a reminder of our two fabulous sponsors:

Prize from Lili of the Valley:

and

Prize from Crop Stop: a $15 Gift Certificate!

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And now for some more fab samples from the DT:

Annette

Dorte

Wilma

Samantha

and me (Helen)

And now over to Lacey for a fabulous tutorial for you on 

how she created the quilted background on this card...

Supplies:

1"x 5" stripes of paper

5 1/4" x 5 1/4" card stock (for the base)

Colored image and mat

I used James Bear - Pile of Presents from our sponsor Lili of the Valley

1. Cut your strips of paper into 1" cubes...

2. Arrange your squares in the pattern you want. 

Turn them over and put a small amount of adhesive on the back. 

**Note - you want to only place a little adhesive in the middle. You do not want the adhesive near the edges of the paper or it will gum up your sewing needle**

3. Adhere the squares to the 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" piece of card stock as neatly as possible.

It's ok if there are a few jagged edges because the zig zag stitch will hide a small amount of imperfection...

4. Put the sewing machine foot in between the squares of paper as centered as possible.

**I "back stitch" for a turn or two at the beginning and end of the row to help tie the edges.**

5. Stitch along each line...

6. Once one side is done, rotate the paper and stitch along the other lines...

7. After the inside lines are done, stitch along the outside.

When you turn it over, it will look like this...

(Yes, I made a boo-boo, my machine jammed up. But it only shows up on the backside.)

So you see how ugly that is (even without the boo-boo)? You don't want that on the inside of your card, so I always sew onto a mat  and attach that to the card base...

8. Attach the sewed layers onto your card base...

9. Decorate as desired...

This is a great design to get rid of little leftover pieces of designer paper as well.

I used new strips of new paper, but you could easily use scraps!!

Can't wait to see you do it now!!

Wowee - that's awesome Lacey...thanks so much for sharing!

 You can find lots more examples, and the linky to add your entry on this post.