Crafter's Castle: May 2018

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Challenge #5 & More Inspiration

Welcome to Crafter's Castle Monthly Challenge #5

The sponsor for May is Honeybunnies Treasures

and she is offering a prize of a $25 gift certificate

for this months winner so don't miss out!!!

As always our challenges are ANYTHING GOES

but we like to throw in an OPTION to challenge you and
this month's OPTION is "Share A Favorite Technique"

This is an OPTION for fun and not a requirement.

Please review the CHALLENGE RULES (see tab above)

And here are Crafter's Castle design team's wonderful creations to inspire you!

Please give them a little love by visiting their blogs and YouTube channels
to get a better look at their beautiful work.

Bev

Janie

Jeanie

Sandi (guest designer)

Tasha (guest designer)

Now it's your turn share YOUR inspiration!

An InLinkz Link-up

5x7 Flip & Fold Mini Album Tutorial

If you are looking for Crafter's Castle Challenge
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5x7 Flip & Fold Mini Album
I have been playing around with creating Flip & Fold Mini Albums and this one is 5x7 and beautiful. I actually do my tutorials on YouTube and you can watch that by CLICKING HERE And next week I will have a tutorial on a cute little 4x4 Flip & Fold Mini Album so watch for it :)

This picture only shows the cover and the first page....to see the entire album from front to back and all pages as well as the tutorial you will need to watch the video.....and you aren't going to want to miss it!!! Links to the papers I used from VectoriaDesigns are also in the video description box.

CLICK HERE TO SEE IT ALL

I actually found some challenges for this!!!
Card Mania Challenge - #104 Anything But A Card
Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - May 2018
Create And Inspire Challenges - Anything Goes / Springtime
Create And Makes Challenge Blog - #21 Anything Goes
Pink & Main Challenge Blog - #30 Anything Goes
(PIN)spirational Challenges - #216

Thanks for stopping by and...

HAPPY CRAFTING!!!

Saturday, May 19, 2018

It's Spring! - Birthday Box Card

It's starting to look like Spring where I live even though the rest of the country
is starting to look like Summer.

I love flowers and butterflies and thought having them pop out of a box card
would just be perfect.

For a better view of this card you can watch my video

by clicking HERE

To watch my video tutorial on making 2 sizes of box cards

you can click HERE

The butterflies and yellow flowers were stamped with coordinating Distress Ink and colored with Ohuhu colored pencils, and then I cut them out. I used CTMH Clear Shimmer Brush to give the butterflies a little shimmer, and CTMH Liquid Glass for the center of the flowers. To make it look like the butterflies were flying instead of being attached to cardstock, I attached them to Dura-Lar (an acetate alternative). I did the same with the flowers.

Products used from Honeybunnies Treasures....

Echo Park "Good Day Sunshine" 6x6 paper pad

Hampton Art "Sentiments" stamp set

Don't forget to enter YOUR creations in

CRAFTER'S CASTLE MONTHLY CHALLENGE

CLICK HERE for the challenge!!!

Thanks for stopping by and...

HAPPY CRAFTING!!!

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Challenge #5

Welcome to Crafter's Castle Monthly Challenge #5

The sponsor for May is Honeybunnies Treasures

and she is offering a prize of a $25 gift certificate

for this months winner so don't miss out!!!

As always our challenges are ANYTHING GOES

but we like to throw in an OPTION to challenge you and
this month's OPTION is "Share A Favorite Technique"

This is an OPTION for fun and not a requirement.

Please review the CHALLENGE RULES (see tab above)

Now....drum roll please....I will announce

April's lucky WINNER of the awesome

$100 Create For Less gift certificate!!!

13. KT Fit Kitty

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Please contact Janie at 4crafterscastle@gmail.com

to claim your prize!!!

And here is a badge for you to proudly display

And now....the fabulous TOP 3....

(in numerical order)

4. CraftyHugs: Ladies d

106. Piano Album by Mayur

114. Wedding ExplodingBox

Congratulations!!!

I hope you proudly display your TOP 3 badge

And now without any further ado...

Crafter's Castle design team's wonderful creations!

Please give them a little love by visiting their blogs and YouTube channels
to get a better look at what they made.

Jeanie

Janie

Bev

Tasha (guest designer)

Sandi (guest designer)

And now it's YOUR turn!

An InLinkz Link-up

Summer Theme Mini Album -with HoneyBunnies Treasures

This month Crafter's Castle challenge sponsor is Honeybunnies Treasures and she sent me Echo Park "Good Day Sunshine" 6x6 paper pack and Hampton Arts "Sentiments" stamp set to work with.

Since the paper pack has a Summer theme I decided my first project would be a Summer theme mini album.

To fully see the album and products used you can watch my video by

CLICKING HERE

To watch a tutorial on making this type of mini album CLICK HERE

Be sure to check out

Crafter's Castle Challenge

And Honeybunnies Treasures

For more inspiration please visit the rest of the design team

Bev Code 

Jeanie Ellis 

Tasha 

Sandi Nagel

Thanks for stopping by and...

HAPPY CRAFTING!!!

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Thank You Mynn - Blog Hop

For those of you familiar with MHKDesigns, you know the first of the month would usually mean it's time for a new challenge at MHKDesigns, and also for a new set release. But sadly, Mynn, the very creative owner of MHKDesigns, and my very good friend, has made the tough decision to close the blog and challenges so she can focus on what's important to her, being a teacher. The Etsy store will remain open for the time being, but nothing new will be added.

Mynn and I have many things in common, and being a 2nd grade teacher is one of them. She just started teaching this year, and I used to teach 2nd grade many years ago. So I completely understand and support her decision.

The news came as quite a shock to her DT members, but it's a decision they also totally support. And because most of us already had our cards created for today, we've decided to make it a blog hop to say THANK YOU to Mynn for all she's done for us. The hop order is further down the post, but first I'd like to share a little of what Mynn means to me...

Mynn has been a dear friend to me for the past few years and there are times I don't know what I would have done without her. Our friendship goes beyond crafting. But on the crafty side of things, Mynn made my blog what it is today....she gave Crafter's Castle it's true identity. And that gave me my craft identity and confidence to grow. She also was supportive of me starting the monthly challenges we have here on Crafter's Castle and my own design team. In fact MHKDesigns was the sponsor of Crafter's Castle very first challenge. Without Mynn's advice and encouragement I don't thnk this would have happened. So I am beyond thankful to my sweet friend Mynn for all she has done for me....and I'm thankful that we will continue to be friends forever. I love you Mynn!

I am sharing two of my favorite MHKDesigns cards I made
because they both are a message to Mynn.