BGC#55 - WELCOME HOME - ANETA

Hello everybody on Monday morning!

It's my (Aneta's ) turn to inspire you in our newest Welcome-home-challenge. I prepared something special and creating it for you gave me a lot of fun, but...

Let's start with the rules first:

• In this challenge we want to see the emphasis on the word "HOME"

• You can make Cards , 3d projects , canvases , or Layouts 

• Your project must show a visible connection to the word HOME , it can be just the word HOME written on your project or you can make something that shows elements from your house.

• Think in the line of shaped cards , Layouts with your house pictures , 3d Bird houses , Bird cages etc. (these are just examples, you are free to depict the theme any way you like.)

•  Deadline to enter - until 11:55 PM IST on 31st July 2014.  

As usually, we have gorgeous prizes for you sponsored by

and they are:

1 Ranger Perfect Pearls

1 colorbox mini - frost white

4 sponge daubers 

Let's see my project now. It's a... bird house.  I was so excited creating it, that I totally forgot to prepare a small tutorial for you. Don't worry, you will find some hints below.

Because I made it the first time, I used ready base of the bird house, similar to this one:

I started with cutting out the whole in the front of the house bird with Big Shot Sizzix in the choosen sheet of paper. This same way I prepared the circle with dots.

Then I sticked together elements of the house and pieces of pattern paper and cut them out.The back wall is decorated with a paper on the both sides (don't forget about it! inside is visible from the outside).
I inked all edges of the walls, floor and roof and glued them. In the end, I added adhesive pearls and paper birds (cuts-out from Tilda's pad, which I've chosen for this project).

I tried to describe my process of creating as simple as possible and I hope that is clear for you. :-)

All my supplies are: cardstock base of the bird house by Rapakivi, Paper Pad Gardenparty by Tilda, Distress Ink Vintage Photo, adhesive gems, double-sided tape, 3D foam tape, cuttind pad and cutting knife.

Have you seen amazing creations of the rest of our talented DT? Go back and check out Pooja's and Karen's project.

If you decided to play along, please enter your project HERE. We will be really happy to see it!

Thank you for your being with us!
Have an excellent day!
Aneta

BGC#55 -Welcome HOME - Karen

 BGC#55 -Welcome HOME

Hello again my crafty friends!!  Hope this finds everyone well. PJ has another great challenge for us!!  I am loving all of the entries so far!!  So I will share my project and then be sure to check out our generous sponsers and of course link up for a chance to win!!

Guidelines :

• In this challenge we want to see the emphasis on the word "HOME"

• You can make Cards , 3d projects , canvases , or Layouts 

• Your project must show a visible connection to the word HOME , it can be just the word HOMEwritten on your project or you can make something that shows elements from your house.

• Think in the line of shaped cards , Layouts with your house pictures , 3d Bird houses , Bird cages etc. (these are just examples, you are free to depict the theme any way you like.)

•  Deadline to enter - until 11:55 PM IST on 31st July 2014.  

I am trying to step out of my box more and do things in addition to my layouts. In my home we have lots to up cycle. I wanted to repurpose these sturdy strawberry containers. 

   

After my project was complete I found another way to use these containers. They can be cut, sanded, colored, and baked to shrink for jewelry pieces!! In the past we have used them to start seeds. Since they are slotted they drain perfectly. But for today, I wanted something a little prettier...

I covered the top and inside with Prima papers. I used pink and black ribbon/tulle around the top and bottom portion. 

Inside I placed a little frame and there is ample space to store pictures or any special item really!

I then added the Home Sweet Home sentiment from my silhouette and added a bit of lace and flowers!! 

I hope you enjoyed my project share and I hope you will link up as well!!

(Link is on original post)

Sponsor : 

We have our very generous sponsors back 

Creativita by Jovi

Prize : 

4 sponge daubers  

 

1 colorbox mini -frost white

  1 Ranger perfect pearls 

Winners Day - BGC#53 June celebrations challenge

Hello all !

Welcome back to another winners day post here on BGC !

We loved what u all made for the June challenge - Stamping and Misting 

Some of the entries really blew our mind! 

Here are the Toppers ! 

Category - Cards only 

Pooja 

Such a nice card !!! Love the vellum and all the misting inside with stencils !

Sathya Kala 

With this lovely mixed media card ! Love the stamping on fabric !

Nandini  

Now thats something ! Nan created this amazing scene on a cotton fabric with paints and misting for the moon ! Its simple but its truly splendid !

The random winner for this category is - Shylaashree     !!! 

Category - Layouts Only 

Ela

Thats the amazing LO Ela presented for this challenge !

Oh my there is so much to see here ! i really love the choice of colors and the elements she put together . 

If you look closely there is stamping on the laces and mesh cloth ! just wonderful ! 

Kathleen White

Kathleen gave us this fantastic LO with some stamping on fabric leaves ! I really love the choice of papers she used here . And that illusion of the skirt flowing ..... its just wonderful !

Kripa Koushik

Kripa stuns us with this cute and colourful LO ! Such beautiful embelishments ! if you look closely you will see her net fabric with lots of stamping and gold paste.  Good job there ! 

And the Random winner for this catagory is - Nandini  !! 

Catagory - Everything else 

Rupa  

Those are some superb altered boxes made into show pieces !

What a wonderful transformation ! Love the stamping on fabric on each piece and the misting. 

Sarah George

Sarah made this cute little box with super shabby look ! 

Love the sentiment stamped on fabric !

snehal welde  

Snehal came up with her own communication system for letting her milk vendor know when she doesnt need milk ! This sign board she made is hung on the door when she doesnt need milk ! :) 

Thats so thoughful ! Superb ! 

And the random winner for this category is  - Rupa 

Congratulations girls !!!! Please take your respective badges from the side bar ! 

Winners please email your full indian address and phone to lightbox.c(at)gmail(dot)com.

With the subject line being - Winner BGC#53 Catagory name (Winner BGC#53 Cards only)

Thanks for joining us today! 

* Please scroll down to the next post to see the May celebrations winner redraw. *

Winner redraw - may celebrations

Hello everyone !

Unfortunately people are not claiming their prizes on time (or not at all )  

Which gives someone else a chance to win !

We had  lovely little FB celebration in May 2014 for you all , 

Where in you had to upload your challenge entry pic to FB to win 

this stamp set - 

generously sponsored by 

 

 

So the New random winner is - 

 Aayushi gupta

Congratulations Aayushi, Please email your full Indian address and phone to lightbox.c@gmail.com 

to claim your prize. We give you 2 days to respond. 

See u guys soon !

BGC#55 -Welcome HOME

A big warm welcome to all you lovely ladies (and gents) 

to another new challenge here on the BGC blog 

with me PJ . 

I just had a short trip home and with all the memories and warmth i got 

i decide to challenge you to make something with the theme HOME. 

 BGC#55 -Welcome HOME

Guidelines :

• In this challenge we want to see the emphasis on the word "HOME"

• You can make Cards , 3d projects , canvases , or Layouts 

• Your project must show a visible connection to the word HOME , it can be just the word HOME written on your project or you can make something that shows elements from your house.

• Think in the line of shaped cards , Layouts with your house pictures , 3d Bird houses , Bird cages etc. (these are just examples, you are free to depict the theme any way you like.)

•  Deadline to enter - until 11:55 PM IST on 31st July 2014.  

Sponsor : 

We have our very generous sponsors back 

Creativita by Jovi

Prize : 

4 sponge daubers 

 

1 colorbox mini -frost white

  1 Ranger perfect pearls 

 So cool right ?? I really love how jovi picks out co-ordinating stuff for you guys ! 

Ok so now lets move on to my project 

 

I really wanted to make a shaped card ! its been ages i tried my hand on a house shaped card ! 

 I really love how this turned out. 

At first i wasn't very sure if i co-ordinated the papers right , but it came out well. 

 Here is a closer look at the door :) 

i layered my pieces on top of a rectangular wood grain look PP and distressed the edges. 

I then used my grey pen to give some faux stitches all around the frame and inside.

All the shrubs are stamped , hand colored and fuzzycut. 

The stamp set i used was Pink paislee butterfly garden . Also i added a little wodden bird on top of the flowers.

 The lamp is a sizzix die, i inked it with distress inks and added some random markings around the whole thing with a black pen. And then there is the sentiment HOME :) also cut with a sizzix die .

So Thankyou for joining us :) 

We are eager to see your entries ! Link them below. 

BGC#54 - LET'S GET KIDDISH! - ANETA

Hello!

How are you today?I'm really happy that it's weekend already? And you? Did you plan something creative this weekend?

I hope you remember about our current challenge#54 - Let's get kiddish? There is still time to play along with us! 

Guidelines :
 Make a project for a child. It could be a card, LO or any 3d project. But it should be connected with a child in some way.

If you are making a card then use some form of pop up card or technique that would fascinate a child, or a hand drawn story book;  frame for your child or a name plate for a child. The options are endless. and there is so much you can do!

And it's time to present my inspiration - a pink-white-and-green photo-album with cute girlish images for my daughter's photos.

My supplies: papers by  Latarnia Morska, Galeria Papieru and I-Kropka, chipboard - Latarnia Morska, 3D foam tape, washi tapes, base - ArtPasje.

Remember, that we are looking forward to see your  kiddish creation!
Please enter then  HERE.

We have great prize for the winner sponsored by

Have a creative day!

Aneta

July celebrations - Games people play !

Hello people !

Welcome to another month of celebration !!!!

July is super nice and we wanted to play some games this time with you all !

so here is what you do !

Play the Crossword & answer a question ! 

Thats it !! 

Find as many craft company names as u can ! 

 

Here is the qualifying question - 

Q. Can you identify the DT members from these projects? 

Hint - They can be current or previous DT members.

You must identify Minimum of 2 Design team members. 

Rules to play : 

1. You must be a BGC blog follower . 

2. Email us the crossword solution with as many names of crafts companies you find and your the answer of the Qualifying question.

3. For the qualifying question - You must identify at least 2 designers correctly. The more DT's u identify the better.

4. The quickest person with most or all crossword solutions and the correct answer of the qualifying question wins the hamper ! 

5. Time stamp on your email will also be considered in finding the winner. So the quicker you mail us the better.

6. Subject of all emails to be - "July celebration games YOUR NAME" (for example - July celebration games Pooja)

7. Email to - lightbox.c@gmail.com

8. We will accept entries untill 10:00 PM IST on 31st July 2014  .

The winner will be announced in second week of August 2014.

Prize : 

The prize is 

Prima Something Blue ATC Cards 3X4 - 15 Designs/3 Each

 DYLUSIONS CALYPSO TEAL INK SPRAY

generously sponsored by 

 

Well are u game ???? 

Then GET SET GO!!!!!!! 

Wiiners day - May Celebrations

Hello everyone !

We had  lovely little FB celebration in May 2014 for you all , 

Where in you had to upload your challenge entry pic to FB to win 

this stamp set - 

generously sponsored by 

 

 

So the random winner is - 

 

Piyanki - Its simply handmade 

Congratulations Piyanki , Please email your full Indian address and phone to lightbox.c@gmail.com 

to claim your prize. We give you 2 days to respond. 

See u guys soon !