Blog Candy

Blog Candy

Hallo Everyone!

Woohoo!  A special day on

the blog!  

We haven't had a blog candy for

a while and as we are all mad

for these:

We thought we would

treat one of our fabulous Followers!

To be in for a chance of winning

a set of the 12 new colours of 

PaperArtsy Infusions

all you have to do is:

Be a Follower -  it is never too late

to become a Follower

and

Write a new post on your blog with the

image above and a link to this post

and then

Come back here and add your link to

your blog post.  Please permalink to the 

specific post on your blog and not

your blog in general (Hope that makes sense!)

  This Candy is open to all Followers

everywhere/anywhere in the world

and will close in two weeks on 

Sunday, 19th March

NB

If you do not have a blog but are a Follower

then please email sandy@thecraftbarn.com

Best of luck to everyone!

An InLinkz Link-up

'Till tomorrow

when I'll be back with

the Twelve Month Challenge

Mickie xx

It's BLOG CANDY tiiiiiime

Hi, 

It's been a while since we did a blog candy and last time we had just over 600 followers.

Look at today.... over 1160 followers!!

So to thank YOU, faithful followers, here is a new CANDY for you...

Once again it is packed with tons of products

with a retail VALUE OF OVER £ 150 !!!!!!!!!

I'm not going to list every thing in there, but I'm sure you can spot a lot of yummy products.... 

die cuts (I see Tim Holtz's phone there), inks (including Dylusions), glitter, a Crafty Secrets CD, embossing folders, goodies to alter, embellishments, a "stamp and die" set, gilding flakes and more...

All you have to do is:

- Be a follower

It's never too late to become one if you are not already

Etre un membre (follower) de ce blog... il n'est jamais trop tard

- Write a new post on your blog with the image above and a link to this post

Ecrire un nouveau billet sur votre blog et y mettre un lien vers celui-ci

- Come back here and click on the little blue frog ("add your link" below) to link to your blog post

Revenir sur ce blog, cliquez sur la tite grenouille bleue ci-dessous et y mettre le lien vers votre blog

{Please link to the specific post (permalink), not to your blog in general}

Lien vers le billet du candy en particulier (permalien), pas un lien vers votre blog en général pour que ce soit plus facile pour nous de le trouver

This candy is open to all countries and will close in 2 weeks, on Sunday 9th September

Ce candy est ouvert pour tous les pays pendant 2 semaines, jusqu'à Dimanche 9 Septembre

Good luck!

Bonne chance!

Card mechanics week: Scroll card

Hi, 
If you thought I posted many pictures yesterday, wait until today's post!! Michelle is spoiling you here with not only a gooorgeous project but tons of details. I hope she gets tons of comments because she truly deserves it ;)
She made a beautiful "scroll card". I had never seen one of these before but I might try it!

Grab a small box and some paints, the TH alterations box is perfect.

Paint the box with Eco Green Crafts - Acrylic paint

When dry paint with a thick coat of Viva Croco Paint: transparent

Measure the width of the inside of the box (here 38mm)

Cut a piece of thin card 38mm off the long side of an A4 sheet. Stamp the LaBlanche silicone stamp: 2 meadow stamps along the bottom of the card strip then brush TH Barn Door, Broken China and Mustard Seed Distress inks along the sky area of the card.

Colour the grass and flowers in the image and stamp a message along the card using a mini alpha stamp set. See Go Kreate - Rome alpha stamp

Pierce two holes in both long sides of the box, large enough to hold a barbecue skewer

Push barbecue skewers through the holes and trim to size. Stick wooden beads on each end of the skewer using glossy accents.

Adhere one end of the card strip to the skewer using PVA glue, hold in place till set and leave to dry thoroughly.

When dry roll the card onto the skewer using the beads to move the roll.

Repeat at the other end of the card and roll up the scroll until it's fairly closely rolled.

Cut and score a piece of heavy card to fit the box.

Decorate with patterned paper as desired.

I finished the gift card off with a Tando Dove a bit of ribbon, a flower and a sentiment, all finished with a quick rub of rub and buff.

Material used

Tim Holtz Configurations: 6.75 x 8.75

Eco Green Crafts - Acrylic paint: Moss

Viva Croco Paint: transparent

LaBlanche silicone stamp: 2 meadow stamps

Distress Inks: broken china, mustard seed, peeled paint, Barn door, 

Versafine ink pad - black

Sakura Soufflé pens: orange, white, pink

Rub 'n Buff: Autumn gold

See you tomorrow