Whiff of Joy Challenge # 167

Good Morning and welcome to our new Whiff of Joy Challenge! Thank you so much for all who joined us last challenge. Great to see so many of you participating. We were overwhelmed by your gorgeous creations! To discover who won last weeks challenge and who was picked for our top 3 please go down to the post below!

Our sponsor for this week is Live And Love Crafts again!! How great is this!



If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts!
Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

This challenge lovely Sandy offers to the lucky winner a £10 Store Voucher
   
Thank you so much Sandy!

What do you need to do to be in with a chance of winning?? Join us this fortnight with a new Sketch designed by Karina;

Please remember to use a Whiff of Joy image, sentiment and/or Die-Light for your entry to count in the prize draw! You have time to enter until Tuesday 19th November 2013 at 8 p.m. CET (Central European Time).

Here are the Design Teams fabulous projects for your inspiration. For more detailed information on each project, please visit the Designer’s personal blog.

MARION

 

KARINA




KATHRIN

 

KARIN

LINDA

COLLEEN

Now we look forward to see your fabulous projects.

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge # 166 Winner and Top 3

Hello and Happy Wednesday! First of all we want to say a big thank you to everyone who joined our last challenge. As always so great to see all your gorgeous creations. We loved to see your autumnal projects. Hope you will join us again for our next challenge we will announce within few minutes.

First we would like to announce the winner chosen by random.org and our top 3 which are chosen by the design team.

Our sponsor for challenge # 166 is

Whiff of Joy with a fabulous prize of 15% off your next order from the Whiff of Joy store!!!



And the lucky winner is...

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

20 

MICHAELA

Congratulations, Michaela! Please contact us HERE to claim your prize.

Here are our picks for the top three projects, in no particular order

KUNI




MARI




SUSI

 

Congratulations ladies! Please take our Top 3 badge you can find in the sidebar and wear it with proud on your blog.

Just check back in few minutes when we have a new theme for you.

snow fun!

Hello everyone!

how is going? here my latest card! i have made this cute with a beautiful rubber stamp colored with distress markers.

i have added some accents with white gel pen and black pencil.

the papers i have used are from Maja design, the flowers are from wild orchid crafts and the beautiful swirls are a die from whiff of joy called "vines".

hope you will like this card and i cannot wait to read what you think about!

hugs, alby

Whiff of Joy Design Team 2014 Call

We are very excited to announce the call for the Whiff of Joy 2014 Design Team!
We are looking for talented and committed designers who craft regularly and love to create with Whiff of Joy products.

We are looking for:

• Designers who run an active blog
• Crafters with great photo skills - this is very important!
• People who have experience with writing tutorials and / or film craft videos
• Designers who are connected to social medias, online communities & galleries
• People that are easy to get along with & great at Email communication
• We expect a 1 year commitment.
• Design team member's first projects will be due in January.

Please note:

we are an international team - team language is english (DT members need to be able to communicate in the English language. It does not have to be perfect but the member needs to understand and be understood in that language)

Design Team Member Responsibilities:

• Creating the amount of craft projects described in your chosen Design Team position (see below) and uploading them to our inspiration gallery.
• Meeting monthly project and photo deadlines.
• Participating in blog tutorials, sketches, blog hops, etc. as scheduled.
• Maintaining communication with the rest of the design team and Whiff of Joy
• Posting your Whiff of Joy projects online on your personal blog and two papercraft galleries online each month, including a link to the Whiff of Joy website (if allowed).
• Sharing our special offers, promotions and events via your blog and your social medias

Design Team specialities:

1. StampKit Contributor: We are looking for crafters who enjoy creating a variety of projects using our quarterly "cute" rubber stamp kits. These designers will receive the Whiff of Joy Stamp Kits every 3 months (4 times a year). Then the designers will use contents of the kit to create, photograph, and submit 4 alternate projects.
2. Digital Contributor: We will be having more digital "cute" stamp releases in 2014. Therefore we are looking for a separate team of designers, who are familiar with working with digital files and can make the best out of our digital products.
   We are looking for designers to consistently send 2 projects per month using digital products.
3. General paper-crafting contributor: Applicants should enjoy creating a variety of paper-crafting projects. Examples are: cards, tags, 3D crafts, minibooks, home decor, party, even scrapbooking and more! These designers will receive a mix of Whiff of Joy's new products to create and share 4 projects and 1 tutorial each month.

In addition to receiving free Whiff of Joy products to work with, all of our Designers will be eligible for receiving a discount on their additional orders via our website.

To apply

write an email to info{at}whiffofjoy.com using the subject line: 2014 DT + YOUR NAME

Please submit the following before November 30th, 2013

• 3 papercraft creations which best represent you and your style (don't have to be new ones) - keep photos below 600kb please!

Include: desired Design Team contributor type, your name, address, email, link to your blog, facebook fan page URL, Instagram, Pinterest (if available) and links to other galleries you submit to.
Please also include a list of other design Teams you are currently in and your papercrafting resume (if available)

International applicants are welcome. Of course we are mainly looking for card- , tagmakers, and papercrafters - but we would also like to encourage Scrapbookers and minibook creators to apply.

Additional questions regarding the 2014 Design Team Call can be directed to Jeanette Comerford: jeanettecomerford{at}sympatico.ca

Good Luck!

Teebuch / Teabook

Hallo und einen schönen Sonntag Morgen,

Hello and a happy sunday morning,

heute möchten wir euch wieder eine kleine Anleitung zeigen, wir gestalten heute ein Teebuch mit Euch.

today we want to show you a little tutorial for a teabook.

Material:

- 1 x Fotokarton 30 x 15 cm

- 4x 29 x 9 cm Aquarellpapier/Tonkarton (ca. 160 gr.)

- Grosgrain Rips Band ca. 50 cm
- Knopfgarn

- Textstempel/Hintergrundstempel

- Scorpal, Schere, Klebeband, Crop-a-dile
- Kreisstanzer

- 8 Teebeutel abgepackt
- ein paar Kleinigkeiten zum Verzieren

Für mein Teebuch habe ich folgende Abmessungen für das Design-Papier genommen:

3x 14,5 x 9,5 cm
3x 14 x 9 cm
4x  14,5 x 3 cm
2x 14 x 2,5 cm
2x 14,5 x 2,5 cm
2x 14 x 2 cm

Material:

- 1x cardstock 30 x 15 cm

- 4x cardstock with an lower weight (~ 160 gr.)

- grosgrain rips ribbon ~ 50 cm
- twine

- basic background clear stamp

- scorpal, scissor, glue, sticky tape, crop-a-dile
- circle punch

- 8 teabags
- something for the decoration

For my Teabook I´ve used Design paper in the following sizes:
3x 14,5 x 9,5 cm
3x 14 x 9 cm
4x  14,5 x 3 cm
2x 14 x 2,5 cm
2x 14,5 x 2,5 cm
2x 14 x 2 cm

Wir beginnen mit dem Falzen des Teebuchs, dazu nehmt ihr den Fotokarton Streifen 30 x 15 cm und legt ihn mit der langen Seite an, jetzt falzt ihr bei 10 cm, bei 13,5 cm, 23,5 cm und 26,5 cm.

We start folding our teabook, take the 30 x 15 cm cardstock and fold on the long side at the following sizes, 10, 13.5, 23.5 and 26.5 cm.

Wenn ihr alle Falze nachgezogen habt, dann wird der 3,5 cm breite Abschnitt gewölbt, am besten funktioniert das mit einem größeren runden Gegenstand. Ich habe z.B. den Ständer meiner Lampe missbraucht.

If you have made all the folds, curve the 3.5 cm section. This works perfectly with the help from a lamp stand or any other bigger round item.

Nun falzen und kleben wir die "Buchseiten",  dazu nehmt ihr die 4 Stücke 29 x 9 cm Papier und falzt diese an der langen Seite jeweils bei 8 und 22 cm und macht euch gleich eine kleine Markierung bei 15 cm. Dort wird nachher der Klebestreifen angebracht.

Now we fold the "bookpages", take the 29 x 9 cm paper and fold it at 8 and 22 cm, make a little mark at 15 cm for the glue stripe.

Klebeband anbringen in der Mitte (Markierung), an einer langen Seite und an einem Seitenteile, siehe Bild.

Bring on the stripe in the midle (therefore was the mark), on a long side an on one of the side parts, like the picture.

Nun nehmt ihr ein Lineal und einen Bleistift und macht euch eine kleine Markierung von jeder Seite (Achtung, die noch OFFENE Seite verwenden) bei 3,5 cm und stanzt mit eurem Kreisstanzer einen Halbkreis aus.


Now make a mark with your ruler and pencil from each side 3,5 cm (Take care, that you use the OPEN side) and punch out an half circle.

Die fertig geklebten und ausgestanzten Buchseiten werden dann mit dem  Basic Hintergrund von Whiff of Joy bestempelt.

The glued and punched pages are ready to stamp on they with the basic background from whiff of Joy.

Nun könnt ihr euer Design-Papier noch bearbeiten, bevor wir es aufkleben.

Now finish your design paper before we glue it on the book.

Jetzt klebt ihr eure Band an zwei Stellen an der Aussenseite fest.

Glue your ribbon at two places on the outside.

Design-Papier aufkleben aussen....

Glue the design paper outside....

....und dann noch die Innenseite.

....and inside your book.

Jetzt macht ihr am Buchrücken jeweils zwei Löcher oben und unten, dazu lege ich die crop-a-dile bis zum Anschlag an, so muss ich nichts ausmessen und loche jeweils am Rand meines Design-Papiers.

Now make two punches on top and at the bottom of your spine.

Dreht das Buch nun um und legt die "Teebuchseiten" innen an. Macht euch mit einem Stift eine Markierung auf der obersten Teebuchseite an der gleichen Höhe, wie die Lochung des Buchrückens ist..und stanzt jeweils ein Loch oben und unten

Turn the book and put the "bookpages" inside. Make a mark on the bookpages on the same place at the book spine is perforated. Punch out a hole upstairs and downstairs.

Mit der Kordel bindet ihr nun die Buchseiten fest, ich habe meine Kordel dreimal durch die Löcher gezogen und dann aussen eine Schleife gebunden.

Take the twine and fix your pages in the book, go by the holes three times and finish with an bow.

Fertig ist euer Teebuch und kann nun verziert werden.

Its´s done, your teebook is ready for decoration.

Ich hoffe es hat euch gefallen und ihr habt nun Lust auf Tee bekommen.
Hope you´re liking it and you want to drink a cup of tea now.


hugs Clarissa

Material:

October Blog Hop Winner

Special thanks to all our lovely commenters! We are so glad that you enjoyed our October hop with all of our marvellous new Christmas stamps and die-lights!

We chose a winner at random from among all those who commented on all stops of the hop and entered using the inlinkz linking tool.

The winner is

Monica from Balsamo dell’anima

Congratulations hunni! Please email me with you mailing address at jeanettecomerford@sympatico.ca so that I can arrange for your prize to be shipped to you!

Have a great day everyone!

Finally back in November!!