New freebie and extension to last week's challenge!

Morning all,

I hope you will be joining us at CRAFT Challenge again this week. This week our challenge there is 'Use Stitching'. As I already indicated last week, I will be extending last week's challenge (playing card on your project) a little. You can do a project with either a playing card, or you can include stitching, or both. I also will put a little extra freebie at the bottom for you to help you on your way. Another paper, this time from my 'Blue Christmas' papers.

As usual:

• do not claim it as your own
• give credit where credit is due
• please leave a comment if you grab it, knowing you appreciate these freebies motivates me to keep putting some up
• if you would like to share, then please direct people to my blog instead.

So, here you go:

Sorry, this no longer is a freebie.

Have a great weekend and don't forget to take part in our challenge at CRAFT Challenge and if you would like to also be in with a chance to win either of these free (your choice) 

1. 3 digistamps OR
2. 2 easel card sheets OR
3. 1 paper pack from my blog of choice

then also go to the challenge post by clicking on the link in the side banner.

Have a great weekend! All comments very welcome and much appreciated!

Love,

Jo.

The 'Use a Playing card' challenge has been extended!

Evening all,

In view of the fact that there have only been very few entries again this week, I have extended the current challenge by a week. This means you have another week to grab the freebie and to enter your project.

Don't miss the chance to win in this challenge, get your project in! I may even extend the subject a little tomorrow as well when the next CRAFT Challenge goes live! Keep an eye out.

I look forward to seeing you join in with the challenge, please click HERE to go to the challenge.

Have a great weekend!

Love,

Jo.

Sunday Special Freebie, Sea Horse.

Morning all,

Time for another freebie digistamp. Hope you like it. This is one I created while trying to get a few digis sorted for our Water themed challenge at CRAFT Challenge a few weeks ago. Hope you like it.

Don't forget these rather simple rules:

1. If you grab this freebie, please leave a comment, knowing you appreciate these freebies motivates me to keep putting some up.
2. Do not claim it as your own, but give credit where credit is due.
3. Please leave my signature on if at all possible.
4. I don't mind sharing as you notice, but if you wish to share this, please direct people to this blog instead, so they can grab it for themselves.

So, here he or she is:

Sea Horse

Sorry, this no longer is a freebie, see
more recent posts for current freebie.

Hope you like it.

Love,

Jo.

A new freebie and a new challenge with CRAFT Challenge!

Morning all!

This challenge has been extended due to 

lack of entries, so get your projects in asap.

You have another week to enter!

Thursday again already and time for another challenge at CRAFT Challenge. This week our challenge is

Use a Playing Card on your Creation

So, any project fitting this subject will be eligible for a prize at CRAFT Challenge.


On this blog the challenge is the same with this added challenge:

Use one of my freebies

You can find one of the papers with playing cards as freebie at the end of this post as well as one on my card blog. (see link at top of this blog)


Here are my entries for this challenge, hope you like them. For these cards I have used images from all 4 of our sponsors at CRAFT Challenge this week as well as my own papers. 


Don't forget to leave a comment if you grab the freebies!


So, here are my creations:

(using 'Bowl of Strawberries by HopeJacare)

(using 'Flash' by Eiglas)

(using 'Mushroom Becky' by eyeCandie Creations)

(using 'Queen of Hearts' by LEJ Designs)

And here is the freebie:

Sorry, this freebie has now been removed.

Have a great weekend and don't forget to join us at CRAFT Challenge as well.  Do not claim this paper as your own, if you would like to share it, please direct people to my blogs.

Don't forget to add your link below. 

Love,

Jo.

This week's winner.

Evening all,

I know it is starting to get a little bit boring, but again only one entry this week. I had hoped that this latest freebie would get some more people involved, especially as there was a tutorial to go with it. I'm glad however to see that Suze rose to the challenge quite well in using my Flower Easel card sheet. She created this lovely easel card, which also is sporting my Barbecue image.

She has changed around the easel card a little and used the heart of the flower as the stopper for the easel card and to hold the sentiment on. She can be rightly proud of herself as she did a great job.

So, please get in touch again Suze to claim your prize of either 3 of my digistamps, 2 of my easel card sheets or 1 of my paper packs. I believe you have not claimed your prize from last week yet either.

Come and join me again tomorrow. Another challenge in cooperation with CRAFT Challenge and some freebie papers to get you started on both challenges. One on this blog and one on my card blog (link at top of this blog).

Hope to see you then, don't be shy and please join in!

Love,

Jo.

The promised tutorial is here! How to use the Flower Easel card sheet.

Afternoon all,

Here is the promised tutorial for the Flower Easel Card sheet in my challenge this week here at Trimgym's Digistamps and Images. By clicking on this link you will go straight to the challenge post. You will remember perhaps that I have a little special freebie there for you, a Flower Easel card I designed myself (template and papers).

So, over to the mini tutorial, it is all rather straight forward really.

1. First print off the sheet on good quality card:

2. Next carefully cut out all the separate parts of the Easel Card.

3. Then fold the main part of the card along the lines, valley folds on both lines.

4. Once you have done that, turn the card over and apply glue to the top folded part only.

5. You then need to carefully stick the main flower shape onto the base card where you have applied the glue only. 

6. Next stick the other two shapes onto the main flower shape.

7. Choose an image and stick it place. 

8. Turn over the card again and put something in place to keep your easel card up. This could be by a big brad (a green dot can be found in the base card to show where), or by adding your own chosen sentiment on double sided sticky pads, or by adding buttons or anything else that puts a bit of a barrier up so the top of the card remains in place and doesn't slide down again. 

9. For ease of sending it, the card folds totally flat:

10. In the card below, I used a few buttons.

Not really that difficult, is it?

Hope you will have lots of fun trying this as well. Please don't forget to join in with the challenge as well if you get a chance.

Love,

Jo.

Another Sunday Special Freebie for you.

Hope you like the freebie I have lined up for you this week. There is of course the freebie with the challenge, a easel card sheet this time, and here is the one for this Sunday. It's a simple Angel fish, but I think she is really cute (at least I think it's a she with the full lips and the sexy eyes,  lol). If you are able to make her fit with this week's challenge feel free to do so and have a chance of winning 3 digistamps, 2 easel card sheets or 1 paper pack of choice from this blog. If you put 'Fish-yes' with your entry, I will also send you the sentiments by e-mail.

As per usual, it will only remain free for a few days and will then just be on my digistamp page. If you grab her, please leave me a comment. I love to hear from you and it does motivate me to keep putting these little freebies up here. Do not claim her as your own and please leave my signature on if you use her. If you would like to share (and as you notice I don't mind sharing), please direct people to my blog instead, so they can grab her themselves.

Also don't forget, when I reach 45 followers, I will do another random draw of my followers. The prize they can choose in that case would be 1 digistamp of their choice from my blog. Just another reason to become a follower here. The other of course would be that you can see the freebies show up on your blogger feed.

So, here she is:

Angel Fish

Angel Fish 1

Have fun playing with her, keep a look out for more freebies to appear and don't forget to leave a comment when you grab her.

Love,

Jo.

Winner of last week's challenge.

Afternoon all,

A bit later than planned, but here is the winner of last week's challenge. Unfortunately I have been having some issues with my internet connection lately.

This week again, there was only one entry into the challenge and that means Mr Random was again not needed.

Congratulations, Suze, please contact me again to claim your prize and I will e-mail it to you.


And here is the card she made using my image and papers.

Love,

Jo

Another freebie (and) for our Summer challenge!

Morning all,

I have not really had time to finish the freebies I had in mind, so you are going to be very lucky today as I will put one of my flower easel card sheets here for a few days as freebie. If you use it for our Summer challenge at CRAFT Challenge, then also link it below to be able to win a prize here as well.

As usual, do not claim as your own, give credit where credit is due and if you wish to share, direct others to my blog instead. Also don't forget, the next target before the draw of a random winner from my followers will be at 45 followers.

To use the sheet below, print off on A4 card, cut out and put together. Add an image of your choice, put in a brad or other way of keeping it up and you're done. Enjoy!

Sorry, this no longer is a freebie, keep a 

look out for more freebies in more 

recent posts.

Just had a request of how to put this together, I will upload a tutorial shortly, but feeling a little rough at the moment, so will need to wait. Here are some finished cards I did as an example:

Hope that helps a little. I will do a tutorial on this soon when I feel well enough to sort it out for you.

The challenge here this week is to use this sheet for our Summer challenge at CRAFT Challenge, so if you do, please leave the link to your project below. I hope there will be more entries this time. Prize for the winner is 3 digistamps or 2 easel card sheets or 1 paper pack of the winner's choice from this blog.

If you grab this freebie, please also leave a comment. I love to hear that you appreciate these freebies as this will also motivate me to put more up.

The winner of last week's challenge will be announced tomorrow, I need to get off to work now quickly, lol.

Have a great weekend!

Love,

Jo.

Another Sunday Special Freebie for you. Snow Woman.

Morning all,

Here is another freebie for you. Hope you like it. Another one to help you get your Christmas cards done on time.

Here is Snow Woman, she will fit well on any kind of Christmas cards.

If you grab her, please leave me a comment, knowing you appreciate these little freebies motivates me to create and share some more. Please leave my signature on when you use her, do not claim as your own and if you wish to share, please direct people to this blog instead.

If you use this one in the current challenge and would like to receive the sentiments as well, then please add 'Woman- YES' with your name as you enter it into the challenge.

So, here she is, enjoy!

Snow Woman

Sorry, this is no longer a freebie, look at the newer posts 
for the current freebies.