The Frosty Festivities PDF, and the Challenge Winners!

Hello! This took me a little longer to put together than I expected, but The Frosty Festivities PDF is now available!

Just click HERE! 

You should then be able to view, download, or print the PDF, it's 40 pages packed with festive prettiness! PLEASE NOTE when you first click through it might take a little time to open on your screen, because the file is large. So if the SkyDrive screen looks blank to start with just leave it open for a minute and the PDF should appear!

 You can keep lots of the projects from the Frosty Festivities weekend, both mine and some of the Blog Hop posts, readily accessible for when you next need some inspiration!

Just please only keep this for personal use - and if anyone else wants a copy ask them to come to this blog post to download it themselves!

This is the first time I've made something like this, so I'd be grateful for any feedback, especially whether you think this is useful (I don't want to spend hours on a PDF again if it's no use to anyone!). Let me know in the comments below or by email at jennifergrace (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk. Thanks!

And now, to announce the winners of the Frosty Festivities Challenges!

A Challenge to Be Inspired Winner = Jackie Edwards

A Challenge to Use Non-Winter Supplies Winner = Julie H

A Challenge to Overlap Winner = Missus Wookie

A Challenge to Glitter or Shimmer Winner = Jacky S

Congratulations winners! 

 (details of entrants to each challenge, and the random number generator to select the winners, are available as a word doc if requested)

Please contact me by email (address above), with 'challenge winner' in the subject line. Tell me your mailing address so I get get your prize on it's way to you!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered, I loved looking at all your projects! I hope you'll be back for the next event in May or June 2013.

Finally, I have a shameless request for votes! I've entered my 'Advent Wishes Jar' into a Christmas Craft Competition. If you are on Pinterest, and you thought the project was good, could you please click HERE and 'like' the project on the competition board? Who ever gets the most 'likes' wins an Amazon gift card so I'd love to win! And there's still a bit of time to enter something of your own if you want to!

Well, that concludes the Frosty Festivities posts (for this year at least!). Jennifer's Jumbles can now resume regular programming. I hope you are all feeling nice and festive now! x

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A Challenge - To add Glitter or Shimmer!

(This post is part of my Frosty Festivities Blog Event)

It's in the sparkle of frost, the twinkle of fairy lights, and the glitter on baubles. So now I challenge you to add some shimmer to a project - go crazy with it!

I think by now everyone knows that my favourite way to add sparkle is with gems and pearls, and this layout is no exception:

The journaling reads:

'We went for a family walk at Upton Country Park, and it was so super frosty! The leaves crunched underfoot, and the pond was iced over really thickly. We dried dropping stones on the icy pond to break it, but they just skidded across it to the far shore. It all felt like a magical other world.'

I used a mix of Crate Paper's Sleigh Ride and Acorn Avenue collections, I love the stripy Thickers:

The gems are a mix of Papermania, Hero Arts, and Kaiser Scrapbook. They shimmer nicely, and with the pale leaves from Acorn Avenue, they set the scene very well:

Be Inspired:

• Add lots of shimmer, glitter, or sparkle 
• Mix two collections from the same manufacturer
• Place all your details in a central square panel

So now it's your turn!

To enter this challenge: make a craft project and add lots of Glitter or Shimmer (your favourite kind), blog about your project (or upload it to an online gallery), and link back to this post. Then come back here to link your project up! You can combine this with other challenges.

The challenge will close next Sunday, 25th November at 10.59pm GMT. All the challenges are open Internationally.

The winner will receive a mystery pack of papercraft supplies! I'm not sure what will be in it yet, but it will definitely include some shimmmer - there will be a whole pack of these in there:

And lots of other stuff too!

Don't forget that a comment on this post, or on any of my posts from this weekend, will count as an entry into the Grand Giveaway {NOW CLOSED} but challenge still open!- but only if you've registered your interest in winning that here!

The event is nearly over - two posts to go! The penultimate one will appear soon! x

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A Challenge - To Use Non-Winter Scrapbooking Supplies

(This post is part of my Frosty Festivities Blog Event)

There's a vast array of winter and Christmas scrapbooking supplies available, but I try not to buy too much of it, as I can't possibly use it all! 

Especially when it's quite possible to do a wintry layout with no winter supplies:

This layout documents how when we moved to our new town, everyone told us it never snowed here. The last time snow settled had been 20 years previously. And it's snowed every year since we arrived! This will be our fourth winter here, so I'm hoping for a repeat. I love how pretty snow makes everything look, and going for an early morning walk on fresh, crunchy snow, has to be one of my favourite things in the whole world.

These Pink Paislee Portfolio supplies were perfect - I loved the 'News Flash' stamp for highlighting my story (it is BIG news when it snows here - I live in a small town!), and the blues and greys were just what I needed to set the scene for a frosty morning.

One of the Portfolio papers even had the words 'Winter Street' on it, so I had to make sure that was peeping out - the collection is not winter themed, so I was so pleased to find the wording on there!

Do you ever make winter or Christmas projects with non-seasonal themed supplies? 

Now's your chance to have a go, as one challenge entrant will win this kit of Pink Paislee Portfolio items:

To enter this challenge: make a papercraft project (eg. a layout, card, tag, or other papercrafts) using non-winter or Christmas supplies, blog about your project (or upload it to an online gallery), and link back to this post. Then come back here to link your project up! You can combine any of the challenges from this weekend, and enter more than one challenge with one project.

The challenge will close next Sunday, 25th November at 10.59pm GMT.

Don't forget that a comment on this post, or on any of my posts from this weekend, will count as an entry into the Grand Giveaway {NOW CLOSED} but Challenge still open - but only if you've registered your interest in winning that here!

Back again soon! x

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A Challenge - To Be Inspired!

(And a Card for Inspiration)

(This post is part of my Frosty Festivities Blog Event)

When I held the Organisation Celebration weekend, I left the 'Challenge to be Inspired' until the end, but I've moved it right up to the beginning this time! This way you can start bookmarking or pinning the projects that inspire you, and begin using the inspiration to make some projects of your own.

And if you do use inspiration from this weekend to make a project, then you'll be in with a chance to win this:

Studio Calico Wonderland Wood Veneers - 1 pack of Trees and 1 pack of Snowflakes! 

Perfect for all kinds of wintry projects!

In most of my posts this weekend their will be a 'Be Inspired' section, to suggest some ways to get inspiration from the post. Your project doesn't have to be anything like mine, as long as you've taken inspiration from it somehow!

I couldn't do an inspiration challenge without giving you some inspiration, so here's a Christmas card I've made (that you may have spotted in the event sneaks):

To make this card: 

1. Fold a 6" x 12" piece of white cardstock in half to make a 6" x 6" card blank. 
2. Cut a 3.5" x 5¾" piece of blue 'Chevron' (that's what it's called, but I actually used the lattice patterned side!) patterned paper, and a 2" x 5¾" piece of 'Ephemera Frames' paper, both from the My Mind's Eye All is Bright 6x6 Pad. Ink the edges with red ink. 
3. Adhere the 'Ephemera Frames' paper to the bottom of your card a ¼" from the base. Cut two strips of red chevron All is Bright Decorative Tape to 5¾" wide, and stick them at the bottom and top of the 'Ephemera Frames' paper. 
4. Mount a 'Joyeux Noel' sentiment form the All is Bright sticker sheet onto a piece of white card, fussy cut around it, and ink the edges. Adhere a red Rhinestone to each end, and stick the sentiment to the card with 3D foam tape. 
5. Mount 3 cardstock sticker hexagons on to white card. Work out where they will be placed on the blue paper and draw a pencil dot at the top. Pierce holes with a paper piercer, ⅛" apart, until you are ⅛" from the top. Stitch through these holes with red-and-white bakers twine. 
6. Adhere your hexagons at the bottom of the twine, like baubles. Add a Rhinestone at the join on each. Mount the blue paper onto the card with 3D foam tape, overlapping the bottom of the blue paper on top of the red chevron tape. Mail the card to someone you love this Christmas! 

Be Inspired:

• Stitch some twine onto a project
• Make a card with a sentiment that's in a language other than your own
• Use washi tape or patterned paper as thin bands repeated on a project

Your project does not have to be inspired by this card - it can be inspired by ANY post from this weekend. It could even be inspired by one of the blog hop posts other than my own - but if that's the case please link back to the blog hop post on the host's blog, and to this challenge post!

To enter this challenge: Once you've made something inspired by the weekend you just need to blog about it (or upload it to an online gallery), and link back to the post you were inspired by. Then come back here to link the project up! You can enter this challenge as many times as you like, and you can combine it with other challenges.

The challenge will close next Sunday, 25th November at 10.59pm GMT.

Don't forget that a comment on this post, or on any of my posts from this weekend, will count as an entry into the Grand Giveaway {NOW CLOSED} but Challenge still open - but only if you've registered your interest in winning that here!

Back again soon! x

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SJ Crafts Challenge #7

I've just realised that while I was off having fun on some days out, I completely forgot to tell you all about the new SJ Crafts challenge. The theme this time is 'The Olympics'! How could we not?! 

Your project could use the Olympic logos for design inspiration, or use photos or memorabilia of any of the events, or you could choose to use sporty photos, like I did with this picture of my daughter and her friends running away from the waves:

I used Kraft Cardstock as the base, and spritzed it using Pretty Pink Mister Huey mist through a Tando Creative 'Sequin Waste' mask, to give a nice energetic splatter. That's further enhanced by the scattered pearls and gems! Crepe paper is layered beneath the photo to mimic the waves and the flowing skirts of the running girls. I really loved watching my daughter and her friends play like this, it brought back so many memories of my trips to the beach as I grew up!

For more challenge examples and details see here. The closing date is the 15th of August at 1pm, and the winner gets to choose a 6x6 pad of their choice from the ones in stock at SJ Crafts!

Also, don't forget to link up your scrapbooking projects to my Scrapbooking Soiree, to have a chance to win a Fancy Pants 'Beach Bum' 6x6 pad. You have until the 7th of August, and can link up any projects you've blogged about since the 8th of july!

Hope you're having a fabulous Monday! I'll be back tomorrow with my Month in Numbers, x

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