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{GDT Project Eureka Stamps: Challenge #6}

{WARNING: This is a lengthy post, once again, including a paper folding Tutorial ... so make yourself a cuppa, sit back and enjoy the ride!}

What a surprise when Tina (Crafty and Green) from Eureka Stamps contacted me to enquire whether I would be prepared to be Eureka Stamps' very first Guest Designer.  It was a bit short notice, but I gladly accepted the challenge.  Tina emailed me some fabulous Eureka digi stamps to choose from.  My selection was this gorgeous pumpkin country scene which I thought suited the challenge theme of 'Colours of Autumn' perfectly.  You can find this digi here.

I created an easel card and once again I coloured the image with H2O's and dry chalks, then I fussy cut around the image and did some faux stitching around the edges.  The green designer paper are from BasicGrey. The sentiment was a free digi from Desert Diva.  I have done a tutorial for the circle embellishments and you can find it a bit lower down in this post.

So hop on over to Eureka Stamps' Challenge Blog and link your 'Colours of Autumn' creation to Challenge #6.

... and here's the tutorial for the Folded Circle Embellishment:

STEP 1

I have used a 1.5" circle punch.  Punch-out 5 circles

STEP 2

Fold 4 circles in half

STEP 3

Fold the semi-circles into quarter-circles

STEP 3

Open up the folded circles

 STEP 4

Push the sides in as follows 

  

 STEP 5

 Fold the top quarter back onto itself as follows: 

STEP 6

In the edges of the quarter-circles and full circle

STEP 7

Apply glue to the full circle and mount one quarter-circle onto it

STEP 8

Mount a second quarter-circle onto the full circle

STEP 9

Mount a third quarter-circle onto the full circle

STEP 10

Mount the fourth quarter-circle onto the full circle

STEP 11

Punch out a slightly bigger circle (like the green one here) and mount your 3D Circle onto it

Finish off with embellishments of your choice

I would love to hear from you, should you try your hand at this.

Once again, I am trying my luck at the following challenges:

1. Just Some Lines: Use 2 different colouring mediums (I have used H2O's and dry chalks)
2. Papertake Weekly: Anything goes
3. Just Keep on Creating: Anything goes
4. My Mum's Craft Shop #74: Buttons
5. Inspire me Fridays #76: Anything goes
6. The Old Back Porch Week 37: Anything goes
7. Shelley's Images TTT: Show us what you've got - Anything goes
8. Make it Monday #107: Anything Goes
9. Chalk-Ah-Lot-Cafe #18: Anything Goes (used chalk around the image and on the sentiment) (3rd entry)
10. Challenges 4 Everybody #2: Anything Goes (3rd and final entry)
11. The Squirrel and The Fox #26: Anything Goes (2nd and last entry)
12. Mema's Crafts - Choose A Theme: Fall Colours (2nd entry)
13. Party Time Tuesdays #85: Multi Fold Cards (3rd and last entry)
14. House of Gilli #41: More than one Fold (3rd entry)
15. My Time to Craft #188: More than one Fold (3rd entry)
16. Paper Pretties #223: Paper Punches (all the circles have been punched out with punches) (2nd entry)
17. Stamp N Doodle: Stitching - Real or Faux (2nd entry)
18. Pin & Tack #1: Anything Goes (2nd entry)
19. PaperPlay #37: Fancy Folds (2nd entry)
20. Paper Crafting Journey: My Sentiment Exactly (2nd entry)
21. Simply Create Too #22: Anything goes (2nd entry)
22. Digi Doodle #125: Anything goes (2nd entry)
23. My Heart Pieces: Anything goes (2nd entry)
24. Digi Design: Use More than One Die or Punch (I used two sized circle punches)
25. Creatalicious #38: Colour Palet
26. Chocolate, Coffe & Cards #21: Down on the Farm
27. Fairy Tale #50: Beginning of Autumn
28. Wags 'n Whiskers #88: Circles
29. C.R.A.F.T. #172: Autumn
30. MilkCoffee: Use at least 2 different shapes (I have used circles and triangles)
31. My Grafico #137: Fall into Fall
32. Basic Grey #77: Harvest Time
33. CMC Copic #52: Fall Colours (used H2O pencils)
34. Crazy 4 Challenges #154: Anything goes with a Fall twist
35. Addicted to Stamps #39: Autumn Colours


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