#34 - Sew Fashionable

It is Saturday and that means it is time for a new challenge and it is called SEW FASHIONABLE.  This week we want you to make a vintage or shabby chic card with some sewing on it and something that speaks to fashion, such as vintage or retro dresses, purses, shoes, patterns, etc.

This week we are pleased to welcome a new sponsor, Live and Love Crafts.  Here is a little bit about them.

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that specializes in vintage and shabby chic craft materials. We ship WORLDWIDE.

We stock the unique and beautiful vintage inspired scrapbooking papers from the Scandinavian vendors Maja Design, Pion Design, Inkido, Landstoken,and Riddersholm Design.

Live & Love Crafts also carries gorgeous laces, trims, pins, broaches, buttons, flowers, resin pieces, vintage trinkets and other craft embellishments from vintage specialists such as Prima, Melissa Frances, and Maya Road.

Further products that are part of Live & Love Crafts’ portfolio are flowers from Kort og Godt, rubber stamps, cutting dies and embellishments from Magnolia, Bildmalarna and Vilda Stamps, distress inks, paints, glitter and other innovative craft products from Ranger.

Live and Love Crafts will be providing one random winner with their choice of six colours of the gorgeous hand-dyed crinkle seam binding that they sell in their online store. All of the girls on the DT have used the seam binding on their cards this week and were thrilled with the quality and the size of the skein.

The random winner will also receive a winner's badge from Sugar Creek Hollow.  The Design Team will choose their Top Pick and that creator will also receive a winner's badge and be in the running for a monthly Guest Designer spot.

Here is what our designers have created to inspire you this week:

Cec Wintonyk

Daniele Haddon

Heather Hudson

Holly Young

Linda Payne

Liz Droege

Patti Painter

Renee Matarese

Yvonne Whaley

Winners - #32 - Give Thanks for Autumn

There was a lovely bunch of autumn cards entered last week and here are the winners:

The random winner of a digi of our choice and a winner's badge is OriBella.

The Design Team has chosen this wonderful pumpkin card by BRENDA BROWN as their Top Pick.

Brenda will also receive a winner's badge and will be in the running for a monthly Guest Designer spot.

Congratulations ladies and please email Cec to claim your prizes.

#33 - Show Some Sparkle

Another Saturday has rolled around and that means time for another challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week we want your vintage or shabby chic cards or other paper-crafted projects to SHOW SOME SPARKLE so dig out the glitter and the gems and lets see what you can create.

We will be choosing one random winner who will receive a digi of our choice along with at winner's badge to display. The Design Team will choose their Top Pick and that creator will receive a winner's badge but will also be in the running for a monthly Guest Designer spot.

I think that the Design Team always sparkles but this week they have outdone themselves to provide some wonderful inspiration for you.

Renee is joining us this week and has another wonderful tutorial for you so check it out by going to her blog or clicking on the link on the sidebar.

Renee Matarese

Cec Wintonyk

Daniele Haddon

Heather Hudson

Holly Young

Linda Payne

Liz Droege

Patti Painter

Yvonne Whaley

Tutorial - Treat Box

Renee here - welcome to my Sugar Creek Hollow vintage treat box tutorial.

I love little treat boxes of all shapes and sizes and couldn't wait to try this one!

I have used orange and black glitter paper on my project and when you see the challenge this week, you will know why.

Supply List
One 5"x7" piece of heavy duty cardstock or designer paper (the heavier the better)
One 1 1/2" square piece
Two 3"x3" pieces
Whatever embellishments you want.

Step #1
Score the 5"x7" paper @ 1 1/2", 3", 4 1/2" and 6" (the little bit of overhanging paper will be used to adhere it together.

Step #2
Fold the paper on the score lines and glue it together.

Step#3
Take the 1 1/2" sq. paper and put it in the center of one of the 3" sq. pieces.

Trace around the smaller square and then draw "cut" lines that will be adhered to the bottom of the box.

Step #4
Glue the 3" sq. piece to the bottom of the box.

Step #5
Do the same thing for the box top but DON'T glue it to the top.
You'll need to be able to pull it on and off to get the treats out.

As for the rest of the box...decorate as you please.  To make the top more attractive I added some ribbon around it.

If you like the "floating" bats here's how I made those.  To curl the wire just wrap it around something round.  The diameter is up to you.  Sometimes I use a pen and sometimes I use something as small as my piercing tool.

I took on bat and placed a glue dot on it.  Stick the wire to it and then stick the second bat on the back to hide the glue and wire.  With two bats it looks like its wings are actually flying.