Summer Challange Prize and Incentive Photo!!!!

Hi Everyone, I just thought you might like to have a lookie see at the challenge prize. Yep, I went SHOPPING today, Premier Arts and Crafts didn't know what hit it!!!!!! Yahoooooo. I may have to take out a second mortgage to send it to the winner!

I posted the Challenge in June and if you haven't seen the link or want to have a look at it again then just scroll down on the right had side of the blog and you will see the link to Cardmaking Summer Challange. The closing date is the Wednesday the 31st of August 2011 so its time to get your skates on!

The Challenge is open to everyone, 1 entry per person and it does not matter where you live or if your a beginner or advanced crafter, all are welcome, just join in :)

Since it is the first challenge I thought I would go a little bit mad and make it a scrummy prize with lots of different things. For those of you who were dithering about doing the challenge, go on,  give it a go. Its for fun and its a random winner so no thinking your not up to it OK. Its all about having a go, trying something new and then the hardest part which is being brave enough to enter a challenge, I know its a hard thing to get the nerve up to do if you haven't done it before (I am still working up my nerve to do one myself!!!) but with this challenge its worth giving it a go. Go on look at the yummy prize again.... lol.

Cardmaking Summer Challenge................. if you dare!!!!!!!!!!!!

 I would love to see what you can come up with from this tutorial. I have given no finished sample for you to bounce off. I just want you to work from your own crafting inspiration. This is a general tutorial with no step by step pictures just a couple of tables showing scoring and cutting to keep you on the right track.

Take a good photo of your sample and email it to me at cliona_larkin@yahoo.co.uk and I will put all samples up on my blog for everyone to see. All entrants names will go in a hat and a winner will be picked out (by an independent non card making person) to win a little goodie pack that I will put together. This is not a competition, it is a challenge so the winner will be a random pick and most of all it is for FUN…………. You have until the 31^st of August so take your time and enjoy making it. This Challenge is open to everyone from beginners all the way up to designers, its not about how amazing your projects might be but its all about giving it a go and taking up the challenge.

CUBE GIFT BOX

Trim a sheet of A4 card to 21cm x 28.4cm.

Score down the long part of your card from top to bottom at 7cm and 14cm.

Score down the short part of your card at 3.7cm, 10.7cm, 17.7cm, 24.7cm.
The next scores will be in the top and bottom sections of the card only. Score at 5.7cm and 22.7cm.

Cut the last scores that you made in the top and bottom rows and then cut either side of them (see below image),

Cut marks are indicated in thick dark lines.

On the short tabs, cut at a slight angle, this step helps the box to close with all the layers of the card.

Use the middle folds to create a box, with the end pieces as half a box each.

Place sticky tape/glue on small flaps for the half box lids and the flaps beside them to help the internal box stayed closed (this little gem I want you to work out yourself…….come on you can do it…..you know you can….)

Here are a couple of photos to give you an idea of what your project should look like (before it is decorated). The first picture shows how your box will look just before you tape it together to make the internal box.

 This is how your box will look completed before you decorate it.

Enjoy and remember it’s just for fun…………