Topical Tuesday- Lets make wine tags!

Hello and Welcome to Topical Tuesday!

Today I have a photo tutorial for you on how to make wine bottle tags and decorate them too.

Here is the finished tag on a bottle of wine

And this is how the tag looks when finished.

 Here is the tutorial for you.

Did you like it? Well, here is a bonus tutorial on making another wine tag:)

Here is the tutorial:)

Thats all. Your wine tag is ready! 

Perfect for personalising your Christmas present:)

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial. If you make wine tags, make sure you load them into our gallery here

Thanks for stopping by!

 Have a great day!

Gayatri!

AC147

Hi!  We're back with a new sketch to share and lot's of gorgeous samples!  This one was a bit of an odd one but the Belles have out done themselves and finished up creating gorgeous cards!

This week's great prize :

This weeks Deal of the Week!  20% off Shape It Up!

And now here are the Belles :

Sue W

Gayatri

Danielle

Sue K

Kylie

Marion

Therese

Andrea

Some of the sets used this week by the Belles : 

We would love for you to play along this week and share your talent with us!  Hopefully the sketch will be easier to work with than last weeks colours lol!  Tell your friends and have them come along and play as well :)

Hugs for now,

Andrea x

AC146 Favourite

Well it was a tough challenge last week with only 6 wonderful ladies attempting the colours Lilac, Bluestone & Grey!  Thank you ladies for playing along and sharing your talents with us!!

Our favourite for this week and congratulations goes to Theresa with this gorgeous use of the colours :

Our top 3 picks!!

Meadie

Janelle

Vicki

Thank you all for playing along and we hope you can join us later tonight for a brand new sketch!

Hugs for now,

Andrea x

Topical Tuesday #40 - Getting More From A Border Die

Hi there!  Danielle here with you today.  For this week's Topical Tuesday, I'm continuing on with the border die, Cuts By Design Borders 1, with a quick tutorial showing how I created a longer die cut for the Christmas bag I made for the 3D Christmas Challenge.  

You can see that the border strip I created is longer than the die itself.

Run the border die through your die cut machine once, and remove the pop-out sections from the edge.  This is where you will extend the border.

Put a couple of pieces of scotch tape along the edge of the die, in preparation for temporarily sticking the die in place for a second pass through your machine.  You can make the tape less sticky by sticking it on your shirt first.

Line up your die with the popped out sections (you'll be viewing this from the back)...

... and press the scotch tape firmly in place.

Carefully lay your die and cardstock down for a second pass through your machine.  I have my die set up to cut on a metal plate underneath the die.  I find I get better results this way because the die is less likely to slip as I'm setting up.

After running the die and cardstock through your machine for the second time, carefully remove the scotch tape.

Done!  All that's left to do now is pop out the sections and use my longer die cut border!

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial.  We'd love to see what you make in our gallery here.

Thanks!
Danielle

AC146

Hi all, it's great to see you back for this weeks challenge!  We have been making a few changes over the last few months to the shop so now it's time for our challenges to have a bit of a makeover as well!  We've moved to a later time on Friday of 8.00pm, revamped the graphic just a touch, streamlined the numbering and will alternate between a colour challenge and (mostly CAS) sketches.  

Also we will be offering a new free digi each month for you to use!!  Check out the 'Freebies' page for this months digi image and sentiment!

This weeks prize :

This weeks 'Deal of the Week's :

20% off the set All Squared!

Let's see what the Belles have created for us this week!!

Gayatri

Sue W

Sue K

Therese

Kylie

Marion

Danielle

Andrea

Some of the sets used today :

Now it's your turn!  We can't wait to see how you use this interesting colour combo!

Hugs for now,

Andrea

ABSC055 Favourite!

First up I'd like to say a huge thank you to Sue K for organising the posts last Friday while I was away, it made things super easy for me!!  Thanks Sue!!

We had some amazing entries shared with us this week which makes it so difficult to narrow it down, but this weeks favourite spot goes to Theresa with this fab Christmas card :

Thanks for sharing with us Theresa!  Email me and I'll send through the details of your prize and blinkie!

Now out Top 3 shares...

Skye

Vicki

Neela

Thank you ladies!  Don't forget to grab your special blinkie from the Blinkie page!!

Our next challenge is up a little later today!  We have moved the time to 8.00pm AEDT so we hope to see you then!

Hugs for now,

Andrea x