A Pretty snowflake

Hi
It is Tracey here with my inspiration project for November. The design team had the theme of silver/gold/red and we had to make a 3d ornament . So I thought I would make a snowflake .It has been made using strips of 12x12 paper from the DCWV Elegant holiday paper pad. I made the embellishment for the middle using a Tim Holtz die. The sentiment banner came also from the DCWV paper pad.

I attached some silver organza ribbon so the snowflake could be hung up and the beautiful triple looped bow was made using my Craft-Dee BowZ bow maker. I used creative expression small  dazzler gems to decorate the bow centre and snowflake

 

I hope you like my project and that you come and join us in the monthly challenge where Anything goes with a handmade bow.

Happy crafting

Tracey x

An Ornament for my Door

Hello everyone,
Barbara here for today's post.

I thought I'd share with you an ornament I made for my front door. This was a quick and easy project. Just using 2 larger sprays that I picked up at Michaels . I just wired those sprays together and added the finishing touch - a bow made using my trusty Craft-Dee BowZ tool.

 I was able to pull this together in less than a half hour.

These quick projects are so fun and I love how the door ornament looks.

That ribbon is a wired ribbon and it makes your bows stand out and they look so fluffy. Another nice thing about wired ribbon bows is if the bow gets smashed in storage for next years display, just rework the loops, fluff the loops out a bit and it will look like you just made that bow.

This tool will be your lifesaver for making bows and a whole host of other things this tool can help you with, for your various projects. Check out the video links on the left sidebar to see what else the tool can help you make.  Click here to order your own Craft-Dee BowZ tool and if you order yours now, you will get it in plenty of time for all your holiday bow making needs. 

Don't forget that the November challenge is in progress here at Craft-Dee BowZ and we'd love to see your project. Click on the Monthly Challenge tab at the top and choose November 2016 to take you directly to this months challenge. We would love to see what you have made - remember the challenge theme is always ANYTHING GOES with a HANDMADE BOW. 

Thanks for stopping in today and stop back next Tuesday to check out what project Tracey has made.

November Challenge

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the November Challenge 

here at Craft Dee BowZ

Let's take a look at our winners for October

Remember - the Winner, Top 3 and HM are based upon their merits

The winning submission for the October Challenge is 

Karasiowa( Submission #29)

Congratulations to Karasiowa!!!

Please grab the "winners badge" on the sidebar here and 
we'd love it if you'd post it on your blog

Thank you to everyone who participated in our October Challenge!!! 

October TOP 3 WINNERS

(in no particular order)

1. Emma R(Submission #82)

2.Marty F (Submission #37)

3. Repolainen  Submission  #36)

Please grab the "top 3 badge" on the sidebar here and 

post it on your blog .

We'd love it if you'd link back to our site here.



The October HONORABLE MENTION 

going to none other than:

Lisa S (Submission #67)

Please grab the "Honorable Mention badge" on the 

sidebar here and post it on your blog .

You will always be able to access the current challenge or 

view prior challenges by clicking on the Monthly 

Challenge tab at the top of the page.

The Challenge Theme is Always:

Anything Goes and include a HANDMADE BOW

For those who have no blog but use Splitcoast Stampers or Flicker, 

this months code to use is CDB38

OK now lets check out the inspiration 

from our great designers 

for our ........

November Challenge

Gail 

 Tracey

Vicki 

 Barbara

The link to the guidelines for playing are on the top tab.

If you have any questions please email me at bbruder@fuse.net

We are looking forward to seeing your creation here.

Our November challenge closes on November 30 at 8:00 p.m. EDT

An InLinkz Link-up

Boo to you!

Hello, it's my Tuesday morning to post on the Craft-Dee BowZ Challenge Blog with my card for this month's inspiration!  The team had the challenge of using lime green, orange and black. I realized, while pulling paper and picking out an image, that I love this color combination! The challenge for YOU is ANYTHING GOES AND ADD A HANDMADE BOW. The team got to use their own images and I used this image named Magical Day by All Dressed Up. Isn't this one cute little witch and the perfect time to make this card with Halloween one week away!

She's colored with Copics and I added glitter to her wings, hair barrette and stars. The black border pumpkin is a punch and I punched the border in black and then orange and then glued the orange pieces into the spaces. Yes, I realized afterwards I could have just lightly glued the black punched border down on solid orange and used my scissors to cut around the top punch. But, it was something I didn't think about until AFTER I finished findings those tiny oranges pieces and getting them in the spaces. Oh, sometimes I just wonder about my patience level...it's so high for stuff like this and then it's zero when I'm driving home from work in traffic.

Okay, everyone go "oooohhhh" and "aaaaahhhhhh" at my bow. I used two different orange ribbons and used my hand dandy Craft-Dee BowZ bow tool to make this double looped, double ribbon bow. If we ever have a bow contest, I'm going to win. Yep, me...with my little bow tool. I adore this bow. I think it might be one of my Top 5 best bows on my blog. I had the perfect ribbons (thank you, Donna, at Craft-Dee BowZ) and with the bow tool, I couldn't go wrong. So, what do you think of this orange bow?!

Being that it's the fourth Tuesday of the month, and if you follow our challenge blog, you know I'm the last to post each month and I like that! The challenge is about to end, you're feeling rushed and want to enter, and then I post my cute little card that inspires you. Right?


Take a look at the gorgeous cards and projects posted before mine this month and I hope you'll pull out an image, die cuts, pretty paper, or whatever...and make yourself a handmade bow for that project since there's a few more days before the challenge closes at Craft-Dee BowZ where the challenge is ANYTHING GOES AND ADD A HANDMADE BOW.

                                                                          Gail

Spooky witches house and matching card

Hi
It is Tracey here with my inspiration post for this month .. I had a real fun time making this card and chipboard house set ... Sorry for all the pics ...
The cute image is from Mo Manning which I coloured with promarkers.The bats, ghost spider and web are from a sizzix  sizzlit die set called my life  .The happy Halloween words were computer generated.The papers are from my stash The gorgeous ribbon was part of my pack from Donna this month ,it made such a beautiful bow .I used my Craft-Dee BowZ Bow making tool to form the double looped bow.

  the witches house was a chipboard kit  from HERE .I built it  then added heavy black gesso ,orange acrylic paint ,pebeo guilding wax.some ghosts and bats  and the word boo which I used a sizzix xl die for and finished it with a matching ribbon on the base.

I hope you like my projects and that they inspire you to join in the anything with a handmade bow challenge this month
Happy crafting
Tracey x