Recipe #37

Friday again! Which means another helping of craft mojo inspiring ChickenSoup. We have a little something this week which should get your creative cogs turning!

And here is how our designers were inspired this week, first up Kate's cog-tastic layout!

Alana's time themed tag features lots of clocks with cogs

And a cog embellished card from Ann

Have fun with the inspiration this week and be sure to share your creations with us!

If you haven't already seen you can win a month's guest designer spot with us for May - just create a project inspired by this recipe and leave us a link!

Recipe #36

Bring me sunshine, that is what this week's recipe says to us, and what a lovely end to the week we have seen in most of the UK this week.

Well spring is well and truly here and so we hope that this weeks recipe will see your springing into your craft space and creating something wonderful.

The team drew inspiration from the tree, the colours and the whole spring/summer feel of the image this week - just take a look and be inspired. Kate, inspired by the colours, created this stunning tag. Ann saw summer and sunshine when looking at the image and created this cheerful layout.

It's clear to see where Annette, who provided our recipe this week, drew her inspiration from!

And last up for this week Christine with her lovely layout inspired by the springtime feel of our recipe.

Have a lovely weekend crafting, enjoying the sunshine, or shopping if you are off to the stamp and craft show at Alexandra Palace in London. As always please share your ChickenSoup projects with us, and don't forget you can find us on Facebook too if you haven't already - just look for ChickenSoup DT.

Until next week soupers!

Recipe #35

April already, can you believe it? How time flies when you are having fun - and we hope you will have fun with this week's recipe. If this is you first time with us WELCOME - we are a weekly challenge blog for papercrafters and more. The idea being we reveal an inspirational image and papercraft examples created by the DT. Anyone can join in - the more the merrier, and take a look at last weeks post with a chance to win a guest design team spot with us here.

So how will this weeks super bright stain glass panel inspire you? Christine was inspired by the pointy petals to create this lovely tag.

Alana was inspired by the colours to create this brightly coloured card featuring a foil flower inspired by the stain glass leading in the image.

Last up for this week is this lovely clean and simple card by Annette which again is inspired by the cheerful colours of today's recipe. Have a lovely weekend whatever you do, and for all the UK based mums out there Happy Mothers Day for Sunday. We will see you again next week with a recipe sure to put a Spring in your step!

Recipe #34 and a chance to win a guest DT Spot

WELCOME CHICKENSOUP FOLLOWERS!


We sure hope you have had a nice week and managed to enjoy the sunshine that seems to have graced us with it's lovely presence this week. As promised last week we are offering you a chance to win a guest design team spot with us for the month of May 2011. To be considered all you need to do is create a project based on this week's recipe, post a comment to this post by April 22nd (which is Good Friday of the Easter weekend) and we will announce the winner the following week, April 29th which is of course the Royal Wedding! Simple eh?


So what do we have up our sleeves this week?
How about this beautiful image?

Here is how the image, picked by Christine this week, inspired our designers.

Kate created this hanging sign for her kitchen.

Annette made this beautiful card featuring paper tea roses.


Ann made this layout which has a rose lace border and is along the colourlines of the original image.




We look forward to seeing your creations, and don't forget to let us know if you want to enter our guest design team call within your comments. Have a lovely weekend, lets hope the sun stays with us!

Recipe 33

RAINBOWS!.,..to brighten your day as we well and truly enter the season of spring. Hopefully this weeks recipe will lead to no end of creating and have you digging through your brightest of papers.



The team were inspired to create a number of projects this week based on our rainbow coloured recipe.

Ann scrapped these older photographs of her now teenage daughter.


Kate created a bright and textured card.


Alana's happy layout brings smile to your face!

Louise created this stunning canvas to adorn her craft space walls!

And last up for this week (but by no means least!) Christine shares with us her rainbow page!

Looking forward we have a special treat for you all next week as we will be setting a challenge alongside our recipe #34 to win a guest DT spot with us for the month of May! Be sure to pop back and visit us then x

In the meantime, happy crafting, may the rainbows inspire you all!

Recipe 32

Time for another recipe, and as the song by They might be Giants goes

"Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul"

and I have been humming away this song every since this recipe was posted for the designers!!

Thanks to Christine for digging this one out for us! And she brings us such a cute layout inspired by the birdhouses this week.


Ann created a card this week, inspired by the occupants of the birdhouses!



And last up for this week we are sharing a rather cute birdhouse windchime Debbie created for another project a while ago but since it fits this weeks theme we thought we'd share it here too!

Happy inspired crafting once again from all of us behind the blog - we truly love seeing your work so be sure to share it with us.

EDIT: Adding Kate's lovely card featuring her hand drawn birdhouses which she created for this weeks challenge.

Recipe #31 - a day late

Apologies for being a day late with our posting, but hopefully it is scrummy enough that you'll forgive us.

If this is your first time here, WELCOME, and we hope you will return each week as we bring you an image, a "recipe" if you will, to inspire your next crafting project.



Today we bring you a cupcake notecard set image as your inspiration - calorie free, even if it may inspire a munching session as much as a crafting project!!

Christine was inspired to create this cheerful birthday card.


Annette also created a scrumptious card good enough to eat.


Mel used photo of one of her daughters with cupcakes for this lovely layout.


Louise created a tasty looking square shaped cupcake card.



And lastly from the designers this week Alana created this wonderful card featuring a hand coloured cupcake girl!


Fancy creating a cupcake inspired layout or card? Be sure to share with us if you do!
See you again next week where we will be placing a little birdhouse in your soul!