Papercraft Inspirations Magazine giveaway

Today I have a wonderful giveaway from Papercraft Inspirations magazine who I have done many commissions for since 2008. Here is one of the times I made the cover (no, that's not me in the background unfortunately...)



with this card.....



Now as on other days this week, I have trawled back way into the dark ages to pull up some very early cards to show you - there isn't a lot of point in re-posting any I showed you a couple of months ago. I couldn't find a photo of my other 'cover' card, but I can't tell you thrill you get when you see a magazine with your creation on the cover. The other one was a jolly little Santa I seem to remember

It all started in May of 2008, I had only started this blog in January 2008, and I had an email from the then editor Jenny Dixon, asking if I would like to do a commission of ten cards, I can't find any photos of that commission but I remember it was all about using lace, so they were very pretty girly cards - I was so excited to be asked! I seem to remember each card took me days....

After that I did commissions most months, in the early days I was often asked to make four cards for the quick cards section of the magazine (thankfully that section has now been changed to cards on specific themes. I say thankfully, because it was incredibly difficult to come up with inspiring ideas that would make the reader say WOW, and yet be able to copy them in thirty minutes or less). Here are a few of the ones I was really proud of, going way back to 2008 and 2009 for most of them

Male Card 



Birthday candles




This next one was part of a masterclass article on making pocket cards - the cards were gifts in themselves, each one holding little treats for the recipient...



and I got asked to do some imaginative stuff - these ones were a set entitled 'cheeky undies!'





One of my favourite 'quick cards' makes was this Valentines card - it still makes me giggle!

And I really loved being asked to make a set of Easter cards with a religious theme rather than cute bunnies and Easter eggs...



Here is another card from a mastercard class commission which was all about using Punctuation Marks as the focal point of your cards



another quick card I was rather proud of, the birds were made with buttons...

a quick card Christmas scene - I included this one, although it's a terrible photo,  because it seems quite ahead of it's time, I would make this card now in 2014, maybe using some texture paste snowy backgrounds instead of the snowflake brads I used back then.....

from a feature all about shoes and handbags.....

and using punches for cute animal cards....

and this was a masterclass feature making a little coupon book out of empty toilet rolls. Nicky Hall of Polkadoodles provided the readers with printable coupons which slid into the little pockets. The idea was to offer 'coupons' as a gift - I promise to mow the lawn' or 'good for one car wash and wax' or 'baby sitting for a date night' and so on. Cute idea, but I didn't take good photos of the project before sending it off!

So there's my 'blast from the past', and bearing in mind that most of these are five or six years old, I don't think they have dated too much. Do you? Magazine work certainly brings it's own challenges - tight deadlines, working to very specific guidelines, and even the products used have to be current and readily available to readers, but I always work best when under pressure, so it's been fun

Now on to today, Vicki Atkinson, the editor of the magazine has kindly offered a fabulous prize for Going Buggy followers, someone will get:

A prize bundle from Papercraft Inspirations magazine including books, craft supplies and a copy of the latest magazine

Wow! Thank you so much Vicki. All you have to do is leave a comment with your name below this post, then go to Papercraft Inspirations blog and sign up for their newsletter. (when you get there, click for full page and the newsletter sign-up is in the sidebar).  Now you will not regret this, not only do you get loads of inspiration, there are always all sorts of free downloads for you and competitions to enter as well

Once again, good luck. If you have missed any of this week's givaways so far, scroll down to leave your name below each post. I'll be back tomorrow, it's Letraset day, be sure to drop by, see you then x