Things to Die For - Sticky Stuff

Welcome to our 2nd instalment of Things to Die for and this month it's Sticky Stuff. There are so many products out there it's hard to choose from them all. I'm sure we've all bought tape that doesn't stick, glue that's gloopy and fancy tape guns that are a nightmare to reload and end up in a tangle!! But there are some awesome products out there and we all have our favourites that we use time after time, so we'd love to hear about your top 3 must have Sticky Stuffs. Here are the design teams favourites and it looks like we are in agreement on some of them -

 

Kerry -

1) The Sukura Quickie Glue Pen is a must have - it's perfect for tiny die-cuts and adding glitter to your products.
2) I love this tape from Fred Aldous. It super sticky, you get loads on a role and it comes in 3 widths.
3) Aleene's Fast Grab glue is fantastic for heavier items such as buttons and large gems.

Jannie -

1) My numero Uno would be the Scotch Advanced Tape Glider, it is the best! At First I had to get used to it but now I can’t live without it!

2) My second best would be Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue! It is super!!

3) And my Quickie Glue pen, it glues all my teeny tiny bits!!

Deneen -

1. Tombow Diamond Dot Adhesive - I use the Tombow for my corners (I hate when my corners don't stick down). I also love the Diamond Dot because it comes apart and that allows me to use the adhesive to adhere little flourishes etc.
2.  UHU Glue Stick - and then I use the glue stick for the rest of the paper piece.
3.  Sookwang (Scor-Tape) Double Sided Adhesive - I use the Sookwang to adhere any ribbons and flowers...I like knowing that it's not going to fall off, I also use it for assembling 3D items like my paper purse, again I like to know that it's not going to fall apart later.  

Winner Color challenge

Thank you so much for entering your colorful entries!

They have made us very happy!

But as you know there can only be one winner and this week's winner is:

#3 Rina

The winner can contact Kerry for the prize and the winners blinkie. We also have a runner's up blinkie too.

Congratulations!!

And the runners up are:

# 9 Donna

   #2 Lyn

                             

 

Mosaics

Hi everyone, we have a great challenge for you this week!  Mosaics!!

What can you create with embossed squares big or small?

Good idea to get all your scraps out and make something pretty!!!

You can use any manual (not electric) die-cutting/embossing machine,
dies or embossing folders to enter our challenges

Max 3 entries per person
Please tell us which folder you used

 Sponsor this week is Ooh La La  and they're giving away a CD of the winners choice !!

So join us in this fun challenge!!!

This is what our fabulous DT has made:

Deneen

Cuttlebug Items Used - Spellbinders A2 Bracket Borders 1,

Cuttlebug EF-Script & Swiss Dots, Craft Concepts Budding Vine EF
& Sizzix Thank-You Set #5 EF

Kerry

Have used Provocraft embossing folders for my mosaic heart - Swiss Dots, Daisies
and Flower Fantasy.
And for the border I used DoCrafts Lovers Lane.

Jannie

  

I have used Vellum for the squares!

I used Cuttlebug folder - Spots and Dotts

Cuttlebug Folder - Big dotts

Crafts Too - Nameless but they are on the left square

Flowers are from My Creative Time

Change is a good thing

First of all a big Thank You  to all who responded to our questions!

Your tips and tricks have helped us a lot, so we would like to tell you about a few things

we are changing at Cuttlebug Mania

1. From this week you can enter a maximum of 3 entries per person in our challenges
2. You can use any manual (not electric) die-cutting/embossing machine, dies or embossing folders to enter our challenges
3. We have updated Inlinkz, so we can all preview the wonderful projects everyone has entered by showing a thumbnail.
4. We will change our weekly challenges to fortnightly (=14 days) from September!
5. And finally, we will have Blinkies for our Winner and Runners-up.

Thank you once again!

Kerry, Deneen and Jannie

We have questions

Hi everyone

We have some questions for you. We have noticed a drop in entries and would like to encourage more people to join in, so we'd like your opinions on the following -

1) What are your favourite types of challenges?

2) Are there challenges you dislike?

3) Do you prefer weekly or fortnightly challenges? 

4) Any other comments?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts xx

Stripes Winner

Super entries again this week, thank you to all those who took part. Please spread the word about our challenge blog as we'd love to welcome new people to our challenges.

Our winner this week is Lyn T with this fun card....

Please contact Kerry for your prize.

Our runners-up are...

Kim 

Kimbo 

 

Colour Challenge - Orange, Yellow and Green plus a Button

Our colour challenges are very popular so we have another one for you this week. Don't those colours make you feel warm and summery, perhaps they make you think of pretty flowers or yummy cocktails, Let's see how they inspire you.

So we'd like you to use them on your card/project this week and please add on a button!

Please tell us what products you've used.

One entry per person!

Our prize this week has been given to us by 

 They are offering 3 downloads of your choice including papers and digi downloads.

Here are the colourful creations from our design team

Deneen

Cuttlebug Items Used:  Cuttlebug Heritage EF & Spellbinders Wonderful Wings Die.

Jannie

 

I used a nameless embossing folder with flowers and I Cuttlebugged both the flowers and the flowerpot with dies from My Creative Time. 

Kerry

I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder and a Sizzix label die on my card.