Candi Love Week - Day 4 Candi Twist Flowers!

So today is Day 4 of Candi Love Week - are you enjoying all the amazing Candi inspiration?
We hope you are and that you will join in all the fun and enter all the competitions, your chance to win some fabulous prizes!

Today we are going to share with you a gorgeous Candi Twist flower that Design Team member, Kay Fletcher designed.

Step 1
Punch a circle from white cardstock to use as a base for your flower.  Take 3 pieces of Candi and using tweezers, twist each piece.  Apply a dot of glue to the centre of punched circle and stand the Candi, upright, in the glue.

Step 2
Take 2 pieces of Candi and wrap them around a cocktail stick, this creates the centre of your flower.
Interlock the 2 pieces between the 3 upright pieces on the punched circle.

Step 3
On scrap paper put a large circle of glue.  Twist 5 more pieces of Candi using tweezers and dip into glue and attach around the edge of centre petals.

Step 4
Continue adding 'twisted' Candi around the outside edge until the flower is the required size.

This is how Kay made the flower for the centre piece of this stunning box.

We would love to see your Candi Twist Flowers, send pictures to candilovebycwc@talktalk.net and we will share them on the blog.

Enjoy the rest of Candi Love Week, the prize for leaving your comments today is a surprise (could it be a Candi ring, I wonder??!) if you're not in you'll never know!

Until tomorrow........

How do you use Candi? A Fun Survey!

Hello Everyone

Firstly,  happy Mother's Day to all you crafty Mum's - have a really great day and secondly a very happy birthday to , probably our youngest contributed ever to Tina's Thursday blog, a little girl called Nia who is celebrating her 5th birthday with a party today - Happy Birthday Nia, have a really fun day!  xxx

We're still on our Candi fest and today I have some more fun for you all, please read on .......

                                                     A FUN CANDI SURVEY

We all love Candi and know you do too, so to give us an idea of just how much and how it features in your crafting, it would be great if you could answer the questions below.

There are 10 prizes of hand decorated notebooks to give away, contributors picked at random.

Here's how they started out.........

Here's how they look now .......

I have covered little notebooks with CWC pearlised card (I love it!) and then used lighter weight papers, ribbon, bows, stickles, glossy accents and lots of Candi to decorate....

 Here's how your prize will arrive, in pink tissue with a handmade Candi bloom label! 

We will post the results of what you say and relevant pics on the blog during Candi Love week.

CANDI LOVE - in the crafting dictionary it means a love of the amazingly versatile 'leg-less brad' created by Craftwork Cards to be used in your daily crafting for soooo many different looks.  It comes in stunning colours and designs to tone with, match and enhance all your crafting projects  - a must 
in every crafters stash..............

1.  What would you say about Candi in your dictionary?


2.  Do you have lots of a Candi?

3.   How many varieties?


4.   How do you store it? (Happy to see pic, in fact would love to!)


5.   If you use Candi boxes, how do you know what's in the boxes?


6.   Do you have a Candi index or library of patterns, colours etc.?


7.   Do you use with Candi fix? If so do you stick the fix to the Candi or pop on the card/project and then pop on the Candi on top?


8.   What's your main use of Candi?


9.   Any ideas or thoughts on what else we can do to with Candi?


10.  If there was a Candi workshop in your area, would you want to attend? If so, where do you live? 

And now - another fun competition.  Pop you creative poetic heads on and compose a  Candi Limerick (5 lines - 1st, 2nd and 5th rhyming and 3rd and 4th rhyming) I've been working on mine but it's not very good! There's a great prize for this too  :  4 bags of Candi and Candi Stamp - Bubble Bloom – Christina, Closing Date: 02/04/2014

Please email on candilovebycwc@talktalk.net. And don't forget to leave a comment on the blog too to qualify.  Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback, we are really looking forward to your responses, seeing your storage pics and hearing what you think.  Can't wait for those Limericks too!  Watch the blog for the results!

Results of guess the number of a Candi in champagne glass out on 2/2/14 so still time to enter and  don't forget to pop by and check to see if you are the lucky winner!

Until tomorrow, keep happy and dreaming of Candi!

Candi or Champagne / Champagne or Candi ???

Morning All....

Day 2 of Candi Love week and only a day away from Mother's Day for all you lucky Mums out there, hope you're all planning a nice relaxing day.

Another competition today, a champagne flute crammed with Candi and you've guessed it, we want to know how many pieces of Candi are in the glass.  I had the task of counting them too! I thought I'd do it twice to make sure I was right but ended up doing 3 counts as 2nd was interrupted and by the time I went back to it couldn't remember what I was up to, lol! Anyway I now know exactly how many there are and have written it down so it's not forgotten.  What we want you to do is email at candilovebycwc@talktalk.net and let us know how many pieces of Candi you think are in the glass, the winner will be the person who guesses exactly or is closest to the magic number. The Prize is a  Candi Selection Box with 13 boxes full of Candi, you have until the end of 1st April 2014 to get your answers in, make sure you comment on the blog too........

Here's the glass below!

I thought for the picture I would set the scene and include a bottle of bubbly, if I give a bottle as a present I always make a nice a bottle label to pretty it up for the recipient....

A bottle label is easy to make and probably by looking at it you will see how, just cut some card to suit the size of the bottle, I'm a very big fan of Craftwork Cards pearlised card and here I have used the beautiful Damask Pearl Blue which is perfect with the pastel Kitsch, Tea Dance and many other of the fab Craftwork Card ranges. Score and cut a circle in the centre of the shorter piece to go over the neck of the bottle and decorate as desired . I have used Kitsch flowers and papers and lots of Candi of course.  You could also use a beautiful bow on the stem of your glass, just stick some ribbon on the back and tie around the stem for an extra pretty flourish.

That's it for today folks, back tomorrow  with even more Candi and a fun survey for you all to take part in.  Until then, keep happy, smiling and crafting with Candi.........

Candi Love Week!

Happy, happy Friday!

Hope you are all smiling and happy this Friday, it's nearly the weekend, Mother's Day on Sunday, and here in blog land it's the start of Candi Love week, a whole week of Candi fun for those of you who love Candi and use it on your cards and craft projects and as well as being treated to lots of inspiration there are chances to win loads of goodies including lots and lots of yummy Candi, you can even win by leaving a comment.    Don't forget to log on every day for a look and tell your crafty friends too - us crafters are a loving, sharing community.......! 

Here are some of the giveaways up off grabs this week........

Remember, you don't always just have to pop a couple on a card, Candi does  add a certain 'je ne sais quoi'  to a card though,  use Candi to create flowers, use upside down, inside out, scrunched, folded 

and embellished with glossy accents (my favourite) or glitter/stickles.....

Here are just a few uses.....

During the week I will be altering a couple of items using beautiful Craftwork Cards products and lots of Candi.  Here is something you could do with little ones over the forthcoming holidays, needs an adult to cut up the bottle though (I used a very sharp bread knife!!)...

Before!

 After ...... A little wristlet tied with a red ribbon, using a beautiful crackle glazed bow and a Candi bloom centre

Take a slice from the bottle, cut through one side, I angled off each side of the cut (you can see in the pic above) cover with whatever paper you fancy, punch 2 holes for the ribbon to fasten and decorate however you desire! Not quite sophisticated for us grown ups probably but great for little princesses.........  Let us see your recycling/altering please, there are prizes during the week too - lots

And now for the line up for the next week .........

CANDI LOVE WEEK

The Candi Love Clinic will be open all week, you can email your tips and suggestions or ask us for help or tips, you can share your ideas, best glues etc. the new new email address is candilovebycwc@talktalk.net

28/03/2014

Competition: Altered/Recycled items using Candi to decorate

Closing Date: 01/04/2014

Prize:  Candi Storage Box, Candi Fix Foam Pads, 4 bags of Candi

Winner announced: 04/04/2014

29/03/2014

Competition: Guess the number of Candi in champagne glass - a toast to all the Mums for Mother's Day 

Prize: Candi Selection Box with 13 boxes full of Candi

Closing Date:  01/04/2014

Winner Announced: 02/04/2014

30/03/2014

A Fun Candi Survey - 10 hand decorated notebooks to be won 

Competition: Candi Limerick. (5 lines, 1st, 3rd and 5th rhyming) must be 'clean'!!!

Closing Date: 02/04/2014

Prize: 4 bags of Candi and Candi Stamp - Bubble Bloom – Christina

Marie to feature an altered Candi project

31/03/2014

How to make one of Kay Fletcher’s gorgeous Candi Flower’s, step by step instructions with pictures.  Pictures of beautiful finished project use the Kitsch box......

Prizes of handmade Candi card and gift for leaving comments

01/04/2014

Feature on customer replies to 'What you do with Candi'

Closing date for Guess Number of Candi in Champagne glass, winner announced 

02/04/2014

Feature more customer replies to 'What you do with Candi'

Announce winner of Guess the Number of Candi Competition

Feature some of the DT Candi gallery

Prizes of DT Candi Makes for comments left

03/04/2014

Tina Boyden’s Focus on You - it's all about Candi

Prize for randomly selected entry

04/04/2014

Grand Finale of Candi Love week

Results of all the competitions, list of weeks winners

Feature some Candi Limericks, any pics sent in

We are so looking forward to bringing you Candi every day for the next week, please, please join in and enjoy the fun.  Until tomorrow keep happy, smiling and crafting with Candi........  I'm off to Candi heaven in my craft room and to try my hand at writing a Limerick, lol..........

Crown Card with Candi!

Hi Everybody!

Jenny from Crazy About Cricut here, and I'm excited to share another post as a Craftwork Cards Design Team member! I have a cute card to share today.  Here are the details:

*Craftworks - Candi embellishments

*Silhouette - Crown Card (#55807)

*Core'dinations - cardstock

*I thought the orange striped Candi's were perfect for the top of the crown.

*For the turquoise striped ones, I punched a hole in them with my Crop-o-dile and added them to the eyelet border.  What a fun look!

*I love shape cards :)

*This card has some fun dimension!

I hope you enjoyed my project! Make sure to check back here on the Craftworks blog for more gorgeous inspiration from the Craftwork Cards Design Team :O)

Here's a couple more links you should know:

CraftWork Cards Stores

For the UK store, click HERE.

You can also find CANDi in the US at various online stores including:

The Scrapbooking Queen Royal Castle Shoppe

CraftWork Cards Blog Link

Candi Club Friday!

Candi Club Friday is back!

We want to share with all our USA friends what we are creating with Candi over in the UK.  So here is our Candi Queen, Marie Chillmaid, with her UK post for - Candi Club Friday!

Happy Friday Everyone!

It's lovely to be back here again after a bit of a break, hubby is slowly on the mend so I've got a little crafting time again - bliss!

It's all about Candi today.  As well as bringing you pics of  some of the samples I made for Julie's marathon  shows on Create & Craft TV last weekend I'll be dropping a couple of hints regarding an upcoming Candi fest.  Our lovely Julie was soooo amazing on TV last week they sent  her home early - she sold everything, yes literally everything, wow!!  Goes to show how much we all love Craftwork Cards products and the now sold out Paper Artistry is no exception, I just loved working with it and the matching Candi, double sided too no less -   just stunning. Here are some of my samples .........

An altered cane wall hanging with some Candi blooms and lots of glossed (using Glossy Accents) Candi and beautiful matching layered bow to hang it

Some simply decorated little note books that make a cute gift, great for girly dinner party gifts

Stunning papers with this amazingly kitsch little owl, just look at the matching Candi - you couldn't but love it!

This is just little squares of paper, see how wonderfully the papers all match, instead of two of the squares I have used Candi and stickled one square and glossed the other, I love the simplicity .........

This little box contained a gift that I received, I have just covered it and used it for the ring (alongside) made from card and Candi.

Over the next few weeks I will be blogging some Candi tutorials including some jewellery.  We will also be linking up with our Candi cousins in the USA and bringing you lots of Candi fun and plenty of chances to show us your creations and also to win some lovely Candi gifts.  Don't forget to pop by 

every Friday, tell your crafting buddies and make sure that you are registered as one of our blog followers in order to be eligible to leave your comments so that you are in with a winning chance.

Watch this space for more exciting Candi news, see you next Friday and in the meantime if you have any Candi masterpieces to share please email on cardsandcandi@hotmail.co.uk.  Until the next time keep happy, smiling and crafting.  

{Be Mine.....}

Yo, BABY!!! It's me Scrappin Madge and Today is my day to post for the fabulous Craftwork Cards CANDi DT!! I have designed a great card for you today! But first I have to ask have YOU had a chance to use Craftwork Cards CANDi? If you have then you will know what all of the fuss is about if you have not yet tried the CANDi for yourself you need to get yourself some and I know just the right spot for you to get your order on! Click {HERE} for some of your very own CANDi!!! 

Now on to my card that I was telling you about! LOL Today I used Very Merry Silver CANDi,

 I just love how it gives the card some dimension and also gives it the finishing touches that it needed.

Since it is the "Love Month" I knew that todays card was going to be for a special someone in my life!! I made this card for my Mom!  

I hope that you enjoyed my card today!

Loves-Madge