Good evening folks - many apologies for not getting my challenge up yet. I have just last night returned from my wonderful overseas trip and am not yet over the jet lag completely.
I do thank you all for your entries which I know will be great. The sampler from last week is now up and running on my favourites blog.
However to get you started on this week your challenge will be HOME SWEET HOME - interpret as you wish - can you tell I am glad to be home?
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge and thanks also for your patience.
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Thursday, 20 May 2010
CHALLENGE 104 - NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Many thanks for your lovely ocean colours entries last week - all beautiful as always. You can check them out on the sampler over at my favourites blog.
Now onto a new challenge for this week - when you read this I will be on my way to New York for a few days vacation so this has inspired my topic this week. On first reading you may not have anything that says New York but stop and think for a minute - the big apple, yellow taxi cabs, tall buildings, the Hudson river, Broadway with it's theatres, American football, red rose the state flower, sea scorpion the state sea fossill, blue bird the state bird - any/all of these will be acceptable for the challenge. So go on give it a go - you may surprise yourself with what you come up with.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Here is my card to inspire you - the background is the one I made for the previous challenge.
Thursday, 13 May 2010
CHALLENGE 103 - OCEAN SHADES OF BLUE AND GREEN plus...
Lots of lovely entries last week so many thanks to you all. I will get the sampler done very soon on the favourites blog.
This week I am over the waters in Bermuda where the ocean is very blue as is the sky - sorry folks if you have cold and rain .... so.....
My challenge to you is to create something usung OCEAN SHADES OF BLUE AND GREEN but please use an INITIAL or two as well. Could be the initial for the person you are making the card or for something on the card as on mine for the butterfly.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Here is my card to help with some ideas.
This week I am over the waters in Bermuda where the ocean is very blue as is the sky - sorry folks if you have cold and rain .... so.....
My challenge to you is to create something usung OCEAN SHADES OF BLUE AND GREEN but please use an INITIAL or two as well. Could be the initial for the person you are making the card or for something on the card as on mine for the butterfly.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Here is my card to help with some ideas.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
CHALLENGE 102 - YOUR OWN CHOICE with a twist
Many thanks again for your Alice entries - you will be able to see them on the sampler very soon.
Onto this week and the new challenge - you may do whatever you wish - BUT I would like you to make your own background paper please, no printed papers at all.
I have actually made mine but alas time does not permit me to make the actual card as when you read this I will be flying away over the waters again. I will try to post it when I get there.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Now please don't be alarmed if I don't check your entry straight away - it will take time to get internet set up again over the waters.
I hope you get messy making your background - have fun and create.
Onto this week and the new challenge - you may do whatever you wish - BUT I would like you to make your own background paper please, no printed papers at all.
I have actually made mine but alas time does not permit me to make the actual card as when you read this I will be flying away over the waters again. I will try to post it when I get there.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Now please don't be alarmed if I don't check your entry straight away - it will take time to get internet set up again over the waters.
I hope you get messy making your background - have fun and create.
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Challenge 101 Alice in Wonderland
Many thanks to Faye for her lovely challenge last week - so appropriate here right now as one day sunny next showers. You can see the entries which were chosen by Faye on the sampler as usual at my favourites blog.
The winner of the challenge spot prize is.......
drum roll........
TESS - yes you are this week's lucky winner again chosen by Faye. Congratulations your prize will wing it's way to you shortly.
Now onto this week. Alice in Wonderland seems to be very popular at the moment with the film being out and about so here is your challenge. I would like you to create something depicting one or more of the characters or objects from the story - you have lots of options here, Alice, witches, playing cards, tea parties.... I don't need to go on. Have fun and create.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Here is my Mat Hatter tag made using an image from the 5050 group.
The winner of the challenge spot prize is.......
drum roll........
TESS - yes you are this week's lucky winner again chosen by Faye. Congratulations your prize will wing it's way to you shortly.
Now onto this week. Alice in Wonderland seems to be very popular at the moment with the film being out and about so here is your challenge. I would like you to create something depicting one or more of the characters or objects from the story - you have lots of options here, Alice, witches, playing cards, tea parties.... I don't need to go on. Have fun and create.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Here is my Mat Hatter tag made using an image from the 5050 group.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
CHALLENGE 100 APRIL SHOWERS
Many thanks to Ujjwal for her lovely challenge last week - you can see the entries on the sampler as usual.
Now onto this week - well as you can see this is CHALLENGE 100 - wow, I never thought for a minute I would be still doing this at number100 - it is all thanks to you for your love and support.
I have another lovely Guest Designer this week - Faye has supported me right from the start - I am sure never missing a week so here is her challenge to you and what she has to say:-
'I started blogging about 4 years ago. While checking out one of the artists' blogs on a Yahoo artists' group, I saw the challenges for the first time and got interested in doing them myself. Most of my work is uncomplicated. My start in art began as a child who loved to draw. I took commercial art in high school and a couple of art courses in college. A good friend taught me how to oil paint. Only late in life did I pick up watercolors. And mixed media is something I have begun to try in the last couple of years. I may go back to oil painting some day, but at the moment I'm having such fun trying all these different media.
This is taken from a photo of one of my oil paintings. The subject is Stephanie, a saucy little girl that I tutored years ago. She was just the type child to enjoy splashing in puddles. I took a copy of the painting, stamped it with a raindrops stamp by Rubber Stampede, and then added "raindrops" of Inkssential's Glossy Accents. (Of course, they don't show in the photo very well.) I would challenge bloggers to make their own creations depicting April Showers. And as an extra, they could add some kind of shiny stuff. (I love bling!)
Faye '
Here is Faye's card.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge. As a thank you for your support there will be a small prize given at the end of the week - the winner to be chosen by Faye. Do also check out Faye's blog and see her lovely creations.
Now onto this week - well as you can see this is CHALLENGE 100 - wow, I never thought for a minute I would be still doing this at number100 - it is all thanks to you for your love and support.
I have another lovely Guest Designer this week - Faye has supported me right from the start - I am sure never missing a week so here is her challenge to you and what she has to say:-
'I started blogging about 4 years ago. While checking out one of the artists' blogs on a Yahoo artists' group, I saw the challenges for the first time and got interested in doing them myself. Most of my work is uncomplicated. My start in art began as a child who loved to draw. I took commercial art in high school and a couple of art courses in college. A good friend taught me how to oil paint. Only late in life did I pick up watercolors. And mixed media is something I have begun to try in the last couple of years. I may go back to oil painting some day, but at the moment I'm having such fun trying all these different media.
This is taken from a photo of one of my oil paintings. The subject is Stephanie, a saucy little girl that I tutored years ago. She was just the type child to enjoy splashing in puddles. I took a copy of the painting, stamped it with a raindrops stamp by Rubber Stampede, and then added "raindrops" of Inkssential's Glossy Accents. (Of course, they don't show in the photo very well.) I would challenge bloggers to make their own creations depicting April Showers. And as an extra, they could add some kind of shiny stuff. (I love bling!)
Faye '
Here is Faye's card.
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge. As a thank you for your support there will be a small prize given at the end of the week - the winner to be chosen by Faye. Do also check out Faye's blog and see her lovely creations.
Thursday, 15 April 2010
CHALLENGE 99 TREES
Again a huge thank you for your entries last week - as always you can see some of them on the sampler on the favourites blog.
I like, if possible, to give new crafters a chance to show their work and inspiration so this week I have a lovely new GD from Pune in India - Ujjwal is her name and here is what she has to say (how strange that when we lived in New Zealand we lived in a small village called Puni !!):-
' Hi...I am Ujjwal and have been drawing and crafting since I was a small kid but it wasn't until I discovered the world of blogging two months back that I realized I should take it up seriously. I basically make cards and feel immense joy looking at the smiling faces when you give someone a handmade card. The personal touch and thought that it adds is it's true advantage. I hope to continue making people smile and inspire in the future to come.
I have set up the theme as "Tree" for this week's challenge.
Interpret it as you like and have fun!!'
Do please pop over to Ujjwal's blog and see some more of her work
her blog address is
HANDMADE WITH LOVE
http://ujjwal-handmadewithlove.blogspot.com/
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Here is the card Ujjwal made to give you some inspiration should you need any.
I like, if possible, to give new crafters a chance to show their work and inspiration so this week I have a lovely new GD from Pune in India - Ujjwal is her name and here is what she has to say (how strange that when we lived in New Zealand we lived in a small village called Puni !!):-
' Hi...I am Ujjwal and have been drawing and crafting since I was a small kid but it wasn't until I discovered the world of blogging two months back that I realized I should take it up seriously. I basically make cards and feel immense joy looking at the smiling faces when you give someone a handmade card. The personal touch and thought that it adds is it's true advantage. I hope to continue making people smile and inspire in the future to come.
I have set up the theme as "Tree" for this week's challenge.
Interpret it as you like and have fun!!'
Do please pop over to Ujjwal's blog and see some more of her work
her blog address is
HANDMADE WITH LOVE
http://ujjwal-handmadewithlove.blogspot.com/
As usual you may create whatever you fancy be it atc, card, scrapbook layout, tag, inchie, 4 x 4 - the choice is yours. As always add your creation to your blog or email me direct with the picture if you don't have a blog. Leave me a comment with a direct link to your work of art and I will pop over to have a look. Please include a link to my challenge site on your blog. Thanks and enjoy the challenge.
Here is the card Ujjwal made to give you some inspiration should you need any.
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