Winner's Post for February

Well done to all the entrants in February's challenge - it was not an easy one but it was fun thinking about how we could use the theme and incorporate the twist as well!

The winner and the DT Favourite have already been contacted but here are their pieces of work to remind you again

Winner: Zoe

Her quilled spider (shudder)!

DT Favourite: Jackie

A celebration of all things English!

Now, the March challenge has been running for a week and we already have some lovely entries. You should go have a look!

The theme is  

Harmony or/and Peace ­

The twist is to incorporate flight into your article/piece/creation

This is the prize for the winner

 1 New Spellbinders die

Today we have another piece by our Guest Designer, Lou, who has channeled the Peace movement of the 60's in this lovely journal piece, to inspire you. Love the rainbow and the bricks and texture!

Lou (Guest Designer)

    Urvashi Rao

Peace of mind

Susan

Mine uses one of the very many photographs I have of the beautiful places I have visited in my home state. 

This is a coastal stream on East Coast of Tasmania very near to where I grew up - in fact if you go to my blog, and look towards the left of my blog picture, it was taken around that spot somewhere.

So, go HERE to enter your work or just to look at the wonderful inspiration already there before going to create your own wonderful piece

Short month, February.....

Hello Peeps!

Some advise for you......

I love Facebook for finding all these!

As the heading says, February is a short month, even in a leap year - and this one is not a leap year.

I have a BIL whose birthday is on the 29th February; he turned 18 the same year as his eldest Granddaughter

However, it makes life a bit fraught decided if it is celebrated on the 28th or the 1st of March, even if you remain younger than your cohort and get younger than them each year

You have less than a week to enter the latest challenge here

February Challenge #44 National Symbols

There are many formal and informal national symbols - you do not have to be limited too much - if you can justify your choice in your blog, go for it!

The twist is to use your country's flag colours in your creation

Just don't use stamps!

The Prize is this collection of new material (value approx $20 Aus) 

So you want some more inspiration? OK - these might help!

Traceymo

English rose is a symbol of England

Susan

Remember, you have until Friday, midnight,  the 27th AEST to enter

HERE

Midway in February

Don't look now but half a month has just flown by!

Oh, yes, Happy Valentine's Day

Did you get some lovely goodies?

We have some great entries to date for our current challenge

February Challenge #44 National Symbols

Incorporate a national symbol or iconic image from your country into your work - something a stranger to your land would immediately recognise as being of your place. 

The twist is to use the colours from your country's flag on your project somewhere!

Note too, that it does not have to be a card - you can make any paper project as long as you don't use a stamp of any kind on it (excluding postage stamps - you can use them!)

The prize for this is the following stash of stash

This will be posted the cheapest way to the winner - it contains the following items: FabScraps marine stickers; Dress It Up buttons; Designer F buttons; Bazzil Baubles; Bakers twine - black; bling; SU Twine; Merci chipboard stickers (flowers); Kelly Panacci rub-ons; and FWAB black corners

So, we have some more inspiration for you this week

Jen

CG

The pink flamingo is an unofficial symbol of Baltimore City.

Susan

From the Southern Cross on our flag

February Challenge#44 -

Welcome back to a new challenge for February!

I hope all you peeps had a great Christmas and New Year with family and friends and that the winter's chill or lack of summer did not make life too intolerable for you all!

Apparently 2016 is the Year of the Sheep!

I personally like the one in the middle! She's my kinda girl!

According to the computer, it is the house of the Arts

I'm cool with that

On to the next challenge, with a reminder that the winner's from January will be announced next week

February Challenge #44 National Symbols

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National Symbols - well, what country are you from? 

Incorporate a national symbol from your country into your work.

In Australia it probably would be

  or  

as they are on the coat of arms

but there are other animals or plants or places that are iconic for Australia. 

The twist is to use your country's flag colours in your creation

Just don't use stamps!

The Prize is this collection of new material (value approx $20 Aus) 

This will be posted the cheapest way to the winner - it contains the following items: FabScraps marine stickers; Dress It Up buttons; Designer F buttons; Bazzil Baubles; Bakers twine - black; bling; SU Twine; Merci chipboard stickers (flowers); Kelly Panacci rub-ons; and FWAB black corners

On with the inspiration to get those creative juices flowing!

Dale

The beach is Western Australia's greatest attraction.

Tracey

Can you guess where I'm from?

Wynn

Cyprus Moufflon can be seen on stamps and is also the symbol on national airline plus the olive branch from the national flag.

Susan

Bet you guessed this one! Funny thing is, not native to Tasmania!

Shylaashree

Indian national bird - peacock with our national flag colours

CG

Waving and smiling from.......

Well, there is some pretty great inspiration going on here so lets see what you can come up with. 

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