Challenge #118: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year! TWIST is KISS plus November winners

  #118: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!  

TWIST:  Keep it simple please

Well Hello Peeps - Wow, you like this challenge, eh?

Lots of gorgeous entries already

Remember there is a prize each month and there is also a DT Favorite drawn, and it is time to do that for November's winners

Random Lucky Number is

20 Lia

Lia, send me an email to suhoganatgmaildotcomedotau and I will get back to you about the prize

There are two DT Favorites this week

15 Carole

and 

8 Jane

Congratulations to all three

Now, I have some inspirational tags for you to get the creatives moving (by Susan)

Christmas tags for all those parcels!

Simple and easy to construct - go to my blog for details.

See you next week. 

Remember: NO STAMPS please

Week 2 in November: Challenge#117: Colour My World TWIST make it colourful!

 

#117: November: Colour my World 

TWIST: make it colourful

This is quite an open theme - it can be about someone colouring your world, or about something colourful in your world or about colour -what is your favorite?

Before we have the DT Inspiration piece, the winners for October are to be announced:

Random Number Winner

11. Wendy at Paper Whims!

DT Favorite

10 Karen

Congratulations Ladies. Wendy, shoot me an email please

I have a card for you today for this challenge

A Christmas card for the stash - up to 16 done now out of 80+ needed....

You can go to my blog to see how it was made. 

Some non-traditional colours for Christmas this year.....

What can you come up with?

Three weeks to go....

Winner's from September and latest Challenge#116: Everyone has a Story

 Hello Peeps

Welcome to week two of the October challenge

#116: Everyone has a Story             

        

TWIST: use a page from a book somewhere in your piece

This bit of inspiration (a journal page) is a bit of cheat on the TWIST because firstly I photocopied a

page out of my dictionary and then only used a bit of that page.....but I did use that bit of a page from a book and

put it into a page in a book!

I copied the image (of course) from a piece found on Pinterest

You can go HERE to see how it was constructed

Before I go, the winner's of the September Challenge need to be published

(see below)

Random Number draw: 2 Pam

DT Favorite: 8 Ann

Congratulations to the winners 

If you are the random number winner, send me an email at

suhoganatgmaildotcomdotau regarding your prize. 

Both can email me for a blinkie too if you would like one. 

(Remember, where it says dot you type a dot; and use the 'at' sign for at)

Guess who turned four in this house earlier this week...

Happy Birthday Mr Weasley

May Winners and June Challenge: #112 Seasons and a TWIS of flowers

 Hello Peeps 

I  hope you are all travelling well in your own space and coping with all the challenges life throws at you. Sometimes it really packs a whammy, doesn't it!

I am currently in the middle of a winter moment. Here in Tassie we escaped the storms of the east coast on the mainland but some places were badly damaged. I was just talking to a family member in outer Melbourne and she send me photo's of her back yard with the three big trees all blown over and ruining her fences and into neighbouring gardens.  After three day's they have finally got their power back on in the last hour or two. 

Meanwhile I was hoping for rain as our garden is so dry and plants are suffering. It finally delivered four day's of a drizzle and some heavier showers so I don't have to water but we have been living in a fog of mist and wet clothes and muddy pawprints on the floor....... but winter can be so pretty here too.

Enjoy picturesque views over the bucolic tapestry of Meander Valley.
Photo: Natasha Mulhall Photography
Instagram: www.instagram.com/natashamulhallphotography
website: http://natashamulhall.com/

The winners of the May challenge are listed below:

Random Number Draw: 4 Julene

DT Favorite: Renee's Ramblings

Congratulations ladies. Please email me if you would like a blinkie

Julene - I think I have your email already but email me anyway

suhoganatgmaildotcom

We have two pieces of inspiration for you today for the June challenge:

#112: Seasons or Seasonal 

with a TWIST of handmade flowers

Keti's Projects

Those flowers are felt and handsewn!

Susan

A winter garden.....and a 90 year old!

You can join in this challenge by scrolling down to the first week and finding the linky.

Please DO NOT use stamps anywhere, including digital stamps

April's Winners and May's Challenge #111: ADVENTURES - TWIST use something three times

 Hi Peeps

Just a quick one this week

Remember the challenge for May is 

#111: ADVENTURES - TWIST use something three times

There were some amazing entries for April's challenge and I am really impressed 
because it was not an easy challenge. 

Some strange ones too I must admit.......what is it about the goat?

Anyway, here are the winners

Random Number Winner

25 Wendy at Paper Whims

DT Favorites

We will look at two here because we had so many entries

8 Granne

31 Janis

Congratulations to all. Please send me an email for further information at

suhoganatgmaildotcom (naturally this needs to be interpreted but this way the robots don't get me)

Now to the inspiration for this week for the May challenge:

Eemeli

Susan

Visit the blogs to find out more about these two pieces!

Cheers and out!

Winners from February, plus Challenge#109: LOCKDOWN! with a TWIST of Scrap It

Hello Peeps!

Welcome to week two of the March Challenge....

Challenge#109: LOCKDOWN! 

with a TWIST of Scrap It!

This seems to have stumped a few of you. 
Remember, you can use a scrap page or you can make a journal page or a card

  as long as the theme is "Lockdown"

Perhaps your card is to send to someone still in Lockdown to see how they are going?

Or you can create something that reflects how you are travelling during Lockdown ( or travelled, if you are out like we are)

The TWIST is easy - with scrap (or journal) it or use scraps!

Now, the winners of February - we has some lovely entries and so have several DT Favorites

There is only one random number draw though

No: 42: Margreet

What a great way to use up ribbons!

Now, the DT Favorites

in no particular order

Wendylynne

Christie:  Art without Anxiety

Katrina's blog

Lorrraine's Loft

Congratulations all. 

Margreet - can you email me please

suhoganatgmaildotcom

If you would like blinkies to put on your blog, shoot me through a request

Now, this week's inspiration comes from my (much neglected) art journal and was done in April last year as part of my Wanderlust course in journalling, which I still have to complete. 

It is not very good but it expressed my feelings at the time.....

Susan

It is a double page spread of ink, paint and collage

That is not a self portrait. You can let your hair down and just enjoy the experience of doing it without seeking perfection when you journal as it is not going to been seen by many and is not going to anyone.

Keti

(This is her 3rd EVER scrap page! Excellent work Keti!)

Let us see what you can do.....

December winners!

Happy New Year (again)  

Our year started well with a new edition arriving on Saturday (yesterday)

His name is Bingo and he is 8 weeks old.

Weasley is coming to terms with sharing but this morning was the first real face-off - through a window, needless to say. Things are a bit better - no more hissing and growling going on. Bingo is behaving himself much better now! Weasley has been a good boy and just spent time looking but the body language says it all!

The boys are supposed to get on and be friends  - we will see. 

Now, there were some winners to be announced.......

For the random number draw winner.....

15. KARINSARTSCRAP: Winter

Contact me Karin and I will send the prize

suhoganatgmaildotcom

The two Design Team's Favorites are

18 treebug: vesela snežinka (100/2020)

and

2.  Wendylynn's Paper Whims: Partridge in a Pear Tree Card

Congratulations ladies!

We will be back in February.....if I survive the cats!

November's winners and Week 2 of the Challenge#107: Joy!

 Hello Peeps!

Second week into the new challenge and we are waiting to see what you can make for us!

My tree is up!

Summer has returned to us - just, and we can rejoice!

The winners of our November challenge are:

Random Number

1 Valerija

DT Favorite

9 Jackie

Congratulations ladies!

Val, send me an email for you prize please

Jackie - do you have the blinkie already?

The challenge for December is:

#107 JOY

with the TWIST of music!

Keti's Projects

The sentiment "vesele praznike" means "joyfull holidays".

Susan

A bookmark/tag

recycling again!

Let's see what you can come up with this week.

Keep Safe and Keep Crafting: Challenge#106 Believe and winners of #105

 Hello Peeps

A bad time going around.... I found this poem on the internet written this year by an Italian woman Mariangela Gualtieri

  This is meant to say we had to stop

                                We know it. We all felt it.

                                That it was too furious our doing. Our being

                                 with others.

                                All of us outwards.

                                Agitating every hour - to make it yield.

                                We had to stop and we could not.

                                Should have done it together.

                                Slowing the race.

                                But we could not.  

I believe it says it all.......

Time to look to the winners of #105

It was all about Inspire.....

Paper Whims for DT Favorite

Random Number is 7 Monica

Congratulations Ladies

If you would like a blinkie, email me

Monica, I think you have my email but if not

suhoganatgmaildotcom

to collect your prize.

Reminder that this month the 

Challenge #106 is BELIEVE

and the TWIST is to use an unusual fold

Here are some examples using the theme of 'believe' and the twist of the gatefold

Keti - Keti's Projects

Susan

Off you go, get crafting.....better than watching television!

You have three weeks left to enter.

September Winners and Week two of Challenge#105 Inspire with a TWIST of thank you!

 

Hello Peeps 

Another week for crafting and another week of strange events!

Lots of COVID19 again so stay safe and keep wearing those masks and washing those hands please as well as staying socially distanced. 

It is week 2 of the new challenge 

INSPIRE

Who inspired you, especially in the world of crafting?

The TWIST is to make a thank you card or tag
because we should always thank the ones who inspire us!

Last month we had a Phoenix Rising - here are the winners!

Random Number winner is

#4 Wendy at Paper Whims

Wendy, contact me at suhoganatgmaildotcom please

The Design Team Favorite is:

1 Jacki!

The Design Team Member on show today has created such a pretty card

Eemeli

"My inspiration comes from my Mom. When I was a little girl we used to make Christmas cards together and send them to relatives and friends. She was definitely my inspiration into to world of paper craft -- and as a thank you I made a card with "To Mom" -sentiment (in Finnish) on it."

What are you going to make?

There are three weeks left!

Week 2 of September Challenge and Winner's from August!

 Hi folks - time to announce our August winners and bring you some more inspiration for the current challenge. There seems to be a bit of a frightening shudder about this one, so I have some things to encourage you to have a go.......

There seems to be a bit of fear around the idea of a phoenix rising......

The theme is really about coming back from adversity...

so, someone might have been ill, survived an accident, come through a rough year,

passed an exam under difficult circumstances.....

......mostly it is that they have survived!

There are lots of images of the phoenix on FB and Pinterest to get you started

if you want to be linear about this and use a Phoenix

(but there is not need to do that).

You can just make something that is about the idea of winning through the tough times 

and being strong.

A breast cancer card is a good one or a get well card after an operation - especially if it has been an operation that is unexpected. These days it could be recovering from COVID19!

Firstly the August Winners

Random Number

No 17: WendyLynne

DT Favorites

2. Fatima: Pink Clover

18. Crafty Nomad

Congratulations to you all

Remember, no prize for the DT Favorite but there is a blinkie if you would like it

Random Number has a prize - please contact me 

suhoganatgmaildotcom

Now, for the current challenge

Remember, it is the theme of the Phoenix or Rising from the Ashes
with a TWIST of using an embossing folder in your work. in this inspiration piece.
There is no TWIST in this next piece - I forgot!

Susan

This is a hand drawing if you couldn't tell

Keti

This is beautiful!

REMEMBER: no stamps

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A PHOENIX

There are three weeks left to have a go at this!