Last Week for April Challenge -

Hello Peeps - hope that nasty virus is leaving you and yours alone

We are still surviving

Guess what - it is the last week for the challenge for April

Creative People and/or Being Creative

 TWIST -  name a creative person you admire

 and CASe a piece of their work

We have some lovely pieces entered but unfortunately we still have people using 

either digital stamps or stamped images - we cannot accept them

Please make sure your piece is an UNstamped piece before entering

Some of you are aware that in Australia and New Zealand we commemorate a day in late April

 as a National Day

ANZAC DAY

 This stands for Australian and New Zealand Armed Forces 

For the first time since 1919 and the Spanish Flue we have not had a march or public gatherings for this and many found this would be very hard to accept.

It was suggested that we all go to the top of our driveways or onto our balconies at 6.00am

and with a candle and our phones turned to the Canberra Dawn service hold a memorial and a minutes silence there.

Across Australia on Saturday morning at 6.00 am thousands of us gathered to remember

with our candles in the early morning light

I was so proud of our country 

Aimen Jafri

Yesterday at 12:39 PM

Geilston Bay

In the dark people waited and the trumpet and guitar and harp and clarinet players 

put their best foot forward and played the Last Post and Revally for us

It made the hair on my body stand up and I cried

This is the card I made as a result

Susan

It is for the artistic part of the challenge

I have not attempted the TWIST with this one

You have a week to enter and we look forward to seeing what you have created. We hope you create or you CASe something and enter it - remember - not with stamps or digital stamping.

Challenge #99: Creative Souls or Being Creative

What is Challenge #99 all about?

  It's about art! 

Mainly for us either creating it or copying it!

Here is a piece of Tasmanian's natural art......

they would have been taller if the British navy hadn't used them for target practice back in the day!

An incredible view of Cape Hauy and at 300 metres above the ocean the tallest sea cliffs in the Southern Hemisphere thanks to Angela Wiggins 
You can also follow Angela via instagram 
www.instagram.com/angie_baby72

 TWIST -  name a creative person you admire

 and CASe a piece of their work

What is CASe?

Copy and Share!

You can copy either the plan, the layout, the technique,  the colours,

 the elements used or some or all of them.......

WITHOUT using stamps of any kind  of course. 

(Especially Digi Stamps!)

Last month there were several stamps used and those cards, 

while beautiful were just ruled out

of the challenge. 

There is a Random Draw prize

and a DT Favorite (no prize)

$15 Aust paid as either PayPal or 

at a place that accepts gift vouchers

You have a month to enter

Our DT for this week have gone over the top........please go to their blogs 

through the link on their name and leave some love for them

CG

I used papers that were creatively painted by my 16-month-old 

and basically CASed the Mondrain style.

Vicki

Susan

I am being very CAS in my CASeing this week!

Still two weeks to go!

Just scroll down to week one and enter..........

Week 2 of Challenge #99 and March Winners!

Challenge #99: Creative Souls or Being Creative with a TWIST to CASE Someone Else's work

Here is a piece of work from a Creative Soul

A breathtaking sunset over Coles Bay on the Freycinet Peninsula thanks to Luke Foster.
You can also follow Luke via instagram and his website 
www.instagram.com/maun_luke
https://maunlukephotography.com.au/

First, lets see who are our March Winners!

Random Number winner - 

11 Jacqui

DT Favorite

13 Rebecca Yahrling

Ladies - just send me an email

Rebecca wins the money and both win the glory!!!

I am being a bit slack atm as time and mojo are not in great quantities but I will get back

(suhoganatgmaildotcom)

What is Challenge #99?

Creative Souls or Being Creative 

  Where everything is about art! 

Creating it, looking at it, admiring it, buying it; selling it; enjoying it..........

 TWIST -  name a creative person you admire

 and CASe a piece of their work

What is CASe?

Copy and Share!

You copy the plan, the colours, the elements used or some or all of them.......

WITHOUT using stamps of any kind  of course. 

(Especially Digi Stamps!)

Last month there were several stamps used and those cards, while beautiful were just ruled out

of the challenge. 

There is a Random Draw prize

and a DT Favorite (no prize)

$15 Aust paid as either PayPal or 

at a place that accepts gift vouchers

You have a month to enter

Now, from our wonderful DT - please leave them some love

Eemeli

Keti

I'm CASEing one of Jen Mitchell's card. I love her CAS style.

Susan

You still have three weeks to enter - just scroll down

Remember NO STAMPS please. 

Challenge #99: Creative Souls or Being Creative with a TWIST to CASE Someone Else's work

#99: Creative Souls or Being Creative 

  When everything is about art! 

Creating it, looking at it, admiring it, buying it; selling it; enjoying it..........

 TWIST -  name a creative person you admire

 and CASe a piece of their work

What is CASe?

Copy and Share!

You copy the plan, the colours, the elements used or some or all of them.......

You can make a card, a tag, a scrap page, an off the page item......

all based on someone else's work that you admire.

They can be a card maker, an artist, a photographer, a multi-media artist, a scrapbooker, a musician, an actor or film maker, one of the DT.....anyone who is an artist in their own right. 

WITHOUT using stamps of any kind  of course. 

(Especially Digi Stamps!)

This photo was taken  recently at a local beach by one of my friends 

- a Creative soul called Glenda!

I love the aggies blowing in the foreground

I always admire her work, especially her paintings

and I tried to CAS this in a card for another DT.

There is a Random Draw prize

and a DT Favorite (no prize)

$15 Aust paid as either PayPal or 

at a place that accepts gift vouchers

You have a month to enter

The Design Team have kicked off with some sumptuous examples

Wynn

Dale

A lovely tag

Monika

Now, what are you going to do?

Or should I say WHO are you going to CASe?

Don't forget to tell us in your journalling/blogging who it is that you care CASe -ing please.

You can enter here below and have a month to enter

PLEASE - NO STAMPS

Especially Digi Stamps!

REMEMBER!

Keep washing those hands and being socially separated!

PLEASE NO STAMPS USED

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

No new Challenge today

Hi Peeps!

Just a reminder that the new challenges go up on the first Monday of a month - so that means the new one is up on Monday the 6th April!

In the meantime, have a great April 1st fooling around with the kiddies; stay virus free and stay indoors; wash those hands; and see you next week!!!

From my crafting companion and me!!!

Week 4 of the March Challenge!

Hello Peeps

Life is full of uncertainties at the moment so it is our job to try and make it a little bit better by providing some HOPE!

While we are all either in lock down or socially isolating those of us who have a craft space can go there and clear our heads with some quality crafty time. We can make something beautiful or funny and we can then pass this on to cheer up others.

#98 March Challenge, 2020 - Hope

What represents Hope?

Flowers (Tulips, Myrtle, Marjoram, Lotus, Daisy); castles in the air; clouds; sunshine; and sunrises; new beginnings and/or birth; energy and youth; to name only a few things.

You can tell us what represents HOPE to you.....

TWIST - use yellow as the main colour

What is more hopeful that a sunrise?

A breathtaking sunrise from the summit of kunanyi/Mt Wellington thanks to Dietmar Kahles from Lake of Tranquility who says:

This was easily one of the most amazing sunrises I've ever experienced.

You can also follow Dietmar via instagram 👇
www.instagram.com/lake_of_tranquility

I have a card to finish off the month

(Yes, I can walk without the moon boot and climb stairs and such

However, I cannot stand for long I have discovered so this is a simple card).

Susan

You can enter by scrolling sown to Week 1!

That's where the Linky is situated.

You have until midnight (AET) on Friday to enter.

Please remember - NO STAMPS

Week 3 of March Challenge: #98 Hope with a TWIST of Yellow!

#98 March Challenge, 2020 - Hope

What represents Hope?

Flowers (Tulips, Myrtle, Marjoram, Lotus, Daisy); castles in the air; clouds; sunshine; and sunrises; new beginnings and/or birth; energy and youth; to name only a few things.

You can tell us what represents HOPE to you.....

AND, Oh Boy,  with the Corona virus around we need all the hope we can get!

Here is some

Lockdown

Yes there is fear.

Yes there is isolation.

Yes there is panic buying.

Yes there is sickness.

Yes there is even death.

But,

They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise

You can hear the birds again.

They say that after just a few weeks of quiet

The sky is no longer thick with fumes

But blue and grey and clear.

They say that in the streets of Assisi

People are singing to each other

across the empty squares,

keeping their windows open

so that those who are alone

may hear the sounds of family around them.

They say that a hotel in the West of Ireland

Is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound.

Today a young woman I know

is busy spreading fliers with her number

through the neighbourhood

So that the elders may have someone to call on.

Today Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Temples

are preparing to welcome

and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary

All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting

All over the world people are looking at their neighbours in a new way

All over the world people are waking up to a new reality

To how big we really are.

To how little control we really have.

To what really matters.

To Love.

So we pray and we remember that

Yes there is fear.

But there does not have to be hate.

Yes there is isolation.

But there does not have to be loneliness.

Yes there is panic buying.

But there does not have to be meanness.

Yes there is sickness.

But there does not have to be disease of the soul

Yes there is even death.

But there can always be a rebirth of love.

Wake to the choices you make as to how to live now.

Today, breathe.

Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic

The birds are singing again

The sky is clearing,

Spring is coming,

And we are always encompassed by Love.

Open the windows of your soul

And though you may not be able

to touch across the empty square,

Sing.

- Fr. Richard Hendrick, OFM
March 13th 2020

TWIST - use yellow as the main colour

There is a prize for the Random draw 

as per usual

$15 Aust via PayPal or a 

Gift Voucher to an on-line store

Today we have two more members of the Design Team providing you with inspiration

CG

gift card holder

Vicki

That's it.

Stay safe - stay in touch - create!

You have two weeks to enter the challenge!

Week 2 - Winners for February and Challenge #98: HOPE with a TWIST of Yellow

Challenge #98: HOPE with a TWIST of Yellow

#98 March Challenge, 2020 - Hope

What represents Hope?

Flowers (Tulips, Myrtle, Marjoram, Lotus, Daisy); castles in the air; clouds; sunshine; and sunrises; new beginnings and/or birth; energy and youth; to name only a few things.

You can tell us what represents HOPE to you.....

TWIST - use yellow as the main colour

There is a prize for the Random draw 

as per usual

$15 Aust via PayPal or a 

Gift Voucher to an on-line store

Firstly, the winners for February 2020

Random Number draw

No 7:  Crafty Hair Lady

Please contact me Pam 

suhoganatgmaildotcom

The DT Favorites were

No 8: Jaqui

and 

No 17: Karen

Congratulations Ladies. Email me for the Blinkie

Love that both were scrap pages because of course we are not just a card challenge. 

What has the Design Team for this week come up with?

Keti

The sentiment says "catch your dreams" in Slovene. 

and

Eemeli

using the theme of flowers to represent hope.

What are you going to do?

You have three weeks to enter. 

Scroll down to week one for the link