Yikes, only 5 days to go!

Hello Peeps, scared you off did we?  the challenge this month is really not that hard you know - a baby themed project, and a twist of making it a bit non-trad - most young mothers like non-trad these days too!

This is the prize!

We have a few more DT ideas to spur you on

 Shylaashree

 

Traceymo

 

Susan

The fold lays inwards when card is shut and pulls out when card is opened

Wynn

Whose up for it?

Let's see you wonderful creations HERE

The Jewels of Nature

This Dragonfly looks like a jewel

Isn't nature beautiful?  

I nicked copied this photo which was taken on her phone by a great-niece of mine who is also a Marine Biologist with her Master's behind her already and a Doctorate too I believe now! Congratulations on meeting all your challenges Aimee and thanks for posting this photo so I can steal use it for here!

What is a Challenge?

We are half way through the month at our challenge blog and have only a few entries thus far.  Hopefully, there will be a few more entries soon. We are offering a challenge I know - but the knowledge that you have taken on the challenge and crashed through is so satisfying! We use the word itself as both a noun and a verb, according to Professor Google!

challenge

ˈtʃalɪn(d)ʒ/

noun

1. 1.

   a call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength.

   "he accepted the challenge"

   synonyms:

   dare, provocation; summons "he accepted the challenge"
2. 2.

   a call to prove or justify something.

   "a challenge to the legality of the banning order"

   synonyms:

   confrontation with, dispute with, stand against, test of, opposition,disagreement with; More

verb

1. 1.

   dispute the truth or validity of.

   "it is possible to challenge the report's assumptions"

   synonyms:

   question, disagree with, object to, take exception to, confront, dispute,take issue with, protest against, call into question; More
2. 2.

   invite (someone) to engage in a contest.

   "he challenged one of my men to a duel"

We summon you to take the theme and dare to soar into the heady heights of imagination and creativity, and produce a piece of work that can be clearly seen following the theme. In addition, we ask you to engage in the twist - to take your work one step further into the contest! The rewards are few - a prize chosen at random, selection as the DT Favourite but you get the satisfaction of knowing you have tried and succeeded - priceless in itself!

Random Prize:

TomBow glue just to indicate size.

Our Challenge?

To make a baby themed project, or use the expression "OH BABY" how you wish!  

The twist is to make a non-traditional styled project for a baby

Our DT have come up with some cracker ways to meet the challenge - and here are a few more to inspire you!

                                                                      Urvashi Rao

Altered hair clips for a baby girl

Wynn

Lou Lou

Susan

Let's see what your flight of imagination has created!

You have 12 more days to post your piece

HERE

Winner's are Grinners, they say!

I wonder who comes up with these sayings? Who is this ubiquitous 'they', I wonder again? Anywhooo, I hope our winner for the March Challenge is grinning, and that the DT Favourite is too!

Winner

Zoe B

DT Favourite

Create with Joy

Congratulations to you both - if you haven't done so, please check your email for one from me re these awards. 

NOW

Did you notice that we had a new DT member? I slipped up and added her great work to the first post instead of this one before I had announced her becoming a member of our team, and so I will repost her work - how great for display in a nursery or at a Baby Shower. So cute and so imaginative!

Lou Lou

So, who is Lou Lou?

I live in Bonny Scotland and have been crafting for as long as I can remember.  I love creating mixed media pieces, I especially like to create my own papers with inks, paints and stencils.  I can’t draw and love working with silhouettes.  I am always looking for new ideas and techniques to keep my creations fresh.  

Now, onto our latest challenge!

Challenge #46

This month our theme is 

OH BABY!

You can create a baby project of some kind or use the phrase to suit!

Easter babies, animal babies, human babies........

The TWIST is to make your project fairly non-traditional for babies...

The Prize for April 

(reminder- the glue is not included -just to indicate size)

We have some more inspiration also to share with you - to inspire you to enter our challenge!

With all the lovely new dies on the market and new techniques, not using stamps to create is easier than ever now, so there really is no excuse not to join in the fun!

Jen Leeflang 

(non traditional because the palette is dark blue and white rather than a pastel blue)

CG

I made a vintage-style card to celebrate a new "fur baby" ...  adopting a pet can be a real life-changing experience, as I well know!

Susan

So true!

I hope you are now truly inspired and will rush to the craft cave and begin to create!

You can enter  your project 

HERE

Were you an April Fool? Challenge #46 for April

Where does that come from I wondered? I went to Wikipedia! Wow did they have some information - apparently this has been going on for century's (1392 Chaucer reference) but it can also be seen in earlier festivals of the Roman's (Hilaria) and the Idian's (Holi)! The actual date was supposedly a mistake made in translating Chaucer and April 1 became the day to celebrate the April Fool. In Scotland it was known as "Huntigowk" - a Gowk is apparently a cuckoo. All very interesting unless you were made an April Fool of, when it becomes silly nonsense! When the nieces/nephew's/grandkids were little, we often had to pretend to be caught by the joke, and it did become a little tedious!

Apparently it is also an early Easter for April, and so 

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL THE PEEPS!

In addition, we start another month and that means we start another challenge!
Remember, we announce the February winners next week.....

Challenge #46

This month our theme is 

OH BABY!

You can create a baby project of some kind or use the phrase to suit!

Easter babies, animal babies, human babies........

The TWIST is to make your project fairly non-traditional for babies...

The Prize - new/unused

Not the Tombow glue - that is to give an idea of size

Dale

Isn't that stinking cute!

Wynn

Tracey F.

Traceymo


Lou Lou

Susan

So, your turn - you have until the 1st May to get your entry in

Why not give the DT some love and read about how they came to create their projects and then have a go yourself at being creative!



An InLinkz Link-up

Towards the end of March Challenge!

Just popped in to show you another wonderful piece of quilled inspiration from

Shylaashree

Isn't that stunning!

The sentiment is so true as well - the older I get the more I accept this now

But I do tend to be impatient as well, (but not as much as the grandchildren!) and I am anxious to see what else you can create for our current challenge, which finishes at midnight, Friday (ASET) That still gives you over 24 hours to get something in the challenge!

You can enter HERE

Nearing the end of March! Challenge #45 - Peace/Harmony

Happy Harmony Day

Then.........

hippity, hoppity.......guess who will soon be showing up, laying eggs everywhere and generally creating a big problem for parents of small children everywhere? Doesn't seem as if we had March at all - a blink of the proverbial eye and now it's nearly Easter.

Still there is ONE MORE WEEK LEFT!

Yep, one more week to be in the chance to win this!

 1 New Spellbinders die

How I hear you ask?

Just create something around the theme of

Harmony or/and Peace ­

There are only six entries to date, so if you put one in, there is a very good chance of the random number selector choosing your entry and this new die will be winging its way to you!

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

We have some inspiration for you, as always!

Tracey Mo

Jen Leeflang

Susan

Yes, I know you will say the Peace symbol is sideways - it's not actually sideways now in the actual card; long story, you will have to go to my blog to read it! 

So what happens now?

1. Think up an idea

2. Make it

3 Enter it in the challenge 

HERE before midnight on the 28th

4. Sit back and wait to hear if you are a winner!

Mid Month Again!

Found this on Facebook!

Ain't that the truth!

I personally see errors as potentially new opportunities!

OK for March the theme for our current challenge 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

WE have some more inspiration from DT members - they are wonderful people so please go and have a look at their websites and leave them some love. They certainly deserve it! Tracey has been on leave and has returned with a bang, and wait till you see what Jen has come up with! Wyn's balloons are just so pretty too.

  Wynn

Peaceful scene....balloon flight over the Med.

Jen Leeflang

Tracey F

So, off you go and have a look-see at their blogs and then start to think - how can I incorporate this theme and twist into a card, or scrap page or item without using my stamps!

Then - most important- don't forget to add your creation to our challenge HERE!

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