Challenge 18 Art from your heart October 16, 2008

So another week and another challenge.

So this week The title of the challenge is Art from your heart we have decided that we want you to create something from your heart, so you can use techniques you love, create something either  about or for  someone you love, You can use poems or music that you love as inspiration. In fact you can use anything you love as inspiration.

 Don’t forget this is a completly open challenge, So if we inspire you to go and spray paint your car, then you can enter that . You can enter anything that is hand crafted wether that be an Atc, scrapbook page, card, Necklace, painting, vase  or a quilt. As long as its inspired by our challenge theme then you are eligable to enter it.

 Our sponsor this week is 3 d jean a great supplier of scrapbooking and altered art supplies . We have a great prize which includes some really great Navel Jelly photo corners. I loved using them a great stamp and some

and some really ace gems as you can see. Another terrific prize thanks Jean . A few words from Jean

I have been crafting for a long time and originaly started with making cards .Then a few years later got into scrapbooking just as it arrived in England. Having done that for a while I became interested in Altered Art
and Mixed Media and this now is what I enjoy doing most .The shop came about due to the lack of Altered Art stuff available in England. So I saw the chance to share my love of scrapbooking and altered art with others.

I only stock products that I use on my projects , and therefor products that I know are great .My big love is still stamps but more used on projects these days than in card making. We’ve just taken on two new stamp companies Mat Rat Rubber and Character Construction which I think are both producing some really interesting stamps.
Come on over and have a look……….

Jean

So here are our examples for this week

 

 

We would like to thank Charli, who is our guest designer this week.  I am sure that like me you will be amazed that she is only 16, and a great artist and crafter

a few words from Charli

I’m sixteen, studying Art, Product Design, Maths and English Literature at A level.  I live in a beautiful area of North Wales with my mum, two brothers and three crazy cats!  I enjoy listening to music and going on long country walks.
For as long as I can remember I have loved art.  I’ll try anything – ecaustic art, sculptures, anything -  but my favourite techniques are painting with acrylics and drawing.  I started crafting about 3 years ago, and enjoy making cards and ATC’s and also scrapbooking.  I also like taking photographs of the landscapes where I live and painting from them.
You can see more of Charli’s brilliant work at http://charliscrafts.blogspot.com/ and http://www.charlisart.blogspot.com/   Charli also has a sketch bog if your short of inspiration http://charlissketches.blogspot.com/

So thats it from us this week make sure you drop in to our personal blogs on Sunday to see a preview of next weeks sponsor.  We also have a great prize announcement next week . Don’t miss it

Challenge 17 round up October 16, 2008

Hi all

Nice to see some old friends back on our challenge and the hopefully new friends who have joined us this week. It seems that you all enjoyed our spooky season challenge as much as we did . We would like to thank our sponsor  Artistic Outpost for the brilliant stamps we got to play with, the same Plate of stamps that our lucky winner will receive.

Here our our favorites from this weeks entries , We again had a hard job deciding which ones to leave out as per usual all your entries were brilliant.

So here this weeks favs are

 

The number chosen by random number generator is 17. So our lucky winner of the fantasic Artistic Outpost stamps is Evelyn . Congratulations Evelyn

We would like to thank Dawn again for being our guest designer this week you can see more of her work here Dawns Craft Time

Challenge 17 The Spooky Season October 9, 2008

Hello all

So our challenge this week is called The Spooky Season . you can use anything spooky, halloween related or just use the title as your inspiration.

Oue sponsor this week is Artistic Outpost a great stamp manufacturer. The prize this week is a lovely set of halloween stamps

If you love these stamps and can’t wait to see if you win. you can get them from Artistic outpost they also do a really great Halloween wall hanging kit complete with the stamps HERE and I love their new bluebird stamp sheet   which you can buy on its own or with their other new stamp sheet , of christmas stamps , what a great excuse to buy both

We all had a set of the Halloween stamps to play with and I know we all had loads of fun with them.  here are our examples

We would also like to thank Dawn Simpson, for putting up with the hassle of having to be guest designer twice in such a short period, due to the stamp sheets getting lost in the post. We love Dawns examples and are sure you will too. To see more of Dawns work you can go here

Challenge 16 Round up October 9, 2008

So challenge 16 Wave the flag is over, and again we have had some stunning entries, as you can see we have again not had as many entries as we have been used to so all the entries are in the weeks round up

We would like to thank Dinky Dot Crafts for the brilliant prize of the set of really cute stamps

The number picked by random number generator is no 8 and that means the lucky winner this week is Tina  . Congratulations to Tina

I would also like to thank Marina for being our guest designer once again . Its been a pleasure working with you again