We are Neet and Wendy and we would like to welcome you to our fortnightly challenge, ‘Artful Times’, where we are offering a variety of challenges to inspire you to create in whichever style or medium of crafting you enjoy. You never know, we might even inspire you to create something out of your comfort zone and try out something new.

Yes like all challenge sites we have rules and guidelines. We hope you will read and follow them, we have Oyster Stamps as our sponsor, and of course, a winner and runner up will be chosen each month. We may also have the occasional guest designer.



Friday 31 August 2012

Challenge 12 - Inchies

No prizes for guessing the instigator behind this week's challenge!  Yes, it is "inchies" and it's me, Neet, who chose it.  Think I am turning into a bit of an 'inchie freak'.

Thank you for your continued support of our challenges, it is lovely to meet you all each time we put up a new challenge and nice to make new friends when someone new joins in.  We really do appreciate the effort you all put in to make something on the theme we come up with.

Can I just ask that you all check the "Rules and Guidelines" above as sometimes we come across an absolutely fabulous entry but because it does not fulfill the criteria we cannot count it as a prospective winner.  Remember there is a £10 voucher from our sponsors, Oyster Stamps, for the winner plus they can then display our logo on their blog to let everyone know they won one of our challenges.

Now to see what my fabulous colleagues came up with:

Sam used clay for hers


Von made a keyring


and me, Neet who stuck to a card


We would love to see your creations so please link (direct to your entry, not just your blog - see above for instructions if you are unsure) and then we can call in and see you and what you have done.  So looking forward to it.

Cheerio for now!

Friday 24 August 2012

Winner and runner up challenges 9 & 10


Well once again you all set us quite a challenge in choosing a winner and runner up with so many wonderful interpretations of the theme, we take our hats off to you all :)
so with out further ado the winner is
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Butterfly with her wonderful travel tag incorporating a wonderful mix of stamping and and printed images:



Well done Butterfly please contact Neet within the next 7 days for the code to redeem your £10 voucher to spend at Oyster Stamps and you will also be given the winners blinky which we hope you will display on your blog.  Please be sure to read the above page entitled 'sponsor' so you are aware of the terms and conditions of the prize.  If the prize is not claimed in 7 days it will be withdrawn.

The runner up is Keren with her mesmerizing mix of UTEE and images




Again Congratulations and please contact Neet for your runners up blinky which we hope you will display on your blog.

Apologies for the lateness of this notification - a slight technical hitch occurred at 6 pm today.

Friday 17 August 2012

Challenge #11 - Using Acetate

A big thank you to everyone for your much appreciated continued support throughout the past challenges.  We hope you will join us again this week and show us your great creations 'using acetate as a layer'.  You can make anything you wish, as long as it has at least two layers, one of which is acetate.

Here's what we came up with ~


Check out Von's blog to see how she made her card.


Sam made a postcard, check out her blog for the different layers.


Neet made a card incorporating pan pastels.  Check out her blog to see how she attached the acetate layer.

Please remember to follow the rules, just link up to your creation and not your blog, do not enter into more than 5 challenges with your one piece in order to be in with a chance of winning the £10 voucher from our wonderful sponsors OYSTER STAMPS. (Full details are at the top of the page under rules and guidelines.)



Friday 3 August 2012

Challenge 10

Good afternoon to all you talented crafters and thank you all who managed to take part in the "Travels in Europe Tag", some very inspirational tags.   :)


Are you all enjoying the Olympic Games ? If not then welcome to a sports free zone lol .


Von here taking you back a few years to when Mona Lisa was one of the most popular images, but she hardly gets an outing these days so thought it would be nice to bring her back into the spotlight. You can make anything you like.  Here are the pieces from the Design Team:


    Von a hanging

  

 Neet a bookmark


    Sam an atc

Please remember to follow the rules, just link up to your creation and not your blog, do not enter into more than 5 challenges with your one piece in order to be in with a chance of winning the £10 voucher from our wonderful sponsors Oyster Stamps.  (Full details are at the top of the page under rules and guidelines.)