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 26 October 2012

Challenge 16 It's Orange Brown and White

As you know now Sam has chosen to leave the challenge blog but before she left she chose the theme which we are using this time.  She decided on a colour scheme of Orange, Brown and White so without further ado here is what Von and Neet have made:

Von has made an Atc



Neet has made a card


We have had some super entries in our challenges and thoroughly enjoyed our time looking at them,visiting your blogs and generally making new friends along the way so we look forward to seeing what you make with the chosen colours.

Please do check the rules, remember to tell us how you made your creation - without the rules being adhered to we cannot count you in for the voucher towards something from our sponsors at Oyster Stamps.


Friday 19 October 2012

Challenges 13 & 14 Winner and Runner Up

Another fantastic array of entries for the last couple of challenges, thanks so much for joining us again, your support is much appreciated.

So without further ado, this months winner is ..............


Alison (Craftytrog) for her wonderful postcard










And the runner up is ...........................


Julia and her gorgeous tree




Well done ladies, both stunning entries, it really is getting so hard to choose from all your wonderful creations, keep them coming, we are loving it and loving visiting all your blogs.

To claim your prize and/or blinkie which we hope you will proudly display on the sidebar of your blog, contact Neet.

Sunday 14 October 2012

A Goodbye & Thank You

Hi everyone

Just a quickie post from me (Sam) to say thanks for all your support whilst I've been privileged to be a  part of this challenge blog, but I now feel it's time for me to move on.

I hope you'll all continue to support Neet & Von.

I'll see you all around, I'll still be visiting blogs.

Thanks again.
Sam xxx

Latest challenge HERE


Friday 12 October 2012

It's Challenge 15 - Fur or Feathers

Hi everyone, Neet here, cannot believe we are up to the 15th of our fortnightly challenges here on Artful Times.  Seems like yesterday we were discussing starting a new challenge blog.  This time it is my choice and I said "Fur or Feathers" which means you choose something with "fur" or something with "feathers" as your main topic.  Or you may choose both.

Cannot believe the whole DT kept away from "birds" although with Sam's tag you could say the image is a (slang for female) "bird" and she has used a feather.




Von, on the other hand, went down the avenue of some sweet felines on her card


Whilst I used a favourite stamp of mine, one of my little Cavalier King Charles, Oliver.  Sadly he is no longer with us but he was immortalised in rubber when he won a competition for his cute photograph.  Who could not love my little dog?


We have had some super entries in our challenges and thoroughly enjoyed our time looking at them so we look forward to seeing what you make of 'fur or feathers'.  Please do check the rules, remember to tell us how you made your creation - without the rules being adhered to we cannot count you in for the prize.