Winning Entry (Challenges 58 & 59)

Well, we did enjoy seeing the work submitted on our challenges 58 (wood) and 59 (postcard)and both gave us a lot of thought and deliberation to go through before we could come up with a winner and a runner up.

Finally we decided that this month our winner is to be ...


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Sam with her ethereal looking heart.

and our runner up goes to Julia for the postcard from Holland.  You should visit her blog and read the story behind how and why she made it.

Thank you all of you who enter our challenges, especially those who come back challenge after challenge as how difficult the subject/theme is.  We do appreciate you and we think you are all winners in so many ways.

Now if you two ladies will contact Neet for your blinkies which you can display on your blog, and, in the case of Sam, for instructions on how to claim your prize from our wonderful sponsors Oyster Stamps.

Challenge 60 - A Tag

Please ensure that you fully read our challenge blog entry rules prior to submitting your post as failure to meet the rules will result in your entry being excluded from the prize

*Entries must fully comply with the fortnightly theme (this means your creation must follow the rules of the theme set).

*Please link directly to your entry and not just to your blog (this means only link the address for your post to the challenge and not the general address of your blog).  For instructions on how to do this please see page 'Making a Direct Link'.

*Please ensure you make a link back to this challenge blog in your post (this means you need to include a link to Artful Times Challenge blog when writing up your post).  For instructions on how to do this please see page 'Linking Back'.

*Please write a brief description of how you created your entry and some of the materials used, even if it's only a brief list at the end of your posting, as it's nice to know what was used and how it's been done.

*Please do not back link to previous posts prior to the date of the challenge.

*A maximum of 5 challenges may be combined.

*You may enter the challenge several times as long as each entry is with a different creation.

*We encourage you to visit each other's blogs and leave a comment, even ours, it means a lot!

*If you have 'Word Verification' may we ask that you please turn it off, as this makes commenting easier for everyone, especially with the new blogger words which are difficult to read at times.  The comment moderation seems to be a more successful way of avoiding unwanted comments.

*Link your entry before 17.55 on the following Thursday.

*Any entries which do not follow the above challenge guidelines may not be commented on by the DT and will not be entered into the prize draw.
Well, again we had very few entries for our last challenge, but once more what we had was quality work so thank you ladies.

This week we are asking you to make a tag.  That is it!  No restrictions at all as long as it is a tag - any size, any subject - just release your inner self and see what we did:

Wendy made two beautiful feminine tags

Whilst Neet went into Steampunk and Frieda

To find out a bit more why not pop along to our blogs, we love comments as much as anyone and we look forward to seeing and reading about your entries during these next two weeks.

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Challenge 59 - A Postcard FROM Abroad

*Entries must fully comply with the fortnightly theme (this means your creation must follow the rules of the theme set).

*Please link directly to your entry and not just to your blog (this means only link the address for your post to the challenge and not the general address of your blog).  For instructions on how to do this please see page 'Making a Direct Link'.

*Please ensure you make a link back to this challenge blog in your post (this means you need to include a link to Artful Times Challenge blog when writing up your post).  For instructions on how to do this please see page 'Linking Back'.

*Please write a brief description of how you created your entry and some of the materials used, even if it's only a brief list at the end of your posting, as it's nice to know what was used and how it's been done.

*Please do not back link to previous posts prior to the date of the challenge.

*A maximum of 5 challenges may be combined.

*You may enter the challenge several times as long as each entry is with a different creation.

*We encourage you to visit each other's blogs and leave a comment, even ours, it means a lot!

*If you have 'Word Verification' may we ask that you please turn it off, as this makes commenting easier for everyone, especially with the new blogger words which are difficult to read at times.  The comment moderation seems to be a more successful way of avoiding unwanted comments.
*Link your entry before 17.55 on the following Thursday.

*Any entries which do not follow the above challenge guidelines may not be commented on by the DT and will not be entered into the prize draw.

Well, we have just finished looking at the entries for our Wood challenge and it is going to be hard to select a winner from those entries - they are all so fabulous!  Thank goodness we have time to look again and again - and include the entries for this, our latest challenge.

A Postcard FROM Abroad 

For this we ask you to make a postcard featuring somewhere other than your own country on the front. So dig out those stamps you use for your Asian themed cards, or the ones for Paris which I am sure lots of you have.  Or whatever ...

So what size is a postcard?  Well I always thought it was 6" x 4" but unsure I looked it up and found that there are lots of different sizes quoted.  We leave it up to you, afterall they do come in various sizes when you buy them from holiday destinations.  I've even seen circular ones.

What did we come up with?  Well Wendy made these two beauties - one from Paris and one from India

and Neet made these from Africa

Hope to see some of you joining in with this challenge, as many times as you want, but remember to follow the rules and guidelines.  I have put them at the top of this blogpost once more.  Pop along to our blogs and see how we made ours, we love comments too.

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