May Challenge

 Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums and Grandmothers out there!

This month we want you to go on a flight of fancy.

Our picture is a door and window that dreamed of being a garden. It is Art Nouveau and probably in a museum somewhere.

Use fantasy creatures (not just fairies) or imaginary places or buildings in your work. 

Maybe you always wanted to live in a tree or a mushroom. Maybe you've been inspired by a fairy story from your youth. Are you a Harry Potter fan? There's lots of scope there to imagine things.

We are sponsored this month by Art Stacks.

Our winner for April is 

Here's the ideas from the DT . 

Firstly mine.

My daughter bought a pair of chucks sneakers in bright red sparkles. When I saw them,I immediately thought of the Wizard of Oz. From there came the blue gingham idea and as her toes pointed up in the photo, I thought I could do the layout as if Dorothy was looking down. 

The gingham became her dress which I trimmed with white ricrac. Next I cut tiny yellow rectangles to make the path. I hand drew the 3 characters and the town of Oz in the distance. (plus Toto.)

I added flowers in a variety of sizes and colours in the foreground. My title came back to the shoes and Dorothy saying "There's no place like home" Of course I used red sparkly letters.

                                                           EMMA

My 95 year old great aunty used to be "the fairy" when I was little. She would walk in the door and dip in her pockets then throw confetti everywhere. She would say the fairy is here.

Emma also made a fairy card 

                                                                        DALE

The photos on her background paper march this in the stimulus picture. Dale did a layout about Fantasy books.

                                                                          BUFFY

Blame it all on the unicorn. LOL

                                                                   TRISH

 Trish sprinkled around some fairy dust.

This is a good topic and I hope you will join us. Its a good prize too,

April Challenge

 Our new challenge at Archiscraps for April is use lots of circles preferably in a pattern.

 This building might inspire you to be creative.

I thought of bubbles as one idea.

We have no sponsor this month so I'm sending a Kleer Keepers mini acrylic album, plus a set of Kaisercraft stamps as your prize.

Our winner for March is Donna O'Connell

Now let's look at what the Design Team have created .

                                                       VICTORIA

                                                           TRISH

                                                                    BUFFY

                                                      (pages in her art journal)

                                                                       DALE

                                                                JULENE

                                              

                                                                     EMMA

There's lots of ideas there. I hope you are inspired by this month's challenge. 

March 2026 challenge

 Do you ever feel like you need a more taxing challenge?  This month's challenge is for you!

Here is the ceiling in Westminster Abbey.

Use a repeating pattern.

WE are sponsored this month by Scrapbooking Delights

Our winner for February was

Here's the Design Team's lovely ideas.

                                                           DALE

Dale used a vine punch plus a patterned paper with a repeating motif.

                                                      EMMA

Emma used several chevrons in a repetitive rectangle pattern. The arches in her photo are also repeating.

                                                     VICTORIA

There are several repeating patterns on Victoria's layout about Thailand

                                                        JULENE

I used repeat stamping on the painted chipboard circle plus lined the flowers in a row. The antique lace is also a repeating pattern.

                                                        TRISH

Trish used repeating patterns on her borders plus the frame around her photo.

                                                       BUFFY

Repeated pattern background

                                                      MITZI

Stripes in the photo and 2 different striped papers.

February Challenge

 Happy February everyone. It is a short month so don't leave your challenge entry until the last minute!

Our sponsor this month is Mystical scrapbooking.

Here's the photo for this month.

Yes, it really is a building.

Can you guess the challenge?? I've made it an easy one. 

Include a dog somewhere on your entry

Here's a layout and card I made to get you started.

As it's Valentines Day this month perhaps you can include a dog on the card for your better half.

Now, here's the DT ideas.

                                                            EMMA

                                                             DALE

                                                                   

                                                                 BUFFY

                                                                     TRISH

                                       This layout features a dog we used previously in a challenge.           

                                                                VICTORIA

                                                                  JULENE

Well, that's it for another month. Our winner for January is Maureen.