September Challenge and a new place to link up.

I've recently created a Facebook page to link up your entries here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/627040677839553/

You will find an album saying upload your (insert month) here.

Now on to September challenge.

I've chosen the facade of this building  in Padua Street , Barcelona, Spain to inspire you.

Again it is a colour challenge.

Use the colours Red,pink and white (or cream) and a door

                                      Both elements must be there to qualify this month.

We are sponsored this month by Mystical scrapbooks

Here are our DT projects.

                                                                   JULENE

                                                                        MITZI

                                     

BUFFY

LESLIE

DALE

BARB

TRISH

Last month's winner was Victoria King.

August colour challenge

Our challenge for August is based on this picture.

For this challenge we ask you to

use these colours plus a CLOCK and GOLD somewhere on your entry.

Here's the Design Team examples

BARB

TRISH

BUFFY

DALE

LESLIE

MITZI

JULENE

Our winner for last month was Karen Brierly. Congratulations,your layout was beautiful and so accurate to the era.

I'm still chasing sponsors so will add it in later.

July Challenge

Here is the inspiration for this month's challenge. It is the Bacardi building in Havana ,Cuba.
The theme for July is ART DECO.
You might want to google it and do some reading, but my best layman's explanation is it was an era with all lines and angles.
The Chrysler building is another good example from the era.

Two shapes that were popular in the Roaring twenties were the fan shape and the curved arch shape

It can be seen everywhere, it even has it's own font style! It can be seen on my layout here  "Empire Tower" is in art deco font.

Card makers you might like to try this one.

After all that explaing I hope you understand it more.

You can make a card, layout,postcard or tag.

Link it up on the side.

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Our winner for last month was Jane Howden. Congratulations!

Our Design team have been busy as usual.

                                                                      BUFFY
                                                     Brilliant example of art Deco.

                                                                 DALE
                                                     

MITZI

(Used a spellbinders die named Art Deco)

LESLIE

BARB

JULENE

The prize this month is a Kaisercraft mini album, plus items to help make it.

Value is around $20.

June challenge

Before we get to our new challenge, we would just like to remind our valued players and any other visitors that it is not appropriate to misuse an email address that has been used to leave a comment on a post.  Unsolicited emails to our design team or anyone  trying to sell a product, service or religion are not acceptable and may be in breach of data protection laws.  Thank you for understanding.

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The June challenge will make you look at onions in a whole new way.
Wondering what I'm talking about? Well, here's our picture.

We want you to use a dome

This means you can have a photo with a dome in it on your layout, or use a dome shaped embellishment or if a card, you can make a snow dome shaker box or something dome shaped on your card.

Here's one I found online

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This challenge blog started with our very first building nearly 7 years ago
This was our first picture, the Doumo in Florence. So we have come full circle!

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We are sponsored this month by Scrapbooking Delights.

Thank you Sandra for your generosity.

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The Design team girls have done their homework or should I say their dome-work!!!

JULENE

BUFFY

DALE

TRISH

BARB

MITZI

LESLIE is absent this month

Our winner for May is Karen Brierley.  Congratulations on a beautiful layout!

May Challenge

Rock Palace, Wadi Dhar

The Dar al-Hajar ( "Stone House" or "Rock Palace") is a former royal palace located in Wadi Dhar about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Sana‘a, Yemen. Built in the 1920s as the summer retreat of Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, ruler of Yemen from 1904 to 1948, it sits on top of a structure built in 1786 for the scholar al-Imam Mansour. The palace stayed in the royal family until the Yemen revolution of 1962. The palace is now a museum. 

Here's a different building for you!

Our challenge this month is to use brown and cream with ecru lace.

Ecru is the creamy colour that you often see on hand made items such as tablecloths and doileys.
Maybe you have some old crochet work that you can use. (Don't cut up family heirlooms)
If not you can dye white lace by soaking it in tea for a while.


We are sponsored this month by Craft Queen. Many thanks to her for this beautiful prize.

Now here is the design teams inspiration for you:

                                                                 TRISH

                                                             
                                                                            DALE

                                                                           BUFFY

                                                                         LESLIE

                                                                                        BARB

                                                                          MITZI

                                                                        JULENE

Our winner for last month was Maureen Wood. Congratulations !