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Tuesday 22 December 2015

Merry Christmas ...

On behalf of all of us here at ARTastic Challenge blog I'd like to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you peace, joy and happiness for the Christmas season.  


You still have until 11.55pm on the 31 of December to complete our December challenge and we would love to see your entries. 
 If you have some downtime over the Christmas break please think of us :)


I'd like to thank you for your support and encouragement through 2015. We have seen some amazing work submitted by some extremely talented ladies and we hope we will see more from all of you in the year to come.  



ARTastic will be back next year with a new look and some new and super talented team members as well as some familiar faces. Sadly there are also some goodbyes and I would would love to thank our past design team members for this year, Wendy O'Keefe, Tone-Lill Angelscar, Stina Westbom, Deb Kupfer, Lesley French, Di Hasthorpe and Jo Tritton who leave us at this time to head onto other pursuits. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being such wonderful and inspiring ladies. We will miss you !


Design Team for 2016

Tracey Henly - Australia
Sue Smith - New Zealand
Tone Jensen - Norway
Kat Gray - Australia
Karen McLaughlin - Australia
Anna Uhras - Sweden
Maria Shakhova - Russia

and returning members  ...

Mary Bennetts - Australia
Lizzy Hill - Australia
Elaine Schoof - Australia
Jane Howden - Australia


Travel safe and enjoy time with your families and friends - see you in 2016 !!

Tuesday 15 December 2015

Our second December reveal ...

Welcome to our mid month reveal. We are working with this lovely artwork called Merry Christmas by Alice Ju.



CRITERIA is the use of GOLD on your work


ANNA
I was inspired of the the Christmas baubles and there is a lot!! of gold :-)

TONE-LILL


Are you one of those who wake up on Christmas morning and suddenly realize that you forgot one present? Maybe it is for a close friend, an aunt, mother/mother in law.
Here is a suggestion how to make a quick, but still "made with love" present.
Most of us have candles and napkins in a cupboard, and they can easily be turned into a lovely gift
within minutes. I have used strips of Christmas paper and wrapped around the candles and then finished off with a decorated a tag and tied with a bow.

HELENE
I love to use gold on my layouts. On this one, I used gold colored acrylic paint and ink on the background. I also used patterned papers and embellishments with gold elements.

MARY
I have used Gold angel wings and gold flowers and satin seam binding.  This was my fur babies last Christmas.

WENDY
The Christmas photos in my layout are four years old. I used these photos because they remind me of one of our more unusual Christmas parties. Unusual in the sense that it was in a wildlife park and part of the celebration was a bus tour to see the animals. Usually at Christmas the only wildlife we get to see are our family pets hanging around for their Christmas lunch! This time we saw lions, hippos, deer, giraffes, and much more. My husband helped Santa to distribute the presents and the look on the kid’s faces was priceless, ranging from terror to bewilderment to sheer delight. I enjoyed adding lots of gold on my page because it really added the final festive touch.

JANE

I've used a gold star on the Christmas tree and gold bows as well as using a patterned paper that has a feel of gold about it.



Now it is your turn, we'd love to see what you can do ...

 Remember we happily accept all forms of paper crafting for your entry including digital and encourage international submissions.  All we ask is that you create a new entry for our challenge and you are most welcome to combine with a maximum of two additional challenges.  We offer two prizes determined by team vote and one other prize purely chosen by random draw - so anyone can be a winner regardless of style or level of experience.  You have until 11.55pm on the last day of the month to submit your entry.


Tuesday 8 December 2015

Our November winners ...

 We are taking a little break from The ARTastic 3T's - Tips, Tricks and Techniques this month but will be back again in the new year. 

Thank you everyone for playing along with us last month, we know this is a busy time of the year for many so we appreciate your entries. 

We were working from this beautiful painting by Emma Uber called Weeds.

CRITERIA was the use of FLOWERS on your work

 Tracey Henly is our winner of the prize pack from Flourish with a Bling.


Vicky Varvadouka is our winner of the prize pack from Mystical Scrapbooks.

Our random draw winner is #12 Megan.
 snowonpumpkins-copy

Congratulations ladies.

Could the winners please contact me on jjjustjane@bigpond.com with their postal details.  You have until the announcement of the winners for next  month to do so. 

Our Creative Team highlight from last month is Stina.  She will receive a little surprise something from me.


Don't forget to enter this month's ARTastic challenge.  All the details are in the left sidebar. Remember you have until the end of the month to submit your entry.

Please pop back on the 15th when we will have more delightful team inspiration to show you. 


Tuesday 1 December 2015

Our final challenge for 2015 ...

as our final month of the year rolls on through ... Welcome to December!

This month we hope to inspire you in a festive way with this beautiful painting by Alice Ju called Merry Christmas.


CRITERIA is the use of GOLD on your work

A little about Alice Ju ...

Alice Ju’s artworks are best known for her photo-realistic and dramatic colour, emphasising the radiant splendor of both the urban and natural world. She confidently employs dynamic artistic mediums in her works including oil paint, watercolour, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and pencil.
Alice was classically trained under renowned Australian artist, Kay Maloney.
Alice’s artworks have been displayed in various art galleries and public exhibitions including Mosman Art Gallery, Drummoyne Art Society and NSW Transport Public Art Exhibition. Her stunning works are regularly featured in support of charities and other non-profit organisations including the Exodus Foundation and the LEAD Group. Alice is the founder and director of Creative Einstein Education, a private education centre located in Campsie, NSW.

And now some inspiration from the first of our team ...

LIZZY

That gold bow really took my eye. As did the colours and the circle shapes. So that's what I used!

ELAINE
Every December, my Dad and Mum come and spend a number of weeks at a caravan park close to us.  My parents live 4 hours from us so it has become a special time for the kids to spend with their Grandparents. The caravan park hosts the local brass band for a Christmas concert which we love going to. So that was the photos for my page. I love the gold and red baubles together in the inspiration painting and so I  went for those colours myself. I just bought gold glitter paper so it was perfect for this month. I ran it through my cuttlebug for the title, frames and the star. I glued on little gold sequins to finish off the page.

JO
I've used Gold Texture Luxe with a Star stencil on the background, gold ribbon and dashes of Inka Gold the flowers & leaves. I also added the word Hope in shiny gold paper.

DEB
I have used the round baubles and bow as inspiration for my layout and used a photo of a Christmas decoration.  

JANE
I was inspired by the Christmas decoration theme and have highlighted one of the Christmas Angels we have on our tree each year made by my daughter when she was in Year 6.  I have used splashes of gold and some gold embellishments.


And now it is your turn ......

Please upload the DIRECT link to your actual entry with the link tool on the LEFT by 11.55pm on December 31st, 2015.  We'd love to see your new paper, digital, mixed media or off the page entries. Why not try doing a pocket page spread?  Please no back-dated submissions.  

 You may combine our challenge with a sketch and a product/technique challenge (so two additional challenges).  Please include our inspirational picture and challenge details on your blog post as well as provide a link back to us at ARTastic  ... and don't forget to tell us how you were inspired by our challenge.  

You may enter more than once in any month as long as each submission is with a different creation.  International entries are very welcome. 


Please pop back on the 8th for our November winners. 
 We are taking a little break from The ARTastic 3T's - Tips, Tricks and Techniques this month but will be back again in the new year. 


Saturday 28 November 2015

Our 3rd November guest ...

Our final November guest is Malin Grape - the third place winner of the ARTastic sponsored challenge for Northern Light Scrappers retreat in Sweden with her take on our November inspiration.




Hi there,

I am a crafty kindergarden teatcher of 21 years, residing in northern Sweden. I have been scrapping since 2012. I was introduced to scrapbooking by my boyfriend's cousin, which I also see as a "mentor" and a great role model in the scrapbooking world. I do not think I have a certain style when it comes to scrapbooking but I craft much based on themes and colors I fall in taste. I love to give away scrapbooking works to my loved ones, it is personal and fine.

Blog: http://malingrape.devote.se/
Instagram: mallangrape

Here are some more examples of my work ...


Thank you for joining us this month Malin. We have really enjoyed seeing your lovely work.

Remember ....

You still have time until the end of the month to upload your own take on this challenge.  All details are on the blog sidebar. We'd love to see what you can do with our inspiration this month.




Wednesday 25 November 2015

Our 2nd November guest ...

Let me introduce you to Helena Wikman - the second place winner of the ARTastic sponsored challenge for Northern Light Scrappers retreat in Sweden with her take on our November inspiration.

The entry in this challenge  is created around a photo of my younger son Anton, in the neighbouring village two years ago. He is posing in a field of dandelions. I originally posted this on my Instagram page where I added the black frame. I thought it would be nice to use the horizon in the picture on the layout and expand the feeling of heaven and the ground. I also added a lot of flowers !


Hello!

I’m so happy that I got this guest design spot at ARTastic challenge blog.  I have been scrapbooking for about five years and I’m spending more time at it for each year that goes by. This year I have also started to paint a bit more in acrylics and mixed media style. I do mostly cards but have started to enjoy making layouts more and more, especially since I love to take pictures. Gardening is also a big hobby of mine. I live in the north of Sweden in a house with my fiancée and our two boys who are 10 and 12.



I recently made this layout featuring my brother and his wife prior to their wedding as they were out scouting places to take their wedding-photos with their photographer.

 This layout was made of a challenge-sketch and features a photo of my skies. The title translates to ’snowmorning’ which is the title of the poem to the right.

The last layout featuring my other son Johan also out skiing. It was created on the theme of enjoying the outdoors.

You can find my blog here : http://helnysdagbok.blogspot.se


Thank you for joining us this month Helena.  It has been such a pleasure seeing your beautiful work.

Remember ....

You still have time until the end of the month to upload your own take on this challenge.  All details are on the blog sidebar. We'd love to see what you can do with our inspiration this month.

Please pop back on the 28th for our final guest designer for November with her take on our inspiration.

Sunday 22 November 2015

Our 1st November Guest Designer ..

Our DT member Stina Westbom is chairman of the Northern Light Scrappers in Sweden and on the first weekend in October they held a scrapbook convention/retreat for over a hundred scrapping ladies.  One of the challenges set over the weekend was sponsored by ARTastic with some Kaisercraft prizes and those who came first, second and third were offered guest design spots with us in November.  

Let me introduce you to Paivi - the first place winner with her take on our November inspiration.




Hi, my name is Päivi and I live with my family in a small town in Sweden. For a very long time, about 20-25 years, I have made my own cards for different occasions but I started with scrapbooking 2009 when I made my first layout. Nowadays I mostly do layouts and cards but also sometimes other projects. Don´t have a name for my scrapbooking style but I guess it is something like "Clean and simple meets mixed media".  I love colors and using colors on my projects, often on white cardstock to really bring out the colors.

My blog: www.paivja.blogspot.com

And some more of my work ......





Thank you for joining us this month Paiva.  It has been lovely seeing your work.

Remember ....

You still have time until the end of the month to upload your own take on this challenge.  All details are on the blog sidebar. We'd love to see what you can do with our inspiration this month.

In a few days we will we will welcome our second guest designer for November with her take on our inspiration.



Monday 16 November 2015

DT and GDT CALL for 2016 - now closed

Thank you to all who applied - I was just amazed at all the wonderful, creative ladies out there and so wished I could have accepted all of you.   Thank you again.    

Sunday 15 November 2015

Our mid November reveal ...

Welcome to our mid month reveal. We are working with this amazing artwork called Weeds  by Emma Uber.



CRITERIA is the use of FLOWERS on your work

Sadly this month we say goodbye to team member Lesley French who has had to leave our team earlier than expected.  This is also the last month we will have Stina Westbom with us - so sorry to see you go ladies, we will miss you and wish you all the very best in whatever life brings your way.


MARY
 I was inspired by the lovely colours of red and Yellow and the flowers of course.

TONE-LILL


Inspired by the field of flowers - all different shapes and colours.

ANNA
I was inspired by the contrasting figure and the layered progression of colour.

STINA
I just loved the colors on this artwork, so I just had to use them on my project. Since the background was so vibrant with colors I chose to have only black on my embellishments.


JANE
I was inspired by the colours in this artwork and the random look of the background with splashes of paint here and there.  I have used a vintage photograph of my mother as a baby - one of very few I have of her as a child.



Now it is your turn, we'd love to see what you can do ...

 Remember we happily accept all forms of paper crafting for your entry including digital and encourage international submissions.  All we ask is that you create a new entry for our challenge and you are most welcome to combine with a maximum of two additional challenges.  We offer two prizes determined by team vote and one other prize purely chosen by random draw - so anyone can be a winner regardless of style or level of experience.  You have until 11.55pm on the last day of the month to submit your entry.

Please pop back on the 22nd when we introduce you to the first of our very special November guests.

Sunday 8 November 2015

November 3T's and October winners

Don't forget we have a DT and GDT call open for ARTastic 2016.  We'd love to have your application no matter your crafty style or location.  All details can be found HERE.

I will be announcing our October winners shortly but first I would like to introduce you to our next edition of Tips, Tricks and Techniques for 2015 - this month we are doing something a little different and sharing with you three YouTube videos from talented Australian crafters.  Enjoy!

Making a kit from your stash by AdeleToomey aka Inkie Quill


Project Life process video by Lisa Skinner


Mixed Media layout by Anita Rodway (an older video but a great one)

and now onto our October winners .....

Thank you everyone for playing along with us last month - we had some outstanding entries and it really came down to the wire in selecting our voted upon winners. 

We were working from this beautiful painting by E Phillips Fox called The Green Parasol (1912).

CRITERIA was VINTAGE style

 Helena is our winner of the prize pack from Flourish with a Bling.
 

Maria is our winner of the prize pack from Mystical Scrapbooks.

Our random draw winner of a lovely prize donated by Wendy O'Keefe is #13 An'Jenic.
 

Congratulations ladies.

Could the winners please contact me on jjjustjane@bigpond.com with their postal details.  You have until the announcement of the winners for next  month to do so. Don't forget to grab our winners badge from the sidebar.  Could I just remind everyone that while we welcome you combining with other challenges our limit is two - so ours plus two others only and this includes items you may have done as part of a DT.

Our Creative Team highlight from last month is Helene.  She will receive a little surprise something from me.


Don't forget to enter this month's ARTastic challenge.  All the details are in the left sidebar. Remember you have until the end of the month to submit your entry.

Please pop back on the 15th when we will have more delightful team inspiration to show you.