Wednesday, 1 March 2023

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge for March, #3-2023

 Welcome to A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge for March, #3-2023

Before we get underway this month, we have another new team member joining us!
Please welcome Valerie Correa to our team.
We're sure you'll enjoy seeing projects from this very talented lady in coming months.

Our design team has been very busy again! Here's quick look at their work to inspire you this month.
Inspiration Video
Click to play

February's Winners, Challenge #3 - 2023

Our winners from our February challenge will be announced on the 28th of March at 7.00am, ADST Sydney, Australia time. 

Please check back then to see if you're a winner!

Our Winners’ Video is also be published on the following sites each month.



And now, back to this month's challenge!

This is always an Open Challenge and always "Anything Goes”. You're welcome to add unlimited entries per challenge and you may enter any crafting project with any theme.
For full details on our rules and on how to enter, please visit our rules page.

Our prizes consist of…

1st Prize: 3 sponsor images
from the collage below, a certificate and a badge.

PLUS 
An invitation to feature as a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

2nd Prize: 1 sponsor image from the collage below, a certificate and a badge.

3rd Prize:1 sponsor image
from the collage below, a certificate and a badge.

DT Favourites: a certificate and a badge.

Honorable Mention Winners: a certificate and a badge.

Spotlight Winners: a certificate and a badge.

Our sponsors for this month's challenge are

SheepSki Designs

You can find SheepSki Designs' blog HERE


You can find SheepSki Designs' Facebook Group HERE

You can also find SheepSki Designs' Challenge Blog HERE

SheepSki Designs can also be found on Instagram HERE

And, for the first time, we welcome Conie Fong Art & Design

Conie Fong is a self-taught artist residing in California, USA with her husband, daughter, pet hamster and fishes. In her early childhood years, she was inspired by every kind of art and crafts. She loved watching demonstrations by artists on the streets and at festivals and spent most of her free time perusing arts and crafts books in the library, drawing, crafting and experimenting with her art supplies at home. Conie first started sharing her art with the world by selling ACEO reprints of her ACEO paintings of fairies, mermaids, and kitty art on Ebay in 2010. She was a full time account manager for a University before becoming a full time mom and part time artist. She currently enjoys spending time with her family traveling, exploring the outdoors, and designing beautiful, cute, and magical art for craft and coloring lovers.

You can join Conie Fong Art & Design's Facebook Group HERE

Conie Fong Art & Design's Facebook page can be found HERE

Conie Fong Art & Design’s Instagram can be found HERE

PLUS!
Conie has an exclusive 25% off discount code available on her store!
Just enter MARCHSPONSOR25 at checkout.
(Valid for this month only)

SheepSki Designs and
Conie Fong Art & Design have generously supplied these images for this challenge.

Here's a closer look at the inspiration from our amazing Design Team, using sponsor's images.

Firstly, from our guest designer winner,
Wendy

 
We can't wait to see all your creations and we wish you all the best of luck in our challenge. We'll be back at the end of the month to announce our multitude of winners!

Don't forget, every entrant is welcome to take our participation badge to add to your blogs and your Facebook pages.

You can enter your projects by clicking the link at the bottom of this post, just above the coments.
Remember, you must link back to this challenge to be eligible for a prize!
Good luck to you all!

If at any time the Linky Tool doesn't appear for you, or isnt working, please use this form to add your entry privately. I will transfer the information provided to add your entry at my earliest possible convenience.

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Winners for January's Challenge #1 -2023

Hello, and welcome!

It's time to announce the winners from our January challenge. We're going to be announcing each individual winner shortly.

If you can't wait to see just who won this month, check out our winners slideshow. Just click on the image below and allow it to load. I love making these and I hope you'll enjoy watching them.
Winners' Video
Click to play

Our challenges start on the 1st day of each month at 7:00am Australian Eastern Daylight Time  (ADST) (Sydney Time).
You can just click this link to our page to find them in the top post while the challenge is open:


The sponsors of our January challenge were:
You can join Ching-Chou Kuik's Facebook Group HERE 

Ching-Chou Kuik’s Facebook page can be found HERE 

Ching-Chou Kuik's challenge blog can be found HERE  

And, for the very first time, we welcomed Jan's Digi Stamps!

Jan's Digi Stamps' Facebook page can be found HERE

Jan's Digi Stamps' Instagram page can be found HERE

Jan's Digi Stamps' Pinterest can be HERE

And, Jan's Digi Stamps holds her their monthly challenge and you can find that HERE


These are the images our design team chose to use from 
Ching-Chou Kuik and Jan's Digi Stamps for this challenge.



And now, it's time to announce our winners!

If you're a winner, please take your badge and certificate added at the top of each section!
For image winners, please contact me to claim your digi stamp using the contact form in the tab at the top of the page.


Our prizes consist of:

1st Prize:
 3 digital images from the above collages, a certificate and a badge
PLUS 
An invitation to feature as a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

2nd Prize: 1 digital image from the above collages, a certificate and a badge.

3rd Prize: 1 digital image from the above collages, a certificate and a badge.

DT Favourites: a certificate and a badge.

Honorable Mention Winners: a certificate and a badge.

Spotlight Winners: a certificate and a badge.


Our winners are...

1st Prize Winner


Congratulations! Your prize consists of 3 digital images from the above collages, a certificate and a badge.
PLUS 
An invitation to feature as a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

Please message me to claim your digi stamps using the contact form in the tab at the top of the page.




94. Maryann Scrapbooking


2nd Prize Winner

Congratulations! You've won 1 digital image from the above collages, a certificate and a badge.

Please message me to claim your digi stamp using the contact form in the tab at the top of the page.



69. Andrea Norris


3rd Prize Winner

Congratulations! You've also won 1 digital image from the above collages, a certificate and a badge.

Please message me to claim your digi stamp using the contact form in the tab at the top of the page.



91. Jackie C

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DT Favourite Winners

Each entry receives a certificate and a badge.
Please download this month's certificate and badge here:




Belinda's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
39. Carole J

Carmen's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
249. Maz

Gill's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
75. Sharon 

Hadassah's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
8. Janis Lewis

Helen's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
9. Helen

Ivy's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
87. Marjeta

Karen's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
86. Crafty

Kyla's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
7. Carol Gill

Melanie's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
14. LeslieT

Sandra's  DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
44. Yvonne

Serene's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
31. Monique

Sharon's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
77. Sheryl Hare

Finally, my own DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
38. Renske

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Honorable Mention Winners


(in order of entry)

Each win a certificate and badge.
Honorable Mention Winners, please download this month's certificate and badge here:




Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
27. Lou Z 

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
54. Maria

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
59. Valérie

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
60. Francesca

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
63. Annette S

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
183. Katrina

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
192. Judy V

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
214. Aunty Sue

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
246. Patsy Long

Honorable Mention Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
263. Julia Vazquez
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Spotlight Winners

(in order of entry)

Each win a certificate and badge.
Spotlight Winners, please download this month's certificate and badge here:



Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
32. Trijntje

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
42. Pam

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
57. Alica

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
70. Lola

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
71. Kathie

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
96. Sweetpea

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
114. Debbie M

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
126. Claudia

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
163. Donna E

Spotlight Winner: wins a certificate and a badge
251. Ileana

Congratulations to all winners from our most recent challenge. All the entries were absolutely amazing and it was truly a very difficult decision to choose our winners.

Even if you weren't a winner this time, we still have this participation badge for you to download to add to your blog or Facebook page.




We thank all the entrants and hope you will join us for our next challenge which will commence 1st March, 2023 and will run through to 28th March, 2023.

You can enter our next challenge by simply clicking this link below, from 7:00am Australian Eastern Standard Time (ADST) (Sydney), Wednesday 1st March, 2023.

A PERFECT TIME TO CRAFT CHALLENGE BLOG

And, if you love our challenge why not show us some love by liking our Challenge's Facebook page. You can even leave a review to show us some love at:


A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge Facebook Page


Don't forget to join all the fun in our Facebook Group as well, where you can find some great tutorials, inspiration and lots of crafting support. Look forward to seeing you there!


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