A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: 2026

Welcome to A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge for March, #3-2026

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

Inspiration Video

DT Inspiration - Click to play on Facebook

February Winners, Challenge #2- 2026

Our winners from our February challenge will be announced on the 28th of March, 2026 at 7.00am, AEDT 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.

Cardmaking Tutorials, Support and Inspiration Facebook Page

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge Facebook Page

Cardmaking Tutorials, Support and Inspiration Facebook Group

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 collages 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 collages below, a certificate and a badge.

3rd Prize:1 sponsor image from the collages 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 ….

Moondrea Designs

You can join their Facebook Group HERE

And, there's an extra challenge to enter in the Moondrea Designs Facebook group!

Moondrea Designs Instagram can be found HERE

Moondrea Designs also has their very own blog HERE

And, I was also sponsoring!

I create cardmaking kits and designer resource sets and make them available as cheaply as I can over on my very own sales site.

This is the site to visit for discounted prices and larger quality images!

Anne Constantly-Carding

You can follow my public Facebook page here, where I always announce my newest sets as they become available.

You can also follow my Pinterest Board to keep up with all my sets as they go live.

And, you can also follow my Facebook profile page to see all my creations.

Sponsor have generously supplied these images for this challenge.

Moondrea Designs

Anne Constantly-Carding

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

Claire

Claire used Moondrea Designs' Butterflies

Gill

Gill used Moondrea Designs' Lilly Christmas

Helen

Helen used Moondrea Designs' Winter Fairy

Karen

Karen used Anne Constantly-Carding's Ballon Boy #6

Paula

Paula used Moondrea Designs' Mina Valentine

Sharon

Sharon used Moondrea Designs' Lilly Love

Teresa

Teresa used Anne Constantly-Carding's Cutest Easter Set

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 comments.

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.

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 over on Facebook. Just click on the image below to see the top post. I love making these and I hope you'll enjoy watching them.

Click to play on Facebook

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:

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com.au

The sponsors of our January challenge was:

Our sponsor for this month's challenge is

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

And, I was also sponsoring, again!

I create cardmaking kits and designer resource sets and make them available as cheaply as I can over on my very own sales site.

This is the site to visit for discounted prices and larger quality images!

You can follow my public Facebook page here, where I always announce my newest sets as they become available.

You can also follow my Pinterest Board to keep up with all my sets as they go live.

And, you can also follow my Facebook profile page to see all my creations.

These are the images our design team chose to use from Conie Fong Art & Design and Anne Constantly-Carding for the January Challenge...

Conie Fong Art & Design

Anne Constantly-Carding

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 or sets from the above collage, a certificate and a badge
PLUS

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

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

3rd Prize: 1 digital image or set from the above collage, 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 collage, 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.

58. Nonni

2nd Prize Winner

Congratulations! You've won 1 digital image from the above collage, 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.

41. Judy V

3rd Prize Winner

Congratulations! You've also won 1 digital image from the above collage, 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.

28. Ella

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DT Favourite Winners

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

Claire's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge

37. María

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

33. Margaret A

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

15. Paperesse

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

10. Ellie

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

150. MeSi

Paula's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge

36. Bernadet

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

78. Jackie C

Teresa's DT Favourite Winner: wins a certificate and a badge

81. Gloria Shirr

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

178. Bettascrap
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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: