Color Challenge Entries Every month, a group of area Stampin’ Up! demonstrators get together. We talk about stamping news and business tips, share projects we’ve created (kind of like &…

I made a Latte Love card for the latest Creative Colour Challenge. Why not join in this fun colour challenge too?

Did you see Lindy's Stamp Gang's Challenge for December? These colors are a challenge for me because sometimes you can't see past the colors of the season! This is an awesome color challenge! Take a peek at what I created! I got my Lindy's Stamp Gang's Magical powders out and tried them, OH MY GOSH so much fun to create with, they really are Magic!!! I created on an 8x10 canvas! I used Tannenbaum Green Gold Embossing Powder for the chipboard frame. I hope you get a chance to join the fun at Lindy's Stamp Gang! Here is my Lindy's Stamp Gang's product list: Tannanbaum Green Gold Embossing Powder Peony Scarlet Red Starburst spray Bonjour Butter Flat Fabio spray Midnight Rendezvous Raven Starburst spray Industrial Chic Magicals Powdered Pigments Thank you for stopping by! Happy Creating!

Love love loved your July Color Challenge entries this month, so many travel-themed creations that we had a hard time choosing - you all just outdid yourselve

Untitled, 1926-1954 By Augustin Lesage Oil on Canvas About the Art Lesage’s patterns are unmistakable. After noting the symmetry of the first large canvas, he began organizing his compositions along a central axis, building complex geometric structures in horizontal layers from the center outward. An article by Christian Delacampagne quoted on Lesage’s Wikipédia article states (translation): The first large painting of Augustin Lesage is one of the most daring in modern art. Although not, strictly speaking, non-figurative (figures both architectural and anthropomorphic abound), it explores almost all possibilities of abstraction—lyrical as well as geometric—at a time when the latter, among professional artists, was still in its infancy. They are no less ornamental and decorative than the works of Kandinsky, Lesage’s spiritual contemporary. Indeed, is the distance so great between the the Theosophy dear to the Russian artist and the Spiritualism embraced by the French? The former hearkens to Rudolf Steiner, the latter to Léon Denis. About the Artist Lesage was born in Saint-Pierre-lez-Auchel in northern France, and spent his early life as a laborer in the coal mines. Then one evening in 1911, when he was thirty-five years old, he heard a voice underground that told him “One day, you will be a painter.” A year later, partly through his involvement in Spiritualist circles, Lesage began communicating via automatic writing with “spirits,” including one he believed to be his sister Mary who had died in childhood. The spirits told him, "The voices you heard were real. You will be a painter. Fear not, and heed our advice. You will find it ridiculous in the beginning, but we are the ones tracing through your hand. Do not try to understand." The voices proceeded to tell him which colors and brushes to buy, and where to order a canvas. Lesage ordered a small canvas, but when it arrived, it measured three meters square. He wanted to cut it into smaller pieces, but the voices stopped him. For the next two years, he came home from the mines every night and went to work, letting the spirits guide his hand. He began in the upper right corner and gradually filled the entire canvas (which is now in Jean Dubuffet’s Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne). The composition was built by filling in small areas at a time. The spirits did not let him evaluate the work in its entirety: part of the canvas remained rolled as they guided his hand. “It was like working without working,” the artist recalled. In July of 1913, Lesage interrupted his work in the mines to do some faith healing; a move that got him in hot water with French authorities who charged him with illegally practicing medicine. The testimony of his dozens of successful clients helped acquit him in 1914 and later that year he was deployed for WWI, where he continued to make drawings on postcards. In the years following the war, Augustin Lesage was visited by Jean Meyer, director of the Spiritualist journal La Revue Spirite. Meyer became his patron, and in 1923 Lesage was able to quit working in the mines and devote himself to painting. Like the paintings themselves, Lesage’s position within art history is peculiar. Though held in high esteem by the Surrealists, Lesage’s legacy is strong but obscure: of the 800 canvases he left behind, most have seldom been exhibited abroad. English-speaking audiences are hard pressed to find any information on the artist. (I just ordered a French exhibition catalogue from a 1988 retrospective.) Augustin Lesage’s “classical period” is the period between 1916 and 1927, when he painted his most representative works. A growing fascination with Egypt, natural forms, and the ornamental traditions of various cultures gave Lesage a newfound source of conscious influence, diluting the purity of his earlier compositions and creating images that appear more self-conscious and perhaps less directly inspired. Lesage continued painting until failing eyesight and health forced him to resign in 1952, less than two years before his death. Our Sponsors Our Sponsors this month are B'Sue Boutique, Gardanne Beads and Gaea Handmade. Please visit us tomorrow to see the prizes! How to enter the Monthly Challenge: 1. You need to have a Pinterest account. Go get one ASAP if you don't have one already. It's easy, fun and inspiring. 2. Email us at [email protected] to get added to the monthly challenge board. Subject: Monthly Challenge Board Request You will be emailed an invite to the board within 48 hours. Accept the invite and you are ready to pin your entries. 3. Two ways to pin your entry to the board. Pin your photo from the internet (on your blog, Etsy shop, etc.) Add your photo directly from your computer Create something using an art bead that fits within our monthly theme. We post the art to be used as your inspiration to create. This challenge is open to jewelry-makers, fiber artists, collage artist, etc. The art bead can be created by you or someone else. The challenge is to inspire those who use art beads and to see all the different ways art beads can be incorporated into your handiwork. An Art Bead must be used in your piece to qualify for the monthly challenge. ***Beads strung on a chain, by themselves and beads simply added to wire or cord will not be accepted.*** Please add the tag or title APR ABS to your photos. Include a short description, who created the art beads and a link to your blog, if you have one. Deadline is May 31st. You may upload 2 entries per month. ENTRIES for ART BEAD ARTISTS!! • Beads Makers Pinterest Board-Art beads must be created by you and fit the Art Bead Scene's monthly challenge theme. They can be made for the challenge or ones you have made before. 2 entries per month are allowed. One entry will be picked by the editors on the 30th of each month for a free month of advertising on the Art Bead Scene. Bead entries have to be pinned by the 29th of the month. Beads only - do not post jewelry on this board. If a post doesn't fit the challenge it will be deleted. Monthly Challenge Recap • Please post at least one single shot of your creation on the Pinterest Board. This will be used to make a collage for the Monthly Challenge Gallery. Every creation will be added to the collage, regardless of a blog post. So everyone gets included! Your entry must be on Pinterest 2 days BEFORE the recap to be included. • Be sure to share with us the name of the art bead artist in the description of your photo so that if you are selected for the weekly Perfect Pairings on Wednesdays, both you as the designer and the art bead artist can get the credit you both deserve! • An InLinkz button will be added to the bottom of the Monthly Challenge Recap post. Here you will be able to link up your blog post if you have one. It is no longer necessary to add your blog post URL to the description unless you want to. Be sure to hop around and see all the great inspiration and leave some comment love! • The Monthly Challenge Recap with Blog Tour will be posted on May 30th. Monthly Challenge Winners • One prize winner will be selected at random from all pictures posted on the Pinterest board. • One prize winner will be selected at random from all blog posts added to the hop for the Monthly Challenge Recap post. So if you want to be in the pool for the second prize, be sure to use the InLinkz code at the bottom of the post to share your process and inspirations! • Winners will be randomly chosen from all the qualifying entries on May 1st. Perfect Pairings :: Designer + Art Bead Artist • Formerly the Featured Designer of the Week, our new Perfect Pairings will focus on both the jewelry designer and the art bead artist. • Be sure to point out all the art bead artists in your work in the description of the photo on the Pinterest Board. Links to their website or shop are appreciated. That way we can all find new art beads to love! • From all the entries during the month, an editor will pick their favorite design to be featured every Wednesday here on ABS, so get those entries in soon. What is an Art Bead? An art bead is a bead, charm, button or finding made by an independent artist. Art beads are the vision and handiwork of an individual artist. You can read more about art beads here. ***A bead that is handmade is not necessarily an art bead. Hill Tribe Silver, Kazuri ceramic beads or lampwork beads made in factories are examples of handmade beads that are not considered art beads. Beaded beads, stamped metal pendants or wire-wrapped components are not considered art beads for our challenge.***

Hi all! Just returning from a fabulous NYC travel and sharing my take on Lindy's Stamp Gang's June Color Challenge. Come play with us!! I previously used this page to clean stamps and as it already had "something" in it,...

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Wow, our October Color Challenge entries this month absolutely amazed us - so many beautiful entries - so many amazing romantic colored creations and so much cr

Amapolas, 1913 Illustration published in "News of Spring and Other Nature Studies By Edward Julius Detmold Watercolor, 208 by 124mm (Please note this art is copyrighted and is to be used only as inspiration.) About the Art This beautifully piece of art was illustrated using watercolors. Edward and his brother Charles worked jointly on paintings, illustrations and etching. The illustrations were printed into color plates for the books being published. …just two fresh, frank, straightforward English boys, as shy and modest as English boys usually are and ought to be, possessing unlimited faith in their own powers, yet in no way exaggerating to themselves the excellence of their craftsmen’s ability or the limits of their own genius. About the Artist British illustrator Edward Julius Detmold (1883 – 1957). Edward and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold (1883 – 1908) were born in London in 1883. They were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and their love of natural history. Their animal subjects were always among the most sensitive of their drawings. Prodigious early talents, they exhibited watercolours at the Royal Academy when they were 13 and had a portfolio of etchings issued in 1898. The brothers worked jointly on their etchings and illustrations. Their first book illustrations were produced jointly for the 1899 Pictures From Birdland. Their next project, at the age of 20, was a portfolio of sixteen watercolours inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. They were well on their way to joint and individual success when Maurice suddenly committed suicide in 1908 – he was twenty-four years of age. No satisfactory explanation for the act has even been given. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of suicide 'whilst unsound of mind' and there was apparently a note as well. Edward was stunned by the sudden death of his twin, but managed to continue on with his art. His next book illustrations practically defined him to his publishers and their patrons. These were the 1909 The Fables of Aesop for which he did twenty-three colour plates and numerous pen and ink chapter headings. Then came Maurice Maeterlink's The Life of the Bee and Birds and Beasts and The Book of Baby Beasts in 1911. In 1912, it was the Book of Baby Birds and Hours of Gladness. Other books had titles like The Book of Baby Pets and The Book of Baby Dogs (1915), Our Little Neighbours and Fabre's Book of Insects (1921) - all reflecting the natural history that had so fascinated him as a youngster. Even when he branched out, as he theoretically did in 1924 with his The Arabian Nights, he was just as likely to choose animals to illustrate as he was to depict humans. It was to be his last illustrated work. In 1921 he had written a tract to attempt to explain himself, his work and his life. To quote from Keith Nicholson's introductory essay in The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold: "A decade of intense activity was drawing to a close. Detmold could look back upon some fine achievements, but he was disillusioned with many of the uninspiring commissions for children's books he had undertaken. A pointless and destructive world war emphasized his worst forebodings of man's direction in the new century. The happiness of his childhood and the loss of his twin brother, now recollected in an uneasy tranquillity, combined to produce an existential crisis in the artist. In the wake of feeling that life for him had become meaningless and intolerable, he produced a literary work which testifies to his readings in Schopenhauerian pessimism and the Buddhist philosophy of the Upanishadr and the Bhagavad-Gita. Life, his only un-illustrated work, a book of aphorisms, was published by J. M. Dent in 1921. A key book to an understanding of Detmold's mind, Life is an inauspicious-looking small volume printed on one side of the leaf only. In his preface the author writes: `The following words have come to the writer, over a period of many years, as the fruits of self-overcoming.' From the curious, mystical text we learn that there are two ways of attainment: `The direct positive way - through progressive liberation - passing from the lesser realisation of the body, to the greater realisation of the mind, and therefrom to the realisation of the infinite through the soul; and the direct negative way -through disillusionment - which comes of infatuation with things in themselves, and the inevitable passing thereof.' In the event, Life was Detmold's farewell to the public world of books, and his testament." Resigned from the world, Detmold went to live in Montgomeryshire where, after a long retirement and almost totally forgotten, he died in July, 1957. Strangely, there exists no official record of his death, though it is believed that he too committed suicide. Our Sponsors Our Sponsors this month are Earth Butter Beads, Big Bead Little Bead and Earthenwood Studio. Please visit us tomorrow to see the prizes! How to enter the Monthly Challenge: 1. You need to have a Pinterest account. Go get one ASAP if you don't have one already. It's easy, fun and inspiring. 2. Email us at [email protected] to get added to the monthly challenge board. Subject: Monthly Challenge Board Request You will be emailed an invite to the board within 48 hours. Accept the invite and you are ready to pin your entries. 3. Two ways to pin your entry to the board. Pin your photo from the internet (on your blog, Etsy shop, etc.) Add your photo directly from your computer Create something using an art bead that fits within our monthly theme. We post the art to be used as your inspiration to create. This challenge is open to jewelry-makers, fiber artists, collage artist, etc. The art bead can be created by you or someone else. The challenge is to inspire those who use art beads and to see all the different ways art beads can be incorporated into your handiwork. An Art Bead must be used in your piece to qualify for the monthly challenge. ***Beads strung on a chain, by themselves and beads simply added to wire or cord will not be accepted.*** Please add the tag or title FEB ABS to your photos. Include a short description, who created the art beads and a link to your blog, if you have one. Deadline is February 28th. You may upload 2 entries per month. ENTRIES for ART BEAD ARTISTS!! • Beads Makers Pinterest Board-Art beads must be created by you and fit the Art Bead Scene's monthly challenge theme. They can be made for the challenge or ones you have made before. 2 entries per month are allowed. One entry will be picked by the editors on the 28th of each month for a free month of advertising on the Art Bead Scene. Bead entries have to be pinned by the 27th of the month. Beads only - do not post jewelry on this board. If a post doesn't fit the challenge it will be deleted. Monthly Challenge Recap • Please post at least one single shot of your creation on the Pinterest Board. This will be used to make a collage for the Monthly Challenge Gallery. Every creation will be added to the collage, regardless of a blog post. So everyone gets included! Your entry must be on Pinterest 2 days BEFORE the recap to be included. • Be sure to share with us the name of the art bead artist in the description of your photo so that if you are selected for the weekly Perfect Pairings on Wednesdays, both you as the designer and the art bead artist can get the credit you both deserve! • An InLinkz button will be added to the bottom of the Monthly Challenge Recap post. Here you will be able to link up your blog post if you have one. It is no longer necessary to add your blog post URL to the description unless you want to. Be sure to hop around and see all the great inspiration and leave some comment love! • The Monthly Challenge Recap with Blog Tour will be posted on February 28th. Monthly Challenge Winners • One prize winner will be selected at random from all pictures posted on the Pinterest board. • One prize winner will be selected at random from all blog posts added to the hop for the Monthly Challenge Recap post. So if you want to be in the pool for the second prize, be sure to use the InLinkz code at the bottom of the post to share your process and inspirations! • Winners will be randomly chosen from all the qualifying entries on February 1st. Perfect Pairings :: Designer + Art Bead Artist • Formerly the Featured Designer of the Week, our new Perfect Pairings will focus on both the jewelry designer and the art bead artist. • Be sure to point out all the art bead artists in your work in the description of the photo on the Pinterest Board. Links to their website or shop are appreciated. That way we can all find new art beads to love! • From all the entries during the month, an editor will pick their favorite design to be featured every Wednesday here on ABS, so get those entries in soon. What is an Art Bead? An art bead is a bead, charm, button or finding made by an independent artist. Art beads are the vision and handiwork of an individual artist. You can read more about art beads here. ***A bead that is handmade is not necessarily an art bead. Hill Tribe Silver, Kazuri ceramic beads or lampwork beads made in factories are examples of handmade beads that are not considered art beads. Beaded beads, stamped metal pendants or wire-wrapped components are not considered art beads for our challenge.***

Had to stop in with ONE more post today to get my entry in for Moxie Fab! Scroll down to see my DeNami Color Challenge and Lawnscaping Challenge posts! So the challenge here was to incorporate playing cards into the design. Here is my card... I printed the sentiment from my computer on the card base. Then I made my own playing card! I cut the card 2 3/4 x 3 3/4" and then rounded the corners. I use PTI's Fresh Alphabet for the "A" and the Heart Dies for the hearts. I made my own black frame, tracing a card of the same proportions, just 1" smaller. I attached the smaller hearts straight to the card and popped the center heart up on foam tape. I made a black mat and then attached it and the playing card to the card base! Stop over to the Moxie Fab blog and see all of the amazing playing card creations! And you still have time to play along!

I received so many awesome entries for the November color challenge! So exciting! Thanks ladies! Congratulations to Sue Conrad on winning the drawing for the frosted finishes embellishments and…I also have a little surprise gift for Sue too! Way to go Sue!Each month I am offering a different color challenge! And…of course, if you join ... Read more

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The One Room Challenge™ is a biannual interior design blog and Instagram event. In each round, twenty design influencers are selected to take the challenge as Featured Designers, and transform a space and any blogger or Instagrammer can join as ORC Guest Participant by linking their own room transformation each week. Every Wednesday, the designers document their […]

Happy Friday…this sure was a short week but there’s no complaining here! My project today is my entry for the Pals Paper Arts color challenge…. After looking through my paper stash and realizing that I didn’t have any DSP with these colors, I decided to make my own. I am pretty happy with the results and will definitely be doing this again. The card base is Sahara Sand with a mat of Night of Navy.… Continue reading

Hold on to your hats folks, because the colors this week at colourQ feature some oldies but goodies! I had to go way inside the box of stuff I've been meaning to sell on eBay for ages, but I did manage to score a piece of Creamy Caramel. You remember that color don't you? Now this bag, a nearly $3,000 number from Nieman Marcus is in stock and waiting for your purchase! And it's also our inspiration this week. I wanted to a some kind of justice to the color-block look of the bag and got it in my head that the retro sketch this week was perfect for what I had in mind. I wish I had used a bit more Going Gray (yes, I found some of that in my stash too) instead of just using it on the polka dots on the gift. But live and learn I say! In any event, I'm happy with how this came out. Who could ask for anything more? So hop on over to colourQ and check out the latest colors and inspiration from the design team. Then join us in the gallery because we love it when you do! Supplies: Stamps: Happy Moments, It's Your Birthday (SU) Accessories: baker's twine; white embossing powder; Blushing Bride button (SU); Dimensionals (SU)

Haida Totems, 1912 By Emily Carr Watercolor on Paper 76mm x 55mm BC Archives, Canada About the Art In 1912, with some fanfare in the Vancouver press, Emily set off alone on a momentous six-week trip, going through Alert Bay, to the Tsimshian villages of the coast of northern mainland British Columbia, to the Gitxsan villages in the interior, and ultimately to the even more remote settlements of the Haida people on an archipelago then called the Queen Charlotte Islands, now known as Haida Gwaii. "There were many fine totem poles in Cha-atl — Haida poles, tragic and fierce. The wood of them was bleached out, but looked green from the mosses which grew in the chinks, and the tufts of grass on the heads of the figures stuck up like coarse hair. The human faces carved on the totem poles were stern and grim, the animal faces fierce and strong; supernatural things were pictured on the poles too. Everything about Cha-atl was so vast and deep you shrivelled up." The art chronicles of her journey were made using pencil and watercolor. Her art took on bright hues and bold brushstrokes of the Fauvist paintings she saw in Paris in 1910. About the Artist Emily Carr was born December 13, 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia. She moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after the death of her parents. In 1899 she travelled to England to deepen her studies, where she spent time at the Westminster School of Art in London and at various studio schools in Cornwall, Bushey, Hertfordshire, and elsewhere. In 1910, she spent a year studying art at the Académie Colarossi in Paris and elsewhere in France before moving back to British Columbia permanently the following year. She lived in France in 1910 where the work of the Fauves influenced the colourism of her work and she came into contact with Frances Hodgkins. Discouraged by her lack of artistic success, she returned to Victoria where she came close to giving up art altogether. Carr was most heavily influenced by the landscape and First Nations cultures of British Columbia, and Alaska. Having visited a mission school beside the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Ucluelet in 1898, in 1908 she was inspired by a visit to Skagway and began to paint the totem poles of the coastal Kwakwaka’wakw, Haida, Tsimshian, Tlingit and other communities, in an attempt to record and learn from as many as possible. In 1913 she was obliged by financial considerations to return permanently to Victoria after a few years in Vancouver, both of which towns were, at that time, conservative artistically. Influenced by styles such as post impressionism and Fauvism, her work was alien to those around her and remained unknown to and unrecognized by the greater art world for many years. For more than a decade she worked as a potter, dog breeder and boarding house landlady, having given up on her artistic career. However, her contact with the Group of Seven in 1930 resurrected her interest in art. A unique Canadian genre and cadre of artists entirely unknown to her, notably the Group of Seven. She met Arthur Lismer, A.Y. Jackson and Lawren Harris. Harris was to have a profound influence and their friendship endured for the rest of her life. Throughout the 1930s she specialized in scenes from the lives and rituals of Native Americans. She also showed her awareness of Canadian native culture through a number of works representing the British Columbian rainforest. She lived among the native Americans to research her subjects. Many of her Expressionistic paintings represent totem poles and other artefacts of Indian culture. She died March 2, 1945 and is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria. Our Sponsors Our Sponsors this month are Studio Marcy, Hollowlogy and Areto. Please visit us tomorrow to see the prizes! How to enter the Monthly Challenge: 1. You need to have a Pinterest account. Go get one ASAP if you don't have one already. It's easy, fun and inspiring. 2. Email us at [email protected] to get added to the monthly challenge board. Subject: Monthly Challenge Board Request You will be emailed an invite to the board within 48 hours. Accept the invite and you are ready to pin your entries. 3. Two ways to pin your entry to the board. Pin your photo from the internet (on your blog, Etsy shop, etc.) Add your photo directly from your computer Create something using an art bead that fits within our monthly theme. We post the art to be used as your inspiration to create. This challenge is open to jewelry-makers, fiber artists, collage artist, etc. The art bead can be created by you or someone else. The challenge is to inspire those who use art beads and to see all the different ways art beads can be incorporated into your handiwork. An Art Bead must be used in your piece to qualify for the monthly challenge. ***Beads strung on a chain, by themselves and beads simply added to wire or cord will not be accepted.*** Please add the tag or title MAR ABS to your photos. Include a short description, who created the art beads and a link to your blog, if you have one. Deadline is March 31st. You may upload 2 entries per month. ENTRIES for ART BEAD ARTISTS!! • Beads Makers Pinterest Board-Art beads must be created by you and fit the Art Bead Scene's monthly challenge theme. They can be made for the challenge or ones you have made before. 2 entries per month are allowed. One entry will be picked by the editors on the 28th of each month for a free month of advertising on the Art Bead Scene. Bead entries have to be pinned by the 27th of the month. Beads only - do not post jewelry on this board. If a post doesn't fit the challenge it will be deleted. Monthly Challenge Recap • Please post at least one single shot of your creation on the Pinterest Board. This will be used to make a collage for the Monthly Challenge Gallery. Every creation will be added to the collage, regardless of a blog post. So everyone gets included! Your entry must be on Pinterest 2 days BEFORE the recap to be included. • Be sure to share with us the name of the art bead artist in the description of your photo so that if you are selected for the weekly Perfect Pairings on Wednesdays, both you as the designer and the art bead artist can get the credit you both deserve! • An InLinkz button will be added to the bottom of the Monthly Challenge Recap post. Here you will be able to link up your blog post if you have one. It is no longer necessary to add your blog post URL to the description unless you want to. Be sure to hop around and see all the great inspiration and leave some comment love! • The Monthly Challenge Recap with Blog Tour will be posted on January 30th. Monthly Challenge Winners • One prize winner will be selected at random from all pictures posted on the Pinterest board. • One prize winner will be selected at random from all blog posts added to the hop for the Monthly Challenge Recap post. So if you want to be in the pool for the second prize, be sure to use the InLinkz code at the bottom of the post to share your process and inspirations! • Winners will be randomly chosen from all the qualifying entries on February 1st. Perfect Pairings :: Designer + Art Bead Artist • Formerly the Featured Designer of the Week, our new Perfect Pairings will focus on both the jewelry designer and the art bead artist. • Be sure to point out all the art bead artists in your work in the description of the photo on the Pinterest Board. Links to their website or shop are appreciated. That way we can all find new art beads to love! • From all the entries during the month, an editor will pick their favorite design to be featured every Wednesday here on ABS, so get those entries in soon. What is an Art Bead? An art bead is a bead, charm, button or finding made by an independent artist. Art beads are the vision and handiwork of an individual artist. You can read more about art beads here. ***A bead that is handmade is not necessarily an art bead. Hill Tribe Silver, Kazuri ceramic beads or lampwork beads made in factories are examples of handmade beads that are not considered art beads. Beaded beads, stamped metal pendants or wire-wrapped components are not considered art beads for our challenge.***

Wow, our June Color Challenge entries this month absolutely stunned us silly - so many beautiful soft romantic creations and so much creativity in every single

Love love loved your soft and pretty 3D creations for our September Color Challenge entries! Thank you so, so much for participating & loving your Lindy

Welcome to the Global Design Project #153 - it's time for another Color Challenge! This week's color challenge is a fun and bright mix of Daffodil Delight , Flirty Flamingo and Soft Suede. Do you want to be on the Global Design Project Design team?? THIS is your week to play along. During each colour challenge, we select one person to be the Guest Designer for the following colour challenge. Sounds exciting doesn't it? IT IS! Our Color Challenge Winner last month was Holley Smith and she is joining us today as our Guest Designer. We are thrilled to have her as a Guest Designer this week. Here's her project: Holley Smith Here are this week's projects from the Design Team: Brian King Charlet Mallett Connie Collins Kerstin Kreis Manuela Geiswinkler Sarah Berry Steffi Helmschrott Guidelines: Your creation must be NEW and reflect our project inspiration parameters. LINK your entry DIRECTLY to the blog post or other gallery. Please MENTION Global Design Project in your blog post and link back to us. When sharing publicly please use our hashtag #GDP153. We reserve the right to remove any links that do not comply with our guidelines. Deadline for entries closes on Monday September 3, 2018 4:00pm AEST. To view some of our time/dates in your region please see our Schedule. Winners will be announced Monday September 3, 2018. When you play along with our challenges you can request to be one of our collaborators on our exclusive Global Design Project Pinterest Board. You can then pin your projects allowing even more people to be inspired by your creations. Click here to find out how you can make this request to join the Pinterest Board. Make sure you link to your direct blog post not just your blog and use the tag - #GDP153. Have fun and thanks so much for playing along! The GDP Team xo Add your projects here:

Love love loved your soft and subtly colored August Color Challenge entries, you all just outdid yourselves with the varied and beautiful creations and the te

Check out my entry into the Global Design Project #GDP097 Color Challenge using the Awesomely Artistic stamp set and watercoloring.

Love love loved your soft and pretty 3D creations for our September Color Challenge entries! Thank you so, so much for participating & loving your Lindy

Love love loved your soft and pretty 3D creations for our September Color Challenge entries! Thank you so, so much for participating & loving your Lindy

Not gonna lie, our May Color Challenge entries this month were natural beauties - so many calm and inspired creations that we had a hard time choosing - you all

Not gonna lie, our May Color Challenge entries this month were natural beauties - so many calm and inspired creations that we had a hard time choosing - you all

Welcome to the SheepSki Designs Blog Challenge. First we would like to thank everyone for their beautiful entries into our challenge. Kathy has the honour of picking our top three from Challenge #84 so she will be very busy reviewing all your beautiful creations ;) The random winner & top 3 will be announced on 15 April. ******** The challenge for April 2024 is ANYTHING GOES!! :) Please note our challenges sometimes have a theme. Make sure you check carefully before entering! Entries without a blog are welcome! The challenge will run from April 1-30 2024. The link to the rules is here Have fun and we're looking forward to seeing your beautiful creations!! ******** And now its time for some inspiration from the Design Team Annette using Serenity Annie using Taking Pics Carole using Grace Gail using Coffee Break Granne using Tulips Helen using Jack Lisa using Griff Andrea using Gnome-punk Please note that it's not always possible for the DT ladies to comment on entries that are not blog submissions - BUT - you will be considered for the random draw and top three :) You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Week 8 of the One Room Challenge Entry and Stairway Reveal with Rebecca Propes.

Love love loved your July Color Challenge entries this month, so many travel-themed creations that we had a hard time choosing - you all just outdid yourselve

Hi Gang – It’s hhheeeeerrrrreeeeee!!! January's Challenge is up and running and do we have some great festive inspiration for you! Please come join us