Here we are sharing with you our 2nd Main Challenge reveal already!
We could not be more thrilled at your amazing response to More Than Words in just a little over a month! With over 500 blog followers, almost 1500 followers on Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram combined along with more than 150 entries to our January challenges (Main & Mini), we are extremely happy and grateful to be part of such a talented and inspiring community of artists!
We know you all are wondering what our February challenge is, so here goes...
Our Main Challenge is based on a Word Inspiration and a Creative Challenge.
This challenge is open to layouts, canvases and art journal pages only.
Word Inspiration - WONDERFUL
Creative Challenge - SPARKLE
Use the word "WONDERFUL" as inspiration to create your project!
You can chose to use the word somewhere on your project or to simply be inspired by it. Please explain in your blog post how it inspired you if it not obvious.
Our creative challenge is "SPARKLE".
We want to see projects that sparkle and shine! Add some subtle shimmer to your project or some serious bling - it's up to you. Anything that shines is fine!
VERY IMPORTANT!!! You have to incorporate both parts of the challenge, that is the word inspiration and the creative challenge, on your project in order to be eligible for a prize. Remember that our challenge concept is all about a WORD and more (thus our name More Than Words)! :) When we vote, we specifically look for projects that display BOTH requirements, and not just the creative challenge. Just look at our DT members' interpretation, as described underneath their project, as example.
Please check out our RULES to make sure that you are eligible for one of our prizes!
We have kept these rules very simple for you to play along. One of them is that
you must post our board image and a link to our blog in your entry post.
Before we get to our DT Reveal, here is one more important announcement...
We are happy to introduce a new addition to our Design Team this month!
"I am Arantzazu! I live in Bilboa, in Northern Spain. I am one of those people who thinks that knowledge does not occupy place so I'm still learning new things in my daily life and in the scrap world! I love to mix styles and am a huge fan of mixed media." Arantzazu's Blog
Welcome to the team Arantzazu!!
Arantzazu: "I am very positive and just wanted to capture my optimism in this project. I know that 2016 is going to be a WONDERFUL year. We are masters of the blank canvas that is our life... and we must paint it as we want it to be!
I chose lots of gold SPARKLE!"
Valerie: "When I think of the word WONDERFUL, I automatically think of my son. Life is not always easy, but he certainly makes it better and truly full of wonder! I've incorporated the creative challenge SPARKLE in my layout by adding a lot of glitter and shiny embellishments.
Rachael: "As you can see, I used the word WONDERFUL in my title. To add SPARKLE to my layout, I have added rhinestones and used sterling glass glitter!"
Valia: "What shines better than gold? And the contrast of gold against a black background makes it SPARKLE even brighter! I chose to scrap a photo of a ladies' night out. After all, best friends always have the most WONDERFUL time!"
Pam: "This layout is of my WONDERFUL mom. My mother was not only a wonderful person but she gave me a wonderful life. I photographed my page in -30 degrees celsius Canadian weather, trying to get the sun to set off all the glitter I used, but it doesn't show. I was inspired by my fellow DT member Di Garling's Smile tutorial and, believe me, the page is full of SPARKLE!"
Nicole: "I absolutely had to create a Winter layout for this challenge. Being Canadian, I have experienced all sides of Winter, and usually the bad outweighs the good! But I have to admit that the best part of this season is being able to take WONDERFUL pictures such as this tree covered in shimmery snow! I have added a lot of Winter Wonderland SPARKLE to my layout using glitter, shimmer paint, silver metal trinkets and several rhinestones."
Mona: "I used the word WONDERFUL as my title. To make my layout shine, I added lots of rhinestones, a shimmery embossed wooden snowflake, glittery kissed flowers and the shimmery die cut word 'SPARKLE'.
Lilibleu: "When I discovered the challenge, I was instantly inspired by the WONDERFUL world of fairies, goblins, elves and other magical creatures who immediately brought me back to my childhood. I used many SPARKLE elements like glitter, microbeads and shimmer to make my layout shine in order to recreate this wonderful world from my imagination!"
Kareen: "February is the month of love so I chose to work with a photo of my mom and I. I've used a sparkling turquoise paper and some stickles for the SPARKLE creative challenge and the word WONDERFUL as inspiration for my title. White, black and one punch of colour is a always a good combo!"
Helen: "This little girl in the photo is my mother in law, a WONDERFUL woman, as indicated in my journaling, who I love very much! To incorporate the SPARKLE creative challenge to my project, I used black gesso on my background and lots of glitter to make my page extra shiny.
Julia: "My layout reminisces about childhood, a beautiful and carefree time to which we all sometimes dream to return... where every moment was filled with new emotions. I used a photo from the 1970s that shows my husband as a little boy with his little girlfriend. His face is just so full of expression, a WONDERFUL moment captured. To make my page SPARKLE, I applied texture paste through a stencil and covered it with glitter. I also added dots of Stickles here and there."
Heather: "My three beautiful nieces have just visited us so I had no doubt what my subject matter would be for this challenge. I used the words 'simply WONDERFUL' on my page as that is what they truly are! For my SPARKLE, I added a Metallic Melts to my Dusty Attic chippies. This is a super sparkly combo that I use a lot."
Elena: "My layout is all about true love and special friendship between two people which is what makes life WONDERFUL! I added lots of glitter and shimmery accent to my page to make it shine and SPARKLE."
Di: "I used the word WONDERFUL in a little quote on the left side of my photo that says 'some kind of wonderful'. My layout is super SPARKLY although it doesn't really show in the photo. It has sparkles and glitter everywhere!!"
Hoping that all these WONDERFUL creations from our DT
will SPARKLE your creativity and inspire you to play along this month!
All our prizes include international postage!
MAIN CHALLENGE WINNER
$50 USD worth of products from LEMONCRAFT
Here is more information about our 1st place sponsor this month:
"Lemoncraft was born from a passion and desire to fulfill your creative dreams! We are a Polish manufacture of products for all paper craft artists who share our passion for beautiful artistic designs. In our product selection, you will find a wide range of scrapbooking papers, ribbons, flowers, buttons/badges (flair) as well as other useful items for scrapbooking, card-making, decoupage and many other
areas of creativity and inspiration!"
Next, 4 runners up will each be awarded a prize valued at $25 USD.
1st RUNNER UP
a prize package from
2 CRAFTY
(image below is for illustration purposes only)
2nd RUNNER UP
3rd RUNNER UP
4th RUNNER UP
In addition, we will draw 1 random winner from all eligible entries.
Because we LOVE giving away prizes, we have added a new one to the mix!
Each month, we will hand pick a mystery winner from all entries received who hasn't made it to our TOP 5, but who has captured our attention someway somehow. We might pick a project due to its original use of a certain product, the cleverest title, most beautiful photo! Who knows what we will be looking for?! That's why we call it our MYSTERY PRIZE!
Sponsorship of this prize every month comes from
a brand new sponsor added to our lineup!
And last, but certainly not least, we will randomly award a prize to
1 lucky blog follower who has commented on any of our February BLOG posts.
LUCKY COMMENTER
To learn more about all our generous sponsors, click on the SPONSORS tab above!
We look forward to seeing your interpretation of our
February WONDERFUL & SPARKLE challenge!
Link up your project using the LinkyTool in the right sidebar
by February 29th at 11:59 pm EST!!
(Please note that you need to share your entry for our
main challenge via a blog post to be eligible!
We unfortunately cannot accept entries via Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr or other.)
