Announcing Our October Challenge Winners

Hello everyone and a big thank you to all who entered our first challenge after from our summer break!

We enjoyed seeing all of your entries and of course we also enjoyed creating for our challenges!  Thank you also to the Design Team for all of your inspiration.  Now let's see who our October winners are...

How to claim your prize

Winners, please contact the prize sponsor within 30 days, and in your email to the sponsors, please clearly indicate:

** YOUR FULL NAME

** YOUR SHIPPING ADDRESS

** THE MONTH AND PRIZE WON

(ex: January - Australia / Europe / USA / International etc)
Prizewinners:  Please also refer to this handy guide.

 

>>MAIN CHALLENGE WINNERS<<

We now have THREE winners and THREE prizes for the Main Challenge.  In addition, we would like to invite our Main challenge winners to be Guest Designers in a future challenge.  Please see the end of the post for more details.

Regional Challenge Winner - Europe/International 

#12 Mogiart - Ukraine

Congratulations Mogiart, you have won a $25 USD value prize from AB STUDIO

Regional Challenge Winner US/International

 

#3 Dana Tatar - USA

Congratulations Dana, you have won a $25 USD value prize from LEMONCRAFT

Regional Challenge Winner - Canada/International

#2 Helen Hollinger - Canada

Congratulations Helen, you have won a $25 USD value *DIGITAL* prize from GECKO GALZ

>>MINI CHALLENGE WINNERS<<

We now have ONE winner and ONE prize for the Mini Challenge.  In addition, we would like to invite our winner and our runners-up to be Guest Designers in a future challenge.  Please see the end of the post for more details.

As this challenge is now held in our Facebook Group, the links below will take you to the group, if you wish to view more photos.

Mini Challenge Winner

Cyrille (Papascrap) - France

Congratulations Cyrille, you have won a $25 USD value prize from ITD COLLECTION

Mini Challenge Runners-Up

Heidi Mattessich - USA

Rachel Dutko - Australia

Thank you to our Sponsors

We are very grateful to all our generous sponsors for these fabulous prizes.

To learn more about any of them, click on the SPONSORS tab.

Congratulations to all our winners

Congrats once again to all our winners and thank you to everyone who entered the challenge. We encourage all merit winners and runners-up to grab your badges from this post and proudly display it on your blog or social media. 

(for Mogiart, Dana Tatar, Helen Hollinger, Cyrille)

(for Heidi Mattessich and Rachel Dutko)

Share Your Winnings

SHARE YOUR UNBOXING - We would love to see your unboxing photos or videos! Share with us using the hashtags #MTWPrizeWinner and 

#MTWPrizeUnboxing on Instagram when you receive your prize or by tagging the sponsor plus More Than Words Challenges on Facebook.

SHARE WHAT YOU MAKE - We'd also love to see what you make using your prize products, so please show us by using the hashtags #MTWPrizeWinner  and #MTWPrizeWinnerMake on Instagram and Facebook.

PERMISSION TO SHARE PHOTOS - We'd love to share your good news so please also tag your photos with #MTWShare for permission to be featured on More Than Words' social media.

*** Special Guest Designer ***

We would like to invite all of our October 2021 winners and runners-up to be Guest Designers in a future challenge.  If you are interested, please leave a comment below with your contact details and we will get in touch (your details are safe as the comment will not be published).  Alternately, send us a message us via More Than Words Facebook Page

November 2021 Mini Challenge - GRATEFUL

 Hello everyone!

Welcome to our November Mini Challenge where we are asking you to use the word GRATEFUL on your mini projects. What are you feeling grateful for?  Tell us below and add it to your Mini project!

PLEASE NOTE:  We have relocated our mini challenge to our new Facebook Group where you can now enter your project in the November album before the end of the month.  

ELLE - EOTC
Elle says: I made a tag from an old amazon box, and painted it with many layers of Paperartsy Fresco Chalk Paints using my brayer.  The tag is cut so that it has a window opening in the front and through that, you can see the quote "Be grateful, not only for others, but for yourself".  Something we tend to forget about, and it is important for our wellbeing, I think.

YULIA POPKOVA

How to enter

The Mini Challenge runs in our Facebook group from today until the end of the month.

Enter your cards, tags, ATCs and postcards ONLY!

You MUST include the challenge word on your project! 

*ATCs. or Artist Trading Cards, are small works of art,

about 2.5 by 3.5 inches or 64 x 89 mm.

You have two weeks - until the last day of the month - to enter, so be quick!

Please read the rules before entering.

This year we have changed to a Regional Prize structure, whereby there will be multiple Mini Challenge Winners, one or more for each Region.  The number of Winners/Prizes for each Region is dependent on the number of Sponsors for that Region and also the number of entries.  Some of our Sponsors remain as International Sponsors but many are now Region specific. It is now more important than ever that you add your NAME and COUNTRY to your entries!   

Our Fabulous Sponsors this quarter include:

Thanks to our Sponsors

We are very grateful to all our generous sponsors for these fabulous prizes. To learn more about any of them, click here or on the SPONSORS tab above.

Special Guest Designer

One participant, handpicked by our Admin team, may be invited to be our Special Guest Designer.

You have two weeks to enter below

We hope that you feel inspired by our challenge word and our DT inspiration this month and look forward to seeing your Mini Challenge projects!

Entry for the Mini Challenge is NOW held in our Facebook group!

Join our Facebook Group

Our Facebook group is now open!  Just click on the image below or visit our Facebook page to join.

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November Main Challenge - GRATITUDE and use MOOD BOARD

  Hello everyone and welcome back to our regularly scheduled Main Challenge!   

November Main Challenge

This month, we have made some changes and we want you to use our challenge board to create an ART JOURNAL PAGE!  

Our challenge has two parts, please use both prompts to inspire you:

Word Inspiration:  GRATITUDE
Creative Challenge:  use MOOD BOARD

Helpful Tips For The Challenge

This is an art journalling challenge so for example you could use the word GRATITUDE on your page or write a gratitude list on your page! Use our MOOD BOARD colours or images to inspire your page in part or in full, it's up to you!

 

AGA MIRKOWSKA

Aga says: GRATITUDE is the word of our October challenge. I also got inspired by beautiful autumn moodboard - shades of orange, gold, brown and a little bit of dark blue for contrast.

KAT PALECZNY

Kat says:  Introducing my junk art journal, which I used things found on my desk to create.

The keyword is GRATITUDE and the colours I used are from the autumn mood board.  

SHARON FRITCHMAN

Sharon says:  I have so much GRATITUDE for the beauty all around me, especially during Fall. I used the MOOD BOARD as the basis for my Fall color scheme and theme of my art journal spread. Fall is my favorite time of the year, especially because we celebrate Thanksgiving!


YULIA POPKOVA

Yulia says:  I love autumn. Especially September and October, when the trees still have golden foliage. According to the challenge, I made a spread in the artbook, inspired by nature. I am grateful for her generous gifts.

HEATHER MCMAHON

Heather says:  I really believe that practising GRATITUDE makes all of us more appreciative of what we have. I created my face using lots of tiny circles punched from paper that I printed with a geli plate. It took me ages but I love the result. I used greens, oranges and reds from the challenge board and completed my page with oversized gingko leaves and the tree border from ArtStacks.

LISA OXLEY

Lisa says:  Gratitude for the little things, that make up the big things.  So much love and Gratitude for this incredible woman in my art journal page.  I have had this cut out photo on my desk for many, many weeks, its not a crisp image but I knew I would use it some day and with the sentiment and the mood board colour palette, it was a perfect match.

SARAH DORGERE

Sarah says:  This month the challenge inspired me with a watercolor page. and these are the colors of the mood board that I used to create this background. I wanted something simple, that makes these pumpkins stand out. I feel GRATITUDE for each passing day and that you have to find joy in each day.  This is the sentence that I wanted to highlight here.

ELLE - EOTC

Elle says:  I was inspired by the mood board to paint some pumpkins!  I used the oranges and greens from the mood board to paint my pumpkins, all in acrylic, all different types of pumpkins, including a very small Queensland Blue pumpkin, which was my favourite for making pumpkin soup! The handwritten gratitude quote is by Rumi and is one of favourites by him.

  

This year we have changed to a Regional Prize structure, whereby there will be multiple Main Challenge Winners, one or more for each Region.  The number of Winners/Prizes for each Region is dependent on the number of Sponsors for that Region.  Some of our Sponsors remain as International Sponsors but many are now Region specific. It is now more important than ever that you add your NAME and COUNTRY to your Inlinkz entries!  

Our Fabulous Sponsors this quarter include:

Special Guest Designer

One participant, handpicked by our Admin team, may be invited to be our Special Guest Designer.

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Tell us what you think in the comments below!  Please leave your comments at the end of this post.  

Are you entering the challenge?  

Challenge closes on the last day of the month at 11:59 pm EST.  You can join the challenge using the inlinkz below.

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