March Challenge

Welcome to March.

This month your challenge is from our design team member Helen who was lucky enough to visit Monet's garden last year.

Helen sent me a couple of photos to help inspire you.

You can use these photos or be inspired by Monet in some other way to create your project.

Your project can be anything but it must be created between 1st and 31st March 2013 and if you choose to enter with us this month we would request that you don't enter any more than 3 other challenges with the same project.

Entry is by the linkz button below and entry is until midnight on 31st March.

This month we are very lucky to be sponsored by My Creative Classroom. Here is a little bit about them:

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center. Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies. Our Spring Semester is just beginning with over 100 workshop classes to choose from.We have just announced the addition of our Library and Foundation category! The Library features retired classes at 40-50% off their original price and our Foundation classes help you get started on your crafty journey right away!
Here's a sampling of our Workshop classes:

• Social Marketing for Crafters
• Scenic Basics and Beyond
• Beginner's Quilting 101
• Shadow Boxes
• Artful Cards
• Embossing Enamels
• and much, much more!

We are excited to be sponsoring The Craft Garden Challenge. You can view our entire class list on our website at My Creative Classroom. You can also view classes on our Facebook Page too! One lucky winner will receive a free seat to a class of their choice.....Good Luck!

Here is what our wonderful design team have to share with you:

Eleni 

What beautiful inspiration this month ... I decided to go with a 'scenic' layout.

Emma

Such beautiful and serene photos I took my inspiration from the water in Monet's paintings and made my first ever bracelet. The beads are very water inspired and as in Monet's paintings he uses lots of shades of the same colour when working on a particular area so I have tried to emulate that here :)

Helen

We had such a fabulous time in Giverny, the gardens were simply stunning and I could just imagine Claude Monet wandering through them and contemplating where to sit and paint. I decided it would be appropriate to use paint to stamp with for this layout which is what I used for the leaves (Dylusions), the flowers are from various sources but mainly Prima. On the chicken wire stencil for the background I use chalk sprays and carried on the theme using a honeycombe stamp from Indigoblu. The paper I used as a mat and for the journaling is a left over page from a Smash album.

Kelly

For my project this month I was inspired by all the green and the lilys in the water. It made me think of frogs on lily pads so I came up with a frog Prince card!

 

 

 The link button to enter is at the end of the post.

Our February winner is Trish Bee and she wins a selection of ribbons

We are having a design team call this month - watch out for full details in a blog post later in the week.