So Artful Challenge: Year of Dragon/New Year

Hello everyone!  Thanks so much for stopping by! We are ringing in the new year just a little early!  And we have some fabulous inspiration pieces too from part of our new Design Team!

The inspiration pieces:

 I found the angel New Year one on Pinterest
New Years card from Lerfald-Westaby Family Postcard Collection, 1909

Repinned from VINTAGE CARDS/POST CARDS by Paulette Dorn

The one  below is actually a downloadable print!  Check it out and more subway prints at Eighteen25!

And this one is fabric!

Schumacher Chiang Mai dragon fabric

So you can pull anything for any of these pieces or anything New Years or dragon-themed-whatever you can dream up!

And now for some fabulous samples:

Leslie

Sharon

Electra

I am so lucky to have such talented folks on the team as well as FANTASTIC participants for each challenge!  Thanks so much and best wishes for a fantastic NEW YEAR!

Happy Holidays and new Design Team announcements

Happy Holidays to you and yours!

I just wanted to take a moment to wish each of you a Merry Christmas and also for everyone who celebrates during this season in a different way - Happy Holidays!

I found a couple of bonus images you are welcome to use if you desire- if so, just leave your link in a comment to this post or link up to the  CURRENT CHALLENGE!    Either way is just fine!

I had this on my computer and no idea where it came from. If anyone knows the source please comment, and I will give the credit appropriately.

This one is found here!

I also wanted to announce the So Artful Design Team!  I am so thrilled these fabulous designers are going to be sharing their work with us!  I have had so many personal/family issues lately that I haven't been able to be as involved as I would like, but this way you will be able to see some wonderful examples of responses to the prompts and have some feedback by comments too!  Thanks to you all for bearing with me!

Welcome to:


Alica, Peggy, Sharon, Sherry, Electra, Leslie, and Wendy!


Wishing each of you a blessings in abundance!

So Artful Challenge: Ceil Chapman

Hello and welcome to another So Artful Challenge!  The theme for this next two-week challenge is Ceil Chapman and/or to use the colors Silver, Pink and Black (or any combination of those).  I chose two fantastic vintage ads featuring her designs and a pattern of one of her dresses as well.  As usual, feel free to use the images for inspiration in anyway you choose!  If that doesn't work for you, just use the color theme instead!  Don't forget we have a Design Team Call going on as well.. see this post for more details!

I can't wait to see what you come up with for this challenge!

Design Team Call for So Artful CLOSED

Hello everyone!  Because So Artful encompasses and encourages all types of creations for our challenges, I thought it would be great to get a few talented crafters together to form a design team so that you can have some ideas for inspiration and perhaps learn a new trick or two!

Duties:  create any type of project using the theme and/or images chosen and have a clear picture uploaded to the DT blog by Wednesday evenings immediately preceding the Challenge post which goes live late Friday nights.  (challenges run biweekly)  You would also need to comment on entries- this would be divided up within the team so you won't have to comment on each one.

Any type of crafting is welcome and you aren't limited to any certain type.

No compensation is provided other than the online camaraderie and inspiration!   And of course my undying gratitude!

I will have a DT blog where the challenges are posted ahead of time so you can work ahead as your schedule allows, and if something comes up and you need to skip a challenge or two, that is perfectly fine too!

If this sounds like something you would like to do for a commitment from January 6 thru April (with option to stay on longer of course but not required)  just send me an email at scrappypug at gmail dot com with So Artful DT in the subject line and a link to your blog and a bit about what kind of projects you create and anything else you care to add.  NO Design Team  experience is necessary.

****EDIT: CALL IS CLOSED!

Thanks! 

So Artful Challenge: Tis the Season

Welcome to another Challenge at SoArtful!  Can you believe we are in DECEMBER already?  Crazy I tell you!  It's beginng to look a lot like Christmas here, and I thought it would be fun to incorporate some Santa-inspired pieces for your consideration for the next two weeks.

One of my favorite associations with Santa Claus is Coca Cola- growing up I remember seeing the different holiday Coca Cola ads both in print and on TV.

This Santa can be found here at Deck The Holidays.

and This fantastic Santa image came from The Graphic Fairy and can be found right here. 

So this Challenge can be interpreted many ways- from Santa, to Christmas, to the colors Red and or Green, Coca Cola, etc.   All types of crafts are welcome!

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have time to play along with us!