monthly challenge

Surprise! We have one more sponsor for this month’s challenge and two more reasons to work on your entry today. Mary Harding Jewelry has donated two beautiful garden inspired ceramic pendants.…

I think today will be more show than tell. Here are the prizes for this month’s challenge! Enter more than once if you feel inspired! Our theme is Monet’s Water Lilies.…

Water Lilies, 1916 by Claude Monet The inspiration for this month’s challenge is a lovely impressionist painting from Monet. Water Lilies were a series of approximately 250 paintings that Monet created…

Congratulations to Janet McDonald! You are the winner for this month’s challenge. This entry was randomly chosen from all the qualifying entries this month. Janet has won a set of silver…

Our first set of prizes include three hand sculpted silver charms from Hint. They offer the symbols of spring and Aphrodite’s shell. Add in some stones in the pale shades of…

The Birth of VenusSandro Botticelli, c. 1482–1486 The inspiration for this month’s challenge is “The Birth of Venus” by Botticelli. Let the beauty of the Italian Renaissance inspire your creations this…

Congratulations to Christine of Stories They Tell! You are the winner for this month’s challenge. This entry was randomly chosen from all the qualifying entries this month. Christine has won a…

I wanted to share another version of the painting for our challenge inspiration from Matisse. This one features a brighter color palette in purple, yellow, green and orange. Pull out those…