WELCOME

The Roman poet Horace is attributed with saying that a picture is a poem without words. Well, that's what we like to think too, although some words will be allowed (what's a card without the occasional sentiment). Welcome to the Without Words Challenge where we want you to create clean and simple cards, focusing on the image without the distractions of too many embellishments. We hope you enjoy this challenge as much as we do!

OUR CHALLENGE

THE WITHOUT WORDS CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED

Monday 15 October 2012

October Midway Reminder

Just popping in with a mid-month reminder for our October challenge at WITHOUT WORDS which is focusing on the darker colours this month - it doesn't have to be Halloween so long as you are using the right colours, purples, blues, blacks, reds etc.

If you haven't played along with us yet then we would like to see a CAS card featuring a handcoloured image.  Sentiments are fine, but minimal embellishments (or none at all) 


A very simple 6x4 card using a Stampavie (Gillian Roberts) image, painted in Distress Inks (ReInkers) and teamed with First Edition: DreamCatcher papers.



We will be changing our date next month from the 1st to the first Monday - so our next challenge will post on Monday 5th November.

Hugs, Sxx

Thursday 4 October 2012

September Winners

Our September Winner, Top 3 and Special Mentions
are posted on our page for
 
It could be you .....!

Monday 1 October 2012

October Challenge: Things That Go Bump!

Hello Artists!  Welcome to another monthly challenge where we like to play WITHOUT WORDS - we have been thrilled to see you enjoying our first fun challenge so much and we would like to thank everyone who ventured into the world of CAS cards - some of you for the very first time.  We hope that you will enjoy this month's challenge too!  We'll be back in a couple of days with news on our Winner and Top 3 although the choices will be hard to make.

So, this month, which is OCTOBER, our challenge is THINGS THAT GO BUMP:  Think Halloween, think darker colours, think magic.  Lots of options but basically we'd like something using the darker shades - purple, blue, black, red ...... not an easy one but I am sure you will do us proud.

We are looking forward to seeing what you make of this one and viewing your fabulous creations.  Please remember to follow our CAS definition (see top of the blog) and the theme of this months challenge for your entry to be a valid one.

The members of our very talented Design Team had a lot of fun with this one and have created their usual high standard of awesomeness to inspire you.  An enormous amount of time is spent by the team in creating these mini works of art so don't forget that it would be nice if you have time to visit their individual blogs and share the love.

Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers
and a close up of the image



CURLYBEAR
and a close up of the image













The most important thing to remember?  Relax and have fun with colour!  Looking forward to your entries.

Squirrel and the Without Words Team
xxx
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LINKY TOOL HELP

The one thing that we all have problems with from time to time is the link tool going missing.  If you find that this has disappeared from the challenge, please try refreshing your page.  If the link tool still does not appear then you can link your entry via your comment.  The HTML code for linking your entry will be:
<a href="link to post"/>text to be seen</a>  
If you are still not sure, here is an example of what it should look like
<a href="http://squirrel10.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/luv-ya.html"/>here is my entry</a>
(just copy and paste the address bar from your published post)
The space between the first <a and href=, and a space after the last a>
are essential for the link to work.

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SEPTEMBER'S WINNER AND TOP 3 WILL BE POSTED ON OUR
STARS OF THE MONTH PAGE
ON 3RD OCTOBER 2012