First swap of the new year

Well with that bottle as a challenge piece you would think that all the creations would come out pretty much the same but I was thrilled on how different each piece still looked. It was a fast a furious meeting due to other commitments but graciously hosted by the fabulous Cheri

Greta had beautiful mosaic papers covering hers and I love the butterfly and the beads!

Dana had real flowers in hers and the tissue paper mosaic coordinated with some small art pieces she made that you can see here

Cheri had the same idea with tissue paper but with very different results

Cindy turned hers in to a terrarium - love it!!!

Yvonne's is the perfect vase to hold flowers made for her by her children - you can't see in this photo but it has pretty stain glass flowers on the sides.

Yvette turned hers into 2 separate pieces (she is still on that bird kick...)

And Sherry wins the prize for the most original using her bottle to stamp the circles on her canvas completing a 3 part canvas series she has been working on.

Here are the challenge pieces for next month

They include a fabric swatch, Popsicle stick/tongue depressor, wine cork, acorn hat and bottlecap art. I'm off to create - won't you join us?

Christmas

We had a lot of fun with our Christmas challenge and swap. The Challenge was to make an ornament or something that you could hang to exchange using anything at all. There were such varied but all beautiful creations and we had fun playing the dirty santa exchange.

Here is Dana with Greta's flower filled glass ornament

Yvonne's photo cube

Cheri with Yvette's birds and tree (claimed by Greta with a second set forDana )

Cindy's cross-stitched ornament (claimed by Sherry)

Cindy with Sherry's snowman wallhanging

Cheri's house of love claimed by Yvette

And Cheri with Dana's artwork

Sherry's mom provided us with January's Challenge pieces

Which include a paper towel, a frappucino bottle, a bead and a tin lid. Happy creations!