At the end of this Challenge we will be One Month Old!

Hi Everyone, it is so nice to welcome you to our second challenge, see, I did not give anything away in my Heading.  So if you have not been across to the Artful Times Challenge Blog you will not know that this time Sam chose the theme.  No prizes for guessing what her first choice was, that is if you know Sam.

Before we get down to it let me say we were overwhelmed at the response we got when we started our Challenge Blog - so many of you signed up as followers and we had over a 50% entry.  I even had a friend of mine submit a tag although she has not got a blog.

Here is Helen's tag

It's a lovely tag isn't it.  Thanks Helen.  Love the diamond pattern and don't most of us just love that man with the umbrella.

Well, on to the task in hand.  As I said, it was Sam's turn to choose and the theme was Green - or to be more precise "A Sea of Greens" - if you go to the blog you will see Sam's little introduction into the whole thing and then you can get creating.  At least I hope you will, it would be lovely to achieve as many, if not more, entries than last time.

For mine I chose this stamp from Non Sequitur that I have had for simply ages.  Just the word "green" made me think of Ireland, and Celtic and I remembered I had a plate that would probably work just fine.  When I looked at it this lady jumped out at me (not really, like not onto my nose or anything) and I decided to use that stamp.

Now I have always thought this was a weird image, a woman's face with all lines coming from her and leading nowhere - snakes, St Patrick?  In all the years I have had this stamp I did not realise it was a horse.  This time I have painted it with Twinkling H2o's so that you can see the horse.  The background is done with three different Distress Inks pounced on the paper.

So that is my entry this time - a bit weird but something different for me.  Guess you either like or do not like my shrine - it's all down to personal preferences.  I masked the horsey woman and used the circular stamp behind, then did my background.  Lastly I stamped the word "Celtia" and added it with two brads.

So that is it - another two weeks for you to have an entry in to the Artful Times and thank you so much, once again, for supporting us, for entering our challenge - just being there for us.  Thank You!

Oh, don't forget the rules, yes, sorry we do have some - they are there for you to see via a button at the top of the home page - please read carefully and follow, please.