ABC Christmas Challenge

Wednesday, 12 February 2025

ABC Christmas Challenge February - C & D are for?

Hello there Everyone!

It's Lynda/Loopyloo here welcoming you to another challenge. We hope that you will join us this year in our bid to be prepared for next Christmas! We'd love to have you play along with us all year - we have two (or sometimes three) fun themes each month, with plenty of projects from our design team to help inspire you!

Before I get on to this month's themes, may I remind you to check the post below to see if you were a lucky winner of our last challenge!

Whilst, as our name suggests, we are predominantly a Christmas challenge, we would like to extend a very warm welcome to cards made for other December/Winter Holidays (for example Hanukkah, Yule etc). There may still be some of our themes that are specifically 'Christmas', but many would work for other Winter Holidays and Festivals too, so as long as your project fits the theme, we are happy for you to enter our challenges.

We have noticed an increasing number of entries posted on Instagram...we're very happy to have you on board & you'll find some of our DT members there too...please use the hashtag #abcchristmaschallenge on your posts.

I also need to let you know we're making a slight adjustment to our rules:

Please note that we will now be accepting a maximum of five entries from any one blog into each challenge.

Here are the themes for your Christmas creations this month:

'C is for Cute'
&
'D is for Die Cuts'

There's a little prize from me of two Christmas stamp sets for the lucky winner:

And now it's time for some inspiration from our Design Team:

Helen

C is for Cute

D is for Die Cuts

Carol

C is for Cute

D is for Die Cuts

Lynda

C is for Cute and D is for die cutting

Helene

D is for Die Cutting

Fabiola

C is for Cute and D is for Die cutting

Marie

C is for Cute and D is for Die Cutting

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 8th March at 10pm (GMT).

Please link up your entries below.
We look forward to seeing what you create!

Winner & Top 3 - A is for Anything Christmas & B is for Buildings

Hello! It's Helen here...I'm announcing the lucky winner and top three of last month's challenge. The themes were:

'A is for Anything Christmas'

AND

'B is for Buildings'

The prize for the lucky winner was this 6x6 Christmas themed paper pad & Hero Arts stamp set:

I managed to mess up the original linky (sorry!), and had to open a second one, so I've combined the entries from both linkys to make a total of 164 entries, and the lucky winner is:

Adjusting for my error, and putting the 8 entries from the original linky first, that makes our winner:

#95 (from the second linky) - Kath

*****

And my Top 3:

#37 (Second linky) - Silke

#83 (Second linky) - Kelly S

#96 (Second linky) - Valentina B

Congratulations Everyone!

Please email us to claim your prize.

Unclaimed prizes may be redrawn or worse still lost.

You can find the page for grabbing your blinkie or banner
at the top of our blog.

Don't forget to check back soon for another fun challenge!

Wednesday, 8 January 2025

ABC Christmas Challenge January - A & B are for?

Happy New Year Everyone!

It's Helen here welcoming you to our first challenge of 2025, and the beginning of our sixteenth (!!!) trip through the alphabet! We hope that you will join us this year in our bid to be prepared for next Christmas! Perhaps you were lucky enough to receive some new Christmas craft bits in your stocking...or snapped up some bargains in the post-Christmas sales...perhaps one of your New Year's resolutions is to have your Christmas cards ready in plenty of time this year...or maybe you just haven't tidied away your Christmas stash away after making last year's cards yet! Whatever the reason, we'd love to have you play along with us all year - we have two (or sometimes three) fun themes each month, with plenty of projects from our design team to help inspire you!

Before I get on to this month's themes, may I remind you to check the post below to see if you were a lucky winner of our last challenge!

I also need to let you know we're making a slight adjustment to our rules:

Please note that we will now be accepting a maximum of five entries from any one blog into each challenge.

Okay, here we go!
We have two themes for you this month:

'A is for Anything Christmas'
&
'B is for Buildings'

There's a little prize from me for the lucky winner:

A stamp set and a 6x6 Christmas themed paper pad.

And now it's time for some inspiration from our Design Team:

Helen

'A is for Anything Christmas'

'B is for Buildings'

Carol

'A is for Anything Christmas'

Lynda

'A is for Anything Christmas'

'B is for Buildings'

Helene

'A is for Anything Christmas'

Fabiola

'A is for Anything Christmas'

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 8th February at 10pm (GMT).

Please link up your entries below.
We look forward to seeing what you create!

Winner and Top 3 -- Y is for Your Favorite Colors, Z is for Zoo Animals

**FIRST OF ALL, I PROFUSELY APOLOGIZE FOR THE DELAY IN POSTING!**

Hello crafty friends, it's Marie, here to share the winner and Top 3 for the previous challenge. The themes were:

Y is for Your Favorite Colors

and Z is for Zoo Animals

As a reminder, the lucky winner of this challenge will receive this sweet little 3-piece gingerbread ornament die set.

And the random winner is (drum roll please!)

Kathy A at myasperations, with this sweet card:

Congratulations Kathy!

Now for my Top 3 (always such a difficult choice!)

Carrianne from Handmade by Carianne with this super sweet LOTV card:

Cathy from Cathy's Creative Corner with this adorable MFT dancing Santa:

Irene from Irene's Scrapbook with this oh so cute snowman:

Congratulations! Don't forget to grab your blinkies from the tab at the top of the page!

Don't forget to join in on our first challenge of 2025, already in progress!

Wednesday, 11 December 2024

December Challenge Y and Z

Hello, it's Marie here, and welcome back to the ABC Christmas Challenge for December 2024! It's hard to believe we are almost done with this year already! Anyway, the challenge runs from today, December 11, to Saturday, January 4, 2025.

This month's themes are:

"Y is for Your Favorite Colors"

"Z is for Zoo Animals"

Since I am all about the gingerbread this year, the prize for the lucky winner will be this 3-piece gingerbread ornament die set.