Welcome to the ABC Christmas Challenge Blog!
The aim of challenge is to help you prepare for the coming Christmas. It seems to be a common problem that Christmas creeps up on us every year! Our Challenges are fortnightly and are Themed, if you join every challenge from A to Z you will have created at least 25 cards in time for Christmas 2012



This year 2012 we some of the challenges will be:
Colour challenges, Tutorials, Pictures inspirations.
Please Read our Rules, and remember that you can enter our challenges as many times as you like and combine your entries with as many challenges as you like too!
Have fun!

Samantha, Helen and the Design team Xx



Wednesday, 14 March 2012

E for Evergreen Mid Way Reminder

Good Morning, Carissa here with a Mid Way reminder that you still have one week left to join our E for Evergreen Challenge

Our Fabulous Sponsors for this challenge are

Simon Says Stamp with a fab $15 voucher excluding postage.
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and

In 2 Stamps

Prize
 

Now for some fabulous inspiration from some of the DT.


Remember we want to see some Christmas greenery on your card and you can find even more inspiration on this post. Please leave a direct link to your blog post, it makes life easier for us when we are going to visit you.
The challenge runs through March 20th at 6pm GMT.

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

E for Evergreen

Good Morning, Carissa here with a new challenge for you but before we get to that I must say that you had some wonderful creations for our last Challenge D for Distress and we loved seeing all of the creative techniques that you used …. remember to check the sidebar to see if you are one of the 2 lucky winners and also see who Samantha chose for her Top 3 picks. 

I bet you are all wondering what our new challenge is. 
Well this time around, I am the host and for this fortnight I have chosen:
E for Evergreen

We are not asking to see the colour green but we won't mind one bit if you use it.
What we are looking for this time is all of that Traditional Christmas Greenery that we decorate with each year, so dig through your stash for all of your trees, holly and mistletoe, it is time to deck the halls.


Our Fabulous Sponsors for this challenge are

Simon Says Stamp with a fab $15 voucher excluding postage.
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and

In 2 Stamps

Prize



Here's some inspiration from our Design Team:
 
Samantha 
 
 Carissa

 
Miria




PLEASE NOTE!! We maybe not be able to leave a comment on those blogs that have Word Verification on...but we will still visit, So you will still be in with a chance of winning and being chosen in the Top 3! CLICK HERE for instructions for turning it off... you might not even realise it's on? as its a default setting!

So then lets see your Evergreen Christmas cards/projects.

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

D for Distress it! ½ way Reminder

Hi Everyone, It's me Samantha with our ½ way reminder post!
We are getting towards the end of February and some of you are keeping up with the challenge but a lot of you are M.I.A .… Come on just think of that HUGE pile of cards you will have ready for Christmas if you play along each Challenge.

Also a gentle Nudge reminder about Word Verification

Word Verification is a huge headache please help by switching it off! if you don’t know how to check or how to turn it off CLICK HERE

SO then our theme D for Distress it!
The 2 Fabulous Sponsors are:
Prize of a $10.00 Gift Certificate to spend in the Sweet Stamp Store.
and
The awesome Karen's doodles
Prize 3 digis from Karen's doodles shop.

Our Special Guest Designer Hazel
side view

Linda From Sweet Stamp Store Design Team

Jerusha From Karen's doodles Design Team

ABC Christmas Challenge Designers


and here is mine (Samantha)

Over to you we are looking forward to seeing more of your fabulous creations, You can find the original post and Linky HERE.

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

D for Distress it!


Hi Everyone, It's me Samantha,
Firstly I have some housekeeping that WE really need your HELP!
Please Check your blogs for Word Verification!
Please can you turn it off! Blogger has changed to this new one above and its terrible you can hardly read the words and for me being Dyslexic its a nightmare! Its a real pain to try and figure the letters and so time consuming for the whole of our Design Team, Please help us beat the Word Verification headache by switching it off! if you don’t know how to check or how to turn it off
I hope you had fun with our last Challenge C for Charming and you know what We LOVED your creations…. remember to check the sidebar to see if you are one of the lucky winners and there are 3 winners of all the wonderful sponsors' prizes... Also see who Miria chose for her Top 3 picks.
Well did you think that the last Challenge was easy?
Yes?
Well guess what.... So is this challenge for the next fortnight!
I am the Host and I choose......

D for Distress it!
as our Theme.

We have 2 Fabulous Sponsors this time:

Prize of a $10.00 Gift Certificate to spend in the Sweet Stamp Store
Sweet Stamps manufactures artistic rubber stamps on cling cushion for use with acrylic blocks. We carry a variety of stamping and paper crafting goodies like our own Shades dye inks, metal embossing plates, embossing folders, cutting & embossing dies (Cheery Lynn, Marianne, Joy! and Nellie's), fine detail embossing powders, specialty cardstock and vellum along with supplies for parchment crafting.

And we have the awesome Karen's doodles
There is a fantastic selection of designs, Digital and Rubber stamps,
and our winner will receive 3 digis from Karen's doodles of their choice.



We have a Very special Guest Designer
Hazel she was our winner a few months ago and the sponsor did not get back to her with her prize :0( Hazel told us not to worry about it and it did not matter!
well we were very sad as the Sponsor let not just us down but her also.
needless to say we wont be asking this sponsor to sponsor again :(
ANYWAY!!!
We have invited her to be our Special Guest this time and I have to say she is a LOVELY lady and your in for a treat! her card and blog is fabulous so stop by her blog make sure you stop by her blog too and check our her inspirational creations.




Guest Designers from Sweet Stamps



Guest Designers from Karen's Doodles

Krista using Skating Girl

Lisa Using Carolers



Our Design Team









PLEASE NOTE!!We maybe not be able to leave a comment on those blogs that have Word Verification on...but we will still visit, So you will still be in with a chance of winning and being chosen in the Top 3! CLICK HERE for instructions for turning it off... you might not even realise it's on? as its a default setting!
So then lets see your Distress it Christmas cards/projects

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

C for Charming midway reminder

Hi all. Miria here for some more inspiration for our
And since we are a Christmas Challenge, your project has to be.........
CHRISTMAS RELATED!


We have some fabulous sponsors this time as always.

Simon Says Stamp with a fab $15 voucher excluding postage. 

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with an amazing $10 Gift Certificate
with an awesome £10 voucher

Stamp Fairy Guest Designer


Jessica using Patches Love




Jackie using 2 images from the Molly Winter Collection










And from the ABC Christmas Design Team















Remember we want to see a charm on your card and you can find even more inspiration on this postPlease leave a direct link to your blog post, it makes life easier for us when we are going to visit you.
The challenge runs through Feb 21th at 6pm GMT.

Happy crafting!

Miria and the team.