Our first Challenge A for Angels.....

Today's the day for our first challenge in preparation for 2010.

I can't believe we have had Christmas 2009

and we are now really close to New Year's eve too!

Where do the weeks go?

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We hope you are enjoying your Christmas holidays and had fun on the Blog hop!

The DT have announced their winners on our own blogs and I have generated the winner of the secret phrase candy too!

You can see if you are a lucky winner HERE!

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So then to our First Challenge!!

A for Angels with the Extra challenge to include a charm or beads

The Challenge will be from 30th December

to Midnight UK time on the 12th January

So you have plenty of time to play, and come up with something you have been wanting to try this year but have not had the time!

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Please see Our Requests on the sidebar too, we would like to ask also could you please check that your Word Verification is turned off, so we can come and comment on all your lovely projects, Maybe you might not even realise it is on?

When you have made your project please add it to Mr linky so we can come along and see your creations :-) The Design Team have been busy with Christmas but have had time to play with their new stash they got for Christmas so we hope you love their creations and they help inspire you!

Ok so with out further a do our our Dt projects
drum roll please.... . . . . . . . .

We are really lucky and have already got a sponsor for our first challenge

So to get us off to a great start we have the LOVELY Sue from charmsupplies.co.uk

Sue is offering to Our 1st prize winner a £10 voucher & free delivery for either of her shops - charm supplies or Occasions Emporium! (Thanks Sue this is fantastic and most kind!)

I want to get it off to a good start so we will be offering for this first Challenge 3 lucky winners! I will pick my top 3 and post 12th of January the lucky winners. Yes that's 3 prizes!! cool huh!

Sooooooo get creating and we look forward to seeing what you make including charms or beads on your projects!

Cathy

Helen

Jan

Samantha

Jane

Our super duper Guest this week is.......

Lols

Vicky

Don't forget to leave us a direct link to your project with Mr Linky, so that we can come and visit you.

Say No - - Candy!

Hi ya everyone!
WOW some great cards so far for our first challenge!
I'm so pleased you all seem to be really happy about this new Challenge blog
As I have not run a Challenge blog before so thank also for your support too!

I have been commenting this morning and well its taken quite sometime!

I would like to say a HUGE BIG thank you to all of you that read the rules on the sidebar and have already turned off your Word Verification.
Its so much easier and really saves our time.


I am going to give away some candy as a thank you to those of you that have turned off the word verification and also to those of you that do!

So what do you have to do?
To be in with a chance of winning the TURN IT OFF candy
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1. Post a message on your blog telling everyone about my candy our blog and what the candy is for on your blog.

2. Post the say no banner on the sidebar of your blog

3. If you haven't already, turn your Word Verification off pretty please!
(If you're not sure how to do this, please see the instructions in our sidebar)

4. Join in with Challenge A for Angels

To make it even more exciting...and give you even greater incentive to 'Turn it off!'...if we manage to get 50 entrants...Helen will add a second candy package!


Owner approval a much nicer way
of screening your comments

Help us make a difference!
Thanks
Samantha :0)

This Candy will close midnight 13th January UK time

How to turn off Word Verification

1. Sign in to your blog

2. Click on 'Customize'

3. Click on the 'Settings' tab

4. In 'Settings', click on the 'Comments' tab

5. Scroll down until you see 'Show word verification for comments' and make sure 'No' is checked

6. If you are worried about 'spam' comments, and want to moderate comments before they are published on your blog, check the 'Always' box next to 'Comment moderation' (just above where you've just turned off word verification), and enter your email address

7. Click 'Save Settings'

It's really very simple to do, and it makes leaving comments on your blog a much more pleasant experience for your visitors :0)




Depending if your using the new version here is an update for you from one of our Challengers! Thanks Sandy!

Sandy TrefgerFeb 22, 2012 07:59 AM

For those who may be using the new blogger interface, the option to turn off word verification is not there. You have to click on the setting symbol and change back to the old interface and then follow your instructions to turn it off, save and then switch back to the new interface.

Blog Hop Candy Winners

Wooooo hoooooo!

Thanks for joining in with our launch and blog hop. we hope you enjoyed the fun.

Our Christmas Eve words were Santa's Coming!

thanks for all your emails with the words

We have all now Generated our Candy winners and they are as follows!!

ABC Christmas Challenge winner of the Lovely Popcorn Bear stamp set is......

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 1

That's CarolJenks.

Congratulations Carol! Can you please contact us with your address.

And the winners of the Design Team's candies are ...

Helen's winner is Pauline C

Jane's winner is Crafty Kitten

Samantha's winner is Crafty Den

Cathy's winner is Ali


Lol's winner is Zetti

Jan's winner is Clare Brown


Vicky is poorly at the moment, so we will announce her winner when she is better.

Hi my winner is Chris if you could please contact me, my email address is on my blog. - Vicky

Congratulations to all the winners (make sure you contact the DT member directly with your address) and don't forget to play along with the A challenge ... we have a fab prize up for grabs.

ABC CHRISTMAS BLOG HOP!

We have been busy organising this exciting new challenge blog to share with you all, and we are hoping you will want to help us spread the word...

...that ABC CHALLENGE has a new sister blog!

We have organised a Christmas Eve Blog Hop.

Below are the sneak peeks of all the Christmas projects that the DT has made for you to see. We also have a small task for you...each DT member has a letter for you to collect, to fill in the spaces in our Christmas Eve words.

_A_ _A'_-_O_IN_

You will need to visit their blogs in order to collect the missing letters, starting with:

Helen



Jan




Jane



Cathy

Samantha

Vicky

Lorraine

Be sure to leave comments on the project that they have been busy making to help inspire you, to be in with chances of winning their great prizes... some of the DT gang have Mr Linky set up and others a comment system...either way you have 7 chances of winning a brilliant prize!

To be in with a chance of winning the ABC Christmas Blog Hop candy (Christmas Popcorn stamp set) you must:

1. Post about our new challenge blog and the blog hop on your own blog, with a link back here, you might wanna become a follower too so you don't miss out.

2. Leave a link to your post with Mr Linky

3.Visit all of the DT the blogs in order to collect the 7 letters that you will need to fill in the gaps in our mystery words, to create 2 words about Christmas Eve. Don't forget to leave a comment on each of the DT posts, to be in with a chance of winning their candy too!


4. Email the complete words to us at:
abcchristmaschallenge@hotmail.co.uk

Our blog hop will remain open until midnight on the 29th December.

The winners will be posted here, and on each DT blog after the Blog Hop closes.

So let the Hopping begin

your first stop on our hop is

HELEN

don't forget to collect those missing letters

_A_ _A'_-_O_IN_

But most of all have FUN


Samantha and the ABC Christmas challenge design team

Apologies...we seem to have upset Mr Linky...so please add a link to your blog in the comments if you wish to enter our blog hop.