Winner & Top 3 - A & B are for?

Good morning! It's Helen here with the Random Winners & Top picks from last month's challenge, which was, of course, A is for Anything Christmas & B is for Things Beginning with B!

We had two wonderful sponsors for this challenge, and a little bonus prize from me...so I have three lucky winners to announce!

First of all...the winner of a $12 Gift Card to spend at Sami Stamps

#179 - Marina

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Secondly, the winner of a £10 Gift Voucher for Wild Orchid Crafts

#8 - cebelica


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And finally...the winner of the two Docrafts Christmas stamps:

#128 - Marianne's Craftroom

And now for my Top Three...we had almost 200 wonderful entries so it was really difficult to choose!

#46 - Marlies

#130 - Birgit

#177 - Debs Bat Cave

Congratulations Everyone!

Please email us to claim your prizes.

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!

A & B are for?

Good morning & Happy New Year everyone!

It's Helen here...welcome back to the ABC Christmas Challenge!

We're about to embark on our eighth (!!!) trip through the alphabet...and we hope that you will join us this year in our bid to be prepared for next Christmas! As you will (hopefully!) have seen last month, we're changing things up a little this year, and will have one challenge post each month...so obviously there will be more than one letter for each challenge, but also more time for you to play along! 
You can play along with one or all of the themes for the month...combine them if you like...you can still also enter as many projects as you like each month (as long as you're not back-linking to old posts) and combine our challenge with as many other challenges as you wish to (as long as their rules allow it) - we just want to help you prepare for next Christmas and have some fun (and perhaps win one of the fabulous prizes from our generous sponsors!) the way! 

Before I get on to this month's themes, I have a sad announcement to make...our lovely teamie Mandy is leaving us...we shall miss her unique style and cheery comments - thanks so much for being a wonderful DT buddy Mandy...we shall all miss you!

And...don't forget to check the post below to see if you were a lucky winner of our last challenge!

We have, of course, gone right back to the start of the alphabet...and are easing you in gently with two super easy themes:

'A is for Anything Goes'

AND


'B is for Something Beginning with B'

(Just don't forget the Christmas theme!)

 Our sponsors for this challenge are:

 Sami Stamps

Prize $12 gift card to the shop at www.samistamp.blogspot.com

"Hello! I'm so happy to be here as a Sponsor for ABC Christmas challenge! Sami Stamps provides a variety of high quality Digital Stamps in both JPEG and PNG formats.  I hope you enjoy crafting with Sami Stamps images as much as I enjoy illustrating them!"

If you’re having fun here, please feel free to come check us out!

Blog: www.samistamp.blogspot.com

Blog Shop: http://samistampsshop.blogspot.com/

Etsy Shop:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/SamiStamps

AND

Wild Orchid Crafts

One lucky winner will receive a £10 gift voucher

Wild Orchid Crafts specialise in selling Mulberry Paper Flowers and many other embellishments for card making, scrapbooking and craft projects. We started selling our mulberry paper roses back in 2005. Since then we've added a large selection of different flowers and colour choices. All of our mulberry paper flowers are made using natural, renewable resources. The flowers are all handmade by experienced crafts people using high quality materials and great care is taken to ensure that they are made to the highest standard and beauty. You can see all of our flowers and embellishments on our website http://www.wildorchidcrafts.com

There's also a little prize from me too...a couple of Docrafts Christmas stamps:

Now some inspiration from the Design Team:

Samantha

A is for Anything Goes

B is for - Blue, Brown, Black & Branches

Helen

A is for Anything Goes



B is for Blue, Brown & Birdies

Lorraine
A is for Anything Goes & B is for Blue & Bow

Dorte
A is for Anything Goes

Carissa

A is for Anything Goes & B is for Bear

 

Wilma Anything goes

Lisa - using Waiting for Santa (from Sami Stamps)
A is for Anything Goes Christmas

Chrissy - using Christmas Sweater Bear (from Sami Stamps)
B is for Brown Bear & Brown Papers

Sue (Taking a break this month)

This challenge closes on Tuesday 31st January at 1pm (GMT).

So now it's over to you...perhaps you received some Christmas crafting goodies in your stocking that you're itching to use...or snapped up some bargains in the post-Christmas sales! Maybe you've resolved to be more organised with your cards this year so that you don't have a last-minute panic again...or maybe you just enjoy making Christmas cards as much as we do!

We look forward to seeing all your fabulous Creations!

Hugs, Helen and the DT xx

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Winner and Top 3 for Y for Yikes and Z for Zoooooom!

Hi ya Samantha here with the Winner and Top 3 of the last challenge

Thank you to everyone that played our last challenge your creations were totally brilliant!
Now to share our Winner and the Top 3 for this challenge.

Y for Yikes and Z for Zoooooom!

The fabulous sponsor was 

The East Wind Shop

The East Wind Facebook

The winner of the Prize of 3 Digital Images is:

Karen D

and my Top 3 picks are

73. Je@net

64.Nancy

22. Laila aka Koneko

Congratulations ladies

Please email us to claim your prize.

Unclaimed prizes may be redrawn or worst still lost.
Be sure to grab your badge for your blogs!

Hugs from Samantha and the ABC team! 

Y for Yikes and Z for Zoooooom!.... CHALLENGE UPDATE _ NEW RULES

Hi All it's Samantha with the last challenge of the year

Soon to be...

YES you read that right it's the last Challenge! 

Ekkkkk!

 But before I get to the challenge info I want to share some sad news

It was with a heavy heart that Lorraine C has decided to step down from the design team from the end of the year, she's been an awesome teamie and we will miss her!

Lorraine thank you for all your lovely makes and good luck!

We are making a change to the challenges

From this post onwards

I have thought long and hard about this challenge blog and with the support of my Fabulous 

friends/designers....

I have decided that this challenge blog is too good to let go!

We will have 1 post a month but still have the alphabets for the challenges...

NO that doesn't mean fewer prizes - in most months there will be more! YAY!

You will NEED to make sure you make a note

of the closing dates and start dates

so you wont miss challenge deadlines...  

We will list each one on the side bar

Sooooo to kick the fun off and get you into the swing we are running the next 

challenge in this way and this is how the challenges will be from now onwards...

The challenges will start the 1st Wednesday of the month!

ALWAYS!

And will end on the last day of the month (at 1pm GMT).

Mostly.....

This Month's themes are:

Y for Yikes

 and

 Z for Zoooooom!

The theme can in interpreted anyway you like as long as its Christmas...

I.E.

Yikes only a few weeks left so I am gonna make 10 cards the same!

or

Zoooooom! Zooming around on skis or Skates or in a car/truck to buy your Christmas tree...

you can still enter the challenge as many times as you like within reason

Our fabulous sponsor is

The East Wind Shop

 The East Wind Facebook

Prize is 3 Digital Images

Now onto the Design team's awesome creations

Samantha

For those of you that don't recognize this character its Olaf from Frozen 

Helen - Fridge Magnets

Lorraine

Dorte

10 to go

Carissa

~Coming soon~

Wilma

I made 10 of these cards. 5 are already ready for sending.

Lisa

Decorated Jars for Sweet Treats

Lorraine C

Decorated Glass Candle Holders

Chrissy

Sue

Mandy

Decorated Fleece Blankets for Last Minute Gifts

This Challenge will run from 

7th December to the 31st December 

so you have LOADS of time to play!

Have fun hugs us girls!

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Winner and Top 3 for 'X' Challenge

It's December, can you believe it???

It's Lisa here with the Winner and Top 3 of the last challenge. 

Thank you to all who played along with us in our 

'X' is for Criss Cross Challenge.

We enjoyed visiting your blogs and seeing the amazing creations created by each of you.

Now to share our Winner and the Top 3 for this challenge.

The Winner of the $10 gift certificate to Fred She Said is

#50 Liselot

Congratulations!

Top 3

(in no particular order)

#41 Armiida

#2 meg


#7 Rosina

Congratulations Everyone!!!

Please email us to claim your prize.

Unclaimed prizes may be redrawn or worst still lost.
Be sure to grab your badge for your blogs!


Samantha will be here soon to announce our next challenge.

Hugs from the ABC team!