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!

 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.

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!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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!

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.

And now for the sweet inspiration from the DT:

Helen

Y is for Your Favourite Colours

Z is for Zoo Animals 

Carol

Y for your Favorite Colours

and Z for Zoo animals

Lynda

Y for Your Favourite Colour Combo

Helene

Z for zoo animals

Fabiola

Y for your favorites colors and Z for zoo

Marie

Z is for Zoo Animals

Ok, now it's your turn!  Please link your entries in the linky below.  We can't wait to see what you create! 😊

Y is for Your Favorite Colors and Z is for Zoo Animals

**Don't forget that your project must be for Christmas or any other Winter/December holiday!**

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner and top 3 for W/Y challenge

 

Hello! It's Fabiola here

 to announce the lucky winner and top three from last month's challenge.

Thank you so much for joining us last month.It was a pleasure to discover your magnificent creations.

The themes were:

'W is for Watercolouring' & 'X is for Xylophone

The randomly drawn winner of the prize 

#6 It's you Jenny

Congratulations, Jenny! 

Please email me to claim your prize. Unclaimed prizes may be redrawn.

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Jenny didn't want her price, so I did another draw and it was 30 Karen that won.

so please  Karen, send me an email

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My top three , so hard to choose...

#4 Meghan

#8 Bonnie

#18 Lia

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

Don't forget to come back at 7.30am on wednesday when we start another challenge. xx

November Challenge W and X

hello everyone and welcome to  ABC Challenge

I'm Fabiola and I'm your hostess for this challenge.

first of all, thanks you for playing with us 

it's a pleasure and an honor to discover and comment 

on your wonderful créations.

now, it's time to play...

we want you to have fun with

'W is for Watercolouring'

&

'X is for Xylophone'

Now, the sweet surprise,
the winner chosen by random will receive 
a  30.00 CHF Cap sur le Scrap Gift 



so come and play with us!


now, it's time to play,
this challenge is running until Saturday 7th december 2024

And here are the contributions from the Design Team to get you started:

Themes:

'W is for Watercolouring'

&

'X is for Xylophone'

(Photo Inspiration)

Now, the sweet surprise,
the winner chosen by random will receive 
a  30.00 CHF Cap sur le Scrap Gift 

Design team inspiration:

Helen

'W is for Watercolour'

'X is for Xylophone'

Carol

W is for watercolour

Lynda

W is for Water Colouring

Helene

W for water coloring

x for xylophone

Fabiola

X for Xylophone

Marie

X for Xylophone

If you are on Instagram, please use the hashtag #abcchristmaschallenge

Now enjoy!

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Click here to enter