ABC Christmas Challenge

Wednesday, 11 March 2026

ABC Christmas Challenge - E, F & G are for?

It's Carol here, welcoming you to our March challenge. We hope 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.

You may have noticed that due to the large number of social media outlets these days, fewer people are visiting and commenting on your blogs. We know that can be disheartening, so we encourage you to visit one or two of the other entries each month and leave a nice comment. Let's give a lift to our crafty community!

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.

Now, on to our next challenge

We have 3 themes this time:

'E is for Elves'

'F is for Foliage'

'G is for Gems'

I have a little prize for the randomly chosen winner:

a small Christmas stamp set from Papertrey Ink and a non-Christmas one from Visible Image.

Here is a little inspiration from our Design Team:

Helen

'E is for Elves'

'F is for Foliage'

'G is for Gems'

Carol

'E is for Elves'

'F is for Foliage'

Lynda

'E is for Elves'

'F is for foliage and G is for gems'

Fabiola

'F is for Foilage & G is for Gems'

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 4th April at 10pm (BST).

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

Winner & Top 3 - C is for Crimson & D is for Ding-Dong (Bells)

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

'C is for Crimson'

&

'D is for Ding-Dong (Bells)'

The prize for the lucky winner was this stamp and die set from W Plus 9:

...and the lucky winner is:

#15 - Pöydän kulma

Please email us to claim your prize.

My top 3 are:

#3 - Irene M

#29 - Brenda B

#33 - Deb Horst

Congratulations to you all.

You can find the blinkies and banners at the top of our blog.

Please don't forget to come back and check the themes for the next

challenge, using the letters 'E', 'F', and 'G'.

Wednesday, 11 February 2026

ABC Christmas Challenge - C & D are for?

It's Lynda/Loopyloo here welcoming you to our second challenge of 2026. 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!

Now, on to our next challenge. We have two themes for you again this month:

C is for Crimson

D is for Ding-Dong (bells)

Here is a little prize from me for a randomly drawn winner - and I do post internationally, so everyone who follows one or both of our themes is in with a chance to win. A stamp and matching die set from WPlus9:

Here is a little inspiration from our Design Team:

Lynda/Loopyloo

C is for Crimson

D is for Ding-Dong

Helen

C is for Crimson

D is for Ding-Dong

Carol

C is for Crimson

Fabiola

C is for Crimson

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 7th March at 10pm (GMT).

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

Winner & Top 10 - A is for Anything Christmas & B is for Bright!

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 Bright'

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

...and the lucky winner is:

#109 - Bonnie Klass

*****

And my Top 3 5 10!:

#5 - Karen Letchworth

#35 - Kath

#47 - Donna T

#51 - The Crafty Den

#61 - Claire

#66 - Wendy R

#79 - Inkami

#84 - Deborah Wheeler

#93 - Jeanne J

#117 - Deanne

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, 14 January 2026

ABC Christmas Challenge - A & B are for?

Happy New Year Everyone!

It's Helen here welcoming you to our first challenge of 2026, and the beginning of our seventeenth (!!!) 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 would also like to say a big THANK YOU to Helene for all of her hard work on our Design Team, and for her inspirational projects for all of our challenges over the past few years. It's been wonderful having her on our team, and we would like to wish her all the best!