The aim of our challenge is to help us avoid the Christmas Stress and rush to have all your cards ready! Our monthly Challenges are themed, We hope you will join us and have at the very least have a few cards in time for Christmas
Please Read the 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!
We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to all of you who took the time to hop around our blogs...leaving us lovely comments...we hope you had fun! :0)
We asked you to leave comments on all the blogs...'cos we weren't telling you where the candy was hidden...well...there was candy on each of the DTs blogs! So we have lots of winners! Yippee!
So...without further ado...our 'Half-way there hop' winners are:
Samantha's winner: TBA (Poor Samantha is having internet problems at the moment, so is unable to get online to choose her winner) Here I am
Today 01/07/2010
and my winner is KraftyKoolKat
Could all winners please email the relevant DT member with your full postal address so that we can get your candies sent out. You should be able to find their email addresses on their blogs/blogger profiles, but if you have any trouble getting in touch, please email Helen & Samantha at abcchristmaschallenge@hotmail.co.uk and we'll pass the message on :0)
And...don't forget to check out the post below for our new challenge 'N is for Noel'...and to see if you were the lucky winner of the $25 Stamp & Create gift certificate...or chosen in the Top 3 of our 'M is for Mistletoe' challenge.
Thank you so much for all your fabulous 'M for Mistletoe' cards...and we hope hope you all enjoyed our 'Half-way there hop'! The lucky winners of the hidden blog hop candies will be announced on a separate post later today.
Ok...so on to our new challenge...it's Helen here hosting this fortnight, and the theme is:
'N is for Noel'
with the optional extra of Embossing
Noel (or noël, sometimes written as nowell in English) is an alternate word for Christmas. The word comes from the French word Noël meaning "Christmas"
So...basically...'anything Christmas' will do this week...how easy is that???
Our sponsor for this challenge is Wild Rose Studio, who are very generously offering the winner of this challenge 2 stamps of the winner's choice from their fabulous Christmas Collection which you can see here. Not only that, but they gave the DT some adorable images and yummy papers to play with! Thank you!
Ok...so here are the cards from our design team...starting with our two lovely guest designers:
Guest Designer - Cathy
We hope we've got you in the mood for some festive crafting...don't forget you have two weeks to enter each of our challenges.
Please add the link for your 'N is for Noel' project here, so that we come and visit you...don't forget that in order to qualify for the prize draw, your item must be Christmas related.
Our lovely Samantha has asked me to apologise to the winners of the prizes for the last challenge, and the surprise candy. There will be a slight delay in sending out your prizes...but they will be sent to you as soon as she is able. She's also not going to be blogging for the moment, so won't be commenting on entries for the current challnge. She has left a message explaining why on her blog.
Sending you a BIG hug hun!
Helen & the ABC Christmas DT x
Firstly I want to Thank everyone that has joined in with us so far on our ABC Christmas challenges.
The winners of L for lights, As this is a special week and we have reached ½ way We have decided to have a Top 5 and to have 2 guest designers too!
Ann Cutts Chrissie
Kaz Dorte Kraftykoolkat
The 2 Guest designers are: Dorte Kraftykoolkat
well done girls! drop me a line on our Email girls
abcchristmaschallenge@hotmail.co.uk
And the winner of the L for Lights challenge is....
That's Sheryl Well done hunny Please email me for your blinkie and how to claim your brilliant $15 voucher from
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Oh and the candy! who won the candy! the sweet suprise candy for joining in challenges!
Drum roll please
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That's 1. Dorte K
YAY!! well done hunny Please email your snail mail address and I can post you your suprise candy!
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So on to this fortnight's challenge.... Oh my goodness!! ½ way through the alphabet! To thank all our followers we have decided to do a ½ way there hop!
It is Lacey's turn to post the challenge this time but she is Mega busy so I (Samantha) am posting for her,
The Challenge this time is:
M is for Mistletoe or you can flip the M in Mistletoe to get Wine
Lacey has added the Extra challenge of Sewing this time too! sooooo
Dust off your sewing machines and have a bash!
Don't panic though Lacey has also said you could use real sewing or hand, or faux stitching, so you can breathe again! tehheheee
Helen, Myself and the DT would love for you to join in our ½ way there Hop. As a special Extra some of us have mini candy... ooooOOOooo!!!
But not to make it tooooo easy we are not telling you who has candy (grin).
So you will need to stop by all of our blogs in order to maximise your chances of winning!
We are going in alphabetical order... I think!! tehehee! remember I am dyslexic! hahaha!! Its ok I'll ask Helen to double check! te hhee hee
All you have to do is make and enter your Christmas card or project then Hop to Annie's blog and leave her a lovely comment and answer her Christmas question then hop your way through the rest of our blogs leaving comments as you go and answering the Christmas questions the blogs will take you back here if you hop in order.
Leave us a comment here too! Our question here is: Which has been your favourite ABC Christmas challenge so far?
Here are the Design Team's awesome cards...
Ohhhh Naughty me! I am only gonna give you a sneaky peek so you will have to stop by our blogs to see the cards in all there glory! This is the hop order (just in case you get lost!) and a sneaky peek at their projects:
Happy Hopping and we really look forward to your cards/ projects Hope you have a fun time and remember there are a few lovely candys up for grabs too! hugs Samantha and the DT x
Please add your links for 'M for Mistletoe' projects here
We are now ½ way through the challenges soooo hope your getting a lovely stash of cards really for Chrstmas 2010!
...and don't forget we have a ½ way hop running for this challenge too! so to be in with a chance of winning the DT's hop candy you must play along with the challenge and entered a Christmas project.
Please email Me to find out how to claim your fantastic Stamp and Create prize
on abcchristmaschallenge@hotmail.co.uk
OK so over to Lorraine for her great Challenge and Extra this week
hugs Samantha x
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Ooh we had some lovely entries to our K for Kissing Challenge :-)
It is my turn ( Lols) to choose the theme this week and I thought ,,,,
L FOR LIGHTS with the optional extra of Christmas Tree :-)
We are sponsored this week by Heidi at Simon Says Stamp. One lucky entrant will win a $15 voucher to her store and she will pay the postage too :-)
We are also looking for a Guest Designer to join us for the 'N' and 'O' Challenges so if you would like to be considered please add GD after your name on the Froggy link :-)
Sharon is joining us this week as our Guest Designer and this is her fabulous card :-)
Please add your links for 'L for Lights' projects here. If you'd like to be considered for the next GD spot...please add GD after your name...and don't forget that in order to be entered in the draw for the prize...it must be a Christmas item.