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

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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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