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!

Click here to enter

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!