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!

 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.

Okay, here we go!
We have two themes for you this month:

'A is for Anything Christmas'
&
'B is for Bright'

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 Goes'

'B is for Bright'

Carol

'A is for Anything Christmas Goes'

Lynda

'B is for Bright'

Fabiola

'A is for Anything Christmas Goes'

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 7th 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

Winner & Top 3 - A is for Anything Christmas & B is for Buildings

  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 Buildings'

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

I managed to mess up the original linky (sorry!), and had to open a second one, so I've combined the entries from both linkys to make a total of 164 entries, and the lucky winner is:

Adjusting for my error, and putting the 8 entries from the original linky first, that makes our winner:

#95 (from the second linky) - Kath

*****

And my Top 3:

#37 (Second linky) - Silke

#83 (Second linky) - Kelly S

#96 (Second linky) - Valentina B

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!

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

ABC Christmas Challenge - A & B are for?

 Happy New Year Everyone!

It's Helen here welcoming you to our first challenge of 2024, and the beginning of our fifteenth (!!!) 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!

We are also welcoming the lovely Marie back to our design team...please do hop over to her blog and leave her some love!

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.

Okay, here we go!
We have two themes for you this month:

'A is for Anything Christmas'
&
'B is for Berries'

There's a little prize from me for the lucky winner:

A cute robin 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 Berries'

Carol

Lynda

'B is for Berries'

Helene

'A is for Anything Christmas'

'B is for Berries'

Fabiola

'B is for Berries'

Marie

'A is for Anything Christmas'

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 10th 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

ABC Christmas Challenge - A & B are for?

Happy New Year Everyone!

It's Helen here welcoming you to our first challenge of 2019, and the beginning of our tenth (!!!) 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...don't forget to check the post below to see if you were a lucky winner of our last challenge!

I also have a few bits of admin before we get started:

This year we are going sponsor free...don't worry, there will still be the incentive of a little prize (or two) each month, but they have been donated by our lovely design team members.

We also want to make a small adjustment/clarification to the rules for entries. 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.

Finally, it gives me great pleasure to welcome our lovely new Design Team members: Julie, Lynda, Lyndsey & Wei! I'm sure that their fabulous samples will inspire you to Christmas craft all year round!

Okay, here we go!
We have two themes for you this month:

'A is for Anything Christmas Goes'
&
'B is for Berries'

There are a couple of prizes on offer (comprising a 6x6 paper pad & a co-ordinating stamp set) for two lucky winners:





And now it's time for some inspiration from our Design Team:

Helen
A is for Anything Christmas Goes


B is for Berries


Lorraine
A is for Anything Christmas Goes


Dorte
A is for Anything Christmas Goes


B is for Berries


Wilma
A is for Anything Christmas Goes


B is for Berries


Carol
B is for Berries


Sharon
A is for Anything Goes


B is for Berries


Lynda
A is for Anything Christmas Goes


Julie
B is for Berries


Wei
A is for Anything Christmas Goes


B is for Berries


Lindsey
A is for Anything Christmas Goes


B is for Berries


Samantha
A is for Anything Christmas Goes


B is for Berries


So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Thursday 31st January at 1pm (GMT).
Please link up your entries below.
We look forward to seeing what you create!

Inlinkz Link Party