Happy New Year & Challenge News

It's Helen here, just popping on to wish all of our lovely ABC Christmas challengers a Happy New Year, and to update you on some news/changes to our challenges this year.

As you all know, we held a DT Call on our last two challenges of 2021. Thank you to all of you who put yourselves forwards...such a wonderful variety of crafters and styles! We are in the process of visiting you all, and will be in touch with our chosen new members as soon as we have come to a decision.

Secondly...we will be changing the start date of our challenges to the second Wednesday of each month begining this month. Our challenges will still run for a month each, but will now end on the Saturday before the next challenge to give the DT members plenty of time to visit you all properly and get things ready for the next challenge. 

I have updated our 'Rules' tab with this information, and you can now find the dates for the next challenge at the top of our sidebar.

Looking forward to seeing your fabulous creations in our gallery this year!
Helen & the ABC Christmas DT x

ABC Christmas Challenge - Y & Z are for?

It's Helen here with the final ABC Christmas Challenge of the year (!), but 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!

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Before we get on to this month's challenge, I have a couple of announcements.

Firstly, as many of you will know, this wonderful festive challenge of ours was the brainchild of Samantha, and after twelve years of inspiring us with her fabulous crafty projects, coming up with awesome challenge themes, supporting her fellow design team members, and generally being brilliant, she has decided that it's time to leave us. 

On behalf of the Design Team, I would like to say a BIG Thank You to Samantha for everything that she has done for us - we will all miss you terribly!

Secondly, our Design Team Call is still running on this month's challenge, so if you fancy joining our ABC Christmas Challenge family, read on...if not, don't worry, you can still enter this challenge as normal, but you might want to scroll past the DT call information. If you have already put yourself forwards on last month's challenge, no need to do it again...you're already on our list 😉 

DT Call Information

As a DT member, you would be required to make a Christmas Card/Project for each challenge (once a month), and comment on entries to the challenges - we have a rota, but you can comment or more if you wish! So the commenting is shared between us all :0)

We also take it in turns to post the challenges on this blog, and choose the 'Top 3' for the challenges we 'host'.

We are a very friendly and democratic team, and appreciate everyone's input into challenge themes, and have a DT blog, where we chat and share our ideas.

No previous design team experience necessary and we welcome crafters of all styles!

So, if you love crafting for Christmas as much as we do, and fancy joining our team, here's what you need to do:

1. Make an item for this challenge.
2. Add 'DT' after your name on the Inlinkz gadget
3. That's it - GOOD LUCK!

The DT Call will end at the end of this month's challenge, so please don't be shy!

Now, back to this month's challenge.

This month we have two lovely themes for you:

'Y is for Yummy'

(show us some food)
&
'Z is for Zigzags'

The prize on offer for this challenge is selction of Christmas craft goodies:

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

Helen

Y is for Yummy

Z is for Zigzags

Dorte 

Y is for Yummy

Z is for Zigzags

Wilma

Y for Yummy - Cheese tree

Carol

Y for Yummy

Z for Zigzags

Lynda

Z is for Zigzags

Julie

 Y is for Yummy

Lindsey

Y for Yummy

Z for Zigzags

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

Please ensure that you have followed at least one of this month's themes (Y is for Yummy & Z is for Zigzags) before you add your link.

Any entries not following at least one of the themes will not be eligible for the prize draw.

If you are on instagram please use the hashtag #abcchristmaschallenge

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

ABC Christmas Challenge - W and X are for?

 

Good Morning and welcome to our November challenge.  Thanks so much to everyone who participated in October's challenge.  Please don't forget to check the post below to see if you are a winner.

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Before we get on to this month's challenge, it's Helen here hijacking Lynda's post with a NEWS FLASH!

Sadly, our lovely Lindsey will be leaving us at the end of the year and we shall all miss her terribly! We'll say a proper goodbye on next month's challenge, but for now, we have some news to share with you all.

It's been a while since we added any new design team members, and we've lost a few over the last few years...SO...we're holding a Design Team Call!

If you fancy joining our ABC Christmas Challenge family, read on...if not, don't worry, you can still enter this challenge as normal, but you might want to scroll past the DT call information.

DT Call Information

As a DT member, you would be required to make a Christmas Card/Project for each challenge (once a month), and comment on entries to the challenges - we have a rota, but you can comment or more if you wish! So the commenting is shared between us all :0)

We also take it in turns to post the challenges on this blog, and choose the 'Top 3' for the challenges we 'host'.

We are a very friendly and democratic team, and appreciate everyone's input into challenge themes, and have a DT blog, where we chat and share our ideas.

No previous design team experience necessary and we welcome crafters of all styles!

So, if you love crafting for Christmas as much as we do, and fancy joining our team, here's what you need to do:

1. Make an item for this challenge.
2. Add 'DT' after your name on the Inlinkz gadget
3. That's it - GOOD LUCK!

The DT Call will run over this and next month's challenges, so there's plenty of time, but please don't be shy!

Now, back to Lynda for this month's challenge.

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I am Lynda, otherwise known as Loopyloo, and I am the host for this month.

The letters for this challenge are W and X

W for Whimsical

X for Xerox

You can combine the letters in your project or use just one of them - I can't wait to see your creations in our gallery.

A little prize from me:

Here are the inspiration makes from the Design Team:

Helen

W is for Whimsical

X is for Xerox

Dorte

W for Whimsical

X for Xerox

Wilma

W for Whimsical

X for Xerox

Carol

W for Whimsical 

 

Lynda

W for Whimsical

X for Xerox

Wei

W for whimsical

Lindsey

W for Whimsical

X for Xerox

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on November 30th.

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

Please ensure that you have followed at least one of this month's themes (W is for Whimsical or X is for Xerox) before you add your link.

Any entries not following at least one of the themes will not be eligible for the prize draw.

If you are on instagram please use the hashtag #abcchristmaschallenge

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Z for Zoo Animals Mid-way Reminder

Happy New Year ABC Christmas Challengers! 

It's Helen here with some more inspiration for our current challenge, but before I get on to that, I just want to remind you of the details of our DT call that we're running on this challenge:

If you think you can:

•  Make a Christmas card/project for each fortnightly challenge
• Take a turn in hosting a couple of challenges in 2013
• Comment on a couple in every 10 entries for each challenge

Then, simply play along with this challenge, and add 'DT' after your name in the linky, and you could be getting ahead for next Christmas with the most friendly DT in blogland :0) 

Now, on with the challenge details:

We're at the very end of yet another run-through the alphabet, and our challenge theme is:

Z for Zoo animals

Remember, your project needs to be Christmas related.

For this challenge we are so lucky

having two faboulous sponsors.

Bugaboo

Challenge Blog: http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

Prize 

and 

Sweet Stamp Store

Prize - a $10.00 Gift Certificate for Sweet Stamp Store

SweetStamps.com manufactures artistic rubber stamps on cling cushion for use with acrylic blocks. We carry a variety of stamping and paper crafting goodies like our own Shades dye inks, metal embossing plates, embossing folders, cutting & embossing dies (Cheery Lynn, Marianne, Joy! and Nellie's), fine detail embossing powders, specialty cardstock and vellum along with supplies for parchment crafting. 

And now for some more inspiration from the DT:

Lacey

Annette

Wilma

  
Helen

 
 Miria

Carissa

 
 So, now it's your turn...the linky for your entries is on this post.

H for Hardware ½ way Reminder & DT CALL

Hi all its time for our mid way reminder and we have some more inspiration for you!!

Our current challenge is: H for Hardware with our DT CALL!

Our awesome sponsor is our very own Lacey with her fabulous Shop

You can find the original post here
with all the information and challenge and DT call details.

The challenge runs until 6pm UK time on the 2nd of May

Now let's see our lovely DT mid-way cards...

Helen's Hardware ~ Metal Charm

Dorte's Hardware ~ Pins

Miria's Hardware ~ A Charm & Brads

Samantha's Hardware ~ A Charm. 

You can enter the challenge here.

H for Hardware and some GREAT news!

It's Wednesday and we have a New challenge, It's my turn Samantha to Host this fortnight's Challenge, but before I tell you all about the challenge, I want to share some what I/we think its Great News!

I am Really excited to open our DT call! Yes we would love to have 3 new Christmas Mad Crafters to Join our Design Team… Sooooooo if you want to be in our Gang and LOVE making Christmas Projects of any kind, then this could be the fun chance for you! This would be a permanent position No term, just stay as long as you're happy! We will be holding the DT call on this challenge.

So the DT CALL will be open for the 2 weeks!
and will finish with the challenge.

As a DT member, you would be required to make a Christmas Card/Project for each challenge (once a fortnight), and comment on entries to the challenges - we have a rota, but you can comment or more if you wish! So the commenting is shared between us all :0)

We also take it in turns to post the challenges on this blog, and choose the 'Top 3' for the challenges we 'host'.
We are a very friendly and democratic team, and appreciate everyone's input into challenge themes, and have a DT blog, where we chat and share our ideas.

So, if you love crafting for Christmas as much as we do,
and can commit to at least 6 months of ABC Christmas Challenge fun,

All you need to do is

1. Make an item for this challenge.
2. Add 'DT' after your name on the Inlinkz gadget.
3. Add the DT Call Blinkie with a link back here on your blog.
4. If you would like to shout about it in your blog post.
   GOOD LUCK!
   
   Ok then soooo what's the challenge well to keep it fairly open so you can have fun
   I/we want to see you have fun with our theme
   H for Hardware - Use some Metal this can be ANYTHING metal, Brads, charms, paper clips, staples anything Metal……. I can’t wait to see what you make!!

We have our very own Lacey as our Sponsor with her awesome shop…

The awesome Stamp and create

Our Lucky winner will receive a super Fabulous Gift voucher.

Here comes our inspiration!

We have a Special Guest Designer this week the lovely Jerusha her Hardware is Metal Brads.

Want to be apart of our Permanent Design Team?
Read above for Our DT CALL info....

So onto our Creations

Here is mine Samantha
Hardware - Staples, Brads, Christmas Pins
Metal Star
Image - Whiff of Joy – available at Stamp and create

Helen - Hardware - Charm
Image - Penny Black

Lorraine
Hardware - Charm and Faux Metal Dew Drops, Metallic Mesh Ribbon.
Image – Wild Rose Studio – available at Stamp and create.

Lacey

Hardware - Metal corner, spacers, brads on snowflakes, charm, staples on lace
Image – Magnolia stamp - available at Stamp and create.

Dorte
Hardware - Brads and Charm
Image – Magnolia stamp - available at Stamp and create.

Carissa
Hardware - bells, jump rings, mini paper clips and charm
Image -  Tim Holtz stamps and die

Miria
Hardware - Metal buttons and Heart Brads
Image – Magnolia stamp - available at Stamp and create.

Ok so it's over to you then!
Come on get your fingers busy and get your Christmas card pile growing!

Don’t forget wanna be in our Gang?
add DT after your name on Linky!
We will be choosing the 3 lucky new DT members and notify you by 9th May :0)

Hugs Samantha and the team xx