New DT Members & Icy Inspirational Photos More Inspiration

It's Helen here with some really exciting news about our new DT members, as well as some more inspiration for our current challenge. I won't hold you in suspense any longer...the three lovely ladies we've chosen to join our happy little DT family are: 
 

Please join us in welcoming:

Bettina, Wilma & Kelly!
 

We're so excited that you're coming to play! :0) 

Their first challenge will be J is for ? so you'll be seeing their cards next week! 

But...that's not all! There was such a wealth of talent amongst those that applied to join our DT, that we've also picked some Guest Designers too...and they'll be joining us over the next couple of months...so there'll be oodles of inspiration to get your Christmas card stash kick-started! 

Ok...so I also have some more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies for our current challenge, where the theme is: 
 

'I is for Icy Inspirational Photos' 

We have two wonderful sponsors for this challenge: 

From Simon Says Stamp - a $15 voucher to spend in their store! 

From In 2 Stamps - a €10 gift voucher to spend in their store! 

What great prizes! 

And here are the DT's mid-way cards: 

Miria

Dorte

Samantha

And Me (Helen)

For even more inspiration, and the linky for your entries, please visit this post.

Happy Christmas Crafting!

Helen & the ABC Christmas girls xx

W for Winter Wonderland

Hi Everyone!

My little bit of house keeping before our new challenge!

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Please join me in welcoming our fantastic new DT members:

Carissa, Delphine and Dorte

don't forget to visit their blogs too!!

We are also mega lucky to have Paula & Tanja joining us for the next 3 months so you will have lots of lovely inspiration to lead you up to Christmas and beyond!!

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Well I know we say this nearly every week! but this week its been mega hard for me to choose! my Top 3
I am choosing in number order...

7. Joycelyn
23. Kathy Curry
41. Natascha

 The winner selected by the lovely generator is 

Number 8 thats you LAURA!
 8. x laura x  Congrats sweetie!
 
Please email myself and Helen to find out how to claim
your fabby digi stamps from the fantastic, fun & cute Pink cat Studio!!

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 I also was to say thank you to Carissa, Delphine & Dorte as your V for Vertical cards were Awesome! I nearly posted a top 6!
tehheheee :0)

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So on to this fortnights Challenge!!

How have we got to W already?

Ooooo your gonna love this challenge from Annie

I am posting it for Annie as she has been a little poorly

but thankfully is well on the mend now.

OK so on to the challenge!

Annie has chosen Winter wonderland with the optional extra of a white theme

She has seen lots of lovely Christmas cards featuring large expanses of white

and thought this would be a great extra for her challenge...

You can add colour to your image of course or we wouldn't be able to see it! tehhehe!
You can add colour to the background matt layer or even a little edge distressing, but we want to see lots of White Winter Wonderlands!

We are sponsored for this challenge by one of our regular sponsors:

Simon Says Stamp

And the prize is a $15 Gift Certificate...they'll pay the shipping too!

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Here are the inspirational Winter wonderland projects for the FANTASTIC design team!

Lacey

Squirrel

Squirrel 2nd Card (Opting out of the optional white Extra)

Lorraine

2nd fabulous card from Lorraine

Helen

Samantha

2nd card from Samantha

Annie

Jayne

Delphine

Carissa

Dorte


and now for our 2 lovely Guest Designers

Paula

Tanja

How about that for inspiration!

OK so now its your turn!

and I can tell you this much the girls have been saying they can not wait to see all the projects this time!! they have had a great time creating!

there only one thing left for me to say

HAVE FUN!

New DT Members!!!

Firstly, we'd like to say a HUGE 'thank you' to all of you who took the time to enter our DT call. We really enjoyed looking at your fabulous cards, and having a nosey around your blogs...you gave us a very difficult decision!

In the end, we couldn't choose just 2...so we would like to invite the following 4 people to join our happy band of crafters:

Annie

Jayne

Lacey

&

Squirrel

Congratulations ladies...welcome to the ABC Christmas Challenge family!
Please could you all contact us via the email link in the sidebar...which for some reason is now all at the bottom of the blog! lol

Please don't feel disheartened if you weren't chosen this time...we will be having regular guest designers chosen from entries to our challenges.