N is for NO Embellishments - Winner & Top 3

Good morning everyone, it's Helen here with the lucky winner and Top Three from our last challenge:

'N is for NO Embellishments'

We're so pleased that we didn't scare you all away...we loved looking at all of your fabulously non-embellished cards...lots of wonderful inspiration!

Ok, so on to the lucky winner of the of the fabulous prize gift certificate

from The Stamp Fairy

...the lucky winner is:

#1 - CatsCreative Corner

The Top 3 are:

#26 - Margo S

#34 - Holly

#40 - ThreeTrees

Congratulations Everyone!
Please email us by Tuesday 6th August 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.

New Challenge posting soon!
See you there...

A for Animals - Winner and Top 3

Winner of the fabulous
$10 Gift Certificate

from STAMPFAIRY
is:

Abi




Woohoo, Congrats Abi

The Top 3 are:

Angela

Yvi

Lorraine B

Congratulations Everyone!

Please email us by Tuesday 29 January to claim your prizes

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.

A for Animals - Midway Reminder

Hello everyone.  

We're half way through our A for Animals challenge, but before I share some mid-way inspiration from our fab teamies I can tell you that we have now selected our new DT members.  Thank you to everyone who applied, the entries were fantastic.  Everyone who applied should now have received an email to thank you for applying and saying if you were successful or not, and we're so sad that we could not choose everyone, but unfortunately we had to narrow it down.  In fact we had such a hard job selecting just 3, that we have actually chosen  5 new teamies to join us!   So, I hope that you'll welcome them all when we formally introduce them for their first challenge when they officially start next week!

In other news ... our super talented team leader, Samantha, has been having an early spring clean and the ABC Christmas challenge blog is getting a make-over during the next few days!  Pop back soon and collect our gorgeous NEW badges !!

Anyway, back to the task in hand, and today I am sharing with you the fab creations hoping to inspire you for our Current Challenge which is 

A for Animals

Don't forget that our fabulous sponsor this week is

Stamp Fairy

who are giving away a fabulous prize of $10 to their store :

So without further ado, here are the gorgeous mid-way inspiration creations from our design team....

Lacey - using a Strawberry Kisses image

Wilma - using a Penny Black image

Annette using StampFairy's Jake Poinsettias. 

OMG this is SOOOOO clean & simple for me.  

I'm feeling faint and need to go and lay down!

Samantha - using a Whiff of Joy

Lols using a House Mouse

Helen - using a Penny Black image

Dorte- using a Penny Black image.

We look forward to seeing your entries.

Have a great week.

A for Animal Challenge

Hello everyone. 

It's Annette here today, and I'm so honoured to be bringing you our very first challenge of the new year. Thank you all for joining in with our Zoo challenge which was our final challenge of 2012 and I hope you all had a happy and safe new year. 

So, don't go putting your snowflake punches away just because it's January. You need to be ready to get your Christmas 2013 creations started. Don't forget that if you play along with us, and make one festive card every week, you'll have over 50 Christmas cards created by Christmas. No more rushed cards in November!!!

And to start us off, we've got an easy-peasy challenge for you. So dig out a leftover mince pie, grab yourself a cuppa, and settle down with your chrimbo stash and join us for :

A for Animal

Nice and easy (especially if you like teddy bears like me!!!)

I'll have to admit that it's a doubly fantastic week too as our sponsor this week is one of my favourite digi artists, StampFairy digis.

"Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010. Gerda Burghardt, artist and owner, creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats. You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls, fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters. 

Stamp Fairy has new releases along with a FREE image every Friday and Guest Designers each month. Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images. We hope StampFairy’s images inspire YOUR creativity." 

Pop over to their store, cos they sell some real cuties. StampFairy are offering one lucky random winner a $10 gift certificate.

We're also lucky enough to be joined by two of StampFairy's talented designers.

Please welcome Céline and Larissa. I hope you'll pop over to their blogs to see more of their beautiful 'animal' themed cards:

Céline (Stampfairy DT) using Patches Christmas 2

Larissa (Stampfairy DT) using Patches Christmas 1

And here are the fabulous creations from our own uber talented design team :

Samantha - Funny Owls - 1

Samantha's new year resolution was to make more C&S style cards, and she' doing a fine job with this one. Fab card honey, and I love your Memory Box frosty die.

Helen - Patches Christmas 2

Kraft colour goes so well with any colour and Helen's made this beautiful card with some gorgeous sparkly papers.

Lacey

I'm in love with these images that Lacey's using, and her gorgeous snowflake die is just amazing. Gorgeous card honey. 

Dorte

Another stunner from Dorte, fab Magnolia tree dies and a beautifully coloured bear image.

Bettina Using Patches Christmas

Bettina's bear looks gorgeous with his brightly coloured ornaments and fluffy snow at his feet.

Wilma using Barry Countdown to Christmas

Wilma's used one of my favourite bears and coloured him beautifully. I love the tree scene she's created too.

Annette using Barry Winter 1

And I've got a bit carried away and have 2 similar cards to share. Both using Barry bear, but two different images and two different colours.

and Barry Winter 2

Carissa

FINALLY - DT CALL UPDATE:

We really enjoyed seeing so many of you enter our DT call. With so many fabulous entries it is going to take us a while to check through them all and make our selections. The choice is soooo hard, so please bear with us, we're working through all the entries and we'll be in touch with the winners soon.

T Winners and Top 3

We are back with the winners of the T Challenge and the Top 3 entries. 

First off, we have to say that seemed that many people did not understand the challenge theme. It was not an "anything Christmas challenge", but a challenge based on the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Unfortunately, we had to delete a few entries that did not follow the challenge correctly. 

Of those who followed the challenge correctly, the first winner of the Stamp Fairy Prize:

Stamp Fairy

CLAIMED ~ 6. Inge

and the winner of Simon Says Stamp

CLAIMED ~ 10. Delphine

And now the Top 3 Entries are:

5. Sandy How

11. Allisa

16. Chrissy

Congratulations Everyone!

Please email us abcchristmaschallenge@hotmail.co.uk

by Tuesday 30th October to claim your prizes.

Please add Winner - T for Twelve Days in the subject line.

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.

T is for Twelve Days of Christmas Mid-Way

It's Lacey here again. And we are halfway through our...

T is for: Twelve Days of Christmas

Click here for the original challenge post and challenge rules.

Our fabulous sponsors again are...

Stamp Fairy

and 

Here are the team's mid-way cards for your inspiration...

Jackie from Stampfairy using inspiration from 5 Gold Rings

using Barry Winter

Annette taking inspiration from 12 drummers drumming
using Stampfairy's Lenny Music

Miria taking inspiration from Three French hens

Wilma taking inspiration from 12 drummers drumming
using Stampfairy's Lenny Music

Dorte taking inspiration from 12 drummers drumming

Helen Tags using the Penny Black Twelve days set.

The challenge runs through October 16th.

Enter the challenge here.