Welcome to the ABC Christmas Challenge Blog






The aim of our challenge is to help us avoid the Christmas Stress and rush to have all your cards ready! Our monthly Challenges are themed, We hope you will join us and have at the very least have a few cards in time for Christmas Please Read the Rules, and remember that you can enter our challenges as many times as you like and combine your entries with as many challenges as you like too! Have fun!
Helen, Samantha and the Design team Xx

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

V is for Vintage Winner and Top 5

It's Lacey here! Time to pick the winner and Top 5 from the V is for Vintage Challenge.

Oh, my! There were so many lovely entries!!

We have two sponsors for the Vintage Challenge:

The Ribbon Reels is offering this lovely prize of yummy ribbon and lace...

Congratulations, Alli D.

And Crafty Emma's Store
With a £10 Voucher for her store.


Congratulations, Leah Ann Gast! - Prize claimed

Ladies, please email us to claim your prize and blinkies.

Well, I couldn't stop at a Top 3 - there were just too many lovely entries.
Therefore, this week, we will have a Top 5...


#6 Joan


#127 Marlies


Congratulations, Ladies!! Please email us to claim your blinkies!

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

V is for Vintage mid-way

Hello stamping friends!!

It's Lacey again, and I'm back with a mid-way Challenge post!

We are half way through the V is for Vintage Challenge.
You can enter the challenge here.

We're so excited with all of the wonderful Vintage entries we have seen so far!!
Such a fun challenge! And so many gorgeous cards! :-)

A few of the awesome Design Team have created more Vintage cards for your inspiration...

Now it's your turn!!!

You can find all of the information about the fabulous sponsors for this challenge, as well  as the linky for your entry on this post.

Wednesday, 26 October 2011

V is for Vintage

Hello stamping friends!!
It's Lacey here and it's my turn to host the new challenge.

I can't believe we are already on V!!
V is for:
Vintage Christmas

We have two lovely sponsors this week:

The Ribbon Reel
Vintage Christmas yummi ribbon and lace Prize


And...

The lovely Emma at Crafty Emma's Store who is offering a £10 voucher to spend in her store.

I LOVE the look of Vintage cards. And I love making them.
I'm not sure why I don't make them more often!!

Now check out the wonderful inspiration from the fabulous Design Team...







Now it's your turn!!
The challenge runs through Nov 8th at 6pm GMT


U for Unused Stash - Winners & Top 5

Wowwee - did you all love our 'U is for Unused Stash' challenge or what?!?!?!
I think it's safe to say that crafty blogland is full of hoarders of stash!!!
But, it was great to see you all using that precious...forgotten about...or new stash...you really kept us all busy commenting!!!

Ok...so on to the lucky winners...we had two fabulous sponsors for this challenge...first up Simon Says Stamp:


The prize is a $15 gift certificate to spend in the amazing Simon Says Stamp store!

The lucky winner of the Simon Says Stamp prize is:

#46 - Gillian - Claimed

And our second sponsor...Bugaboo Stamps!


The prize from Bugaboo Stamps is 7 free digis of the winner's choice...wowee!!!

The lucky winner of the Bugaboo Stamps prize is:


#203 - Karen  - Claimed

Congratulations girls! Please email us to claim your prizes & blinkies.

So...now for our Top 3...oops...I mean Top 5...there were so many wonderful entries I couldn't choose just 3!

In numerical order:

#3 - Bonnie O'Clair


#55 - Tracey Brossart

#109 - Nixe-Moni

#154 - teresa kline

#172 - Ellen

Congratulations ladies! Please email us for your Top 5 blinkie.

And...if that wasn't enough...I have a guest designer to announce:

#176 - kbrandy4

Congratulations Hazel - we loved all 3 of your entries...you had nearly as much unused stash as us! lol
Please email us so that we can get everything sorted for your Guest Designer spot.

Phew...what a long post! We'll be back soon with a fabulous new challenge for you :0)


Wednesday, 19 October 2011

U is for Unused Stash - More Inspiration

It's Helen here, back with some more inspiration or our current ABC Christmas challenge:

'U is for Unused Stash'

We want to you use something that you haven't used before on your projects this time...it can be something you've been saving for a special card...you know...only taking it out occasionally to admire/stroke...or something you've just bought...there are lots of lovely new Christmas collections being released at the moment...or maybe there's something in your stash that you have for absolutely ages but have never got around to using...now is your chance!

We have two fabulous sponsors for this challenge...as it's our first challenge of the month, we have Simon Says Stamp:


The prize is a $15 gift certificate to spend in the amazing Simon Says Stamp store!

And...if that's not enough...we are excited to welcome a new sponsor to our challenges...Bugaboo Stamps!


The prize from Bugaboo Stamps is 7 free digis of the winner's choice...wowee!!!


Guest Designer - Jessica

Here's her 'unused stash':

And her lovely cheerfully coloured card:


And from the ABC Christmas DT:

Here's her 'unused stash':

And her gorgeous card using 'Knobbly Knees - Christmas Joy' by Bugaboo Stamps:


Here's her 'unused stash':

And her super cute card using 'Deacon Christmas - elf presents' by Bugaboo Stamps:


Here's my 'unused stash':

And my card:


Here's her 'unused stash':

And her really fun card using 'Kobbly Knees - Christmas Joy' by Bugaboo Stamps:



Here's her 'unused stash':

And her adorable card using 'Deacon Christmas - candy cane' by Bugaboo Stamps:

Lacey (unused stash - new Magnolia stamp)
Judging by the number of entries so far...over 100 so far!...it would seem that you are as big a bunch of hoarders as we are! lol Thank you so much for coming to play with us this time...remember, there's no limit on the number of entries per person, and you're welcome to combine our challenge with as many as you like. So, if you've got some more unused stash lurking in your craft room, join us again and make another card...it's another one on the pile...and another chance at winning one of the fabulous prizes on offer! :0)

Don't forget, if you show us a photo of your 'unused stash' add 'GD' after your name in the linky, and you might win a Guest Designer spot on one of our future challenges! :0)

You can find the linky for your card...and even more inspiration on this post.

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