ABC Christmas Challenge - A & B are for?

 Happy New Year Everyone!

It's Helen here welcoming you to our first challenge of 2023, and the beginning of our fourteenth (!!!) 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.

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

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

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

A set of Christmas sentiment dies and a 6x6 Christmas themes paper pad.

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

Helen

A is for Anything Christmas Goes

B is for Bear

Carol

A is for anything Christmas Goes

B is for Bear

Lynda

A is for Anything Christmas Goes

B is for Bear

Helene

B is for Bear

Fabiola

A is for Anything Christmas Goes

Wendy

A for Anything Christmas Goes

So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 4th 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 and Top 3 for Y and/or Z

Hi everyone!  Wendy here to announce this month's winner and my top 3.  I'm blown away by all of the amazing designs that you created.  Only choosing 3 was a tough one for me.  Let's jump to it!

The winner of the prize pack for this month's challenge of "Y is for Youngsters" and "Z is for Zoom", as chosen by random.org is:

Aimselee with her adorable bird house scene!!

Congratulations, Aimeslee!  Please email me, using the link in the sidebar, to claim your prize!

And now, for the hard part..... I had a really hard time choosing my top 3 for this month.  Everyone created such beautiful cards and tags:

Susan Sudbury with her adorable mint fairy

Yvonne with her spectacular snow globe gnome

Cebelica with her sweet snowman card

Congratulations!  Don't forget to grab your badges from our tab at the top of the page. Thank you everyone for joining my first challenge!  Come back on soon for our first challenge of 2023!!  It's never too early to get started on those Christmas cards....

ABC Christmas Challenge - Y and Z are for.....

 Hello Everyone and welcome to this month's ABC Christmas Challenge!

I'm Wendy and I'm hosting my first-ever challenge here at the ABC Christmas challenge!  Thank you so much for joining me.

Many thanks to all who participated in last month's challenge -- don't forget to check the previous post to see if you're a lucky winner!

This is what we've all been working so hard for - it's December!  For this year's final challenge we are using Y and Z:

Y for Youngsters
and/or
Z for Zoom

Here is the prize for this challenge's randomly selected winner....

Now it's time for some amazing inspiration from our Design Team!  
Don't forget to click on their links and give them some comment love.

Design Team

Helen
Y is for Youngsters


Z is for Zoom 



Wilma
Y for Youngsters and Z for Zoom





Carol

Y for Youngsters



Z for Zoom




Lynda

Z if for Zoom



Helene

works for both Y - youngsters and Z - zoom

Fabiola
Y like Youngsters


Wendy

Y is for Youngsters


Marie

Z for Zoom



So now it's over to you...this challenge ends on Saturday 7th January at 10pm (BST).
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 Youngsters and/or Z is for Zoom) 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

Winner and Top 3 W and/or X

 Hello friends, Marie here to announce the winner and Top 3 from our previous challenge:

 W for white

and/or 

X for Xtra Special

The prize is a small assortment of Christmas goodies from me.

And the winner is:

Jeni Mc, with this lovely all white card

Congratulations, Jeni!  Please email me at choc312002@yahoo.com to claim your prize, and I will get it mailed out to you ASAP.

Since we had over 200 entries this time (you guys are really working hard to get those Christmas cards done!), I have chosen a Top 5:

Marianne

Ella

Erika

Anne

Valerie

 Congratulations to all of you!  Don't forget to grab your badges from our tab at the top of the page. Thanks to everyone who entered for making my decision so difficult!  Come back on Wednesday to see what our last challenge for 2022 will be! 😊

ABC Christmas Challenge -- W and/or X

 

Hello Christmas-loving friends!  

It's Marie hosting my first-ever challenge here at the ABC Christmas challenge!  Welcome back!

Many thanks to all who participated in last month's challenge -- don't forget to check the previous post to see if you're a lucky winner!

Well, we're almost to the end of the year, which means we are also near the end of the alphabet, and this month we are on W and X:

W for White
and/or
X for Xtra Special

I will be sending out a prize to the randomly picked winner...
You have until December 10th to enter!


Now, check out the fabulous makes from the Design Team for your inspiration:

Helen
W is for White

X is for Xtra Special



Wilma
W is for White

X is for Xtra Special




Carol
W for (mainly) White

X for Xtra Special




Lynda
W is for White

X is for Xtra Special



Helene
W is for White

With light behind it



Fabiola
W is for White



Wendy
W is for White (space)



Marie
W is for White





If you are on Instagram, please use the hashtag #abcchristmaschallenge

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter