Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #99

Well, June and the middle of the year really flew by at top speed! I hate to say it but the calendar has tipped and it's all down hill to the Festive Season! 

We had the lovely Dani with us throughout June as our elf, and she picked the fun theme of Christmas Critters for us to play. We had #51 fabulous entries for this challenge - which might just be a record for a June challenge. 

Thanks so much for inspiring us with your adorable card, Dani. It's been lovely partnering with you for this challenge. 

With so many amazing entries it was always going to be hard to just choose a few to showcase, but we narrowed it down and here come our Top Picks and Winner:

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#1 - Meghan

Meghan's gorgeous colour palette and sweet design is as charming as it is fun.

#24 - Linda

Linda's scene is adorable, and we both love how she's used blue and green on her card.

#34 - Bobby

Just look at Bobby's gorgeous backdrop for her cute critters!

Our Winner and Star on the Tree for this week is:

#13 - Helen

Helen's card is beautifully coloured, and so much fun.

Congratulations to you all, I hope you'll enjoy flaunting your blog badges for all the world to see!

Finally, here's Rudolph with the result of his RANDOM RAFFLE DRAW for June...

 

#12 Jeanne H. - It's you!

Congratulations, Jeanne, please email me a dottypudding (at) aol.com with your snail mail address so I can connect you with your prize. 

Huge thanks again to Dani, and to everyone who played along with this challenge. Challenge #100 is in full swing and I really hope that you'll all come and join the fun!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #100 - Merry-go-round!

Welcome, welcome, welcome! It's Challenge #100 here at The Christmas Kickstart.

I'm delighted to be in the company of my dear friend Gail for this challenge. Thanks so much, Gail, there's no one else I'd rather celebrate this milestone with.

 

Gail has chosen a brilliant, fun theme for Challenge #100 and it's...

Merry-go-round!

We'd like to see your spots, dots and circles this month, please. 

Here's what Gail has created to get us in the mood:

Isn't this just the best! You can find all the details for Gail's brilliant pup card by visiting her blog.

And here's my card: 

Dots, spots and circles a'plenty, and such fun to make.

You can head over to my blog to find out how I created this simple, but fun little card.

Rudolph has pulled-out an extra special prize for this month's Random Raffle Draw and has decided that there will be TWO lucky RANDOM WINNERS in honour of our 100th Challenge. 

 

Thanks, Rudolph, that's a great idea!

Gail and I can't wait to see how you play our theme. Please remember to read the challenge guidelines and please remember that the challenge theme should clearly be the inspiration for your card. A few cards are beginning to creep into the gallery that don't appear to be inspired by this challenge. This just makes Rudolph grumpy and means that the designer will be omitted from his Random Draw. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #99 - Reminder

Welcome back, card fans. This month we have the lovely Dani from Dani Doodles as our Elf. 

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Dani has chosen a fun theme for us to play this month:

Challenge #99 - Christmas Critters

Here's a little reminder of her card...

You can find all the details about Dani's card over on her Instagram Account, and you can visit her shop here for cute stamps and here for naughty stamps. Whether you're looking for sugar or spice you'll find that Dani's stamps are currently on SALE!

Dani has a little message for potential shoppers: 'All stamp sets are now just £6 on the website! When they're gone, they're gone!'

I loved Dani's card and had so much fun creating my Inspired by... version. 

I wanted a critter in a festive predicament so opted for Fluffles from Stampendous.

Here's Rudolph with his Random Raffle prize for June. As you can see he's offering some adorable critters to one lucky random winner.

 Dani and I both hope you'll have as much fun with this theme as we have and very much hope you'll come and join the challenge!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #98

Hurray, I've finally found time to drop by and Trim the Tree for Challenge #98! Life just seems so busy right now.

We were in excellent company for this challenge as we had a sweet card by my lovely friend Becca as our inspiration. Thanks for being our Elf, Becca, it was fun partnering-up with you.

Becca picked a fun theme for our challenge together and an impressive #34 of you played along and shared your Winter Warmer cards! Thank you to everyone who joined the fun. Your cards were all lovely, but here are just a few that caught our eye!

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#7 - Margreet

Isn't this just the sweetest little card!

#13 - Linda

Another fabulous card from Linda! Just look at how she's put together this little scene.

#33 - Greta

We both love Greta's cosy snowman.

Our Winner and Star on the Tree for this week is:

#19 - Dawn

We both love Dawn's sweet card with it's beautiful colouring and pretty colour palette!

Congratulations to you all, I hope you'll enjoy flaunting your blog badges for all the world to see!

Here's Rudolph to reveal the WINNER of his Random Raffle draw...

 

 

#16 - Helen... It's you!

Congratulations, Helen, please email me a dottypudding (at) aol.com with your snail mail address so I can connect you with your prize. 

Once again, a very big thank you to Elf Becca for joining us, and thanks to all of you who played our challenge. You guys bring the fun!

A brand new Christmas Kickstart Challenge is now well underway and proving very popular! Hope to see you there.