Let's trim the Tree for Challenge #71

Better late than never, as they say! Yes, I'm finally here to Trim the Tree for Challenge #71 where we played with Baubles as our theme..

Our elf for this challenge was the lovely Bridget.

I'm so grateful to Bridget for all her help with our fun theme and for all her behind-the-scenes help, support and encouragement throughout what became quite a tricky month. Thanks so much, Bridget, you've been a real star.

Thank you to all our participants - your cards were so lovely and picking just a few to showcase proved a very difficult task.

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#3 - Silke

We both love how Silke used our theme for this sweet card.

#12 - Meghan

A gorgeous colour combo and again, a sweet use of the theme.

#24 - Gundi

Isn't this just so cute? A gorgeous scene within a bauble. We both loved this one.

#27 - Helen

A very clever take on the theme. 

The details within the bauble really lift this card to another level.

Our Winner and Tree Topper for this week is:

#2 - Chrissy

Just look at this beautiful card - such a clever way to frame the little Rudolph image, 

and a lovely colour palette too.

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

Here's Rudolph to announce the winner of his Random Raffle:

# 7 - Arelene Rose...  It's you!

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

Thanks again to everyone who played along with this challenge, and many thanks again to Bridget. There's a new challenge on offer as our lovely elf, Monika and I wrap everything in scarves until March 31st. Hope to see you there!

Challenge #72 - Reminder Post

I'm so happy to have Monika from Tinker Cards as our elf for this month. 

And, inspired by Monika's knitting skills, we're playing:

Challenge #72 - Wrapped up for Christmas

We'd love to see a scarf or scarves on your cards, please.

This is Monika's sweet card...

You can find all the details of how Monika made her card by visiting her blog. 

I inked-up yet another sweet little MFT set for my inspired by card and CASE'd Monika's lovely background and they way she 'hangs' her characters over the edge of the masked area. Thanks for the inspiration, Monika!

Rudolph has a great Random Raffle prize on offer for this challenge. 

So, please join Monika and me for our fun challenge... and don't forget we want to see a scarf or scarves on your Christmas Cards!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Christmas Kickstart Challenge #72 - Wrapped up for Christmas

 

Hi folks, we've marched into March and here in the UK Spring is well and truly in the air.

I'm delighted to welcome the very lovely Monika from Tinker Cards as our elf for this month.

"Hi, I'm Monika. Cardmaking has been a passion of mine for some years now. It started off with an idea of making my own Christmas cards. Since then I have made many cards, small canvases and journaling books using my treasured stamps and dies. I like sharing my projects online on my blog and in various crafting groups on Facebook."

It's great to have you here, Monika, and once I'd discovered you possess superb knitting skills in addition to your cardmaking skills, it only seemed appropriate to pick the following as the theme for our month together... 

Challenge #72 - Wrapped up for Christmas

We'd love to see a scarf or scarves on your cards, please.

Just look at Monika's adorable card - she's picked the cutest images and positioned them perfectly on that pretty masked background. You can find all the details of how Monika made her card by visiting her blog. 

I broke out a sweet little MFT set for my card. I do miss seeing new Birdie Brown images, so decided to collect as many of Yoshi's older images as I can. 

Rudolph is here as usual with a prize for his Random Raffle. 

Nice work, Rudolph - a perfect prize for our fun theme!  

So, please join Monika and me for our fun challenge... and don't forget we want to see a scarf or scarves on your Christmas Cards!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Challenge #71 - Reminder Post

 

Hi Kickstarters, I'm back today with a little reminder about our current challenge here at Christmas Kickstart! We have the lovely and very talented Bridget with us this month as our elfin muse.

Here's a reminder of Bridget's gorgeous inspiration card.

I like everything about Bridget's creation, but am especially drawn to the retro-look baubles and her colour palette oh, yes, and the positioning of her sentiment with the red background. So here's what I made...

The card was supposed to have a pale green background too, but I'd stuck down the first bauble before I realised! 

Rudolph has a sweet little penguin prize on offer this month, so please come and join the fun and play along! 

 

Blogger doesn't seem to want to let me copy the link to the challenge gallery, 

so please click here to find the Challenge launch post. 

Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #70

Welcome back, folks, as we Trim the Tree for Challenge #70. Our elf for this challenge was the lovely Beverly from Bev's Creative Path and she created a gorgeous snowman card for our theme which was Stencils and Masks.

Thanks so much for being our elf, Beverly, it was great fun partnering with you for this challenge. We had some adorable entries for this challenge and an amazing 35 of you made cards and linked to the gallery for this one - thanks so much to you all. 

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#6 - Sally

Sally card features new stencil which she recently won. 

What a nice prize and an adorable card.

#23 - Dawn

We both loved all the layers of stencilling on Dawn's card.

#24 - Bonnie K

Klass by name and class by nature! 

We both loved Bonnie's design, colour palette and use of heat embossing. 

Our Winner and Tree Topper for this week is:

#29 - Vicki

Crisp stencilling, beautiful colours and a super-fun design. What a lovely card.

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

Now it's Rudolph's moment in the spotlight as he returns with the winner of his Random Raffle...

Here goes the drum roll...

#32 TK - It's you!

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

Thanks again to Beverly for her elfin duties, and to everyone who played along in this Challenge. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your support!

There's a new elf in town and a new challenge, so why not come on over and see what's going on at Christmas Kickstart for February.

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #71 - Baubles!

 

Good morning and happy February to you all. A big thank you to everyone who played along in the January challenge - it was great to see so many of you in the gallery.

I'm delighted to welcome Bridget from Curlybearcrafts as our elf this month. I'm a HUGE fan of Bridget's amazing colouring and cardmaking talents, and have followed her blog for a long time. We recently reconnected, having lost touch a little, and I was thrilled when she agreed to don the elf hat and create some fabulous inspiration for February. 

"Hi, I'm Bridget. I started card making back in 2004 as a hobby, and soon got completely hooked on it, and started to enter challenges for fun. So 19 years and going strong, along with picking up other hobbies along the way, such as Crochet, and then sewing, I now own 4 sewing machines and enjoy making various things from bags to pillows, but currently am back into my card making full time, and still enjoying it as much as ever."

We're playing 

Baubles for Challenge #71

Here's what Bridget has created to inspire us all...

Isn't her card fab? I love all the sparkle. You can find out all the details about Bridget's lovely card by visiting her blog.

Here's what I created for the theme.

You can find all the details for this card over on my blog. 

Rudolph has a cute prize on offer for his Random Raffle this month.

 

Please remember to read the Challenge Guidelines before linking-up to this challenge. here they are just for a little reminder:

• Like and/or follow this blog either via Blogger or Bloglovin, or Email.
• Please mention and link back to this post/blog to let people know about this fun challenge!
• I'd appreciate cards made especially for this challenge, but understand that we all love challenges and the additional traffic they bring, so please link a card that fits NO MORE THAN 8 CHALLENGES including this. 
• New Challenges will commence on the first Tuesday of each new month. 
• Please enter a max of 3 cards per challenge.
• Preferably no back linking to older projects, please.
• Please remember to reference a fellow crafter's creations if your card has been inspired by their work.

Bridget and I are really looking forward to seeing your bauble creations!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter