Christmas Kickstart Challenge #64 - Reminder

 

And before you know it, July is half-way gone!  

I'm so happy to have Helen B of Helen's Craft Haven on board as our elf for this month's challenge.

Challenge #64 - Show us your Snowfolk!

Here's a little reminder of what Helen made...

You can find out all the details of how she created this lovely card over on her blog, here. 

This is my 'inspired by...' card,  which means I get to shamelessly CASE some of the beautiful details of Helen's card!

One of the things I love about visiting Helen's blog is how she uses pencil crayons to colour her chosen images. I'm not very good at using pencils crayons (as you can see!), so I thought I'd have a try. I picked this gorgeous Penny Black image because so many of Helen's cards feature  PB stamps, plus her card had three snowmen and is landscape slimline format. 

I do love the little story that this fun stamp tells. 

Rudolph has chosen a fun Woodware Craft Collection tag prize for this month's Random Raffle Prize.

 

Please read the rules...

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• 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 I 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.

Helen and I hope you'll play along with this fun theme - the challenge is open until the last day of July!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Challenge #64 - Show us your Snowfolk

It's July (not sure how that's happened) and I'm delighted to be joined by Helen B of Helen's Craft Haven for a fun, new challenge.

"Hello, I’m Helen of Helen’s Craft Haven. I’m a musician and music teacher based in West London, teaching flute, clarinet, saxophone, recorder and music theory to pupils of all ages, as well as arranging music for, and directing a couple of school Wind Bands and an ensemble of enthusiastic adult musicians. I’m mostly a weekend crafter, and it was making my own Christmas cards nearly twenty years ago that first got me into stamping - they are still my favourite type of card to make, so I was thrilled when Jo asked me to be a Guest Elf for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge!"

It's great to have you here, Helen, and thanks so much for providing such a gorgeous inspiration card for our new theme which is:

Challenge #64 - Show us your Snowfolk!

Here's what Helen made...

Isn't this just great? The positioning of those snow dudes is just perfect and I love their different and beautifully coloured scarves and hats. You can find out all the details of how she made this lovely card over on Helen's blog, here. 

I made this for the challenge...

And you can find out what I used by clicking here.

Rudolph has chosen a cheeky little elf tag prize for this month's Random Raffle Prize.

 

Please read the rules...

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• 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 I 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.

Helen and I hope you'll play along with this fun theme!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #63

It's Time to Trim the Tree for Challenge #63 where we were joined by the lovely Di from Pixie's Crafty Workshop as our elf.

Thanks so much for all your friendship and help with this challenge, Di. It's always fun when we have the pixie come and join us as our elf!

Our theme was Pawfectly Pawsome Christmas and we loved seeing your cats, dogs and other creatures... you guys certainly know your paws!

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#14 - Arlene

We love Arlene's colouring on kraft.

#20 - Fabiola

Again, lovely colouring and just look at those toe beans!

#23 - Helen

What a gorgeous snowy scene Helen has created for her tractor driving pup.

Our Winner and Tree Topper for this week is:

#27 - Linda

Just look at all the beautiful details Linda has included.

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

It wouldn't be a Tree Trimming post without the lovely Rudolph, and here he is to announce the winner of his Random Raffle prize.

#36 - Karen Ladd, it's you!

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

Thanks again to Di, and to everyone who played along with this challenge. There's a brand new challenge beginning tomorrow and by one of those wonderful cardmaking coincidences our new elf has been featured in today's Tree Trimming post... I wonder who it could be?