Rounding Up the Year!

I'm just dropping by to say a HUGE 'thank you' to 

all our guest Elves for 2023.

January 2023 - Stencils and Masks

Beverly from Bev's Creative Path

February 2023 - Baubles!

Bridget from Curlybearcrafts

March 2023 - Wrapped Up for Christmas

Monika from Tinker Cards

April 2023 - Gnome for Christmas

Gail from CraftyNomad

May 2023 - Colour Palette Fun!

Gundi from Papierelle

June 2023 - Festive Fancy Folds

Arlene from A Little Bit of This and That

July 2023 - Gingerbread Treats

Carol from Just Me:c

August 2023 - Just Elfing Around

Di from Pixie's Crafty Workshop

September 2023 - Chillin' with my Gnomies

Kimberly from Wienerhoneymooners

October 2023 - The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge

Remembering our friend Janis Woolbright

Thanks to these special people for all their help with this challenge.

You guys rock.

Gail - Crafty Nomad

Becca

Carole

Fiki

Kitty

Suzanne

Angela

Chris

Mandy

and 

Karen

Karen helped with the preparation for the challenge, 

but was unable to take part due to ongoing care commitments.

November 2023 - It's Christmas, Jim, but not as we know it!

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

On this occasion aka

Chris

Donna

Jules

I feel so blessed to have been the recipient of all the love and friendship from these guys across a whole year of cardmaking. 

And thank you to everyone who has played along too - I couldn't do any of this without all you amazing players!

I hope you'll come and join the fun again in 2024, 

until then here's wishing you all 

a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, 

and we'll be starting with a brand new 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge on January 2nd 2024.

and here's one last cat meme for 2023...

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #81 - Reminder

Welcome back! 

The Holiday Season is in full swing and in 10 days time it'll be Christmas Day!

It's our traditional December Challenge here at Christmas Kickstart as we're playing:

Challenge #81 - If it's Christmassy, Link it Up!

Just link up any Christmas cards you've just created. Yes, it really is as simple as that. If you're stuck for a theme why not look back through the past year of inspiration and fun here at Christmas Kickstart - our elfin muses have once again done us proud!

That cute 'n' chunky VLVS kitty is making another appearance on a Christmas card. A friend bought this card from me a week or so ago, but has since told me she's too worried to send it for fear of offending someone! I did offer her the chance to swap it for a different card, but she said she likes it and may keep it just for herself! 

And still on the theme of cats, here's a Katzelkraft mini stamp that always makes me smile...

Rudolph final Random Raffle Prize for 2023 is a cutie.

   

I hope you'll come and play in the last challenge of 2023! And please check the Challenge Guidelines before linking up.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #81 - If it's Christmassy, Link it Up!

 

I can hardly believe it's that time of year again. All the elves have gone home and it's just Rudolph and me pottering around Kickstart HQ and doing those festive jobs that we all have to do. Marshmallow the cat is pretending to help, but mainly he's just looking cute.

This is our final challenge for 2023 and it's a traditional nice and easy, 

anything goes style challenge...

Challenge #81 - If it's Christmassy, Link it Up!

Just link up any Christmas cards that you want to. Yes, it really is as simple as that. If you're stuck for a theme why not look back through the past year of inspiration and fun here at Christmas Kickstart - our elfin muses have once again done us proud!

Here's what I've created for this challenge... I'm completely in love with this cute cat from Jane's Doodles. 

I printed out a few of these and made the cards with a variety of different cats. Great fun!

Rudolph is here with a fun Random Raffle Prize...

   

I hope you'll come and play in the final Christmas Kickstart Challenge of 2023!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge # 80

It was great fun to have my pals from The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers as our elves for November! Thanks so much, guys, I really appreciate having you as our guests once again!

Our theme for the month was 

It's Christmas, Jim, but not as we know It!

And so many of you to totally rocked the idea of creating an usual Christmas scene, using a non-traditional palette or reaching into outer space for your inspiration!

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#16 - Trina

Ho, ho, ho - Ha, ha, ha! Brilliant!

#21 - Gundi

We loved all the little details on Gundi's non-traditional palette card.

#38 - Alice K.

What could be cuter than this little Christmas croc!

Our Winner and Tree Topper for this week is:

#4 - Linda

Don't you just love Linda's spacey take 

on the challenge? We all did!

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

# 7 - KT Fit Kitty...  It's you!

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

Our final challenge of the year will get underway tomorrow, so don't forget to come and visit and join the festive fun!

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #80 - Reminder

 

This month, I'm delighted to be joined by my pals from The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. As always, we've brought along our mascot, Edna, and doesn't she look stylish in her elf hat!

We're playing

It's Christmas, Jim, but not as we know it!

This is one of those challenges where you can play the theme in a few different ways and here's a reminder of how our elves played some possible options:

Sister Jules went all out Trekkie!

Sister Chris gave this sweet set a festive tweak...

While Sister Donna opted for a non-traditional colour combo...

Here's my Reminder card...

 N.B. I HAD SERIOUS FUN MAKING THIS!

You can find all the info about my card by heading over to my blog. 

Feel free to play this fun theme any-which-way you want to! Just remember to explain your thought process in your blog post!

As always, there's a lovely prize for one lucky RANDOM WINNER curtesy of the lovely Rudolph and his RANDOM RAFFLE.

 

We all hope you come and play along!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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