Christmas Kickstart Challenge: March 2023

Monday, March 20, 2023

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 a difficult 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!

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

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!

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

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!