Christmas Kickstart Challenge #94 - Reminder

 

Welcome back, card friends! We have the very talented Julia Aston as our first elf of the New Year, and she's created another gorgeous card to inspire us all.

Our theme is:

Challenge #94 - Bring the Baubles

Isn't it just the cutest! I love that background paper to give the 

effect of the bauble being on a tree.

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

Please drop over and leave her some love.

Here's a reminder of the gorgeous card Julia made to get the party started!

I'd love to know how she did the gloopy custard!

As regular visitors will be aware I like to make an Inspired by card for the Reminder post. I love Julia's cute Christmas pudding bauble but really struggled to get my head around which elements to include for my card as I didn't want to do a straight CASE. I love the sweet, playful nature of Julia's beautiful card and so here's what I came up with! 

You can find all the details of how I made my card over on my blog.

Rudolph has a beautiful bauble as the prize for our first challenge of 2025!

 

Please don't forget that to be eligible to win Rudolph's Random Raffle prize you need to make sure you read the Challenge Guidelines.

There's still plenty of time to play along, so please come and join Julia and me... and don't forget to Bring the Baubles!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Challenge #94 - Bring the Baubles!

 

Happy New Year to all you Kickstarters! It's so good to have you here for another year of Christmas Card Making and fun. 

I'm delighted to say we're kicking-off 2025 in style as we have the very talented Julia Aston as our first elf of the New Year! 

"I am so thrilled to have been asked to Guest DT for the first challenge of Christmas Kickstart in 2025.  I live in Massachusetts in the US.  I have a grown son and lovely daughter-in-law who live 9 hours from us in Maryland.   I have loved doing many kinds of crafts all of my life, with stamping becoming my most favorite after I attended a Stampin' Up home party many many years ago and found out I could create beautiful cards without being good at drawing!   I am happily retired for the past 7 years so now I can stamp during the day as well as late into the night!  I LOVE the friendliness of the stamping community and have been on many design teams over the years making crafting friends all over the world!"  

Our theme is:

Challenge #94 - Bring the Baubles

We want to see baubles/ornaments on your cards for the whole of January!

Here's what Julia made to get the party started!

You can read all about her card over on her blog. 

And what could be better than a sweet Christmas pudding bauble. Love it!

Here's what I made:

You can read about my card here.

Rudolph has a gorgeous Sizzix 3-D Impresslits Cut and Emboss bauble as his prize for our first challenge of 2025!

 

Please don't forget that to be eligible to win Rudolph's Random Raffle prize you need to make sure you read the Challenge Guidelines.

Julia and I can't wait to see what you create!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #93

Happy New Year!

I hope that 2025 is being gentle with everyone thus far!

Thanks so much to everyone who played along in the final Christmas Kickstart Challenge of 2024 - it was amazing to see just how many of you linked-up for this challenge. The gallery was chock full of stunning cards and it was very, very tricky to pick just a few to showcase.

My Top Picks for this challenge are:

#26 Pauline

Isn't this a beautiful card - 

so much layered detail and a stunning colour palette too. 

# 69 - Trina

So cute and witty!

#93 - Gundi

I love all the detail on this pretty card. 

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

#141 - Birgit

Hop on over and see the full set of these cards. Birgit's attention to detail is perfect.

A huge thank you to everyone who entered this challenge. There were some amazing cards in the gallery and I loved looking through them all. Congratulations to our winners, I hope you'll enjoy flaunting your blog badges for all the world to see!

And finally, here's Rudolph to announce the winner of his Random Raffle for this challenge: 

 

#102 Carol L... It's you!

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

The first challenge for 2025 will start next Tuesday and I can't wait for us to start a whole new year of making Christmas/Holiday cards - please come and join the fun!