The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #105 - If It's Christmasy, Link It Up!

 

Hi guys, welcome back! 

I usually have a few cards to share for the Reminder, but unfortunately I'm struggling with back pain again and it seems to have scared away my mojo! Never fear though, as we have a stunning card made especially for this post by our very good friend Vicki Ruta, who was elf for Challenge #104. 

Isn't this card just sooooo much fun! And you'll love the happy little story behind this card because Vicki made it to celebrate the fact that she's adopting two tuxedo boy cats in time for Christmas. Isn't that great! Thanks so much, Vicki, and I hope you all have a wonderful first furry Christmas together.

If you remember I mentioned that the Cat Rescue where I volunteer had booked a stall at a local craft fayre. The weather was truly awful that day, but between the Tombola and the craft sale the team still managed to raise £150. 

Here's another of the cards I made for the sale.

I've been trying to work on a few ideas over the last few days, but nothing seems to be turning out quite how I'd like it to. I'm currently playing with some gorgeous Darla Horse dies from this lovely store, but my concentration is poor and I think I'll just create a few simple tags and tidy my craft room until I begin to feel better. 

I'm loving all the cards in the gallery right now. You guys are totally in the Christmas groove and we have #84 cards linked-up thus far. Will we make #100? Let's keep our fingers crossed and see what happens!

Hugs to you all and happy Christmas!

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Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #104

Yes, it's Tree Trimming time again here at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge. 

A huge thank you to the very lovely Vicki for being our elfin muse for November. It was such fun teaming-up with you, Vicki, and I loved the card you made to Kickstart our challenge together!

Vicki picked a fun theme for our challenge and sixty cards made it into our gallery. Many thanks to everyone who joined the fun - it was so lovely to see all your antler-adorned creations. 

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#8 Laurel S

What a fun design!

#18 Margaret

This one rated high on the cute-ometer and no mistake!

#36 Meghan

We both fell hard for Meghan's reindeer! 

Guess who couldn't stop herself from clicking 'add to cart' for this set.😉

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

#46 Linda

Neither of us could resist Linda's reindeer slippers and festive PJs. If you take a peek over on Linda's blog you'll see she also made a unicorn version of this card!

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

Here's Rudolph with his Random Raffle Draw WINNER...

 

#27 - Marina, It's you!

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

Once again, very many thanks to Vicki and to everyone who played our challenge. A new challenge is currently in progress and it's our traditional no frills, easy-peasy, Anything Goes for December!

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #105 - If It's Christmassy, Link It Up!

 

Welcome back! It's December and nearly time for the Festivities to commence. As always in December, it's just me here at Kickstart HQ as we play...

Challenge #105 - If It's Christmassy, Link It Up!

Just make a Christmas card and link it up in the gallery. And if you're looking for inspiration why not look back across our gorgeous posts for all our Challenges in 2025. Our elves have truly done us proud this past year and no mistake.

Here's what I made to get our December party started:

If you've been following me here, or over at my blog, you may know I volunteer at a pet rescue near where I live. It's mainly cats that we work with, but dogs, rabbits, mice, ferrets, snakes, spiders, a polecat... We never turn anything away. The Rescue is always short of funds and so we've booked a stall at a local Christmas Fayre to try and raise some much needed cash. I've been making cards to sell on the stall, and other volunteers have made cat toys and other pet related loveliness. I thought I'd share some of my creations for you here...

I began to run short of Neenah Solar cardstock, so had to hatch a plan to make as many cards from the small amount of Neenah that I have left. The backgrounds are from another cardstock I had lurking in my stash. I just can't find any Neenah Solar anywhere here in the UK. Anyhooo, I'm hoping to get a few more cards made and packaged before the sale next week, so wish me luck!

We may not have an elf to keep us company this month, but we do have a rather lovely reindeer called Rudolph. Being the super-cool dude that he is, he has chosen Cooper from POD as our Random Raffle Prize this month. 

 

Here's hoping you'll come and join the fun!

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