Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #17

 Hi there, it's time to Trim the Tree for Challenge #17 and also to thank my lovely Elf, Cat, for all her help with the fun and cardmaking frolics! Thanks, Cat, it was lovely teaming with you.

After a slowish start the entries just kept on coming; picking just a few to comment on has been really tricky.

Top Picks are as follows:

Lynne from Lynne's Craft Haven

Gorgeous colouring, super-crisp embossing and an adorable pup!

Angie

We loved the sweet little puppy and just how many stamp sets Angie used 

to create this sweet scene.

Fabiola

What a great scene and we love that we're seeing the action through a window.

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

Marcia

Both Cat and I fairly swooned over this gorgeous little creation.

Well done everyone, please grab your blog badges.

Here's Rudolph to announce his Random Raffle...

It's you, Helen!

Please can you contact me via the sidebar form so that I can arrange for your prize to reach you.

Once again, a big thank you to Cat, and to everyone who played along in this challenge. Our new challenge is open and I'd love it if you could join myself and elf Joanne to play along.

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #17 - Dachshund Through the Snow

Welcome to Challenge #17 - doesn't time fly when you're having fun!

We've got a new theme and a new elf. Please welcome Cat Craig from Catluvspaper! 

I think I got to know Cat through The Card Chain Challenge and I've long been an admirer of her beautiful, CAS cardmaking style. Let's meet her:

"Hi! I am Cat Craig. I was delighted and honored when Jo asked me to be a Guest Elf for her fabulous Christmas Card Challenge. 

I was never much of a crafter until a dear friend introduced me to scrapbooking in 2006. A few years after that another friend introduced me to card making I was hooked and eventually started my blog Cat Luvs Paper.  

I love all kinds of techniques and card styles. My favorite technique is coloring, whether it is markers, pencils, or paints. Whenever my mojo wanes, I look to a card challenge to rev it up again." 

Thanks for being here, Cat, it's great to have you as our guest elf for this challenge.

Our theme for Challenge #17 is 

Dachshund Through the Snow.

Hope you'll forgive the punny title! For this challenge it's all about Christmassy canine companions, so break out any doggie stamp of your choosing and come join the fun.

Cat's card

I just LOVE Cat's card, and the placement of the wreath is genius!

Here's my offering for the challenge. I fell truly, madly and deeply in stamp love when I spotted this little pug from Art Specially. If you follow this link you'll need to scroll down the page until you see The Stamping Cottage - they appear to be the retailers for these stamps.

You can see my other cards for this challenge over on my blog.

Rudolph's here again with another lovely Random Raffle prize. This stamp set is just gorgeous and the packaging doesn't do it justice.

Cat and I can't wait to see your festive furball creations, so please read the rules and come play along!

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow this blog either via Blogger or Bloglovin, or Email. 
• Add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery or blog to the Linky tool. 
• 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 fortnightly on a Tuesday. 
• Please enter a max of 3 cards per challenge.
• Preferably no back linking to older projects, please.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter