Let's trim the Tree for Challenge #41!

 

I'm a little later than planned with the tree trimming post for Challenge #41 so let's jump right in and get this party started.

I'd like to say a big thank you to Arlene Rose for providing the inspiration for this challenge. It's been good to get to know you, Arlene!

Our challenge theme was:

Challenge #41 is Festive Florals

and this proved to be VERY popular as we had 54 beautiful entries.

Our Top Picks are:

Cindy

Lovely watercolouring against the gold heat embossing.

Karen

Such an elegant card.

Sally

Gold and white loveliness.

Topping the Tree for this challenge is this stunning card:

Trina

A gorgeous design and a beautiful colour palette. 

Congratulations to you all, please grab your celebratory badges!

Rudolph found a lovely prize for his Random Raffle: 

and the lucky winner is #53 - Jules

Big congrats, Jules, please could you get in touch with your snail mail address at dottypudding at aol dot com so I can connect you with your prize.

As always, there's a new challenge on offer and you can find it here... and also here as Christmas Kickstart and Let's Squash It! join forces for some embossing festive folder fun and frolics. 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #41 - Festive Florals

Welcome to Challenge #41! Doesn't time fly? It'll soon be Christmas.

It's time to welcome a new elf, and I'm delighted that Arlene Rose is here to provide the inspiration for our challenge. Let's find out a little bit more about Arlene...

"From the age of two I have always had an instrument of art in my hand. It started with crayons and never stopped. I was signed up to art school after graduation from nursing school but met my hubby and that led me down a different path. I have been rubber stamping for over 45 years. 

Back then I was only able to find stamps and ink pads in the local drug store. I had my youngest, born with Down’s Syndrome, and stayed home where I began teaching online. After my boys were in school I started working in craft and stamp stores, sadly all now closed. I have been teaching card crafting as well as other crafts for 12 years in the library system. I love to share my “talents” that God gave me with others."

Here's our theme:

Challenge #41 is Festive Florals

Don't you just love Arlene's beautiful card?

You can find all the details of how she made it by visiting her blog.

Here's what I made:

You can find the details of my card here.

Rudolph has been shopping and has got a lovely prize for this challenge: 

Remember, everyone who enters goes 'into the hat' for Rudolph's Random Raffle.

Here's hoping you'll feel inspired by Arlene's beautiful card and come and join the fun!

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.
• Please remember to reference a fellow crafter's creations if your card has been inspired by their work.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter