Christmas Kickstart Challenge: Challenge #49

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Monday, May 3, 2021

Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #49

Welcome back, I hope that everyone is doing well!

It's Tree Trimming time again and I'm delighted to be sharing the results of Challenge #49 - You Sleigh Me!

I'd like to say a huge and heartfelt thank you to Jane for being my elf this month. You are one in a million, Jane - thanks so much for undertaking your elfin duties while so much has been going on for you.

After a slowish start things really started happening with this challenge and we had a fabulous 39 entries - thanks so much to everyone who joined Jane and me.

Our choices for Top Picks are as Follows:

Bonnie

We both fell 'hard' for Bonnie's scrunchy foiling behind that glorious white die cut.

Bobby

What a gorgeous composition!

Jules

The attention to detail on this card is breathtaking!

Our Tree Topping Winners for this challenge are:

Jane

Such a happy card with a fabulous hand drawn sky!

and

Betty

Betty used a tag die to create her sled and then hand-cut the runners

to create her beautiful slimline mini.

Congratulations to our Top Picks and Winners. Please grab you badges and flaunt them on your blogs!

Is it me or is Rudolph looking extra COOOOOOOL this week? He's here to announce the winner of his Random Raffle prize. Take it away, Rudolph...

It's you, # 34 Peggy Ingram

aka Gateway Circle.

Congratulations, Peggy. Please could you email me (dottypudding@oal.com) with your address so I can get the snow bun in the mail to you!

Thanks again to Jane, and to everyone who participated in this challenge. There's a new challenge starting tomorrow and, unbelievably, it's Challenge #50! Hope you'll hurry back and join the fun!

Thursday, April 15, 2021

It's Reminder Time for Challenge #49

Well, I don't know about you but for me this month seems to be speeding along like a sled whizzing down a mountain.

Did you see what I did there? A seamless segue from welcome to challenge theme! LOL.

Yes, welcome to Christmas Kickstart again. This month our theme is:

Our lovely elfin companion for Challenge #49 is Jane from Onions and Paper.

Here's a reminder of Jane's lovely inspiration card for this challenge.

I love brown and blue together and decided to take my inspiration from Jane's colour combo for my card.

My cute penguin, the sack of pressies and the sledge are all from from a Hobby Art set called, appropriately enough, Penguins. A big thank you to my blogging bud Gail for gifting me this lovely set.

I wanted to add some embellishments, but just couldn't make it work no matter what I tried. In the end I just left it alone - sometimes you just gotta do that.

Jane and I would love to see a few more players in the gallery, so please read the rules and come join the fun! You have until Friday 30th April to 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 on the first Tuesday of each new month.
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.

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #49 - You Sleigh Me!

Welcome to a brand new challenge here at Christmas Kickstart! A big thank you to everyone who played along with the Green Christmas Challenge - your cards were amazing and I loved watching the gallery fill up with glorious shades of greenness!

I'm delighted to be joined by a lovely new elf, and it's my good blogging buddy Jane from Onions and Paper.

"I've been a crafter since I was a toddler - my grandma taught me to crochet and embroider before I even started school. My childhood bookshelves groaned with favourites like "Dean's Bumper Book of Things to Make" and "What Shall I Do With This?" (I wish I had copies of those now) and my favourite pages of the Rupert annuals were the origami instructions. In my teens and twenties my interests moved towards knitting, crochet and dressmaking, mostly as a way of getting individual clothes at mass market prices and then, when children came along, of producing special things for them to wear.

Once they reached their teens, we all got hooked on cross stitch and machine embroidery, but they pronounced hand made clothes "naff" so the needles, hooks and knitting machine were left to gather dust. However they still enjoyed coming to craft shows with me, where my younger daughter fell in love with rubberstamping and I did with both stamping and encaustic painting. Between us we started two new hobbies, to which I added glass painting when I turned up for an "Introduction to Stamping" class on the wrong night and was invited to stay.

Now I'm addicted to papercrafts of all kinds but especially stamping, and my stash is threatening to take over the house. The needles and hooks are still gathering dust: the knitting machine was rehomed some years ago."

What a fun bio, Jane. I remember the origami in the Rupert annuals too!

Our theme for April is:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #49 - You Sleigh Me!

This means that we're all about sledges, sleds and sleighs for the whole of April. Here's what Jane made for the challenge - don't you just love that colour combo!

You can find all the details on her blog.

I went with a bunny on a sledge, and you can find the details of how I made my card here.

There was only one image for Rudolph to pick for his Random Raffle Prize...

Jane and I very much hope you'll come and join the fun!