Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #64

Hi there card friends! It's time to announce our Top Picks and Tree Topper for Challenge #64 where we asked you to Show Us Your Snowfolk!

I was delighted to be joined by lovely Helen B from Helen's Craft Haven for this one. Thanks for all the inspiration, for being a fab elf and for picking such a fun theme!

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#24 - Bonnie

We love Snowy in red and green!

#20 - Vicky

A gorgeous snowman and a lovely design.

#7 - Silke

An adorably cute scene with beautifully fluffy snow.

Our Winner and Tree Topper for this week is:

#26 - Nancy Thomas

Just look at all the cute details on this card - so sweet.

Congratulations to you all, I hope you enjoy flaunting your blog badges for all the world to see and admire!

Finally, it wouldn't be Christmas Kickstart without the handsome dude that is Rudolph and his awesome Random Raffle. 

 

#41 - Darnell... It's you!

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

Once again a big thankyou to Helen, and also to everyone who entered this challenge. It was so hard to just pick a few cards to showcase from such a gorgeous gallery.

It's now August and there's a new elf and a fun new challenge on offer, so please come on over and take a look!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #64 - Reminder

 

And before you know it, July is half-way gone!  

I'm so happy to have Helen B of Helen's Craft Haven on board as our elf for this month's challenge.

Challenge #64 - Show us your Snowfolk!

Here's a little reminder of what Helen made...

You can find out all the details of how she created this lovely card over on her blog, here. 

This is my 'inspired by...' card,  which means I get to shamelessly CASE some of the beautiful details of Helen's card!

One of the things I love about visiting Helen's blog is how she uses pencil crayons to colour her chosen images. I'm not very good at using pencils crayons (as you can see!), so I thought I'd have a try. I picked this gorgeous Penny Black image because so many of Helen's cards feature  PB stamps, plus her card had three snowmen and is landscape slimline format. 

I do love the little story that this fun stamp tells. 

Rudolph has chosen a fun Woodware Craft Collection tag prize for this month's Random Raffle Prize.

 

Please read the rules...

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow this blog either via Blogger or Bloglovin, or Email.
• 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.

Helen and I hope you'll play along with this fun theme - the challenge is open until the last day of July!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Challenge #64 - Show us your Snowfolk

It's July (not sure how that's happened) and I'm delighted to be joined by Helen B of Helen's Craft Haven for a fun, new challenge.

"Hello, I’m Helen of Helen’s Craft Haven. I’m a musician and music teacher based in West London, teaching flute, clarinet, saxophone, recorder and music theory to pupils of all ages, as well as arranging music for, and directing a couple of school Wind Bands and an ensemble of enthusiastic adult musicians. I’m mostly a weekend crafter, and it was making my own Christmas cards nearly twenty years ago that first got me into stamping - they are still my favourite type of card to make, so I was thrilled when Jo asked me to be a Guest Elf for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge!"

It's great to have you here, Helen, and thanks so much for providing such a gorgeous inspiration card for our new theme which is:

Challenge #64 - Show us your Snowfolk!

Here's what Helen made...

Isn't this just great? The positioning of those snow dudes is just perfect and I love their different and beautifully coloured scarves and hats. You can find out all the details of how she made this lovely card over on Helen's blog, here. 

I made this for the challenge...

And you can find out what I used by clicking here.

Rudolph has chosen a cheeky little elf tag prize for this month's Random Raffle Prize.

 

Please read the rules...

Challenge Rules and Guidelines: 

• Like and/or follow this blog either via Blogger or Bloglovin, or Email.
• 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.

Helen and I hope you'll play along with this fun theme!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter