Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #75

It's Tree Trimming Time again! I'm back to wrap-up Challenge #75 where we played Festive Fancy Folds with returning elf Arlene! Thanks so much for inspiring us once again, Arlene, we always have so much fun when we partner up for a challenge and the cards you made were just fabulous. 

 

We had some truly beautiful makes for this challenge and together Arlene and I came up with the following:

Our Top Picks for this challenge are:

#3 - Linda

Linda's pop-up bridge card had us both swooning!

#17 - Cindy C.

Simply stunning - what a great design to make the most of that fancy fold.

#13 - Valerija

Don't you just love that circle accent? Such a pretty card.

#12 - Dawn

What a stunner! A great colour combo and a lovely Flip-It centre. 

Our Winner and Tree Topper for this week is:

#14 - Silke

Wonderful colouring and composition, and we both loved that simple, yet so effective, fancy fold. 

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

Thanks so much to everyone who played along in this challenge - your cards were amazing and so inspirational.

Rudolph is here to award his Random Raffle Prize...

  

Ok, so I've just discovered that I mailed the wrong prize for the last challenge! Rudolph is ever so slightly mad with me and says he'll not be trusting a hooman to do such an important task ever again. We've decided to switch the prizes, so the lucky winner of this Challenge will now win this lovely Die and Stamp set from Creative Expressions. I better go email the winner of the June Challenge to make my apologies. 

Our Winner is:

#8 Paperpapier - It's you!

Congratulations, to our lucky Random Raffle Winner, please email me a dottypudding (at) aol.com with your snail mail address so I can connect you with your prize. 

Challenge #76 is currently in progress and thus far we're a little light on numbers in the gallery, so why not come and play along!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #75 - Reminder

For the whole of June we are in the very capable hands of elf Arlene as we play 

Festive Fun Folds at Christmas Kickstart.

Arlene has made a second card for our challenge - isn't it lovely? What a great way to play our theme to create a snowglobe card. Thanks so much, Arlene. 

As her first make for our challenge Arlene created this brilliant easel card to inspire us. 

I love that Arlene used a Cardinal on her card - which just shouts Christmas in Northern America to me. Did you know that the Cardinal is the official state bird of no fewer than seven eastern states? Amazing. 

I live in the UK and we're not blessed with Cardinals in this country, so I've chosen a small songbird that graces my garden. I love robins and am always delighted whenever they visit our garden during the year, but especially so at Christmas time. 

I used MFT Winter Songbird and Winter Wreath, paired with some lovely Dovecraft paper and a 'Hello' die cut from my crafting buddy, Linda W. 

I took inspiration from Arlene's circular centre-piece and partial wreath for my card shape.

Using this paper dragged me away from my usual Christmas colour combos, and I've quite surprised myself by liking the end result!

Here's a little reminder of Rudolph's Random Raffle Prize for this challenge - it's a sweet little A6 paper pad, which makes it perfect for standard sized greetings cards.

 

Arlene and I hope you'll come over to Christmas Kickstart and play along with this fun challenge. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #75 - Festive Fancy Folds

 

I'm so happy to welcome back my dear crafting buddy Arlene from A Bit of This and That as our elf for this challenge!

  

We're challenging you to play...

Challenge #75 - Festive Fancy Folds 

Arlene says: "I've been thinking about fancy fold fun, and what a fancy fold might look like. What kinds of folds make you happy? Pop-up, Pocket, Easel, Waterfall, Accordion, Gate, Z-fold and the list goes on!"

And here's what Arlene has created for our challenge - isn't she clever! You can find out all the details about her lovely card by visiting her blog.

Perhaps you have a favourite fancy fold you'd like to share, or maybe you'd like to try a new folding style that you've never used before? Arlene and I can't wait to see what you create!

For my fancy fold make I amazed myself by making this box card, using die cuts that Arlene sent me for our January Challenge at CCC.

The die cuts accompanied this amazing card, which I drew on for my Christmas version.

I just love this card and spent ages studying it so I could make mine.

Here's Rudolph with his Random Raffle Prize for our challenge...

This month he's offering an adorable A6 pad of festive papers - the pages are all so pretty, and the perfect size for standard cards.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter