Reminder Post for Challenge #59 - The Sentiment takes Centre Stage

 

It's time for a wee reminder here at Christmas Kickstart as we continue to play our February challenge The Sentiment takes Centre Stage.

We have the lovely Jen as our inspiration for this theme and just look what she made!

Jen's fabulous card ticked soooo many boxes for me and I just wanted to CASE the heck outta it!

You can find the details for this card over on my blog.

There's still 14 days left to play along with this challenge, and we have a fab prize from Rudolph, so why not come and join the fun!

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 one. 
• 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.

  You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

  Click here to enter

Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #58

 

Hi there cardfans, I'm a little late with this post, so let's get on and Trim that Tree for Challenge #58.

Our theme was Rainbow Christmas and our elfin muse was the lovely Cornelia of Stempel Spass. 

Thanks so much, Cornelia, it was great fun partnering with you for this challenge and being inspired by your gorgeous cards.

I was so happy to see so many of you entering this challenge with it being straight after the festive season, but a rather fabulous 36 of you took the plunge and started your card stash for Christmas 2022.

Your colourful cards were a delight and choosing a few to showcase has been very tricky, but here are our Top Picks and our Tree Topper for this challenge:

Top Picks

Jenny

Isn't Jenny's card adorable? We both love the sweet and whimsical manner 

in which she used the Rainbow theme.

Toni

A stunning background AND a lovely 'splash' of humour!

Vicky

A beautiful, bright card with which to chase away those Winter blues.

Topping the Tree this week we have this beautiful card

Eliz

Cornelia and I both loved this super-colourful scene!

Congratulations to Eliz, Vicky, Toni and Jenny! Please grab your blog badges and flaunt them for all the world to see.

Finally, it's time for the results of Rudolph's Random Raffle. Good old Rudolph has chosen a sweet embossing folder for his first prize first prize of 2022.

Congratulations to #8 Valerija, it's you!

Valerija, please contact me at dottypudding (at) aol.com with your email address so I can connect you with your prize.

Once again, a very big thankyou to Cornelia and also to everyone who played along in this challenge. We have a new theme and a new elf, so why not come on over and play along!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #59 - The Sentiment takes Centre Stage

It's the first Tuesday of the month and so it's time for a brand new challenge here at Christmas Kickstart! A big thank you to everyone who played in the previous challenge, it was great to see so many of you making Christmas cards in January.

We have a new theme and a fabulous new elf on board to inspire us. Please welcome the rather wonderful Jennifer W from Jenerally Speaking!

"Hi there!  I’m Jen and I'm thrilled to have been invited by Jo to be a Guest Elf this month.  I live in Bermuda with my husband and our cat, Ella, who graciously lets us serve and adore her.   After years of working at an animal hospital I am now happily employed at a tiny local bookstore that’s been a fixture on the island for over 70 years.  I’ve been cardmaking since 2007 and blogging since 2010.  Life has kept me from crafting for the last few months and I am itching to get back to making cards and being inspired by all my talented Blogland friends."

Our theme for this month is:

The Sentiment takes Centre Stage

We'd like to see big, bold sentiments on your cards that are quite clearly 

the star of the show and the main attraction.

Here's what Jen created for this challenge:

Isn't this great? Take a look at Jen's blog to find out all the details on how she made this little piece of brilliance.

Here's what I made for the challenge.

I used Spellbinders Nestabilities and a set from Hero Arts called Joy Stamp and Cut to make my card. For all the details on this and top see the other cards I made for this challenge, take a look on my blog by clicking here.

Finally, here's Rudolph with his Random Raffle Prize for this challenge.

 

Please, don't forget to read the challenge guidelines as Rudolph gets quite grumpy when he can't award his randomly drawn prize... And let's face it, nobody wants a grumpy reindeer! 

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 one. 
• 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.

  You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

  Click here to enter

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #58 - Reminder

 

Welcome back, I hope that 2022 is treating you well!

It's hard to believe that January is already half-way done, but it's true and so it's time for our mid-month reminder post for Challenge #58. Our theme is Rainbow Christmas and our elfin muse is the lovely Cornelia from Stempel Spass.

Cornelia very kindly created a second card for our challenge:

I think you'll agree she's 'nailed' the challenge, and you can find all the details of how she created her card on her blog here.

I'm not really sure my card is quite as 'rainbow-y' as I wanted, but I hope you like it. You can find all the details over on my blog.

You have until 31st January to 'wow' us with your creations, so why not take the plunge and start making your Christmas 2022 cards with us right now.

Both Cornelia and I hope you'll come and join the fun, and so does Rudolph as he has a lovely embossing folder to give away in his Random Raffle for this month!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Let's Trim the Tree for Challenge #57

With January racing away I thought I better get this post written right now or else we'll be in February!

A very big thank you to everyone who played along in If It's Christmassy, Link It Up! An amazing total of 150 of you played along (I do love a nice round number, don't you?) and make this one heaps of fun!

I had a little help from Rudolph with choosing Top Picks and a Winner for this month as the standard of entries was amazing!

Our Top Picks are as follows:

Kuni

The colour palette and the design of this card are simply adorable.

Izzy

Hat's off to Izzy for some amazing masking to create this sweet scene.

Arlene

Just look at all that sparkle! Arlene's houses are simply adorable.

Gail

A fabulous colour combo and an amazing background.

Bonnie

Fabulous stamping and that sentiment style and placement is perfection!

Topping our Tree for this challenge is:

Pinky

Isn't this just joyful?

Congratulations to our Top Picks and Winner. 

Please grab your badge to flaunt on your blog!

The lovely Rudolph chose a great prize for this challenge:

Winner of this Random Raffle is...

#2 - Barb!

Congratulations, Barb, please can you get in touch to claim your prize.

Once again, many thanks to all of you who took part in this challenge. We already have a new elf and a new theme on offer so please come take a look and play along... Those Christmas cards won't make themselves you know!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #58 - Rainbow Christmas

 

Happy New Year to you all!

I hope you all had a very happy Christmas and that you're back at your crafting tables and ready to go with another year of festive cardmaking.

I'm delighted to be joined by a very talented new elf to Kickstart 2022 - please welcome Cornelia from Stempel Spass! I'm a huge fan of Cornelia's cards and was delighted when she agreed to be our elfin muse for this month.

"My name is Cornelia – otherwise known as 'fun stamping', which translates into Stempel Spass – the name of my blog. I am originally from Germany, hence my blog name. For the last 25 years I have been living in New Jersey with my husband. We are empty nesters – both of our children flew out into the world, with one in England and the other one in college. I am working full time and like to spend my evenings creating cards. I have been totally hooked for many years. I mainly do CAS cards, but occasionally I like to experiment with other styles. Besides card making I enjoy photography, baking, cooking, hiking, biking, reading, classical and all sorts of ethnic music. In addition, I love to travel, although that had been impaired lately! I wish my days would be longer!"

Our theme for January is a fun one and I hope this gets your creative motors up and running! We're playing:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #58 - Rainbow Christmas

We'd love to see the colours of the Rainbow on your cards! And here's the card Cornelia made to inspire us...

Don't you just love those trees?? That rainbow effect works perfectly as it moves from blue to violet, and that single star is a genius addition as it pulls the design together and leads the eye around the card. You can find out all the details of how Cornelia made her card by heading over to her blog.

Here's what I made. I had so much fun arranging my dancing Santa troupe! As always, you can find all the info. about my card on my blog.

Finally, let's say 'Hi' to Rudolph - he tells me he had a fab Christmas and is delighted to be here again with a lovely, festive embossing folder to kick-off another year of his Random Raffles!  

Please, don't forget to read the Challenge Guidelines before linking your card. Rudolph get's so disappointed if he picks a Random Raffle winner and then can't award the prize because that person has entered too many other challenges alongside this one!

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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter