Calling our Outstanding Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge Winners...

 

We're still waiting to hear from the following RANDOM WINNERS...

Altenew - $20 Gift Card #147 - Nana Connie

Colorado Crafts Company - Stamp and Die Set worth $20 - #36 - Cornelia

The Crafters Workshop - Mystery Grab Bag - #109 Nettie H 

Gerda Steiner Designs - $25 Gift Card - #18. Tasha RJ 

Waffle Flower - $25 Gift Card - #71 - Pricilla 

Your Next Stamp - Mystery Grab Bag - #117 Darnell

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

1. Please send me an email ASAP to claim your prize:   I'm Jo at dottypudding (at) aol.com 

2. Please put WINNER The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge, 2023 as the  Subject.

3. In the body of your email, please tell me the sponsor AND the prize you won.

4. If you won a physical prize (rather than a digital item or gift code) please include your snail mail address. 

5. If you don't hear from me within three days, please email again!  SPAM filters can be useful, but also a pain.

ANY QUERIES? 

If you're still awaiting a reply from either me or the sponsor with whom you were a winner, please drop me an email and I'll do my best to help. 

Marshmallow, Rudolph and I are hoping to hear from 

our outstanding WINNERS very soon!"

 

 

The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge, 2023 - Winners

Welcome to the WINNERS Post for the Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge, 2023, where we remembered our friend and fellow crafter, Janis Woolbright.

Thank you to everyone who played along, sponsored or supported this challenge. We had an amazing #161 entries and I only wish I had a prize for every single person.

As before, I've tried to stick very close to how Janis organised things. I've tried to follow her lead in how she awarded prizes and how she linked prize and prizewinner. Any mistakes are mine, so please get in touch at the email below if you have any concerns. This wasn't easy to do and once again I'm left marveling at Janis's organisational abilities!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

1. Please send me an email ASAP to claim your prize: I am Jo at dottypudding (at) aol.com 

2. Please put WINNER The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge, 2023 as the  Subject.

3. In the body of your email, please tell me the sponsor AND the prize you won.

4. If you won a physical prize (rather than a digital item or gift code) please include your snail mail address. 

5. If you don't hear from me within three days, please email again!  SPAM filters can be useful, but also a pain.

 

So, with the assistance of 

Rudolph the Random Reindeer, here are our WINNERS:

Games and activities

BADGE GIVEAWAY 

Well done to RANDOM WINNER 

Gundi/Papierelle

PRIZE

 Jane’s Doodles - $25 gift card for digital images/Store

DAY #4 - KITTY ROLL CALL 

Well done to RANDOM WINNER 

Meghan 

PRIZE

Poppy Stamps - $25 Gift Card 

DAY #7 FESTIVE FELONIES

Well done to RANDOM WINNER 

Debi

PRIZE

Fiki's Voucher for Pear Blossom Press $25 Gift Voucher

DAY #8 GAIL'S TIC-TAC-TOE GIVEAWAY

Well done to RANDOM WINNERS

 #8 Linda W wins Unity Stamps $25 Gift Card

#28 Suzanne wins Lawn Fawn - $25 Gift Card 

#38  Jacinda wins Becca's Goody Bag

Day #9 - NAME THE CAT 

As you can see our little mascot is delighted with the name: 

Marshmallow 

as chosen by RANDOM WINNER 

Becca

PRIZE

Taylored Expressions - $30 Gift Card

Day #15 – BECCA'S QUIZ

Supersleuth Mandy tracked down all the answers!

PRIZE

Art Impressions Stamp Sets x 3 

Day #21 – FIND THE CAT

Well done to RANDOM WINNER 

Lynne, who found our little escapee on Post #1.

PRIZE

Seven Hills Crafts - Mystery Stamp Set

DAY #23 – NICKNAMES FOR YOUR CAT

Well done to RANDOM WINNER 

Bunny

PRIZE

Old Island Stamps - Mystery Stamp Prize

SUPER COMMENTER 

Well done to RANDOM WINNER 

#4 Ellie

PRIZE

Honey Bee Stamps - $50 Gift Card

Congratulations to all our Games and Activities

WINNERS!

Next we have:

RUDOLPH'S RANDOM RAFFLE WINNERS

Alex Siberia - £15.00 Voucher - #58 Carole J

Altenew - $20 Gift Card #147 Nana Connie

Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps - Mystery Grab Bag - #2 - KT Fit Kitty

Brutus Monroe - $25 Gift Card - Ink Stained Roni

Colorado Crafts Company - 3 x Stamp and Die Set worth $20 - #57 - Toni, #36 - Cornelia, #99 Denise Bryant

The Crafters Workshop - Mystery Grab Bag - #151 Lesley G, #109 Nettie H

DoodlebugsWA - $25 Gift Card - #87 Chris

Gerda Steiner Designs $25 Gift Card - #18. Tasha RJ 

Heffy Doodle - #48 - June/Superstickchick

Inkylicious - Mystery Stamp prize - #40 – Val/Aquarius

Jo - Mystery Goody Bag - #65 - Helen 

Kat Scrappiness - $150+ Prize Package - #145 Carol (cm) 

Leigh SB Designs - $5 Off Regular Purchase from Digi Store - #23 - Dawn in NZ

Lost Coast Design - €10 Gift Card - #11 - Fiki

Meghan - Stamp and Die Set - #54 Leslie 

Newton’s Nook - $25 gift card - #15 Beverly 

Pink and Main - #7 Jules P

Pretty Pink Posh - $30 Gift Card - #87 Chris 

Rubber Dance Stamps - €10 Gift Card - #6 Alice

Time 4 Tea - Stamp Set - #75 Angela

Unity Stamps $25 Gift Card - #43 Jeanne

Viva Las Vegastamps - Mystery Grab Bag of Stamps - #53 Gail

Waffle Flower - $25 Gift Card - #71 - Pricilla 

Whimsy Stamps - $25 Gift Card - #88 Arlene 

Your Next Stamp - Mystery Grab Bag - #117 Darnell

 

Congratulations to all our RANDOM WINNERS 

and A HUGE thank you to all our fabulous SPONSERS!

Let me tell you, it took Rudolph and me quite a while to draw all those! 

Please, please, please look at the lists carefully because I don't want anyone to miss out on seeing that they are a winner. I'm so sorry that we didn't have prizes for every single participant as you all made this event so special.  

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As you know this challenge was put together to be a celebration of our dear friend Janis. At the time of posting I don't have any plans to repeat this, although I have to say it was enormous fun and I enjoyed every moment. You guys really made this such a special remembrance of Janis and I am so very grateful for all the help and encouragement I received from James, Gail, The Helpful Hoppers and everyone who took part. The Cat Lovers Hop was Janis's 'gig' and she did it brilliantly. I don't want to try and replicate what was her unique and original idea. I can't really explain why, but (for me) it just doesn't feel like the right thing to do. 

Thank you to everyone who took part or 

was involved in this tribute challenge for Janis.

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #80 - It's Christmas, Jim, but not as we know it!

Welcome to Challenge #80, where I'm delighted to be joined by the adorable Edna and some of my very best crafting buddies... The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

This month we're playing

It's Christmas, Jim, but not as we know it!

Now, this is one of those challenges where you can play the theme in a few different ways. I'm not sure where I found this phrase, but I thought it would make for a fun theme for our challenge. This is a festive corruption of a supposed Star Trek quote...

The Sisters are showing you the different ways you can play this challenge. You can ink up your space themed stamps or get super-inventive with your dies just like Jules did for this brilliant make:

Sister Jules

Or you can play with a non-Christmas set like Chris has here and just 

give your card a Festive tweak...

Sister Chris

Or you can opt for a non-traditional colour combo...

Sister Donna

Or you can go for something a little unexpected...

Sister Jo

Feel free to play this fun theme any-which-way you want to! Just remember to explain your thought process on your blog post!

As always, there's a lovely prize for one lucky RANDOM WINNER curtesy of the lovely Rudolph and his RANDOM RAFFLE.

 

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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Day #29 - The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge, 2023 - It's a Wrap!

We've reached the final day of The Cat Lovers Challenge in memory of Janis. I promise this won't turn into an Oscar acceptance speech, but I do want to thank everyone who has been involved in making this a month of fun and memories to celebrate the life of our much-missed friend, Janis.

Thanks to our fabulous Sponsor Family, to the Design Team folk who played along, to our Elf, Gail and to Janis's Helpful Hoppers who crafted and commented and blogged their hearts out, and who have been such a huge and vital part of this challenge. Thanks also to all YOU amazing participants for your endless enthusiasm, creativity and kindness - you have all been amazing. Finally, I'd like to thank Janis's son, James, for giving his blessing to this challenge. It's been a pleasure and a privilege to be able to remember Janis in this way. 

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TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY TO PLAY IN THE DAILY GAMES OR TO POST A CARD TO THE LINKY GALLERY.  

The linky gallery closes today, but the comments will remain open for individual posts. Please note, any comments made on Game posts after today will not be included in the RANDOM DRAWS.

DID YOU THANK OUR SPONSORS???  Each daily post includes links for visiting the featured sponsor blogs, FB, etc.  Thanks to everyone who has expressed their appreciation to them on MY daily posts and that is wonderful, but unless you actually go over to THEIR webpages, our generous sponsors are unlikely to see your notes. 

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SUPER COMMENTER PRIZE DRAWING

If you manage to work your way through all the links in the gallery and comment on every single project, you can link up your name at the bottom of this post to be in the special drawing for the Super Commenter Prize. 

NOTE:  I realise that some are not members of all the different platforms (FB, IG, Flickr, SCS, etc.) where our participants may have posted and therefore you will not be able to comment on those projects.  You can still qualify for the Super Commenter drawing IF YOU MENTION IN THE COMMENTS BELOW which platforms you are not a member of, but that you commented on EACH of the other posts. 

VERY IMPORTANT:  To be eligible for the Super Commenter prize, you MUST comment on all the projects AND link up your name in the linky tool below.

Thanks so much for your participation in this challenge. I will now to work with Rudolph the Random Reindeer to draw our winners... it'll be quite a process with this many prizes, so please bear with Rudie and me. Hopefully, I'll get the Winners Post up in a few days time. See you then.

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I wanted Janis to have the final say, so here's what her Cat Lovers Hops, 

and the community of cat loving crafters she formed, meant to her...

"It is sooooooo much fun!!! Your kind words and enthusiastic participation during our Hops bring me so much joy.  Our Cat Hop Family truly has become a warm fuzzy community, laughing (and sometimes crying) with each other as we share the stories of our cats.  We might not visit each others' blogs regularly throughout the year, but it is like a reunion each October when we are all back together again.  For this, I am so very grateful to each of you!!  These events are a way I can show my appreciation to you, my paper crafting, cat-loving friends all over the world.  I hope you enjoy the Hops as much as I do!"

Rest in peace, Janis, we will carry you in our hearts.

If you've just arrived you're joining the fun on Day #29 -  which is the 

FINAL DAY of The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge. 

Please head here for the sign-in and the LINKY PARTY, 

but please note that this closes at 11.55 pm GMT tonight.  

Super Commenter Prize Drawing Linky.

This will remain open until Nov 7th at 11.55pm GMT.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Day #28 - The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge - The Penultimate Day of Our Challenge

 

Welcome back, it's the last-but-one day of our tribute challenge for our friend, Janis.

Gail's Tic-Tac-Toe closes today at 11.55 pm BST.

Our Challenge wraps-up tomorrow, and I very much hope everyone has enjoyed coming together to craft, chat about cats and have fun in memory of our dear friend, Janis. For me, there have been many joys in putting together this challenge, but I've especially enjoyed getting to know the wonderful team who helped Janis with her Hops and have helped make this memory challenge such a special event.

Let's hear it for Janis's Helpful Hoppers...

I think these gals deserve to take a bow, so I'm sharing some of the gorgeous cards they've made for this event! If you've not already done so, please drop over to their blogs and leave them some love.

Becca

   Carole

Fiki

Kitty

Suzanne

Angela

Chris

Mandy

And I hope Mandy won't mind me sharing this beautiful piece of art she posted in 2015 that I spotted when I was doing the Trip Down Memory Lane post.

Thanks are also due to Karen who helped with the preparation for the challenge, but wasn't able to play along.

Also, a big thank you to my blogging buddy Gail for all her 

help, encouragement and support.

 

Gail AKA Iona B Unny  

 

Thanks again, guys, you have been amazing.

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As I said above one of the joys of this challenge has been making new friends. The lovely Alice in Italy is one of those friends and she's kindly offering a sweet digital image for free for anyone who contacts her via the link in her post here. Thanks, Alice, that's so lovely of you. 

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Next, here's some Rescue news...

Guess who went to her new home over the weekend - Paget did!

I've loved looking after this affectionate little girl.

It's ok, Puffin, you're safe now. We'll find you a wonderful fur-ever home.

 

  Beautiful Minnie is growing in confidence and has really warmed-up with the volunteers.

It's been 'all change' over the weekend at the Rescue with at least three emergency cases. I look forward to getting to know them all over the coming week.

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Finally, Memes anyone?

If you've just arrived you're joining the fun on Day #28 of The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge. Please head here for the sign-in and the LINKY PARTY.