CHNC challenge 31: feature some festive food

Gosh, here we are already at the end of July. Thank you so much for all the entries to last week's challenge - I enjoyed seeing the various reindeer images and, once again, such a variety of creativity.

Challenge 31

This week I would like your card to feature some food - it might be Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, turkey, candy canes, cakes ... anything that is eaten at Christmas.

Here is my card. You can read more about this and see the challenges that I've linked for on my regular crafting blog My Crafty Outlook here.

As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card - and this week please remember to show some food somewhere on your card - apart from that, anything goes.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 5 August. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on 6 August - as this will be the first Saturday in the month, there will be a prize for a randomly picked winner.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

I look forward to seeing your creations.

CHNC challenge 30: reindeer

I can't believe how quickly the year is going (it seems to be faster every year!) and here we are today on challenge 30! But before I tell you about that, I want to thank everyone for their fab entries for the previous challenge - still some new people coming on board as well as 'regulars' building up their stocks of Christmas cards. I certainly enjoyed visiting the blogs and seeing lots of stars!

Challenge 30

This week I would like you to see at least one reindeer on your card. Here is my card. You can read more about this and see the challenges that I've linked for on my regular crafting blog My Crafty Outlook here.

The photo doesn't show the card as irl - the whole card is silver embossed just like you can see in the left hand corner - such a difficult card to get a photo because of the glare of the silver mirror card. The inkadinkado reindeer stamped image is also silver embossed.


As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card - and this week please remember to use at least one reindeer somewhere on your card - apart from that, anything goes.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 29 July. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on 30 July.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

I look forward to seeing your creations.

CHNC challenge 29: seeing stars

Once again it was lovely to see so many entries for the previous challenge - you certainly knew how to go dotty! And, while it was good to see 'regulars' playing along, it was lovely to welcome some new crafters who are starting on their Chrismas cards. Don't forget, it's never too early or too late to start - why not join in today's new challenge:

Challenge 29

This week I would like you to include stars on your card - well, at least one star! Here is my card. You can read more about this and see the challenges that I've linked for on my regular crafting blog My Crafty Outlook here.

This is what the inside (opened out full) looks like:

I've just added another card to my regular crafting blog 'My Crafty Outlook' with stars on it - here it is (if you'd like to read more details and see the challenges I entered please click here).


As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card - and this week please remember to use at least one star somewhere on your card - apart from that, anything goes.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 22 July. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on 23 July.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

I look forward to seeing your creations.

CHNC challenge 28: spots before your eyes!

Before I tell you about today's new challenge, I want to thank everyone for their fab entries for last week's challenge. I know that pink or purple are favourites with quite a few of you, but I know there are others who rarely use those colours on Christmas cards - it was lovely to see all the variations. And there were yet more new crafters joining us. It makes sense to get cracking with the Christmas cards before we get to panic mode!

There was a prize for one lucky participant from last week. Unfortunately, there can only be one winner and random.org has picked:

Number 7 : Ciska

This was her lovely card:

Please email me with your name and full address and I'll get your prize into the post.

Challenge 28

This week I would like you to include spots or dots on your card. Here is my card. You can read more about this and see the challenges that I've linked for on my regular crafting blog My Crafty Outlook here.

I'm adding another card (you can see details about it here):

As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card - and this week please remember to use some spots or dots somewhere on your card - apart from that, anything goes. As you can see, I didn't have that many spots or dots on my card, but they are there - I didn't go completely dotty! It's up to you how many your include.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 15 July. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on 16 July.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

I look forward to seeing your creations.

CHNC challenge 27: pink and/or purple - with a prize

Thank you for all the wonderful entries for last week's challenge. As it was an 'anything goes' it was great to see so much variety and so many entries, including some new crafters, as well as lots of 'regulars'. I was away from home last week and was getting used to using my new iPad - I did manage to keep up with all the entries and leave comments - I hope I didn't miss anyone out.

Challenge 27 is a colour one - please use pink and/or purple - a little or a lot - as long as there is some pink or purple, that's fine. Purple is definitely one of my favourite colours to work with and I also love pink. I had to smile as I looked through the entries for last week's challenge because there seemed to be a lot of pink cards, so I hope that we can see more of them this week.

As it's the first Saturday in the month there will be a prize for a randomly drawn winner (using random.org) - here is the prize:

As you can see, it's a Daisy & Dandelion 'all wrapped up' clear stamp gift set - this includes 11 stamps, 4 pigment ink pads and an acrylic block.

We've been away for the last week and only came back yesterday (I prepared this post in advance), so I'm afraid I haven't yet made my card for this challenge, but will do so as soon as I can.

I've now made a purple card - you can see details here on my regular crafting blog 'My crafty outlook' and find the links for challenges I've entered.

I've just added this card to my crafting blog - you can read further details here:


As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card - and this week please remember to use the colour pink and/or purple somewhere on your card - apart from that, anything goes.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge - please add a link to your blog post (not your blog, but the actual post where your card can be found) by 22:00 UK time Friday 8 July. Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish (a good way to build up your stock of Christmas cards) and also link to any other challenges that allow you to do so, but new work only, please.

A new challenge will be set on 9 July.

Please add your link to inlinkz. If by any chance it disappears, please leave a comment with the link to your blog post and I will make sure it is added.

If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and grab my bright pink button to post on your sidebar and help continue to spread the word about this challenge blog - thank you.

I look forward to seeing your creations.