CHNC challenge 105: anything goes

What a wonderful lot of entries for last week's challenge 104 - to be honest, I wasn't sure whether anyone would have the time or inclination to join in, so it was truly encouraging to see so many participating - thank you.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 104. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner and this is the result of using random.org:

Number 77: Bettina

who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Bettina. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to claim your 3 single digi images from The Crafty Pad.

Challenge 105

For today's challenge I'm asking you to show any Christmas card that we haven't seen before or make a start on your cards for next Christmas!

I'm very pleased that today's challenge is being sponsored by:

Lou of Creative Craft World writes:

'Creative Craft World, is an online shop run by myself. It started off life as an ebay shop 6 years ago and has just grown over the years. I love scrapbooking and it has encouraged me to do things I never had before and I love being able to provide you all with craft products at reasonable prices.'

I need to confirm the actual contents of the prize - I will add this when I can.

For my card I used some of the offcut left over from the card I showed last week, together with some ribbon,  a sentiment strip etc and a Kanban topper from long ago (some of these should be used up) - you can read more about it here on My Crafty Outlook:

Just adding another card I made today (Wednesday) - details here on My Crafty Outlook:

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card - and this week please show any Christmas card that we haven't seen before or make a start on cards for next Christmas - I know that some of you have already started to do this. If you didn't do this last year and were in a panic towards Christmas, why not make a New Year's resolution to make Christmas cards throughout the year?

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 4 January.  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 5 January.

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone

a very Happy New Year.

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.

Don't forget that 'anything goes' monthly challenges start on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog on Tuesday1 January - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month and at the end of the month there will be a prize for the randomly chosen winner! I will be joined by a guest designer.

Of course, weekly challenges will continue here - and anything you enter here can also be entered on the new monthly blog as well - so you will always have two chances of winning a prize.

Any Christmas card

1.	Steph	28.	Chelsea	55.	Marianne
2.	Glittertastic	29.	michelle	56.	Theresa P
3.	Marianne	30.	Mary Marsh	57.	Brenda B
4.	Kath	31.	Marianne's Craftroom	58.	Marianne
5.	Bettyirene	32.	Di	59.	kbrandy4
6.	Seafield Jo	33.	Susan Kennedy	60.	stempelomi
7.	Bishopsmate	34.	Jocelyn K	61.	Paddy
8.	Joyce	35.	Elaine	62.	Karen
9.	Karen	36.	Maria	63.	Wilma
10.	Tina Phillips	37.	Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)	64.	miria
11.	Marianne	38.	Barbara	65.	Christine - Cndn Stamper
12.	theCook	39.	Kerry Louise	66.	MIN H
13.	Beate	40.	Claudia	67.	alee81
14.	Vickie ODell	41.	Karen	68.	Marianne
15.	Bettina	42.	Mrs A.	69.	Rose
16.	Margo S.	43.	Debbie	70.	Elizabeth W
17.	Bren	44.	Susie	71.	Marianne's Craftroom
18.	Daisy	45.	Hazel (Didos)	72.	Made By Mandy
19.	Renate	46.	Debbie Johns	73.	Helen
20.	Angela	47.	Helen	74.	Made By Mandy
21.	Theresa P	48.	Tietje	75.	Made By Mandy
22.	Kerry Louise	49.	Marianne	76.	Carly Jo
23.	Tanja aka Stampin'Piper	50.	Cara	77.	kris - madaboutpooh
24.	Julie B.x	51.	kimx	78.	***Céline***
25.	Fiona	52.	Carissa	79.	Anne-Marie Lewis
26.	Ardilla	53.	kris - madaboutpooh	80.	Karen
27.	creapleeg	54.	Helen #2	81.	Renate

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CHNC challenge 104: anything goes for Christmas

Wow! You broke the record for the number of entries with last week's challenge 103 - obviously many of you, like me, still had Christmas cards that you needed to make. Thank you for all your support and wonderful crafting that I get to see as I look at all your entries.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 103. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner and this is the result of using random.org:

Number 64: Corrinne Quinn

who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Corrinne. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so that I can arrange for you to choose and receive your CD rom from Ooh la la Creations .

Now on to today's new challenge:

Challenge 104

For today's challenge I'm asking you to make

any last minute Christmas card or any card that you made but didn't show before - anything goes as long as it's Christmas

Just adding on Christmas Eve - if you've finished your Christmas cards (you should have done by now) you can make a New Year card and show that ... or start on cards for next Christmas!

And this week's challenge is being sponsored by The Crafty Pad, who are offering 3 single digi images to the randomly-chosen prize winner.

I am so grateful to all the sponsors who are so generous with their support.

I made a very quick card using elements from a 'My Paper Stash' kit - so awkward to get a photo because everything is made from mirror card that just reflects so much. You can see it here on My Crafty Outlook.

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card.

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 28 December.  Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish 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 29 December.

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.

Please remember also to have a look at my CHNC page on facebook - if you do go there please join in by clicking 'like' so that I know that you've been there. During the week you'll find updates and hints of the next challenge - please feel free to chat there - I know that some of you do already - thank you.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas

Thank you for your support

Anything goes for Christmas

1.	Debbie S	37.	Susan Kennedy	73.	Guild Master Crystal
2.	Jo L	38.	Karon H	74.	Norma
3.	Daniele	39.	valou250809	75.	Dawn Lancaster
4.	pinky	40.	Renate	76.	~DEANNE~
5.	Tamara	41.	Deonna B	77.	Bettina
6.	Jane's Journal	42.	Dreja	78.	Rose
7.	Kerry Louise	43.	Katie Tate	79.	Carol (Granny)
8.	Marianne's Craftroom	44.	Olivia	80.	Sarah T
9.	Karon H	45.	Helen	81.	Allisa
10.	Liz	46.	stempelomi	82.	Jenn Zeeb
11.	Missy G	47.	Kerry Louise	83.	Sassy Raggedy
12.	Jacki	48.	CraftyGirl	84.	Sonia
13.	CraftyGirl	49.	MARLENE	85.	Helen
14.	ellapu	50.	Susan	86.	Renate
15.	Dee	51.	Sandy :)	87.	CraftyGirl
16.	Bettina	52.	Judy Rozema	88.	scrapjoanny
17.	Leeann	53.	Kim B	89.	Bettina
18.	Patrice	54.	Sandra Janssen	90.	Heather Mills
19.	Mrs A.	55.	Gerda	91.	Barbetka
20.	LaDiva	56.	Lisa W	92.	Mei
21.	Audrey E.	57.	Nikki C	93.	Glennis F
22.	Sue B	58.	lalkygirl	94.	alee81
23.	CraftyGirl	59.	Jane's Journal	95.	Kym's Crafty Cards
24.	Joyce	60.	Tip Top	96.	CraftyGirl
25.	Margo S.	61.	Helen	97.	***Céline***
26.	Glenda Atkins	62.	Sabina	98.	Helen
27.	Tanja aka Stampin'Piper	63.	Tonya H	99.	Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)
28.	artwolf2009	64.	Frea	100.	Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)
29.	Di	65.	Deonna B	101.	Made By Mandy
30.	rachel fisher	66.	Crafty Teacher	102.	Made By Mandy
31.	Scrappellen	67.	Lynne in NI	103.	Made By Mandy
32.	Jane's Craft	68.	Guild Master Crystal	104.	Kerry Louise
33.	Claire C	69.	Elly Booij	105.	Made By Mandy
34.	patty	70.	Helen	106.	Elizabeth W
35.	mueppi	71.	Glo	107.	Made By Mandy
36.	Janny	72.	Mandy (Paper Panda)	108.	Stempelgedöns

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CHNC challenge 103: Christmas birthday or anything goes for Christmas

What a wonderful selection of cards for last week's CHNC challenge 102 - such a variety of reindeer.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 102. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner and this is the result of using random.org:

Number 15: Michelle B

who shared this wonderful Christmas project:

Congratulations, Michelle! Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to claim your $21 gift certificate from Bugaboo Stamps.

Challenge 103

For today's challenge I'm asking you to make

a Christmas birthday card or 'anything goes' as long as it's Christmas

Ooh la la Creations are generously sponsoring this challenge - a randomly-chosen winner will be able to choose a CD-rom of their choice (up to the value of £14.99) - and there are so many wonderful ones to choose from, just click on the link to have a look.

Even though I've been making cards throughout the year, I still needed to make quite a few yesterday and the day before (need 35 for John to send to the members of his bowls club), so I resorted to making batches using Anna Griffin supplies.

Here are some of them - more details here on My Crafty Outlook:

and here- although the cards are actually white they don't look it here (but needed to take photos in poor light before writing and sending the cards):

Just adding some more cards that you can read about here:

And some different ones here:

And more here:

and here:

And I've just added one more card here (more views of the card there as well as description):

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card or a Christmas birthday card. It's so near to Christmas now that this is an opportunity to make that last minute card!

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 21 December.  Please mention my blog and create a link within the post for your creation.

You can enter as many times as you wish 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 22 December.

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.

Please remember also to have a look at my CHNC page on facebook - if you do go there please join in by clicking 'like' so that I know that you've been there. During the week you'll find updates and hints of the next challenge - please feel free to chat there - I know that some of you do already - thank you.

Christmas birthday or Anything Goes as long as it's Christmas

1.	Rose	48.	Ardilla	95.	karin
2.	Sweetroses	49.	Ardilla	96.	Kellylou
3.	~DEANNE~	50.	Lilackat	97.	Kellylou
4.	Pamela	51.	Fiona L	98.	Corrinne Quinn
5.	linda dekker	52.	Holly G	99.	lalkygirl
6.	Susie	53.	Joey	100.	R Meyers
7.	Marianne	54.	Berit Synnøve	101.	Mandy (Paper Panda)
8.	pinky	55.	Lynsey	102.	Cathy D.
9.	Lisette aka Liszha	56.	Lynne in NI	103.	Anne-Marie Lewis
10.	Mixamatoasties	57.	Shari	104.	rainmac
11.	Helen	58.	Mandy	105.	Helen
12.	meg	59.	Crystal T.	106.	Ira
13.	Helen	60.	Desire Fourie	107.	Babette
14.	Karen McAlpine	61.	Moshie	108.	Mary D
15.	CraftyGirl	62.	Monica-LaPaperaGialla	109.	Mary D
16.	nelly's handmade	63.	NikkiByrne	110.	Jenee Todd
17.	KRAFTY KAREN	64.	rachel fisher	111.	Crystal T.
18.	Carla Prediger	65.	Jocelyn K	112.	lalkygirl
19.	Crystal T.	66.	Elly Booij	113.	Helen
20.	Anne-Marie Lewis	67.	~DEANNE~	114.	Katie Tate
21.	Joyce	68.	Corrinne Quinn	115.	Renate
22.	Tammy A	69.	Elizabeth H.	116.	Jane's Journal
23.	Caroline E	70.	Ann Whitfield	117.	Stacy Walker
24.	Kerry Louise	71.	Jackie Bowman	118.	Adele
25.	CraftyGirl	72.	Lorianna	119.	Patricia D
26.	Heather Mills	73.	Engelchen	120.	Patricia D
27.	Lawren F	74.	Cathy D.	121.	Patricia D
28.	Marjan	75.	Sassy Raggedy	122.	Patricia D
29.	Andrea N.	76.	Kym's Crafty Cards	123.	JennyH
30.	Crystal R	77.	Fiona L	124.	lalkygirl
31.	patty	78.	*Epie*	125.	JennyH
32.	Jackie C	79.	Vicky (6 y.o.)	126.	JennyH
33.	Carol	80.	Salma	127.	Marianne MW
34.	Tracey V	81.	J. Atterbury Creations	128.	Helen
35.	Asha	82.	Jenny/Dolphine	129.	JennyH
36.	Helen	83.	Jane's Journal	130.	Kellylou
37.	CraftyGirl	84.	Katie Tate	131.	Kitty
38.	CraftyGirl	85.	Helen	132.	JennyH
39.	Jane's Journal	86.	Cathy D.	133.	JennyH
40.	Miss C	87.	Jen Leeflang	134.	fabiola
41.	Skye	88.	Gerda	135.	Wishcraft
42.	Katie Tate	89.	CraftyGirl	136.	Carla Prediger
43.	Suzette	90.	Corrinne Quinn	137.	Carla Prediger
44.	iReneM	91.	Kerry Louise	138.	Lizy
45.	Renate	92.	Katherine S	139.	Margo S.
46.	Berni C	93.	Desire Fourie	140.	Anne-Marie Lewis
47.	Ardilla	94.	Jackie C

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CHNC challengte 102: Deer, deer, me ... let's see a reindeer or two

You all certainly pulled the stops out to produce so many beautiful girlie cards - lots of different styles and ideas - I enjoyed looking at them all.

I wonder if you've made all your cards yet? I've been making Christmas cards since before the start of this year - yes, straight after last Christmas .... and I still need to make more and time is racing by nineteen to the dozen!

If you've still got some to make, then I hope you'll be able to find a picture of a reindeer, a stamped image or whatever and join in ... and if you have finished all your cards then why not get a head-start with next year's!

Please remember to have a look at my CHNC page on facebook - if you do go there please join in by clicking 'like' so that I know that you've been there. During the week you'll find updates and hints of the next challenge - please feel free to chat there - I know that some of you do already - thank you. Let's see if we can get at least 100 'likes' by the end of the year.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 101. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner and this is the result of using random.org:

Number 3: Deb (Pink dandelion)

who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Deb! Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your two sheets from Whoopsi Daisy shop.

Challenge 102

For today's challenge I'm asking you to make a Christmas card

featuring a reindeer

Bugaboo Stamps are proud to sponsor this challenge - they are offering $21 of digital stamps to the randomly selected winner.

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing!  From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week! 

 If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps   at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT   for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug. 

For my card I've used the Bugaboo 'reindeer skate' image kindly supplied by Bugaboo Stamps - you can read more about my card on My Crafty Outlook here:

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card - and this week please make make any Christmas card you like as long as it features a reindeer.

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 14 December.  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 15 December.

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.

Feature a reindeer or two

1.	Dee	12.	Dee (deesdesigns)	23.	Helen
2.	Connie	13.	AngelaW	24.	~DEANNE~
3.	Bren	14.	Olivia	25.	Marianne MW
4.	Helen	15.	Michelle B.	26.	blackdragon
5.	Rose	16.	Yvonne Morentin	27.	Ciska
6.	Lynne in NI	17.	Patricia	28.	fabiola
7.	Lorraine A	18.	Theresa P	29.	Dragonlady
8.	Sarah-Jane (the crystal elephant)	19.	Elly Booij	30.	Annie
9.	Dawn C	20.	Kerry Louise	31.	Lacey Stephens
10.	Ulla	21.	sue w	32.	Lisa
11.	CraftyGirl	22.	Janice	33.	Debbie S

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CHNC challenge 101: make it girlie

How did we get to December so quickly? It's time to get serious about Christmas now ... and that means I should get on with some present shopping as well as continuing to make Christmas cards.

Thank you for so many lovely entries for last week's challenge - great to see so many projects made for those special people in our lives.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winner of challenge 100. Unfortunately, there could only be one winner and this is the result of using random.org:

Number 52: Lacey Stephens

who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Lacey! Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to claim your prize from Creative Treasures.

Please remember to have a look at my CHNC page on facebook - if you do go there please join in by clicking 'like' so that I know that you've been there. During the week you'll find updates and hints of the next challenge - please feel free to chat there - I know that some of you do already - thank you. Let's see if we can get at least 100 'likes' by the end of the year.

Challenge 101

For today's challenge I'm asking you to make your
Christmas card girlie

Today's challenge is being generously sponsored once again by Whoopsi Daisy - the randomly-picked winner will receive their choice of two sheets from Linnie's Whoopsi Daisy shop.

Whoopsi Daisy Digi Stamps features all hand drawn images by the amazing Linnie

and specialises in cute images of children.

Whoopsi Daisy offers a great deal for your money.

Take a look at the

Whoopsi Daisy shop 

where you are certain to find awesome images which will fit all your creative needs.

For my card I used an image of Rosie from Daisy & friends (a CD designed by Linnie), digitally cropping around her to cut out the white background, doing the same with the postbox image and then digitally mounting on to a snow scene, adding some extra snow by using transparency fade, adding the sentiment and then printing it all out and mounting on a red card blank. I added some stickles diamond to the edging of Rosie's coat and hat and a bit of liquid pearls white opal to some of the snow. More about this here on My Crafty Outlook.

Now it's over to you. As usual, you can use any materials, any techniques, as long as the end result is a Christmas card - and this week please make make any Christmas card you like as long as it is 'girlie' - I leave you to interpret that how you wish - little 'girlie' or grown up 'girlie' - the choice is yours!

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 7 December.  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 8 December.

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.

Please go over to my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog to see who won the Christmas candy. If you haven't done so already, please become a follower and perhaps display my pink button on your blog. From 1 January 2013 there will be monthly 'anything goes' challenges (Christmas, of course) - an opportunity to share all of your Christmas cards that you make throughout the year, with a chance to win some Bugaboo stamps as there will be a randomly-chosen winner at the end of every month. Some of you have already indicated your wish to be considered as a guest designer, but, if you haven't had 

Weekly challenges here will, of course, continue in the new year as usual.

Make it girlie

1.	Filharmonica	21.	Kath	41.	Crystal T.
2.	Engelchen	22.	Lorianna	42.	Renate
3.	Claire H	23.	Crystal T.	43.	Daniele
4.	Kym's Crafty Cards	24.	Tracey V	44.	ali.b.
5.	Pink Dandelion	25.	Shell♥	45.	Berit Synnøve
6.	Corrinne Quinn	26.	Marja	46.	craftygrannyb
7.	Helen	27.	Tamara	47.	Lorraine B
8.	Bren	28.	DB1960	48.	Rose
9.	Susie	29.	Steph	49.	Claudia
10.	Carla Prediger	30.	Lisette aka Liszha	50.	Sharron / Sharrahug
11.	Angela Jervis	31.	Alli D	51.	rachel fisher
12.	Theresa P	32.	Kerry Louise	52.	Helen
13.	Sarah	33.	Sieta	53.	Sue B
14.	Ria	34.	Linda Palmer	54.	scrapjoanny
15.	Dreja	35.	Patricia	55.	Liselot
16.	Crafty Kitten	36.	Seafield Jo	56.	Dorothy S
17.	Elizabeth H.	37.	Samantha :0)	57.	Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)
18.	Karen McAlpine	38.	kbrandy4	58.	Eret
19.	Rachelle	39.	Bettina	59.	Heather Mills
20.	Jen Leeflang	40.	Jenn Z	60.	Elizabeth W

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