CHNC challenge 113: one word is sufficient

It was great to see so much of the white stuff on your entries for Challenge 112 - although I'm not so glad that there have been flurries of snow today and more seems to be forecast ... brrr, thought we'd seen the last of that!

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 112. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first prize winner:

Number 55: Kim who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Kim. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your  3 packs of die cuts from Crimson Cloud.

The second prize winner:

Number 50: Miria who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Miria. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 4 digital images from Delicious Doodles.

The third prize winner:

Number 13: Pauline who shared this lovely creation:

Congratulations, Pauline. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so that I can arrange for you to receive your $20 voucher to spend at Flonz craft.

Now on to:

Challenge 113

For today's challenge I'm asking you to only use one word on the front of your card

The first sponsor this week is Di's Digi Downloads- the randomly-chosen winner will be able given a $10 voucher to spend - just click on the link and feast your eyes on the super images - you will not be disappointed!

This is a little bit about Di who produces such gorgeous digital images:

'I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people.

I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.

This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!'

The second sponsor is Stamp n doodle, one of the leading digital stamp and downloadable craft card making webstores. We also offer crafting instructions and card making challenges. 

Stamp n doodle's uniqueness is the diversity of the Rubber Stamps and Digital Stamps we offer. In everything we do, we strive to be the complete resource for your stamping and card making needs. 

You will find useful tips, advice covered on our website. On our website we offer inspiration and new releases to weekly challenges on our Blog. 

We hope you find everything you need and enjoy trying our products and inspiration. Great images create great things 

About Stamp n doodle Rubber Stamps

Stamp n doodle exclusive Rubber Stamps come unmounted, which means you only receive the red rubber no cushion or wood block. These images work well on an Acrylic mount. 

About Stamp n doodle Digital Stamps Stamp n doodle's exclusive Digital Images come with free shipping and are sent to you within 24 hours of purchase.

A randomly-chosen winner will receive two digital images of their choice.

The third sponsor is a new one, Dilly Beans - original digital stamp designs by Megan K Suarez.

The randomly-chosen winner will receive 3 digital stamps of their choice.

For my card I've used the Amalia's joy banner digi kindly supplied by Dilly Beans  - you can read more about the card and the sketch I used here on my regular crafting blog 'My Crafty Outlook'. Of course, I've used the word JOY:

Another card for this challenge, using a Penny Black stamp and the word 'Harmony' - more about it 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. Last week there was an absence of snow, but this week please show any Christmas card that shows just one word on the front - 'One word is sufficient' - it might be celebrate, joy, peace, Noel, Christmas ... you can repeat the word if you wish, but no other words. I'm sure you can think of others.

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 1 March. 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 Saturday 2 March when there will once again be three chances to win a prize, thanks to generous sponsors.

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 are on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month, including those that you link here - there is no restriction on the number of entries you can make throughout the month - the link for CHNC challenge extra for February is here - this will close at 20:00 UK time on 28 February and a new challenge will start on Friday 1 March. Update: March link is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 112: Let it snow again!

It was great to see your lovely entries for last week's challenge - I know that some of you, like me, found it quite difficult to avoid the snow scenes, the designer paper with snowflakes on, so for today's challenge 112 I'm reversing things and asking you to feature SNOW (hope we don't get any more irl).

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 110. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first prize winner:

Number 13: Anne (wicked witch) who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Anne. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your  $21 of digital stamps from Bugaboo Stamps

The second prize winner:

Number 15: Meg who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Meg. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your £10 store voucher from Live and Love crafts.

The third prize winner:

Number 34: Pat (PJK) who shared this lovely creation:

Congratulations, PJK. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to receive your Christmas CD rom worth £24.99 from Katy Sue Designs.

Now on to:

Challenge 112

For today's challenge I'm asking you to make any Christmas card that features snow, snowflakes, snow scene ...

The first sponsor is Crimson Cloud:

"Crimson Cloud is a mother/daughter venture - a way to indulge our joint passion of cardmaking and crafting. We only sell products that we have tried, tested and love using. We have developed our own exclusive range of dies cuts, digital stamps, svg files and "Make Your Own Card" kits which reflect our styles of card making - and hopefully yours too!"

The randomly-chosen winner will receive three packs of die cuts of their choice from the wide selection at Crimson Cloud.

The second sponsor, Delicious Doodles, is new to CHNC:

Delicious Doodles is a young company with myself, Teri, as the Sole Trader/Designer. 

I have doodled and sketched all of my life. I started making greetings cards when my last child was born, and used my doodles on them as I couldn't find what I wanted in the usual craft places. 

I only started selling my images in the Autumn of 2009. I design and hand/mouse-draw all of the images that are sold in the Delicious Doodles Shop. Some are cutsie animals, some are sketched flowers, there are a few men's images, fairies and also some 'darker' images featuring vampires, skulls and Gothic stuff, something for everyone! 

Why not pop over and take a look: http://deliciousdoodles.blogspot.com

The randomly-chosen winner will be able to choose 4 digital images.

The third sponsor is Flonz craft, a New Zealand based company who are offering a $20 voucher + free post and packaging to spend in their online store. They have an amazing range of stamps - the winner certainly will have fun choosing, including some lovely Christmas ones that you could then use for a future challenge.

Please visit the websites of these generous sponsors and support them - 
you will be spoiled for choice!

This is a set of CAS cards using 'snowy postcard' one of Delicious Doodles lovely images - you can read more about it on My Crafty Outlook here:

For my second card I've used the 'children decorating Christmas tree outdoor'  stamped kindly supplied by Flonz craft -  you can read more about it 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. Last week there was an absence of snow, but this week please show any Christmas card that features snow ... snowmen, snow scenes, snowflakes ... the more snow, the better!

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 February. 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 Saturday 23 February when there will once again be three chances to win a prize, thanks to generous sponsors.

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 have started on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month, including those that you link here - there is no restriction on the number of entries you can make throughout the month - the link for CHNC challenge extra for February is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 111: We don't want any more snow!

What a lot of fantastic entries for last week's challenge - so many inventive ideas for things beginning with the letter P - lots that I hadn't thought of at all - I so enjoyed looking at them all - thank you for supporting my challenges and brightening my week with all your fabulous entries.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 110. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first prize winner:

Number 25: Misseke who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Misseke. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your  digital stamps from Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More.

The second prize winner:

Number 4: Marianne's classroom who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Marianne. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your £10 gift voucher from J & C Creation.

The third prize winner:

Number 19: Emma H who shared this lovely creation:

Congratulations, Emma. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to receive your prize. Sadly, the scheduled sponsor failed to get in touch, so I am sending the winner some goodies that were donated by Crafty Individuals - I am very grateful to them for supplying these.

Now on to:

Challenge 111

For today's challenge I'm asking you to make any Christmas card 
that doesn't feature snow

Our first sponsor this week is one that has sponsored CHNC many times in the past:

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. 

Our second sponsor is new to CHNC - Live and Love crafts:

'If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts! Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Pion Design, Maja Design, Riddersholm Design, Kort & Godt, Magnolia, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.
The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of close to 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter.

If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!'

The third sponsor is Katy Sue Designs:

'About - We design and manufacture many papercraft products including the Flower Soft® embellishment range used by crafters Worldwide.

Mission - To use our teams creativity to make craft products that are loved by crafters around the World.

Company Overview - We design and manufacture papercraft products such as stamps, decoupage, card making kits and papercraft CD Rom’s as well as the Flower Soft® craft embellishment range. We have our own graphic design team and also work with leading artists and illustrators under license. Our products are used by crafters around the world and regularly appear on craft shopping channels such as Create and Craft, HSN and HSE.'

Katy Sue Designs will be giving the randomly chosen winner a Christmas CD Rom worth £24.99.

Please visit the websites of these generous sponsors and support them -

you will be spoiled for choice!

This is my first card I've used the Bugaboo Stamps image akv santa tree - you can read more about it on My Crafty Outlook here:

I hope to be back later with a second card featuring another Bugaboo Stamps image.

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 doesn't feature snow - so no snowmen, snowflakes, snow scenes ... anything else!

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 February. 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 Saturday 16 February when there will once again be three chances to win a prize, thanks to generous sponsors.

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 have started on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month, including those that you link here - there is no restriction on the number of entries you can make throughout the month - the link for CHNC challenge extra for February is here.

I'd also love to see you on my CHNC facebook page too - if you do visit and you haven't done so already, please 'like' the page and share with your friends  - thank you.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 110: P-p-p pick up a penguin or anything else beginning with P

Not so many entries for the last challenge, but I certainly enjoyed seeing all those cards that were made with the nativity in mind - thank you so much.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 109. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first prize winner:

Number 8: Ali D who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Ali. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your  CD-rom of your choice from Ooh la la Creations.

The second prize winner:

Number 11: Shaz in Oz who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Shaz. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 4 individual images from the Pink Gem Designs collection

The third prize winner:

Number 3: Angela B who shared this lovely creation:

Congratulations, Angela. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 6 digital images from Paper Pretties.

Now on to:

Challenge 110

For today's challenge I'm asking you to P-p-p pick up a penguin or anything else beginning with P

Our first sponsor today is Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to award the randomly chosen winner the choice of 5 digital stamps.

And the second sponsor is a new one, J & C Creations who are offering a £10 gift voucher to the randomly chosen winner. You can read more about J & C Creations and their development over the years since 2004 here on their website.

 

The third sponsor is to be confirmed (sorry, circumstances beyond my control) - will add details when I can.

Please visit the websites of these generous sponsors and support them - 
you will be spoiled for choice!

This is my first card using the 'Paul penguin' image kindly supplied by Robyn's Fetish digital stamps and more - you can read more about it on My Crafty Outlook here:

For my second card I've concentrated on P for presents and I've used 'Sarah's Christmas' supplied by Robyn's Fetish digital stamps and more - you can read more about it 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 show any Christmas card that features a penguin or anything else beginning with P ... perhaps presents, purple, pink, poinsettias, puddings ... I'm sure you can think of other ideas.

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 February. 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 Saturday 9 February when there will once again be three chances to win a prize, thanks to generous sponsors.

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 have started on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra blog - you can share any Christmas card you make throughout the whole month, including those that you link here - there is no restriction on the number of entries you can make throughout the month - the link for CHNC challenge extra for February is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries