CHNC challenge 118: based on a Christmas carol or song

Thank you for all the wonderful entries for last week's challenge - such a variety of 'threes' that you came up with - once again, thanks for your support - I hope you will like today's challenge.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 117. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 11: Katie Tate who shared this lovely card:

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

The second winner:

Number 25: Marianne's craftroom who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Marianne. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 2 images from Floppy Latte Designs.

The third winner:

Number 6: Bren who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Bren. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so that I can arrange for you to receive your 50 assorted charms from Sharon.

Now on to:

Challenge 118

For today's challenge I'd like you to base your Christmas card
on a carol or song of your choice

Our first sponsor today is Ooh la la Creations - a randomly-chosen winner will be able to choose a CD-rom of their choice - and there are so many wonderful ones to choose from.

The second sponsor is Flonz craft, a New Zealand based company who are offering a $20 voucher to spend in their online store - and they will generously send to anywhere in the world with free p & p.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.

Our third sponsor is Cedar Chest Designs:

Cedar Chest Designs

Digital Supplies for the Craft World

Cedar Chest Designs offers quality products, bulk discounts, instant downloads and teacher benefits on digital stamps, digital scrpabooking images and a variety of other digital craft supplies from over a dozen unique artists.Winners will receive a free $10.00 Gift Certificate to purchase anything they would like from the online store.

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

For my first card I have used a 'Christmas holly' image kindly supplied by Cedar Chest Designs, basing the card on a Christmas song that is probably not very well known - you can read more about it on My Crafty Outlook here:

For my second card I've used a lovely candelight stamp kindly supplied by Flonz craft based on a Christmas carol that is probably less known than the previous one - again, you can read more 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. - this week please base your card on a Christmas carol or song - a very familiar one or one not so well-known - 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 5 April. 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 6 April 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. As we change the clocks this weekend in the UK please bear with me if I get the finishing time wrong - I'll adjust it if it becomes necessary.

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. Until tomorrow, 31 March the link is here (yes, anything made for this challenge for the first two days can still be added to CHNC challenge extra for March), thereafter, the link for CHNC challenge extra for April is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 117: 3 of something

I so enjoyed seeing all the merry and bright entries for last week's challenge - very cheerful! Thanks for all the support - it is much appreciated. Without you, this challenge blog would be nothing. And thanks too, of course, to all the marvellous sponsors who are so generous with their prizes.


Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 116. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 1: 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 worth of goodies from Crafty Emblies.

The second winner:

Number 16: Maureen (scrappymo) who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Maureen. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 3 digis from Crafty Sentiments.

The third winner:

Number 34: Mandy (made by Mandy) who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Mandy. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so that I can arrange for you to receive your £10 gift voucher from Bearly mine designs.

Now on to:

Challenge 117

For today's challenge I'd like to see '3 of something'
on your Christmas card

Our first sponsor this week is 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.

Our second sponsor is new to CHNC: Floppy Latte Designs who are offering the randomly chosen winner 2 images of their choice (ie $6 coupon).

Floppy Latte's Digital Designs is a Digital Stamp/Paper/Die Cut shop. You will find all types of digital stamps, various papers and great digital die cut files for your cutting machines.

Our third sponsor is Sharon who is also new to CHNC and is offering a prize of 50 assorted charms for the randomly chosen winner.

'Hi, my name is Sharon, and I am a 40+ crafting addict, with an understanding husband and two amazing sons. I am very lucky as I manage to earn a living teaching card making, scrap booking and jewellery making classes, along with a bit of curtain and blind making on the side. I joined the Stampin' Up community in October 2012, and hope it will allow me to meet and make new crafting friends, along with a bit of income to help pay for my crafty habit.'

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

For my first card I decided to depict the 3 wise men as my '3 of something' - using an image kindly supplied by Floppy Latte Designs - more information 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. - this week please use '3 of something' - it can be anything - I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

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 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 30 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 March is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 116: Merry and bright

There wasn't the usual quantity of entries for last week's CHNC challenge 115, but the quality was definitely still there - such a lovely variety of cards - thank you.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 115. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 13: Pat (PJK) who shared this lovely card:

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

The second winner:

Number 5: Tracey Boley who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Tracey. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 3 digital stamps from Crafts 4 eternity.

The third winner:

Number 15: Marja who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Marja. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com  so that I can arrange for you to receive your  five images from Digistamps4Joy.

Now on to:

Challenge 116

For today's challenge I'd like to see 'merry and bright'
Christmas cards (however you want to interpret that -
it can even be 'merry or bright')

Our first sponsor this week is Crafty Emblies who are giving £10 worth of goodies to the randomly chosen winner.

'We are a new company, started in 2012 and we are family owned and run. All our wooden, metal and plastic items are made to order here at our site. So we always have our items in stock. All our wooden items are made from 3mm/2mm ply or 3mm/2mm MDF or 1mm card. Please note grain and colour will vary to pictures as wood is a natural product.

We have our own CNC machines and all our designs and artwork are designed and owned by Crafty-emblies. Most of our wooden cut outs can be applied to a black and used to stamp with.'

The second sponsor is Crafty Sentiments - a new sponsor for CHNC - who are offering 3 digis of the winner's choice:

'We are a small family fun online company that offers crafters fun and whimsical unmounted rubber stamps, digital stamps as well as cutting dies all from our very own exclusive range. Perfect for your cards and scrapbooks! Our stamps are made from deep etched grey rubber and our cutting dies are made from good quality metal from the USA and UK. We also stock essential craft products for your scrapbooking and card making needs.'

The third sponsor is another new sponsor for CHNC:  Bearly mine designs who are offering a £10 gift voucher for the randomly chosen winner. As well as many lovely designs to purchase, there are some wonderful freebies too at Bearly mine designs.

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

For my card I've used 'snowman bird house' pre-coloured digi image kindly supplied by Crafty Sentiments and the background paper is one kindly supplied by Bearly mine designs - I chose this background paper because it has 'Merry Christmas' all over it, so it qualifies for 'merry' and I hope 'bright' as well - you can read more about 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. - this week with the theme of 'merry and bright', however you want to interpret that! If you want to you can concentrate on 'merry' or 'bright' or both together - I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

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 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 23 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 March is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 115: Santa and/or his helpers

Update: Another big apology is needed from me - somehow linky details got the wrong times (not sure how this happened as I keep the same format for every week) - sorry if you were quick off the mark and couldn't link earlier ... and, of course, I've only just come on here and found out. It's all put right now.

Big apologies if I didn't get around to commenting on your entries for challenge 114. I'm preparing for a charity sale and, at the time I'm preparing this post, I still have cards to make - which is why there won't be links in place in the morning because I'll be leaving home at the time the challenge goes live - will be back in the afternoon to put everything on track!

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 114. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first winner:

Number 31: kbrandy4 (Hazel) who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Hazel. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so I can arrange for you to receive your selection of ribbons from Creative Treasures.

The second winner:

Number 6: Stacysaurus who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Stacy. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your £10 gift voucher to spend in The Ribbon Reel online shop.

The third winner:

Number 3: Louise who shared this lovely creation:

Congratulations, Louise. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com with your full name and address so that I can arrange for you to receive your Grandmas embroidery CD from Katy Sue Designs.

Now on to:

Challenge 115

For today's challenge I'd like to see Santa and/or his helpers
on your Christmas cards

The first sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps, a frequent sponsor of CHNC.

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. 

The second sponsor is Crafts 4 eternity who is offering 3 digital stamps (winner's choice) from the Crafts 4 eternity collection.

The third sponsor is new to CHNC - Digistamps4Joy who will be giving five images to the randomly chosen winner. 

South African crafters are new to the digital stamping world, with the first South African online digital image store launched in 2010 – Digistamps4Joy(or DS4J).  In May 2012, Margy Kieser took over ownership of DS4J, and there are now two South African artists who contribute to the more than 500 images available. Margy has taken the store to new heights and the store now stocks digis that are cute, whimsical, artistic, sometimes serious, and sometimes humorous. In addition, one of our own South African rubber stamp companies granted us permission for one range of rubber stamps to be converted into digistamp images. The store has PAYPAL, PAYFAST (South African) and EFT (South African) facilities. Digistamps4Joy offers a monthly freebie on the first Friday of every month, and holds regular bi-weekly card challenges on our BLOG that draw entries from many international card makers.

We (DS4J) are also active on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/DS4Joy) and Planet (http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/digistamps4joy).

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

I'm so pleased to welcome Margaret Gilmer from Digistamps4Joy who is joining me today as a Guest Designer. Margaret tells us a little about herself:

'I have been doing paper crafts since 2001. At first all I did was scrapbooking and one day in 2010, I decided to use my scraps to make a card. That was all it took. I soon abandoned scrapbooking and now do only cardmaking. I am first of all a child of God, a widow, mother, grandmother and great grandmother to three. I am retired from the legal field and spend the majority of my day making cards. I usually make only A2 size since I send most of my cards to Operation Write Home, a group that sends blank, handmade greeting cards to our military for them to write letters home to their loved ones. When I am not making cards, I spend my time reading mystery novels or cruising. My most recent cruise was an awesome trip through the Panama Canal.'

Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Margaret. Please visit Margaret's blog and leave her a comment. And this is the beautiful card that Margaret has made:

For my card I've used the 'Santa in chimney' image kindly supplied by Digistamps4Joy - you can read more about 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. - this week featuring Santa and/or his helpers.

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 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 16 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 March is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries

CHNC challenge 114: ribbons, ribbons, ribbons

It was so lovely to see all your 'one word' sentiment cards last week - not easy to be restricted to using just one word, but there were so many different ideas - thank you for your support.

Before I get on to today's challenge, I need to let you know the winners of challenge 113. There were, of course, three opportunities to win a prize.

The first prize winner:

Number 6: Cyndie who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Cyndie. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your  $10 voucher from Di's Digi Downloads.

The second prize winner:

Number 3: Kath who shared this lovely card:

Congratulations, Kath. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so I can arrange for you to receive your 2 digital images from Stamp n doodle.

The third prize winner:

Number 33: Alli D who shared this lovely creation:

Congratulations, Alli. Please email me at hazelharris@ntlworld.com so that I can arrange for you to receive your 3 digital stamps from Dilly Beans.

Now on to:

Challenge 114

For today's challenge I'm asking you to use at least one ribbon - more if you wish

The first sponsor this week is Creative Treasures

I’m Tracy and the owner of Creative Treasures, we are a family run business with a love of all things craft related. We stock a great range of mulberry flowers, pretty ribbons, seam binding, lace, pearls, buttons, charms and lots of pretty embellishments. We are always adding new stock.  Our aim is to provide fantastic customer service and great value for money.

The prize will be a selection of ribbons.

The second sponsor is new to CHNC - The Ribbon Reel

The ribbon reel was established in August 2010 by Keilly Mulvihill to offer a range of quality, affordable, gorgeous ribbons, twine and embellishments. 

'A few years ago, I found it difficult to find a wide range of ribbons to suit my projects and pondered over setting up my own shop. Having a young family, I decided to put this idea on hold for a while and spend time with my children. Now that they are both at school, I decided I had the time and energy to set up my dream shop that I had wanted for so long. 

I absolutely love ribbons and am enthusiastic about increasing our range and searching for new products to share in the shop.'

The randomly-chosen winner will receive a £10 gift voucher to spend in The Ribbon Reel online shop.

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 Grandmas embroidery CD:

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

you will be spoiled for choice!

For my card I've used offcuts of DCWV papers that have been in my Christmas box for ages, an unknown mini snowman stamp and some white and silver grosgrain ribbon - you can read more about 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. Last week there was an absence of snow, but this week please show any Christmas card using at least one piece of ribbon (or twine etc - something that comes from a spool) - you can use more, of course, if you wish.

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 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 9 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 March is here.

Thank you for your support

I look forward to seeing your entries